Reality TV Roundup 8/30/10

Happy Monday, peeps! Here's some of the roundup from over the weekend.

Let's start with Top Chef...

Since this season is an epic snore, compared to the Emmy nominated Las Vegas season sounds like Top Chef won the Emmy just in the nick of time! Last night the cooking competition show snagged an Emmy which pretty much shocked everyone... so let's hope that when people think this is the best show on the planet they won't be too disappointed when the tune in to the Brown Mush Fail that has been this season in DC. But it should give the shows a bit of a boost int he ratings as it gets interesting now that we're in Top 5 Territory. And I know you're excited that I will begin recapping at that point...

Now the Real Housewives of NYC

So I got into a little tussle with Foghorn's people this weekend for blowing their cluster- you know what- plan out of the water. The false gatecrasher and NY Daily news leaks. The planted photos of Foghorn's supposed filming of Jill in 'Season 4' which turned out to be stills from an Animal Planet shoot. Then the all. of. a. sudden. release of Foghorn's NoH8 campaign...totally looking like a blatant money grab while negotiations and pre production was happening. So I called supreme boolshiz on the antics, and her peeps freaked out all over me.

Well guess what...

TOLD YOU SO!!!!

Several media outlets were reporting the day after I did about the grab for money AND the Animal Planet shoot. So game, set, match Jenn! Perez Hilton reported that they're looking for $30k an episode like Jersey Shore, but that is NOT gonna happen. For one, only two people are looking for big cash. One being Santa Bethenny of La Margarita^TM leveraging her show and pop ins on the NYC show into a sweet deal. And Foghorn thinking she's as big as Snooki.

Hang on, I just fell off my chair laughing my butt off.

It's not going to happen. They don't have the ratings OR the marketability of a Snooki or Situation. Not even Santa Bethenny. I'll make the prediction right here and now based on what I know that the NYC cast pulls down $10k an episode with a reunion bonus. Write it down.

And finalamente...The Real Housewives of New Jersey...

Soooo...we get a super sized reunion tonight, and my wine is already chilling. There's been a whole lot of buzz over this whole Joe and his mistress Tara thing which my home gurrrl Absurd to Sublime explains expertly. This is rumored to be what Danielle drops on Teresa which makes her go ballistic and throw Andy through a wall.

This Tara rumor has been around since January and Joe's DUI. It's very possible that this is just another crack in the facade of the whole "Fabulous" life being portrayed for the cameras, and while all the 'woman' of Largos del Francisco are so fiercely loyal to Teresa.

However, where this stinks is the fact if Danielle knew soooo much about Joe's indiscretions, she would've had everyone on the phone months ago and this would've been huge news. But something tells me since she knew she was canned before the reunion taping because of her BSC and violating her contract with under the table production deals, she just said it to start stuff and come out smelling like a rose.

So we'll have to wait and see. I'm pretty psyched, aren't you?