Villa Bella Vita

Turks and Caicos
Real Housewives of
New York
season
7
| episode(s)
11-13
“Be cool. Don’t be all…uncool” about waking up next to some naked man that Ramona discarded last night. The house is enormous but the personalities are bigger. The meltdowns are almost too many to count. Newly single Ramona physically blocks Carole and Bethenny from flirting with a handsome restaurateur.

Heather calls Bethenny a know-it-all, only for Bethenny to proudly agree. Luann interrupts Ramona, Bethenny, and Sonja screaming about whether or not Sonja is an alcoholic to offer them her eggs a la française.

The crescendo is Luann, a woman who in present-day is touring with a cabaret entitled “Marry F Kill”, throwing a fit about how gauche it is to say the F word only to find herself, maybe twelve hours later, standing in the kitchen wearing only a bikini and sunglasses, croaking that Heather needs to “be cool.”

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