This recap will be short and sweet because I am writing it after the fact instead of while I was watching it. I don’t usually recap Survivor because it is one of the few shows I watch with my husband and we just like to relax and enjoy it.
Starts off with the final five women: Alicia, Christina, Sabrina, Kim, and Chelsea. Kim wins immunity and has to decide between Alicia to send home or Chelsea. She also still has the hidden immunity idol and has the option to give it to someone. Chelsea makes a plea for her to give it to her, but in the end Kim decides to just keep it and let it go unplayed. She decides to be true to Chelsea though and votes out Alicia. Alicia and Christina voted for Chelsea and Kim, Chelsea, and Sabrina voted Alicia off.
Next immunity challenge, Kim wins again. My husband wanted Christina to win just to shake things up a bit, but I was ecstatic that Kim won. She is approached by Christina who asks her if she’s the one going home and Kim tells her yes. Christina basically just lied down and took it. She didn’t even fight or try to go to Sabrina or Chelsea about different options. Jeff calls her out on this at tribal. Tribe has spoken… Christina is voted off.
So final three: Chelsea, Kim, and Sabrina go to the final tribal council where members of the jury asked questions. It was quite emotional. Kat revealed she has a heart condition and will be undergoing heart surgery next year so she doesn’t want to stay mad at all of them because life is too short. The jury was overall very respectful in their questions.
Everyone has voted. Flash to the reunion. Jeff reads the votes. Sabrina received 2 or 3 votes (which were 2 or 3 more than I thought she would receive) but Kim took the rest of the votes that were read. Kim is the winner of Survivor One World!!! And I couldn’t be happier. She deserves it! She also revealed in the final episode that she’s newly divorced and this gave her something to be proud of and feel empowered by that she made a right decision by playing Survivor.
Now just waiting for the results of the $100,000 winner of the Fan Favorite award. Kim wins the fan favorite award too!! She’s not even smiling though… I bet she feels a bit guilty for it or something. She has such a big heart.
Next Survivor will be in the Philippines with three returning veterans who were airlifted out from their original seasons before they had the chance to play their season out. The contestants will be split into three tribes. It looks really good and I would be that Colton will be one of those three coming back.
A friend of mine suggested doing a blog on what shows have been recently cancelled. Great idea!
The information I found about what shows have been cancelled were listed on TVDoneWright.com
Below is a list of shows that were cancelled during the spring/summer. For a list of shows cancelled in the fall of 2012, please see this blog entry: Canceled shows for 2012-2013 season
CBS has officially cancelled the following shows:
- How to be a Gentleman – not surprised this has been cancelled… I’ve never even heard of it.
- A Gifted Man
- Rob
On the bubble are:
- Unforgettable – **Updated – Now Officially SAVED!!!
- CSI: Miami – **Updated – Now Officially Canceled!
- CSI: NY – **Updated – Now Officially Renewed!
- NYC 22 – **Updated – Now Officially Canceled!
- Rules of Engagement – Officially Renewed
ABC Official cancel list:
- Desperate Housewives (Final Season)
- Charlie’s Angels
- Man Up!
- Extreme Makeover: Home Edition – This one had a good run, I agree it’s time to move on. Only so many houses can be built in which the people will never be able to pay the property taxes on. Seriously.
- Work It
- Cougar Town (Moving to TBS) – When the entire cast has come out in separate interviews completely bashing the name of the show and how it has nothing to do with what the show is about, it’s not surprising that it’s moving to TBS and off regular network tv.
- GCB – this one I am surprised by. I thought it was getting great reviews even through the controversy and the sponsors dropping out. I have 8 episodes on my DVR that I just never got around to watching, but always intended to. Guess I might as well just delete them now. But I love Kristin Chenoweth
- Pan Am
- Missing
- The River
NBC Official Cancels:
- Chuck (Final Season) – I seriously thought this ended last season.
- Free Agents
- The Playboy Club
- Prime Suspect
- The Firm
- Best Friends Forever
- Bent
- Are You There Chelsea
- Awake
- Harry’s Law – watched the first several episodes and loved it. Then they started adding a bunch of characters and actors from Boston Legal and I couldn’t take it anymore
- Fear Factor
- The Marriage Ref
- Minute to Win It
- The Sing-Off – Sad to see this one go 😦
- Who Do You Think You Are?
On the Bubble:
- Biggest Loser – **Updated – Now Officially Renewed!
- Celebrity Apprentice – **Updated – Now Officially Renewed!
Fox Officially Canceled:
- House (Final Season)
- Allen Gregory
- Terra Nova
- Alcatraz
- The Finder
- I Hate My Teenage Daughter – watched the first episode and hated it. Hate the title too.
- Breaking In
- Napoleon Dynamite – not cancelled yet, but is expected to be. Didn’t even realize they made a show about him. Is it a cartoon?
So there you have it. As more shows are added I will update this list. What are your thoughts? Any surprises?
I don’t want anyone to go home!!! Okay, but if someone has to go then probably Hollie. But she’s such a sweetie! Also, I respect Joshua…. I think he’s amazing… but that man is not going to sell records. Just like Taylor Hicks, Lee Dewyze, etc. They’re just not quite cool enough to be played on the radio where they’re going to sell millions. Phillip Phillips… not he could sell millions of records.
First up… group song… California Dreamin’. Wow, they look nervous!! It’s got to be hard to be that close to the end and being worried you’re going to go home tonight. The four just look so stiff!! The set is really cool though with a red carpet rolled out along the stage leading to the judges and the fans are all on the stage cheering them on.
Ford music video… fast forward… blah blah blah…
Phillip Phillips is up first… Jimmy loves it, especially the Damien Rice “Volcano” song. So good! Ugh!! Ryan’s making him go back to the couch to wait.
Now Hollie Cavanaugh is up… Jimmy didn’t like her performance, especially “I Can’t Make You Love Me.” He said she crashed and burned. Waiting for the results… she goes back to the couch, for now.
David Cook performs! “The Last Song I Write for You” His hair is a nice shade of red. I think he’s getting cuter with age. The song is just okay for me though. Doesn’t seem to have as big of a hook as I would usually like in a song, but I like the lyrics.
Joshua Ledet up now… Jimmy didn’t like “You Raise Me Up”. He can’t use the gospel singers each time, he says. Jimmy loved “It’s a Man’s World”. He wants to see it again and again and again.
Jessica Sanchez…. Jimmy thought she did a great job on Etta James’ song, but didn’t think it was a good song choice. Jimmy loved everything about “You’re Gonna Love Me”. Shock and Awe he said.
Jennifer Lopez performs “Dance Again”!! Oooh elaborate set! She looks hot from the waist up, but not sure it was the best outfit for the lower half. She looks so fierce though! I think she’s lip synching a little bit, but I can hear her live voice coming through as well. Many singers that dance as hardcore as she does during their performances need to lip synch a bit because they get so winded. So strange to see her dancing with her new boyfriend, Casper, up there when at last season’s finale she was dancing with Marc Anthony, but she does look so much happier…. even giddy, almost. By the way, her performance was pretaped, it was not live. Idol does this with a number of their musical guests.
Dim the lights! Here we go! Jessica Sanchez is safe!! She gets to go back to her hometown. Joshua Ledet is safe!! So it is down to Phillip and Hollie. Please be Hollie! Please be Hollie! Please be Hollie!
Phillip is safe!!! Hollie Cavanaugh is going home. I’m a bit sad because she’s so stinking cute and talented, but it was her time to go. I’m actually a little surprised she lasted this long. But I do like her! Bye Hollie!! I wish you well!!
Not for lack of being a fan, but because I can only watch so much TV in a week, I have not watched a single episode of this season’s The Voice until tonight. Basically I’m just putting this out there so you all know who won if you didn’t have a chance to watch it. Sorry for lack of details!!
Fourth place: Chris Mann
Third place: Tony Lucca
Second place: Juliet Simms
1st place Winner of the Voice is…. Jermaine Paul of Blake’s team!!! He had the most heart from what I could see, so I am happy he won! Jermaine is the winner! I loved his heartfelt speech at the end!! He is just sobbing. Man has heart!! Can’t even sing “I believe I can fly!” Love it!!!
Vicki and Tamra go bra shopping at the start of the episode now that Tamra had her implants removed. They both get sized and Vicki is told she’s an FF and Tamra is a D. There is no way Tamra is a D! She’s a 32C at best. Vicki says “I don’t think big boobies are appropriate.” But a few weeks ago she’s the one that said she doesn’t know why anyone would want itty bitty titties. Whatever! They discuss Briana getting married in Vegas. Vicki is obviously upset that they did this without telling her or including her. She says she was robbed of her moment. I can understand her being upset, but she’s making it all about her. The good thing is that she realizes if she gets too upset by it, then she’ll lose Breana forever.
Slade goes out for a bike ride and meets up with Gretchen’s father, Scott. He asks Scott’s permission to marry Gretchen! He says he doesn’t know if Gretchen will say yes. Scott says there are things Gretchen wants too, and they have a lot to talk about… finances, get his reputation cleaned up… the perception of what people think based on what others (Tamra) has said. So Scott didn’t completely give it his blessing but didn’t say no either. Just said they need to work things out first before they get married.
Flash to Gretchen and Tamra having lunch together. Gretchen’s hair always looks great, I must say. Tamra is reveals that she’s thinking of starting her own business… a fitness studio. Some place that has fitness classes… not like a gym where you can go any time to work out. She says she doesn’t want to tell Vicki about it because she always focuses on the negatives. Tamra asks Gretchen about what’s going on with Slade. Gretchen says she’s scared to marry him because she would be taking on his debt. She’s financially sound and she doesn’t want to give that up. She gets teared up and says she doesn’t know if she wants to get married. She has some past things she needs to work through.
Vicki and Tamra have a party to launch their new wine club business. They decide to have a super formal event. Vicki plans to announce to everyone that Briana got married so that they all find out from her. Breana’s going to meet Vicki’s boyfriend Brooks at the party. Briana is apprehensive because Vicki is still technically married so Briana doesn’t really approve.
The party is on its way and everyone is dressed to the nines. In walks Vicki’s son dressed in jeans. Right off the bat he meets Brooks and Brooks takes him out on the balcony. Brooks makes some small talk and says, “So that’s a pretty crazy thing your sister did, huh?” and Michael’s response is, “yeah… I don’t… I don’t really want to do this right now.” lol and Brooks lets him off the hook and they awkwardly walk back inside. Michael says he has no interest in getting to know Brooks and does not need a role model in his mom’s boyfriend. Briana’s on her way to the party and telling her new husband that she’s really skeptical of Brooks. He lives in another state, he has four children that live there, yet he’s with Vicki in the OC all the time. Vicki’s buying him clothes, he driving her car, she just doesn’t get it. She thinks he may be an opportunist.
So here’s the big moment when Vicki’s making the announcement about Briana. She starts crying and acting like it’s a death sentence. Everyone is so shocked. Lol Gretchen says “What is Briana thinking?? Does she know who her mother is?!!” haha. All of the ladies can sympathize with Vicki. Vicki tells Briana she has a surprise for her too and she says, “Oh god, don’t tell me you’re engaged.” Vicki finds that statement very disrespectful. Turns out Vicki just wanted to tell her that Uncle Billy was in town. Vicki’s son Michael says he found out via facebook that Briana was married. Eek!
Brooks tells Vicki about how great Michael is, how he loves him as if he was his own son. What?! He just met him! Vicki asks him again how did their conversation go? And Brooks avoids the question about going on about how he reminds him of himself at that age. Vicki then goes and gets Briana to go meet Brooks. They meet in a separate room at the party. It is holy awkward, man! Briana’s really put off that nobody knows anything about Brooks… what he does for a living, etc. Vicki tries to say how she and Briana’s relationships are similar and Briana mumbles that it’s completely different. Briana clearly doesn’t approve and isn’t even trying to fake like she does. I don’t blame her at all for that. I can see their mother-daughter relationship hitting a rough spot for awhile now.
Housewives Kathy, Melissa, and Teresa are still vacation down at the Jersey Shore. Jacqueline and her husband arrive to join Teresa and Joe. Joe brings up to Chris the fight he got into with Rich which left him with a black eye. Teresa confides in Jacqueline about the article that was in People magazine that she did in which she discusses her husband’s possibility of going away to prison and Joe Guidice says that Joe Gorga wouldn’t do anything to help support Teresa. Jacqueline wonders why she’s doing these interviews and posing for pictures when she hasn’t even discussed these things with her best friend. Is she profiting off people’s pity? That’s what she’s wondering. Teresa tells her about how she told her brother she thinks Melissa would leave him if she found a guy with more money. J asks if she had any reason to believe that, and she just said, “she just strikes me as that kind of girl.” She is just so jealous of Melissa. Bottom line!
Cousin Rosie and Gorga’s mom are babysitting all the kids while the adults go out on the boat. The kids are just running wild. Who’s great idea was this??
Jacqueline tells the girls on the boat that Caroline’s going through menopause. Teresa says “Oh! That’s why she’s been treating me so coldly, she’s going through menopause!” Teresa keeps going on about how Caroline has such a short fuse. Then Joe brings up to Rich that he’s never had a black eye before until the other night when Rich gave him one. This gets the wives involved and stirs everything up.
Back at Caroline, Vito and Lauren are making dinner for the Manzo family. Her brothers keep teasing them about how large their kids are going to be, heavy breathers, etc. It really upsets Lauren. Albie says he has a new girlfriend and shows a picture of her to Vito which makes Lauren feel insecure.
Next day… Jacqueline’s back in town and goes over to Caroline’s and they prepare for a solstice party. Melissa shows up and tells Caroline about Teresa’s comments and behavior. Caroline says “she’s willing to destroy a family to get you (Melissa) out of her life.” Teresa and Kim “D” ride together to the solstice party. Kathy and Rosie arrive together. Everyone is dressed in all white. They’re all Italian, so of course they all look beautiful in white. Rosie confronts Teresa about her comment about Melissa leaving her for another man with more money. Teresa tries to defend her comments by saying that she was just trying to get Joe to open his eyes. She says “he’s going to speak his mind and I’m going to speak mine.” Rosie says, “well maybe everyone should just shut up.” So true!!! Go Rosie!! Rosie decides to just let it go though. Teresa puts Jacqueline in a bad position by asking her if Melissa talked to her and Caroline about the comment. Jacqueline hesitates before answering and that makes Teresa angry because she feels that J is supposed to be her friend, not M’s. So J signals M to come over to talk to T. Teresa starts explaining what happened the day on the beach when she had that conversation with her brother. T says she was hurt that her brother didn’t call when Joe “went away” (jail) for a few days. Melissa says, “Do you know why he didn’t call you? Because when he called about the auction, you denied it. (Teresa disagrees) When he called you about the DUI…” Saying the word “DUI” hit a hot button for T and she go up and stormed out. Saying she’s done talking.
Jacqueline runs after Teresa and tells her about how bad it makes her feel and she feels responsible. Kim D is there defending Teresa. Teresa says J feels like she’s in the middle because puts herself in the middle. T asks J to go get Melissa and for her to say “I don’t want to talk about legal issues, but I want to talk to her about what’s going on.” So Melissa goes to see her and Teresa further defends her comments saying she was completely justified in what she said. The fight is escalating and it’s getting ugly. As if it’s any surprise, Melissa’s really coming out on top of this one. Teresa’s just not making any sense at all. Lots of hands waving all up and down. I love watching Jersey girls fight. haha. Teresa and Melissa walk away and driving off. Teresa says this whole thing was caused by her brother Joe for telling Melissa what Teresa said. NOT the fact that Teresa made a very insulting comment to begin with! What a frustrating episode! But good tv, nonetheless. 🙂
With the premier of RHONY coming June 4th, I got curious who was replacing Alex McCord and Jill Zarin. I didn’t realize until I did the Google search that Cindy Barshop and Kelly Bensimon were also fired. Can I get a Halleluiah that Kelly is not coming back?!! For some reason I could always handle Alex’s crazy but not Kelly’s. She drove me insane. So who’s replacing these women and crazy enough to join Luann de Lesseps, Sonja Morgan, and Ramona Singer?
Here are their bios as listed on Bravotv.com:
Heather Thompson
A savvy and highly successful businesswoman, Heather Thomson is the creator of “Yummie by Heather Thomson,” a popular and innovative shapewear line. Fifteen years as a successful designer and stylist, she’s worked with some of the biggest names in entertainment, including Jennifer Lopez, Beyoncé, and Tina Knowles and Sean “Diddy” Combs. She was the founding Design Director for his Sean John line, and is credited as a major force behind multiple CFDA award nominations. A married mother of two, Jax, 6, and Ella Rae, 4, the idea for Yummie by Heather Thomson was born shortly after having her children. Disappointed by existing shapewear, she set out to create something sexier, comfier, and “yummier.” She came up with the patented 3-panel system that is now Yummie Tummie’s signature. Since the launch of the original tank, Yummie by Heather Thomson has expanded into ready-to-wear and denim. In addition to her professional work, Heather supports several charitable initiatives including Kelllner Family Pediatric Liver Disease Foundation and City of Hope.
Carole Radziwill
Best-selling author and award-winning journalist Carole Radziwill grew up in upstate New York. She moved to New York City at age 18 to attend college, earning a Bachelor of Arts at Hunter College and a Masters degree at New York University. In 1988 she landed a life-changing internship at ABC News. It was the start of a long and rewarding career. Carole’s work with Peter Jennings’ documentary unit and the news magazine shows PrimeTime Live and 20/20 garnered her three EMMYs, a Robert F. Kennedy Humanitarian award, and a GLADD award. Carole has traveled all over the world for her work, reporting on hard-hitting stories from places like Cambodia, India, and the Middle East. She was stationed in Israel in 1991, to cover the first Gulf War. And in 2001, during the Afghanistan War, she spent a month documenting the 101st Airborne Division in Khandahar for the ABC docu-series Profiles From the Front Line. In 2003 Carole left ABC News to write her first book, What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship and Love. It is a moving account of her life, her marriage to fellow ABC News producer Anthony Radziwill, and their heartbreaking battle with cancer. What Remains spent over 12 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List and was nominated for the “Books for a Better Life” award. Carole is a frequent contributor to Glamour magazine and her first novel, The Widow’s Guide to Sex & Dating, will be published in summer 2012.
Aviva Drescher
Aviva Drescher is the first and only New York City born and bred “Housewife” in the history of the show. At 5’10” with brains to match her beauty, this part-time socialite and full-time mother will let nothing hold her back. When Aviva was just six years-old, she was in a tragic farm accident, which resulted in the amputation of her left leg. Aviva has never let this tragedy define who she is. Aviva has a solid education. She received a Bachelors of Arts degree from Vassar College, a Masters degree in French from New York University, and then went on to earn a JD from The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Instead of practicing law, she devotes her time to her investment banker husband Reid and raising and educating their family of four children on the Upper East Side. Aviva continually teaches her family the importance of giving back through her philanthropic work as the National Spokesperson for One Step Ahead, an organization for amputees and as an Advisory Board Member of Cancer Schmancer/ Trash Cancer and for her work with the Live4Life Foundation.
So after reading their bios, I have to wonder… do these intelligent, beautiful women realize what they’ve signed up for? They seem far too smart to be partaking in a Real Housewives show. However, I am very excited about the new blood and maybe this will bring some more sophistication to the show (probably not). Can’t wait for the season to begin, Monday, June 4th!!
Three people will be eliminated tonight!! Excited!!
Lisa goes back to the suite after last week’s boardroom firing and says they both got fired. She tells the remaining contestants that Trump just went crazy and fired both Dayana and Clay. They are in shock. Arsenio is just completely freaking out. And then in walks Clay…. they totally punked the other time. Lisa does a little happy dance that Dayana is now gone. Teresa gets the feeling that she is Lisa’s next target. She says in her interview, “bring it on!”
Editor in chief of Elle Magazine and Farouk Shami are the execs that will be helping on this task . Chi Touch hair dryer is the product and the task is to create a 4 page print campaign to promote the hairdryer. Teresa steps up to be the project manager for her team with Arsenio and Aubrey. And Lisa is PM for her team with Clay. The execs meet with the team and Farouk is heavily flirting with Aubrey. It was quite humorous to watch.
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