Saturday 31 March 2012

Weight Loss: Decision Day

Fat Albert from Albert and the Cosby Kids
Today is the day I really need to put getting fitter and losing pounds and kilos a priority. My clothes don't fit me anymore and I am taking more rests as I walk down the street or up the stairs. So I am going to start tommorrow.

I have tried most programmes but due the lack of motivation I've not completed. I've also felt a bit odd whenever I didn't lose anyweight and then so dropped out. Because sometimes I feel like the leaders/consultants were just telling me or being disapproving so I never went back.

However my belly is now spilling over my jeanss and I'm on my last belt loop. 

The first thing I should remember is that


I can do it
Most people have been where I am at some point - I mean as in trying to achieve a goal.
Lots of people achieve their weights
Some are a lot heavier than I am
I can do it

I can do it
I can do it

Wednesday 28 March 2012

Basketball Wives Season 4 Episode 6: It's all about Promiscuou- Evelyn called a hoe and loose.

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The show was boring and waste of time but I felt since I've started blogging about it I'll try and see it to the end of the season which is soon. I heard  a rumour that VH1 finished filming Basketball Wives Season 4  about two weeks ago and the reunion will be at the end of April to be shown in early May.

It's time Shaunie O'Neal evolved to producing better shows because this is just populated by bottom feeders better know as pond life.

Tennis with Suzie, Jennifer Williams and Kesha Nichols.

Nothing much here but Jennifer Williams is so annoying and irrairating with her fake 'delicate girl' act. There is nothing delicate about that woman. She is built like a power house to borrow Madonna's quote 'built like a brick sh*thouse' and it's only because she watches her weight that she manages to pull off her fakery. She comes over as a snob. Can't deal with her.

Suzie Ketcham - she needs to get some guts because this is stuff her children  may watch. I can't stand the way she comes over as sneaky and grovelling. It's too sickening.

Kesha Nichols is pretty strange too.

Bad Weave Kenya Bell comes over mean and petty with Kesha.

Hightlight of the show where they all gather and lay into Bad Weave Kenya Bell about some stupid radio show.
Then Bad Weave Kenya Bell and Kesha start to argue. Kenya who has a very ugly mouth called Kesha names but what really got me was her trying to rubbish the Kesha's dance company. That was below the belt. This also affects the livehoods of her employees and just comes over like Kenya Bell is seeping with jealousy. Name calling fine but trying to make Kesha as a business woman look like nothing was just ugly.

It was too much for me.



Evelyn labelled as Loose and a Hoe by Kenya

 Evelyn vs Kenya - well Kesha dropped that Kenya had said Evelyn was loose. When asked Kenya said 'I referenced you as a hoe!'. Now to be fair she is just said something which most cast members have though. The idea that Evelyn Lozada is alleged to be  promiscuous, loose and called a hoe is not new she had alleged drama to that effect with Vanessa Davis former wife of NBA star Ricky Davis. I guess like Tami and food stamps Evelyn doesn't want to be reminded of it.

 Evelyn is no blushing Mary Bride has as been round the block more than a few times but I guess to have to thrown in her face so near the wedding by  new comer Bad Weave Kenya Bell was too much to take. Saying that she tries to take Kenya on next week. Hmm... Kenya does not back down from a battle - girl took her shoes off when things were getting tense with Kesha.

Nothing more to be said.

Thursday 22 March 2012

Basketball Wives Season 4 Episode 5: Cash Money Baby - Evelyn book Deal, Boozie Suzie talks Country folk and peeing in outhouse, Food stamp haunt Tami Roman, Shaunie party becomes a Jennifer Evelyn event but no broken glass or drinks are thrown..


VH1 shows a different face and angle to prejudice and racism 


Somewhere in North Carolina, Kesha Nichols rolls up in a pickup truck to meet our two city ladies. I use the words ladies very loosely for  Boozie Suzie Ketcham and Dancer Royce Reed. By rolling up in grandpa's truck Kesha plays up to every ignorant country stereotype in the book. I surprised she isn't chewing a piece of tobacco, wearing a straw hat and spitting at the kerb.

I'm pretty sure Grandpa Nichols is rich and has a yard enough to building twenty projects houses. 

FACT - farmers are some of the richest people around due to lots of government subsidises and high crop prices. It's a very controlled market so I'm sure somewhere in that 1000 hectare yard  most farmers have a BMW or SUV hiding in a shed.

We have a few nice Oprah moments but I'm not really sure it's worth exposing the Nichols family to all this all this hassle and ridicule. If it were a proper documentary or a reality show solely about Kesha Nichols (maybe there is one in the pipe line) then I understand. But not to gain and expose your family to millions of viewers and Bitchy Boozie Suzie is not a good decision. Also like Tami Roman says we all have a story. Everyone of us has being through hard times in some shape or form.

Is VH1 going to do a new reality show based around Kesha Nichols and her family. This really seemed the start of a spin off like Evelyn Lozada?

We have a few nice moments with Kesha taking us back to her home. That was respectfully done only for Boozie Suzie Ketcham who has no finesse or class to come back disrespectfully when she meets Bouji/Boogie Princess Jennifer Williams.  Boozie Suzie Ketcham comes over uneducated, ignorant in her choice of words - very narrow and small minded woman. I'm being very generous her though some hardliners would call it as it is however I think she is just stupid and ignorant like most small minded people. Get an education Boozie Suzie.

Boozie Suzie Ketcham Meets with Bouji Jennifer Williams to discuss Kesha's family and peeing in the Outhouse


Bougie Princess Jennifer William who asks stupid questions like 'did you have to pee in an outhouse?' I think she has been watching too many movies - even African farmhouses are fully plumbed with indoor facilities.  Boozie Suzie Ketcham delivers her city girl snobbery over country folk by using abusive and derogatory language terms for Kesha's family like Hickville, Hillybillies, Rednecks - not everyone in the country is that - infact the some of the richest people live countryside. And how hard is it just for Boozie Suzie to say 'Kesha's folks were nice and made us feel at home.'  It's like a double insult wrapped in a compliment.

Then  Bougie Princess Jennifer William says 'I'd rather be from the bougie than from the country'. Sorry, Jennifer, unless your people emigrated to America in the last century - your ass is from the country too. What is so wrong with country... ignorant woman.

 Battle of the breast (implants?) - Jennifer vs Evelyn

What is going on with these breasts? Are the fake? Are they real? Must these Jennifer and Evelyn always show their boobs close up? Please please please - we don't even know where to look.  I suspect that both have had jobs done. It's the way they sit on the chest.



Evelyn promotes her book with Cash Money!

So Bryan Williams - better know as Baby or Birdman rolls up with his pretty daughter Bri (who probably nagged Dad to take her along because she wanted to meet Evelyn). Not sure how long Baby will continue to call himself Baby or lil Wayne call himself lil for that matter. Even lil Romeo has outgrown all that l'il business and is now know as Romeo Miller.



I digress. This is a two way promotion thing. We get to know the Cash Money is a publisher and Evelyn wants a book deal and free promotion.



 Evelyn is writing about all her past relationship based on a series of old journals - whatever. However in the meeting she is very honest. Evelyn Lozada knows her worth. She is set to make the cash while she can.

Evelyn's Lozada lists of achievements since Basketball Wives
  •  Signing a deal for a new show with Chad Ochocinco Johnson.
  • Her online T Shirt shops where she promotes on Twitter and interivews and sometimes the show indirectly. Also using social media such as blogs - even those who hate her - all mention her shop. http://evelynlozada.spreadshirt.com/
  • Her new book deal with Cash Money though no word on the how big the advance is
  • Club, personal and promotional appearances
  • Her store Dulce in Maimi



It's  Evelyn Lozada 's moment now and she is capitalising and cashing on it. As she said she wants this fifteen minutes of fame to last longer than fifteen minutes. I think that's what so refreshing about her is that most of the time Evelyn is very truthful about her situations. She see it as it is - no sugar coating it.  She wants to make enough to her and her daughter comfortable and also a career if possible. So go Evelyn.


Reasons to love (or love to hate) Evelyn Lozada

  • Evelyn Lozada is not the prettiest but she know how to make the best her looks
  • Evelyn Lozada  is a great business woman and takes opportunities when they come
  • Evelyn Lozada  is her own person and appears honest
  • Evelyn Lozada   has claws and is not afraid to sharpen or use them in Basketball Wives
  • Evelyn Lozada has foul mouth that makes most of us seem like nuns.
  • There is hope that if Ev can do it we can do - but the girl has steel for nerves and a real focus
  • Take her good bits she is great fun
  • Evelyn Lozada provides drama, drama and knows how to play the Basketball Wives game.
  • Evelyn Lozada  can somehow grab all the attension and make it all about her
  • Underneath all drama Evelyn very savy, smart and  wise woman who is no one's fool. She may act at times but it's only an act.

 Queen Bee Shaunie invites Bougi/Booji Princess Jennifer to her her Party

Bouji Princess Jennifer Williams know that sparks will fly at the event with Evelyn but hey it's in her contract to attend this gig - maybe she is contracted to attend a minimum of number of appearances on the show. So she accepts the invitation. Even jokes about wearing a bulletproof vest ad says  she is okay once the drinks are flowing and not throwing.


Shaunie makes small talk about Jennifer changing and sit's good that she is standing up for herself instead of being a punk. I remember the edited - final cut show differently.


 Queen Bee Shaunie had implied that Bouji Princess Jennifer did not take responsiblity for her action. So not sure what to believe because Shaunie comes over a bit two-faced.

 Queen Bee Shaunie O' Neals - Set up - Punch Up Party and a JenEv event.



We all know there is no way we can get all Basketball cast members in a room with free booze and no food without having some drama. Wait Kesha Nichols is missing. Wasn't Kesha Nichols invited? Shaunie does the typical thing and keeps them waiting this means more time to booze and get drunk. Cue Boozie Suzie more drunk by the second on free booze. 


Kenya gives a speech about being free from marriage.

Boozie Suzie makes an ass of herself and food stamps come back to haunt Tami Roman.

 There is nothing wrong in state or welfare assistance. That what it is for (people in need) and now Tami Roman is paying giving back in TAXES more than some people will earn.


Cue Boozie Suzie who drinks a toasts to Shaunie for helping them with their bank accounts and then throws at Tami Roman something like ' Right Tami, off the food stamps.' Not nice. Tami Roman wants to punch her.

Boozie Suzie Ketcham knows she can't handle her liquor or hold her drink so why does she persist in making an jackass of herself?

Evelyn Lozada makes a toast speech about fantastic Queen Bee Shaunie

Evelyn is having an Oprah moment. Telling us how inspirational Queen Bee Shaunie O'Neal has been in her life however Evelyn always one for maximum effect uses it to take hidden swipes and barbs at Jennifer. Somehow this becomes a JenEv event.



Evelyn Lozada makes a toast/speech to Shaunie - thanking her for being a good and loyal friend and giving her (Evelyn Lozada ) an opportunity to make something of herself. Well she is right - the spin-off series with Chad Ochocinco, her proposed book with Cash Money and also free advertising for her shop and mail order business. So Shaunie has given her and Bouji Princess Jennifer Williams platforms to launch out on their own.Then Evelyn starts to cry. Yes, cry ... it hard for me to believe but then she has had a few drinks.


Not to be out done  Bouji Princess Jennifer Williams starts her own toast to Shaunie.


Yes Jennifer stands and starts to toast Jennifer only this time Evelyn starts to rolls her eyes and head taking offence at the toast thinking it selfish because it is all Bouji Princess Jennifer  'me me me me' Williams is talking about herself. She says it's all was about Jennifer and Jennifers' World.


So a very irritated and drunk Evelyn stands and does another toast about blogs and loyalty plainly referring to Jennifer. Then Jennifer says the word disrespectful and tells us she went to college - yeah, like you need a college degree o appear on an reality show - who cares?


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Then it all kicks off and they start to quarrel - cue the drama starts. Shaunie takes it as her cue to leave and takes Eve with her. However somehow Evelyn manages to tap or wack depending on who you read on the head with her purse.

However no glass is broken and drinks are thrown at this event. 

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Tuesday 20 March 2012

15 minutes of fame: Greg Smith and Goldman Sachs and Princess Diana Sydrome

Greg Smith seems to be what the Late Princess Diana was to the British Royal Family in his five minutes of fame. Only he did not give birth to a couple of heirs to the throne and therefore his importance less. And still like in both cases the firm shall remain.

It's just a sorry affair that it has come to this. Someone should have pulled Greg Smith back before he did this. Maybe there is a book or he didn't want to do banking anymore. Maybe he wanted to opt to become an academic carreer. It's a pitieous affair with no winners.  He has courage, he is brave and he is trying to make a difference - however he is still cut of the Goldman Sachs cloth so there might be a hidden agenda to this.

Good Luck Greg Smith - you are still a young-un with principles get to my age and you wouldn't give a flying f%&k. Work is just a place to make money to pay for a lifestyle.

Now for my five minutes of fame. 


Geez, what a lot of fuss. No one has mentioned how much Gregie Boy - Greg Smith got paid for his New York Times article. To be fair if you were in a 'services' industry no matter from the man on the corner market stall to the elite echons of Goldman Sachs all this fuss is clearly common.

What people fail to see is the Goldman Sachs employs thousands of people and therefore you can't hold a few managers or what not responsible for it's culture. Nor can you publicly go and air out dirty laundry. There are ways to do this. Things gets exposed eventually but then maybe that exposure came the way of Greg Smith.

I don't care for Goldman Sachs but people should get real and realise an organisation is made up of people. Each person has a different agenda and motivation for working at Goldman Sachs and believe me it's not to make others richer. So get real - Goldman Sachs is not a charitable organisation - it is a bank where the so called best of the best work long hours to make money. They challenge themselves mentally, emotionally and physically. They work long hours and sacrifice a long - family time, children parties or whatever. So WTF! 


Get more than two people in a room and there will always be an ethics isssues. If he didn't like it he should have left but hey banking is about money. You become one to make money. And at the end of it Goldman Sachs is a 'service' industry organisation. So Smith just told it as it was because it is what is it. It's about one-up- showmanship, competition and making money. Profit.

You don't die and have etched on your gravestone Loyal Goldman Sachs empolyee - helpful to clients. You'd be lucky if even clients noticed you've gone. It will be as if you never worked there. So this is just a tiny ripple in an ocean that is have already smoothened out. This is fairly common to most workplaces.


Who cares really? This is just copy.

Thursday 15 March 2012

Tami calls Kesha Nichols a liar and manipulator in open blog letter called Bitch, Bitch, and MORE BITCH!

Tami Roman - image VH1
Tami Roman addresses others and defends actions on  Basketball Wives Season 4 Episode 4 and alludes to Kesha having friends in high places on the show in her letter.

Check out full letter in her blog http://tamiroman.com/blog/?p=215





"Bitch, Bitch, and MORE BITCH!

I usually don’t blog, but I felt a need to address a few things…

Keisha:

To be clear, upon meeting you, I asked you respectfully to discuss anything you had to say about me…WITH ME. I wasn’t confrontational nor was I argumentative. Of course that part was edited out of the show; however you, Royce and Kenya know what I said. When you spoke to Evelyn about me; it wasn’t what you said, but the fact that you said it. I don’t walk around with boxing gloves on and I don’t fight everyone I meet. I just feel you should’ve been a real woman and brought your concerns “directly” to me. I can assure you that if you had our dealings with each other might not be so rocky.


Do me a favor, don’t be such a liar and manipulator.
I know you have friends in high “Executive Producer” places, but let’s keep this all the way real.  When I met you, I approached you in a friendly manner and I did not have any issues with you what so ever. Everyone in this situation knows I was told you were Caucasian, so when I met you that is why I asked you. In that same conversation (which was edited out), upon hearing your answer, I said that I thought you were mixed but wasn’t sure of what it was – to be exact, my verbiage was, “I knew there was something else in you.” I wish you had been woman enough to ask me if I thought you were denying your “black” side and I would have cleared that right up for you. On the contrary, my saying that I thought you were mixed with something was in fact ACKNOWLEDGING that you may be of African American decent.  I am a product of mixed heritage and identify myself as a black woman also. I NEVER said you weren’t “black” enough… that is a flat out lie! I would NEVER try to belittle someone for that and I don’t appreciate you implying that I would.


FYI- You know that I was joking when I made the comment “You can be in the building, but I don’t need your opinion.” In fact, you can hear me and Royce laughing in the scene. Don’t take yourself so seriously and think that I care that much because I don’t. On another note, I didn’t know you at the time nor was I familiar with your dance style, so I didn’t need your opinion.


The charity event was a nice event and I was happy to be invited for such a worthy cause. However, any concerns you had with our etiquette should have been addressed when you invited us and not at the venue.  Once again, you didn’t deal with things that were bothering you, which is NOT a problem with us, but a serious problem with you. If you speak on things when they happen, then all parties are clear and you can have an open dialogue about them also known as “communication”…I’m just saying.
"
Then Tami addresses a myterious 'sidebar'

"Sidebar:
I am NOT a bully. People don’t understand that Keisha is NOT innocent in this matter and she does a great deal of lip boxing behind the scenes.  I am not going to try and be respectful when I have been disrespected numerous times…off camera.  If you are bold enough to talk behind my back, then you should be grown enough to handle the repercussions of your actions and words. The editors have done a wonderful job of putting my outbursts on the show but not showing the full chain of events. My outbursts are real, but they are also driven by something which is conveniently being edited out when it comes to Keisha.  Wish I had an executive producer in my pocket…I’m just saying..."
 Sourced from Tami Roman's Blog http://tamiroman.com/blog/?p=215

Tuesday 13 March 2012

Basketball Wives Season 4 Episode 4: Inner ugliness reigns over outer beauty Evelyn Lozada and Tami get real with Kesha.

Tami Roman is spitting mad over this episode and how she was protrayed so please take time out to read her side on her blog. I'm not changing my blog post but Tami deserves atttention to address the issues of how she has being made to look. She calls Jennifer Williams fake and Kesha Nichols a liar and manipulator. So worth reading it to get a good glimpse behind the scenes.


http://tamiroman.com/blog/  This give her full open letter to the fellow castmembers.

http://blog.vh1.com/2012-03-14/she-saidshe-said-tami-roman-of-basketball-wives-has-a-lot-to-say-about-mondays-episode/#more-203218  This is the VH1 official blog. 



This show has a lot of negative energy in it and the women came off pathetic, the only exception was Kesha Nichols who was dignified - this does not make her innocent - she just sharpens her claws in a different way (she too has her own issues). I didn't want to write about it but decided to because it was something I've started.

This episode somewhat killed my passion and showing a different and ugly side to the show. I know it is scripted to some extent and edited to show the women in certain way but this time it was even too much for me.

There was too much negativity that I'm inclined to agree with Jennifer Williams about not inviting them her makeup launch. They will just bitch, bitch, and maybe fight at some point. 

 Kesha invited the women to an event and read them the riot act about behaving to which they all took offence by staying sober. She also confided in Evelyn Lozada over things Tami has said about her. Kesha did cross the line by telling the women about staying sober. They are grown ups but if she was so worried about it she shouldn't have invited them. However she proved her point  because instead like grown women - (Shaunie, Tami, Evelyn) ignoring it they proved her point by acting childish and sulking in a corner. Even I could feel the 'Debbie Down' vibes and atmosphere raditating from the TV. All are too blame. Kesha for telling them and the women for their behavour.

This episode was a poor show in every way and seemed just dedicated to bullying a cast member Kesha Nichols. Inner ugliness took over the physical outer beauty. It was plain nasty and left a bad taste in my mouth.


Anyway in a dinner Tami Roman picked on Kesha Nichols. Tami Roman wraps her jealousy and anger under the label 'outspoken and speaking her mind'. Yes, we all know those types who mask intimidation and bully under being real.  Basketball Wives allows her to make money under this mask. However she is just so negativity and really not the type of person most people will chose to be around. We may watch her on TV, laugh and agree with her. But be her friend - heck, no!


 Tami Roman is protrayed as a bully with an anger problem - this is partly true and partly VH1 editing and portrayal. I can only say portrayed because the show is edited that way. Her behaviour is simply ugly and unacceptable.  It spoils her natural beauty to act that way. I'm not sure what she will do after Basketball wives should it every get cancelled.

Tami's new BFF (even though she was called the non-mutha-f$£king factor in a previous season)  Evelyn Lozada also seemed different. It's funny how people's behaviour can affect their looks because I realise Evelyn Lozada's beauty was all due to makeup. She is a painted doll - there is no natural pleasantness or beauty like Tami or Shaunie or Kenya or Kesha. Her facial features are all rough and out of proportion. I guess thank goodness for MAC and a fake pair of breast implants.

Suzie Ketcham also comes over irrelevant and is portrayed as a person that spreads poisonous gossip.

For the first time in the show the women's behaviour made them all very ugly, unlikable and negativity. Extremely ugly. I guess it's very sad that if they are not fighting, bitching or spreading malicious gossip about each other they are just women living boring lives. I guess that's why they need all the drama.

I don't really know the answer but it was just too much.

News Flash
In her defense, Tami Roman writes in her blog "The editors have done a wonderful job of putting my outbursts on the show but not showing the full chain of events. My outbursts are real, but they are also driven by something which is conveniently being edited out when it comes to Keisha. Wish I had an executive producer in my pocket…I’m just saying..."


On a positive note - shout out the Bougie/Booji Princess Jennifer Williams getting out her make-up and marketing it to retailers. That is huge. So all the best.

Also surprise, surprise Evelyn Lozada and Chad Johnson Ochocinco are rumoured to be getting their own show - I think that was on the cards for a long time.


Thursday 8 March 2012

Basketball Wives Season 4 Episode 3: Suzie talks dirty, Tami seeks therapy, Kenya is just a hot mess and we learn 'apple pie face'

So the ghettoo hoodrat element of stomping, punching and spitting has taken a backseat this Basketball Wives episode 3. Not even a glass was broken accidentally. I'm not even sure I heard a cuss-word, sorry, I forget Kenya Bell did say Kesha Nichols shouldn't p*ss her off.  We don't consider Suzie Ketcham's vulgar and crude mouth cussing - she uses clinical and anatomical words. The Basketball Wives were remarkably tame this show.


So with nothing happening in the way of pulling weaves, throwing punches and stomping. I guess this was the cool down week.  It was a bit boring but sometimes a show like Basketball Wives needs to cool down to build up new tensions again.

I noticed Bougie/Booji Princess Jennifer Williams wasn't in it. The favourite phrase of the episode was work in progress. Everyone was claiming to be one. Also I'm not buying into Kenya Bell being a 'hot mess'. I think the woman has a game plan for Basketball Wives. Anyway let's start.

Tami Roman and Evelyn Lozada

This scene is really to tell us the viewers that these women have/or are dating rich ballers/athletes and therefore unlike us lesser mortals they have to behave differently and expect different standards. 
 

Tami  Roman and Evelyn meet to talk about Chad. What is more to know about this man? Two chicks cosy up for the fake BFF girlfriend chat about special men namely athletes like Chad because it seems only Evelyn is getting some cardinal action on this show.


 We learn that American basketball and football athletes are special kind of breed of men who can't control their sexual urges. They are like dogs who will hump at anything that takes their fancy.   Ballers can't be faithful and will cheat.




Wise owl Tami Roman tells Evelyn that Chad is an athlete and he is not going to live like a hermit - I think she means monk. Hermits can do what they want =- they just live away from society - monks have taken vows of celibacy (no sex - not even self pleasure).

I notice Evelyn is wearing her favourite off duty - baseball style military cap. We learn that big ole Chad has a soft side and he is a therapist for everyone mostly females now(now all together - isn't that so sweet). Let's call him Uncle Chad Ochocinco Johnson. What kind of therapy does Uncle Chad offer now? Lean on me?



There is a fakeness about this scene because Evelyn Lozada probably knows more about dating athletes than Tami Roman and there is nothing new Tami Roman can tell Evelyn Lozada about professional ballers - the girl probably wrote the book on it. Remember both Tami and Evelyn were with Tami's ex Kenny Anderson (whom she is still riding the wave on his name but Evelyn Lozada has soooooo moved on from him!)

Anyway Evelyn is a wise,  savvy and smart chick and doesn't need any advice from Tami Roman  but hey I guess both are business women and this scene is in their basketball wives contract.

So we learn ballers or athelete as the women on the show like to call them have a different set of balls from normal men. They are pre-programed to cheat. So if you date a high baller expect him to make full use of his balls! Anyway, who really cares who Chad sleeps with?  Just imagine the scene if Evelyn was to walk in on him, wow!

Let's face it Evelyn Lozada knows a lot more about professional ballers/ athletes that Tami Roman ever will. .so I'm not sure the point of this scene.


Evelyn Lozada, Suzie Ketcham, Kenya Bell and Kesha Nichols

We start with Evelyn Lodaza  with Suzie Ketcham checking out the new recruits Kenya Bell and Kesha Nichols. It's a sort of interview thought this time Kesha doesn't seem to think so - maybe because Evelyn comes over more friendly than the her frienemy the Booji/Bougie Princess Jennifer Williams.



This boring scene all we get is the Evelyn Lozada takes offense to Kenya Bell's weave. It is a weave? Is it a wig? It is a super furry animal nesting on Kenya Bell's head. We are no wiser but Evelyn Lozada has decided she doesn't like her (thinks Kenya is a bit lost and needs to find herself - whatever) and thinks Kesha is way more cooler.



Suzie Ketcham  talks like she is obsessed with penises/di*ks and phallic symbols. Everything upright looks like a penis/di*k  to Suzie. It's not original. It's not cute.  It's not smart. It just makes Suzie look like attention seeker or a sexually frustrated woman.  It get worse Suzie then show Evelyn and Kesha a a picture of a penis/di*k. How old is Suzie Ketcham? Attention seeking for sure.

Just look at the shocked look on Kenya Bell's face!



Evelyn ignores her but Kesha Nichols is irritated with the penis/d*ck talk - remember what Evelyn said about Keshia Nichols getting jilted by San Antonio's Richard Jefferson - because she probably didn't give something? I do agree with her though and think Suzie needs to grow up and is very juvernile behaviour.

They talk more and Evelyn Lozada takes a liking to Kesha Nichols as she tells her about her company and achievements.



Evelyn Lozada is not too impressed with Kenya Bell who says even though she is a singer she can't sing - she doesn't tell them about her academic qualifications (eduation means nothing on this show) and they probably know she was Miss Michigan. Evelyn Lozada tells Kenya she is not sexy in a round about way and needs to improve her videos.



It goes on surprisingly wel and glasses stay on table and with fists down. No drama so we move on!


Non-Eventer of Kenya Bell's Music Video, Audition and Royce's Fundraiser and Tami wants Royce to teach her daughters to dance

I skip Kenya Bell's stupid dance audition were she invites Kesha and Royce Reed just to show them she can do it.... yawn...

Kenya misses the point. Kesha Nichols is a professional dancer. She only does professional productions - thought professional is relative though. Now former Miss Michigan 2001 and alleged husband stabber Kenya Bell claims to have an MBA from at MSU I think she needs to get a refund because she seems to have no idea about anything business unless she thinks cute to act stupid.

Royce is boring! Most of us give to charity but well done. Shame on Suzie Ketcham getting drunk but then as she said How can you put me at bar at a charity and expect me not to drink?  She had a point. It was a free bar and  most of us would have done the same (remember weddings and parties).


Also award shows can be very boring.Yawn.

Tami for some reason wants her daughters to learn to dance and invites Royce to teach them. One -what kind of dance is she thinking of? Two, why not just send them to dance school?


Basketball Wives Group Talk - maybe Hug (only kidding)

Queen Shaunie O'Neal summons the group to talk about the new Keshia and Kenya beef. Another boring event though I learnt a new term. Apple pie face.

Kenya tells her side of the story about people hating on her and her talent (I'm being generous here).


However it transpires that in scenes that didn't make the show Kesha did a lot for the Kenya and  had given her lots of free advice. She just couldn't commit to a hapdash project. I think it seems quite simple to me.





They talk about their differences. Kenya calls Kesha apple pie face which sounds more like an abuse and friendly. I get the apple pie bit but adding face makes it insulting. Kenya says it's like saying boo. Shaunie is like Apple pie face doesn't work as well as boo.


From frying pan to fire former Miss Michigan and Model Kenya Bell seeks image advice from Tami Roman.

Kenya now decides to ask Z-Lister wannabe actress Tami Roman for some advice.  Kenya can't take honesty from a professional like  Keshia but goes and asks Tami Roman? Something ain't right here.

What does Tami know? For real? In the image and glam ranks Kenya is better off asking Evelyn L.  But hold up wasn't Kenya Bell, Miss Michgan 2001? This is really hard to believe that a former beauty queen would need advice on imaging - only two African American have held the crown in the last 13 years with Kenya Bell in 2001 and some other chick in 2004. Mz Kenya Bell must have some sort of a game plan for this show.
Miss Michgan 2001 - Kenya Bell nee Howard



 Tami is the last person anyone should ask for advice on make overs. Oh I forget to add that Royce Reed apparently referred Kenya to Tami.


They have a chat and Tami tells Kenya she needs to be packaged - by the way Kenya was also in a former girl band - so don't buy all her pretend fake stupidness. It's not about the talent - says Tami. It's really about the image Tami tells the former Miss Michigan 2001 Kenya Bell. I'm not buying this.  It is taken for granted as an ex-beauty queen she would have also done some modelling. Come on people! So Kenya is just fooling around on the show!

Anyway Kenya is all beauty pageant queen chirpy - you know that sort of fake modesty mixed with enthusiasm.

Tami becomes smug and then starts to dish advice. They need to get her a glam squad and a creative director. Tami offer the services of her team.


My jaw drops - Tami Roman has a team  - a glam squad and comes out looking like that? I'd hate to see her without the team then.


Kenya Bell, Tami Roman and her Team.

Tami Roman and her team are seated to help image former Miss Michigan 2001 Kenya Bell. I keep on quoting her title because I can't believe Kenya Bell is for real. You don't win a beauty pageant by being disorganised. So it must be some sort of ploy or plan she has.  Anyway she arrives with no pictures and takes a CD player from the room.



It's a disaster! The whole thing is a disaster with Kenya trying to act cute. I still don't buy this. Tami calls her a hot mess. I don't buy Kenya Bell is a hot mess. This woman is up to something she is just messing with these people - only time will tell. The woman has an entry on E-notes http://www.enotes.com/topic/Kenya_Bell with a long list of achievements including modelling (REAL MODELLING) not the booty stuff, she has a degree in engineering, a MBA and  graduated summa cum laude. So stupid Kenya Bell ain't.  She was also in girl group that broke up.  She also has a fighting past that means she is capable of handling herself in the Basketball wives situation.

Anyway Kenya messes up the interview with Tami but I can't take it seriously because this Kenya is not quite the hot mess she would let us think.


Tami finally goes for therapy and discusses her anger.

She goes for therapy, tells her story and the reason why she is defensively. She tells a bit of her childhood and it's very sad.


Tami says she is tired of being angry all the time.  She feels she has always being violated and like to keep her personal space. Also she is tired of letting little things to make her angry. She really opens up the camera and therapist.

The thing about therapy is that it takes time. These hurts and feelings have being there for a long time and it will take time to heal. However now in the basketball wives she is making use of them and has become famous because of them. What we think is her no nonsense attitude can really be her anger coming out in different way. It's very hard thing. Just by talking about it doesn't mean that she will feel instantly better. Something she also said - it didn't really make a difference talking about it.




I do hope she continues to go therapy and sees where it it takes her.  There are no instant results and everything takes time and effort. She may make money  from her bad temper and fighting on Basketball Wives but then it's finished she will still be angry. As the therapy told her 'Who looks after Tammy!' I wish her the best in this because this is about Tami Roman the real person not the character. She also calls herself a work in progress.


Coming on Basketball Wives!

Kenya Bell manages to annoy Evelyn over something she said (I bet it was something about Chad  Ochocinco Johnson or at some man) and they come to fists. Evelyn is the one who rushes Kenya but y'all know Kenya - if she can put a seven foot basketball player in hospital she can hold her own. So looking forward to next week. Still interested to know what the real Kenya Bell is up to.

Booji/Bougie Princess Jennifer Williams - whose father suppose made aeroplanes and drove a porche  (according to Evelyn in Episode two) starts to swings her fists around too. Obviously she wasn't that wealthy that the whole ghetto hoodrat attitude was removed.

Till next week...















Thursday 1 March 2012

Basket Ball Wives Season 4, Episode 2: Kenya Bell getting down and dirty in homemade music videos, Suzie Ketcham and Bougie Princess Jennifer Williams keep on bitching, Chad Ochocinco Johnson and Evelyn Lozada chat about threesomes, marriage and monogamy

Basket Ball Wives still isn't making sense. I'm not sure who is who or who is doing what but I'll go over the most interesting bits.

OMG!!!! Chad Ochocinco Johnson admits "I am still work in progress..."

Previously on Basketball Wives: Jennifer Williams and Evelyn Lozada start beefing and the rest of the NBA former bottom feeders or pond life start drama!

Chad Ochocinco Johnson and Evelyn Lozada

Seems Chad Ochocinco has changed his name back to Chad Johnson - whatever we will just call him Ochocinco Johnson! Anyway Anyway Evelyn Lozada flies down to  Miami to confront Chad Ochocinco Johnson about all his cheating rumours. It seems he has being sowing his wild oats and sleeping around.

Chad and Evelyn locking lips
but Chad Ochocinco Johnson was honest in these scenes - I feel the man should have a show of his own. Chad Ochocinco Johnson also doesn't commit to make  promises he can't keep. I'm not sure Chad Ochocinco Johnson is really ready to settle down or - maybe he has been hasn't being blown along with the huge set-up of the show, Evelyn Lozada and everything else. Maybe Chad Ochocinco Johnson is thinking this will be good for his post-baller carreer - the clock is ticking ticketing on his career as an athlete.

Well Chad Ochocinco Johnson doesn't seem too concerned about her issues - I guess he feels if Evelyn Lozada goes another chick will soon take her place. He is very honest -too honest to make me think he isn't ready for this big step. The hot lust still stirring up his blood and male member.

Evelyn Lozada complains about him cheating on her. Give it to Chad, the man does not deny it. He is like when we meet I told you I was a work in progress.  I'm still working on being the man your ass wants me to be. I think Chad means monogamy and being faithful but the concept is so foreign and alien to him that it's like E is forcing him to change. Football planet where he inhabits must be a different place.

She is like yes, that was before but now with the engagement things need to stop. I'm not saying you need to live in a box but you need to live in a box. Hmmm...



Chad Ochocinco Johnson is like I'm still a work in progress and sometimes has mishaps. Is that mishaps another word for one-night stand, casual sex?



Evelyn Lozada tells Chad he needs to tighten up.

Okay more banter then Evelyn Lozada starts to cry. Chad Ochocinco Johnson  is like you are tearing up? Why are you tearing up? Don't you start that.

Evelyn Lozada goes boo hoo hoo hoo, wipes a tear and whines - everyone wants us to fail. I see Chad Ochocinco Johnson isn't really taking all this seriously.  I think  Chad Ochocinco Johnson loves Evelyn Lozada  but not sure if he is in-love with her other lil Chad would not be a work in progress.

Chad Ochocinco Johnson then lays it on the line. He has never committed  to one individual over a long length of time (cue - he didn't say forever)- this  is new to him. He's never done it. Hmm.... interesting. Chad Ochocinco Johnson is very honest again but still not sure if he is ready.

So Evelyn Lozada forces his hand. Tells him she would rather know then be kept in the dark. Chad Ochocinco Johnson is unsure but finally comes out with the threesome idea. If they go out sometime can he bring someone home?


OMG! The man practically stated he wanted to do threesomes. Chad Ochocinco Johnson calls himself a work in progress - that being faithful is new to him. This doesn't sound very good for start for marriage.

Evelyn Lozada doesn't give a direct answer.

So Chad Ochocinco Johnson concludes a lot of men have tried to discpline themselves keeping to one woman and have failed trying.

Whoa - with all the magazine deals and rights, I sure the wedding will go ahead however both these Chad Ochocinco Johnson and  Evelyn Lozada live in Celebrity Ville so it doesn't really need to last.
Shaunie O'Neal, Tami Roman and Evelyn Lozada hold court over Jennifer  Williams


The show opens with Basketball Wives A-Lister cast: Evelyn Lozada, Shaunie O'Neal and Tami Roman hanging out or holding court. I call it a bitchfest. Get more than one Basket ball Wives cast member  in a room and it becomes time for major bitching about other people. Or a girly fight depending on who.



The big topic is  Jennifer Williams and what she did to Evelyn Lozada. Evelyn Lozada is like Jennifer Williams should have just apologised. Cue Shaunie O'Neal  is like some people - I think she means Jennifer Williams can't take responsibility  but Tami Roman is shaking her head and not having it at all.



Tami Roman is like  Jennifer Williams she may have been defensive though she reckons Jennifer should have been punched (how old is Tami?) and I thought Chrissy Lampkins form Love and Hip Hop series 1 and 2 was a bit hot tempered.

Evelyn Lozada implies Jennifer Williams is now a diva full of own self importance. Jennifer Williams is so booji/bougie and at some point people will have to spray perfume in the room before she enters a room. A bit of red carpet treatment, eh?


Suzie Ketcham and Bougie Princess Jennifer Williams

Straight after the Basket Ball Wives A-Listers we get the C-List Basketball Wives cast member Suzie Ketcham and the recently demoted A-Lister Jennifer Williams who is now flowing in the C-Lister region with Suzie. They meet up in a manicure bar to discuss the situation while having a mani-pedi session.

I am taken aback from Jennifer Williams choice of pink lipstick which matches the tissue paper behind.



Now former A-Lister  Jennifer 'No-friends-Jenny' Williams is now scrapping off the Basketball Wives floor hanging out with Suzie Ketcham. She bitches about not understanding all this fuss about a blog. Who cares?

 Suzie Ketcham agrees. She too doesn't understand why Evelyn Lozada is mad.  But we all know Suzie Ketcham knows her worth. She goes with the flow and once she thinks someone has more power than her on the show she agrees with them. She changes opinions like she change panties. Whatever. Who cares?

Jennifer Williams is still justifying her thing - keeps on talking about high school and vaginas. Yes Jennifer Williams said she was  all about taking care of her own vajaja. She wants to be respected  and no drama - maybe she should have thought about that before her ex Eric Williams threw a drink in her face on national TV - still she got rid of him.

There is no real conclusion to this mani-pedi session. 

These two women miss the point. 

 It's fairly simple, Bougie Princess Jennifer Williams and Botoxed Suzie Ketcham - don't talk rubbish about a so-called friend in public unless it's complimentary otherwise it's just gossipping or bitching. Period.

Royce Reed and her Publicist.

This is boring and I'm yawning all through out. Her publicist is about five times her size and Royce Reed (is that a real name or her dancing name as in Rolls Royce the car?) is full of fake modesty and humbleness.


The Publicist fills in the gaps by telling Royce how super talented she is and how she has got her an audition - whatever. Boring.


Then we see Royce going for an audition in what I thought was quite strange clothes... use your imagination. Her reading was okay -  not bad not good Still boring.




Evenlyn Lozada and family

It's all wedding talk which is pretty boring however isn't strange like how Love and Hip Hop Emily B looks like Evenlyn's sister and mom. Is Emily Bustamaine Evelyn Lozada's long lost sister? the mind boggles.

Emily B far left, Evelyn Lozada's sister (middle) and mother (right)


Wedding talk is boring unless you are actually involved so we will skip this one.


Suzie Ketcham and Jennifer Williams

Yet another senseless and boring conversation or should I say bitching session. This time it's about Kesha Nichols and Kenya Bell. Jennifer denys she is a Bougie Princess. Too goes into the protest but who really cares?



Jennifer Williams and Suzie Ketcham  google Kenya Bell to find her getting down and dirty in  some homemade music video. Very immature comments are made  by Suzie Ketcham who appears Botoxed up to her eyeballs and can hardly talk and Jennifer Williams whose ex threw a publicly drink in her face.  Like they can judge another after all their career drama.

Kenya Bell's drama and delusions on hitting the big time

It is times like this one respects Love and Hip Hop's Olivia and Somaya publicists for getting them on the right show. At least it was about music. Kenya Bell is on the wrong show. She can't even network behind the scenes - even Erica Mena's publicist managed to get her air time on Love and Hip Hop even if it was for free.

Basketball Wives is not the correct medium to launch a music career no matter how mediocre that career may be. Kenya Bell will just be ripped apart and made to look like a fool without any returns. The show is about a certain lifestyle - give that to Love and Hop Hip all people where involved in the music scene in some way. Preaching over.
Amanda club owner

It's all boring stuff but I found the owner Amanda of a non-descript club in New York to be aggressive, she came just to give her club some free air time and publicity. There seemed was no intention from the outset of allowing Kenya Bell to film.

 Then again Kenya could not answer basic questions about her project - the budget, costumes/wardrobe, makeup, story board or theme. She is not serious - however Nichols could have been more tactfully and not so mean (this was the gym scene). Whatever, Kenya Bell did she put some effort into it.

Final Bitching session for Suzie Ketcham and Evelyn.



 Not sure what's happening here but Suzie tells E about Kenya Bell's video and Kesha Nichols seems uptight about sex.



Evelyn Lozada is like probably that's why Kesha Nichols was jilted  and left standing at the altar by San Antonio's Richard Jefferson because she wasn't giving it out. Meow! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!

I think there is nothing more to be said.


Next on Basketball Wives: Suzie talks dirty, Tami seeks therapy, Kenya is just a hot mess and we learn 'apple pie face' 

:-)



Previously on Basketball Wives: Jennifer Williams and Evelyn Lozada start beefing and the rest of the NBA former bottom feeders or pond life start drama!



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