Fans of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" will remember Apollo Nida, the husband of lawyer/mortician/mommy Phaedra Parks, for any number of things. He's the ex-con who almost beat the hell out of a guy last season, or he's the boy toy who either bagged former Miss USA Kenya Moore or who was pretty sure he could have. Or maybe he's the poor boy who married a rich girl and then became a crappy husband and father, sort of like the world's worst alternative ending to "The Princess Bride." So many choices!
Well, now he's just the dumbshit headed to jail for eight years on fraud charges. I'm not sure why he needed to cash stolen checks or launder money, seeing that he's married to a lawyer, but I suspect jail was starting to look like a safer place than that marriage, so this all may make an awful kind of sense. What better way to be an absent father than from behind bars?
Okay, I'll admit to not only watching the show but being a Phaedra fan. Yes, she's fake as can be, but funny, and I'll forgive a lot for funny. But her marriage to Apollo was always a head scratcher. Despite an obvious physical attraction (at least on her part), he seemed to be both a macho throwback and none too bright -- a guy she might have wanted to keep on speed dial for a booty call, not actually marry and father her children. I'm not sure whether Phaedra will suffer through eight years of prison visits, but if she was looking for the exit, Apollo's incarceration should make that a little easier.
As to what this means to the show, the short answer is -- not much. Apollo had woven himself into last season by dragging out the question as to whether he and Moore had been intimate, but by season's end the horse had been flogged to death. Other than showing up in Phaedra's workout video and some tense (and honestly unpleasant) scenes of his family life with Phaedra and the kids, he wasn't much of an addition to the show. But hey, if he manages to sell Bravo on a life behind bar reality soap, he just might prove useful after all!
Well, now he's just the dumbshit headed to jail for eight years on fraud charges. I'm not sure why he needed to cash stolen checks or launder money, seeing that he's married to a lawyer, but I suspect jail was starting to look like a safer place than that marriage, so this all may make an awful kind of sense. What better way to be an absent father than from behind bars?
Okay, I'll admit to not only watching the show but being a Phaedra fan. Yes, she's fake as can be, but funny, and I'll forgive a lot for funny. But her marriage to Apollo was always a head scratcher. Despite an obvious physical attraction (at least on her part), he seemed to be both a macho throwback and none too bright -- a guy she might have wanted to keep on speed dial for a booty call, not actually marry and father her children. I'm not sure whether Phaedra will suffer through eight years of prison visits, but if she was looking for the exit, Apollo's incarceration should make that a little easier.
As to what this means to the show, the short answer is -- not much. Apollo had woven himself into last season by dragging out the question as to whether he and Moore had been intimate, but by season's end the horse had been flogged to death. Other than showing up in Phaedra's workout video and some tense (and honestly unpleasant) scenes of his family life with Phaedra and the kids, he wasn't much of an addition to the show. But hey, if he manages to sell Bravo on a life behind bar reality soap, he just might prove useful after all!
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