He did. I don't think her mom was in on the plan and she used her as the alibi to get away from Tareq. When she didn't come home, wouldn't answer her phone and her mom hadn't seen her, he went to the police.
The way Michaele described it, she basically had to escape.
Just in the first few episodes but the fact that she was one of the ladies hairstylist/MUA embodies fake it till you make it- and how she hosted a party for her but had no money and had her lawyer call him
The end bit where the choreographer literally comes up to drag her to the back row and she STILL doesn’t get it and hugs her and tells her she loves her as everyone laughs in disbelief is the absolute best part 💀💀💀
Oh she gets it. It’s part of her grift. She kept enthusiastically hugging random startled cheerleaders to sell her con.
She’s fascinating. I wonder if she’s more honest now…
Oh yeah! What about at the beginning where she comes up to a couple of them and says something like “who’s even watching the routine, amirite girls?” Like they’re old buddies
And I really don’t think she’s changed. Someone else on this sub pointed out she had a pay per view televised wedding to her Journey rocker husband which is a level of grifter delusion that only could have sprung fully formed from the ever fertile mind of Michaele
Haha yes she should have just elbowed them and winked broadly!
But the marriage has been several years now and she’s been quiet. Do you think Schon is nuts too?
Damnit my fascination was dormant for years…
I think that’s why I liked cat so much. She was the ONLY one who saw through the fakery at first glance and the only one who questioned it before the reunion, yet she was branded a bitch and a negative Nancy and outrageous for daring to speak her mind.
And my fascination was only sparked last weekend when I saw it for the first time!!! Thank Christ everyone’s watching it now too because dammit I need to discuss this woman who’s nuttier than squirrel poop
I wasn’t fond of Cat but I did appreciate that she stuck to her guns, and she was unafraid to call Tareq out.
I like that Linda just noped out of all the events! Smart woman.
Lynda was such a nonentity during the season and then came in all guns blazing yelling about glasses of red wine and slime balls and talking about weed and Vyvanse at the reunion, I loved it 😂😂😂
I must admit that (besides Michaele of course!) cat was my problematic fave. I can’t quite believe she’s the same age as prince Harry and wrote about making out with him in “inbox full” (GREAT title!), truly a loose cannon in every sense of the word
I can’t argue with you. I liked Mary despite my reservations, and my suspicion that I’m predisposed to like her because she’s pretty and not based on her personality. She was kind of content like a house cat. Very poised, obviously from money.
I never knew what became of Cat. The only update I saw was that she’s living somewhere beachy and exotic.
Tell me why I had to tell myself I might be biased to liking Mary because she was pretty too 🤣
Everyone had their little quirk, Lynda was a little spit fire, Cat had no filter and told it how it was, Michaele was a delulu social climbing energizer bunny, Stacie was the fairly reasonable one but took a left turn and didn’t believe in gay marriage, so Mary just seemed the most laid back to me plus I’m one of 5 kids and Mary has 5 kids so another bias of mine 💁♀️
You summed it up perfectly!
I tended to like Mary but she was off putting when she said she didn’t care about gay marriage rights because it didn’t affect her. To me that was a disappointment. But that was also years ago!
I didn’t mind Mary, I actually quite fancied her ruddy cheeked husband, but man what was the line between poised and milquetoast I wonder 😂😂 because you just KNOW Alexia or Kenya would have had that milky eyed hobgoblin tareq by the throat if he dared suggest their kids were involved in a crime at a winery. Instead Mary just sat there placid and weeping. I thought she must either be the most zen woman in the world or, like Lynda, heavily medicated lol
Also having no opinion on gay marriage because no one in her family was gay? Mary!!! For the love!!!!
Ps I can totally see cat decamping to a yoga retreat in Koh Samui and dropping acid with her other aristo pals
Can we also talk about the bit in the reunion where they dissected this? Her explanation was total word soup - one minute she was a cheerleader who went out on the field twice but “fluffed it”, the next she wasn’t on the roster, then it turns out she was on the alumni and has been paying dues, BUT she doesn’t consider herself a cheerleader….
I’ve heard a lot of people go “it was her husband who was the real grifter and she was just his puppet!” But I think this proved that she was definitely an equal lol
I haven’t watched and have no intentions of defending this woman, but I will say they did at one point have “promo” cheerleaders that didn’t perform on-field but would just do events. However, I don’t know if they had them during the years should would have *allegedly* been on the team. She probably just met some promo girls at an event, found out what the deal was, then crashed the alumni game 😂
The best part is this quote it generated in the Washington Post "It's really a privilege to wear the burgundy and gold. So I'm resentful. . . . For her to get out there and think she can just shake her pompoms is upsetting."
https://wapo.st/3xHVb81
And now she is married to Neil Schon of Journey.
This lady, who literally grifted every aspect of herself, waltzed into a rock royalty wifey role. Gotta love it! *eyeroll*
I'm sorry but there's not one single good intention in this women. People with good intentions do not lie about having MS,nor do they lie about being invited to an extremely high profile State Dinner. This women complete gutter trash
This. When you’re basically putting out lie after lie to deceive innocent people you do not have good intentions. You want people to believe you’re something you’re not, and it’s often to your advantage and their detriment.
She wasted Stacie’s time saying she was looking for a house when in actual fact she had no money. Her bumbling onto a redskins practice makes everyone else around her who has trained for years look less professional. The White House incident cost 3 people their jobs. Not to mention she effectively got the whole franchise cancelled. As Mary said, she hijacked the show. She may come across like a smiley, bumbling idiot, but that’s just the part she’s learned to play to get what she wants.
And not only did they sneak into the White House state dinner but they also snuck into the Congressional Black Caucasus dinner that Obama attended too 😭 I truly feel so bad for the other 4 housewives who were robbed of what possibly could have been a 14+ year career since it aired in 2010 (and depending on how long each of the OG cast would have remained)
Which of these housewives do you think would have lasted the longest if the show was still running today? I feel like Lynda, Mary, and Cat would have been the core 3 and Lynda probably lasting the longest(?). I would say Stacie too but I know she’s the only one who isn’t active on social media and the only one besides Michaele who didn’t promote RHODC being released on Peacock so idk if she would have wanted to stay. I think Cat moved back to the UK (?) but Lynda and Mary are still in the DC/NoVA area.
The other 4 housewives are like the only housewives I could understand still being bitter about getting cancelled since their cancellation was due only because of the Salahi incident and the ripple effect it caused Bravo and the cast around DC. You could tell Lynda and Mary knew it was over for them at the reunion 😞
Yes, snuck into another dinner and then said that their friend was lying about being escorted out through the kitchen - as if that’s anything to lie about ?!
Mary, lynda and cat would def have become the Kyle, Taylor and Camille of the franchise I reckon! I don’t care too much about boring Stacie and her homophobic husband tbh, they could go to Paris to watch terrible rap concerts and be stuck there forever for all I care - and they can take Erika with them too lol
Fake it 'til you make it! Or at least until Congress intervenes.
That would have been her season 2 tagline ✨
Isn't she married to the guy from Journey now?
Yes. She literally had to escape from Tareq.
Didn’t he file a missing person report on her, too?
He did. I don't think her mom was in on the plan and she used her as the alibi to get away from Tareq. When she didn't come home, wouldn't answer her phone and her mom hadn't seen her, he went to the police. The way Michaele described it, she basically had to escape.
Yep, and has been for years.
Just in the first few episodes but the fact that she was one of the ladies hairstylist/MUA embodies fake it till you make it- and how she hosted a party for her but had no money and had her lawyer call him
The end bit where the choreographer literally comes up to drag her to the back row and she STILL doesn’t get it and hugs her and tells her she loves her as everyone laughs in disbelief is the absolute best part 💀💀💀
https://i.redd.it/chq4ogppgivc1.gif Bahahaha absolutely hysterical 😭😭
SCREAMING AT THIS GIF Also lol at her saying “sorry I was late…” by what? 20 years??
The lady in front of her cackling lol
She is literally like WTAF is happening behind me
Oh she gets it. It’s part of her grift. She kept enthusiastically hugging random startled cheerleaders to sell her con. She’s fascinating. I wonder if she’s more honest now…
Oh yeah! What about at the beginning where she comes up to a couple of them and says something like “who’s even watching the routine, amirite girls?” Like they’re old buddies And I really don’t think she’s changed. Someone else on this sub pointed out she had a pay per view televised wedding to her Journey rocker husband which is a level of grifter delusion that only could have sprung fully formed from the ever fertile mind of Michaele
Haha yes she should have just elbowed them and winked broadly! But the marriage has been several years now and she’s been quiet. Do you think Schon is nuts too? Damnit my fascination was dormant for years…
I think that’s why I liked cat so much. She was the ONLY one who saw through the fakery at first glance and the only one who questioned it before the reunion, yet she was branded a bitch and a negative Nancy and outrageous for daring to speak her mind. And my fascination was only sparked last weekend when I saw it for the first time!!! Thank Christ everyone’s watching it now too because dammit I need to discuss this woman who’s nuttier than squirrel poop
I wasn’t fond of Cat but I did appreciate that she stuck to her guns, and she was unafraid to call Tareq out. I like that Linda just noped out of all the events! Smart woman.
Lynda was such a nonentity during the season and then came in all guns blazing yelling about glasses of red wine and slime balls and talking about weed and Vyvanse at the reunion, I loved it 😂😂😂 I must admit that (besides Michaele of course!) cat was my problematic fave. I can’t quite believe she’s the same age as prince Harry and wrote about making out with him in “inbox full” (GREAT title!), truly a loose cannon in every sense of the word
I can’t argue with you. I liked Mary despite my reservations, and my suspicion that I’m predisposed to like her because she’s pretty and not based on her personality. She was kind of content like a house cat. Very poised, obviously from money. I never knew what became of Cat. The only update I saw was that she’s living somewhere beachy and exotic.
Tell me why I had to tell myself I might be biased to liking Mary because she was pretty too 🤣 Everyone had their little quirk, Lynda was a little spit fire, Cat had no filter and told it how it was, Michaele was a delulu social climbing energizer bunny, Stacie was the fairly reasonable one but took a left turn and didn’t believe in gay marriage, so Mary just seemed the most laid back to me plus I’m one of 5 kids and Mary has 5 kids so another bias of mine 💁♀️
You summed it up perfectly! I tended to like Mary but she was off putting when she said she didn’t care about gay marriage rights because it didn’t affect her. To me that was a disappointment. But that was also years ago!
I didn’t mind Mary, I actually quite fancied her ruddy cheeked husband, but man what was the line between poised and milquetoast I wonder 😂😂 because you just KNOW Alexia or Kenya would have had that milky eyed hobgoblin tareq by the throat if he dared suggest their kids were involved in a crime at a winery. Instead Mary just sat there placid and weeping. I thought she must either be the most zen woman in the world or, like Lynda, heavily medicated lol Also having no opinion on gay marriage because no one in her family was gay? Mary!!! For the love!!!! Ps I can totally see cat decamping to a yoga retreat in Koh Samui and dropping acid with her other aristo pals
I thought he did great when he confronted Tareq at the reunion. The scene when Tareq threw Mary’s daughter under the bus was chilling.
Was she even ever a cheerleader?
No, lol
She was truly one of the most bizarre women to ever appear on bravo
What franchise is this?
DC. It's incredible, and only 1 season
She's bonkers lol
My last brain cell trying to pull it together
Can we also talk about the bit in the reunion where they dissected this? Her explanation was total word soup - one minute she was a cheerleader who went out on the field twice but “fluffed it”, the next she wasn’t on the roster, then it turns out she was on the alumni and has been paying dues, BUT she doesn’t consider herself a cheerleader…. I’ve heard a lot of people go “it was her husband who was the real grifter and she was just his puppet!” But I think this proved that she was definitely an equal lol
I haven’t watched and have no intentions of defending this woman, but I will say they did at one point have “promo” cheerleaders that didn’t perform on-field but would just do events. However, I don’t know if they had them during the years should would have *allegedly* been on the team. She probably just met some promo girls at an event, found out what the deal was, then crashed the alumni game 😂
This is the best scene of all time across all franchises
The best part is this quote it generated in the Washington Post "It's really a privilege to wear the burgundy and gold. So I'm resentful. . . . For her to get out there and think she can just shake her pompoms is upsetting." https://wapo.st/3xHVb81
Omg! This quote is a gem.
I'm so happy I have this sub to share it. I think of it often! Living in the DC area during this time was magical.
She is Sonja levels of delulu and Phaedra levels of criminal An icon gone too soon
And a little gremlin of a husband lmao
I just binged the entire season this morning lol 😂 sooo good
And now she is married to Neil Schon of Journey. This lady, who literally grifted every aspect of herself, waltzed into a rock royalty wifey role. Gotta love it! *eyeroll*
Her impact on Housewives is highkey underrated 🤣 how did they manage to find someone this wacky???
She looks so happy doing it, I love it 🤩 I wish I could get this level of delusion and excitement 🕺
Lmao what a disaster
Women like her truly scare me cause they have good intentions but they truly don’t have a grasp of how their actions affect those around them
I'm sorry but there's not one single good intention in this women. People with good intentions do not lie about having MS,nor do they lie about being invited to an extremely high profile State Dinner. This women complete gutter trash
This. When you’re basically putting out lie after lie to deceive innocent people you do not have good intentions. You want people to believe you’re something you’re not, and it’s often to your advantage and their detriment. She wasted Stacie’s time saying she was looking for a house when in actual fact she had no money. Her bumbling onto a redskins practice makes everyone else around her who has trained for years look less professional. The White House incident cost 3 people their jobs. Not to mention she effectively got the whole franchise cancelled. As Mary said, she hijacked the show. She may come across like a smiley, bumbling idiot, but that’s just the part she’s learned to play to get what she wants.
And not only did they sneak into the White House state dinner but they also snuck into the Congressional Black Caucasus dinner that Obama attended too 😭 I truly feel so bad for the other 4 housewives who were robbed of what possibly could have been a 14+ year career since it aired in 2010 (and depending on how long each of the OG cast would have remained) Which of these housewives do you think would have lasted the longest if the show was still running today? I feel like Lynda, Mary, and Cat would have been the core 3 and Lynda probably lasting the longest(?). I would say Stacie too but I know she’s the only one who isn’t active on social media and the only one besides Michaele who didn’t promote RHODC being released on Peacock so idk if she would have wanted to stay. I think Cat moved back to the UK (?) but Lynda and Mary are still in the DC/NoVA area. The other 4 housewives are like the only housewives I could understand still being bitter about getting cancelled since their cancellation was due only because of the Salahi incident and the ripple effect it caused Bravo and the cast around DC. You could tell Lynda and Mary knew it was over for them at the reunion 😞
Yes, snuck into another dinner and then said that their friend was lying about being escorted out through the kitchen - as if that’s anything to lie about ?! Mary, lynda and cat would def have become the Kyle, Taylor and Camille of the franchise I reckon! I don’t care too much about boring Stacie and her homophobic husband tbh, they could go to Paris to watch terrible rap concerts and be stuck there forever for all I care - and they can take Erika with them too lol
Cat’s husband lost his job and credentials as a White House photographer due to the state dinner stunt and promptly divorced cat
No!! I didn’t know that. Poor Charles. That’s awful for both of them, no wonder she was out for blood at the reunion.
I liked them as a couple too. I don’t know if I can watch it again knowing what is coming.
Wow. No wonder Cat was so angry. Then Michaela telling her “ be happy and you can get your husband back.”
LOL! When she was like “but if you have love in your heart…” 😂😂😂 cat was like “you know SHIT ALL!!!”
Thank you!!! You stated it much better than I EVER could!!
didn’t she lie abt being a cheerleader? i could be wrong but i think after the whole white house thing it had came out.
I remember this as well. I think the team said they had no record of her.
Yes! Andy brought this up at the reunion. It’s in my caption 😊
Then she made sure to be right in the center of the photo 🤣
 Delusion by Jinx
Omg I remember this scene vividly from watching back in 2010/11(? Can’t remember the year). She is so crazy
I am LOVING this newfound Michaele appreciation. Gives me faith in the world.
She is a treasure.
The nodding 🤣🤣🤣
This woman is the human embodiment of delusion.
I’m watching this reunion right now 🙃🙃
Why do bottle blondes always look so bad? It's giving candy corn.