Vivica Shaw (Rolonda Watts) was a recurring character in Season 5 and appeared twice in Season 6.
Personality[]
She "is" nice and uses her looks to get things. However truly she is mean, rude and plays very dirty, she will also cheat on men and steal their businesses, such as Ray.
Relationships[]
Ray Campbell[]
Vivica And Ray started going out sometime before Working Girls. They broke up in The Best Policy after Ray caught her cheating on him with another man. Since the other man broke up with her too, she became devastated. She was supposed to have moved back to Chicago, but she started a limo business to get him back. However, she got arrested for bribing and because her drivers didn't have proper licenses.
Tamera Campbell[]
Tamera didn't like Vivica from the start. She thought Vivica changed her father for the worse, at one point saying that she had turned her "reliable, dependable boring dad" into a "balloon riding, gallivanting, promise breaking Romeo". She made her dislike even clearer by refusing to come to a dinner that Ray had organized for the family to meet Vivica. Despite her dislike of Vivica, Tamera made an effort for Ray's sake and went to Book 'Em Joe the same night to meet Vivica, after collecting school newspapers from the printers. Tamera continued to make an effort but found it increasingly difficult due to Vivica's tactlessness. For example, Vivica asked Tamera about her plans for attending college and rudely cut her off mid-sentence when Ray entered the room as she threw herself at him like a love-sick teenager. Once again in the face of Vivica's rudeness, Tamera made her true feelings known. In "The Best Policy" Tamera tries politely to back out of eating dinner with Ray and Vivica (or as the latter puts it "eating spaghetti with your father and his best girl") truthfully saying that she had a history paper due the next day. Tamera finally comes clean and tells Vivica she "just doesn't feel comfortable around her". In spite of justifying her actions to her father, Ray is having none of it and sends Tamera to her room without dinner.
Later in the same episode, Tamera sees Vivica at the movies with another man Todd, she reluctantly tells Ray but he doesn't believe her. Vivica had phoned him before going out with the other man saying that she was at home sick with the flu. Later at a fancy French restaurant, Ray discovers that Tamera was telling the truth all along, after he sees Vivica with Todd for himself and apologizes for not believing her.
Lisa Landry[]
Lisa and Vivica are rivals. On occasions, they talk back about appearance and clothes. Though when Ray and Vivica went out, Lisa and Vivica were friends.
Appearances[]
Child's Play (mentioned only)
Trivia[]
- Vivica had multiple jobs such as a CPA, market research, limo service, and weather woman. Though it seems that she never continued a job after a season.
- Out of all of Ray's love interests throughout the whole series, Vivica is one of the only 2 that Tamera openly dislikes; the other being Beverley Simms.