by Chandra Clewley

Tonight’s Real Housewives of Beverly Hills starts off with Kyle meeting Kim’s new boyfriend Ken. It is obvious that Kyle has been crying and she questions Ken about the wedding band that he is wearing. Kim calls it a promise ring. Kyle goes home and tells Mauricio and they hash it out. She is afraid that Kim is settling.

Adrienne and Paul go to dinner for Paul’s birthday.  I don’t know how Adrienne can even be in the same room as Paul, she is so annoyed with him at all times. Anyway, Adrienne brings up the fact that something is wrong with Taylor and she says it is getting very physical. Paul thinks it’s weird and doesn’t know if he buys it. 

Taylor gets an award from the LA Business Journal, and Russell is there supporting her. He seems genuinely happy for her. Kyle is running late and calls Lisa to see where the girls are at the award show and Lisa is at home, she wasn’t invited. Camille, Adrienne and Dana are all there to support Taylor and Kyle admits that she accidentally called Lisa. 

Meanwhile, Lisa is kind of miffed that she wasn’t invited, even though she has been cold and uninviting to Taylor. Brandi and Kim weren't there either, so what’s the big deal?  The next day, Lisa is hosting a tea party and she decides to invite Taylor because she doesn't want to get into “petty bull$#8%”. Taylor shows up and Kyle tells the girls that Kim is moving in with someone and how annoyed she is by it. Then Lisa brings up that she wasn’t invited to the event the day before and Taylor and she get into the semantics of Lisa saying that she has no friends. During this scene, Taylor looks different again. It seems like each time these gals get Botox, they look a little different…Anyway, back to the argument. Taylor is convinced that Lisa is talking behind her back and that she has kissed her ass for a year to no avail. Lisa, who is shaking her head, is disagreeing. It does seem like Lisa’s strong personality just doesn’t mesh with Taylor’s more non-confrontational personality.  Looking from the outside, the truth is Lisa doesn’t like Taylor because of Kyle. 

After the argument seems to be over Taylor starts throwing everyone under the bus and the girls won’t say anything so Taylor just gets up and leaves. In the front of the house, she runs into Paul Nassif and talks to him about what just happened inside. The girls stay inside and talk about it. Lisa finally drops the bomb that Taylor has come out and told the women that Russell abuses her and no one knows if it’s true or not.  Taylor comes back in to tell Adrienne that she needs to call the house. The girls sit Taylor down and want to talk about her marriage and begin doing an intervention, basically. 

OK, so somewhere in this scene, Taylor’s light switch went from off to on, and now she is on the attack and wants everyone to stop talking behind each other’s backs and to come out with everything. To that, Camille snaps and says that they are all protecting Taylor and her accusations about domestic violence. 

Camera pans to Taylor’s face and there is no sign of registry on Taylor’s face. So, is that shock or just really good work by Dr. Nassif?

Catch an all new Real Housewives of Beverly Hills next Monday night at 9/8 C on Bravo.

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