ABSURD TO SUBLIME

This time, to the OC Register

Related: Simon Slapped Tamra on NYE

His name is Eddie Judge. He’s from Ladera Ranch. Radaronline.com reported that Simon Barney, the man to whom Tamra has been married for 11 years, caught Eddie and Tamra holding hands and “acting like a couple” Saturday night at a club in the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas.

In the post, Simon called it “the ultimate betrayal” since he’s friends with Judge. He confronted Judge, asked him if he was (bleeping) his wife, and then fell to his knees as security was escorting him out.

Simon filed for divorce from Tamra on Jan. 7.

Tamra denies that she and Judge are dating or are a couple. “We’re really good friends,” she said in an interview today. “I think he’s a wonderful person. He’s helped me a lot through this. If something does evolve, I’d be lucky.”

Tamra said she went to the club with several people, including “Housewives” castmate Lynne Curtin, not just with Judge.

“He’s hurt. He’s lashing out,” Tamra said about Simon’s account of the matter. “He filed for divorce, so what I do in my personal life is really none of his business. I would be so lucky to have a solid guy like Eddie. You really know who you’re married to when you go through a divorce.”

Simon stands by his story and says Tamra set him up to see her and Judge together. “This is premeditated. It was maniacal and evil,” Simon said in an interview. “That’s the kind of person she is. I was totally caught off guard.”

While Tamra denies confirming her new relationship to Radaronline, Simon says the Web site used text messages she sent to a reporter at the site. The reporter could not be reached Monday for comment.

UPDATE (2/08/10): The Radaronline reporter, Alan Butterfield, called the Register back and said Tamra’s recent text messages indicate there is a relationship between Judge and herself. The messages went something like this:

Butterfield: How long have you been dating him?
Tamra: Since last week. We’ve been friends for a year.

Butterfield: Are you sleeping with him?
Tamra: Yes, since last week.

Butterfield also said Tamra provided Radaronline with a photo of the new couple. It appears to be the same photo Judge uses on his Facebook page, except Tamra’s face is cut out of his profile picture.

Simon said he’s trying to take the high road and related the story of the scorpion and the frog. According to that tale, the scorpion wanted to get across a river. He asked the frog to give him a ride, and assured that he wouldn’t poison the frog. But while they were crossing, the scorpion poisoned the frog anyway.

“I’m the frog, she’s the scorpion,” Simon said of his estranged wife. “She can’t help it. It’s just in her nature.”

The next new episode of “The Real Housewives of Orange County” airs Thursday, Feb. 11.

Posted on Simon’s Facebook page:

THIS IS COMING FROM A REAL FAMILY FRIEND! SIMON YOU HAVE LOST IT! I AM READING WHAT YOU WROTE AND IT MAKES ME SICK! WHY DONT YOU TELL PEOPLE THE TRUTH. EDDIE WAS NEVER A FRIEND OF YOURS, HE WAS A FRIEND OF MARCOS’S THAT YOU HAD BEEN AROUND A FEW TIMES ONLY. LET’S BACK TRACK TO NYE, ISNT IT TRUE THAT EDDIE SAW YOU SMACK… TAMRA IN THE FACE BECUASE SHE WANTED TO GO TO THE BATHROOM WITHOUT OUT YOU FOLLOWING HER AND AFTER THAT HE REFUSED TO BE AROUND YOU IN A GROUP SETTING. WHY IS YOU ARE ALWAYS TALKING CRAP ABOUT YOUR WIFE AND SHE KEEPS HER MOUTH SHUT?
START THINKING ABOUT YOUR KIDS AND NOT BASHING YOUR WIFE.
I HOPE TAMRA DOES END UP WITH EDDIE HE IS SUCH A NICE GUY!