'RHOC': Is Vicki, Queen of Whoop It Up, in a war of the words with Shannon?
Face it — you love a good reality TV blowup or well-timed table flip. We do, too. So we’re taking our guilty pleasure to the next level and analyzing the most dramatic moments in a new regular series we’re calling Reality TV Burn Book.
The premiere of The Real Housewives of Orange County started off on a bright and citrusy note.
Born-again Tamra Judge was tackling menopause with fitness, and we saw Meghan King Edmonds taking steps to begin IVF — which worked! (Meghan revealed she was pregnant on social media Monday.)
Shannon Beador and her hubby, David, seemed to be moving past his affair — we wonder if she thought to send 'Yonce nine lemons in a bowl? And, after enduring a health scare with her husband, Heather Dubrow wanted to have a party on a luxurious yacht to celebrate life in true Fancy Pants fashion.
Sounds great until you add Vicki Gunvalson to the mix, who the girls hadn't seen much of as of late. Orange you glad you weren't on board?
The author:
Vicki, the "OG of the OC" has been a housewife since the show debuted more than 10 years ago. She works hard, likes to whoop it up, and wants someone to fill up her love tank.
The beef:
Last season, Vicki was still dating Brooks Ayers, who claimed to have cancer. He later admitted to forging documents to make it appear he was a patient at City of Hope, a cancer treatment center.
In a statement to E!, Brooks said he, "acted alone, without Vicki's knowledge," but her co-stars think she was totally involved.
In fact, after Vicki appeared on Watch What Happens Live, Shannon was so angry she made a Facebook video, which gave her account of how she was "drawn into the lie."
The burn:
When Vicki gave a review of the newest housewife she also included a scathing review of Shannon — because when you work as much as Vicki, you have to be efficient.
"Kelly is fun. I like that. I mean would you rather be with someone that has great energy or somebody like Shannon sitting there going, 'I hate everybody. I hate the world. Vicki's a liar'?"
The Real Housewives of Orange County airs Mondays at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo.