The Real Housewives franchise tends to sequester their casts of spritzer-swilling, rhinestone-body-con-dress wearing female stars along racial lines. Their Beverly Hills, Orange County, New York and New Jersey women have all been white. Atlanta, with the exception of former cast member Kim Zolciak, was black. The…

Tonight marks the Season 3 finale of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills; it is also the first season finale that, as far as we know, will not end with Kim Richards seeking treatment for her alcoholism. Rather, Season 3 has featured Kim post-rehab, sober and surrounded by her boozy cast mates (who thoughtfully…

On Friday, Gloria Steinem spoke at Simmons College in Boston 40 years after the school gave her a doctorate in human justice. Mostly, Steinem talked about feminism and how more people should avail themselves of a dictionary before they profess themselves to not be feminists, but, as fancy speaking engagements usually…

After languidly sliming her way to court, eventually, when she felt like it, like one of those magic Death Valley sliding rocks, Lindsay Lohan has pleaded no contest to charges of reckless driving and lying to the cops. Instead of facing jail time, she'll have to complete 90 days of lockdown rehab.

A year and a half after she was axed from The Real Housewives of New York City, Jill Zarin is refusing to go gentle into that good night. In the past two weeks alone she's done a surge of press—Forbes, Fox News Latino, The Vivant, The Daily Beast—promoting herself and her different businesses (a jewelry line and a…

We might say things are the funniest or the best fairly often around here, but this is legit the best and funniest thing on the internet. Nicole Spiezio, marry me immediately. Seriously, someone give this woman a sitcom, because I'm already subscribed to her Hulu channel.*

A year after she was fired from The Real Housewives of New York City, Jill Zarin sat down for a one-on-one taped interview with Andy Cohen for Watch What Happens Live, where she confronted her former boss about why she got the ax, accused him of playing favorites among the Housewives, and divulged how she…

What started as a supposed revelation of one New Jersey Housewife's alleged stripper past has turned into a larger scandal, with the rest of the cast accusing Teresa Giudice of setting her up. Of course it was a setup. They're on reality TV. But why aren't they pointing their fingers at the show's producers, who…

Each season of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills has featured a high-profile marital split—first Camille and Kelsey Grammar, then Taylor and Russell Armstrong (whose divorce was never finalized before Russell committed suicide). The trailer for the third season (which premieres November 5) shows that the reality…

Bravo has just released its official cast photos for the new season of Real Housewives of Atlanta (premiering November 4), featuring Nene Leakes, Kandi Burruss, Phaedra Parks, Cynthia Bailey, and two new additions Kenya Moore and Porsha Stewart. Noticeably absent is Kim Zolciak.