Gretchen Rossi Denies She Was Fired From RHOC

Gretchen Rossi is vehemently denying that she was fired from, or “not asked back” to the Real Housewives of Orange County.  She was attending a charity auction in Los Angeles, auditioning off those plastic-looking handbags of hers, when she talked to a reporter.  Gretchen, 36, implied she left on her own, despite the claims by Vicki Gunvalson and Lydia McLaughlin, who really did leave on her own, that she had indeed been fired by Bravo TV.

Oh, and Slade Smiley also.

According to the reporter:

 

She made it very clear that headlines saying she’s been axed by Bravo are false. Gretchen implied that the decision is hers to make, but it sounds like she’s leaning towards leaving.

Her costars Tamra Barney, Heather Dubrow and Vicki Gunvalson have already started shooting a new season. So what could be the holdup on Gretchen? I got that scoop too!

It must have something to do with the pack of reality TV cameras she points out to me in the video. They followed her around all night and I noticed one of them had on a badge that said Marriage Bootcamp. It’s a WEtv spin-off of Bridezillas and could mean nothing. But Gretchen is engaged to Slade Smiley. I grilled a different cameraman outside and he said the network attached to Gretchen’s project isn’t Bravo, and she is starring but it isn’t all about her.

 

WEtv?  A much smaller venue, but for Gretchen and Slade, being seen on TV is the prime concern. No wonder she’s auctioning off those crappy handbags. After a Bravo TV salary of over $150,000, plus whatever they threw in for Slade, she’ll be lucky to clear $50K on WEtv.

A Bridezilla spin-off?  Seriously?

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For more on Gretchen and Slade and their back story , go to More Absurd.

LadyBurd Cosmetics Dumping Gretchen Rossi?

gretchen and jay photoglou back in the day

Gretchen Rossi’s “house of cards” has been tumbling this season  like a snowball down a hill. Now it’s more like an avalanche, as her lies and subterfuges become more and more apparent.

Lady Burd Cosmetics, the branding company Gretchen uses for private labeling for her GretchenChristine.com cosmetics line, reportedly will no longer send her any stock, because her profits are filtered through Slade Smiley’s Paypal account. Scandalous!  Someone must have complained.

This is old news, they have been using this subterfuge to give Slade money so Michelle Arroyo, the mother of Grayson Smiley, his young son with terminal cancer, couldn’t come after him for support.

Pay to the Order Of Slade Smiley? (be sure to scroll down to the comments)

This gruesome twosome has had problems with the “cosmetics line” from the beginning.

Business Partner Sues Gretchen/Slade

In the meantime, reports coming from the Season 8 reunion, taped July 10, imply that not only was Vicki Gunvalson on the hotseat, but so was Gretchen. It may be true, because Slade Smiley, who has always been nasty on twitter, has been in rare form lately:

Slade Smiley ‏@SladeSmiley13 Jul

@teresaisthebest so glad u tweeted. This is now considered a repost of images deemed illegal by the court your IP address in now with legal

Someone tweeted him this pic of Gretchen from her Jay Photoglou days:

https://twitter.com/teresaisthebest/status/355098750189989888/photo/1

For those who don’t know the story, Gretchen moved Slade into her Costa Mesa home shortly after the Season 4 reunion, when Tamra outted her relationship with Jay.  Problem?  Jay still had his belongings in the house, and after many angry exchanges, Jay posted all those nasty pictures of Gretchen on the ‘net.

At the reunion, she apparently attempted to prove she really did graduate from Baylor University, since it’s so difficult to believe she’s a college graduate. A poster on TWOP says it best:

If Gretchen really did graduate from Baylor with a bachelor's degree in Psychology and will be displaying her diploma at the reunion, I'll be shocked. Baylor is a fairly conservative Baptist university, and the current annual tuition is about $30k. It hardly seems like a good fit for old Gretchen Christine. Did Jeff pay her tuition!

And since she couldn't even articulate that she meant that Vickie was projecting not personifying her feelings, I would imagine the Psychology department wants to erase all evidence that she was ever there.

For real.

As I read through Slade Smiley’s recent tweets, I became curious about The Beckstrand Organization the cancer charity Slade and Gretchen work with.  Grayson Smiley has his own foundation, amazinggray.org. Gretchen and Slade seem to have nothing to do with that. As a matter of fact, Slade once had a Grayson website, but he took it down.

Of course, the Beckstrand Organization has highly publicized events, with plenty of glitz and glam….. could that be it?

How do you spell s-o-c-i-o-p-a-t-h-s?

To learn more about Grayson’s condition, go to Amazing Gray

The Real Housewives of Orange County airs Monday nights on BravoTV.  

Orange County Housewives Plus Lauri Waring Return for an 8th Season

tamra barney, heather dubrow, gretchen rossi, vicki gunvalson, alexis bellino and lydia mc laughlin

April 1st is the date set for the return of The Real Housewives of Orange County Season 8.

Who's the newcomer?

Quick Facts

AGE 31 HOMETOWN St. John's, Canada PROFESSION Owner of Lydia M Jewelry and SKYLAB Modern Art, Managing Editor of 'Beverly Hills Lifestyle Magazine'

 

According to Bravo TV:

Newcomer Lydia McLaughlin is the granddaughter of Canadian media mogul Geoff Stirling, founder of NTV, the first 24-hour television station in Canada. Lydia and her husband Doug live in Dana Point with their two sons, 4-year-old Stirling and 2-year-old Maverick. This young, kooky mother always puts her family and faith first, but in her spare time, she and her husband channel her grandfather’s entrepreneurial spirit by running a magazine highlighting the glamorous life in Southern California.

In addition, Lauri Waring Peterson is returning in the "Friend of the Housewives" role. Her appearance should breathe a spark of life into the oldest RH franchise.

We'll see Vicki's break up with Brooks Ayers, Tamra Barney's preparations as she gets ready to marry Eddie Judge, the same old story from Gretchen Rossi and Slade Smiley, some drama with Briana and new husband Ryan Culberson, Alexis Bellino shielding herself from the mean girls, Heather Dubrow stirring the pot and the usual RH drama.

Can't wait for the April Fools day return!

Gretchen Rossi "Sings" The Same Old Song

 

Seriously.

How long have Gretchen Rossi and Slade Smiley been on this track? If they have nothing to say, which is par for the course with them, they come back with the same old we may get married, we want to have a baby song.

Another Slade Smiley Season

With the pressures they are under with the impending wedding of Tamra Barney and Eddie Judge, on camera for Season 8, the break up of Vicki Gunvalson and Brooks Ayers, the birth of Briana Wolfsmith aand Ryan Culberson's baby boy, and a new woman introduced into the cast,  Lydia Stirling McLaughlin they had to come up with something to say. How many times have they put out a variation of this story?

Gretchen recently won a $500,000 award in Jay Photoglou's lawsuit against her for defamation….enough to buy a couple of surrogates (smile). But, did Slade Smiley ever get that vasectomy reversal he was seeking several years ago?  Hmmmmmm…….

Gretchen and Jay "Settle"

from OK Magazine:

"We’re working really hard right now to have a baby. He actually has a vasectomy so he has to get a reversal and we have to kind of figure that all out," Gretchen said.

"The scoop is we are taking the steps to try to have a baby. If that is the path we are taking there should be some sort of commitment and I don’t know when that is going to happen and who is going to ask who," she continued.

Gretchen is so on board to get married now that she is even considering taking things into her own hands to make it happen.

"I might not [ask him to marry me], but I’m just saying you never know. I kind of have a wild hair up my ass. I’m just saying a guy doesn’t always have to do it. He can still do it, but maybe I might too. I don’t know, but if [he] doesn't something soon, I might have to!"

In the meantime, Slade still struggles to pay child support for 11 year old Grayson Smiley, who recently endured another surgery to debulk his inoperable brain tumor.

Will Bravo TV get rid of them for lack of storyline?

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The Real Housewives of Orange County is currently filming Season 8, with an anticipated debut in Winter, 2013

Orange County Reunion: Who Let the Dogs Out?

What a dud.

The Season 5 reunion of the Real Housewives of Orange County was a snoozefest. Perhaps TPTB at Bravo are saving the good footage for one of those “Lost Footage” episodes they seem to trot out during a ratings slump, but who knows?

At least Andy Cohen called out Slade Smiley on some of his lies. Left the show after Season 2?  C’mon Slade, Jo left and you no longer had a place on the show. His friend  and Coto de Caza neighbor Scott Dunlop, executive producer of the franchise, gave him a show with Jo, Date My Ex, which was a complete flop. Didn’t really date Lauri Waring? The footage has been aired, and Vicki was there. Wasn’t it creepy that Lauri still has Slade’s text messages and phone calls? Can’t wait for those to come out. How soon will Gretchen wiggle out of her relationship with Slade?  She will succumb to the pressure all around her, I think.

Speaking of the timeline and Gretchen’s relationships, Jeff Beitzel died September 13, 2008, one week after Season 4 finished filming.  Jay Photoglou starts talking and blogging about Gretchen in January 2009.  After my posting announcing 'Gretchen ‘s participation on the show, people posted comments  about Gretchen and Jeff on my other website.   In January, Jay Photoglou announces he’s throwing a party for Gretchen.  The reunion episode takes place in February, 2009. In early March, Gretchen files her restraining order against Jay, Slade’s unregistered car is parked there, the Costa Mesa police run a make on the plate, so he is arrested for unpaid child support. They apparently got together around the time of the reunion, and Gretchen may have been doing some serious overlapping! Fast forward to Memorial Day weekend, when filming for Season 5 begins. Gretchen looked trapped in Slade’s lies. Kudos to Andy Cohen for calling Slade out!

Poor, beat up Vicki. Yeah, right.  Threatening not to return for season 6 because the others are “beating up” on her, something she would never do.  So comical, so typical Vicki. She has consistently beat up on every single housewife from day 1, season 1. Let’s not forget how she treated Gretchen Rossi last season. Thrown her husband, her ex-husband, Jeana Keough and every one else under the bus. Then denies it. Never owns it. Karma is a bitch. Hate Alexis Bellino , but glad she called Vicki out.  But Tamra is correct, Vicki doesn’t see herself at all.

We’ll see what happens during the off season. Looks like Jeana Keough is coming back, as she mentions filming when she talks about saving her home from foreclosure again.

In the meantime, on to the Big Apple

Peace Out

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They Launched a New Email Blitz

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“Wow. My column about Gretchen Rossi of "The Real Housewives of Orange County" accused of being a floozy was extremely popular. I guess any time someone's accused of being a floozy everyone wants to read and comment about it. Even Tamra Barney and Jeana Keogh got in the fray, with Tamra sending me "xoxox"s and Jeana questioning if I was being too hard on poor Gretchen.

I think it's important we get the truth out into the open. And, as I said last week, in this case we're not sure what the truth is. There are some interesting photos floating around posted by her ex-boyfriend, who claims he is ready to take a lie-detector test to substantiate that he was Gretchen's bedmate while she was engaged to a dying man.

Is calling her a floozy too harsh? The dictionary says floozy is a term that means, "a woman is vulgar and promiscuous." Well, if these stories are true, she is definitely promiscuous. Vulgar? Well, that means "crude or indecent," "tasteless or ostentatious," and "lacking refinement." I'm sure Tamra would agree all these words apply to Gretchen, especially when it comes to Gretchen fooling around with her son (while still engaged to old what's his name).

Now, most warm-blooded males would welcome any single, hot looking floozy not related to them. Heck, some men in the back hills of West Virginia might even bend the "related to you" rule a bit for the right floozy. And that is the crux of the arguments being waged in the comments about last week's column – some say she is single so we should all just sit back and enjoy her antics while others feel all the "caring" she professed for her dying fiancé was a scam.

That's why I jumped into the middle of all this nonsense. Anyone who is comforting a man likely suffering through his last days should be appreciated, especially when she looks as good as Gretchen.

If I was single, in my midsixties and diagnosed with an incurable disease, I probably would be praying to God for a bunch of things. Happiness for my family, peace, my place in heaven and someplace down the list I might say "God, if you really have been happy with my life, I wouldn't complain if you sent a hot blonde my way to take the edge off during my last few months." I'd be in church every Sunday thanking him for Gretchen.

So, she offered that comfort, great. And maybe that was it. But if she was hooking up with this Jay guy then she shouldn't have become someone else's fiancée. That's just not right. Especially if he didn't know she was sleeping with someone else. Why was she engaged? Was she hoping the right PIN number to his ATM was finally whispered in her ear? It's the potential fraud part that stinks.

Now, the latest news is she started seeing Slade Smiley while she was living with Jay. And everyone knows about it. Seems Slade and Gretchen are popping up all over the place, like lunches at all the nicest places in Newport. There are even high quality pictures of bikini-clad Gretchen rubbing suntan lotion on Slade's newly built abs.

Personally, I don't buy it. It's just too convenient for the Bravo network that both of these single reality-TV buffoons get together. So Slade doesn't have the dough to pay his child support on time but can take Gretchen out everywhere? Even onto yachts?

My suspicion is Bravo is footing the bill to entice everyone to watch next year's shows. Oh boy. Just what we need nowadays is more fraud. First, Slade appears as the rich mortgage broker. Then there were the mortgages themselves. Now we have Slade with Gretchen. Hmm. Maybe they are really meant for each other. “

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And yet, none of this negative publicity is working. Tamra still comes off as a bitter, silly jealous moron. Jay comes off even worse, trying to prove a point that doesn’t matter, and not very manly, at that. Pizza, well, Pizza is Pizza, best taken with an oregano shake. Vicki is mentally ill.

The winner: Gretchen Rossi

RHOOC….the show that keeps giving and giving and giving………