Praise all that is good and holy: it appears that Lisa Rinna is joining Bravo's best coven of rich ladies, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

The dissident feminist has made no secret of her love for The Real Housewives, but now Camille Paglia has written an entire essay explaining the appeal of the franchise, how it's revived and redefined the soap genre, and why it appeals to appreciators of "grand opera."

OK, so there's some backstory to this—obviously—and of course I'll get into it in a sec, but the gist here is that vaginal odor is now on the table in the Real Housewives franchise.

On Monday, former Real Housewife Camille Grammer sent out a series of tweets indicating that a few weeks ago, after she was recovering from cancer surgery, a man physically abused her. Rumors immediately swirled, with many speculating that it must have been her boyfriend Dimitri Charalambopoulos, despite the fact…

After months of alleged harassment and threats, Karen Elson has filed a restraining order against her husband, a ghost named Jack White, and claimed that he is unfit to be a parent.

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 …

In which Melissa McCarthy, undoubtedly for the umpteeth time, is asked about her weight and how she feels about it: "Pretty much everyone I know, no matter what size, is trying some system. Even when someone gets to looking like she should be so proud of herself, instead she's like, 'I could be another three pounds…

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…

We've lost count of how many "threats" Glee star Chris Colfer is at this point: dancing, singing, acting, onscreen ascot-wearing, a 2011 Time Magazine Influential Person, and now novel-writing. Sextuple threat? The Golden Globe winner and two-time Emmy nominee's debut novel, a fantasy called The Land of Stories: The…

After her husband Russell committed suicide last year, Taylor Armstrong inherited the financial mess he left behind, which included a major lawsuit from a company from which he allegedly defrauded $1.5 million. Taylor has finally settled the case out of court and, having little liquid assets, was required to turn over…

Now that she's on her book tour for her memoir, Hiding From Reality: My Story of Love, Loss and Finding the Courage Within, that was released Tuesday—perfectly timed to coincide with The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reunion shows—Taylor Armstrong has been telling her tale of her troubled marriage to her late…

The new issue of Us Magazine contains an excerpt of Hiding From Reality, the new book written by Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills cast member Taylor Armstrong. Reading about her late husband's cruelty, abuse, and assaults in Taylor's own words is absolutely heartbreaking. In fact, the Us story is titled, "I Thought He…

After deciding that Kim Richards was the most wasted Housewife ever, we've come to the realization that she's much, much more: She's a marlin fisher, a Virgo, an Arabian horse, a cowgirl, a cigar aficionado, hyper, tired, maybe pregnant, and always loopy. In preparation for tonight's season finale of The Real…

After a rather dark second season that involved storylines of substance abuse, domestic violence, and a suicide, Bravo has not yet asked any of the current Real Housewives of Beverly Hills back for another season. According to Camille Grammer, the network has been upfront with her, saying they are doing a "big casting…

Kim Richards recently checked out of rehab, but unfortunately for her, her downward spiral was captured on camera and then aired on television last night. Spending most of the episode in the back of a limousine and various bathrooms, camera caught Kim doing a terrible job at attempting to conceal her "medicine" in…

One theme of this season of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is that Kim Richards rarely shows up for things — and if she does, she's late. Usually she gives an excuse that she's "packing," but after arriving 36 hours late to a birthday party in Hawaii, her new mantra for last night's episode was, "Everything…

Was anyone else concerned that Taylor Armstrong got the shit beat out of her after that elaborate "You can't come into our party" scene on last night's episode? It's understandable that the rest of the Housewives didn't want to be around Russell after he threatened to sue one of them for saying—on camera—that he…

This week on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, 90210, Adrienne's husband treated the cast to some "light" plastic surgery. You might be thinking, "plastic surgery and incessant pampering — is that all these bitches do all day long?" Normally you'd be right, but this week, Kyle changed it up by hosting a séance…

On last night's installment of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Lisa Vanderpump made it her own business to teach millionaire Adrienne Maloof how to cook a meal. It goes about how you'd expect. Adrienne doesn't know where anything is in her gigantic kitchen (with three refrigerators!), including the salt and…