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WATCH | ESSENCE Reality Recap - Let's Talk About RHOA Episode 12
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5/29/2025
Entertainment Editor, Shelby Stewart, shares her thoughts on Real Housewives of Atlanta season 16 episode 12.
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When we get the whole lap dog situation brought up at the table as well,
00:04
Drew talks about it and Drew owns it. Yeah, I called you a lap dog.
00:08
Shamia, why did you start barking?
00:11
Why would you start barking? I didn't, that just didn't make any sense to me. And the girls,
00:18
they don't seem to have that sort of rigor to go back and forth with each other without
00:24
one, going too low or two, just making it really, really cringy.
00:30
It was not to hurt you, but I was hurt. I'm not listening to her calling me a lap dog.
00:34
She can kiss my ass. She's so bad. But if you wouldn't hear me, I don't hear her saying that to me.
00:40
Listening? I'm not listening. My intention was not to hurt you.
00:43
I was upset. Sometimes we say things when we're upset and I definitely was upset and hurt
00:48
that you placed her father with.
00:51
The episode opens with Shamia and Kelly chatting it up poolside. And this is where Kelly introduces
00:57
the cash trip and the girls are going to Grenada. And she also opens up here a little bit about her
01:02
divorce and how it's really taking a toll on her emotionally, financially, and mentally.
01:08
But I have to say the highlight of this week's episode has to be the fact that Britt throws this
01:14
country club shapework launch event. What I love about Britt throwing this event right is that
01:21
all new housewives kind of go through their own hazing process. And these ladies do not play about
01:27
a trip. These ladies do not play about an event. If something goes wrong, you will hear about it.
01:33
And people will be looking at you sideways.
01:35
We're the whores of whores. Refresh my glass.
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What was really funny about this event is between production behind the scenes and the ladies there,
01:45
there was a lot of shared confusion about what the purpose of the event was, why they were at a
01:50
country club, and how it all tied together. And what was so funny about that is that Britt makes
01:57
a point to say that, oh, it doesn't all have to go together for me to have an event, but
02:02
it kind of does. It definitely, like, everything was a little bit disjointed. And what I think that
02:10
this episode reminded me of, if the real Housewives of Atlanta, real fans, real watchers, do y'all
02:15
remember when Dwight said all of those years ago about She by Sheree?
02:19
Who was this wonderful person that was given a fashion show with no fashions? How dreadful.
02:23
That is exactly the thought I had in watching Britt host this event. And honestly, the party planner
02:30
had the right idea. Don't invite me anywhere. I, one, have to stand up for a very long time. And
02:35
two, I'm not really going to get fed and not getting fed the same thing that everybody else
02:40
is eating. I'm going to try not to make eye contact. This is a hot mess. And Portia even
02:47
says it in her own confessional, like Atlanta is a hard place. If you don't have a good event
02:51
or you don't have enough food, people will talk about you. And I think that is, especially
02:55
being Southern, that is a true like core rule when it comes to hosting, you cannot run
03:01
out of food. Angela opens the floor and she basically says, well, Charles doesn't have a
03:07
side, baby.
03:08
I don't know that that needed to be said at the table, but okay. And then Britt says back,
03:18
well, I'm not one of Charles's whores. Where did that come from? Please tell me, please,
03:24
please make that make sense to me. That was just so unnecessary. And I feel like that is
03:30
one of the cases to be made when people say that Britt may not be the best fit on this cast
03:36
because where did that come from? And I think this is also where I have to stop parenthetically
03:40
to say a lot of the ladies in this group do not know how to read. And obviously a lot of
03:48
us are kind of stuck in the wonder years of Real Housewives of Atlanta, where we really
03:55
had a golden era with Nini, Kenya, Cynthia, all of that cast dynamic, all of those ladies
04:02
together was truly, truly amazing. But the ladies don't have good banter. Back to the event.
04:09
So Britt, again, she introduces like the product. She tells all the ladies about what it's about.
04:15
And she shares a little bit about the kind of ethos behind the event and why she wanted
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to create this line. And she talked about some of the procedures that she had. And she gives
04:26
all the ladies at the table a sample of the products. And so even more shade is thrown here
04:34
because she gives Portia a size small and she gives Angela an extra large. That is like fun,
04:42
like light shade, kind of. But it's like, okay, girl, whatever.
04:47
Maybe she got this confused with the size of her toothbrush for her big mouth.
04:51
That is so shady.
04:53
So all of the guests who aren't sitting down, who aren't a part of the Real Housewives cast,
04:58
they only get to eat hors d'oeuvres. They have to stand up and they don't get a sample of the product.
05:04
I don't think that Britt should host any more events after this. Absolutely not.
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And so towards the end of the episode, we also get to see that Portia and we finally get to see
05:15
Phaedra. They have a little sit down and Portia kind of gives Phaedra a rundown of all of the girls.
05:22
And it's funny because Phaedra seems to already have the tea on each of the ladies. She goes as far
05:29
as to call Kelly a garden gnome. And she says that Britt has more bodies than Willie.
05:38
Okay. So like we're off to a decent start, but I know that it's been widely contested and contended
05:46
how people feel about Phaedra rejoining the cast. And so Essies, I really want to know,
05:50
how are we feeling about this? And what do we think about Phaedra joining? And you know,
05:55
she's honestly joining in the last few episodes of the season. So Essies, I want to hear from you.
06:00
Let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
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