November 16, 2022 • 9 mins
What is the Mount Rushmore of Real Housewives? Bethenny reveals her first selection…
This housewife went from bad blood and shade thrown, to one of Bethenny’s 'best of the best'?!
Just wait until you hear the reasons why!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, So Paul asked me who my Mount Brushmore of
Housewives has been? So years ago, I used to say
to Andy Cohen, You've got to do an All Star Housewives.
You gotta do and he used to say, we're not
(00:21):
even close to there yet, but one day we will be.
And fast forward to these Ultimate Girls trips. So I
used to always just fantasize and think about who would
be on the All Star couch, who would be on
these all star episodes like these mashups. And Paul once
said to me, who is your amount Rushmore of Housewives? Um?
(00:42):
And I said it, and Michael Rappaport repurposed it. A
Ka stole it on Wendy Williams when I was a
guest and said to me, Who's your amount Rushmore? But
there was Paul's original material. And I know my Mount
Rushmore of Housewives by heart. For different reasons. Today, I'm
going to break down Teresa gu Dice. I always thought
(01:04):
it was jud j because of Italian I heard that somewhere.
I think I might be wrong, But why Teresa gu
Dice from New Jersey is on my Mount Rushmore. So
I've met Tersa a couple of times we've messaged on Instagram.
We don't really know each other. But years ago, Bravo
used to make us blog torture. The episode used to
(01:25):
come out, and as part of your job, you used
to have to blog, so Bravo TV dot com could
put the blog up. So you would do your immediate
and cram blogs of your episode just to get it up,
and you would then rehash and be saying stuff about
the people on your show, and you just did it
on TV, and then it would be like another rehash,
(01:46):
and on the reunions and in the press and everywhere,
they would of course pick up anything you blogged about
and that would become more fodder. And this is before
we were savvy, this is before Twitter and Instagram. And
so you were just writing a nice, little cute little
blog on the episod so that aired the night before,
and saying what you thought, you know, well, I thought
it was really rude of Luanne to do that, or
Son you have to do that, or Bethany to do that,
(02:07):
and you'd say it and it would be another rehash,
and it got to the point where I just refused
to bog. When I came back for part two of Bethany.
Seasons later, when I came back to the Housewives, I
was like, I'm not fucking blogging. I hated it because
I hated that it was more meat off of our bones.
We already where goddamn bones in in water, making stock
out of us because so much meat comes out in
the episodes, and then in the press we do and
(02:30):
everything is clickbait, and then now we were blogging for
more meat. You're just devouring us. So back in the
days of blogging, I don't know why, but I was
blogging other ones too, and they must have asked me
to do that. I don't think. I just thought my
ohlmost like, let's fucking go block, go fucking start fires
in other cities. But I remember blogging about Atlanta and
(02:50):
blogging about Jersey and talking about that also in the press.
And I guess if social media was around by then,
I don't think so. Or no, maybe Twitter was U
side note. I was the first housewife to be on Twitter. Um,
so I was talking. I would say things about Theresa
or whatever I thought about spending money in cash or
whatever they were saying, or however they were saying. It
believed me. We were so politically incorrect and would say
(03:13):
things wrong. And we were blogging, and so Theresa and
I were doing sort of blog battles, I think, back
and forth, not like not really, but I said things
about her. I didn't know her. She was a human
being that lived in the state next to mine, and
I just was saying whatever the hell I thought about
her episodes. I was like fucking starting fires for no reason.
And then it would be semi awkward when I would
(03:34):
see her at like a Bravo that's the thing Bravo
Bravo wants to sort of cross promote, and a Bravo
con and these like other things. And then you see
these people that you've been asked about on Watch What
Happens Live? Like I think Andy said one time asked
Theresa question about who she liked the least or who's
something some some ship stirring thing that they do on
(03:56):
Watch What Happens Live, And Theresa said me, And then
she said, but she's a good mother here, which was
really nice of her to say. But like they're always
getting you to fire random shots then putting you next
to these people, so you're like, who do you think
is the worst dress housewife? And then I'm like Mickey Mouse,
and then I gotta be with Mickey Mouse at a
Bravo event because that's what they do. So anyway, back
in the day, there were there was a sort of
(04:17):
like slight sparring and then I'd see Teresa, but I
kind of always liked her from afar She's a good housewife.
There was sparring back and because I launched Skinny Girl Margharita,
I was the first. I wrote the first ever book
of any housewife, that's a fact. It was naturally thin
and it was a New York Times bestseller for five
months straight when I really wasn't very known. So I
(04:37):
was the first to write a book. I was the
first to hit the New York Times bestseller list. I
was the first and only successful cocktail really by macro
Real liquor industry standards, which was the Skinny Girl Margarita.
And then Teresa came out with Skinny Italian, a book,
a cookbook that was a New York Times bestseller, and
(04:58):
that was you know, a lot of people are annoyed
by that and brought that up because they thought that
it was sort of like a cheater brand and it
was Skinny Girl and I was the that it was
the low calorie chef, and then she did Skinny Italian
which was a low calorie cookbook, but that was like
a big thing. And then she launched was It a Fabolini?
Was at her with the fab some cocktail that never happened,
(05:19):
So that was also like, you know, after me. But
she was the first one to do what I did
successfully after me, So she was the second in that way,
but they were the second show on, and I was
the first housewife to monetize it for business. I was
just the first one to do that. That wasn't done.
That's done by everyone now ad nauseum. And that's literally
because of me, um, literally because of me, and people
(05:41):
that are at a different level than when I was
on would come onto Housewives and join Housewives because they
want to do what I've done. You can hate me
or love me for saying that. It's an absolute fact.
It's not my opinion, it's a fact. So Teresa's on
my now rushmore because she deserves to be there. She's
been there since day one, and she has been knocked
(06:03):
down and picked up. She has been through a marriage
and another marriage. She remains true to who she was
in the beginning, you know, minus paying cash for furniture
or Nate Italian Jersey furniture, minus paying for it in cash.
She still seems to be the same, Like, like I said,
when she got married, she has that seven layer cake
(06:25):
frosting hair at her wedding and you know, over the
top everything, which is great. Like she's not in France
shopping for handbated French gowns pretending she's you know, like
Victoria Beckham who you can't even see the spice girl inside.
Like she's still Teresa Giu Dice from Jersey. She's just
more more successful. She's been around for longer, and she
(06:48):
will say anything. She She's not one of these housewives that,
after all these years of watching it and watching herself
and knowing how the game is played, is playing under
the radar, flying under the radar and not trying to
get dirty like a lot of other housewives. Other housewives
that are super successful in other franchises don't like to
get that dirty. They'll get a little dirty, but they
won't really get dirty. Teresa will go into the mud
(07:09):
pit with under, with her head under. She will go
and mud wrestle and hold her breath underneath in the mud.
You know, after all these years, she still brings it.
She's not afraid to bring its' not afraid to tell
something to go funk themselves. Okay, And by the way,
Teresa was the first. I was the first of many.
Theresa was the first to give that audience something so
(07:30):
garganteo and I I responded to someone saying, you're up here,
I'm down there. That was my big moment on Housewives.
Theresa flipped the mother fucking table so she gets her
first to her The first explosive moment ever in the
entire Housewives franchise, like big, dramatic water cooler, crazy, over
the top, like we've ripped moment was Teresa flipping a table. Okay,
(07:56):
I can say, yes, I handled you. I'm up here
and you're down here, and I had No one will
ever top me in the war of the words and
the cunning and the cut and the response in real time.
No one will cut, will ever touch me in an
interview except for maybe leany you know, or Lisa's pretty good,
but like I probably am the queen of the interviews.
But no one will ever touch Teresa. And being the
(08:17):
first and flipping a table. Later, legs would be thrown,
and weaves would be ripped, and and other things that
then intentionally seem like they're being done for the camera,
which I'm sure just dad, the calendar is gonna make
you do more than you normally would for all of us.
There's a little of that in that table flip. But
that's Teresa went to fucking jail, first house, I have
(08:40):
to serve time, husband, went to jail, raised those kids, motherhood,
first ride or die, pulled herself up from the ashes
to be the successful woman that she is. And she
does it. She goes and does those appearances and gets
that money, and she admits it, and she promotes that
hair stuff and the nail stuff and the quick train
stuff and the tea and whatever the hell she's making
(09:02):
coin on. And I respect that because she's like, I'm
here to work. She is a worker, That's what she is.
So unequivocally, undeniably my first Mount Rushmore housewife. And who
will go and who could literally be buried on that
rock and can have Mount Rushmore on her tombstone because
I will engrave it myself, is Teresa. Theresa motherfucking gu d.
(09:25):
I'm calling her gu d j. I'm just doing it.
It sounds more Italian and for the send, for the
sake of what I'm doing. Teresa, motherfucking gu d j
gu dice number one Mount Rushmore Jersey housewife and Teresa
my first Mount Rushmore housewife. You will see in the
next episode of Rewives.
Yeah, So Paul asked me who my Mount Brushmore of
Housewives has been? So years ago, I used to say
to Andy Cohen, You've got to do an All Star Housewives.
You gotta do and he used to say, we're not
(00:21):
even close to there yet, but one day we will be.
And fast forward to these Ultimate Girls trips. So I
used to always just fantasize and think about who would
be on the All Star couch, who would be on
these all star episodes like these mashups. And Paul once
said to me, who is your amount Rushmore of Housewives? Um?
(00:42):
And I said it, and Michael Rappaport repurposed it. A
Ka stole it on Wendy Williams when I was a
guest and said to me, Who's your amount Rushmore? But
there was Paul's original material. And I know my Mount
Rushmore of Housewives by heart. For different reasons. Today, I'm
going to break down Teresa gu Dice. I always thought
(01:04):
it was jud j because of Italian I heard that somewhere.
I think I might be wrong, But why Teresa gu
Dice from New Jersey is on my Mount Rushmore. So
I've met Tersa a couple of times we've messaged on Instagram.
We don't really know each other. But years ago, Bravo
used to make us blog torture. The episode used to
(01:25):
come out, and as part of your job, you used
to have to blog, so Bravo TV dot com could
put the blog up. So you would do your immediate
and cram blogs of your episode just to get it up,
and you would then rehash and be saying stuff about
the people on your show, and you just did it
on TV, and then it would be like another rehash,
(01:46):
and on the reunions and in the press and everywhere,
they would of course pick up anything you blogged about
and that would become more fodder. And this is before
we were savvy, this is before Twitter and Instagram. And
so you were just writing a nice, little cute little
blog on the episod so that aired the night before,
and saying what you thought, you know, well, I thought
it was really rude of Luanne to do that, or
Son you have to do that, or Bethany to do that,
(02:07):
and you'd say it and it would be another rehash,
and it got to the point where I just refused
to bog. When I came back for part two of Bethany.
Seasons later, when I came back to the Housewives, I
was like, I'm not fucking blogging. I hated it because
I hated that it was more meat off of our bones.
We already where goddamn bones in in water, making stock
out of us because so much meat comes out in
the episodes, and then in the press we do and
(02:30):
everything is clickbait, and then now we were blogging for
more meat. You're just devouring us. So back in the
days of blogging, I don't know why, but I was
blogging other ones too, and they must have asked me
to do that. I don't think. I just thought my
ohlmost like, let's fucking go block, go fucking start fires
in other cities. But I remember blogging about Atlanta and
(02:50):
blogging about Jersey and talking about that also in the press.
And I guess if social media was around by then,
I don't think so. Or no, maybe Twitter was U
side note. I was the first housewife to be on Twitter. Um,
so I was talking. I would say things about Theresa
or whatever I thought about spending money in cash or
whatever they were saying, or however they were saying. It
believed me. We were so politically incorrect and would say
(03:13):
things wrong. And we were blogging, and so Theresa and
I were doing sort of blog battles, I think, back
and forth, not like not really, but I said things
about her. I didn't know her. She was a human
being that lived in the state next to mine, and
I just was saying whatever the hell I thought about
her episodes. I was like fucking starting fires for no reason.
And then it would be semi awkward when I would
(03:34):
see her at like a Bravo that's the thing Bravo
Bravo wants to sort of cross promote, and a Bravo
con and these like other things. And then you see
these people that you've been asked about on Watch What
Happens Live? Like I think Andy said one time asked
Theresa question about who she liked the least or who's
something some some ship stirring thing that they do on
(03:56):
Watch What Happens Live, And Theresa said me, And then
she said, but she's a good mother here, which was
really nice of her to say. But like they're always
getting you to fire random shots then putting you next
to these people, so you're like, who do you think
is the worst dress housewife? And then I'm like Mickey Mouse,
and then I gotta be with Mickey Mouse at a
Bravo event because that's what they do. So anyway, back
in the day, there were there was a sort of
(04:17):
like slight sparring and then I'd see Teresa, but I
kind of always liked her from afar She's a good housewife.
There was sparring back and because I launched Skinny Girl Margharita,
I was the first. I wrote the first ever book
of any housewife, that's a fact. It was naturally thin
and it was a New York Times bestseller for five
months straight when I really wasn't very known. So I
(04:37):
was the first to write a book. I was the
first to hit the New York Times bestseller list. I
was the first and only successful cocktail really by macro
Real liquor industry standards, which was the Skinny Girl Margarita.
And then Teresa came out with Skinny Italian, a book,
a cookbook that was a New York Times bestseller, and
(04:58):
that was you know, a lot of people are annoyed
by that and brought that up because they thought that
it was sort of like a cheater brand and it
was Skinny Girl and I was the that it was
the low calorie chef, and then she did Skinny Italian
which was a low calorie cookbook, but that was like
a big thing. And then she launched was It a Fabolini?
Was at her with the fab some cocktail that never happened,
(05:19):
So that was also like, you know, after me. But
she was the first one to do what I did
successfully after me, So she was the second in that way,
but they were the second show on, and I was
the first housewife to monetize it for business. I was
just the first one to do that. That wasn't done.
That's done by everyone now ad nauseum. And that's literally
because of me, um, literally because of me, and people
(05:41):
that are at a different level than when I was
on would come onto Housewives and join Housewives because they
want to do what I've done. You can hate me
or love me for saying that. It's an absolute fact.
It's not my opinion, it's a fact. So Teresa's on
my now rushmore because she deserves to be there. She's
been there since day one, and she has been knocked
(06:03):
down and picked up. She has been through a marriage
and another marriage. She remains true to who she was
in the beginning, you know, minus paying cash for furniture
or Nate Italian Jersey furniture, minus paying for it in cash.
She still seems to be the same, Like, like I said,
when she got married, she has that seven layer cake
(06:25):
frosting hair at her wedding and you know, over the
top everything, which is great. Like she's not in France
shopping for handbated French gowns pretending she's you know, like
Victoria Beckham who you can't even see the spice girl inside.
Like she's still Teresa Giu Dice from Jersey. She's just
more more successful. She's been around for longer, and she
(06:48):
will say anything. She She's not one of these housewives that,
after all these years of watching it and watching herself
and knowing how the game is played, is playing under
the radar, flying under the radar and not trying to
get dirty like a lot of other housewives. Other housewives
that are super successful in other franchises don't like to
get that dirty. They'll get a little dirty, but they
won't really get dirty. Teresa will go into the mud
(07:09):
pit with under, with her head under. She will go
and mud wrestle and hold her breath underneath in the mud.
You know, after all these years, she still brings it.
She's not afraid to bring its' not afraid to tell
something to go funk themselves. Okay, And by the way,
Teresa was the first. I was the first of many.
Theresa was the first to give that audience something so
(07:30):
garganteo and I I responded to someone saying, you're up here,
I'm down there. That was my big moment on Housewives.
Theresa flipped the mother fucking table so she gets her
first to her The first explosive moment ever in the
entire Housewives franchise, like big, dramatic water cooler, crazy, over
the top, like we've ripped moment was Teresa flipping a table. Okay,
(07:56):
I can say, yes, I handled you. I'm up here
and you're down here, and I had No one will
ever top me in the war of the words and
the cunning and the cut and the response in real time.
No one will cut, will ever touch me in an
interview except for maybe leany you know, or Lisa's pretty good,
but like I probably am the queen of the interviews.
But no one will ever touch Teresa. And being the
(08:17):
first and flipping a table. Later, legs would be thrown,
and weaves would be ripped, and and other things that
then intentionally seem like they're being done for the camera,
which I'm sure just dad, the calendar is gonna make
you do more than you normally would for all of us.
There's a little of that in that table flip. But
that's Teresa went to fucking jail, first house, I have
(08:40):
to serve time, husband, went to jail, raised those kids, motherhood,
first ride or die, pulled herself up from the ashes
to be the successful woman that she is. And she
does it. She goes and does those appearances and gets
that money, and she admits it, and she promotes that
hair stuff and the nail stuff and the quick train
stuff and the tea and whatever the hell she's making
(09:02):
coin on. And I respect that because she's like, I'm
here to work. She is a worker, That's what she is.
So unequivocally, undeniably my first Mount Rushmore housewife. And who
will go and who could literally be buried on that
rock and can have Mount Rushmore on her tombstone because
I will engrave it myself, is Teresa. Theresa motherfucking gu d.
(09:25):
I'm calling her gu d j. I'm just doing it.
It sounds more Italian and for the send, for the
sake of what I'm doing. Teresa, motherfucking gu d j
gu dice number one Mount Rushmore Jersey housewife and Teresa
my first Mount Rushmore housewife. You will see in the
next episode of Rewives.
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