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Doron Ofir: The King of Reality TV Casting

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. "I'm a collector of characters. We're a very interesting breed." Doron Ofir, 41 — original casting director of more than 100 reality productions, from RuPaul's Drag Race t ... More >>

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Pecking Order, Episode 319: Brandi Glanville Ends Where She Started

See also: *Our Real Housewives archives 1. Brandi Glanville (Last week: 2) After 19 raucous episodes, last night finally brought season three of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills to a close, and despite what proved to be a volatile stock market for Brandi's cred, she ended up coming out exactly wher ... More >>

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Pecking Order, Episode 318: Lisa Vanderpump's House is Heaven On Earth, Unless Faye Resnick Is There

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Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Pecking Order, Episode 317: The Space Between Former Fringewives Brandi Glanville and Dana Wilkey

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Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Pecking Order, Episode 316: Ken Todd and Mauricio Umansky Are Two Peas in a Pod

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Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Pecking Order, Episode 315: Yolanda Foster's Two Husbands Make One Perfect Party

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Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Pecking Order, Episode 314: Bernie the Chef Is Behind It All

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Brandi Glanville's Book Drinking & Tweeting: 8 Incredible Revelations

Is there a Pulitzer category for memoirs by jilted reality stars who like to talk smack about ex-husbands and "bonus moms?" Because if so, this book should win it. And we're not joking for one second. Drinking & Tweeting and Other Brandi Blunders by Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glan ... More >>

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Pecking Order, Episode 313: Taylor Armstong's Drunk Muscles

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Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Pecking Order, Episode 311: Brandi Glanville Night Schools Everyone

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Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Pecking Order, Episode 310: Brandi Glanville Back on Top, What's-His-Name at the Bottom

See also: *Our Real Housewives archives 1. Brandi Glanville (Last week: 7) Omg, how much do you want to attend something called "Brandi's Night School Out for Girls?" That can't possibly be what it's officially titled because it makes no grammatical sense, but still.

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Pecking Order, Episode 309: Taylor Armstrong Does Her Best Chris Farley

See also: *Our Real Housewives archives 1. Taylor Armstrong (Last week: 3) Taylor gave a motivational speech last night to Brandi Glanville and Camille Grammer reminding them that as single women they must be strong, stronger than any man, because dammit they have less support than everyone else an ... More >>

Kim Kardashian & Kanye's New Bel Air Home Has A Real Housewives Connection

As if the prospect of Kim Kardashian wooing East Coast rapper Kanye West to L.A. for an explosive super-coupling not seen since Beyonce and Jay-Z first hid their love, they're buying a house from another celebrity crush. The $11 million, 10,000-square-foot Bel Air abode (with plenty of room in the ... More >>

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Pecking Order, Episode 308: Brandi Glanville Towers Above Other Housewives, and Scheana Marie

See also: *Our Real Housewives archives 1. Brandi Glanville (Last week: 2) We don't say this about Brandi very often, but last night, she was a class act. Class. act. The most recent episode of RHOBH captured her sit-down with Scheana Marie, current waitress at SUR Lounge and budding reality star o ... More >>

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Pecking Order, Episode 306: Adrienne Maloof Schools Brandi Glanville (and Bravo, Apparently)

See also: *Our Real Housewives archives *Russell Armstrong's Real Housewives Suicide: How Will Bravo React? 1. Adrienne Maloof (Last week: 8) Last night Brandi Glanville dropped a massive bombshell about Adrienne Maloof. Huge. Gargantuan. Off the charts. So major, apparently, that Bravo dare not sp ... More >>

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Pecking Order, Episode 305: Camille Grammer Makes All the Right Moves

See also: *Our Real Housewives archives We don't even want to rank the Housewives this week. We really don't. They should be punished for perpetuating the stereotype that when women are alone together, all they do is make out, sniff panties and moon each other. What, ladies, no naked pillow fights ... More >>

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Pecking Order, Episode 304: Kim Richards Calling the Shots

See also: *Our Real Housewives archives 1. Kim Richards (Last week: 7) Kim! Welcome back! In one episode you've gone from snoozy wallflower to H.B.I.C. You and Yolanda Foster are like some warped version of Regina George and Cady Heron from Mean Girls. Yolanda's all "I'm new and I don't really und ... More >>

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Pecking Order, Episode 302: Portia Umansky on the Rise

See also: *L.A. Weekly's Real Housewives archives *Real Housewives: Our Season 1 Pecking Order Taking a cue from Mark Lisanti over at Grantland, we're organizing our Real Housewives of Beverly Hills coverage into a weekly Pecking Order. Check us out every Tuesday to see if your favorite Housewife ... More >>

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Pecking Order, Episode 301: Brandi Glanville Starts Season at No. 1

See also: *L.A. Weekly's Real Housewives archives *Real Housewives: Our Season 1 Pecking Order Taking a cue from Mark Lisanti over at Grantland, we're organizing our Real Housewives of Beverly Hills coverage into a weekly Pecking Order. Check us out every Tuesday to see if your favorite Housewife ... More >>

The John Kerwin Show, the Long-Running, Late-Night Talk Show You've Never Heard Of

Just a few minutes remain until The John Kerwin Show starts taping, and announcer Keith Leon is teaching us the art of the double clap. It's a trick that's been used since the dawn of television time, he says, to make the studio audience seem bigger. Instead of clapping at a regular pace, he ins ... More >>

Did Andy Cohen Go Too Far With Kim Richards?

Among the middle-aged princesses who've been born out of Bravo's Real Housewives franchise, Andy Cohen has always been king. As both a high-level network executive and an on-air personality who regularly interviews the women, he's in a unique position to oscillate between superfan and superior. He ... More >>

10 Lessons We Learned From The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Season Two

Via bravotv.com​It's Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reunion time! Those delicious three weeks in which Andy Cohen forces the ladies to relive every tension-filled moment from the past 18 episodes they've supposedly "grown from" or "moved past." (But inevitably just end up fighting about all ... More >>

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Bravo to Bravo

bravotv.comPaul Nassif "recovering" from a colonoscopy.​Holy Jeebus, Paul Nassif, are you dying? You have to be dying. Has anything more horrifying than your post-colonoscopy fart festival ever happened on reality TV? Why in the name of Andy Cohen would you allow cameras to follow you into an ... More >>

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Lisa Vanderpumps SUR-prise! Party

bravotv.comThe only way Lisa Vanderpump could get through her party was by drinking heavily.​Was it just us, or did Lisa Vanderpump's launch of SUR Lounge feel less like an upscale restaurant opening more like a sorority formal afterparty gone wrong? There were ex-bffs at the door, "the other ... More >>

Beverly Hills Casting Call Wants Rich People And Their 'Help' For Reality Show

Bravo​Oh boy. If you think The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is disgusting, have we got a show for you. Well, actually, we don't. All we know is that this proposed Real Housewives poseur will focus on the relationships between the Westside's super rich and their help. Let's just hope they ... More >>

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Recap: Taylor and Russell Armstrong Blacklisted from the White Party

bravotv.comTaylor Armstrong, getting bounced from the White Party.​Ah, Housewives and their ever-evolving definition of how to be a friend. So far this season we've learned that's it's improper to start sentences with "I'm not your friend," (thanks, Lisa) especially when offering up your mansi ... More >>

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Brandi Glanville's Party Drives a 'Wedge' between Camille Grammer and Taylor Armstrong

bravotv.comTaylor Armstrong, in the midst of breakdown #3 this season.​It's a wonder no one got a wedge upside the head last night. Seriously. Brandi Glanville hosted her first Housewives soiree -- a wedge shoe party -- in hopes of showing the ladies that hanging out with her can be drama-fre ... More >>

Wendy Doulton's The Headhuntress and Carrie McCully's Chef Hunter: Is Getting a Real Job Reality TV's New Fantasy?

Via NBCUniversalThe Headhuntress Wendy Doulton, right, coaches a job seeker.​I watch the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills every week. I watch New York and Orange County, too. (Though we all agree DC was whack, right?) I watch these shows partly for the ability to laugh at the dippy one-liners ... More >>

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Kyle Richards and Brandi Glanville Spar at the Spa

bravotv.com"Hey Kyle, Brandi wants to talk to you." JIGGAWHAT?​Ah, spa day. Don't you just love getting together with the girlies to sip champagne and harass the pool boys while getting nipped and tucked under your neighbor's $40,000 light-therapy machine? Us too. Adrienne Maloof, who's did a ... More >>

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Taylor Armstrong has 'Enough!' of Brandi Glanville and Kyle Richards

Via bravotv.com.Taylor Armstrong​We told you game night wasn't over. When we left the Housewives last week, a game of "Name That Celebrity I Rub Elbows With" had quickly spiraled into a knockdown, drag out if not choreographed à la West Side Story brawl between newcomer Brandi Glanville and ... More >>

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Dana Wilkey and Brandi Glanville Shock and Awe

See that horrified face on Kyle Richards? Yeah, it was that kind of RHOBH episode last night. Lots of jaw-dropping cock talk among the ladies, especially considering there was a baby pool and a bouncy castle about 10 feet away from them. More on that in a minute. But first, let's take it from the t ... More >>

Stomp Grapes at Malibu Family Wines Food Fest

Flickr/MulsanneFirst, take off your shoes.​ If you've ever wanted to stomp grapes a la Lucy and Ethel, now's your chance. The 11th Annual Malibu Family Wines Grape Crush & Harvest Festival is being held this Sunday, September 25 from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. at Saddlerock Ranch in Malibu. And, beca ... More >>

Beverly Hills: What do You Give The City That Has Everything? The West Nile Virus

​Beverly Hills has swimming pools and movie stars. And now it has the dreaded West Nile Virus. Or, rather, a chicken in the Franklin Canyon area (actually, this is north of B.H. but still in the 90210 zip code) came down with the bug, reports West Hollywood Patch. The mosquito-borne illness ... More >>

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Bittersweet Beginning, Without Russell Armstrong

Via Bravotv.com​We may as well start by acknowledging the massive elephant in the room, since that's exactly what Bravo did. There was no way to kick off this second season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills without first addressing the recent suicide of Russell Armstrong, estranged husb ... More >>

Russell Armstrong's Real Housewives Suicide: How Will Bravo React?

Via taylorarmstrong.com.​Local venture capitalist Russell Armstrong, estranged husband of Bravo TV star Taylor Armstrong of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, was found dead Monday, having hanged himself in the Mulholland Drive home of a friend. Immediately several members of the Bravo fami ... More >>

Russell Armstrong Suicide: Husband of "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" Star Taylor Armstrong Found Dead

​Russell Armstrong was found hanged in a Mullholland Drive bedroom last night, according to TMZ. He was the estranged husband of Taylor Armstrong, one of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. A major narrative arc of the first season of Real Housewives focused on the couple trying to save the ... More >>

Naked Man Runs Down 405 Freeway, Attacks Woman, Continues Onto Santa Monica Boulevard

John and Yoko weren't the only nudes fighting the Man on Santa Monica Boulevard this morning.​Updated after the jump with a NSFW PHOTO of the naked freeway runner! Plus, a "Real Housewife" Tweets witness. Only in Los Angeles. KNX news radio was a-buzz with reports of a stark-naked man doing ... More >>

Beverly Hills Shoppers go For Tarty, Cheaper Fashions (Who Knew?)

Taste and place aren't always the same.​Beverly Hills is the luxury mecca of the United States and the epicenter of a larger-than-life if not mythic lifestyle seen on TV (Beverly Hillbillies, Beverly Hills 90210, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills ... ). So a recent tracking of shopping hab ... More >>

WTF: Teens Allegedly Smuggle Marijuana Into California -- Where It's Legal!

Breaking news: Weed is available in California, legally.​Maybe these kids don't read. This is like bringing sand to the beach, offering up a joint at Charlie Sheen's house, or throwing a dollar bill into one of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' fireplace. It's simply uncalled for. In toda ... More >>

'Real Housewives' Lesson of the Day: How to go 'Oklahoma on Your Ass,' L.A.-Style

BravoTaylor will take you to Oklahoma, and not in a limo.​On the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reunion show last week (we watch when we're not reading the Economist or pondering the latest WeeklyLeak), the cast reflected on the meaning of going "Oklahoma on your ass." The phrase stems from ... More >>

The Realest Real Housewives at UCB: A Celebration of the Best Show Ever Paul Scheer!

A. Trachta​Despite that it conflicted with The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reunion show, diehard fans of the series (or at least diehard fans of hilarious women) turned out to see The Realest Real Housewives at the Upright Citizens Brigade last night - a reenactment roundup of the greates ... More >>

Nightranger: It's a Mad, Mad World

Hollywood Nights: Same Decadence, but Now with More Snooki Clones! (Also, Gun Violence is Back!). A Nightranger Report

Lina LecaroKress go-go gal backs it up.​We thought 2010 was weird, but so far, not even two weeks into 2011, LA has been downright bonkers after dark. The punk riot on the Sunset Strip (not even the most hardcore line-up we've seen at Key Club) and this past Friday, a shooting inside Kress ni ... More >>

Is Camille Grammer Leaving 'The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills?'

BravoCamille.​There's important news in your world, and we aim to bring it to you. California's only Democratically appointed Supreme Court justice is quitting. SoCal is turning into a ghost town as more than half of foreclosed-upon homes aren't even on the market. And hiring of much-needed po ... More >>

When Bed Bugs Attack: New Wave Of Critters Reported In L.A. County, Beverly Hills Area

Ah, the luxurious bed bug of Beverly Hills.​As if you don't have better things to worry about -- unemployment, global warming, the latest revelation on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills -- L.A. County health officials report that more bed bugs are invading the metropolis, particularly the t ... More >>

The Housewives May Be Real, But The Location -- Beverly Hills -- Might Be A Little Off

tmz.comA 'real housewive' schlepping in Los Angeles?​When is one of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills not so real (and we're not talking about silicone body parts or Collagen-reinforced brow-lines)? Maybe when she doesn't really live in ... Beverly Hills? TMZ ran this photo of 'Housewives' ... More >>

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Extravagant-ganza

bravotv.comKyle Richards is reeeeeally enjoying Lisa's Easter present.​Attention actors and actresses of Los Angeles: we know the whole starving artist bit can be fun and that you'd most likely prefer to save yourself for roles that speak to your talent and really challenge you. However, afte ... More >>

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Out of This World

bravotv.com​Ladies and gentleman (the one of you probably reading this blog post), we have located the aliens in Southern California. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills series premiered last night and as we watched, one question kept running through our minds: just how much Chanel concealer ... More >>

Nightranger: In Bloom