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Who watched Tabatha’s Salon Takeover this Tuesday night? Did it make you want a bleached-blonde, Australian bad ass in your life telling you to ship up or ship out? Oh wait, maybe that’s only my reaction. In the first episode, Tabatha tackled cleaning up Chicago’s Orbit Salon and even fired a surly hair stylist, Lindsay. In my usual travels around the Internet, I discovered that Lindsay has been hired back by the Orbit Salon, which honestly I kind of saw coming.
In an article for The Chicago Sun-Times, a few more pieces of information on the filming are divulged, including:
- The salon owners claimed the producers told them not to clean for 30 days before filming. They also claimed that the show’s staff moved things around to make it look messier.
- We saw Orbit get an aesthetic makeover, as is Tabatha’s custom, but the salon thinks that the show didn’t do enough. Lindsay, the disgruntled, rude stylist says that the salon had real problems, like a broken sink, which the show didn’t touch. Um, guess no one told her this wasn’t Extreme Makeover: Crappy Salon edition.
- Not all of Orbit’s stylists made it on the air. Of 17 employees, 9 made it on the air, which salon manager Andrea tells the Sun-Times was great for the people who had the bonding experience of being on the show, but has created a rift between them and those who weren’t picked by producers.
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Oh that is disappointing, I thought it was one of the better episodes of this ridiculous, wonderful show.
Does it make you wish you had hair stylist friends? Watching this always makes me feel like I’m wasting my hair’s potential. Or something.
Interesting. I thought this episode was pretty tame compared to the few I saw from last season. I was thinking, and previews seem to show, that they are saving the real throw-down stuff for later.
“The stylists say that Tabatha actively provoked them to find a villain for the episode” … and they chose Lindsay lol. Judging from her quotes in the article, months later, I’m betting she didn’t need others to point her out as the bitch of the salon.
The same complaints come from the whiners of Gordon Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares. The owners swear up and down their restaurant didn’t have rats and cockroaches, or spoiled seafood until HE and his PRODUCERS came around! ROFLMAO!
And of the few that tried to sue Ramsey? They failed in court!
I expect the Orbit Salon is just sour grapes because they thought, just like the hapless fools on KN, they would get FREE FREE FREE stuff and then be told how great they are!
Whatever, Orbit, you chose to do the show and if you thought there would film all 17 of your employees you must have rotting pumpkin innards. No sympathy from me for the reality-hos.
I’m dying to find out what outfit the tantrum girl that was kicked off from the Orbit Salon was wearing. Looks like a black pea coat dress… Anyone have an idea?
Many Thanks,
I am not a regular of the show, but that said, having been the owner of a salon – the show shows what happens in so many salons. Who gives a damn if they asked for the salon to be a little dirtier than normal – no salon would pass state inspection by the state inspectors with this sort of filth. But Tabatha goes in and finds the weakest links (which ever salon has ‘em)and exploits their talent or their lack of expertise. It’s something that happens every day in salons all over this country. She gets to the books, the management and the salon’s appearance. This show helps salon owners all over to take a closer look at their salons. See how they measure up and gives every stylist an idea of what are good practices or not.
I think this show is a good one. It sure has salon owners watching and saying “Well she’s like Mary” or “See that’s how our owner does stuff – he’s lazy and doesn’t care about us or the salon.” Tabatha – keep it coming! There are people & salons out there who NEED you…Mj.
I’m with Becky and MJ. Every reality show has the whiners that claim that editing made them look like fools. No one forces them to say what they say. Lindsay was nasty and rude. If they hired her back, it was probably b/c she conned them into thinking she had or was going to change. Bottom line-if you place yourself in a situation where you allow others to use you and make you look like a b*tch or worse, then don’t complain about it later. Tabitha is great and I enjoy watching her. I’ve been a fan since the first show she was on. Lindsay needs to go on one more reality show-Intervention.
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Anyone who had actually watched that episode saw the stylist Lindsey get up and walk out. She wasn’t fired by anyone, least of all Tabatha, who could not fire anyone she isn’t the owner of the salon. An astute viewer would have realized that Lindsey would cry it out and come back chastened and ask for her job back, or that the owner, Eddie, would call her and ask her to come in and talk about it away from the glare of the cameras, which is apparently what happened. And what? You say that the Bravo cameras asked the salon to prune their staff of THIRTY down to a manageable number for them to film a show, and didn’t perform the FREE remodeling up to the standards of the staff? Unbelievable. This is a ridiculous article, and would only be news to someone who has never even heard of the concept of reality television.