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Friday, July 13, 2012
11:42 am
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Tagged: ABC Family, Beverly Hills Nannies, nannies, pennydreadful, reality, reality show, recap, recaps, snarky, TV, tvgasm
Now we’re over at the Wyse house with Lucy, who’s been a nanny for 8 years for “elite and powerful people”. She’s on a trial basis with Cynthia, the mom. Lucy says this is nerve-wracking and shares the amazing fact that the BH nanny scene is “really competitive”. Despite that blatantly obvious observation, Lucy seems tolerable at this point.
However, that hair has to go.
Over to the Elkins house to Amanda, who’s worked for them for a few days. Apparently the Elkins’ have gone through a lot of nannies. They’re vegan, organic, natural, and clearly Amanda isn’t any of those things, hasn’t read up on them, and basically has no idea of what such a lifestyle entails in LA, one of the epicenters of such a lifestyle. Because preparing before you go to work for someone? That’s for people who aren’t high-powered BH nannies, apparently.
I want a burger.
We see Amanda taking the kids out and then getting one of them a snack – in a bakery. Which is a place known for using dairy products and eggs. Apparently there aren’t any Whole Foods, or juice bars, or any kind of other establishment that would sell, oh, fruit or something. Just one lone bakery. Wow, BH must be a desolate place. I kid, of course, because I’m in BH all the time and can I tell you? Eating options abound, and vegan/vegetarian/organic options are all over the place.
Just not in Amanda’s eyes, though. So the kid ends up eating a dinner roll. That’s super healthy. Carb load! Thanks, Amanda, for being so thoughtful. She shares she’s not comfortable taking the kids out. Oh right cause there’s no place to get a freaking salad in California.
Back to Justin, who’s accompanying Bitch to a shop. They have 2 poodles, which appear to be peach or gold. They’re named Nancy and Reagan. Then why aren’t they red? In a nanny convo, Lucy, who’s also there, tells Justin she makes $40/hour. Justin says he thought his agency was going to negotiate for him. Um, no, they just played you like a chump. Welcome to LA! Meanwhile, the moms talk about their nannies.
Commercial. Let’s figure out how much these folks make. At a 40 hour week, paid $40/hour, your gross is $6400/month. Subtracting 33% for taxes, etc., that leaves a net $4288 (even factoring in other deductions, you’re still left with a chunk of change). Even a 30 hour week would net $3216. We’re not told how many hours these gals work, but let’s go to the extreme and say 20 hours – half time – at $40. Net $2144. So these gals make more than a lot of people reading this recap (and more than the person writing it). For what? So far we’ve seen listening to the moms ramble on, ironing, and carrying a dyed dog. Oh, and boasting/complaining. All righty then.
Back from commercial, and Kristin is taking a personal call (hey! get back to work!) from Ari, who is a woman Kristin used to work for. Ari keeps or kept ducks in a cage. APS – get on this! Kristin says she’ll send 3 girls up to interview with Ari.
Over to Vegan House, and Brett, apparently the father, asks Amanda if she has a boyfriend. My response would be “none of your effing business, you perv”. She shares with us that they ordered pizza without cheese and is openly scornful. OK, Vegan House, have you never heard of soy cheese? My local pizzeria does a very nice vegan pie with vegan “burger” crumbles and a soy mozzarella you would swear was the real thing. And I live right down the street from you (well, near-ish) so I know you can get their delivery. Amanda says she isn’t the right fit for Vegan House. As always, love of dairy trumps love of money. And hasn’t that been the way of the world for millenia?
Over to Tsir – oh the hell with it, Bitch – House, where Justin is talking to bitch and Kyri (Eleison, On a highway in the night), her husband. She’s harping she never got her foot rub. She says – to Justin’s face – that he’s semi-working out. He says he’s making half of what other nannies make, and Bitch says Margolis told her that her nanny was making $20. We know from Kristin that she’s making $40. So Bitch and liar.
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Yeah, I was hoping this was going to be recapped. What hole did Cindy Margolis fall down? Why was Kristin so impressed with what looked like a very tiny house? Was it a bad angle, because that drive way/garage entrance looks to be quite the pain to maneuver? After airing this show, would you want to hire any of these folks who are so willing to appear on TV and talk about their former employers (obviously whats her face worked for Dr. McDreamy)?
Looking forward to the drunken train wreck that is Maggie.
PennyD, luvluvluvluv your ‘caps and have been eager awaiting this. You did not disappoint– and I’m only on page one with Marie Osmond 2.0 and the cutie who stole my son’s name.
Okay, back at it.
I haven’t read the recap yet but I’m so psyched to see this show is being covered! I didn’t even know about this show until I stumbled across it last night and it sucked me in.
Isn’t the best man usually the groom’s best friend? So . . . who’s the best man at wedding #2, groom #1? AWK-ward!-Yes but it has the potential for funniest best man toasting the couple at the reception ever!
I knew if my alter ego Preachy McJudgington watch this show it’d make her head explode. But I couldn’t stop her. Or get her to wait till my pain pill started to wear off.
1st of all Preachy says they need to change the name to Beverly Hills Baby Sitters.
Preachy sucks at baby sitting. So she’s got a lot of respect for people that can do it. But she says there’s a such thing as as actual professional nannies. That get training and qualifications at a school for nannies. After their regular school.
So if somebody in their early to mid 20s says they’ve got 7 or 8 yrs of experience being a nanny with a mess of different families, they mean they did some baby sitting in high school.
Which would look real good on their application if they ever decided to go to nanny school. But for a nanny it’d be a big red flag!
Because anybody that gets ahold of a good nanny’s going to keep that same 1 till all their kids are old enough to leave in the house without grown folks. Or gone off to school.
These rich women don’t need a nanny anyway. It’s not like they’re working 80 hr weeks. And most of it out of town. So all they need’s somebody to baby sit now and then. Not to do every job they ever saw on Downton Abbey all at 1 time and for 1 salary!
What’s scariest to Preachy, though isn’t how many people are willing to do that. Lord knows it’s gotten popular enough in offices etc some places. Even without a bonus check from a reality show. That’s just because times changed. In a way that always takes care of itself eventually. And that you can read all about in any history book. But that’s a different tangent.
The real scary part is people even pretending for a show that they’d leave their kids with somebody that was
1) way too busy doing all those other jobs to keep the baby from crawling into the washing machine
2) stupid enough to think doing 4 people’s jobs is glamorous because they get to look at how much bad taste $ can buy.
3) Kristin
Hey, PennyD, good catch on Shaun’s misunderstanding of what a sponsor does. (I’m a friend of Bill W’s too.) I was wondering how many people caught that totally stupid remark of his. Love your recap and I’ll be watching the show again just to see how much worse it can get, but at least it’s an entertaining trainwreck.
I think ms McJudginton is spot on. I wish I had her inside my head instead of that nine-year-old boy so I could stop embarrassing hubbycat. Whatevs.
Never could understand how women not employed outside the home need personal assistants, never mind nannies. What do they do that is so important besides shop and club? Charity events are not exactly like real jobs ’cause I assume that these women are way too important to do any of the actual work themselves. Perhaps they are too dim to plan their gureling social schedules.
Oh, and even babysitters take classes now. Any parent hiring from the likes of Kristin’s “agency” should be visited by CPS. Yikes!
@PennyDreadful It’s a good thing they got you to write about this. Because not many people have a high enough tolerance. But you’re 1 of the few that’s qualified. Since you did such a good job with Eden’s World. And didn’t even have a nervous break down.
@snowshoecat Preachy’s so tickled she got some love that she finally let my
regular egoinner 9 yr old watch the show. And enjoy it as a trashy hoot that’s near about as fake as Gypsy Wedding USA.I also figured out this show’s secret identity as a focus group style audition for Real Housewives Beverly Hills! (Since it looks like Taylor might be too busy with her book tour. And Kim’s new nose is still getting settled in)
So far my favorite contestant is Marika. Since she’s got the tackiest blankets and offensive bedroom shoes. I can’t wait to see her go on a Real Housewives island vacation with Lisa!
Lil Drunky would be Marika’s perfect nanny match! (You know the ins co’s going to have somebody there to catch the baby in the close up scenes. And for most of them they’ll make them use 1 of those creepy Reborn dolls anyway)
Since it’s just been 1 episode, I can’t decide which nanny Ari should get yet. But she’s my 2nd pick to replace Kim or Taylor.
But they definitely need a story line where Kristin makes a guest star appearance. And sells all the Housewives some eggs.
@kthxy, Cool! I love shows that let our 9year-olds out to play. Well, okay, that is most of the shows ‘capped…
Totes agree on the focus group. But weren’t we promised in the previews or something that there would be some…er…fooling aroung twixt employer/employee?
There better be some fooling around!
PennyD, can your 9year-old come out? Huh? Huh?
Wasn’t Justin Kyle’s nanny?
So let me get this straight…Justin just all of a sudden stopped being Kyle’s long time “ladysitter” to being the token, underpaid ‘nanny’ with no explanation? Why does the black kid have to be the grossly underpaid one? UGH!
BH housewives is all over this fake b.s. Clearly this is a show that put a bunch of pretty kids with rich wannabes to make up a plot line for a fake show. I refuse to believe that this is actually how people pick or even treat their nannies. Way to whore out your children for 15 mins of fame, btw.
This recap was hilarious! I have to admit, I didn’t enjoy the show as much as I thought I would. I was expecting a show with put-upon nannies snarking on their annoying employers, and while there was some of that, most of the nannies were just as pretentious and obnoxious as their bosses (looking at you Kristin).
I also don’t get why any of these women need as much help as they do. Maybe they should see what real stay at home moms have to do everyday and they’d realize how fortunate they really are. Who am I kidding, of course they wouldn’t!
I’m still not sure what the premise of this show is … it’s kind of messy – like the producers are nanny-level to the prime time RHOBH producers. In any case, I’m watching just to get my bitch on over the BH Housewives wannabes – aka the “moms.”
Marika is beyond annoying – what rock did they turn over to find that one? Her grandiose demands are pathetic, especially emanating as they do from the nursing chair of an overcrowded room with wallpaper so dated it’s cringe-worthy.
Ari – isn’t that short for Aristotle? As in Onassis? In any case, I barely heard what she was saying – once she asserted that everyone wanted to be her – so intrigued was I by her eye makeup. What was the effect she was aiming for? Taupe liner circling her eyes like a lasso, and short arcs of fake eyelashes perched in the center of her upper lids. Her windy outdoor interview with one of the nannies also provided gratifying glimpses of extensions knotted to her scalp. Score!
Cindy Margolis …. (((shudder))) Not only is her face depressing in its overworked glory, but that bod under the velour sweats looked chunky. Seriously, Cindy – you shouldn’t do this without special lighting, a makeup artist, and two weeks with a personal trainer. Her house was small, too – eliminate the double garages flanking the front door, and the oversized staircase, and it’s pretty much a suburban standard.
Anyhooo – this show has jumpstarted the snark in me, and for that I am grateful … especially since RHONY is such a buzz kill these days.
I like Justin as well and cannot believe he only makes $20/hr and he’s expected to rub Marika’s feet! While he seems sweet and naïve it seems like he has enough of a back bone to stand up for himself, at least that’s what he’s shown so far. I can’t believe Margolis shares with everyone it cost to get her children, the poor kids! I also think it’s ridiculous that nannies are required to do whatever the family asks, at the same time it doesn’t surprise me. I became interested in the show when my Dish coworker suggested I watch. Luckily I recently downloaded the Dish Remote Access app because I don’t have to be home to watch. I can watch it live from my phone or I can set up a timer for it to record. It saves me so much time.
Interesting that Amber got low points for cuteness when she was actually a lingerie modedl\football player and Sea Gals cheerleader! I can’t imagine this job is anything but trying to get screen time since she is also an interviewer etc.
Why is it difficult for Kristen, “The Boss” to understand that after she agreed to cover for Amber that she was now responsible to get coverage for herself when she became to sick to “Nanny” for the wedding? She has a pool of nannies, a staff……….she couldn’t make a call or send a text to someone else? The call to Amber should have been “Amber, sorry I partied so much last night that I am sick to my stomach but I called ….(let’s say…….Maggie or Amanda who were not assigned to a family)…. and they will cover Do well with your interview”. Kristen keeps talking about her reputation and that Amber and Maggie is reflecting bad on her but what about her. ALSO, why is she trying to make Maggie a nanny when she has a business degree. Maggie should be running the administration of the business and Kristen should pay her. Last thing, Shayla seems a little two-faced. I don’t think she can really be trusted. Sorry, had to get that out. Thanks for listening:-)