That time Teresa went to prison for fraud
That time Vicki’s boyfriend faked cancer
Vicki Gunvalson from the Orange County franchise is the longest serving of all the Housewives, having put in 11 seasons. During that time we have watched her go through divorce, become a grandmother, grieve her mother, and work her tail off selling insurance.
We have also seen her fall in love with a charmer called Brooks who was tragically diagnosed with cancer.
Except he wasn’t ever diagnosed with cancer, he faked it. He also faked doctor’s appointments, and radiation treatment and produced fake medical documents to ‘‘prove’’ he was sick.
The details of the New Jersey Guidice family’s finances will never be fully understood, but Joe worked in construction and somehow ended up living like a member of the Albanian royal family.
Both he and table-flipping wife Teresa Guidice, also a writer of Italian cookbooks, were sentenced to prison for fraud, protesting their innocence every step of the way.
She has served her time and bounced back hotter than ever, with another book deal and legions of loyal fans.
That time Aviva took off her leg and threw it
New York Housewife Aviva Drescher, dining at Le Cirque with cast mates, got annoyed when they questioned the severity of her asthma, which they suggested was her excuse for getting out of anything she didn’t really want to do.
‘‘The only thing artificial or fake about me is this!’’ she declared, pulling off her prosthetic leg and throwing it across the table and onto the floor, which really messed up the ambience of the occasion. There were many horrified gasps from people who presumably had never seen a high-quality prosthetic divorced from its owner before.
That time Sonja Morgan wrote a toaster oven cookbook
Broke (by her standards) divorcee Sonja Morgan of New York decided to write a toaster oven cookbook because, well, not sure why.
Single and busily mingling, she had become a toaster oven aficionado, pulling whole meals from her little kitchen counter buddy, and thought her TV fame and a sex-kitten photo shoot would somehow make toaster ovens hot.
It didn’t work.
That time the psychic told Kyle her husband was cheating
In some kind of misguided crossprogramme pollination, psychic Allison DuBois, the inspiration for the show Medium, was invited to a lavish Beverly Hills dinner, where she puffed away on an e-cigarette, threw back martinis and predicted the end of Kyle’s marriage.
‘‘Your husband will never emotionally fulfil you, so know that,’’ she said dramatically. ‘‘As soon as your kids are grown up you’ll have nothing in common.’’