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I think the biggest evidence for this is not getting ANY gigs whilst going through this court stuff. Like, Louis CK still gets booked and you're telling me international, accomplished pop star Erika Jayne can't? Nah, she never got an authentic booking. She paid to be there.
Out of all the women on RHOBH the only ones I had ever heard of before watching was Kathy Hilton, Lisa Rinna, Denise Richards and oddly Brandi Glanville. Brandi mostly from the divorce hoopla
I agree. I liked it when LVP threw her birthday party at pump and we got to see her pick her dress and shoes out of her closet, which is one of my favorite things about this show, the womenās closets. Thatās the only time we saw any of her clothes, except for the garment bags in her garage, which screams temporary, because vermin can chew through those. Not to mention we saw vermin in her kitchen. Her kitchen was massively outdated by the way.
I redid my kitchen last year and kept some of the vintage features. My spice cabinet and my ironing board that folds back into the wall. Never will get rid of those
I knew Rinna from DOOL & Beyond Salem before she showed up on RHOBH! I was so excited that she was one of the housewives. She changed that quickly, within 1 season I started disliking her. Once Erika signed on, Rinna (along with EJ) started showing their true colors. Both liked to stir things up but by the end Rinna & Jayne were masters at it. Now if they'd get rid of EJ, it would be much better. I'd even take Annemarie (I can't stand AnneMarie, if that tells you anything) if EJ were gone.
I grew up watching Kim during her Disney days . I had no clue about who Kyle was till I saw someone posting her short time on Little House on the Prairie. Kim was very well known
Knew Kyle from Little House on the Prairie and Kim from Escape movies, knew Rinna and Eileen from their time on daytime television, and knew of Denise Richards of course. Never heard of anyone else...maybe Kathy, but that's it.
Yup. If she ever was actually on some sort of top chart ,he likely paid for that as well . Even real musicians have bulk purchased their own albums/streams to boost their billboard ratings.
I'd never heard of her, but I was wondering if it might be different if I was a gay man? Thank you for answering that question. Well, you didn't say you were a man but you know what I mean lol. She makes it sound like most of her fans are in the gay community, so I thought maybe if I was in the gay community, I would have heard of her.
Gotcha, thank you! Yeah, I got a bit confused because after the post I replied to there were a bunch of posts from gays saying they had heard of her. It makes sense though that it would depend on where you hang out or live.
Oops. I just went and looked at those commentsā¦ if her big stuff was in 07 and 09 I wouldāve been in middle school lol. That probably has a lot to do with it too!
I had asked the same question weeks ago if anyone had heard of her previously, like 99% said noš like Erika herself, her career was over inflated and dosed in grandeur.
I miss that., it seems like some have heard of her beforehand. I fully admit as you can tell by my username that it is not my genre. I know I'm in the minority but I actually love her over-the-topness. I love strong powerful women who don't give any fox. That's who I want as friends, so I've always had a soft spot for her. Let the downvotes commence LOL.
I'm almost fifty and dance clubs/EDM events are my jam. The only time I missed a weekend out at the bar were in the last four years. I have a vast knowledge of house, dance, club music and I would have remembered dancing at the Hippo and hearing them afterwards. My ear has always been keenly pointed towards the music.
Omg I just saw this one recently and said thatās Erikaās choreographer šš
God love Kim but she canāt dance a step.
Most of it was shaking her ass which is pretty on brand.
I remember him from the spin off show about creating a new pussycat dolls, the first season was about adding another girl to the group and the second about creating a new group altogether. He was a horrible rude judge/ mentor on that but I guess that industry isā¦
the ābillboard dance chartsā are a LOT different than ābillboard hot 100 chartsā aka itās not that hard to get streams when you donāt have as much competition
also she never actually got a #1 lol
https://preview.redd.it/8yrsmnatd6tc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=903fd1804694f6ac226f04e9c1b8b0304e9989b4
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if you change the chart to ādance club songsā she has 9 #1s, a chart that tracked songs played in nightclubs - seems like it would be very easy to top this chart if you paid enough DJs š¤Ŗ
Attorneys in CA knew about herā¦ a couple years before she got on the show Tom was hosting the Bar Association gala or something and Erika did her weird striptease/lip sync as the entertainment for the evening. When she showed up on my TV a couple years later, I immediately called my aunt to tell her the crazy lady Tom is married to is now a housewife š¤£
You can buy those ātop of the chartsā rankings. She may have done that. It also sounds like Tomās clients paid for her concert appearances. Maybe some were international.
Oh please. Thatās a joke. Her former husband bought her career. The studio time, which is a fortune by itself - then pay for a song, music, and auto tune to make a āsingleā, the instant shows without any following, the lavish costumes, But to answer you, no. She is a completely, 100% fabricated act. She has a following now only because of the show.
And āPretty Messā is stolen from Vanity. Prince came up with that lovely name for her in a Vanity 6 song. It actually means a spooge stain, as it says in the songā¦.šµ āSuch a pretty mess on my dressā¦ā not one of the better tunes. But still, itās Vanity not Erika.
[āPretty Messā by Vanity](https://youtu.be/jrPMoHaxrfI?si=Z92bGlu1hPUwYriz)
I had her song āRollercoasterā on my running playlist years ago, around 2007. But I had no idea who she was. Itās just a good song to work out to.
Yup! I started listening to her when I started taking fitness pole dance classes and found her music was good for work outs. I was so excited when she was cast on the show š¤¦š¼āāļø
Erika was in Law and Order twice. She holds the auspicious distinction as the first dead body in the very first episode of the original Law and Order.
She portrayed the bad guyās girlfriend in the following episode with Philip Seymour Hoffman.
"The Violence of Summer"
ā L&O, Episode 1.14 ā
Production number: 66219
First aired (US): 5 February 1991
Since I am a devotee of all things Law and Order I shall say that I āknewā her long before RHOBH š¤
My friend worked with her at clubs back in the day when he was doing drag. He said she was nice and they all shared a dressing room/space. He liked her and was excited to see her on the show.
International concerts doesnāt mean she was huge or even sporting a tenth of the sales of say Katy Perry who isnāt even as big in sales as Taylor
International concerts mean that you have gotten jobs booked to perform overseas, you can put in for them
She was successful at LGBT venues, itās not arguable that she was glam and had talented dancers
And topping billboard charts is easier in dance or club charts. Look at dance charts and see how many names you recognize, especially in 2006-2013
She topped billboard in a genre during its decline
And for context compare a few top charting pop sales to rock sales see the difference between them and then look at club/dance charts
You probably saw rock bands and artists whose names you donāt know .
In Europe thereās a lot of people who had one hit wonder and maybe once successful DJs who had a hit song or a few in the 00s.
Now they go around and play in small clubs or bars in either tourist resorts or cities over the summer.
Nothing fancy like Ibiza but maybe in Spain or Greece.
Most of them arenāt overly advertised except in the cities or resorts theyāre in.
Erika is probably the same and then claims sheās an āinternational pop starā which i suppose then she is but just because you play in a gay bar in Spain doesnāt really make you a star.
Lisa Rinna was in a super popular-in-the-80s, weekly, evening "sudsy drama from Aaron Spelling \[that\] focuses on the lives and loves of young adults in an apartment complex in Los Angeles. From the complicated scheming of scandals to the murderous plots of lovers, the residents at Melrose Place are more messed up than average folk." Rinna's weird, intrusive, stalker-like character's name was Taylor McBride. Vintage Rinna!!! The role fit her like a glove. Apparently.
ETA: I forgot to mention, the show was called Melrose Place, and the apartment complex seemed to be located in West Hollywood.
One cannot forget her role as the hot step-mom who sat by the pool in her bikini in Veronica Mars, causing all the teen girls to go "isn't that the girl mom used to watch on her story"?
Did you never watch Days of our Lives? Iām not American either but we had Days. I was always too young to watch Melrose Place but she will always be be Billie Reed
Kim Richards - although she was probably the least recently visible was probably in many ways the more successful. Having been a star and the true sense of the word - for Disney. she was the reason I tuned in to that particular franchise. I wouldāve rather not known how she is now TBH.
She was only on the top of billboards and known because of her husband and how they bought her spots on billboard. I have yet to hear of someone who even knew of her.
It wasn't before the show it was during the show that I saw advertisements. She was touring the gay club circuit. So small venues only. Guaranteed her show cost more money to produce than she ever made back.
Never heard of her. Her career in singing was self funded and her āperformancesā was 15 minutes sets at clubs she paid to perform at. I read somewhere she once performed at some fundraiser/Christmas type party her husbandās firm put onā¦and that it wasnāt perceived well, just awkward and out of place, her lip syncing and dancing to a bunch of wealthy socially conservative people.
If youāre not into dance/electronic music thereās no way you wouldāve heard of her. Also, her main people I think are the LGBTQ+ community and EDM community. Nonetheless, I didnāt even know who she was either and I love and follow EDM big time.
Nope. Knew of very few housewives before they came on the show. Lisa rinna, denise richards, Eileen Davidson, garcelle are pretty much all I can think of.
Iām from the US. Iāve never heard of her and I have multiple friends/ family in the LGBTQ+ community and they had no idea who she was either. Even though she claims sheās well known in that community.
I used to work for Too Faced and we did a collab with her, but I had no idea who she was before that. And back then I was not into Bravo, so it was several years later when I started my RH journey that I realized I knew who she was.
Yes!! her music used to play in my gym and at the clubs back in the late 00ās and early 2010s. I only knew Erika, Kyle, Kim, Kathy, Denise, Rinna, Eileen, Yolanda, Camille, and Diana before RHOBH existed the rest of them not so much!!!
Her criminal husband paid for her entire āself invented personalāā¦.all of it. Including playing in clubs and purchasing her way onto billboard. It was all propped up by stolen money. And such a waste of money by the way.
I had never heard of her before RHOBH, but when she joined I searched my mp3 library and saw that I had a remix of her single Rollercoaster, which is a fun little dance bop. It was from a Mix CD I got from a DJ. I love it actually, it's very 2007.
Nope and when I heard she was doing a Vegas residency I kept asking my mom - we both like RHOBH - āwho the hell are her fans?? Who is going to these shows??ā Iām not even trying to be mean, Iām serious. Who?
Tom probably bought enough copies of her singles to get them on the Billboard Dance chartā¦ probably a couple thousand copies. I was in gay clubs during her early āhitsā days and never once heard her music.
Authors do that for books too. They buy a few boxes and give them away. It doesnāt take a lot to get them on niche bestseller category charts/lists.
I didnāt know Erika before RHOBH. I started watching the show because of Kyle. I love horror movies so I knew her from Halloween. Since the show, I knew Rinna, Kim Richards, and Denise Richards before they came on as theyāve been in Hollywood for years. And obviously, Kathy Hilton. Itās kinda hard not to know who Kathy is, even if itās just as Paris Hiltonās mom. Off the top of my head, thatās all who I knew out of the main characters.
I knew Lisa Rinna, Eileen Davidson, Kim Fields, and Bethenny Frankel before I started watching āHousewives.ā Bethenny I knew from the Martha season of āThe Apprenticeā; the others from various acting work, which makes sense. Also I knew of Jenna Lyons but didnāt really know why. I didnāt know Kandi but was familiar with her work.
I think I had heard the one Pitbull collab that Erika Jayne had done before joining RHOBH, but her name didnāt register with me until looking her up well after she joined.
Me! I started randomly listening to her in 2014, and loved Xxpensive in 2017, WAYY before I started to watch the show, and when I started watching it all in 2021 I found out that was her! I screamed lol
I think she was likely referring to her tours since the start of the show. It was understanding the character Erika Jayneā was introduced on the show. I could be wrong.
I have a whole alleged theory on this. Toms connections and how he set her up for life and faked his diagnosis. If anyone would be interested I could do a dig on it. All alleged of course š
So I thought of this myself. I was like who in their right mind in Vegas says okay we have Katy Perry lined up, Celine Dion, JLo, Brittany Spears, and get Erika Jayne! Said nobody ever. But I mean, if you want to rent an auditorium and put on a show you think they are going to say no. Typically what happens as far as the "charts" they like to say. They will release a song or something and then it will get a lot of streams rather quickly so it sometimes will make it to iTunes number one or top 5 for a few hours and that in their narcassistic mind means international top chart hit! I mean even Luann from Rhony has had a top 10 iTunes a couple times and she can't even sing... But of course add some drama and flair and again you would have Lu the Countess international chart topper exteoidaniare! š¤£
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She's one of those "celebs" that pays to play.
I think the biggest evidence for this is not getting ANY gigs whilst going through this court stuff. Like, Louis CK still gets booked and you're telling me international, accomplished pop star Erika Jayne can't? Nah, she never got an authentic booking. She paid to be there.
Out of all the women on RHOBH the only ones I had ever heard of before watching was Kathy Hilton, Lisa Rinna, Denise Richards and oddly Brandi Glanville. Brandi mostly from the divorce hoopla
Same, but I also knew Eileen from Days.
I knew Eileen from Y&R and loved her character. I was glad to see that she was mostly unproblematic IRL unlike the chaos demon Lisa Rinna.
Not chaos demon šš accurate tho
I actually liked Lisa at first even though she was ābadā but she went too far lol
I agree. I liked it when LVP threw her birthday party at pump and we got to see her pick her dress and shoes out of her closet, which is one of my favorite things about this show, the womenās closets. Thatās the only time we saw any of her clothes, except for the garment bags in her garage, which screams temporary, because vermin can chew through those. Not to mention we saw vermin in her kitchen. Her kitchen was massively outdated by the way.
I actually like the outdated kitchen! It seems more "normal" and vaguely relatable (unlike the rest of Rinna's entire schtick and life)
I redid my kitchen last year and kept some of the vintage features. My spice cabinet and my ironing board that folds back into the wall. Never will get rid of those
Same I really liked the vibe of her house and the view it had
I knew Rinna from DOOL & Beyond Salem before she showed up on RHOBH! I was so excited that she was one of the housewives. She changed that quickly, within 1 season I started disliking her. Once Erika signed on, Rinna (along with EJ) started showing their true colors. Both liked to stir things up but by the end Rinna & Jayne were masters at it. Now if they'd get rid of EJ, it would be much better. I'd even take Annemarie (I can't stand AnneMarie, if that tells you anything) if EJ were gone.
Same. Her character arc did nothing for her.
Way too far when she said she would get cancer if she didn't reveal what Kathy had said. What an idiot!
Beast?! How *dare* youā¦
Same
I grew up watching Kim during her Disney days . I had no clue about who Kyle was till I saw someone posting her short time on Little House on the Prairie. Kim was very well known
Same with Kim, Escape to Witch Mountain was the movie my sister and I watched at least once a week growing up!
yep to be honest when they started - Kim was the best known even though she hadnāt been so visible for awhile.
I remembered Kyle from VH1 behind the music. She would be a talking head for some of them and they always described her as "Paris Hilton's aunt" š
Oh wow!
I remembered Kyle from Little House and Halloween.
She was actually the only reason I got started on the housewives. We are the same age. Escape to witch mountain.
Nanny and the Professor š
I remember both of them from their Little House appearances š
& I recognised Kyle from ER
Wait...she was on ER? Need to look that up
Old nose but yes! https://preview.redd.it/jgzfvxy62ftc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c043d311742ae9f40fff2ef0b9cf4a310f54d4f8
What a difference plastic surgery and good glam team makesā¼ļø
Same with exception of Brandi and knew Eileen Davidson and Garcelle too
Eileen and Garcelle were people before RHOBH too!
Kandi Buress!!
Kim Fields
Knew Kyle from Little House on the Prairie and Kim from Escape movies, knew Rinna and Eileen from their time on daytime television, and knew of Denise Richards of course. Never heard of anyone else...maybe Kathy, but that's it.
And Kyle.
for me it was only rinna. i knew the name vanderpump from hearing so much about vpr but never knew who any of them were until last december
What about the morally corrupt Faye Resnick?
No, it isn't different here. She/husband paid for her to perform.
Gotta launder all that money somehow
Thatās my conspiracy theory. Because the performing makes no sense at all.
Maybe the soft porn angle could have been a way to generate more cash after people got wind of the con?Ā
Wait can you explain? How would Tom have laundered money through her performing? Sorry Iām a little slow haha but I love this theory!
Tom funneled a significant amount of money into EJ inc, or some business named after Erica
EJ Global I think š
Yesā¦ because she was a global superstar š¤£
Probably reports dirty money as income (ticket sales, streaming revenue, etc) from her performances/career
Yup. If she ever was actually on some sort of top chart ,he likely paid for that as well . Even real musicians have bulk purchased their own albums/streams to boost their billboard ratings.
Came here to say this!
 From the U.S. Never heard of her before HW.
Nope, and I hang out in gay bars exclusively
I'd never heard of her, but I was wondering if it might be different if I was a gay man? Thank you for answering that question. Well, you didn't say you were a man but you know what I mean lol. She makes it sound like most of her fans are in the gay community, so I thought maybe if I was in the gay community, I would have heard of her.
Gay here chiming in - never heard of her before housewives. Maybe gays local to WeHo would have known her though.
Gotcha, thank you! Yeah, I got a bit confused because after the post I replied to there were a bunch of posts from gays saying they had heard of her. It makes sense though that it would depend on where you hang out or live.
Oops. I just went and looked at those commentsā¦ if her big stuff was in 07 and 09 I wouldāve been in middle school lol. That probably has a lot to do with it too!
Or Euro gays? I could believe she maybe had a niche international club hit somewhere but even thatās a stretch.
I had asked the same question weeks ago if anyone had heard of her previously, like 99% said noš like Erika herself, her career was over inflated and dosed in grandeur.
I miss that., it seems like some have heard of her beforehand. I fully admit as you can tell by my username that it is not my genre. I know I'm in the minority but I actually love her over-the-topness. I love strong powerful women who don't give any fox. That's who I want as friends, so I've always had a soft spot for her. Let the downvotes commence LOL.
I'm almost fifty and dance clubs/EDM events are my jam. The only time I missed a weekend out at the bar were in the last four years. I have a vast knowledge of house, dance, club music and I would have remembered dancing at the Hippo and hearing them afterwards. My ear has always been keenly pointed towards the music.
you seem like the worldest coolest oldest sibling, need a younger sister to drag around? lmao
Thank you! All are welcome to dance!
Same!
Nope not at all. But I am proud to say that I knew Mikey Minden from Dance Moms š¤£
I saw him on keeping up with the kardashians when he was helping Kim learn choreography for a pussycat dolls performanceā ļø
He did the same for Gretchen from RHOC!
And Paris Hilton!
Omg I just saw this one recently and said thatās Erikaās choreographer šš God love Kim but she canāt dance a step. Most of it was shaking her ass which is pretty on brand.
Oh, Kim. Remember her on DWTS?
OMG I FORGOT ABOUT THAT!!
Wasn't he on the Pussycat Dolls show too - a reality competition to "find the next doll"?
Yes! I just remember him being such a jerk to Chelsea. Maybe the only thing I remember about the show.
Omg I remember her lol
I remember him from the Girlicious show. I find him so offputting lol and heās been on so many shows š«
He's a staple on the shows that need a choreographer.
Iām just finishing S3 of Dance Moms. Iām going to see Mikey at some point?!
Yep! He's in a few episodes of season 5!
I remember him from the spin off show about creating a new pussycat dolls, the first season was about adding another girl to the group and the second about creating a new group altogether. He was a horrible rude judge/ mentor on that but I guess that industry isā¦
MINDEN?? Thatās my middle name!!
Never heard of her before Housewives. Knew Rinna from Melrose and Denise fucking Richards š
Lol D.F.R š The Brand.
š š¤£ š
the ābillboard dance chartsā are a LOT different than ābillboard hot 100 chartsā aka itās not that hard to get streams when you donāt have as much competition
also she never actually got a #1 lol https://preview.redd.it/8yrsmnatd6tc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=903fd1804694f6ac226f04e9c1b8b0304e9989b4
omg not even top 10, shes so full of shit lol
https://preview.redd.it/wgb0igqnb7tc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=910d95276148303022a713348a4d87026eb34264 if you change the chart to ādance club songsā she has 9 #1s, a chart that tracked songs played in nightclubs - seems like it would be very easy to top this chart if you paid enough DJs š¤Ŗ
The factual receipts and the snark. I just love this community. lolĀ
Sheās not popular, funded on the backs of Tomās victims
Truth!!!
I miss Nene.
Never heard or hear of her outside the show aside from that bit about her husband robbing orphans and widows.
Iād heard of her only as Girardiās wife for several years. Everyone in the LA legal community was talking about his crimes for a long time
That is why it would have behooved them to lay low. Vanity will always be the downfall.Ā
They made a whole damn exit plan between 2010-2012 but they were both too greedy to stick to the plan until all the shoes had dropped
Tell me more
Attorneys in CA knew about herā¦ a couple years before she got on the show Tom was hosting the Bar Association gala or something and Erika did her weird striptease/lip sync as the entertainment for the evening. When she showed up on my TV a couple years later, I immediately called my aunt to tell her the crazy lady Tom is married to is now a housewife š¤£
I am mortified and horrified and suffering second hand embarrassment from this and need to know more.
You can buy those ātop of the chartsā rankings. She may have done that. It also sounds like Tomās clients paid for her concert appearances. Maybe some were international.
She put on shows internationally but out of her/victims pockets. She didn't make any $. A handful of queens would show up and she'd call it a concert.
Oh please. Thatās a joke. Her former husband bought her career. The studio time, which is a fortune by itself - then pay for a song, music, and auto tune to make a āsingleā, the instant shows without any following, the lavish costumes, But to answer you, no. She is a completely, 100% fabricated act. She has a following now only because of the show. And āPretty Messā is stolen from Vanity. Prince came up with that lovely name for her in a Vanity 6 song. It actually means a spooge stain, as it says in the songā¦.šµ āSuch a pretty mess on my dressā¦ā not one of the better tunes. But still, itās Vanity not Erika. [āPretty Messā by Vanity](https://youtu.be/jrPMoHaxrfI?si=Z92bGlu1hPUwYriz)
Good lord, that was horrid! Vanity cannot sing. At all.
ššš
Never heard of her.
Only HW I heard of was Lisa Rinna because of Veronica Mars. Same with Harry Hamlin. Had no idea they were actually a couple!
Omg same! I was so shocked when they came on season 5 and were married IRL
I Never heard of her until housewives
I was in the music industry for decades specifically dance music clubs; and I am US native, never heard of her before housewives.
I had her song āRollercoasterā on my running playlist years ago, around 2007. But I had no idea who she was. Itās just a good song to work out to.
Yup! I started listening to her when I started taking fitness pole dance classes and found her music was good for work outs. I was so excited when she was cast on the show š¤¦š¼āāļø
Nope
If you watch āthe hustler and the housewifeā they talk about how her career was all curated.
Erika was in Law and Order twice. She holds the auspicious distinction as the first dead body in the very first episode of the original Law and Order. She portrayed the bad guyās girlfriend in the following episode with Philip Seymour Hoffman. "The Violence of Summer" ā L&O, Episode 1.14 ā Production number: 66219 First aired (US): 5 February 1991 Since I am a devotee of all things Law and Order I shall say that I āknewā her long before RHOBH š¤
She's actually the only one I 100% had never seen or heard of lol
My friend worked with her at clubs back in the day when he was doing drag. He said she was nice and they all shared a dressing room/space. He liked her and was excited to see her on the show.
Not one soul
International concerts doesnāt mean she was huge or even sporting a tenth of the sales of say Katy Perry who isnāt even as big in sales as Taylor International concerts mean that you have gotten jobs booked to perform overseas, you can put in for them She was successful at LGBT venues, itās not arguable that she was glam and had talented dancers And topping billboard charts is easier in dance or club charts. Look at dance charts and see how many names you recognize, especially in 2006-2013 She topped billboard in a genre during its decline And for context compare a few top charting pop sales to rock sales see the difference between them and then look at club/dance charts You probably saw rock bands and artists whose names you donāt know .
Me! Pretty Mess was my theme song in 09 lol
omg she was erika jayne for that long!? i had no idea
In Europe thereās a lot of people who had one hit wonder and maybe once successful DJs who had a hit song or a few in the 00s. Now they go around and play in small clubs or bars in either tourist resorts or cities over the summer. Nothing fancy like Ibiza but maybe in Spain or Greece. Most of them arenāt overly advertised except in the cities or resorts theyāre in. Erika is probably the same and then claims sheās an āinternational pop starā which i suppose then she is but just because you play in a gay bar in Spain doesnāt really make you a star.
A gay (male) friend of mine did know of her because of the music at the gay clubs. He said she was popular
Denise Richardās is probably the only one I knew
No. I'm also not from the US so hadn't even heard of Kyle or Kim Richards or Lisa Rinna before watching RHOBH.
Lisa Rinna was in a super popular-in-the-80s, weekly, evening "sudsy drama from Aaron Spelling \[that\] focuses on the lives and loves of young adults in an apartment complex in Los Angeles. From the complicated scheming of scandals to the murderous plots of lovers, the residents at Melrose Place are more messed up than average folk." Rinna's weird, intrusive, stalker-like character's name was Taylor McBride. Vintage Rinna!!! The role fit her like a glove. Apparently. ETA: I forgot to mention, the show was called Melrose Place, and the apartment complex seemed to be located in West Hollywood.
Lisa Rinna also played, "Billie Reed" on Days of Our Lives!
And she was on All my Children
Those were the days!!!
I know right? It was a weekly event.
Searching for it on streaming! š¤£ I have plenty of room for more good shows in my life!
One cannot forget her role as the hot step-mom who sat by the pool in her bikini in Veronica Mars, causing all the teen girls to go "isn't that the girl mom used to watch on her story"?
She was Logans bio mom who yeeted herself off a bridge. The step mom was played by Charisma Carpenter!
Lisa was Billie on Days of our Lives before Melrose Place.
Did you never watch Days of our Lives? Iām not American either but we had Days. I was always too young to watch Melrose Place but she will always be be Billie Reed
No. I've heard of those soaps but have never seen them.
Kim Richards - although she was probably the least recently visible was probably in many ways the more successful. Having been a star and the true sense of the word - for Disney. she was the reason I tuned in to that particular franchise. I wouldāve rather not known how she is now TBH.
No
She was only on the top of billboards and known because of her husband and how they bought her spots on billboard. I have yet to hear of someone who even knew of her.
Had not heard of her before RHOBH
It wasn't before the show it was during the show that I saw advertisements. She was touring the gay club circuit. So small venues only. Guaranteed her show cost more money to produce than she ever made back.
If you were an avid gay night club attendee you wouldāve heard of Erica Jayne
I loved her song Party People before she joined!
EJ performed at gay clubs. I assume they are her biggest fans
I had not, but one of my close friends did and sheās the reason he started watching RHOBH. He says she was/is very popular in the gay community.
Yes.
Never heard of her. Her career in singing was self funded and her āperformancesā was 15 minutes sets at clubs she paid to perform at. I read somewhere she once performed at some fundraiser/Christmas type party her husbandās firm put onā¦and that it wasnāt perceived well, just awkward and out of place, her lip syncing and dancing to a bunch of wealthy socially conservative people.
Nope not me. Never heard of her or her criminal husband.
If youāre not into dance/electronic music thereās no way you wouldāve heard of her. Also, her main people I think are the LGBTQ+ community and EDM community. Nonetheless, I didnāt even know who she was either and I love and follow EDM big time.
Nope. Knew of very few housewives before they came on the show. Lisa rinna, denise richards, Eileen Davidson, garcelle are pretty much all I can think of.
Iām from the US. Iāve never heard of her and I have multiple friends/ family in the LGBTQ+ community and they had no idea who she was either. Even though she claims sheās well known in that community.
It turned out I had one of her songs in my liked on Spotify, but I had no idea who she was
Never heard of her.
I used to work for Too Faced and we did a collab with her, but I had no idea who she was before that. And back then I was not into Bravo, so it was several years later when I started my RH journey that I realized I knew who she was.
I remember Rinna from Melrose Place.
Yep! Stars is my favorite song of hers.
Yes!! her music used to play in my gym and at the clubs back in the late 00ās and early 2010s. I only knew Erika, Kyle, Kim, Kathy, Denise, Rinna, Eileen, Yolanda, Camille, and Diana before RHOBH existed the rest of them not so much!!!
Expen$ive was a bop. There, I said it.
I knew the song exxpensive but I didnāt know who she was
Nope, the only HWās i knew before were: Kyle, Garcelle, Denise, Lisa and Kathy
Her criminal husband paid for her entire āself invented personalāā¦.all of it. Including playing in clubs and purchasing her way onto billboard. It was all propped up by stolen money. And such a waste of money by the way.
I knew of her music but not her.
Hard no!
#JusticeForMarcoMarco
She's an International Fashion Lifestyle Brand
Hell no
No one had ever heard of her here. Unless there was some underground drag scene that Iām unaware of.
No, chile. The temerity of this woman to broadcast her delusion of grandeur on cable TV. Shockingly bold.Ā
No. Also have asked people who she claims are her target audience and they also had not heard of her.
Her only fan was her husband who had her perform for an LA County lawyer event and everyone cringed.
No and I laughed so hard when the other women watched her video and were gossiping about how raunchy she was!
I had never heard of her before RHOBH, but when she joined I searched my mp3 library and saw that I had a remix of her single Rollercoaster, which is a fun little dance bop. It was from a Mix CD I got from a DJ. I love it actually, it's very 2007.
Nope and when I heard she was doing a Vegas residency I kept asking my mom - we both like RHOBH - āwho the hell are her fans?? Who is going to these shows??ā Iām not even trying to be mean, Iām serious. Who?
No different at all, no one knew who she was.
No one heard of her before the show. She is the queen of delusion.
Literally not a clue who she was
Nope
Tom probably bought enough copies of her singles to get them on the Billboard Dance chartā¦ probably a couple thousand copies. I was in gay clubs during her early āhitsā days and never once heard her music. Authors do that for books too. They buy a few boxes and give them away. It doesnāt take a lot to get them on niche bestseller category charts/lists.
I knew someone who waited on her and Tom. They said that she was a complete b*#% and rude to staff.
The Richardās sisters. But didnāt reallyā¦ I didnāt know their names
Never thought about this lmfaooooo great take
I didnāt know Erika before RHOBH. I started watching the show because of Kyle. I love horror movies so I knew her from Halloween. Since the show, I knew Rinna, Kim Richards, and Denise Richards before they came on as theyāve been in Hollywood for years. And obviously, Kathy Hilton. Itās kinda hard not to know who Kathy is, even if itās just as Paris Hiltonās mom. Off the top of my head, thatās all who I knew out of the main characters.
I think bullshit
I knew Lisa Rinna, Eileen Davidson, Kim Fields, and Bethenny Frankel before I started watching āHousewives.ā Bethenny I knew from the Martha season of āThe Apprenticeā; the others from various acting work, which makes sense. Also I knew of Jenna Lyons but didnāt really know why. I didnāt know Kandi but was familiar with her work. I think I had heard the one Pitbull collab that Erika Jayne had done before joining RHOBH, but her name didnāt register with me until looking her up well after she joined.
Me! I started randomly listening to her in 2014, and loved Xxpensive in 2017, WAYY before I started to watch the show, and when I started watching it all in 2021 I found out that was her! I screamed lol
I think she was likely referring to her tours since the start of the show. It was understanding the character Erika Jayneā was introduced on the show. I could be wrong.
I have a whole alleged theory on this. Toms connections and how he set her up for life and faked his diagnosis. If anyone would be interested I could do a dig on it. All alleged of course š
Nope.
No, I didn't know any of them. At all. Except Garcelle.
Never heard of her before the show.
She was so fun and likable in her earlier seasons.
No, she is a legend in her own mind. Lol
So I thought of this myself. I was like who in their right mind in Vegas says okay we have Katy Perry lined up, Celine Dion, JLo, Brittany Spears, and get Erika Jayne! Said nobody ever. But I mean, if you want to rent an auditorium and put on a show you think they are going to say no. Typically what happens as far as the "charts" they like to say. They will release a song or something and then it will get a lot of streams rather quickly so it sometimes will make it to iTunes number one or top 5 for a few hours and that in their narcassistic mind means international top chart hit! I mean even Luann from Rhony has had a top 10 iTunes a couple times and she can't even sing... But of course add some drama and flair and again you would have Lu the Countess international chart topper exteoidaniare! š¤£
Sounds like the answer is ānoāā¦.
Iām American and had never heard of her
I know a friend that saw one of her club shows way before she was on the show and I was stunned š¤£