Real Housewives of Orange County Florida Trip: Simon’s Feud with Vicki

Update: Preview video clips of the Housewives Trip to Florida, Why Vicki Probably is Rethinking Why She Should Have Invited Donn….

The girls go on a Florida “safari”. Note: Lynne took this trip shortly after her plastic surgery, and, against the advice of her surgeon, Dr. Ambe.

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So far this season of Real Housewives of Orange County Simon Barney and Jim Bellino have been painted as “controlling” husbands while Simon has been portrayed as perpetually “angry” at his wife Tamra. Meanwhile, Vicki Gunvalson and hubbie Donn have been shown as having a much better “relationship” than the prior two seasons.

In the last episode of Real Housewives of Orange County Vicki and Donn had dinner where they discussed Donn’s golf outing with Simon and Jim. In their discussion, Donn related to Vicki that both Simon and Jim weren’t too happy with Vicki’s “girl’s only” invitation to a trip to Florida. Both Vicki and Donn talked about how their relationship was more “open” in that the two often took trips separately and that it was an arrangement the two were comfortable with.

Donn “Not Invited” Gunvalson

Despite their dinner conversation, Simon Barney posted a bit more details about the golf outing, Donn, Vicki, and the Florida trip. Simon also included some rather juicy details about last season’s episode of the Real Housewives “all girls” trip to Vegas including a rather tantalizing bit about Vicki and why Simon has changed his mind about Tamra taking trips with “immoral” Housewives.

Excerpt from Simon’s Blog:

Golf! What can I say? Golfing is a very difficult sport. But in front of a camera, impossible. My hat goes off to the PGA players with all the cameras and spectators. We had a blast and laughed all day. The day soon slipped into a conversation about an upcoming Florida trip. Donn was very vocal about not being invited. He was right, Vicki did not invite him. I guess he forgot about the cell phone conversation I had with him from La Perla a week before. I called him from there to see why he didn’t show to the lingerie show. I then told him about all of us going to Florida and said he better be coming. Vicki happened to be next to me and sounded in, “He’s not invited.” Back at the golf course, you can see I was defending Donn at the club house. Not once did I say their relationship wasn’t normal. Donn and I have had many conversations about this exact thing over the years. I know how he really feels.

Simon wrote about how he had gotten quite a few phone calls and emails from friends about his “controlling” behavior towards Tamra on Real Housewives which Simon claims stemmed from the “storyteller”-Bravo’s editors. Simon also wrote about the previous trip “all-girls” trip to Vegas and why he felt this season he needed to protect both his family and “himself”:

My wife going on a girls trip with the housewives? Hmmm? Last year the girls all went to Las Vegas, and the year before San Diego. Sadly, in Vegas Vicki ended up in a very compromising position with some guy she met while out in a night club. Fortunately Donn an Vicki prevailed and are still together. But I can’t afford to have something like that to happen to me and my family. I have three innocent children to think about. So this year I am protective. And if you want to call it controlling, so be it.

I took a look at Tamra’s blog to see what she had posted about the Vegas trip. There was no mention of Vicki ending up in a “very compromising position with some guy”.

Simon got in another “dig” at Vicki and “marital values”, including Vicki’s trip to Chicago and her infamous flirting at a bar where she got a little “too close” to a male friend:

I would have no problem if my wife was going out of the town with a group of girls with good martial values (excluding Lynne and Alexis) and without the staff egging them on to misbehave. Vicki and Donn vacation alone all the time. That seems to work for them. Through the years we have had many married friends that take separate girls or guys trips apart. To tell the truth, most of them committed adultery and are divorced now. I would be devastated if my wife was away on camera and in a bar somewhere telling some man, “My girls want to come out and play.”

Vicki was shown last season in a bar in Chicago telling a male friend the “my girls” quote.

Simon went on to relate how Vicki, in the past, had told Tamra how to “act” and “treat” Simon. According to Simon, this year, Vicki had “stepped it up little”, and had begun to tell Simon “how he should be in his marriage and with his wife” and that, for now, Simon has “80K reasons” why he doesn’t have Vicki’s relationship. (Ouch!)

This year, Vicki has stepped it up a little. She is now telling me how I should be in my marriage and with my wife. That’s where I draw the line. Her and Donn have their own unique relationship and it works for them. I don’t want Donn’s life or marriage. Maybe when Tamra and I get to their age and our kids are out of the house we might do the same. For now, there are 80k reasons why I don’t have Vicki’s relationship.

Simon also weighed in on Gretchen and Tamra’s lunch which Simon felt was “overplayed” and “old”. Simon claimed Gretchen has “selective amnesia” in that both Simon and Tamra spotted Gretchen with Jay-the man whom Gretchen claims wasn’t her boyfriend during the time her now deceased fiance had terminal cancer.

She forgets her first season before filming we saw her at a party with Jay. At the time she had told us she was engaged to Jeff. When they did not think we could see them, we saw them in appropriate interactions (kissing and holding hands.) I asked Tamra at the time, “Who is that, where’s Jeff.

And,

The other thing she has forgotten is the two hour phone call Tamra and I had with her and Jay after Jeff had died. Jay was living at Gretchen’s house and talking to us together on speaker phone. We all actually had a good conversation, and ended it on a good note. Gretchen admitted to her relationship with Jay and was not going to hide it anymore. In fact we were all talking about going out to dinner soon after this call. Then a short time later, Slade entered the pictures and Gretchen went back to her story and old ways. It’s too bad; I liked the Gretchen I spoke with on the phone that day.

Simon added this observation about Gretchen:

A final observation about Gretchen. I notice when she lies she has this certain look on her face. Her mouth gets small and pulls down on her cheeks. The same look she had when she was on the reunion show last year. Hmmm?

Simon wrote about Tamra’s recent lie detector test challenge to Gretchen:

My wife recently challenged Gretchen to take a lie detector test – I think that was a great idea. That way we could settle ‘miscommunication’ once and for all and see who is telling the truth. And finally move on. Are you up for it Gretchen?

In Simon’s first ever post A Lighter Side, Simon wrote about the “trend” he was seeing regarding Vicki, of Vicki attacking both Tamra and Simon for “supposedly sitting at home, doing nothing”:

Vicki seems like she is going after me this season in the first two episodes. I see a trend here. Attacking Tamra and me for supposedly sitting at home, doing nothing. Vicki knows I have another company besides the Tequila business, and a full-time job. I don’t have time to sit around. I kept my work away from the cameras because of past issues.

Simon also wanted to clarify the issue of him supposedly being “upset” whenever Tamra went out of town and Simon the “control freak”:

I also want to clarify that I’m not upset when Tamra leaves town, however I do miss her when she gone and can’t sleep very well. Is it just me, or is this season shaping up as “Simon the Terrible Control Freak Strikes the OC?” Yes, that’s me. I control every move my wife makes, including all of the embarrassing moments from past seasons. All my idea. All those things she said about our private sex life. Mine too. I love to personally humiliate myself. It’s the masochism in me. Do the math people! I love my wife and kids, and do the best I can to protect them. If that’s a crime, then I’m guilty.

Personally, I think it’s great Simon takes the time to contribute to the blog and give insight to his side the “story”. Simon’s admission that “sadly, in Vegas Vicki ended up in a very compromising position with some guy she met while out in a night club”, was a real eye-opener in more ways than one. Last season’s episode about the Las Vegas trip didn’t include footage of Vicki in a compromising position while all of the Housewives, including Tamra, stayed mum for the entire season, including the new episodes this season. During last season’s reunion, both Tamra and Vicki played the “outraged” dowagers of Orange County in regards to Gretchen’s behavior. Now we find married Vicki “misbehaved” while “Best Friend” Tamra opted to keep Vicki’s behavior under wraps while Tamra continued to castigate Gretchen for what Tamra believed was “inappropriate” behavior.

If Simon’s allegation is true, this paints Vicki in an entirely different light, of a thoroughly hypocritical and pretentious woman whose pious judgments of Gretchen now seem rather outrageous given Vicki’s own alleged behavior.

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