Previously, I wrote about reports that producers were looking to make a houseboy edition of the housewives franchise.

Now there’s word that Bravo is entertaining the idea of an all-male version of the Real Housewives of Atlanta.

Said to be entitled Boys Club: ATL, I imagine this show sassy men like Dwight Eubanks, Sherri Whitfield’s stylist and friend, Lawrence, and Kim Zolciak’s buddy, Ms. Stiletto Pumps In The Club himself, Derek J.

Say what you want about the “girls,” but they’re quite uhh…amusing? I can only imagine the type of drama this show could potentially bring.

But if you watched that reunion special and heard Dwight talk about a penile implant, it could be a bit too much all at once.

What say you? Is it time for an all male version of the housewives franchise, and if so, is it only right they kick it off in the ATL?

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Retired NFL player and Real Housewife of Atlanta cast member Sheree Whitfield’s ex-husband Bob Whitfiled was a guest on the Nigel and Marco Show recently and threw lots of shade at his ex-wife’s way.

He revealed that he pays his wife $113, 422 a year after their divorce.

Perhaps that’s made him a little bitter because he ranted:

“Quit trying to trash me and then use my damn last name. I’m feeling like I’m the mad scientist and I created Frankenstein. She didn’t have that nose; I put that nose on her! She didn’t have them breasts, I put them breasts on her. I put some electricity on that ass and now she’s sparked up and tearing up the got damn laboratory. What the f*ck. Sit down somewhere and calm it down. You forget who made you girl!”

On the success of her show he noted:

“You get 3 million views a week. We got that and we weren’t even winning games. Atlanta is a small country ass town. It ain’t that much Hollywood in Atlanta that you can do.”

He then mentioned that he’s tempted to leak a sex tape and nude pics of Sheree adding, “You see what it did for Kim Kardashian”

If you recall these two have children together.

In any event, tonight we’ll get our last glimpse of Sheree and the rest of the housewives on TV for a while as part two of the reunion special airs tonight.

Here’s a preview:

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Wherever there’s a “real housewife” (especially if it’s NeNe Leakes) drama is sure to ensue. In case you missed it, NeNe Leakes of the Real Housewives of Atlanta was a guest host on Insider yesterday and she faced off with Michael Lohan (Lindsay Lohan’s father). Watch as NeNe calls Lohan a “toxic parent,” and tells him to join Jon Gosselin so that they can be toxic parents together:

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That reminded me of a recent interview with Kandi that I watched on B. Scott’s website, where he asked her what she thought about NeNe. Kandi’s response was that she was “made for TV.” I totally get it. It’s not like Michael Lohan isn’t a douche bag but will NeNe ever get a point across without screaming? By the way, can someone please lock her and New York in a room together for hours and film it! Maybe the two of them could team up for a show to see who can out yell each other. Good grief!

Dear Insider,

Bring back Niecy Nash please. Thanks.

On a slightly random note: I think a reality show starring Jon Gosselin and Michael Lohan would be really amusing (sadly). You know the whole train wreck theory…

I’m not even going to lie, I’d watch it. (I probably shouldn’t have admitted that).

Real estate mogul Lee Neijar aka Big Poppa from the Real Housewives of Atlanta has put his mansion on the market for $25 million. The furtive millionaire is the alleged on-again off-again boyfriend of Atlanta Housewives star Kim Zolciak. According to Buckhead.net, the home was built as a summer cottage in 1914 and sold in 2004 for $2.74 million.
The nine-bedroom estate has a movie theater, music studio, beauty salon, game room, basketball court and several other amenities. It has been reported that portions of the film Zombieland were shot on-location at Najjar’s home. This would be the first home to sell in the Atlanta secondary market for more than $10 million.

His children were featured on MTV’s Teen Cribs earlier this year, where they showed off their extravagant abode.

If you’ve been following ROHA, then you know that despite still being legally married (at least while the show was taping), Kim Zolciak had been claiming the pair was engaged. In a recent interview with Usmagazine.com, she said they split on Oct 14, but was thereafter spotted wearing the ring again. (My head is spinning).

I wonder if he sold his home because he was getting too much unwanted publicity from the show (especially since he under-sold). What do you think?

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Here we go again. Tonight’s episode of Real Housewives of Atlanta is going to be rife with more drama (but I guess no one would watch if it were drama free). Kim and Nene will go at it again (surprise, surprise) but Kandi will be involved this time because the root of the issue is “Tardy For the Party.” If you’ve been keeping up this season, then you know that Kandi worked her magic on the awful original song and made it more tolerable (Auto-Tune and a dance track did the trick) but she enlisted Nene’s help on some vocals.

In tonight’s episode, Kim tells Nene that she wants to rerecord the song with just her vocals (God forbid) and Nene goes into a condescending, arrogant  tirade about how Kim can’t sell the song without her.

“You can’t sell the song without me because of who I am, my personality, everything,” says Nene. (Um, didn’t she just do some “oohs and ahs” and a quick “Don’t Be Tardy For the Party?”). I love how Nene pretends to be constructive when she says something snotty [insert sarcasm here]. Watch the clip:

That’s only a prelude. In the commercial, I saw Nene in Kandi’s face as well. I hope Kandi walks away. It’s like dealing with children. If you ignore their antics enough, then they’ll stop doing what they were doing and figure out a more constructive way to get your attention.

Geez, it’s the 8th grade all over again, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t going to watch.

Kandi seems like the sanest and most mature of the Atlanta Housewives (Lisa comes in a close second) but people are taken aback by the fact that her fiance, AJ, has six children with four different babymamas. No one is more vocal about disliking AJ than Kandi’s mother, who is so appalled that she refuses to participate in a photoshoot with him on the show. In that same episode, Kandi said that she couldn’t marry him if her mother didn’t make peace with the situation and it seems like mom may get her wish. Kandi told Essence yesterday, that she and AJ were taking a break, which is a nice way to say that they’ve broken up.

We’re on hiatus. He’s a great guy and he’s not the type to sit on his behind like a scrub, so it has nothing to do with that. Yes, he has a lot of children, and yes, I didn’t know about them all at first but I got over it because as long as you handle your responsibility and spend time with your children it’s not an issue for me. Another thing I want to set the record straight on is that AJ was married before. A lot of people make comments like, if he didn’t marry his other children’s mothers then why do you think he’s going to marry you.

Wow. After all that? I don’t blame Kandi’s mom because it sounds like there’s a lot going on with AJ. Any mom would be shaky about him, but Kandi is also right in that it’s her life and her call. She knows why she loves the man so let her be. Kandi sounds naive about the situation, but even if AJ isn’t right for her, sometimes people just need to learn for themselves (seeing red flags doesn’t have the same effect as being hit with them). However, at least Kandi is taking steps to sort herself out.

In the same interview, Kandi talked about having custody of AJ’s 12-year-old twin daughters so they’re clearly still friends. Interesting. I don’t really know what to say except for good luck.

On a side note, no one seems to know what AJ does. Kandi was asked in the same interview about his profession and her response was:

AJ over time has done a lot of things, including running this collection agency while we were together and he just recently bought into this strip club.

Hmm…sounds sketchy, like he’s either “hustle man” or he works with Tommy (Read: He ain’t got no job). That might be reason #3,563 why mom doesn’t like him. I’m just sayin.

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Like they say, “You can dress them up, but you still can’t take them anywhere.”

Ellen DeGeneres is by far one of the nicest people alive (or at least one of the few on television who still maintains authentic human traits), so you wouldn’t expect to see a bickering fest on her daytime talk show.

But, even Ellen couldn’t look away from The Real Housewives of Atlanta stars Sheree Whitfield and Kim Zolciak as they proceeded to chew each other out on live television.

By now you’re familiar with the gist of their argument: Sheree thinks Kim is a pathological liar while Kim concludes Sheree is nothing more than a check-bouncing bird.

Yet as old as their argument is, it’s still entertaining, no?

But to be fair to them all, Sheree did add something new to the story by accusing Kim of being a call girl. Being the peacemaker that she is, Ellen responded to that accusation by asking, “Who hasn’t been one at some point in their life?”

This is why I love Ellen.

I don’t know if Sheree is bouncing checks nor am I privy to knowledge as to whether or not Kim is a high-class hooker (although it would explain how she can afford a Bentley), but one thing is for sure: Bearing your breasts doesn’t make you Rosa Parks.

Did ya’ll catch Sheree going in on Kim by noting she’s classless for participating in the NOH8 campaign (a grassroots initiative that uses celebrity personalities to protest the passing of California’s Proposition 8 which banned gay marriage) with no bra?

Kim was quick to hit back with, “I feel so strongly about human rights, that’s why I didn’t wear a bra.”

I guess if we want health care reform we better stop wearing underwear.

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P.S. I’ve never seen NeNe Leakes so quiet. You know it’s bad when she looks embarrassed.

It looks like reality TV drama addicts can’t get enough of The Real Housewives of Atlanta. I don’t blame ‘em, though. Did you see last week’s episode? I’m still stuck on Sheree’s quote of the century, “Who gon’ check me, boo?” But anyway, according to TV news guru Cynthia Turner, the season two premiere attracted 2.66 million total viewers (primarily ages 18-49) for the first airing, while an additional 1.32 million viewers tuned in for the encore at 11pm.

The combination of viewers from both episodes totaled nearly 4 million viewers, making it the highest-rated Thursday primetime premiere in Bravo’s history, as well as topping the series premieres of other Real Housewives series in the network’s franchise.

I’m not surprised. Aside from the fact that the Atlanta housewives are novel because they’re Black (for the most part), they also bring more cattiness, more pretentiousness, more drama and that all translates to more entertainment. It’s the age-old trainwreck theory, or better—like watching the Flavor of Love girls but with money. Get your TiVo’s ready.

Check out the most stand out Black women on reality TV from 1992-2009. Whether you love them or hate them, they have memorable attributes (and moments) that still comes up at the water cooler, even years later.

10. Devyn (Real World Brooklyn)

Black women in Reality TV are often stereotyped as the b—h or ABW but Devyn is the complete opposite. The Missouri Beauty Queen is laid back, articulate and extremely personable. Her bubbly personality breaks barriers helping people to see her beyond the color of her skin.

9. Taj (Survivor Tocantins)

This former R&B diva may be struggling on Survivor but she gets props for allowing us into her real world via her other show, I Married a Baller. She’s a great mother and wife, and watching her family on TV is inspiration for Black family unity.

8. Heather B. (Real World, season one)

Heather B. was the around-the-way-girl from NYC who although strong minded, was never intimidating. She made friends easily and showed that you can speak your mind without being obnoxious.

7. Coral (Real World season 10)

Coral was abrasive but viewers were always ready for the next tongue lashing she dished out. The most memorable was when she schooled her sheltered, prejudice cast mate Mike for expressing ignorant views about Black people. She, of course, beat him down verbally but also literally schooled him by making him report back to her every week, with knowledge about iconic Black History figures.

6. Tanisha (Bad Girls Club, season two)

When season two of Bad Girls Club first started, viewers wrote Tanisha off as the typical hood chick from Brooklyn who was loud and ghetto. She took the cake when she traipsed around her house banging pots and pans together in an attempt to disturb roommates in retaliation for them waking her up with loud talking. However, by the end of the season, she was falsely accused of participating in a fight and sent to jail (and racism), but she learned from the experience and decided to calm down her raucous behavior.

5. Vecepia Towery (Survivor: Marquesas)

She was the first African-American winner of Survivor. You’ve gotta be pretty tough to “survive” that show, and she did.

4. Sister Patterson (Flavor of Love, I Love New York and New York Goes to Hollywood)

We met Sister Patterson on season one of Flavor of Love. She was extremely belligerent and declared all out war against Flavor Flav. She was determined to keep her daughter New York née Tiffany, from being with him and fussed her way all the way to season two, when her daughter was invited back to try again for Flav’s heart. The second time wasn’t a charm for her daughter, but Sister Patterson made sure she had a say in her daughter’s life when New York got two spin off shows.

3. Omarosa (The Apprentice)

Love her or hate her, she demands respect. And if she feels that she is getting anything less, heads will roll.

2. NeNe (Real Housewives of Atlanta)

NeNe was the break out star from Bravo’s the Real Housewives of Atlanta. We loved her because she was sassy and fearless. She took a bad situation ie, being physically abused in a previous marriage, and turned her life around. Her over-the-top glam and signature sound affects (”BAM!”) are what endeared her to fans the most. She was such a standout personality that she could probably carry her own show. I wouldn’t be surprised if that was in the works.

1. New York (Flavor of Love, I Love New York and New York Goes to Hollywood)

Tiffany Pollard aka New York has done what no woman on reality TV has ever done. She worked her personality (whether you like it our not) to scoring not one, but two spin off shows. After Flavor Flav broke her heart twice, producers gave her a chance to find love on her own terms. After season two of I Love New York ended, we thought Tiffany had found love in Tailor Made, and watched her move on to Hollywood. On New York Goes to Hollywood, she persued her dreams of acting and broke up with Tailor Made in the process. Producers still couldn’t get enough and offered her I Love New York season three. New York declined but some how, I don’t think we’ve seen the last of her on reality tube.