Not All Diamonds and Rosé: The Inside Story of The Real Housewives from the People Who Lived It

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Now, it's time to go back to the beginning with author Dave Quinn's new book, Not All Diamonds and Rosé: The Inside Story of The Real Housewives From the People Who Lived It. The author is also clearly very good at interviews and can ask the right questions to get a fun story. Nearly all the wives, producers, and network executives, as well as Andy Cohen himself, are on the record, unfiltered and unvarnished about what it really takes to have a tagline.

Jeana came from Hollywood—she was a Playboy Playmate of the Year, she had been one of the muses in ZZ Top’s music videos, but she was now working as a real estate agent. When Ashley Darby brought up Robyn Dixon's financial issues behind her back on The Real Housewives of Potomac, Robyn was understandably furious.

Oh, and the “Boomerang Kid,” who was living back at home again and slacking on the couch all day, watching MTV, because that’s way easier than finding a job. Kim's husband was a rich oil guy, so she had been at the top of the heap, but when she divorced him and her drinking became a problem, she lost everything. For the first time in the ultimate reunion, the ladies of The Real Housewives dish on the iconic moments we’ll never forget and the off-camera drama we’ve never seen before. Because when they’re crackin’ glasses on the edge of tables in RHOBH, smacking camera down in RHOD, throwing wine in people’s faces in RHOC, or flipping tables and pulling ponytails in RHONJ, nobody says, “Wow, these white women are ghetto! dinner, Sonja said she was so concerned with Kelly's state of mind that she urged producers to stop filming.

whether it’s encouraging the women to make up or confront each other, or speak about a certain topic (like bombarding a housewife who just had a cancer scare and didn’t want to get emotional on camera about it with questions about how she’d feel and what she’d miss about her family if she had terminal cancer to emotionally manipulate the kind of reaction they wanted out of her).Filming had already wrapped, leading to "a conversation about whether we were going to air the show at all," Andy Cohen said in the book. com, while Alex launched a vlog where she'd critique episodes of RHONY and talk about areas where she thought production had gotten involved. This book isn’t going to win a Pulitzer (it’s not Sweet Valley High for heavens sake) but if you like the Real Housewives franchisees- it is delicious!

I have enjoyed some of the ladies over the years but this was just maybe too much information for a sort-of fan.I took a little gander at the first fistful of ratings and (aside from fairly obvious sockpuppetry) I was surprised to see how many low reviews I found. It was fun to read how the Housewives franchise started but became receptive breaking down every city and every season.