I am an avid watcher of all of The Real Housewives shows, but New York City and New Jersey are my all-time faves. I was devastated by the rift between Jill and Bethenny on NYC this season and it’s almost ruined the show for me. While I wouldn’t say that their friendship was a highlight of the program, its demise is definitely a low point. Let’s face it: These broads are too old to be fighting like teenage girls and it’s completely depressing to watch two women with so much going for them destroy their bond over what seems to be a serious of miscommunications and overreactions.

Since season one, Jill and Bethenny always stood out to me as the best characters on the show. Jill you had to love because she is such a Yenta and her husband Bobby is adorable and she seems to be a fairly generous and loving person. Bethenny was great because she was the sassy sidekick that often shined the brightest because of her quick wit and short temper. Then Bethenny’s shtick began to wear on me. Big time. By the end of season two, I began to see her as a shit-talking coward with a chip on her shoulder. Jill I continued to love, although I did think that she clung to Bethenny for her natural business smarts and would feel wrongfully left out when Bethenny didn’t include her.

Cut to this third season and Jill and Bethenny aren’t on speaking terms. I went into the season thinking that it was surly Bethenny’s fault, but as the season unraveled I found myself sympathizing with her. Jill Zarin was using her popularity with the other housewives to cut out Bethenny, and all because Bethenny finally spoke to Jill the way she speaks to everyone else: completely abrasively. Did Jill have a right to feel hurt? Sure! But her pride got in the way of her reason and she spent the rest of the season behaving like Regina George. Also, as I said, Bethenny’s a bitch to everyone and at least you know what you get with her. Jill shouldn’t have been shocked that Bethenny would finally snap at her in a way she didn’t like some day. I mean, duh.

After last night’s episode when Jill and Bethenny finally sat down to hash things out, I’m certain that Jill is at fault here. 100%. While Bethenny repeatedly tried to be civil with Jill and was turned away in a cruel fashion. Jill had to turn at least three people against her before she caught up to the fact that she was being a bitch. And I’m not sure that she ever had that realization, to be honest. It was her husband Bobby who told her she needed to give up her grudge.

The meeting between Jill and Bethenny seemed so forced. Their pleasantries sounded like they were meeting up with a random person they met on craigslist. Jill showed up with potato pancakes in a bag and played all nice-nice while Bethenny sat there, clearly shaken by the fact that her former BFF who had so viciously turned on her was now showing her such kindness and claiming she wanted a truce.

I’m not a fan of everything Bethenny’s done on the show, but I’m giving her a pass on this one. She handled this all like an adult for the most part. Jill Zarin better grow the fuck up and stop thinking she’s the queen bee.

Who do you think is to blame here and do you think there’s a chance that Team Jethenny will reunite?

Poor Whitney can’t get a break.  The Internet has been all over her about her weight gain, though it looks to me that her body’s just getting used to not being addicted to crack.  I think she looks way better in the above photo than when she was all skin and bones and drugs.  But according to the National Enquirer (so reputable, I know), Whitney’s now at around 175 lbs., and there’s “no sign of slowing down.”

On top of the talk of her weight, there’s also that whole issue of Whitney not being as good as she used to be. At a recent show in Copenhagen, several fans left the concert because she was just not doing well, and local newspapers ripped her to shreds for her performance.  One critic wrote

She looked and sounded like a person who doesn’t have many years left to live. At the end of the show she looked like she was ready to explode.

Pretty harsh, but by comparing Whitney’s recent performances to what she used to be, it’s easy to see how people can be so disappointed in her.  I mean, I still cry every single time at The Bodyguard and Prince of Egypt, but whatever she’s doing now just makes me feel uncomfortable and kind of sad.  Of course you have to give her props for overcoming her addictions and getting back on that horse, but at what point do you just admit that you irreparably fucked up your talent and throw in the towel?

After a meeting yesterday between Britney Spears’ father and a judge, it was decided that Britney still isn’t able to gain independence. Her conservatorship, which has been in place since early 2008, gives her dad control of basically her whole life, and no one involved – including Britney herself, who wasn’t present for the meeting – sees this arrangement ending any time soon.  A friend told RadarOnline

“It seems highly unlikely that the conservatorship will end by the end of summer. Britney’s just not ready yet. Britney has complex issues that on a personal and professional level and that is the reason the conservatorship is still in place.”

Tough break, Brit.  I hope you stop being crazy so you can run your own life, and that you stop making stupid shitty music like “Womanizer” and go back to making fun shitty music like “Oops! … I Did It Again.”  And, you know, whatever personal stuff you might want to do (but I would really appreciate that thing about the music).

Shauna Sand’s headed to rehab and yes, she’s probably going to take her ugly-assed Lucite heels with her. [Celebslam]

More RIP Rue. Blanche Devereaux forever, bitches! [popbytes]

Are you going to see Get Him to the Greek? No? Not on your life? Nah, me either. [Pajiba]

A-Rod’s ex is just as afraid of Cameron Diaz’s face as I am, and she’s making sure her children stay away from her, too. [Celebitchy]

Men apparently hate Paris Hilton and her big glasses, among other things. [Zelda Lily]

Spencer Pratt is a fucking moron, is trying to look more and more like Brad Pitt as the days go by. Oh, and is failing miserably. [Allie is Wired]

Nicki Minaj poses for Vibe, looks kind of moronic. [Amy Grindhouse]

Scarlett Johansson screwed Esquire out of a contractual photo shoot. [Betty Confidential]

Is anyone really watching that RuPaul drag show, or did I imagine that it even existed? [OMGBlog]

Derek Hough has creepy Tom Cruise eyes and might be dating Cheryl Cole. WTF. [Celebrity Smack Blog]

And I’ve always been a pretty big fan of Demi’s, though she definitely went off the deep end with the plastic surgery a few years ago, so it’s kind of a shame that I have to use unkind words to talk about her. Like “asshole.” And “arrogant, judgmental twat.” But if there’s any credence to these rumors (and they don’t sound like rumors at all to me, considering they’re coming directly from the horse’s mouth), then she really needs to check her ego, like, yesterday.

Moore’s much younger husband, Ashton Kutcher, speaks to the UK’s GMTV and claims that wifey is disappointed with the way his body looks as of late, especially since he buffed up and out for his most recent movie, Killers:

“Unfortunately… I kinda wish that I hadn’t (let her see the movie) because now she expects (my body) to look like that and it doesn’t. You can’t maintain that. That’s not possible. I disappoint her every evening. I walk in to get ready to go to bed and she’s just, ‘Oh’. She’s like, ‘You know what that’s capable of, you’re not living up to your potential’.”

I hope he’s joking in some way or another. Really. I also hope that if he’s not, that Moore takes a look at herself and realizes that her body’s only doing what the plastic and silicone and leeches tell it to, rather than what it’s “capable” of. Miss Demi lost all control over her body’s “capabilities” when she had a gazillion-dollar total-body-and-face rehaul — no matter how much you tell it otherwise, plastic isn’t going to morph — or move! — sweetheart.

One also might want to consider the fact that Kutcher could get with someone far more accepting (and obviously more naturally built) with a snap of his fingers. For someone who’s so apparently worried about her much-younger husband leaving her for a much-younger woman, she might do best to lay off the personal attacks on her husband’s appearance.

People who live in plastic bodies shouldn’t throw molotov cocktails, don’t you know.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar and his wife of thirteen years, Lisa Ann Russell, have separated, sources confirm. According to these sources, Mark-Paul is all broken up over the, uh, breakup. Hence the term, I guess.

The couple has two children together, but there’s been no word on whether or not a custody arrangement will be discussed. Gosselaar’s rep also states that you’re probably not going to get any icky details or insight into what happened between the couple to cause the split:

“Mark-Paul Gosselaar and his wife Lisa are currently separated, but they both remain focused on their family and are jointly committed to their children.”

I know that divorce isn’t cool and any kind of breakup after a long-term relationship sucks, but hey, Zack Mark-Paul. Look on the bright side: Tiffani-Amber Thiessen (who, incidentally, has a name built similarly to your own with that whole annoying-assed hyphen thing that even she doesn’t use anymore, ’cause it’s so 1989) is probably willing to shag you one last time for posterity.

Oh … wait. No, probably ‘no’ on that. She and her husband are expecting a child of their own this year. Sorry, pal. Maybe you can look up your old pal Lisa Turtle or if you’re really desperate, Screech Powers. I hear he’s pretty desperate these days, himself.

Sorry to hear the bad news, pal, and I hope everything works out for you and yours. You were a big part of my childhood and adolescence, and I totally do not regret buying the DVD set of both Saved By the Bell and Saved By the Bell: The College Years.

… Well, maybe The College Years. But just a little bit.