There’s constant Housewives news so a newbie not being renewed isn’t that big of a story (it’s Annemarie Wiley from Beverly Hills). No connection to the cast, a bit scoldy, didn’t perform well at the reunion – we’ve seen a first timer play out like this before. 

 

In her departure post, she hints at poor production planning and a bad edit, which is the kiss of death for a Housewife. This ensures she will never be asked back (blaming the producers never works!) and we are way, way too far into these shows for new cast members to claim they have no idea how it works. The curtain has been pulled back so many times, there are literal books written on it, that playing the babe in the woods card is a miss. 

 

Ryan Philippe unnecessarily waded into the nepo baby controversy by saying it’s annoying because kids naturally gravitate towards what their parents do. Ryan, baby, pay attention, that’s what we are saying. So he acknowledges the structural inequality that goes into this type of nepotism? Amazing! His son Deacon is a musician/actor and Ryan confirmed daughter Ava is beginning to look at roles. 

 

Nepo baby is actually a compliment, people love idiosyncratic nepo babies (see: Dakota Johnson, Sofia Coppola, Willow Smith). And we know it’s not a straight line of inheritance because if it was, Tori Spelling would be the most famous TV actress of all time and Meryl Streep’s daughters would be lining up for Oscars. Being a nepo baby doesn’t get you to the top but it does get you through the door, enough so that they become one of the 10% of actors who get steady work. 

 

I laugh every time I get to mention Road House because I know it makes Sarah mad but seriously – why were there so many Real Housewives at the premiere? I’m guessing it’s because of the streaming crossover but it’s just so funny to me because Jake Gyllenhaal is up his own ass about being an artist and cagey with press and now he’s walking the same red carpet as Sonja Morgan.

 

Chase Stokes and Kelsea Ballerini are kind of a Millennial “it” couple, right? He told E! that he doesn’t feel like he’s oversharing with their relationship (which means they are definitely oversharing) but alas, they are young and beautiful and just famous enough. If your knees crack when you walk up the stairs you are an old enough gossip to see where this is going. 

 

Texas Monthly? More like TEXAS FOREVER.