Showing posts with label simon van kampen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label simon van kampen. Show all posts
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Friday, May 15, 2009
The Silex Book of Parenting
No, it wasn’t a joke. Yes, they are serious. Just in time for Season 3
LITTLE KIDS, BIG CITY: Tales From a Real House in New York City (With Lessons on Life and Love for Your Own Concrete Jungle)
by Alex McCord & Simon van Kempen
Parenting/Humor
$14.95
5.5 x 8.5 ", 240 pages, trade paper
Publication date: February, 2010
As breakout stars of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New York City, Alex McCord and Simon van Kempen have inspired, infuriated and entertained parents across the country. Their new book, LITTLE KIDS, BIG CITY, is sure to continue that trend, with the added bonus of educating those with the daunting task of raising kids in an urban environment.
Written with a unique insight into the difficulties and challenges facing urban parents today, Alex and Simon’s informative, educational and at times shocking stories of raising kids in New York City, coupled with outside expert parenting and pediatric advice, is a sure hit not only for urban parents but also fans of the hit television show.
About the Authors
The married couple of Alex McCord and Simon van Kempen are first and foremost the proud parents of two wonderful and endlessly energetic and creative children, Johan and François. They also happen to star in the hit Bravo television show The Real Housewives of New York City, where they all enjoy (or suffer at the hands of) a modicum of celebrity. Simon runs the upscale boutique Hotel Chandler in Manhattan while Alex writes freelance for parenting outlets and select blogs, including The Huffington Post.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
RHONY Reunion Sneak Peek: Kelly’s Story
Kelly Bensimon was arrested in early March for beating up boytoy Nick Stefanov. Watch Kelly’s disclaimer story from tonight’s reunion show and see if you buy it.
Note how Bethenny Frankel rudely jumps into Kelly’s narrative.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
The Real Housewives of New York City - Ramona and Simon Dancing
The Real Housewives of New York City - Ramona and Simon Dancing
Am I seeing sexual tension between them or is it my dirty little mind?
Don't answer that!
Am I seeing sexual tension between them or is it my dirty little mind?
Don't answer that!
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Real Housewives, Real Finale
The ladies start out at Jill’s house, 5 days before the charity event. Zarin wants to promote her business, Ramona thinks its tacky. That sets off the first catfight. Alex arrives and states she hasn’t sold any tickets, or tried to, even. So they all gang up on Alex.
Next, the scene at Nasdaq with the Count and Luann.......so they didn’t cut it after all!
Jill decides that she should have the sex/drug/rock ‘n roll talk with Ally at the ripe old age of 15. As Kelly would say, “cute”
Bethenny gives Rosie a cooking lesson. Why? Face time? Bethenny asks for the inevitable dating advice. Like Bethenny will listen, or learn. Ball buster.
Jill and Kelly go jewelry shopping for the charity event. The jeweler is hilarious. She wants to wear Kelly like last year’s Versace.
We get a true ANTM moment, with Luann giving Bethenny a bizarre runway walking lesson in prep for a fashion show Bethenny is participating in.
At the Moroccan fashion show, Bethenny tries to be funny, not so much. She looks awesome, the very best she’s ever looked.
The Charity Event
Bethenny took all the space behind the bar for her logo and alcohol company signage. Ramona and Jill have it taken down. Jill is exploding with tension, needs to chill.
Simon shows up in his What is Simon Wearing?? outfit. The Count is in this scene. Bethenny sees that the liquor company signage is gone, and goes ballistic on Jill. Jill tells her to leave. Bethenny then goes after Ramona. Believe it or not, Ramona calms her down.
The auction begins, and, like DeShawn Snow and her charity auction, at first there were no bids, but it didn’t last long. Everything sold.
YAWN.
COME ON JERSEY GIRLS
Saturday, May 2, 2009
RHONY’s Reunion: Holy Catfights!
Here’s what Andy Cohen had to say about the Reunion, scheduled to air on Bravo Tuesday, May 12.
“Oh Lord. I am still recovering. It was a seven-hour Real Housewives of New York reunion shoot at Cipriani Wall Street. There were about 15 MASSIVE fights, many raised voices, lots of finger pointing, some laughs, and much drama. It will not disappoint. “
From your lips, Andy.
Watch what Happens
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Real Housewives of New York City: Reunion Drama Much?
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Bethenny Frankel: Spirited or Mean Spirited?
In Tamra’s Bravo blog, she gives much love to Bethenny, and apparently it’s mutual.
Seems hard to imagine rapier-like wit and dumb as a box of rocks have anything in common except tequila
Hey, maybe it’s a spiritual connection.
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
Real Housewives: All Kinds of Crazy
In a nutshell with a bunch of nuts:
Bethenny Frankel may be the winner when it comes to the best famewhore war, but she also wins as the biggest bitch. Sneaky and acidic, Bethenny has something to say about everything and everyone, disguised in little witticisms. On her Bravo blog, or, as I call it, Disclaimer Central, she pretends to like Jill’s apartment. Bethenny, we all know Liberace is dead.
Jill’s apartment is psycho-crazy. I had an aunt who decorated like this. You could go into her kitchen and get dizzy. And the POP occasional tables? Jill never heard of less is more. Who ever heard of a gay husband who couldn’t dress, dance or decorate? Brad is not Dwight Eubanks.
The dis-Countess was all kinds of wrong with those young girls. Sure, Bravo set up the meeting, but they could have chosen the self-made one, Bethenny. At least she would have been funny, in her own way. Ever heard of a Countess? Hell no, bitch, we’re in America.
Kelly? She’s just an idiot. Offering up ex-hubby, Gil Bensimon to Jill for the charity was good. Bethenny in this weeks blog says she didn’t follow through.
Ramona and Mario are extremely competitive. I am so over that boring ass tennis match with Simon and Jill. Please don’t do this again, Bravo TV. Bethenny was so into setting up Ramona, not so much different than the “"Naked Wasted" episode on The Real Housewives of Orange County.
But with so much more class. Yeah, right.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Simon and Alex: Too Much Information
Real Housewife's" Thong Exposed -- by Hubby
http://www.tmz.com/2009/03/31/real-ny-housewifes-thong-exposed-by-hubby/
Not only is "Real Housewives of New York's" Alex McCord out of a job, but thanks to her wacko husband Simon van Kempen, she was almost out of her clothes too ... again.
Public drunkenness is so appealing. Simon’s employer must be so pleased.
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Real Housewives ,Real Famewhores
from the NY Post
Talk about a reality check.
"The Real Housewives of New York City," a Bravo TV show featuring six Botox-happy women feasting on their 15 minutes of fame, promised to offer a through-the-keyhole look at the lives of Manhattan's most stylish and privileged.
But since the second season began airing in February, each character has been bitch-slapped by personal misfortune and public embarrassment.
Call it the "Curse of the Real Housewives," because these housewives are looking more desperate by the day.
Kelly Bensimon, whose boyfriend Nick Stefanov accused her of assault on March 5, has since been dragged through an unseemly court hearing to meet the charges.
On Friday, the SAKS department-store chain confirmed that the 40-year-old model had been dropped from one of its upcoming campaigns.
Three days earlier it emerged that 'Countess LuAnn De Lesseps’ husband of 16 years, Count Alexandre de Lesseps, had left her for an Ethiopian woman in Geneva. Now the soon-to-be ex-aristocrat is facing divorce while promoting her unfortunately titled book "Class with the Countess”.
Bombastic blonde Ramona Singer, 52, meanwhile, is reportedly being shunned by the well-heeled mothers at her daughter Avery's private school. And career woman Alex McCord, 35, lost her job as a graphic designer for Victoria's Secret in February.
On camera, Bethenny Frankel, the skinny singleton "housewife," has endured awkward dates to no avail. Her last boyfriend, Jason Colodne, was fired from his Wall Street job for appearing on the first series, and the relationship ended shortly thereafter.
Even Long Island-born Jill Zarin, 45, once seen as the most down-to-earth of the group, is now facing a backlash, having spent most of this season snatching up couture gowns and luxury furnishings like a modern-day Marie Antoinette, while the nation's worst economic crisis in a generation grinds on.
Having seen their reputations plummet even as the show's ratings soar (figures are up 50 percent over last year's averages, says a Bravo spokesperson), you'd think these ladies might regret having appeared on the show. You'd be wrong.
Bensimon said that the program, and the attending focus on her personal life, has been a "really fun" wild ride. "If it's a roller coaster," she said, "then I am front and center in the first car."
Declining to speak about her legal case, she said instead, "The only thing I do regret is that you have to give up a lot of privacy on TV."
What's more, she said, "People don't want to see [the real] Kelly. They don't care about some shy girl that falls off horses, or hangs out with her kids, or loves doing cartwheels. They want to see girls in miniskirts kicking it, you know, the catfights."
Frankel, a celebrity chef turned diet book author -- and Bensimon's adversary on the show -- admitted that dating while filming has been hard.
"Look," she said, "my book ["Naturally Thin"] just hit No. 3 on The New York Times' Best-Seller List -- it's very overwhelming for [a man] if I say I have this book and I'm on TV."
The newly unemployed McCord, meanwhile, is also relishing the spotlight. She insisted that losing her job was unrelated to her role on the show. "One thing had nothing to do with another."
Being judged or ridiculed, said McCord, is part of being in the public eye.
"Prior to doing this show, I had a 10-year career as an actor. I kind of knew, well yes, people are going to write about you and your husband and your children," McCord said. "I always intended to be in a profession where being written about was part of the territory."
Singer declined to speak about the controversy at her daughter's school, stating: "I don't talk about my daughter," but she hasn't regretted doing the series "for a second."
They say success comes with a price. But for the housewives of New York, it's apparently one worth paying.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Bethenny and Jill on Chelsea Lately
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Ramona Singer: I’m More Blind Than You!
Bethenny, Ramona, and The Countess go to the beach. Ramona said she didn't want to actually go out in the water. So she stayed ashore with Jill, who was dressed ….strangely. The best part was seeing the Countess ass up in the water.
Finally the Countess's devoted laundry slave Rosie was back from her selfish trip back home to the Philippines. The poor children were terribly excited to see their real mother. since they had to endure a month of their horrid pseudo-mother complaining about washing dishes and being confused about laundry. Puh-lease. You know how to do the damn laundry. You just don't want to. Don't pretend like you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth. So real
Anyway, it was sad to see how desperately glad the children were to have their true mother figure back in the house. Rosie gave them all presents, The Countess then immediately escorted Rosie down to the laundry room.
Next Jill, Ramona and the Countess met for lunch. LuAnn announced that her gross parental negligence just wasn't enough, so her daughter needed to be in boarding school. Anyway, LuAnn doesn't really give a fuck that her daughter can't stand to be around her, because boarding school just seems really fancy. Plus, she told Ramona, it's a "family tradition."
Ramona was horrified that LuAnn would send her children away, because she wants her daughter to be close by so she can love her . Kinda creepy. Kinda Vicki Gunvalson-ish Then Jill told them about her arthritis benefit, and Ramona said she couldn't do it because she was just too busy! Then she remembered that her daughter had arthritis and yeah, maybe she could help
Meanwhile, Simon and Alex were wandering around their crumbling shack, talking about spa treatments. Part of the "package" of renting their shitty shack was that a comically big-breasted psychic/masseuse/sauna-turner-on-er would come by the house and be horrified by Simon's physique. She wasn’t the only one horrified. Alex said she was just always too damn busy in the city to get proper spa treatments, but she probably owed this to herself as their Hamptons trip had been anything but relaxing! What with all the parties and social climbing.
So Jeana , the homeowner, showed up and Simon was clad only in a towel. After she recovered from the stroke, she escorted them to a closet that someone had put a hibachi in. This was known as the Sauna at Hill House. Simon loved sitting in a dark room full of steam. Then it was time for strange warm things to be wrapped around Simon's body while his wife was at the pool, As Simon lay there, he wanted to remind us that just because he simply adored spa treatments and got them all the time, it doesn't mean he's gay. Right, Simon. Alex got a card reading that said she was coming into property soon. She was thrilled.
Kelly fell off a horse. Oh well.
Next up the Countess took her soon-to-be-departing daughter and all of her friends to a nice lunch. Oh how nice! LuAnn wants to wish her daughter bon voyage! Yay! And what does any girl who's about to leave everyone she knows behind to go to a strange school faraway want to do with her last hours in the Hamptons? Listen to her pseudo-mother go on about proper manners, as will be demonstrated in her NEW BOOK. So, yes, Countess used her daughter's farewell luncheon to plug her new book while the poor fleeing girl's friends looked on in horror.
Bethenny Frankel Jill Zarin, and Countess went to a gay party that was supposedly attended by a who's-who of New York's gay glitterati. Which, in Real Housewives-speak, translates to a bunch of old men wearing salmon-colored shirts and weeping. Countess wore a big costume of large glasses and a turban, while Bethenny cut up a rug with a bunch of gay dudes who she'd previously screamed at. For being gay while she’s looking for a man. It was enlightening and enriching. There were hotdogs there!! Get it?????
Kelly was competing in another horse show and Ramona showed up. Wearing a ridiculous outfit of safari junk on top, Bermuda shorts and heels on the bottom. When Leather ignored her, Ramona got very upset. Well.
Ramona landed at a party that Russell Simmons was hosting for Arts and Kids and Things. She marveled at the trees and flowers that had suddenly grown large and were talking to her. Normally this would be just a regular Ramona day, but today everyone could She got in a fight with Jill about tennis that made no sense. And then.... Oh lord. And then she bumbled up to Governor Patterson, who was at the party, and, to hear Jill tell it, got in an argument with him about who was blinder. Patterson, or Ramona with her glasses off. She walked up to him and immediately asked "Aren't you blind or something?" Unbelievable.
There was a big horsey show for the fugitive daughter of the Countess and she wanted all of her friends to come. The Count was a no show. So LuAnn's feathers got publicly ruffled and Bethenny was amused in her sarcastic, sardonic, acidic way.
Getting interesting. Watch what happens
Thursday, February 12, 2009
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