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Thursday, June 21, 2012
9:07 am
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Tagged: atlanta, bat mitzvah, boot camp, boston, bull riding, cowboy, Dallas, Despina Delios, disney princess, donuts, George Hebrert Walker Bush, george w. bush, ice skating, JoAnne Ward, long distance relationship, Lucille ball, Miss Massachusetts USA, new jersey, new orleans, North End, redneck, spidey senses, Steve Ward, tough love, virgin
Next up is Despina and Austin. Despina is really nervous about bringing a man home to meet her family. That has never happened before.
I love that her family runs a quaint little donut shop,
which is where they lie in wait to meet her guy.
Never mind that the family is nearly entirely all geriatrics.
Does that sign say 2007 Miss Massachusetts?
Yeah, you betcha! Apparently Despina’s family likes to call her Desi. So I did a little research. In 2007, our Miss Man Eater actually took the crown of Miss Massachusetts USA.
Did we know about this?
It comes as a big surprise to me and a little disappointing. I love the fact that according to the articles I read, this was the first time Despina had ever entered a beauty pageant and she walked away with the title. Of course she did, our girl is fierce.
But this means her agenda goes beyond the realm of Tough Love
and is more about making appearances. Boo!
Despina’s dad decides to bust Austin’s balls and forces him into slave labor as a donut maker. Nothing Austin does is good enough and to top it all off, while the man lords over him and criticizes his abilities to frost a pastry, he demands to know what Austin’s intentions are with his daughter.
Back off, mister. I’m a f$%#ing pilot!
So Despina comes on to tell us that she realizes that her dad is throwing jabs at Austin. Apparently in donut land, that means you are well thought of.
“Holy crap, my dad likes him!”
This would be a well loved man in Boston.
Meanwhile, Liz is still in her hotel room and now she’s trying to get a hold of her family. No one is answering.
Sooooooo ring, ring, why don’t you give me a call…
Stephanie is taking Good John to Dallas to meet her parents. She explains to John that she’s brought home so many losers for her family to meet that she’s been instructed to only bring home a guy if she’s pregnant or getting married. Why does she keep scaring poor John like this?
John’s got escape eyes.
Stephanie says she’s nervous that her mother will scare Good John off. Mom asks John what he does for a living and he tells us all that he has two fitness centers and runs a dj company.
Mom seems more sleepy than vicious.
This isn’t at all like when poor Steph met John’s judgemental bitchy mom. Both mom and dad seem happy to meet Good John and dad even jokes around asking where the tattoos are. In fact, after mom’s home cooked meal, she and Steph go in the kitchen and she tells Stephanie she’s proud of her for choosing a good guy. Stephanie comes on and says it felt so normal to hear her mom say she liked John,
“like he was already my husband or something.”
Whoa, girl, whoa!
Lucky Shalana is from New Orleans, so she doesn’t have far to go for Aubrey to meet her family. To kill time, they go on a picnic together. It’s supposed to be romantic and although there is champagne and strawberries, the whole thing seems a little stiff. Aubrey asks if Shalana has been to the park they are at before and Shalana says she’s not only never been to the park, she’s never been on a picnic before. Aubrey whispers a little “yes!” under his breath as if this is some sort of triumph. He’s an odd one.
I think like him, I just wish that he would cut loose once in a while.
Seriously, he’s just a little too rigid for me. When Shalana breaks out photos of her son Donald, Aubrey goes through them politely and agrees with her that the boy looks like her, but then he neatens up the photos into a perfect stack and hands them back saying, “cute.”
I have visions of Aubrey being strict and requiring
absolute order. It’s a little worrying.
Melissa is bringing Chris back to her house in Boston. He seems eager to meet everyone – he’s been such a good sport.
For some reason everyone in this house looks jaundiced.
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These are just the best recaps….. my gut always hurts from laughing so hard.
Alas, poor Elizabeth. Although she “seems” to be coming around, I don’t see how that girl can give up her bling and roses long-term. She’s a hot mess, that one is.
I’ve been a huge fan of Tough Love since the first episode. Usually, this far into bootcamp I can make a fair estimation of who will stay together, who will go back to their old ways and who has at least learned something. I’m just not sure this time around. They all give me reason to doubt.
Thank you for also recognizing Donna’s date looks like George W! I thought I was the only one! I feel so bad for Elizabeth; I hope she gives Carl a chance because he seems to be a really together and caring guy. Great recaps!
Oh My GAWD I almost cried when Elizabeth couldn’t get a hold of anyone in her family. I am putting my support behind her seeing it isn’t the bling, it’s the small moments, like him bringing her breakfast after a shitty evening. And if she doesn’t want him, I do.
Danielle – what the fuck chickee? Steve, JW and Danielle’s mom need to get together and slap some sense into her. Although I am assuming mom has cracked her upside the head for the way she was talking throughout her adventure.
Stephanie is looking better and better with less makeup. You are right Luscious, why hasn’t Steve mentioned the gobs of makeup on Elizabeth. Another reason to believe he is trying to keep her for himself….. ha. My male friend thinks he is gay because his pants were so tight during panel.
And does Donna’s man dump her or do you think we are being set up?
Thanks for the enjoying and very funny ride Luscious.
Can’t believe this is your next to last re-cap for the show. I’ll miss your snarky humor. It always makes me laugh! “Let me just live out a little presidential fantasy and then he’s all yours…”–hystrical! Keep up the good work and thanks!!
I can’t believe this season is almost over! I totally agree with the GWB comparison, my husband and I have been saying that all along.
I felt so bad for Elizabeth, too. Like I wanted to cry. But, I have to wonder what the full story is. I think there is a lot more that we’re not hearing. Why else would not ONE person show up? And did I hear right that she has a twin? You have to mess up pretty bad for your twin to disown you!
@sardini stole the words right out of my mouth.
Elizabeth had to have done something. Even if her family were complete douchebags, there’s no way that not ONE person would text or show up. They would write back, even if just to say “haha, we’re not coming”. For them to completely ignore her, including her twin sister, she must have done something. Either she didn’t tell anyone the whole story or the producers are keeping it from us so that she can seem more sympathetic. I did feel bad for her though, because that must have been so horrible and shitty to go through.
Also, has anyone ever seen Elizabeth without her makeup? Maybe Carl didn’t show up that early, but dang…her makeup was done, hair freshly blown out…who has time for alladat?
Interesting that Despina was Miss Mass.
She’s completely the opposite of what I would think a beauty queen would be. I bet the other contenders for the title were mad when she won.
I forgot that Stephanie was husband-hungry until she mentioned that thing about Good John. They are so cute together though, and I was happy to see that Stephanie laughing at how foolish she looked on that bull. She almost had a meltdown the last time she had to make a fool of herself, so I call that progress.
This season has been weird as hell.
Usually, you feel confident that the girls have learned and changed alot, but this season, I feel like very little has been accomplished.
It may not be that Elizabeth’s family disowned her, but just that they either didn’t approve of her coming on the show or didn’t want to appear on camera. It’s not exactly your typical “meet my new boyfriend” situation, and if her family is as obsessed with keeping up appearances as she implied on many occasions, I’m not surprised that they wanted nothing to do with the charade of a reality show.
And it is a charade. The challenges have way more to do with watching these women act silly on TV, than helping them change any of their issues. If I had trouble finding love this show would be the last option I would turn to. The vast majority of women are only on here for publicity.
By this point in the show I hate one person, but I’m actually rooting all of these women on.
I felt bad for Danielle. The vague answer is worse than a yes or no.