anyhoo, so i am watching one of the two channels that i get without cable (it's a long story, cut off my cable to reduce my tv habit and find i still watch just as much,only it's all crap) and a clip about mary jo eustace just came on.
mary jo is the ex-wife of the cretin named dean mc-dermott who left her, with a newborn, for skanky,plastic-ass,dumb as a post, tori spelling.
the mere fact that i have estrogen coursing through my veins is enough to make me cheer for her team but my allegiance to this woman scorned runs deeper.
mary jo is one half of a pair of kooky hosts of a one-step-up-from-cable canadian cooking show called "what's for dinner". i used to watch it in the afternoons in the summer. it's a fantastic show where bazillion foot tall, bossy mary jo bullies her pint sized open-like-elton gay sidekick ken kostick.
their banter is hilarious and the cooking is purely incidental. one of them always manages to miss an ingredient or skip a step and instructions for making their creations are flashed pointlessly on little graphic recipe cards as an afterthought.
i discovered the show years ago and watched it faithfully whenever i could. i never tired of her setting ken up to compliment her and tell her how fabulous she was nor of ken's self-effacing neuroticism. felt like i knew them.
when i first heard that dean had left her and her newly adopted (i think) baby for tori, i was stunned. in part because i liked her and hated to see her humiliated but mostly because he left her for tori spelling. how do you go from a down to earth woman with a wry sense of humour to a bratz barbie doll? they are two completely different types of women. how insulting to have your husband leave you to become a b-list kept husband.
as tragic as it must have felt at the time, it's gotta be sweet to see the fool do his lame-o version of a johnny depp gesture and get her ugly mug tatooed on his arm. when he's doing such a good job of embarassing himself...
i remember watching some festival schmooze thing at much music where tori and mary jo were at the same event. a drunken tori got on stage and started ranting about stupid ex-wives and a camera was simulcasting mary jo in a backstage room somewhere. it was brutal. so clear to see who the real problem was. really felt for her then.
turns out mary jo has written a book called "the other woman" detailing her breakup (which apparently took place in a ten minute conversation in a hotel room!). this ought to drive tori 'round the bend.
just might have to put it on my summer reading list.
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