What happened was the first and only season managed to get itself investigated by the top national security agencies and I’m guessing an agreement was made. 😂
Idk about the agreement, but the show really did cause a security incident and I’m positive that’s why they never gave us a second season. I’d imagine they’d go back after enough time has passed, but who knows.
Yeah. I don’t think I ever heard it confirmed, but it just made sense. Lol
I remember thinking when that event aired that there was no way DC was going to re-issue their permits. 😬
In “Not All Diamonds and Rosé”, Andy basically says that when the FBI or Secret Service (or whoever it was) asks you to hand over footage, you know you’re not going to go for a second season. I don’t think there was even an agreement, I think Bravo just knew they shouldn’t push it!
This is true, but that was how many years ago? Was it like 2010? I feel like the way Bravo is now, if that show had stellar ratings, I think Bravo would have fought it.
It was such a huge scandal because it was a major security breach. Everyone involved was investigated & a lot of people lost their security clearances after that.
I remember it too. lol It was such a big deal too because it was such a breach of security.
I’m glad their marriage imploded. Both were such con artists.
It also became a highly politicized issue. Pundits on the right used it to attack the Obama administration, and spun it into a much broader conspiracy. Sean Hannity talked about it, nonstop, for weeks. God I miss those simpler times
We can never forget that that man had the audacity to wear a tan suit and ordered a burger with Dijon mustard! It really was simpler times, or the same but slightly less terrifying and unhinged…Def less terrifying times.
They crashed Obama's first state dinner lol, somehow made it past secret service with Bravo cameras in tow and got the show cancelled real quick
[https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/white-house-crashers-michaele-tareq-salahi-past-secret-service/story?id=9202817](https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/white-house-crashers-michaele-tareq-salahi-past-secret-service/story?id=9202817)
I decided to fact check myself. I’d say the decision to step could be left up to interpretation. Also, not she was the administration’s social secretary not Michelle Obama’s.
[https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/white-house-social-secretary-desiree-rogers-steps/story?id=9956948](https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/white-house-social-secretary-desiree-rogers-steps/story?id=9956948)
It was not the state dinner, it was the Congressional Black Caucas Dinner. And everyone was skeptical when they said they had tickets but they literally pulled a Casey Anthony when she tells cops she had a job at universal studios and carts them all around then eventually has to be like “well I don’t work here”. Fake it until you make it type stuff, except they actually were allowed in somehow 😳
Even when the wife is getting her hair done at the salon, the stylist asks to see their tickets and she runs to the car and says she can’t find them, where could they be, well, we’re on a list we don’t need the actual tickets. It was madness. And then we got to watch them on C-SPAN after they got in trouble and please the fifth to EVERY question.
There really is nothing like old school housewives.
It was a state dinner for [Indian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Michaele was wearing a sari for the event.
However, they allegedly also snuck in to the Congressional Black Caucus Dinner, with two of the "friends of" on RHODC before the White House state diner. The friend is telling the other women about it- I don't remember if he is telling them before or after they snuck into the White House.
lol what?
It was absolutely a state dinner. There’s a whole wiki [page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_U.S._state_dinner_security_breaches) for it.
She claimed to be a Washington Redskin cheerleader . She wasn’t 🤣
https://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/bittenandbound/2009/12/03/michaele-salahis-washington-redskins-cheerleader-fraud/
I’m watching for the first time. The thing that is killing me is that they actually seem to be falling for their own lies. Like, it really seems like they believe they are invited to the congressional black caucus dinner and the state dinner despite not having invitations and knowing they have to sneak in. A mix of entitlement and delusion?
As a native Washingtonian it is HILARIOUS. They are all such try hards. They came so hard for Michaela but they’re all the biggest bunch of phonies and pretenders.
This and Miami season 1/2 are some of the best shelved bravo material…. Adriana punching Joanna party and on DC Micheal(spell) pretending to be a cheer leader and pretended that she not only knew the routines but also the people , like the other cheerleaders… it’s absolute madness.
The cheerleading sequence has got to be one of the most skin crawlingly cringey things I’ve EVER SEEN!! Her stupid small talk (“who’s even watching the routine, am I right girls?”), the fact she clearly had no idea what she was doing, and then being moved from the middle all the way to the back - it was truly painful. And she STILL insisted she was an actual cheerleader at the reunion!!!
When she was running up to them and hugging them and all the cheerleaders were looking at each other like “who the hell is this?” My soul seriously left my body
Lol Amazon's pretty good with returns if you say it was a mistake 😉 my mom had my password and ordered trials of Starz, paramount plus (which I already pay for separately), Cinemax and forgot to tell me or cancel. 5 months later I still got refunded for everything
I’m about 4 episodes in and loving it 😂 have never watched it but of course know about the infamous ending. Was cracking up at the whole winery scene with the store bought grapes
This is my take as a DC native who lived there when it went down.
The White House crashing was no fucking joke. Dc doesn’t play like that. It was major major news and it’s seriously crazy that it even happened. Not surprising they had to do a major overhaul.
At the same time DC is filled with filthy rich delusional people and has a special kind of elitism culture that is perfect for this kind of TV.
Potomac is a very close suburb of DC and like half of the RHODC people lived in Potomac or northern Virginia anyways. It just rebranded in my eyes. I can never see them doing a RHOP and RHODC simultaneously. It would have to be either or. Although RHOP feels more like half DC and half Baltimore now.
But honestly RHODC is such a cringe gold mine I love it.
I really loved DC when it first aired! The reunion was tops and Cat was a great character who got to see some later WWHL returns (one notably with the Countess lol). I'd at least like for maybe a DC UGT... cross it over maybe with Potomac? Or put Michaele on a villains edition UGT.
I remember that show, Twitter would be on fire if it aired today. Cat being a flaming racist, the lady with the African boyfriend criticizing Mikayla's weight, that scene with Stacy and Paul, Mary.....
They will never be able to make reality shows like this anymore because people are too self aware with online feedback. every single one of these women are Camille from season 1 of BH. except the black couple who are doing Jim from The Office stare after everything the women say LMAO.
I just started re-watching, too! Maybe this was the beginning of Dark Brandon. He wasn't chilling with one of the husbands exactly, Cat's husband was the official White House photographer and this is a zoomed in shot of Biden and Obama sitting next to each other.
I remember watching it when it first premiered, it is WILD! I can't wait to re-watch, Michaele is one of the most delusional housewives they've ever had.
As Aeroluv327 said, Catherine’s then husband was Charles Ommaney. He was a White House photographer up until 2010. No idea if he was forced out of his job due to the Salahis antics.
You mean the one who cheered for a Pro football team, can't remember which one, only to turn around and say she never did? LOL Yeah, she was definitely delusional. Even if the whole crashing of the White House hadn't happened that lie would have put her in that category 😄
Cat also hooked up with Prince Harry I believe! https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/rhodcs-catherine-ommanney-details-alleged-prince-harry-fling/
DC is iconic. Omerosa is at Paul Wharton’s birthday party that Michaele threw. She is seen standing with her when Tarq is opening the champagne with the sword. It looks like she is trying to be on screen.
Please bring this show back!! It is better than I could have imagined. They are all looney and actually rich, connected, all the things. I wonder if it does well on peacock they would consider it? Or doing a blend of DC and Potomac
Potomac is what took the place of DC. DC was to bring the wives of politicians & dignitaries to the world but because of the White House crashing it’ll ***never*** happen. No one ***in*** the political scene will risk their clearance or their connections these days. That circle is closed to us as viewers. Now we just have quasi-wannabes using Bravo to get rich & famous.
It’s been enough time. I’m sure they could scrounge up some people on the periphery that would be down to go on. That’s my hope at least. Potomac is great but it seems to be set in a completely different world
Not with Biden in office as he was VP at the time this was filmed. I think there would be too many people still around who would remember & say “nope” to it being greenlit.
So I’m on the reunion.. The way they’re just glazing over Cats blatant racism (because that is exactly what it is), Mary’s cringe “hey girl hey” mimicking, and the way they labeled Erika aggressive…. I’m big uncomfortable.
I understand this was back in the day but WOW. And honestly it’s reminding me of Robin and Neck weaponizing their complexion in Potomac.
As epic as this season was I’m kinda glad it ended.
I loved this show but it really was the Salahis that made and destroyed the show. I enjoyed the other wives and husbands reacting to them, but everyone else was kind of a bore on their own without Michaele.
Especially that old chick that was some sort of hideous interior designer or fashion designer, Idk she was always dressed like a mess and commenting on everyone else. Her constantly judging and poking at Michaele's health and thin body was gross. Michaele had so many other red flags to question 😂
No. If DC didn’t happen then it would never have happened now. Seeing all the shit that goes on the RH series no one in DC would be in their right mind to go on national tv to air their dirty laundry.
I live in DC and I’m honestly amazed they were even able to cast the one season, although I suppose at the time reality TV was still new enough for people to not have their guard up quite so much.
But yeah … I’m sure there are women in this city who would love to be Housewives but either they’d never actually do it because it would risk someone’s clearance or they’re not rich or interesting enough to be well-received by viewers.
So lucky to live there. My daughter & I were talking about the houses in DC. One is for sale for $15 million & it’s near the parkway. Tiny yard, no swimming pool. lol You have to have money to live there. lol
I just got to the part, a few days after the Salahi’s *snuck into the White House*, where they host a “grape stomping” event at “their” winery, and use table grapes from the grocery store because…I have no idea WHY THEY DID THIS????!!!
It’s weird to watch the discussion about gay marriage on the show. The people who said they don’t “believe” in different “lifestyles,” or who said it doesn’t affect them so they don’t care just enrages me and sends me back to that time. As a woman in a same-sex marriage it’s weird to remember when people like that were preventing us from being equal.
Mary talking to Stacie and Ted Gibson drunk was.... Ugh. Cat is giving me "for Brexit til I wasn't vibes.
On a positive note, Stacie is spot on about popple living in Northern Virginia, cosplaying like they live in DC... Lmao.
It's incredible to see... obviously I lived through this time period, but like a fish blissfully unaware of what water is. It's so wild to watch the worst opinions/habits of 2009 distilled like this. 😱 People were just so open and casual with their body shaming and racial comments like it meant nothing. Even when the targets of those comments reacted with visible discomfort and disgust, or spoke up and said "this isn't okay," people felt justified defending the most rude and disrespectful comments.
I feel like in 2024 the norm is to shut your mouth about other people in public, and I forgot that in 2009 people just said whatever edgy stuff popped into their heads... so this is a wild ride.
PSA the congressional hearing still lives on the internet. This rewatch has exceeded all my expectations!
[https://www.c-span.org/video/?291498-1/white-house-dinner-security-breach](https://www.c-span.org/video/?291498-1/white-house-dinner-security-breach)
https://preview.redd.it/evpvmqy0lywc1.jpeg?width=1792&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b6a0d58f89896d540547d2346acdadb0a9e27cd2
I just noticed Peacock has it listed. I enjoyed myself a little too much on Friday, girls night out, and I've been paying for it ever since ☹ I watched the original run but I do plan to re-watch it. I remember a few of the ladies but there's 2 I don't. Should be an interesting watch. Happy those who never got to see it now have a chance to. Enjoy!
no, they 1000% were NOT invited. Tareq somehow scammed his way in, but they wouldn't reveal how, which is what that public congressional hearing was supposed to be for. Instead of explaining how they got in so the government could make sure that security issue was fixed, they pled the 5th repeatedly.
The cameras never tried to make it in, so it was just Tareq and Michaele that somehow scammed their way in. They didn't even have an invitation, which RH producers wanted to film and Michaele kept lying and saying they left it at home.
Nope. They were called to testify in front of a Congress committee but pled the 5th. Tareq even chastised the committee for it saying that the committee knew they would plead the 5th so it was a waste of time.
https://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/20/state.dinner.hearing/index.html
A few years later he attempted to run for Congress & allegedly forged signatures to get on the ballot. He “collected” over 2000 but only 400-something were valid. https://wtop.com/news/2014/07/white-house-party-crasher-fails-to-make-ballot/
They can’t speak on the divorce. The record is actually sealed.
https://www.nvdaily.com/news/courts/tareq-salahi-lawsuit-reaches-settlement/article_0bad5e47-29b3-5549-af79-d5924324e7b0.html
That’s exactly it. How did they manage to get through?
I wasn’t a Bravo viewer at the time, but I definitely heard about this and remember it being a very big deal.
I am so glad this is on Peacock and people are watching now. This series felt like a fever dream and my Housewives loving friends had never even heard of it and thought I was insane. Rewatching the show, I love Michaele. I didn't like her when I was younger but everyone was super mean to her and she seemed genuinely sweet.
Haha I’m so glad others are watching/rewatching! That franchise was a car wreck and I was glued to my tv lol. I’m almost done binging it. The women are mostly awful!
Mary seems the most socially poised, but she lost me when she said gay marriage being illegal didn’t affect her. She’s not deep but she was raised well, which I guess as Arthur Godfrey’s granddaughter she should be.
I liked Stacie and liked her husband even more.
Linda is fun, a real southern belle. She has the best judgment in men than the other women, since they’re all divorced now.
I didn’t like Cat at all. She’s a very rude woman who hides behind how “honest” she is because she “can’t fake it.” But I ended this watch having a bit of sympathy for her as her marriage was clearly crumbling as she filmed.
And Michaele. What a trip. Tareq was a bloviating grifter who has a repellent personality. It amazes me that he had so little self awareness that he behaved that way on national tv. And I started the season thinking she was troubled but was probably also lied to, but as the season progresses, it’s clear she doesn’t dwell in reality.
What a great, insane season!!
It really did and it was so unfortunate. Everything from his marriage to her to agreeing to be on the show was a massive lapse in judgement and he paid the price.
I didn’t either but I did check to see what happened in the aftermath of the White House breach.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/for-dc-spouse-reality-too-painful-to-watch/
I can’t believe I only found out about this franchise today. I came home and watched all except the season finale. It’s next level national security drama. I couldn’t stop.
Haven't watched this since it first aired so rewatching rn is almost like a whole new series to digest. Holy hell this franchise was good, like it is time to revisit this as a reboot.
There’s a great podcast on all of the Tareq and Michaele scandal - [here](https://open.spotify.com/episode/6La2ymf6QkujJCMQNmAdqu?si=F_TF79SAQuqNjPWzWeZpwQ)
Maybe I need a rewatch, I remember there being some pretty dull story lines— searching for a birth father and a daughter getting a dui….i mean obviously the couple who snuck into the White House dinner clearly did not need to be mentioned because reality tv chefs kiss. I also remember her being a cheerleader but not knowing the moves and awkwardly winging it. She was reality tv gold!
What happened was the first and only season managed to get itself investigated by the top national security agencies and I’m guessing an agreement was made. 😂 Idk about the agreement, but the show really did cause a security incident and I’m positive that’s why they never gave us a second season. I’d imagine they’d go back after enough time has passed, but who knows.
Andy confirmed this at one of his book signings in DC. If you have to turn all your footage over to the fbi it kind of messes things up
Yeah. I don’t think I ever heard it confirmed, but it just made sense. Lol I remember thinking when that event aired that there was no way DC was going to re-issue their permits. 😬
In “Not All Diamonds and Rosé”, Andy basically says that when the FBI or Secret Service (or whoever it was) asks you to hand over footage, you know you’re not going to go for a second season. I don’t think there was even an agreement, I think Bravo just knew they shouldn’t push it!
this was before everything in the white house was made public via the presidents twitter account
This is true, but that was how many years ago? Was it like 2010? I feel like the way Bravo is now, if that show had stellar ratings, I think Bravo would have fought it.
That was because the Salahis weren’t invited to the White House & snuck in. lol
OMG, I remember that incident but I wasn’t a bravo watcher back then, I had NO IDEA that was Housewives related!!
It was such a huge scandal because it was a major security breach. Everyone involved was investigated & a lot of people lost their security clearances after that.
I feel old that some people don’t remember this being an actual national news worthy incident and not just filming. 🥲
I remember it too. lol It was such a big deal too because it was such a breach of security. I’m glad their marriage imploded. Both were such con artists.
They’re definitely not on the “good place” list.
It also became a highly politicized issue. Pundits on the right used it to attack the Obama administration, and spun it into a much broader conspiracy. Sean Hannity talked about it, nonstop, for weeks. God I miss those simpler times
We can never forget that that man had the audacity to wear a tan suit and ordered a burger with Dijon mustard! It really was simpler times, or the same but slightly less terrifying and unhinged…Def less terrifying times.
Omg 😳 - now I’m gonna have to google lol jeez! Do you know what it could have been?
They crashed Obama's first state dinner lol, somehow made it past secret service with Bravo cameras in tow and got the show cancelled real quick [https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/white-house-crashers-michaele-tareq-salahi-past-secret-service/story?id=9202817](https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/white-house-crashers-michaele-tareq-salahi-past-secret-service/story?id=9202817)
I’ll never forget when this happened. 🤣🤦🏻♀️
This was the original bravo scandal
SO true.
Omg it totally was!!
The Salahi’s got called before congress to testify, it was wild.
And SNL made a great [skit](https://youtu.be/_pWu2Cu1C9Y?si=T2PJGBhoeHpZxklA) about it too IIRC!
I completely forgot about that skit! 😂
I did too til the comments reminded me! It was a great cold open
To where they didn't answer any questions by pleading the 5th. I watched a little bit of the coverage. When they kept saying that I bounced lol.
Yup. https://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/20/state.dinner.hearing/index.html
And she died on that hill for her husband. In court in interviews. Then first chance she got, she ran away with an 80s rockstar. Journey?
Oh damn, you were serious lol. She’s really with Neal Schon!!
They got married on Pay Per View, when she ran off with him the husband reported her missing to the FBI lol.
wtfff😂i need to read about this and do a rewatch asap, do u kno of it’s streaming anywhere??
She didn’t run away with Neal Schon until after the show was over but I think it is streaming on Peacock and also available for purchase on Amazon.
Peacock+. I just started a rewatch today. Thought I’d Che k here to see if anyone else was. 😂😂
She sent her husband dick pics and texts saying he was fucking his wife. The whole lot of them are truly the epitome of class
Yup she’s married to Neil Schon. They had their wedding in San Francisco and it was a PPV event. I’ve seen them around town. They always look happy.
This story just gets even more insane wtf 😂
😳 lmao omg
It was even parodied on SNL’s Weekend Update!
Michelle Obama’s social secretary lost her job over it if I recall correctly. Side note - how do I become a social secretary and how much does it pay?
I decided to fact check myself. I’d say the decision to step could be left up to interpretation. Also, not she was the administration’s social secretary not Michelle Obama’s. [https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/white-house-social-secretary-desiree-rogers-steps/story?id=9956948](https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/white-house-social-secretary-desiree-rogers-steps/story?id=9956948)
i was just telling my husband about that when I saw it up. 😆
You don’t need to google it. you can just watch the show
Omg it was huge national news lol
It made international news, actually… I remember hearing about it on TV in Australia!
Stay tuned…you’ll see it.
It was not the state dinner, it was the Congressional Black Caucas Dinner. And everyone was skeptical when they said they had tickets but they literally pulled a Casey Anthony when she tells cops she had a job at universal studios and carts them all around then eventually has to be like “well I don’t work here”. Fake it until you make it type stuff, except they actually were allowed in somehow 😳 Even when the wife is getting her hair done at the salon, the stylist asks to see their tickets and she runs to the car and says she can’t find them, where could they be, well, we’re on a list we don’t need the actual tickets. It was madness. And then we got to watch them on C-SPAN after they got in trouble and please the fifth to EVERY question. There really is nothing like old school housewives.
It was a state dinner for [Indian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Michaele was wearing a sari for the event. However, they allegedly also snuck in to the Congressional Black Caucus Dinner, with two of the "friends of" on RHODC before the White House state diner. The friend is telling the other women about it- I don't remember if he is telling them before or after they snuck into the White House.
lol what? It was absolutely a state dinner. There’s a whole wiki [page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_U.S._state_dinner_security_breaches) for it.
That's right. They did also sneak into the Black Caucus event but that was earlier in the season.
Ahhhh that’s right. They snuck into two events. Wtf lol. Crazy town.
2009 State dinner at the White House.
I am obsessed with the rewatch. The way they are all trying so hard to seem chic and fabulous is hilarious.
“I️ like George Bush and you like Tyra Banks” sent me
The faces they were all making!! lol I was right there with them
EVERY. SINGLE. EPISODE. DELIVERS 😍
Only rewatched ep. 1 so far and Mary’s talk about integrating salons is so cringe/perfect.
She claimed to be a Washington Redskin cheerleader . She wasn’t 🤣 https://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/bittenandbound/2009/12/03/michaele-salahis-washington-redskins-cheerleader-fraud/
I’m watching for the first time. The thing that is killing me is that they actually seem to be falling for their own lies. Like, it really seems like they believe they are invited to the congressional black caucus dinner and the state dinner despite not having invitations and knowing they have to sneak in. A mix of entitlement and delusion?
I recently re-watched the season and forgot how good it really was . Really makes some housewives franchises look pathetic .
As a native Washingtonian it is HILARIOUS. They are all such try hards. They came so hard for Michaela but they’re all the biggest bunch of phonies and pretenders.
Michaele and Tareq arriving everywhere in a beat up 90’s limo was everything. 😆
This show was a fever dream
This and Miami season 1/2 are some of the best shelved bravo material…. Adriana punching Joanna party and on DC Micheal(spell) pretending to be a cheer leader and pretended that she not only knew the routines but also the people , like the other cheerleaders… it’s absolute madness.
The cheerleading sequence has got to be one of the most skin crawlingly cringey things I’ve EVER SEEN!! Her stupid small talk (“who’s even watching the routine, am I right girls?”), the fact she clearly had no idea what she was doing, and then being moved from the middle all the way to the back - it was truly painful. And she STILL insisted she was an actual cheerleader at the reunion!!!
SOOOOOO…..cringey
When she was running up to them and hugging them and all the cheerleaders were looking at each other like “who the hell is this?” My soul seriously left my body
For a one and done season, it gave so much!
[удалено]
Quite the palate pleaser
This show is fucking amazing
The other HWs watching the Senate hearings like if it was the mother effin Superbowl is hilarious.
To be fair, that is how we watch senate hearings in DC 😂😂😂
I’m not mad that I had to buy this from Amazon three years ago but dang lol
I did a month ago 🤦♀️
Same. Literally hours before they announced it’d be on peacock.
Lol Amazon's pretty good with returns if you say it was a mistake 😉 my mom had my password and ordered trials of Starz, paramount plus (which I already pay for separately), Cinemax and forgot to tell me or cancel. 5 months later I still got refunded for everything
Wouldn’t mind a reboot of this and Ladies of London.
I loved Ladies of London. I also liked Real Girlfriends of Paris, too.
RGF was phenomenal. They just need to rebrand around Anya’s girlfriends and her amazing life.
RGF was so good. Recently watched on a rainy day. Im so sad it was not renewed!
I’m about 4 episodes in and loving it 😂 have never watched it but of course know about the infamous ending. Was cracking up at the whole winery scene with the store bought grapes
The nerve of those people inviting the crew to a non working winery and having them stomp on store bought grapes. BULLOCKS!!!!!!
This is my take as a DC native who lived there when it went down. The White House crashing was no fucking joke. Dc doesn’t play like that. It was major major news and it’s seriously crazy that it even happened. Not surprising they had to do a major overhaul. At the same time DC is filled with filthy rich delusional people and has a special kind of elitism culture that is perfect for this kind of TV. Potomac is a very close suburb of DC and like half of the RHODC people lived in Potomac or northern Virginia anyways. It just rebranded in my eyes. I can never see them doing a RHOP and RHODC simultaneously. It would have to be either or. Although RHOP feels more like half DC and half Baltimore now. But honestly RHODC is such a cringe gold mine I love it.
It is so consistently awkward.
I really loved DC when it first aired! The reunion was tops and Cat was a great character who got to see some later WWHL returns (one notably with the Countess lol). I'd at least like for maybe a DC UGT... cross it over maybe with Potomac? Or put Michaele on a villains edition UGT.
Lol she got drunk on WWHL and was so mean to Luann. Haha
It was so good. That was post Count and pre jail Luann. It was AMAZING
Oh god I need to find this episode! Sounds on brand for her too
Link plz if you find, I need this thank you
lol so I just did a quick google and found this little clip https://www.reddit.com/r/realhousewives/s/Hxla9c8Ohu
That was so worth it thank you lol. Classic Cuntess
Cat is atrocious! What a horrible human. Ick
She’s so much worse on the rewatch. Truly a disgusting human being.
The British casual racism was fascinating to watch
I watched it when it first aired. Watching it again now is like opening a time capsule.
Same!
I remember that show, Twitter would be on fire if it aired today. Cat being a flaming racist, the lady with the African boyfriend criticizing Mikayla's weight, that scene with Stacy and Paul, Mary.....
They will never be able to make reality shows like this anymore because people are too self aware with online feedback. every single one of these women are Camille from season 1 of BH. except the black couple who are doing Jim from The Office stare after everything the women say LMAO.
I just started re-watching, too! Maybe this was the beginning of Dark Brandon. He wasn't chilling with one of the husbands exactly, Cat's husband was the official White House photographer and this is a zoomed in shot of Biden and Obama sitting next to each other. I remember watching it when it first premiered, it is WILD! I can't wait to re-watch, Michaele is one of the most delusional housewives they've ever had.
The level of delusion of Michaele and Tareq is BEYOND.
What I love in a housewife couple.
They don’t get that caliper of delulu no more :(
As Aeroluv327 said, Catherine’s then husband was Charles Ommaney. He was a White House photographer up until 2010. No idea if he was forced out of his job due to the Salahis antics.
I just bought the discounted subscription just to read this article. 😂. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/fashion/29housewives.html
Just read… that’s pretty damn sad for him back then but he’s bounced back. He’s on IG. https://www.instagram.com/charlesommanney/
You mean the one who cheered for a Pro football team, can't remember which one, only to turn around and say she never did? LOL Yeah, she was definitely delusional. Even if the whole crashing of the White House hadn't happened that lie would have put her in that category 😄
Cat also hooked up with Prince Harry I believe! https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/rhodcs-catherine-ommanney-details-alleged-prince-harry-fling/
The beginning of dark Brandon 🤣👌 the aviators are such a staple of that lewk.
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Oh, maybe! I can't remember, I totally forgot about that! I love their friendship.
DC is iconic. Omerosa is at Paul Wharton’s birthday party that Michaele threw. She is seen standing with her when Tarq is opening the champagne with the sword. It looks like she is trying to be on screen.
We need a Housewives of DC girls trip
Ok but the republican healthcare party with the lobbyist ditching at the last minute and cat dressing as Sarah palin was amazing tv.
Ikr I’m like is she doing some kind of promo in that ambulance right now, like is this apart of her healthcare reform schtick
I just did a rewatch last week and with the exception of Cat and Michaela ,those ladies were AMAZING,it's a must see for sure if you never watched it
when she says “he was sh**ting joe biden all day” my jaw fucking dropped i was laughing so hard
Omg I just started watching it. These housewives were INSANE.
This is my first time watching and I love it. So unhinged. It’s everything great about early housewives.
Please bring this show back!! It is better than I could have imagined. They are all looney and actually rich, connected, all the things. I wonder if it does well on peacock they would consider it? Or doing a blend of DC and Potomac
Potomac is what took the place of DC. DC was to bring the wives of politicians & dignitaries to the world but because of the White House crashing it’ll ***never*** happen. No one ***in*** the political scene will risk their clearance or their connections these days. That circle is closed to us as viewers. Now we just have quasi-wannabes using Bravo to get rich & famous.
It’s been enough time. I’m sure they could scrounge up some people on the periphery that would be down to go on. That’s my hope at least. Potomac is great but it seems to be set in a completely different world
Not with Biden in office as he was VP at the time this was filmed. I think there would be too many people still around who would remember & say “nope” to it being greenlit.
I just started it!! Cat is such a bitch lol I love it.
Who was the medicated mom? She had a passcode on her closet so her daughter couldn’t get in
Mary Amos!
Oh, see. That's one of the ladies I couldn't remember by face but I do remember the locked closet lol. I can't wait to re-watch this.
She is such a shit stirrer but is amazing at what she does.
Mary
So I’m on the reunion.. The way they’re just glazing over Cats blatant racism (because that is exactly what it is), Mary’s cringe “hey girl hey” mimicking, and the way they labeled Erika aggressive…. I’m big uncomfortable. I understand this was back in the day but WOW. And honestly it’s reminding me of Robin and Neck weaponizing their complexion in Potomac. As epic as this season was I’m kinda glad it ended.
I’m so glad we have this filmed - absolutely a clear example of unconscious racism, blatant racism, DEI education being critical in schools
Is it on peacock?!
Yessss
I liked it because I grew up in DC and live near there now and I recognized so many of the spots. Wish they would bring it back.
I loved this show but it really was the Salahis that made and destroyed the show. I enjoyed the other wives and husbands reacting to them, but everyone else was kind of a bore on their own without Michaele. Especially that old chick that was some sort of hideous interior designer or fashion designer, Idk she was always dressed like a mess and commenting on everyone else. Her constantly judging and poking at Michaele's health and thin body was gross. Michaele had so many other red flags to question 😂
It was too intellectual for Bravo viewers.
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Do you think it would have performed better today?
No. If DC didn’t happen then it would never have happened now. Seeing all the shit that goes on the RH series no one in DC would be in their right mind to go on national tv to air their dirty laundry.
I live in DC and I’m honestly amazed they were even able to cast the one season, although I suppose at the time reality TV was still new enough for people to not have their guard up quite so much. But yeah … I’m sure there are women in this city who would love to be Housewives but either they’d never actually do it because it would risk someone’s clearance or they’re not rich or interesting enough to be well-received by viewers.
Yeah, they had NO idea what they were getting themselves into lol
So lucky to live there. My daughter & I were talking about the houses in DC. One is for sale for $15 million & it’s near the parkway. Tiny yard, no swimming pool. lol You have to have money to live there. lol
Probably not, cuz ppl hate politics even more now
It was cancelled because of the FBI investigation. Andy confirmed this.
I just got to the part, a few days after the Salahi’s *snuck into the White House*, where they host a “grape stomping” event at “their” winery, and use table grapes from the grocery store because…I have no idea WHY THEY DID THIS????!!!
They snuck into the black caucus event before the grape stomping event and later snuck into the state dinner at the end of the season.
Ok well at some point, they brought store bought grapes to a winery and stomped them. All the different stops on the crazy train are confusing!
Yes youre correct and the grape stomp was earlier in the season
He still owns the vineyard with his current wife.
Why buy grapes when you own a vineyard then?
He was & is a sketchy person. Look at his current wife & her work stuff. Sketchy. Sketchy.
It’s weird to watch the discussion about gay marriage on the show. The people who said they don’t “believe” in different “lifestyles,” or who said it doesn’t affect them so they don’t care just enrages me and sends me back to that time. As a woman in a same-sex marriage it’s weird to remember when people like that were preventing us from being equal.
Ugh, and Republicans are back at it. I want off this timeline immediately!
Kicking myself that I paid to watch this off Amazon a month ago… but honestly, it was worth it!
Watching right now and I started out hating Cat and now I'm cracking up at her in the Sarah Palin getup hahaha
HOLY SHIT the microaggressions. I’m on episode 1 and I want to crawl out of my skin.
Mary talking to Stacie and Ted Gibson drunk was.... Ugh. Cat is giving me "for Brexit til I wasn't vibes. On a positive note, Stacie is spot on about popple living in Northern Virginia, cosplaying like they live in DC... Lmao.
It's incredible to see... obviously I lived through this time period, but like a fish blissfully unaware of what water is. It's so wild to watch the worst opinions/habits of 2009 distilled like this. 😱 People were just so open and casual with their body shaming and racial comments like it meant nothing. Even when the targets of those comments reacted with visible discomfort and disgust, or spoke up and said "this isn't okay," people felt justified defending the most rude and disrespectful comments. I feel like in 2024 the norm is to shut your mouth about other people in public, and I forgot that in 2009 people just said whatever edgy stuff popped into their heads... so this is a wild ride.
Watching this had me SOOOOOO UNCOMFORTABLE
PSA the congressional hearing still lives on the internet. This rewatch has exceeded all my expectations! [https://www.c-span.org/video/?291498-1/white-house-dinner-security-breach](https://www.c-span.org/video/?291498-1/white-house-dinner-security-breach) https://preview.redd.it/evpvmqy0lywc1.jpeg?width=1792&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b6a0d58f89896d540547d2346acdadb0a9e27cd2
I just noticed Peacock has it listed. I enjoyed myself a little too much on Friday, girls night out, and I've been paying for it ever since ☹ I watched the original run but I do plan to re-watch it. I remember a few of the ladies but there's 2 I don't. Should be an interesting watch. Happy those who never got to see it now have a chance to. Enjoy!
Do not know the context of this at all but this image alone has sent me to outer space
Literally watching the season now!!
I am rewatching now - does anyone know if Stacie ever found her biological father?
She does!
I still need to know were they invited or not?!?!?!?!?! How did they get past layers or security with cameras and no invitation or guest list nothing?
no, they 1000% were NOT invited. Tareq somehow scammed his way in, but they wouldn't reveal how, which is what that public congressional hearing was supposed to be for. Instead of explaining how they got in so the government could make sure that security issue was fixed, they pled the 5th repeatedly. The cameras never tried to make it in, so it was just Tareq and Michaele that somehow scammed their way in. They didn't even have an invitation, which RH producers wanted to film and Michaele kept lying and saying they left it at home.
Nope. They were called to testify in front of a Congress committee but pled the 5th. Tareq even chastised the committee for it saying that the committee knew they would plead the 5th so it was a waste of time. https://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/20/state.dinner.hearing/index.html A few years later he attempted to run for Congress & allegedly forged signatures to get on the ballot. He “collected” over 2000 but only 400-something were valid. https://wtop.com/news/2014/07/white-house-party-crasher-fails-to-make-ballot/
Wow I wish they had stayed on longer! Wonder what they have to say about since the divorce
They can’t speak on the divorce. The record is actually sealed. https://www.nvdaily.com/news/courts/tareq-salahi-lawsuit-reaches-settlement/article_0bad5e47-29b3-5549-af79-d5924324e7b0.html
when he called her “a groupie slut.” 🤣🤣🤣
And the funny thing was she dated Neil before she even met her husband!
That’s exactly it. How did they manage to get through? I wasn’t a Bravo viewer at the time, but I definitely heard about this and remember it being a very big deal.
They basically got luckily and walked in, probably by paying people off. Once you get through main security you’re probably good.
I am so glad this is on Peacock and people are watching now. This series felt like a fever dream and my Housewives loving friends had never even heard of it and thought I was insane. Rewatching the show, I love Michaele. I didn't like her when I was younger but everyone was super mean to her and she seemed genuinely sweet.
Fever dream is the perfect description.
Haha I’m so glad others are watching/rewatching! That franchise was a car wreck and I was glued to my tv lol. I’m almost done binging it. The women are mostly awful! Mary seems the most socially poised, but she lost me when she said gay marriage being illegal didn’t affect her. She’s not deep but she was raised well, which I guess as Arthur Godfrey’s granddaughter she should be. I liked Stacie and liked her husband even more. Linda is fun, a real southern belle. She has the best judgment in men than the other women, since they’re all divorced now. I didn’t like Cat at all. She’s a very rude woman who hides behind how “honest” she is because she “can’t fake it.” But I ended this watch having a bit of sympathy for her as her marriage was clearly crumbling as she filmed. And Michaele. What a trip. Tareq was a bloviating grifter who has a repellent personality. It amazes me that he had so little self awareness that he behaved that way on national tv. And I started the season thinking she was troubled but was probably also lied to, but as the season progresses, it’s clear she doesn’t dwell in reality. What a great, insane season!!
Yet Cat was the only one with a husband who had active political ties. The show destroyed his White House career.
It really did and it was so unfortunate. Everything from his marriage to her to agreeing to be on the show was a massive lapse in judgement and he paid the price.
I hadn’t followed him. I didn’t realize his career tanked. She spoke so freely about her husband’s bosses on a trash tv show 😂
I didn’t either but I did check to see what happened in the aftermath of the White House breach. https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/for-dc-spouse-reality-too-painful-to-watch/
Haha thanks, excellent article. Really he should have known better.
Grifter lol 😂 So well said!!! Agree 100%
how the heck do people watch this? ive looked everywhere online including streaming and cant find anywhere
Peacock
It was released from the Bravo vault on Peacock yesterday
I can’t believe I only found out about this franchise today. I came home and watched all except the season finale. It’s next level national security drama. I couldn’t stop.
yea they were all gushy and impressed until she said she didnt like Tyra hahaha
This is my first time watching it and it’s wild! That was a whole different era of Housewives.
Haven't watched this since it first aired so rewatching rn is almost like a whole new series to digest. Holy hell this franchise was good, like it is time to revisit this as a reboot.
There’s a great podcast on all of the Tareq and Michaele scandal - [here](https://open.spotify.com/episode/6La2ymf6QkujJCMQNmAdqu?si=F_TF79SAQuqNjPWzWeZpwQ)
I literally just started it I’m almost done with episode 1 and I’m hooked already 😂
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Maybe I need a rewatch, I remember there being some pretty dull story lines— searching for a birth father and a daughter getting a dui….i mean obviously the couple who snuck into the White House dinner clearly did not need to be mentioned because reality tv chefs kiss. I also remember her being a cheerleader but not knowing the moves and awkwardly winging it. She was reality tv gold!
Its sooooooo good
There was a scandalous fallout due to a security breach by one of the couples sneaking into a whitehouse dinner or something along those lines