ReWives ReRant: The Power of the Sidepiece
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So I talked about Teresa Giudice being on Mount Rushmore. I need to say that when someone's been announced first, it doesn't mean that they are more iconic than the other Mount Rushmore housewives. It just means someone who, to me, undeniably needs to go on there. I could have said the second person as well. And then it made me realize that there are men, there are househusbands that are iconic and should be on the Mount Rushmore of househusbands.

And I have a criteria. It has to be someone who adds to the sauce. They add some sort of a zipper spice. They're not just a side piece to the character that's been hired for the show. It's the real housewives of Blank City. And their partners are often accessories, meaning the main character is the main character and their kids and their husband are

is sort of an accessory. I'm also going to do the Mount Rushmore of house children because...

This is the same concept. It means who else is driving their own story, creating their own drama and your eyes glue to that person. And they can, it's like there are stars that can carry a movie themselves. They can just headline a movie, carry it and get ratings. There are people like that also on reality television. And then there are house husbands who,

It was intended to be a secondary supporting character that could hold a scene and your attention and you're not fast forwarding through on their own. They could sit in that interview chair on their own because you're interested in what they have to say. You may not like them. They may not be up to your moral standards, but for whatever reason, your eyes are glued to them and the screen and the drama and the entertainment that they provide.

So with that criteria in mind, my second Mount Rushmore house husband is Simon Van Kempen. You're like, wait for it. Take a beat. No one would have predicted that. Here's the reason why. He created drama. Think him crashing Girls' Night with Ramona getting crazy, asking why he would think that he could be on a Girls' Night. I don't know, they codependent and them, him and him. And he wore like a,

A banana hammock. I think it was like an animal print bathing suit. Correct me if I'm wrong. In Saint-Barthes. Saint-Barthes. He drove story on his own. It's arguable, like Joe Gorga, he could be more entertaining than the primary character. It's the sum is greater than its parts. Alex and Simon were the housewife. Melissa and Joe were the housewife. So Simon himself...

Deserves to be on Mount Rushmore. He performed on Watch What Happens Live on his own singing a song in red leather pants. Right? Think about that. He was live tweeting. He would text Andy and have gripes about the series and what was going on. He himself...

is the main character when he was on. Your eyes were drawn to him. You may hate him. People liked him. People hated him. It doesn't matter. He had his own scenes. He was the manager of a hotel. We knew that. You don't get that from just, you didn't get that from Mario. Mario was an accessory. Simon was a main character. Simon is my second Mount Rushmore house husband choice from the Real Housewives franchise. Understand,

I don't watch Miami. I haven't seen Dallas or Potomac or DC or Salt Lake. So I'm skewed. If you're seeing something that I'm not seeing, listen, make an appeal in Rewife's court and I'll go back and look at footage because I don't know those shows that intimately. It is, I am also jaded and thinking that

This is a lot of the old school. The drama wasn't the same level. So I'm partial to the old school content. So based on that, you need to know that that is my second choice for Mount Rushmore. But I don't think in seeing any of those shows based on the press, based on the clips, based on the media, that any of those husbands hold a candle to Simon as a housewives character.

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Daniel Thrasher, Peppermint, Morgan J., and more. You gotta watch us. No, you mean you have to listen to us. I mean, you can still watch us, but you gotta listen. Like, if you're watching us, you have to tell us. Like, if you're out the window, you have to say, hey, I'm watching you outside of the window. Just, you know what? Listen to the Amber and Lacey, Lacey and Amber show on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hey guys, I'm Andrea Gunning, host of There and Gone South Street. In this series, we follow the case of Richard Patron and Danielle Imbo, two people who went missing in Philadelphia nearly two decades ago and have never been found. Unlike most cases, there is not a single piece of physical evidence connected to this crime. But the FBI knows there was foul play.

I'm excited to share that you can now get access to all new episodes of There and Gone South Street 100% ad-free and one week early with an iHeart True Crime Plus subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. So don't wait. Head to Apple Podcasts, search for iHeart True Crime Plus, and subscribe today. The Rushmore choices are not in any particular order, meaning it's not a favorite and one's not more of a Rushmore than the other. They're just, I'm just doing them. I'm arbitrarily doing it in this order.

NeNe Leakes is an iconic OG housewife. NeNe Leakes deserves to be on Mount Rushmore. We're talking about

a woman who has paved the way and laid the groundworks and is an iconic housewife. I'm saying the facts that NeNe Leakes is undeniably one of the people that contributed to the success of the housewives franchise. And like Teresa has been polarizing, has been entertaining, has been funny, has driven story, has been loved, can handle and is strong enough to be hated. Um,

is iconic. She is arguably the funniest housewife ever. Teresa's funny. Nene is hysterical. And she was there in the beginning. And I say this too, because we talk about people like Portia who are wildly entertaining and she's a star in her own right. There were people that did

lay the groundworks because they were walking into something that they hadn't seen in Us Weekly. They hadn't seen clips from. They hadn't seen other people entertain and dress and get glam and flip tables so they could then top it in seasons later. They were people cast into a show, paid peanuts to do something no one had ever done before and no one understood. This was a new genre that would become a cultural phenomenon in the zeitgeist.

So you got to give extra credit to people like Simon Van Kempen that were there in the beginning, to people like Teresa that were there in the beginning, to people like Vicki Gunvalson in the beginning. They hadn't seen someone throw a leg onto the dance floor. They hadn't seen Erika Jayne wear head to toe Gucci, then have Dorit start doing it and start making crazy diamond hairstyles and full glam squats. This was the beginning. This

This was when you wore a cashmere sweater and a shitty outfit you pulled from your closet to a reunion and did your own hair and makeup half the time. This was not after years of getting savvy and smart and reading and studying the playbook to then come from Dubai and wear a Gone With The Wind gala gown because you've seen it done for hundreds of women before. NeNe walked in, in her own living room, was doing shitty lighting housewives interviews with no HD and there didn't exist Twitter.

And was fucking making people laugh their asses off. You wanted raw truth, humor, entertainment, and homemade. Not manufactured big B-roll helicopter shots in Morocco. It was like just a fucking homemade garage band puppet show that was entertaining. That she presumably was making $7,000 a year too the first season. She was a nobody.

but she brought it. And she was Andy Cohen's favorite housewife because I remember I was not shiny and brand new and they came in and Andy was taking, I didn't find it from Andy, but Nini told me, this is behind the scenes tea. I popped off with the Skinny Girl Margarita. This brand, the brand Frangelico paid me hundreds of thousands of dollars to do a promotional thing. And it was at the Plaza and they were going to have Warren Tricomi, that salon, do an event for me.

Why they were involved, I don't know. It was at their salon or something. It was the night I met my ex-husband. I was at the Plaza Hotel. I don't know how I knew Nene or we'd met through this situation. And she texted me. She was in town. Or I invited her. I don't know how. And she stopped by.

with two girlfriends. She said she had to leave because Andy had invited her to be his plus one at an event. You didn't see Andy inviting me to be a plus one. She was his new favorite shiny toy. She was the favorite. She was bringing in the ratings, the press, like she was Nanny Leakes. She was, it was iconic vintage Nanny Leakes. That night, I was trying to be a hot stepper at this event with her two friends. They were really nice. And I invited them out. I went to

a Gotham Magazine event with them and as a surprise Beyonce performed fucking Beyonce performed they thought I was the coolest bitch in town I don't know why it happened it was like 250 people Beyonce performed don't ask me why Beyonce performed was she on the cover I don't gotta be and then I took them out to um to a club called 10 June and they wouldn't let they wouldn't let us in I know the people there and they're like we'll let you in but won't let them in

My hand to God. They will confirm the story. We then went to STK Steakhouse next door. They were having a great time. We're having a great night. We'd seen Beyonce. We were buzzing it up, drinking. I had been thought I was cool. I did an event. I was paid all this money. We were at STK, which is above 10 June. It was driving me fucking nuts that they didn't let them in on everything. I hope to be. I texted the guy, the two, one of the two owners. And I said, and he wasn't at the door. He doesn't know anything about this. I said, listen to me.

If those two girls look like me, you would have let them in. I said, you fucking get that bouncer to let us in because we're coming back in. They were like, we're fine. We're having fun. SDK was playing great old school music. We're having a great time. It was just driving me nuts. It was bothering me. Walked back around. They let all three of us in. We went into 10 June. It was for their anniversary. It might've been year anniversary, two years anniversary. I don't know. Their anniversary party.

And this photographer took a picture of me. And that's when my ex walked up to me and he said, are you ready to get the stick out of your ass and dance? And I met him that night. If it weren't for NeNe Leakes and Andy, if it weren't for Andy Cohen inviting NeNe Leakes with him, me taking her two friends out that night, going to...

10 June, the two women I was with not being let in the door, me raising a stink, making them let us in the door, us going downstairs, me meeting my ex. There'd be no Brynn. I wouldn't have been married. I wouldn't have had a 10 year divorce. All that shit wouldn't have happened. But it's all because of the Rushmore. Unintentionally, Nene didn't know any of this would happen, but it was because Nene's such an iconic Rushmore housewife that she was Andy Cohen's plus one. It happened. Receipts and all.

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