Remember when Emily Simpson and Heather Dubrow were friends? Well, they were.
And now … not so much?
“The Real Housewives of Orange County” took its time getting to the good stuff on Wednesday, Sept. 6, but this is where we finished up, gathered at a fancy feast at a very fancy Mexican resort with Emily and Heather on opposite sides of the table.
“By the way, I don’t care what you think,” Heather says with that little flick of her index finger she uses for extra emphasis.
“I don’t care what you think, either,” Emily replies.
“Great. I think you’re a (lousy) friend –“
“I think you’re a (lousy) friend.”
The neener-neeners go unspoken but hang heavy in the tropical air.
“This is going to take awhile,” a waiter tells the manager in Spanish, and he’s right: “To be continued …” flashes on the screen.
We ain’t getting out Mexico any time soon.
The roots of this fight had been brewing since the fancy soiree Heather threw for the HD Network, some kind of lifestyle channel she’s acquired on something called the Firestone streaming app. (Mark Cuban is a founder, so apparently this is not a tire-related streaming app.)
We get the usual housewives-getting-ready-for-a-party montage, and then their arrivals. Emily and Gina Kirschenheiter, Jenn Pedranti and Tamra Judge, who show up in different outfits of the same shade of neon lime. Shannon Storms Beador, who hasn’t been getting along with Heather, is a no show, and you know that’s not going unnoticed by Heather.
Heather is already there with husband Terry Dubrow.
“I am throwing a party that feels very Heather Dubrow lifestyle,” Heather Dubrow says of herself and her lifestyle. “Living your life in high definition.”
Ugh. And HD logos are everywhere, which Emily, who leaves four glasses of champagne in various stages of completion on the cocktail table, has not overlooked.
Emily had started to tell the others sans Heather that their hostess had teased knowing…
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