by Chandra Clewley

Here we go again with the Real Housewives of Orange County, our original cast and location, which was once behind the gates at Coto de Caza and then traveled a little closer to the ocean and dropped much of the original cast. Now, we have a new lady named Peggy and the last original cast member in Vicki.

Tamra is divorced and seems very happy.  She is planning a party for all of the girls and wants to mend the relationships that were broken when she and Simon were together.  She is also in the process of getting rid of her tattoo on her ring finger of Simon’s name. 

Vicki is still upset with Tamra’s behavior from last season.  Things are good with she and Donn now that they recommitted themselves to each other.

Gretchen has her own purse line now, in addition to her makeup line and she is creating an infomercial for them.  She is surprised when Tamra calls to invite her to her party, since they still have bad blood between them.  She mentions that Tamra started dating Eddie immediately after Simon served the divorce papers on the way to the party with Alexis in the car. When they show up at the party, they are already a little buzzed and once the party starts Gretchen is obviously hostile to Tamra

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Alexis has her three children with only one nanny now and only four days a week, which is different than her 2 nannies last season. She has become really friendly with Gretchen over the past year which is why they went to Tamra’s party together. She is not looking forward to seeing Vicki.

Vicki says hello to Alexis, but they seem to avoid each other.  It seems like Tamra and Vicki are going to be against Gretchen and Alexis this season…Tamra is really upset with Gretchen. Vicki and Gretchen sit down and talk, but there is some mending that has to happen because Vicki felt very abandoned by her last season.  Once the drinks keep flowing Gretchen and Alexis start arguing when Alexis calls her a princess because she sleeps in until 8 a.m. but Gretchen gets upset with the term princess and in her mind, Alexis is handed everything while she has to work for it, so she finds the term offensive. Alexis just thinks that Gretchen is getting drunk and hostile.

Gretchen talks to Vicki about how she wants her to like Slade, but Vicki will not come around. At the same time Tamra is trying to figure out what is going on with Gretchen and asks her if she was calling her an evil bitch. Everyone is uncomfortable with the conversation, and Gretchen is really being snarky with Tamra and saying she isn’t over it.  She doesn’t want to be fake but everyone is upset with her.

Catch an all new episode of The Real Housewives of Orange County next Sunday night at 10/9 C on Bravo.

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