Lipstick Jungle

- Season 2

(2008)

Several months since Charles' heart attack, Nico's guilt over her secret affair with Kirby leads her to decide that she must try to do anything to save her marriage. Meanwhile, Wendy decides to spend more time at home with her family, but things aren't easy when her overbearing and critical mother, Joyce, decides to come for a visit and gets on both her and Shane's nerves fast, and she as well annoys both Wendy's 15-year-old headstrong daughter Maddie, and her 10-year-old son Taylor. Elsewhere, Victory hires a publicist, named Dahlia, while she is also having trouble ...

After Charles' death, Nico tries to get used to life as a widow, but the reappearance of her husband's secret lover, Megan, makes it difficult, while at the same time, Kirby reappears wanting to re-start their sordid romance. Meanwhile, Victory begins construction on her new clothing store and the contractor, Rodrigo, sparks her interest. Elsewhere, Wendy's latest film on the life of John Lennon is in jeopardy when the star, Noah Mason, reveals a personal secret to her that he has terminal brain cancer.

Nico deals with the new CEO of Bonfire Magazine, the conservative, no-nonsense Griffin Bell, who wants to keep things by the book, while she also deals with her romance with Kirby, who wants to take their relationship public. Meanwhile, Victory's new relationship with Rodrigo rolls along, but problems arise when a slightly jealous Joe keeps interfering, and Rodrigo tells Victory that he happens to be raising a 10-year-old daughter by himself. Also, Wendy is consumed by her new John Lennon movie project that is starting to affect her personal and private lives when ...

Victory plans to meet Rodrigo's daughter, Celia, against Dahlia's advice who wants her to continue to appear at public functions to jump-start her career. Meanwhile, Nico asks Kirby to escort her to a glitzy event, but her past keeps coming back to haunt her when her estranged father, Dimitri, asks for her help to help her estranged loser brother, George, after he is arrested for shady business deals while working as a limo driver. After she is fired, Wendy focuses all of her energy on her home life, much to Maddie's dismay who begins to recent her presence, and that ...

As Halloween approaches, Victory has a disturbing dream about Joe dying in a mountain climbing trip that she tries to interpret. Meanwhile, Nico makes expensive plans for Christmas with Kirby, but he refuses to let her pay for him when he believes that dating her makes him feel like a kept man which leads him to try to photograph an on-the-wagon starlet at a party he is working at to make extra money to sell to tabloid magazines. Elsewhere, Shane leaves town for a business trip without saying goodbye to Wendy who seeks solace from her friend Dennis, while she also ...

Victory deals with her boutique store's grand opening when she argues with Dahlia over her extravagant plans for the opening fashion show. But when Victory fires Dahlia, she turns against her and Victory is forced to call upon Rodrigo as well as all her friends to help salvage the event. Meanwhile, Joe confides in both Nico, as well as his long-suffering personal assistant, Ellen. He tells them about his worries where his relationship with Victory is concerned and makes a decision to buy her a ring. Wendy heads back to Parador Pictures to pitch a new movie idea. But ...

Nico is worried about meeting Kirby's mother, but is surprised to find out that the woman, Tina Atwood, is very much like herself: a sexually aggressive, fashionable woman who does anything to get what she wants. With Rodrigo gone from her life, Victory focuses all of her energy on winning a chance to design a new line but she will need help from Joe to establish new contacts. Meanwhile, Wendy is a bit jealous when Shane signs with a new music manager, named Josie, while Wendy herself begins to feel guilty about her encounter with Dennis the week before.

Wendy feels betrayed when she sees Nico and Griffin enjoying a lunch together since Wendy still holds a grudge against him for firing her. But Wendy and Nico have to put their feelings aside when Victory learns that Joe was going to propose to her and she is upset that she may have inadvertently chanced it. In the mist of all this, the three friends head off to a health spa upstate, but it does not turn out the way they want it to. Kirby follows Nico there wanting to spend some quality time alone, while Victory seeks company with a male staff member. Wendy has a talk ...

On Thanksgiving Day, Wendy invites everyone she knows to hers and Shane's apartment for dinner, whom include her difficult and critical mother Joyce, her former co-worker Salvador, and her friends. But plans change when Shane's vixen manager, Josie, crashes the dinner and Shane has to console her when her pet dog dies. Meanwhile, Nico and Kirby find themselves stuck babysitting for Megan's newborn son when she takes off, which leads to Nico trying to figure where she and Kirby stand with this. Elsewhere, Victory finds herself stuck at her house after Daliah sets her ...

Caring for Megan's baby begins to draw a wedge between Nico and Kirby who finds the baby interfering with their personal and professional lives. Soon, Nico received a visit from Megan's conservative parents to talk about where she stands with Megan's baby. Meanwhile, Wendy clashes with an egoistical producer wanting to invest in her colleague's, Cassidy's screenplay, while Shane keeps bring up the issue whether they should have another baby. Also, Victory gives Wendy's daughter, Maddie, some life advice over flirting with a college guy that Maddie finds herself drawn ...

Victory becomes uncomfortable when she designs an advertising emblem for her latest line of bed sheets that feature a semi-nude woman, and her new investor want her to be the model on the cover. Nico calls on Kirby to be the photographer for the shoot, which puts both of them in an awkward position since they both ended their romance weeks earlier. Victory has a run-in with Joe (who's still cynical and misanthropic then ever), and she wants to talk to him about their ended relationship, but he naturally doesn't want to speak to her. Meanwhile, Wendy and Shane's ...

Wendy forces Shane to see a marriage counselor when he decides to defy her instructions and go on a nationwide tour with Natasha Bedingfield's band as a way of feeling that he's still in control of their lives. Meanwhile, Nico learns that Griffin is interested in her, while she clashes with Angie, the new writer that Griffin hires for Bonfire Magazine. Also, Victory struggles to make dinner plans with Joe Bennett so she can get to him accept her own marriage proposal.

When Shane leaves town to go on tour with his band, Wendy makes a bid on a great new movie project with Salvador's help, while she also deals with the headstrong Maddie who begins to cause trouble over Shane's departure. Meanwhile, Dahlia lands Nico a guest spot on the 'The Today Show' only to have it wreak havoc on her personal life when Griffin wants to take his romance with Nico public, and she also learns that Wendy is also after the same movie deal she and Griffin are trying to pull off. Kirby begins to question his breakup with Nico as if he made a mistake in ...