Before we get to the (sigh) Twitter Dramz, first let’s discuss this new LeAnn Rimes interview with Entertainment Tonight. Sidenote: why is ET all up on LeAnn’s jock lately? This is like the third big exclusive interview she’s given them in six months. Anyway, LeAnn is promoting her album SPITFIRE and of course she talks about her affair with Eddie Cibrian because that’s all she thinks about/talks about/lives for. LeAnn was asked about the affair and whether she prays for forgiveness and LeAnn said: “I’ve definitely asked for forgiveness … on a daily basis. We are human beings who are going to sin and make mistakes and if you have that connection, for me, is something that I feel is bigger than me, it’s not something that’s unusual to do.” She also talks about how “intense” her relationship with Eddie is and “If I had to, I hope I’d find that again, but it seems like I would never.” Which is a weird way to think about it, but sure.

CB thought LeAnn sounded drunk. I think she just sounds like typical LeAnn though – everything is always all about LeAnn. By the way, I’m including a photo of Brandi Glanville wearing an Alexander McQueen scarf from a few months ago. Go back and look at LeAnn’s scarf in the interview. Cough.

So, what about the Twitter drama? Well, as we covered a few days ago, Brandi got on Twitter to bitch about the fact that she couldn’t get a hold of her sons while they were with Eddie and LeAnn. LeAnn took to Twitter and perpetuated the drama like an a—hole. And so then this happened:

And then LeAnn tweeted this:

Which… sigh. I think LeAnn just poked the bear. We can nit-pick about whether Brandi should air her grievances on Twitter, but can we agree that Brandi has legitimate grievances? And can we agree that LeAnn continues to completely mishandle very sensitive issues involving the custody of these two boys?

And finally, here’s a Vine video that will haunt your nightmares:

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

Last week we had so much to cover that I ended up not saying anything about Radar’s last story about LeAnn buying Twitter followers. Radar reported in April that LeAnn seemed to buy 50,000 Twitter followers (or robotic followers, Twitter-bots) to up the number of her “followers” ahead of her album release. Radar then said last week that she bought even more – about 100,000 new Twitter-bots so that she now has more than 560,000. The number jumped by more than 100,000 literally overnight.

And what is she doing for those Twitter-bots? Well, she’s continuing her path to famewhore every last morsel she can get from being a Bonus Mom. To be fair to LeAnn, I guess Brandi “started” last night’s controversy, but I think Brandi was pretty justified – she was trying to get in touch with her sons, who were with Eddie and LeAnn. And Brandi couldn’t get them on the phone, so she took to Twitter and tweeted one little bitchy tweet, and then LeAnn basically threw a party because she felt like Brandi was engaging her:

Nothing is routine when it comes to adversaries LeAnn Rimes and Brandi Glanville, and their never-ending feud has erupted in public again, RadarOnline.com is reporting. Showing that the well of bad feelings will never run dry, Brandi and LeAnn sniped at each other again over Brandi’s sons on Monday night.

And, to make matters more interesting, it happened right after LeAnn told the world that her stepsons were singing a line from her new album – a verse many believe is about the singer’s affair with Brandi’s then-husband Eddie Cibrian!

“Ive been trying to get a hold of my kids 4 over an hour no response to my calls, emails or messages. Maybe twitter will work,” Brandi tweeted on Monday, approximately 8 pm PT. She addressed the tweet to Eddie.

Unusual? Absolutely. And of course it provoked a response from LeAnn – a public response. As the twitterverse joined in and pointed out that Eddie rarely is on Twitter, LeAnn sent this message for Brandi and the rest of us to see:

“Funny, she just got off the phone w/ them. Sorry, we were doing baths, homework & dinner. All good!”

It didn’t end there, of course, with LeAnn also adding: “the phone rang, I picked it up. Never saw this til after. All you gotta do is call.”

The singer has previously been urged by people close to her to cut back her involvement with people on Twitter and is suing a school teacher who was a twitter critic. Yet, she still kept the topic alive Monday after Brandi dropped it publicly, with yet another tweet: “no drama when the truth is told. Cool! Done! Nothing to it!”

Some people believe LeAnn’s previous tweet about Brandi’s sons Mason and Jake singing a line from her new album Spitfire was sure to rile up Brandi.

“They walk around singing “I don’t want to give you back.” It’s the hooks” LeAnn tweeted.

Many pointed out that the song in question certainly could be about LeAnn’s affair with Eddie while he was married to Brandi.

[From Radar]

Ugh. Does LeAnn not realize that it would have been smarter (in the long run) to simply ignore Brandi’s tweet? LeAnn’s Twitter-bots don’t need to hear this crap (lest the Twitter-bots become self-aware enough to realize that LeAnn has significant issues). I checked LeAnn’s Twitter and she deleted all of those tweets that Radar has, but she left up a couple more. Like, “I’ve had one of the busiest days juggling being put under this morning for dental work, meetings, baseball, dinner, homework LIFE #goodtired”. And “love kids!! Asking them if my album is good…long brake before “it’s good.” Omg I died laughing. Boy do they ever humble you!! Lol”. And “Quote of the day from my bonus son ‘don’t blame me blame the bat’ lol”. STFU, Bonus Mom.

Also – I would be willing to wager money on Eddie and LeAnn screening their calls and not picking up when they saw Brandi’s phone number. Which is probably how all of this started.

Photos courtesy of LeAnn’s Twitter, Fame/Flynet and WENN.

Is anyone else surprised that Brandi Glanville has pretty much been keeping up with her end of the “no more Twitter wars with LeAnn Rimes” thing? I think Brandi chose the right moment to call it quits and exit the battlefield – she waited until she had promoted her book and squeezed every last drop out of the drama, then she assumed the high road and left LeAnn looking like the petty one. And not only that, but I get the feeling that LeAnn doesn’t really know what to do or how to “fight” (not to mention WHO to fight) now.

So LeAnn is just trolling Brandi at this point, or trying to. According to Brandi’s Twitter, LeAnn sent Brandi flowers for Mother’s Day. Seriously. Brandi tweeted: “I thanked @leannrimes on twitter4 my flowers. Our relationship is that we still dont even say hi at baseball. I dont have her number-thats it.” Which is… terse. And not really a “thank you” so maybe Brandi gave LeAnn the gift of DRAMA for Bonus Mom’s Day, the most important day of the year!!

Then, according to Radar, a Twitter follower asked LeAnn about it and she tweeted that it “was actually the first acknowledgement of my gesture I was made aware of. I didn’t see anything else sent to me. It wasn’t for the ‘thank you.’ It was to just simply say Happy Mother’s Day.” But! I don’t see those tweets on her feed at all. So did she delete them? Probably. She did leave up a bunch of tweets about “Twitter Stepmoms” and motherhood and what one of her friends got her for Mother’s Day (?), as well as this tweet: “I’m always amazed at how twisted things can get. Was just speaking about this in an interview and it never ceases to amaze me.” Eh. I don’t know.

Meanwhile, Radar has a story claiming that Brandi spent Mother’s Day (or the day after MD) “alongside” Scheana Marie, Eddie Cibrian’s other mistress circa 2008-09. Brandi corrected the record, tweeting: “I went to @PandoraVT mothers day brunch on a Monday while my boys were N school I didnt know or did I care that Eddies ex mistress was there.” DRAMA all around.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Earlier this week, Brandi Glanville tweeted some cryptic statements. She didn’t name names or anything, but it’s still funny/interesting. First she tweeted, “If u want me call me at home, If u dont have the phone number their is a reason for that ”. Their/There mistake aside, it seems like she’s telling someone in particular that she’s fine without them contacting her. Then the next day she tweeted: “If an “ex” reaches back out to u with a “hey”or”sup” text,do not fall 4 it!They dont want u back they just want 2make sure ur still invested”. Which is pretty good advice. But I guess people thought that last tweet in particular was aimed at Eddie Cibrian, like Eddie was trying to contact Brandi. Radar wants you to know that it’s NOT Eddie. But if this is coming from Eddie, it’s sad/funny:

When Brandi Glanville tweeted about an ex-lover supposedly reaching out to her, the twittersphere immediately assumed it was that ex, her former husband Eddie Cibrian.

But a source close to the actor, 39, insisted to RadarOnline.com that it wasn’t him who sent the flirty missive to the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star.

“This is classic Brandi… she’s getting people to think exactly what she wants,” the insider said.

“Eddie has blocked Brandi’s number from his cell, so she can no longer text him horrible things. You have to understand that she would write constant and evil things to him. No wonder he blocked her.”

The message from Glanville, 40, came the day following Cibiran and wife LeAnn Rimes’ second wedding anniversary.

Said our source: “Brandi and Eddie do not speak unless it’s about their children and even then, its via email. And she knows the home number if she wants to reach the boys.”

Cibrian filed for divorce from Glanville in 2009 after eight years of marriage having already gone public with his relationship with Rimes, 30. Cibrian and Glanville have two children: Mason, 9, and Jake, 5.

[From Radar]

So, Eddie hasn’t given Brandi his cell number for emergencies? Okay. They share custody of their children, but sure. Why would a mother even need an emergency contact, right? But does Eddie have Brandi’s cell number? Because she says that an ex got in touch with her. The overzealousness of Radar’s source makes me suspect LeAnn Rimes (or her batsh-t crazy publicist) just going overboard with a denial. Like, LeAnn keeps track of all of Eddie’s phones and who he’s contacting, so she would know if he texted Brandi but she can’t come out and say that because she doesn’t want to admit that she has her husband on permanent Wandering Dong Watch. Too bad LeAnn doesn’t know about the burner phone he keeps in the back of his closet (I’m assuming) or the one he taped to the lid of the toilet (for emergencies!).

Anyway, I kind of doubt that Brandi was even referencing Eddie. She could have been talking about Gerard Butler for all we know. Gerard’s Text: “Meet me in portapotty 10 min”. Brandi: “HOW DID YOU GET THIS NUMBER?”

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.

Brandi Glanville went to another super-budget event! These are pics of Brandi at the “OK! Magazine SO SEXY event at Skybar” last night. This event seems way tackier than even that McWrap event that Brandi went to a few weeks ago (remember that?). I’m looking through the photos to see if I can find anyone else worthwhile there… Bai Ling was there. Gilles Marini was there. Yolanda Foster was there. So yes, Brandi was the biggest celebrity there. I have no problem saying that.

Ah, I just checked her Twitter… she tweeted: “Bad hair skin night, but thats not gonna keep me from hosting the #SOSEXY #OKMAGAZINE party!” So she was the HOST! Well, then that’s a pretty good gig for her. I hope she got a nice paycheck for this gig. As for Brandi’s dress… it’s cute. It’s way more conservative than she usually goes. I like that her tatas are covered up and the hemline seems almost demure for her. It IS kind of basic, but I think a lot of women would love to own this LBD.

I have to say, I’m kind of impressed with Brandi keeping her word (so far) about not engaging LeAnn and Eddie’s melodrama and narcissism. Brandi didn’t say a word (that I can see) about LeAnn’s attempts to famewhore Jake Cibrian’s sixth birthday party last weekend. Brandi didn’t engage, and the result was that LeAnn looked like an idiot who uses her stepsons as publicity pawns. Brandi’s refusal to engage also makes LeAnn more and more desperate, I think. Which is probably a bad thing. I wonder if Brandi should have disengaged earlier? Eh. She needed to engage them to promote her book, and it worked out beautifully for her. So while her “taking the high road” stance might be disingenuous at this point, she still looks better than LeAnn.

Photos courtesy of Brian To/WENN.com.

Brandi Glanville looks all healed up! Maybe it’s just makeup, but I think her bad chemical peel (or whatever) finally healed and her skin is back to being relatively normal. These are pics from Saturday – Fame/Flynet says Brandi went to Jake’s baseball game. Apparently, LeAnn and Eddie were there too (more on that some other time). Can I just say? Brandi is SO skinny. I think she’s just got that natural gazelle thing going, like she’ll always have skinny legs and she’ll always look coltish. But I also think she watches what she eats, and where’s the fun in that? Also: I really dislike those bandage-looking shoes. LeAnn has a pair like that too. I’m just sayin’. I don’t want to get into who owned it first or anything.

Speaking of Brandi’s stalkers (cough… side-eye), Brandi is moving because crazy Real Housewife stalkers keep coming up to her door. For the love of…! You know how I always say that no one (NO ONE) should troll LeAnn online? Well, the same thing for Brandi. Do not go up to her and act like Brandi is your BFF. It’s sketchy.

There are some realities for a reality television star that are a little close to home. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville has revealed she’s being forced to move to a gated community in Los Angeles after crazed fans turned up to her current digs — where she lives with sons Mason and Jake – in the middle of the night.

“I need a little more privacy,” Brandi, 40, said in a new interview. “I had some people that are fans of the show and they were just coming up knocking on the door at all hours of the night. I need more security and maybe a gate for the safety of the children and myself.”

Because privacy is her top priority, Brandi is staying tight-lipped about where she plans to move, but said her new rental will still be near her kids’ school and not too far from their father, actor Eddie Cibrian.

“The kids will be at the same school,” said Brandi. “I would never pull them away from their friends. Being a single woman, I’m by myself half the time and the other half I have two little boys and I have to protect them. I can’t have no privacy and people coming to the door at all hours.”

And she’s looking to upgrade in residence as well, perhaps to compete with other housewives or her arch nemesis LeAnn Rimes, who married Cibrian in the wake of his split from Glanville – and recently purchased a $3 million home in the Hidden Hills, Calif .

“That really has nothing to do with it,” insisted Brandi. “I’m happy for the boys, they’re very lucky boys. They have a movie theater and all this stuff at their dad’s. It’s not a competition. It’s not like they’re moving so I’m moving. It really is a safety and privacy thing.”

Though there won’t be a movie theatre, the ex-wife of Cibrian said she’s looking for a home with a pool so her children to the actor “can swim off all of their crazy energy.”

She added, “This is the first one we’ve had without a pool. I need to have activities for them and a pool is great.”

Another home essential is a bigger yard.

“There’s not much room for the kids to play outside right now,” Brandi said. “We have a little tiny square of grass with a swing set in and that’s kind of it. I need a little more yard for them to go crazy.”

As she continues to prepare for the move, time is ticking: Brandi revealed she has just 20 days before she needs to move out of the current home. She said she’s “very stressed out,” adding: “We have 20 days left to find a house, but of course, all the ones I like, I can’t afford.”

Another issue is her role on the Real Housewives. Explained Brandi, “It’s hard because a lot of the houses I like don’t allow filming. You have to get that cleared with the landlord, so that’s been a little bit of an issue with the two houses I did try to get and really fell in love with. They didn’t want filming inside which I respect and understand, but my life has to be filmed.”

[From Radar]

Considering how well her book has sold and continues to sell, methinks she should be able to afford to buy (instead of rent) her own place pretty soon. And isn’t she going to write another book too? She should get an advance for that. And then she can invest it in some property. The LA real estate market is so crazy, though, God knows what she can afford. I think a one-bedroom in Beverly Hills probably goes for $2 million (and that’s on the low end).

Meanwhile, Brandi has been tweeting about cleaning out her house and she tweeted the photo below with the message “OMG cleaning out my office for the move and look what I came across! Baby jakey and dad showering!”

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

OMG. Right?! Yesterday, Brandi Glanville tweeted the above photo (I think she deleted it later, because I can’t find it on her Twitter feed). Brandi told her Twitter followers, “Doctor said he could get rid of my melasma. It was to hard for my skin. Still healing, its been depressing #skinobsessed.” You can read about melasma here – it’s basically skin discoloration, etc.

I’m guessing that Brandi’s dermatologist gave her some really hardcore chemical peel, maybe? I’m so afraid of chemical peels. My skin is so sensitive, I’m sure if I ever got one, the result would be like this or worse. I would be the 1% that never recovered from a chemical peel. But I’m guessing Brandi will recover. Her face looks burned, for sure, but she sort of looks like she just got a really awful sunburn, right?

Brandi’s been doing a lot of stuff to her skin recently. Last month, when I wrote about her crazy leather outfit and little glovelets, she tweeted me saying that she built her outfit around the gloves because she had a bad burn on her hand:

I think she just got burned on the one hand, though? Which says to me that it could be a cooking burn, either oil or boiling water. Ugh.

Anyway, I hope Brandi gets better soon. I would imagine that her face will start to peel in a few days. Ugh. Gross.

Photos courtesy of Brandi’s Twitter, WENN.

As I was glancing through these LeAnn Rimes-Brandi Glanville stories, I felt a momentary rush of joy that these two women exist. I know I should be above it (we all should be above it), but I enjoy this unending drama and all of the petty feuding. The LeAnn-Brandi stories have something for everyone: drama, lies, infidelity, bolt-ons, Botox, famewhoring, STDs, vadge rejuvs, bikinis, dimples, children, and barely any careers of note. This ongoing debacle is a self-sustaining ecosystem of gossip. I love it. I appreciate it. It makes my job easier.

Anyway, LeAnn gave an interview to “Fabulous Magazine” and here are some excerpts. They are unfortunate, of course.

Did you make an effort to gain weight after people seemed so concerned in 2011?
I never tried to lose weight and I never tried to gain it. It depends on how stressed I am. I was eating a ton and couldn’t put on weight!

Were Eddie or your family ever concerned?
No. But being from the South, my mom and godmother are always happier when I have a little meat on my bones.

Are you happy with how you look?
I’m secure with my body. Trust me, there are moments when I’ve stood in the mirror and gone: “Oh my God, I’m getting cellulite!” but then I stand in a different light and I’m like: “Oh, it’s not so bad now.” I have my moments, like every woman.

You’ve recently become a stepmother to Jake, five, and Mason, nine. What’s that been like?
They have been very accepting. It’s taken a while to feel like it’s not just Eddie and the two boys and then me. But I do feel that’s happening, and the love that I have for them is tremendous.

What do they call you?
Lee. Sometimes they’ll blurt out: “Mom!”, but I just go with whatever they call me. As long as it’s nice and respectful, I couldn’t care less.

Do you and Eddie want to have your own kids?
Absolutely. There’s still a lot of adjustments to make. It could be five months from now or in two years.

Eddie’s ex-wife, Brandi, has been pretty vocal about her feelings for you. What’s your relationship like now?
That’s where you write “insert face reaction here”.

Eek… That doesn’t sound good.
It’s been really difficult. You have to stand up for yourself and be your own person, but at the same time you have to protect these children and their hearts. And that’s a very tough balance.

Do you have any regrets?
I don’t like that word. Do I wish I handled it differently? Absolutely. No one wants to hurt anyone or put themselves through hurt. I think the only other thing we could’ve done would have been to get out of our marriages before anything happened. It was tough, and it all happened very fast. I felt so ashamed and guilty.

[From Fabulous]

I took out some of the stuff from the Radar article about how LeAnn was just begging to start another war with Brandi, because Brandi has already sort of responded and she didn’t sound too pissed. Brandi tweeted: “I am not in a war with ANYONE (maybe the tax man). As I promised I refuse to engage. Peace Love and Happiness people.”

So, do you think LeAnn was making pointed comments about Mason and Jake calling her “mom” accidentally? I’m sure LeAnn said that on purpose, to try to get under Brandi’s skin, but I also kind of think… yeah, it happens. I could see how those two boys would accidentally call LeAnn “mom” and it’s no big deal. I’m sure LeAnn threw a parade about it, but I doubt it means much.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, WENN.

Here are some photos from the Bravo Upfronts, which were in New York on Wednesday. I kept waiting to get these photos yesterday, but they came in super-late, which is fine because now we get to really talk about everyone! First off, this is what Brandi Glanville wore to the Upfronts. I’m fascinated by this dress. While I’m generally not a fan of “illusion netting,” this is a great example of illusion netting done well – it matches her skin really well, and it really creates the illusion that the dress is standing up on its own. Brandi also looks much better here than she did last week at that McWrap event. Her hand has healed too! That’s good.

Here are all of the RHOBH women together – how did I not realize that Kyle Richards is so short?

There were other Bravo “stars” at the Upfronts too, of course. Let’s see… here are the Real Housewives of the OC. CB already covered Vicki’s surgery which – to me – makes her look like a blonde Bristol Palin. That’s not a compliment.

Kim Zolciack, a Beyonce wiglet and Kim’s husband Kroy. That wiglet is cray.

Why is Joanna Krupa a thing?

NeNe Leakes looks completely different every time I see her.

Teresa Giudice… that hairstyle IS NOT HELPING.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Here are some new photos of Brandi Glanville at… well, let me quote directly: “McDonald’s Premium McWrap Launch Party held at Paramount Pictures Studios”. It’s a launch party for McDonalds “Premium McWrap”. You might think this event sounds impossibly budget, and you might be right except… Jeffrey Katzenberg was there! WTH? Kyle Richards, Scott Disick and Khloe Kardashian were also there. What does this mean?! Does this mean that McDonalds is sponsoring huge Hollywood events now? Does this mean I should try the Premium McWrap (which actually sounds kind of good)? So… I just googled it. The new McWraps are bigger and they have more chicken. SOLD.

As for Brandi… girl, I don’t even know. I think she’s overdressed for a McWrap launch, but what do I know? It just seems like a big hot mess of leather and Botox. And I’m saying that as someone who likes her! I wish she would stop messing with her face. And the leather outfit with the gloves feels like some kind homage to Michael Jackson. I predict it will be one week from now when we are discussing LeAnn Rimes’ latest all-black, all-leather outfit with fingerless gloves. Spoiler: Brandi wore it better (and first).

UPDATE: So, Brandi just tweeted me with the particulars – apparently, she burned her hands (that’s so awful, poor Brandi) and that’s why she’s wearing gloves. She also says she’s just been getting Botox & she’s had some moles removed:

I’m also including some pics of Khloe (she looked cute, but I wish she would stop with shiny jeggings and I spy cameltoe) and Kyle Richards and her husband. This seems particularly budget for Kyle, right?

Photos courtesy of WENN and Brian To/WENN.com.