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Slade gives me the creeps.

He comes off as a hanger-on. I haven't watched all previous seasons of the show but I hear he was involved with two other women from the show and engaged to one of them? He doesn't seem to have a life of his own. Hasn't made his own path. I like what Gretchen said in the last episode: to stop assisting her, she doesn't want him to (he uses that as an excuse of why he has no time to work on his own life) and that if she left him tomorrow, he'd have nothing to his name because he has no ownership in her company. Also, I think it's very smart of her to not pay off his child support debt for him even though she says she could in one fell swoop. He could be a very nice man, don't know him personally. Just think his priorities are screwed up. Why is he spending money on a diamond ring when he's got a son with brain cancer who needs his dad to be fully present.

I have a feeling Gretchen will break up with Slade. She wants babies but 35 is staring her in the face. He can't get his act together soon enough to beat that biological clock. She loves him but she has better options. Next stop: Splitsville.

Slade was in the first season, engaged to Jo (one of the original Housewives). He was wealthy, or at least portrayed that way. He worked in the financial or mortgage industry and had a nice house in Coto. I remember he bought Jo a Mercedes at some point. She was much younger and very pretty, and he was her sugar daddy, in a sense. After Jo, he also dated at least one other original Housewife (Lauri, who later married a real estate developer and left the show).

It's funny that now, he's the deadbeat with nothing. I think Gretchen is smart not to marry him. I agree, she's basically told him flat-out he needs to make some money and deal with his child support issues, and stop being her "assistant."

Not that I've watched every single season...definitely not...

 

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Why did Slade and Jo call off their engagement? I'm curious.

I don't know what Gretchen sees in Slade, honestly. I don't think I could fall in love with a man who is not a very good father / doesn't visit his son in the hospital with a brain tumor. You don't have to be wealthy to be a good dad. Love is free. There is no excuse to abandon the boy. I can only hope there is way more to him than meets the eye. There's got to be a reason she wants to have a baby with Slade. We obviously don't see everything in short segments.

 

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Why did Slade and Jo call off their engagement? I'm curious.

I think she left him because he basically wanted a stay-at-home type wife, and she wanted to focus on her music career in LA (she was an aspiring singer).

They were later on a reality show, a dating show centered on Jo trying to find the perfect man. I didn't watch it, but apparently Slade showed up at some point, wanting her back.

 

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It was SO RUDE of Sarah to eat the bow off Heather's cake. Who in their right mind does that.

I hear Shayne Lamas will be joining the cast. Not looking forward to that.

 

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Wonder what that sarah chick's deal is. Was reading that she's the heir to some gun fortune but at the same time dates 60 year old rich guys.

I had to google shayne lamas. Forgot that she won the bachelor with the Brit dude.

Yeah, Shayne got a proposal from Matt Grant but they broke up. Now she's married to Nik Richie, the owner of TheDirty.com. They knew each other for about a minute before a quickie Vegas wedding. They recently had a baby.

On RHOC, the ladies imply Sarah is intoxicated. I don't know what her problem is but she always seems to have a vacant look in her eyes. She's definitely not firing on all cylinders.

It looks like she gets the boot from the party on the next full episode. How humiliating.