Craig with his non-stop “well then we shouldn’t be friends!”
Yeah no shit.
Thought guys just called each other some names, or punched each other in the face and moved in. These two are a whole horse of a different color. Wink wink.
Break for lunch
What’s with Salley and the ass-eating? MY GOD. Will someone eat this girl’s ass already? Now there’s rumors she’s with Kyle Cooke, amid the Kyle and Amanda separation. So maybe he’ll take care of things for her.
As they reconvene, Craig mutters to Andy how he’s feeling like he’s being piled-on, and how good he ‘was’ doing. I’m assuming he means with not getting drunk and freaking out.
The Craig vs Venita feud is the topic as we delve into Part 2.
As much as we don’t care, it was Venita’s whole entire story line so here we are.
It’s getting so ho-hum that a lot of the subject matter of the shows are a product of what’s being said in pods and social media posts about the previous season.
Venita decided to take it upon herself to trash Craig and defend Paige in a bunch of interviews, when it didn’t really involve her. I get it, she’s part of the show with Craig, so she was asked about her take, but she seemed to take her opinioins to the nth degree. Much like stupid Whitler at the reunion.
Also I try to be a girls girl too, but any fucking idiot could see that Paige treated Craig like shit (almost all of their scenes together proved that, duh.)
She stayed with him for an entire three years when she was over it, after I would estimate the first year, but saw due to all of their social media posting and he was more popular and liked by the viewers, he was boosting her popularity. So she stuck it out for two more years and pretended like she wanted to marry him and move to Charleston eventually. I think he called her bluff towards the end and said ‘fine I’ll move to New York’ so she panicked and had to dump him.
You saw her clam up and get weird every time he brought up marriage or moving in together. Or make cunty comments.
So long story longer, I don’t know why Venita was going so hard for Paige. Does she even know who Venita is?
Would Paige go after some dude on Summer House that she thought wronged Venita? I think we know the answer to that.
I don’t want to claim this as my own, but on one of my FaceBook posts, a fan called it ‘Craig Derangement Syndrome.’ I thought that was really fitting.
Venita’s defense is that if she was hurting his feelings he should have let her know, after the first interview where she trashed him.
OkayVenita, who is clearly not a very smart person. Not to be rude. I’m not a brain surgeon, but wow. That’s one of the dumbest defenses to I’ve ever heard by a Bravoleb.
You really needed to be TOLD someone you’re bitching non-stop about publicly, might be getting annoyed? Girl. That was really her prepared defense?
Craig accuses her of regurgitating what she was seeing on ‘Reddit.’ She vehemently denies that she reads Reddit.
I don’t think he meant ‘Reddit’ specifically The point was she’s merely repeating what viewers on SM and the gossip sites were saying, and making it appear as her own thoughts. Looks like Madison even knows she’s lying her ass off.
She needs her own fucking boyfriend. Or girlfriend. Or a business idea, or something. Is she even doing her fashion influencing anymore? I don’t know, but she seems to have a lot of time on her hands.
I have to agree with Craig she tried to capitalize on a public break and someone else’s misfortune.
Venita looks guilty as charged when he says that, however insists she doesn’t ‘need’ to capitalize off of him.
There’s more back and forth of Ventia accusing Craig of speaking on his break up too much.
Okay but it’s HIS fucking break-up. That’s the difference! He can talk about it as much as he wants.
So let me get this straight. Venita rambled on and on about Craig and Paige for months to complain that Craig rambled on and on about it??
So it was okay for Venita go gossip about it but no Craig to answer questions about his OWN fucking situation?
She really thinks Craig ‘enjoyed’ being used, dumped and humiliated by that trashy little whore named Paige DeSorbo?
YES WHORE, Sleeping with someone for a fame boost and to subsequently earn more money is a whore.
Remember when she was SO MAD that he didn’t defend her when rumors were swirling that she cheated oh him when this Joe D’Amelio dude, that she was indeed cheating on him with, and his NOW her boyfriend. Which she finally only recently admitted after like a year and a half.
Whatever. I’m sick of harping on it. I feel like I’m the only one seeing this. I wish someone in an interview would call her fucking bluff already.
Venita apologizes for saying nasty things about him publicly, which is fine, BUT she didn’t seem like she meant it. True, she didn’t use a ‘but’ however, you can say you’re sorry without following it with an excuse, and it can still sound disingenuous.
Salley and Ventia go back and forth about not being friends anymore. Andy tells her she’s ‘too smart’ to get caught up in viewer comments. I think he really means are you really that dumb?
Here comes an overt contradiction because she just said she never engages in social media posts and comments about the show. She claims that her friendship with Salley still suffered during airing, because she was reading too many viewer comments.
Now more contradiction this time from Salley, as we dive into a subject I am sure Salley was NOT looking forward to: Her embarrassingly throwing herself at Craig, telling him that she has feelings for him, and him completely shutting her down.
When questioned on what she liked about him she says “strictly his his looks.” Can you imagine if a guy said that about a girl?
So that was her ‘feelings?’ Perhaps she’s trying to save herself embarrassment but still.
Not sure if she was loving Craig’s ‘sister’ comment. That’ll take the wind out of your sails. A guy you want to bone you saying he looks at you like a sister.
None of this looks good for Salley.
That whole Austen interaction on Part 1 where calling her a skank was on the tip of his tongue, and feeling ‘bullied’ into liking her, and now Craig saying he had no attraction to her whatsoever.
Guys, this is a pretty girl, and men are superficial and shallow as fuck so – yeah. Do the math. She must be pretty annoying.
Craig mentions one of his hot tub nights, in which his goofy Guido friend Cory ‘went off with Salley’ when he showed Charley his sewing room. Craig was probably so relieved to get rid of her.
Craig does need to work on his moves if he’s telling a girl “you can kiss me if you want.” I mean, you ARE the guy. It’s kind of your job to make the move.
What I noticed, kind of by accident when taking screen shots, that you may have missed, is Austen’s reaction to Charley saying that she told him ‘she’s good’ when Craig gave the permission to kiss him.
Craig – this weirdo is NOT your friend. He will never ever be your friend. He lives to see you fuck up, fail and look stupid.
Salley and the chickens proves there is nothing this girl won’t do to get laid. This girl was on a mission.
On a positive note, she does seem like she has a domesticated/homebody sort of side, which is something that appeals to Craig. She wants marriage and a family, and Salley also claims to want those things so, really it’s a shame that she has to have such a chaotic and weird personality that’s turning all of these guys off.
Can you see Paige getting chickens, or Charley?
Remember when Salley was having Charley help her make a cake, Charley barely knew how to work a measuring cup?
Andy brings up Charley and Salley going after the same guy. Salley claims she was left out of this ‘secret hot tub club’ and Charley wasn’t honest with her.
I feel like Charley genuinely felt weird about it, so she intentionally didn’t mention it. It makes sense.
But at the end of the day (or night) Craig was never interested in Salley, and never even eluded that he was, so the fact that Salley was crushing on him, is neither here nor there, and not his fault.
Now that she claims it was a superficial sort of attraction, why is she getting all intense?
Especially when she started chasing after Austen immediately when Craig fell through. I feel like by this point she should have been like ‘all’s fair in love and war’ and moved on.
Charley’s now seeing some ‘Southern Hospitality’ guy.
Craig is salty over this because they were talking while she was spending time with Craig, and he feels like she leading him on.
I did find it strange that a guy would accuse a girl of ‘love bombing.’
I try to defend Craig but sometimes he does come across as kind of a pussy. He needs to man up.
It does seem to me like Charley was being a little sheisty and playing games.
For the LOVE of God, can we pah -lease normalize NOT saying gaslighting anymore about every single negative interaction?
Jesus. Literally no one on Bravo nor anyone that posts about Bravo uses it correctly. It doesn’t replace ‘lied to’ or ‘provoked’ or ‘convinced.’ It’s an abusive behavior PATTERN of altering your perception, that’s much deeper than that.
I don’t get why Craig is making Charley feel so bad about ditching him after Mexico.
It would have been such a better look for Craig to sit here and act like he was unbothered, instead of trying to put her on a guilt trip for not liking him.
I don’t know why he can’t wrap his brain around the fact that she got creeped out by his drunken stupor blacked-out behavior in Mexico. Why would you even want to beg someone to like you?
Craig is asked to break down the meltdown. Why, I don’t know. It was all pretty obvious to any viewer with a brain.
He immediately doesn’t like the commentary that he has a history of this type of behavior.
I want to discuss Austen’s demeanor in the van:
So you have picked up on the fact that he’s not my favorite, and there some underlying things to unpack, but holy smokes even if they weren’t besties anymore, that should still be someone you care about and have their best interest at heart.
For him to sit there crossing his legs like a fucking pussy pulling his stupid cap down over his face, texting everyone to tattle on him, instead of trying to diffuse the situation was despicable fucking behavior of Austen.
He WAS going off on Salley. So as the only other man there, Austen didn’t take it upon himself to even defend her and tell him to shut up? And this is the dude Salley thinks she wants??
Craig was wrong was too, but two wrongs don’t make a right.
I would rather be drunk and looking a little psycho when provoked, than look like an all around shit fucking person. You can disagree with me if you want, but I’m right.
Austen defends this fucking bullshit because he’s not going to be honest and say ‘you know I just didn’t give a fuck, actually I was kind of enjoying it.’
Fucking disgusting.
Shep gets grilled on his take. He has to choose his words carefully because how many black out drunk episodes does Shep have under his belt?
That’s why he’s keeping his damned mouth shut and not criticizing, saying he’s been there, and understands.
Was it last year’s BravoCon or the previous that he was blacked out and screaming at the dealers in the hotel casino?
I try to see the good in Craig, because he’s not a complete shit. He starts off sounding like he’s taking complete accountability than wah wah wah, he blames Bravo that he was drinking for sixteen hours without food or water.
Andy quickly jumps all over that, worried about another Leah-type lawsuit I’m sure, correcting him and rolling footage that he did indeed have plenty of food and water available.
Just shut up. Like say less. Say “I drank way too much and I’m sorry.”
The general consensus seems to be he has an anger issue and his flimsy apology was not sufficient, which Craig is not happy about hearing.
Whitner chimes in again of course.
Craig lists a whole new slew of excuses. I do think he is embarrassed, and he means it when he says he’s sorry.
I think it is directly related to the heavy drinking and drunkenness, because none of this a happened in the 2- 3 years he wasn’t drinking like this. He was only doing beer and wine in moderation. That seemed to be working for him.
Apparently Craig’s hot tub is a hot commodity, no pun intended. Ventia requests an invite sometime.
So now she’s fine letting bygones be bygones, as long as she’s in on the hot tub parties??
Yeah she’s not getting invited to the hot tub.
And do we have to close this out with more nonsense about Craig and Austen? Yes, I guess we do.
Craig, this dude is not your fucking friend.
He was annoyed and critical when you didn’t drink and party, and now he’s annoyed and critical because you are drinking and partying.
We close out with Shep doing some really dumb toast.
Do you know what I just kind of realized is that we didn’t get much drama or much of anything out of Shep this season.
That’s probably a good thing.
