Mention It All - Mauricio’s Ballroom Fling (Winter House Premiere)

Episode Date: October 25, 2023

Dylan is back for another episode of Bravo news and recapping, starting with the “meh” news that Lauren Manzo is getting divorced. After that, he digs into Mauricio’s latest rumored romance with a DWTS pro. Later, he recaps the premiere of Winter House, with a deeper look at who in this cast has game, and who’s just cringe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey everyone Welcome back to the Mention at All podcast I'm Dylan Hafer And it is Wednesday And we have A Winterhouse Season premiere to talk about

This season It's already Just making me feel A little bit weird We have no new episode of Real Housewives of Salt Lake City this week, which I would tend to be sad about except for the fact that we have Winter House and there's news happening. So maybe taking a week off is just the right thing, even though I'm sad that I don't have new Mary Cosby looking miserable images to get me through the day. But on the news front, a couple little interesting marital developments, you might say, First of all, Lauren Manzo's husband, Vito Scalia, has reportedly filed for divorce after eight years of marriage.

This is according to documents obtained by the Sun on Monday of this week that say that Vito 37 filed for divorce from Lauren, 35 on September 5th, citing irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split. So these two have been kind of on a low simmer of the brinkerv. breakup rumors for a while. It's one of those things where I think, you know, like the eagle-eyed fans or whatever have kind of known for a while. But there was never really any news about it. And quite frankly, I don't know how much people care. I saw a couple posts about this that were like, oh my God, this is shocking and love is dead and whatever. And I'm like, respectfully. I think we need to have a talk about where we set the bar for love being dead. As much as I want happiness for

Lauren Manzo and, you know, all the beautiful Manzo babies, I don't care about the wedded bliss of Lauren Manzo and Vito Scalia. They have not been on TV for years. Caroline Manzo did one season of ultimate girls trip that we may never see. I never, you know, married to man, man's owed with chilt, whatever. It just is not something that is super high on my priority list. So, you know, is it interesting to find out that they're maybe getting divorced? Sure. But I don't think it's that interesting because if he filed for divorce on September 5th,

and it's just being reported on October 23rd. These are public records. If somebody we actually care about files for divorce, TMZ has that in seconds. They're waiting outside the courthouse. They're combing through the legal filing. If it's taking you six weeks to realize that somebody filed for divorce, it kind of tells you everything you need to know. But meanwhile, on the other side of the country, the more, the more, the more important. interesting housewives relationship news is whatever the fuck is going on with Kyle and Maricio.

So this week on Dancing with the Stars, you know, Maricio is, you know, still working hard. The theme this week was your most important year or something. I didn't watch the episode, but it was like, you know, a dance themed, like Ariana did, like, Thanks for all the people that supported me. Whatever. Like, okay, great. So Kyle posted, Kyle posted the other day telling everyone,

you know, Dancing with Stars, premieres, how to vote. You can vote up to 20 times. She tagged Maricio's partner, Emma. So this was a post from last month, I guess. But she deleted it this week. She went back and deleted the post.

And this is so juicy. Because Maricio was spotted getting flirty on a three-hour sushi date on Sunday night with Emma Slater, his partner. There are some, some grainy-ass photos of them together. It seems as if something is afoot. And oh my God,

if Maricio is fucking his dancing with the star's partner, that is what I live for. That is what we should all be living for. They're not together. They're not, you know, Kyle and Maricio, there are no rules that we know of. He can do whatever he wants. And there is something about a Dancing with the Stars couple relationship that is just delicious. Emma Slater is, I really like her.

She's a really good pro on Dancing with the Stars. And I think who is she paired with last season? This is where I'm, you know, like, Googling on Dancing with the Stars in real time. So she was paired last season with Trevor Donovan, who is this guy who, if you haven't watched Dancing with the Stars, you have no reason to know who he was. But he was on the CW reboot of 90210 and like allegedly some other stuff. So he was one of the more random contestants on last season of Dancing with the Stars. But there were big rumors that he and Emma had a little flur. They seemed to have a lot of chemistry during the season.

And this is the thing that happens with Dancing with the Stars every season. But people were really like shipping them together. People wanted them to be a thing. And she also famously was with Sasha Farber, another one of the Dancing with the Stars pros. They were married from 2018 and then separated last year. So she is no stranger to having a little, you know, chemistry in the ball. ballroom. And if she is getting with Maricio, I am fascinated by that. I need to know more.

She's also only 32. No, she's 34. Sorry, Maurice, don't sue me. Maricio has got to be what, push in 60? Do we know how old Maricio is? Maricio Omanski. Now I'm Googling again. Wow. I, it's 53. Okay. I would have guessed Maricio was older than 53. He's been on TV for a long time. I don't know. Anyway, I digress. I don't have any big details about Maricio and Emma either being together or not being together.

But I do know that a Dancing with the Stars romance is something that's very exciting to me. So I hope that they're both having a good time. I hope that this partnership is as fruitful as they want it to be. and you know, I'm, I'm down for whatever this is turning out to be. Maricio also, credit where credit is due, he's doing a pretty good job on dancing with the stars. I was expecting him to go home like episode one, episode two. This week, Mira Soravino went home. You know, he made it past Jamie Lynn Spears, Tyson Beckford.

and Maricio, he's, he's hanging in there. He wasn't in the bottom two this week. You know, he got a 24 out of 30, which, you know, it's middle of the road. It's not the very bottom. You know, Harry Jousie only got an 18. But, you know, Maricio, he's coming for the mirror ball trophy. No, but I should start watching Dancing with the Stars because our, our Bravo Pals are doing a good job.

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That's why you rack. But anyway, let's talk about Winterhouse. I can't pretend to be more interested in dancing with the stars than I actually am. This season of Winterhouse, they really have shaken things up in a way that I respect and appreciate, but I don't know if I like it yet. There's a lot of, there's just a lot of unclear energy and goals within this cast. because the first couple seasons of Winter House, it really always felt like the point of it was to be a mashup of Southern Charm and Summer House with some fun, you know, new additions. They always, they tried it.

They did their best. But this season, they have moved us from Vermont to Colorado. We're in Steamboat Springs in a house, which might I say is a major upgrade from wherever they were in. Vermont. But there is no Southern Charm representation in the cast now. Instead, they have taken a sort of Summerhouse Foundation. They've added a bit of family karma, a bit of Summerhouse Martha's Vineyard, a bit of Vanderpump rules. We'll talk about it. Quite a bit of below-deck representation. There's still one newbie who we've never met before because, you know, I guess there has to be. there's just, there's a lot of, a lot of randos.

And I don't mean that in a derogatory way. I don't know if rando can be construed as a rude term, but just these cars, the first day when everybody's on their way to arrive, we have Kyle Cook driving one car with Corey. Amanda's coming a few days late, we find out. And then the other car that we cut to right away is, Malia and Katie from below-deck med. Malia at least was on a few seasons of below-deck. Katie was on one below-deck-med season like three years ago.

I'm sorry, I don't know this woman. Her biggest contribution to the below-deck canon is kind of looking like Kira Knightley. And so when someone like this is being positioned as a main cast member on this show where I'm supposed to care about people's lives and relationships. And I don't know how strong the foundation is there. Not to be rude to Katie. Then the next car, we have Danielle with her friend Casey, who we know nothing about. She does yoga, apparently.

She's blonde. Good for her. I am glad Danielle's back. Like, I feel like Danielle sometimes has kind of fallen to the back in the summer. Summer House pile where it's like, okay, like Lindsay and Carl and Kyle and Amanda, and then Danielle's also there. Or, you know, Danielle is busy with her full-time job, so she's not always, you know, fully in the picture. Danielle, I think, is a great group member for something like this. So I'm glad we have Danielle. Casey, I just, I don't know anything about. And then we have Jordan from Summerhouse, Martha's

Vineyard, who I really like. I think she is, I think she's the perfect addition to a show like this. What I have more questions about is Brian and Alex. So Brian from Family Karma, of course, I like Brian a lot. I've met him. I've met his parents. Great guy. Great guy. And then Alex from below deck sailing yacht.

To me, the amount of Alex that was in this premiere episode was just out of alignment with the amount that I can pretend to give a shit about this man. this weird, off-putting, kind of socially uncomfortable man, he tells us that he was homeschooled, which makes a whole lot of sense. But then he also says that he was voted most flirtatious in high school. And I'm like, in high school as in your parents living room, you were voted most flirtatious? Like, what is the truth? Do they do senior superlatives at like the homeschool co-op?

If they do, I don't think that most flirtatious would be one of the categories. I think it would be like most religious, most best at serving the Lord. I don't know. I just, I don't know what his deal is. At the first dinner, he makes a toast. I literally want to crawl into a hole. His toast that he makes, two rattlesnakes and condoms, two things I don't fuck with. Can we, like, what are you doing here?

All the women in the house are like, uh, okay. And then he immediately thinks that both Danielle and Jordan are going to be like eagerly waiting for their moment that he shoots his shot with them. Does he live on planet Earth? Like, what is he think is going on? I will say, I mean, Danielle says she's interested in him, but that's before he makes that toast. Jordan is single. She wants to have fun. But they get to the hot tub.

And this is, it's like one of the most uncomfortable moments I've experienced watching a Bravo show. Seeing just the two of them in that hot tub, the second it was just the two of them, I'm like, this isn't going to end well. Because there's 10 people in this house and it's the first night. And nobody else is in the mood to go in the jacuzzi. Like, I feel like that's either a group experience or it shouldn't be happening. And I don't know even how they ended up in there. But Jordan's just minding her own business.

And he's like, so it's just the two of us. She's like, mm-hmm. What is, okay. He's like, so, uh, ha, ha. And watching him slowly creep his way across the hot tub. And then it's like the slowest, most like robotic motion as he leans in to try and kiss Jordan. And then she just turns her head to the side. And they are stuck in this position for like it felt like minutes where he's just hanging there in midair.

Her head is turned to the side and then she's like, no, no, no. And I mean, I guess to his credit, he like takes no for an answer and she's like, let's go to bed and he gets out of the hot tub. And I mean, okay, he doesn't try to pressure her into anything. It's a clear no. And that's respected. But it's like, what are we doing here? And then she's just trying to go to bed and Brian is like, aren't, I don't. Aren't you going to, should we, okay, good night. Okay, can we have a, can we kiss?

These guys have, the absolute lack of game is shocking. And I guess we've seen it with Brian a little bit more on family karma, which, you know, by the way, renew family karma. I've got to say, got to get it, got to get it in there. We've seen that he's like a little bit of a mama's boy. He struggles a little bit with the, with the ladies sometimes, and I think he has trouble backing up his looks maybe. But like, Alex's whole demeanor is just so cringe to me. And I don't know. I'm not sure how this experience is going to go for him because he just seems to be like really terrible at reading the room. The next day he's like showering Danielle with weird.

compliments about how she's a boss lady. And she's like, okay, like, focus on one girl at a time. And he doesn't even remember that he tried to kiss Jordan in the hot tub. Like, this is bad. You look so lame and so weird and so, like, not like creepy in like a creepy way, but creepy in like a, well, just like, well. Girl, winter is so last season.

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in the world and on Vanderpump rules. And people like, like Danielle is friends with Katie. She has, you know, met and hung out with the whole Vanderpump Rules cast before. And so when Kyle's like, oh, yeah, Schwartz is showing up tomorrow. Danielle and Jordan are like, oh, God, do we have to? Because they know, I mean, this has been such a big story. they know that this is just going to suck all the air out of the room. And Danielle's whole thing is that she wants to get away from the feelings and the energy

that's been happening since her breakup with Robert. And Tom Schwartz's like bumbling his way in the door is going to be exactly what she doesn't need. And, you know, jury is out. The episode cuts off basically right as Tom is getting there. I don't hate Tom Schwartz. I just don't particularly, he doesn't do much for me. And so I'm a little bit, I'm a little bit nervous for the energy that that's going to bring.

And then he's going to try and get with Katie and below deck Katie, not his ex-wife, Katie. It's just as like, I'm feeling the Vanderpumper fatigue on all these other shows. Like, I don't need to watch Ariana on Dancing with the Stars. I certainly don't need to watch Tom on special forces. I don't need to watch House of Villains to see Jacks. Maybe I do. Maybe I should. Maybe I should see Tiffany Pollard yelling at him.

Maybe that would heal my soul. But it's just too much. And I know that this was filmed way back in the spring. You know, it's all happening separately. This show at least has, like, other things going for it. But it's just a lot. And it's like, I don't need Tom being, like, sad about his friends on this show. it just is, it's a bummer.

And I'm ready for next season of Vanderpump Rules. Like I'm excited for that. I want to see the group dynamic. But it's like, I don't need another person on a different show recapping everything that's happening. Like, he was supposed to be here with my friend and now that's not happening. It's like, it's a lot. It's a lot.

You know, I do feel for Danielle. And it's, it's tough to hear. that at the time of filming, she had just been in Aspen a couple weeks ago and had run into Robert and thought that maybe they would be getting back together. And he made it clear, as she says, that that's never going to happen. That's tough. I definitely thought that Danielle and Robert were in it for the long haul at one point. And, you know, clearly not everything worked out the way we thought it was going to. But I like Danielle, I want her to be,

I want her to be in a good place. And I don't know if anybody on this show is going to be able to accomplish that for her because I, you know, nothing good is going to come from hooking up with Alex. Brian doesn't seem to be able to get that across the finish line either. And I don't know about, you know, Tom Schwartz is clearly a no-go there. And then Corey, that brings us to Corey.

Corey's whole vibe is so strange. The way that he is waffling around whatever is going on with him and Sam's relationship, he won't really tell the people in the house whether he is single

or available or exclusive or kind of in a relationship or in an open relationship. And Danielle's watching this and she's like, um, yeah, I've been around. him and Sam and like it's not casual. It's a relationship. We see him in this first episode talking to Sam. It's not like it's not like last season with Austin and Olivia where it was like, okay, like I'm single, but I guess there's this girl that I might bring here. It's like,

you know, like, as far as we knew, you were fully in a relationship with Sam. And I think it's, it's always weird on these shows when there seems to be like some creative storytelling about where you are in a relationship with somebody, whether it's exclusive. whether you're their boyfriend, whether it's casual. And it's like, if you want to come on Winterhouse and be able to hook up with anybody you want, just have a conversation before you go. Let Sam decide to do whatever she wants to do with that, break up with you, let you have your fun, whatever, and then be open about it.

It's so weird to come into a house like this where clearly everybody is trying to figure out the situation and to not have a real answer for, hello, are you single? It should be a simple question. And if it's not, you probably need to either keep it in your pants or have a conversation with your maybe sort of kind of partner and get to the bottom of that situation because otherwise, it's not going to end well for anybody involved. And, you know, Corey already has fuckboy written all over him, and I don't think he's doing much to help his case. But anyway, that's Winterhouse, episode one. God, we're in for, we're in for a treat.

I don't know. I just, it's going to be a season. But, you know, we'll have Salt Lake back next week. There's a lot more happening tonight, Beverly Hills premiere. Can't wait for all of that. But in the meantime, thank you so much for listening. Don't forget to rate review and follow the show wherever you listen. You can follow us on Instagram at Bravo by Betches.

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