And tonight's episode, in which Victoria goes out on a date, probably didn't help. Talk about patterning bad behavior — she stomps out in a snit when her date suggests that her sons might not be the only ones who are spoiled.

Victoria doesn't have nice things to say about her ex-husband, but after seeing her in "Growing Up Gotti" you have to figure the divorce couldn't have been altogether his fault.

She maintains that she would "probably" still be married if her life "didn't . . . play out in the press." But she can hardly climb on a high horse about that — she's a "celebrity journalist" who writes for the gossip tabloid "The Star."

"I'm told, by most of my celebrity friends, that I bring a kind of uniqueness to the craft and that I understand what it's like to be on both sides — to be written about and then, of course, to write about," Gotti said.

Too bad none of them told you that you should avoid doing reality TV.

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