‘Bad Girls Road Trip’ in Boston

Few people know this, but I worked as a production associate on the season finale of “Bad Girls Road Trip” when it filmed in Boston last April.

After watching the first season’s episodes unfold--you know when poor little rich girl Ripsi Terzian drinks a helluva lot of Tequila and goes psycho on her roommates--I was somewhat apprehensive to join the crew when I got a call from the producers.

Ripsi was kicked off the show, right? Not exactly. In the Boston finale, Ripsi returns and she has to deal with some unfinished business.

Of course, it wouldn’t be a season finale of a reality show without some manufactured drama. My first task on the set at their hotel in Needham was to purchase booze for the girls for what everyone was calling “the party bus”--i.e. one of those broke down trolley cars with music and a disco ball.

The booze budget was around $500 for five girls. Hmmmm, interesting.

Everyone was talking about a smackdown that occurred the previous night at a club in Boston. Here’s how Zara colorfully describes the drama in her letter on Oxygen.com:

“Out of nowhere two bitches started to dance with us and they were ugly bitches too. We walked away and they got offended and all of a sudden…. The rhino attacked us. I closed my eyes and said, ‘Oh Fuck.’ I closed my eyes and started swinging. Ripsi had one of the bitches hair and the other bitch had my hair. All of a sudden we were dancing and that became a rumble on the dance floor with 7 bitches started to fight the two of us. While fat ass Leslie sat on her ass watching and rat faced Aimee sat on a bench watching too, Ripsi and I got attacked.”

I was somewhat apprehensive to be near this Ripsi chick. Of course, guess who we had to pick up and escort to the casting session at The Liquor Store? Yep, demon beast Tipsi Ripsi.

At first, we couldn’t find her home in Watertown. Of course, her response when we phoned her was, “it’s the biggest house on the street.” Ripsi was right. We found it.

She was dressed in what looked like a black Chanel cocktail dress—and was actually stunning in person. She talked about how she initially caught the eye of the show’s casting director after a girl-on-girl catfight outside of a restaurant in Harvard Square.

Meanwhile, the bad girls were boozing on the party bus as it slowly trekked from Needham to Boston. The vehicle kept breaking down … which, of course, means more time for the ladies to get drunk off their asses.

We drop Ripsi off on the corner and she meets up with the girls under the disco ball. The scene at The Liquor Store gradually devolved as the evening progressed. One of the girls—Zara I think—decided to take a permanent marker and tag the mirrors in the ladies bathroom.

The bus headed to a swank restaurant in the Back Bay area. Truth is, Ripsi didn’t do a repeat of the violent, drunken outburst we witnessed on the second episode of “The Bad Girls Club.”

After all is said and done, Ripsi won me over ... well, in that “Flavor of Love” meets “Jerry Springer” sort of way.

Anyway, catch the Boston season finale tonight (10 p.m. Tuesday, July 24) on Oxygen.