Shopping channel snark

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You may be right about Callie’s reason for the perpetual tan, but even her manner and style of dressing (more cleavage than she previously showed) seems different to me lately. She’s way too giddy and over-excited at times. And with some of the more attractive male vendors–more than a little flirtatious. In fact, last month I heard her make some jarringly off-color remarks to one male vendor that were actually kind of distasteful and not at all what I would have ever expected her to say. I can’t remember who the vendor was or what the remarks were exactly, but she was definitely flirting with him and not in a subtle or artful way either.

Methinks our Callie may be a cougar on the prowl. I always liked her too (as much as you can like any of those professional fibbers on the shopping channels) so I hope she manages to snag herself a good catch, lol.

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Her behavior has changed somewhat, recently, as you noted. Back in February(?) she took an extended vaca to HI with a male friend, Paul? (and his mother???..as I recall from pics she posted). She’d mentioned his name, on air, a number of times … and she’s mentioned him staying at her house. But then, out of the blue, some weeks back, she kept bringing up ‘Jamie’…her ex (Tristan’s father). Agree about the flirting thing, which she’s always had on some level, IMO, but, lately, she’s being more obvious. She strikes me as someone who says what she thinks but was previously a bit filtered…not so much now.

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Meant to add that I think Callie has gotten divorced. Not only because she never mentions her husband anymore or wears her wedding band, but because during a recent presentation of a home security device, she said that she’s often nervous at night because she lives alone.

What a stupid thing that was for her to say on air! And this right after talking about the recent break-in one of her neighbors had! :frowning:

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I did hear the presentation where she referenced the neighbor’s break-in. But recall she’s also said she lives in a very safe (gated?) area. With so many concocted stories, never know when something is told to enhance the product being sold.

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I didn’t see your post before I wrote mine. So she is divorced. I didn’t catch the shows where she mentioned going to Hawaii with what sounds like may be a boyfriend–though I heard her say she did go there.

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That’s another thing that I’ve noticed has changed about her. She never seemed to B.S. as much as the other hosts do. But I’ve caught her in more than a few outright lies in regard to some of the products she claims she uses. Contradicts herself as the occasion fits.

They mentioned at the “other” place that a few times the camera caught her smirking while listening to some of the callers too.

Eh. They’re all such phonies, anyway! :frowning:

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The times she’s mentioned ‘Paul’ it was usually in conjunction with the Castro Convertible piece using his height and size to demonstrate how well the piece accommodated a large man and his supposed proclamation of how comfy it was. But, during presentations of the Concierge inflatable beds, Callie claimed to own both the twin and queen, as I recall. (Beds galore!) She frequently mentions having lots of people staying at her house so whether she’s fabricating for the purposes of sales or sometimes finds herself playing hostess to a good number of folks who need bedding, who knows.

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JTV is having their semi-annual “Tanzanite Event” this week. It makes me miss Cheryl more, since she loved tanzanite so much.

I had to turn off the tanzanite show I was watching, though. It was Sharon and Kristen. Normally I like both of them, but they were just acting too silly and giddy over some inexpensive tanzanite silver jewelry. It was low-grade tanzanite, the kind that is pale blue to lavender. That’s fine if it’s what you can afford, but if I were a host I wouldn’t act like the pale colored tanzanite is something to “ooh and ah” over.

In checking the show reviews on the website later, I saw that there was higher grade tanzanite jewelry presented in other shows. The outstanding piece was a $34,000 ring with a 23-carat stone, in 18K gold. It was gorgeous, but for a stone that big (19 x 14 mm) I would have wanted it set in a pendant instead of a ring, so it wouldn’t get banged up. Tanzanite is not a very hard stone. (Haha, look at me daydreaming that I could ever buy a piece of $34K jewelry!)

I have to say that I got creeped out by the Sharon and Kristen show, and other tanzanite shows I saw briefly, because all the female hosts were wearing blue. It affected me this way because of the Jodi Arias trial. In case you haven’t followed that case, Jodi brutally murdered her former boyfriend, Travis Alexander, in Arizona in 2008 because he was interested in another woman. She was convicted of first degree murder in 2013. It was a death penalty case, but two different juries hung on the sentencing, so the prosecution agreed to drop pursuit of the death penalty and leave the sentencing decision up to the judge, as of March 2015. The judge said the sentence would be either life with possibility of parole after 25 years, or life without possibility of parole.

The sentencing hearing was held on April 13, 2015, and after hearing victim impact statements (the Alexander family) and Jodi’s argument that she deserved parole after 25 years because she killed him in self-defense, the judge decided on life without parole. Anyway, to get back to the point, the Alexander family and other supporters of the victim had decided to wear blue to the sentencing hearing in honor of Travis. (It was his favorite color.) The sentencing hearing was televised, and I saw dozens of people wearing blue. So when I tuned into JTV and saw everybody wearing blue, I immediately thought of the Arias sentencing hearing. This was just a coincidence with JTV; I’m sure the trial never entered their minds when they planned for the hosts to wear “tanzanite blue” on April 16-19.

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Did someone say Lisa Mason is coming back? Do you know when? I really enjoyed her shows. I bought that ring that was designed after hers and I still wear it a lot. Very delicate and pretty.

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I believe Lisa M has already started.

Boy, Lisa Robertson really is desperate for attention when she posts on Facebook that she was sick from both ends. I don’t think her hangers on need to know about poop and puke.

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I tried to go on the JTV website this morning to leave a product review. Shortly after I logged in, a message came up on the screen that the site was down for routine maintenance. Huh? They shut down at 10:30 on a Saturday morning, right when a lot of people are shopping? Every other retail site does maintenance in the middle of the night.

Ya think their site crashed because so many people were ordering tanzanite? LOL.

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Klovestoshop…wow, just wandered over to LR’s FB page. There.are.no.words. Asking her fans what foods would be easy on her sick tummy? Going through the drive-thru while in the midst of doing some hair treatment, towel clipped around her neck!!! No sooner on the mend than she and ‘bf’ are on vaca again, at yet another beach. Never a fan of the woman and her post-hosting lifestyle has done nothing to endear her to me. If anything, I now find her even more off-putting.

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I’m sure Lisa made a shit load of money while she was at the Q. But damn this is like her 5th trip to Florida in about a month. She also went to TN to visit her family. And many times when she and Eric leave FL they don’t fly home to PA. They fly into NYC and spend a few days at some swanky ass hotels. They eat at these 5 star restaurants where Eric orders the $100 fish entree. She posted a sample title for a new backsplash she wants to install in her kitchen. She’s talking about going to Italy for vacation later this year. What gives?!?! She must have gotten a heck of a severance package upon her departure. Because I’m sure her Gym Rat Boy Toy doesn’t have that kind of money. If you ask me, he’d better hang on to Miss Money Bags!

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I don’t understand why you guys who have a serious hate-on for Lisa spend so much energy Facebook stalking her. She’s gone from QVC so you don’t have to be subjected to her sales talk, why do you do it if you dislike her so much? I honestly am asking, not snarking, because I just do not understand.

I can’t STAND “thufferin’ thuckotath Thawn” Killinger, so I just don’t watch her shows and don’t go to her facebook, so her irritating speech impediment and her moron-itude doesn’t get on my nerves. I do practically give myself whiplash grabbing the remote if one of her shows catches me unawares. But to go to her facebook page? WHYYYYY would I subject myself to that?

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I can’t speak for anyone else, but I look because her Facebook page is so snark-worthy. It’s a goldmine, really. It’s like a train wreck - you can’t look away.

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I still don’t get that. I mean her stuff is so ordinary, everyday. It’s the same sorts of things my (real) FB friends post. Going out to eat, going on vacation, pics with friends. I’ve seen more snark-worthy stuff about new moms and their (understandable) baby obsession. You really think vacation pics and dinners out are “snarkworthy”?

On edit, something that was super snarkworthy was Thawn and and her idiotic “is the moon a star or a planet” moment of imbecility. LOL! I wouldn’t have seen it had other people not spread it around because, as I mentioned, I can’t stand her so I avoid her, but that clip was all over my facebook page. As Bugs Bunny used to say “what a maroon!”

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Well, I guess we’re allowed to post anything we want about now unemployed show hosts on this board, mostly because it’s verboten on other boards. If people want to snark on previous show hosts, it’s fine by me. The other board, and this one, is for snark on current hosts. And, BTW, it’s not stalking anyone if the person is putting things out on a public forum like Facebook.

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Oh I agree, you can post whatever, as can I. I don’t get “snarking” on ordinary, everyday posts like vacation pics, food pics, friends and family pics. I mean if I snarked on those things I’d be snarking all my friends and family because that’s mainly what facebook is, no? Sharing what’s going on in your life. But by all means, continue to make fun of her for going out to dinner and taking vacations!

(But seriously, when Thawn gives you such fantastic reasons for snarking because she is just so stupid, you should totally take her up on it.)

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I agree that looking at Lisa’s FB page is like watching a train wreck in progress. She wears clothes that costs thousands of dollars, goes on trips all of the time, eats at the finest restaurants, got a 11 yr younger boy toy boyfriend…she has it all! But one day something will happen. Whether it’s financial problems or boy toy dumps her 50 yr old ass for a 20 something hard body or health problems…something will happen. It’s called LIFE and it happens to all of us at one time or another. And when it does it will be fun to watch her fall from grace after 20 years of bragging about her perfect life.

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Also, “Facebook stalking” is the correct term for it. See urban dictionary:

I continue to boggle at the number of people who find it a “train wreck” or “bizarre” that someone goes out to dinner, goes on vacation, visits distant relatives or asks FB about health problems. I guess I’m some sort of “train wreck” because I have done all of those as have my friends. Who knew?

Why just yesterday I posted a picture of a bird in my garden! Quelle horreur!