Rachel Zoe has made a pop culture comeback on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills because she’s played it just right

Rachel Zoe has made a pop culture comeback on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills because she’s played it just right. She’s not a drama llama but she is present, looks good, has a few quips. This city is the lightest lift on Bravo – the women do a whole lot of nothing in comparison to other franchises.

Her promo interviews are pretty good as well; on The Inside Edit, she said the first person she called about her divorce was Jennifer Garner. This seems like a very wise choice because Jennifer Garner comes across as very calm but also experienced in that department. She had to divorce Ben Affleck, this woman has seen it all and then some.

OK I guess it’s cannon that Maui has hair but The Rock pretty famously doesn’t. This looks… so silly. There’s already wig memes about it.

Penny Lancaster is talking about her 20-year marriage to Rod Stewart; she is his third wife. I find the elder rock star wife very interesting because there’s a lot of pride they get from “making it work” with a retired ho. That generation of men has aged out of their horndog era: Rod Stewart is 81, David Foster is 76, Billy Joel is 76. There’s a dozen marriages and 17 children (David Foster skews the results a bit here). That’s not to say these men don’t have options (famous men always do) but they’ve aged out of Sports Illustrated models and young actresses, either by choice or by force.

Actually, not every octogenarian has aged out of the game. Mick Jagger is still going strong. Like Rod, he has 8 children… but only one ex-wife. He’s currently engaged to a ballerina.

OF COURSE Tom Cruise never misses Rosie O’Donnell’s birthday. His assistants run a tight ship (the SS Xenu).

Brenda Song and Macaulay Culkin posted about a poor flying experience (which is kind of standard these days), saying they purchased specific seats with their kids and were split up by the airline. I’m biased here because I used to fly pretty frequently with my kids when they were younger and always purchased specific seats to ensure we were together, and there was a couple of instances of the airlines splitting us after the seats were booked and paid for. It does happen, and then the parents look like assholes trying to switch seats so they can sit next to a 4-year-old and everyone is unhappy. So I understand her frustration. This is a good scenario for a Home Alone remake.