“They called me today and they’re like, ‘Everything looks great but you have an aneurysm in your brain,’” she revealed to sister Kourtney Kardashian. “They’re like, ‘It’s been there for years.’”
“I called Keith Black — the brain surgeon. I sent him a picture of my scan and he was like, ‘I want you to come in for all this imaging,’” she continued. “Then I asked, ‘Can I wait? What makes it rupture?’ And they’re like, ‘Just stress.’”
The reality star concluded: “I’m like, ‘OK, I’m taking the bar exam and I’m studying 10 hours a day.’ The stress has been next level to the point of hives.”
The season 7 trailer of the hit Hulu series showed Kim lying in an MRI machine before finding out she had an aneurysm, which is swelling in a blood vessel of the brain. After causing concern off screen, Kim was asked about her health on Good Morning America, where she explained earlier this month, “I had to end up going and getting tons of other brain scans at Cedars-Sinai [Medical Center].”
Kim noted that “everything works out” for her and said her scan was “just a good measure to make sure you always check everything.”
“Health is wealth,” she added. “And you just have to be careful with everything that you do.”
Kim’s health scare came amid her ongoing attempt to become an attorney. After previously passing the “baby bar” exam, Kim said she would become a qualified lawyer before the end of the year.
“In California, the way I’m studying law you need to take 2 bar exams, this was just the first one but with the harder pass rate,” she wrote via Instagram in 2021. “I was told by top lawyers that this was a close to impossible journey and harder than the traditional law school route but it was my only option and it feels so so sooooo good to be here and on my way to achieving my goals.”
“Six years into this law journey, and I’m still all in until I pass the bar,” she wrote via Instagram on November 8. “No shortcuts, no giving up — just more studying and even more determination. Thank you to everyone who has supported and encouraged me along the way so far.”
She added: “Falling short isn’t a failure — it’s fuel. I was so close to passing the exam and that only motivates me even more. Let’s Go!!!!!!!!!”
Hulu releases new episodes of The Kardashians every Thursday.
I can’t believe the first thing that I’m going to say about Survivor 49 is that the man, the myth, the legend, R-I-Z-G-O-D, Rizgod, baby, might actually be a good Survivor player. Does this mean he’s one of the two from this season coming back for Survivor 50? (If I had to guess, I would say it’s down to Rizo, Savannah, Sage, or maybe Jawan.) The episode starts with Rizo and Savannah returning from a half-assed tribal council where only half of the people voted and they’re triumphant. Everyone at camp who didn’t vote thinks that Sophie would go home for being a challenge beast and that they would flush Rizo’s idol. Neither of those things happened. Instead, Rizo convinced everyone to eject MC, saying she had too many allies back at camp and that this was their chance to get rid of a strong competitor. By the end of the episode, he would sway yet another vote and continue to hold onto that idol that absolutely everyone knows about.
Before the reward challenge, Sophie says something that really stuck with me. She’s upset that everyone assumed she would be going home, and that made her rethink her alliances. “My freshman floor friends are not my friends,” she says. Yes! Exactly that. I’ve written before about how three small tribes of six is an unmitigated disaster, and this sums it up perfectly. When you first arrive at college, you bond with those immediately around you out of survival. You’re new, you’re lonely, you want to do keg stands and hook up, and all of those other things college kids are supposed to do. But you slowly find out there are others out there who you gel with, who you have more in common with, and you leave those freshman floor friends for your real people. On a tribe of six people, you have to make those close connections for survival. But, because everyone on their tribe does the same, that is how you end up with “Hina Strong” throughout the game, because there are not enough available people to connect with who also want to connect with you. Players end up sticking to their original tribe not out of any real affinity but because of game mechanics.
I’m glad that Sophie is coming out of that nightmare and wants to play her own game. As it stands right now, it seems like there are a few axes of power in the game, all of which think that they’re in control. There is Jawan and Sage, forged in their mutual hatred of Shannon, who have a close alliance that everyone knows about. There are Steven and Kristina, who were on their first two tribes together with Sophie, still hanging around the periphery. Then there are Rizo, Savannah, and Soph, who seem like the strongest group in the game, mainly because they have an idol, an extra vote, and a Knowledge Is Power, respectively. Alex is knowingly playing in between all of these groups and refusing to pick a side until he sees where things shake out.
The reward challenge divides the group into two teams of four, with Soph sitting on the bench. The only remarkable thing is that Kristina’s team, with Sophie, Alex, and Savannah, wins the challenge, and Kristina decides to give her spot at the fried chicken dinner to Jawan, the only person left in the game who has not eaten real food at a reward. He doesn’t want to accept it, saying he doesn’t feel like he earned it. Finally, after some cajoling from the rest of the crowd, he says, “I think I want to eat the chicken, Uncle Jeff.”
Let’s stop right there. Of all the things about the new era that I hate, the one I hate the most is calling Probst “Uncle Jeff” or, even worse, “Uncle J.” Yes, I know that we’ve all been watching this man on television for 25 years, and he feels a part of the family. However, Jeff is not your uncle, Jeff is not your brother, Jeff is not your friend. This man has you out there starving, running around in challenges, and voting each other out for his amusement. Also, Jeff is the one who keeps making the game harder. He’s taken away rice from the tribes, he has started stealing the flints of the losers, he is making it even harder to bargain for the basic necessities of life, and they think this guy is cute and cuddly? You’re absolutely crazy! I don’t think that Jeff would take kindly to being called “unc” in the modern sense if he knew that it meant everyone thinks he’s old.
Before the immunity challenge, there are two schools of thought on who needs to go. Kristina and Steven are trying to whip people to get rid of Rizo because he has an idol. They want to split the vote between him and Savannah so that if he plays it, she catches the stray and gets sent packing. Sage is on board with that plan because she thinks that Savannah gives off “mean girl energy,” and that is just what I love about her. Rizo is working to convince Savannah, Soph, and the rest that Alex is dangerous because he’s playing in the middle. Jawan thinks that there are bigger fish to fry than Alex and wants to get rid of Savannah.
The immunity challenge has players holding up a heavy disc with just their feet; when the disc drops, they are out. The twist is that there is immunity for the last man remaining and the last woman remaining. Almost immediately, Rizo and Kristina drop, and Jawan asks Steven, who is a rocket scientist, to distract them all with space facts. He starts rattling them off like Charlie Davis from Survivor 46rattling off Taylor Swift songs. This show is not beating the allegations of being full of nerds. After 10 minutes of space facts, Sage finally drops, and Jeff says, “Sage can’t take it anymore.” He doesn’t mean the challenge; he means the extreme nerdery happening around him. And neither can Jeff because after that, he’s basically like, “Respectfully, shut up with the space facts.”
They may have helped Steven win the men’s immunity, besting Jawan. It was another showdown between Savannah and Sophie, with Savannah taking the necklace for the second time in a row. Here they were all worried about Sophie being the comp beast, and it’s little Savannah and her Pilates body who keeps taking down these endurance challenges. This reconfigures the whole alchemy of who is going home that night. Steven and Kristina think they can just swap Soph out for Savannah as the target who goes home if Rizo plays his idol. That’s the plan that they’re selling everyone.
Meanwhile, Rizo is going around blowing up Alex’s game and alerting everyone that he is playing the middle. The emphasis is on what is going on with Sage and Jawan, who are crucial to either side’s numbers, especially if Steven and Kristina’s plan to switch votes is going to work. Jawan says that he wants to get rid of Rizo and flush that idol, but that Alex is making that plan difficult because no one can read what he is going to do. It seems like Soph being the new backup target isn’t enough to sway Sage and Jawan, who really only liked splitting the votes if it ricocheted on mean girl Savannah. Sophie is another factor, because Steven and Kristina think she’s still with them, but she’s trying to get rid of her freshman friends for good and find some new people whose games more closely align with hers.
Going into tribal, I have no clue who it will be. There are two options, and I know why and I know how it might happen, so this is the perfect kind of editing. We’re in suspense, but we’re not totally in the dark. When the votes are read, Rizo gets his way for the second week in a row, and Alex goes home. “This is what I get for playing both sides. You guys all talk?” Alex says on his way out, to lots of laughs. At least he can cop to what he did and why he went home.
Personally, I don’t know why Rizo was so fixated on getting rid of him when he could have turned it on Kristina or Steven, who are actively gunning for him, which he knows because both Soph and Sophie alerted him to those plans. Alex might have been hard to pin down, but he’s not the opposition. Also, he could be a number in the future if he really was playing the middle. Now, Rizo still has just as much opposition, and everyone is locked into their voting blocs. But this leaves him in a great position. He has Savannah and Soph on lock with Steven and Kristina the only ones (besides Alex) left out of the vote. They now know that Sophie can’t be trusted and that Jawan and Sage might not be as keen to work with them as they anticipated. They’re on their own, and all the power seems to rest with someone who I don’t want to admit might just be the man, the myth, and the legend.
“Oh my gosh, it felt so amazing,” Chiles, 24, told Us Weekly exclusively after the Prince Night performances on Tuesday, November 18. “Literally, I am happy that it was on Dancing With the Stars. I know it’s crazy to say.”
The gymnast added that she feels more motivated than ever, telling Us, “I feel like now I have more of an opportunity to feel more confident in going into my season [at UCLA], being like, ‘OK, if I was able to do it in heels on a ballroom floor in an uncomfortable position, I can do it on a mat.’”
Earlier in the episode, Chiles told her partner, Ezra Sosa, that she was hungry to earn all 10s from the judges.
“I have never had a perfect score as a gymnast, so I’m waiting,” she said in footage from the duo’s rehearsals. “Dancing With the Stars, UCLA, which one’s it gonna be?”
While the pair prepared for their semi-final performances, the two-time Olympian added that “the competitor in me is definitely coming out.”
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Chiles and Sosa, 24, held nothing back when they hit the dance floor. Their first routine — a jive to Prince‘s “Raspberry Beret” — earned 27 points out of 30. Later in the night, Chiles earned a perfect 30 after a fierce Argentine tango to “U Got the Look.”
“I was just very happy,” the athlete told Us on Tuesday. “But also, this is Ezra’s first as well, and just seeing his journey last year compared to this year, I’m just so happy I was able to get it with him.”
Sosa echoed his partner’s excitement over their “surreal” achievement. “I’ve always dreamed of this ever since I was a kid, and I feel so lucky that I get to share this with someone that I love so, so much,” he gushed.
After being saved from elimination — Whitney Leavitt and Mark Ballas were sent home on Tuesday night — Sosa already has big plans for Chiles’ three finale dances.
“We got some tricks up our sleeves,” he teased to Us, joking, “Well, she’s got most of the tricks. Me, not so much.”
Ezra Sosa has come to the defense of his Dancing With the Stars season 34 partner, Jordan Chiles, amid social media speculation that she is a “mean girl.” Sosa, 24, took to Instagram on Friday, October 10, to dispel those rumors, debunking examples that fans gave and saying they “couldn’t be further from the truth.” […]
Not only has Chiles been working hard to earn her place in the DWTS finale, but she’s also been continuing her classes at UCLA and training for the gymnastics season. She opened up to Us on Tuesday about how she’s managed to balance it all.
“I think allowing my outside world in a little more, my team, my friends, my family, Ezra, just letting and allowing people to help me,” Chiles noted. “I, as a younger kid, never really liked help. I felt like it was something that I was going to hinder you, but no, help is OK. Help is fine. So just allowing those people and letting them just understand how I’m feeling, using my voice a little more, that’s how I’ve been able to balance it.”
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The busy schedule hasn’t always been easy. “You can ask Ezra, I’ve had days where I’m just tired and I don’t know where my brain is at, but sometimes I work better like that,” Chiles continued. “I can retain it a little easier. But other than that, I’ve just been enjoying the experience. … I’m just having fun riding the wave.”
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The former costars had their issues during their time on the hit Bravo series, but were able to form a bond after becoming mothers. Scheana and Lala were on good terms when their time on Vanderpump Rules came to an end, even planning their next steps together.
“Lala and I had a good cry about it on the podcast, something that was such a big part of my life for so long. But also I think it was time. Honestly, it all feels right. It’s still all happening. It’s just happening a little differently,” Scheana shared on a December 2024 episode of her “Scheananigans” podcast. “I don’t think I will change anything that I have been [doing].”
She continued: “I text Ariana [Madix] here and there. I ran into Katie [Maloney] at a festival, but I’m not going to reach out more [or] reach out less. I’m just going to continue doing what I’ve been doing because show or no show, all of these people have been in our lives for so long. So it’s like, ‘When I see you, I see you. And when I don’t, I’m living my life.’ I’m just going to continue on the same path I’m on and excited for new adventures.”
Several months later, Scheana and Lala sparked rumors of a rift after they stopped posting about each other. Scheana hinted that she was upset at several friends — including Lala — after they didn’t show any public support for her memoir, My Good Side.
Lala and Scheana initially claimed they remained on good terms. Scheana subsequently confirmed that they faced major ups and downs connected to her memoir revelation about her husband, Brock Davies, cheating on her in 2021 when she was pregnant with their daughter, Summer.
“That was my way of trying to keep our private matters private by publicly calling her. But the real reason [we aren’t on good terms] is not about the book,” she explained in October 2025 on her Scheananigans podcast. “The real reason — which I’ve alluded to in interviews but I didn’t want to put people completely on blast is because these are people I genuinely care about.”
Keep scrolling for a full breakdown of the ongoing feud:
July 2025
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After Scheana confirmed that Brock was unfaithful while she was pregnant, Lala was asked whether she knew, sharing on her “Give Them Lala” podcast, “Yes, I did. But not for a while. So that [excerpt] came out and Scheana called me and said, ‘I just want to give you the heads-up that tomorrow this article is coming out with the excerpt. And I may need to tap you in. I’m very nervous.’”
Lala continued. “I won’t share exactly what she said on the phone because that’s between her and her husband. But I thought the excerpt that was pulled from her book was beautifully written. Well done.”
August 2025
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Scheana later hinted on her podcast that she wasn’t on the best terms with Lala and the rest of her friends who didn’t help promote or endorse her memoir.
“I think it was like maybe a week after it came out, I saw she posted a slide [with the book]. There was nothing else that she posted,” Scheana recalled. “I had reached out to her a couple days after all of the boxes were delivered. Because yes, you do expect your closest friends to post and support.”
“I sent everyone a really nice PR box. I’m sure you guys saw some others who posted it,” she continued. “And I reached out [to Lala] and I was like, ‘Hey, did your box come? Because I hadn’t seen it posted yet.’ I just wanted to make sure I didn’t need to reach out to the publisher to be like, ‘Hey, Lala didn’t get her box.’”
Scheana added: “She said that her brother and her mom deal with the packages and that she would have them check. But then a week went by and the box didn’t get posted. So I’m assuming she got it because she posted the book.”
While Scheana didn’t offer further details on her friendship with Lala, she noted that her daughter, Summer, and Lala’s eldest, Ocean, were “still friends.”
October 2025
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“After extending grace last week, I do feel the need to address it because Lala knows why our friendship is in the state that it’s in,” Scheana explained on her podcast, before claiming Lala “did not take accountability” for their feud. “This is not just about not posting my book for a week. It is about so much more than that.”
Scheana noted that Lala made their falling out public “without even realizing it.” According to Scheana, she found herself being asked often about where she stands with Lala but she would pretend they were on good terms — going as far as calling Lala during her live book shows so fans wouldn’t notice tension.
“Not one — but two — of my closest friends repeated the Brock affair story to other people. One of those that it was repeated to was Brittany [Cartwright]. I know Brittany doesn’t have bad intentions,” Scheana noted. “I wanted to tell her myself but I didn’t have a chance. That one that I can’t get over is Lala telling [our mutual friend] Jenna Willis, who I have not been on good terms with since last season.”
She continued: “Lala did it to humanize me because she said that Jenna was going so hard on me that she wanted to tell her about what I was actually going through. Now I understand the intent was not malicious. … I kept this to myself for two years and then I told one of my best, closest and dearest friends and you go and tell someone. That was extremely heartbreaking.”
After finding out that Lala told multiple people about Brock’s affair, Scheana asked for some space. Conversations about them filming The Valley made things turn sour between them as well in the aftermath.
“It was especially painful for me because Lala knew the dark place that I was in mentally. Finally, I was ready to open up to my close friends about this and she did the same thing. So she violated my trust in a way like that, I was like, ‘This is not a safe space for me. This is not a friendship I feel good in,’” she continued. “This has been a pattern of behavior for years. I remember Ariana and I would talk about this before every reunion, like, “Oh, are we ready for the Lala apology tour?’ Every year should treat me like s*** and then come to the reunion and cry and apologize and I would forgive her.”
Scheana wanted to take steps to protect her peace.
“I don’t want to just get over things and move on now. I want to place boundaries and have a little more respect for myself and the circle that I’m keeping. I want it to be people I trust,” she explained. “I feel safe in all of my friendships and now I don’t feel safe in this. I know she’s not used to me standing up for myself because in the past I just let people walk all over me and I sweep it under the rug. I couldn’t let this just be water under the bridge. It needs to be fully rebuilt and I don’t know if I want to rebuild it.”
“Some of our mutual friends [are] like, ‘Why do you put up with this? What are you gaining from this friendship?’ I just make excuses and make excuses and I’m always there for her,” she said. “Part of me wonders, did she instigate this over the summer to fuel her story line on The Valley? Because she’s only friends with a couple of them and I’m friends with all of them. So she has beef with me and then she gets in more episodes.”
Scheana addressed her decision to keep her distance from Lala.
“I would reach out multiple times privately because I wanted to hash this out privately. I’ve seen people saying this was manufactured for a story line and there is no truth to that. But I feel like the podcast episode that she just put out was purely performative,” Scheana said. “It’s one thing behind closed doors and one thing in front of the cameras and it’s just frustrating.”
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She continued: “I’ve always had a soft spot for her and it is why I’ve put up with a lot of struggles in this friendship over the years. I know there is a good person there. You’re not always a good friend but I can forgive. I can move on but if we’re gonna do that then we need to put the full truth out there. You need to take full accountability. I found myself in the biggest thing I’ve ever done professionally and I’m just getting weighed down by Lala’s emotional manipulation yet again. There’s never going to be accountability in this friendship. The real issue in this friendship is not that Lala changed, it is that I’ve changed.”
November 2025
During BravoCon 2025, it was confirmed that Lala was joining the cast — but Scheana wouldn’t after last minute conversations caused her to pull out. Lala, however, chose not to speak on the topic of Scheana.
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Survivor 50is coming to an island near you. The landmark 50th season of the Jeff Probst–hosted series will air in the spring, and CBS is going all in. We already knew that Survivor 50 would be an All Star season featuring, yes, that Mike White. Leading up to the Survivor 50 premiere on February 25, the network is broadcasting two weeks of rerun episodes that showcase members of the Survivor 50 cast. The reruns will air daily from Monday, February 9, through Friday, February 20, beginning at 8 p.m. opposite NBC’s Winter Olympics coverage. Then, the following Wednesday, the premiere episode will be three hours long, running from 8 to 11 p.m. Young Survivor fans may have to be given special permission to stay up past their bedtime.
CBS has not yet confirmed which encore episodes will air in the rerun list. It will be ten episodes in total, and the cast includes 24 people, so some cast members may not get to shine. Plus two yet-unconfirmed members of the 24 contestants are currently competing on Survivor 49. Several of the remaining competitors can be showcased together because they played against one another previously — White, Angelina Keeley, and Christian Hubicki are all from David vs. Goliath, for example. Maybe CBS will run the Micronesia episode in which Cirie Fields conned Ozzy Lusth out of playing his hidden immunity idol, then voted him out. Always a good idea to reopen old wounds before they see each other again.
Kody Brown has no problem getting rid of his facial hair — as long as it means more kisses from wife Robyn Brown.
Robyn, 47, revealed during the Sunday, November 16, episode of Sister Wives that Kody’s mustache and beard made it “painful” to kiss him, which was all Kody, 56, needed to hear to make a change.
“Would I get kissed more if it was gone?” Kody asked his wife, who replied, “Yes.”
Robyn confessed that Kody’s beard made it feel like she was kissing “one of those vegetable scrubbers from your kitchen sink.” She told the cameras, “I get poked all the time. It’s so uncomfortable.”
Kody and Robyn Brown got real about their unexpected transition to monogamy in the season 20 premiere of Sister Wives. During the Sunday, September 28, episode of the TLC series, Kody, 56, admitted that ending his relationships with Christine, Meri and Janelle Brown felt like doing a “walk of shame.” Robyn, 46, later revealed she’d […]
Kody, meanwhile, was quick to cater to Robyn’s needs, telling the cameras, “I got to get rid of this beard, so I’ll get kissed more.”
After declaring, “We’re shaving it right now,” Kody double checked that he would be rewarded if he was clean shaving.
“Promise me we’re going to make out like teenagers. And I promise you that [it] won’t bother me a bit,” Kody told Robyn as he pulled out the razor and began trimming his beard.
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Once Kody buzzed off his mustache and was left with just a goatee on his chin, Robyn couldn’t help but swoon.
“Oh, look at that jawline. I haven’t seen that in a while,” Robyn said, flirting with her husband. “I think he looks younger. He looks good.”
Both Robyn and Kody were giddy as they started to kiss in the bathroom. “I’m going to get kissed now, man. Kisses for Kody,” he said in a confessional.
“Hi,” Robyn cheekily told Kody in between kissing him. “I like it!”
She told viewers Kody looked “so much better,” gushing about how happy his new look made her. “Oh, my goodness. That’s like, ‘Yeah, let’s just make out. That’ll be great,’” Robyn added.
While Robyn revealed she preferred Kody clean shaven, her former sister wives had mixed feelings about facial hair.
“Someone said kissing a man without a mustache is like eating an egg without salt,” Christine Brown said in a confessional, hinting she’s a fan of men who have beards. (Christine’s husband, David Woolley, whom she wed in October 2023, has a mustache and goatee.)
Meri Brown added, “I think facial hair on guys is attractive.”
Janelle Brown, for her part, said she doesn’t have a “strong opinion” about the topic. “I know I don’t want too much, I’m not really into the full beard or whatever, but I think it just depends on the individual,” she shared.
As Sister Wives fans know, Kody previously had four wives. He married Meri, 54, in 1990, before entering spiritual unions with Janelle, 56, and Christine, 53, in 1993 and 1994, respectively. Robyn joined the polygamous family in 2010.
Kody later divorced Meri in 2014 to legally marry Robyn and adopt her three children from a prior marriage. He remained in a spiritual marriage with Meri until she confirmed in January 2023 that they parted ways.
Kody and Meri’s split came after Christine left him in November 2021 and Janelle announced their separation in December 2022.
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While Robyn and Kody went through a rough patch amid their family shakeup, she revealed during Sunday’s episode that their romantic connection was back.
“Because of [the] other wives, you know, I’ve always just been really careful,” Robyn told the cameras of her approach to PDA. “Kody and I wouldn’t be affectionate publicly, but now that it’s just the two of us, we flirt a lot.”
Heading into BravoCon, rumors circulated that The Real Housewives of New York City was undergoing a cast shakeup, which would keep some newbies and bring back some of the original cast members. However, Cohen was quick to squash those rumors, telling Deadline, “I don’t know where that came from.”
Cohen teased that an announcement for RHONY would be coming soon, saying, “We’re close.”
RHONY cast members like Erin Lichy, Jessel Taank, and Sai De Silva are in attendance at BravoCon, as well as OG cast members like Sonja Morgan, Dorinda Medley, and Luann de Lesseps. The reactions from fans to Morgan, Medley and De Lesseps is deafening every time they come into a room, making it clear that they want to see more of them.
Regarding working with the RHONY legacy housewives, Cohen told us, “I think we’ll always be in business with the OGs from RHONY. I think you see Luann pop up on a lot of shows. Dorinda has a show on Radio Andy. They’re always going to be part of the Bravo family.”
“It’s interesting that it’s one of the smallest states and it kind of feels like this insular community where everybody knows each other [and] you can’t get away with anything,” Cohen teased about the setting of RHORI. “It is the perfect spot for a Housewives. Plus it’s also so beautiful, it’s aspirational. It’s the Ocean state – it’s teeny. And the women are outrageously fun and great for TV.”
BravoCon 2025 isn’t disappointing when it comes to major TV announcements.
As thousands of fans descend on Las Vegas in hopes of seeing their favorite reality stars, the cable network is taking the opportunity to announce some major shows coming soon.
What happens in the Hamptons rarely stays there — at least when it comes to the cast of Summer House and their romances. In fact, some of the show’s biggest stars, including Lindsay Hubbard and Carl Radke have a history of dating their costars. Lindsay began her time on Bravo during season 1 with then-boyfriend Everett […]
Us Weekly is keeping track of all the new show announcements throughout the weekend. Keep reading to see what you may have missed:
In the City
On Thursday, November 13, Bravo confirmed that Summer House stars Amanda Batula, Kyle Cooke and Lindsay Hubbard will star in a spinoff titled In the City. (The remainder of the ensemble cast will be announced at a later date.)
“In the city that never sleeps, a group of New Yorkers navigate the biggest transitions of their lives — marriage, parenthood, reinvention and the reality of growing up without growing apart,” Bravo said in a press release. “Can they have it all, or will they need to choose between the lives they’ve built and the futures they never saw coming?”
While attending BravoCon 2025, Lindsay teased what fans can expect when the show premieres in 2026.
“It’s like our lives in the city, so you get to see more of our day-to-day, as opposed to us going away for the weekend,” she told Us. “You get to see our lives as we live it. It’s that next chapter. Some of us are older. We’re moving on to that next phase. There’s married people, there’s people with babies. We’re all just trying to be adults in New York City. And for New York City, it takes us a little longer.”
The Valley: Persian Style
Nearly five years after Shahs of Sunset aired its series finale, cast members Reza Farahan, Golnesa “GG” Gharachedaghi and Mercedes “MJ” Javid are back on Bravo.
During the “Peaks & The Valley” panel on Friday, November 14, Bravo shared the first trailer for The Valley’s new spinoff.
The series promises to follow a tight-knit group of Persian friends who have traded Beverly Hills for suburban life in the Valley.
“As they juggle marriages, parenthood and thriving careers, cracks in their relationships — both between lovers and friends — begin to emerge,” Bravo shared in a press release. “Rooted in their culture that values family, friendships and loyalty above everything else, emotions often take over as these fiery personalities navigate their highs, lows and everything in between.”
In the season trailer, viewers will watch MJ struggle to keep her marriage to husband Tommy Feight strong.
As for GG, she keeps everyone on their toes when she drops the line, “I’m not the one, not the two, not the three, not the four, bitch.”
The Valley: Persian Style premieres on Bravo Thursday, January 8, at 9 p.m. ET.
The Shahs of Sunset cast has been keeping busy since the show wrapped. The series premiered on Bravo in 2012 and followed a group of Persian-Americans living in Beverly Hills, balancing their careers and social lives with their families and cultural traditions. Shahs of Sunset featured Reza Farahan, Golnesa Gharachedaghi, Sammy Younai, Asa Soltan Rahmati, […]
Still Flipping Out
On Day 1 of BravoCon 2025, Bravo confirmed that a new series will follow former Flipping Out star Jeff Lewis as he navigates his Radio Andy show, design empire and big personality.
“The king of controlled chaos is back. In his new Bravo series, Jeff Lewis is as outspoken as ever, but this time, the mic is always on,” the cable network said in a statement. “Lewis navigates the hilariously unpredictable nature of his professional and personal lives as his trademark spontaneity collides with the people who work with him, for him and still somehow survive him. Jeff Lewis can still flip out when he wants to, and he calls that personal growth.”
Lewis previously starred in Flipping Out from 2007 to 2018 on Bravo.
How many things does it take to make a trend again? Three? I’ve decided that for now, two is close enough, because I’m certain it’s happened more times and I just missed it. What I’m referring to is MomTok’s tendency to wear garments that are basically like “FUCK MEN” while also dating men and living their lives fully immersed in an oppressively patriarchal culture. Earlier this season, Layla wore an “I SUPPORT A MAN’S RIGHT TO SHUT THE FUCK UP” hat. And in this episode, Jessi sits in the car with her emotionally abusive husband while wearing a tank top covered with “BOYS LIE” patches and appliques. It feels like a “girls only, no boys allowed” sign on a bedroom door. Except these are grown women. So are these sartorial choices a safer way to express feelings without having to face the consequences of, I don’t know, telling a man to actually fuck off? Are they a baby step on the road to a more productive and life-enriching feminism? Or are these just brand deals and I’m reading too much into it?
Boys do lie, though, especially when they’re named Dakota. Jessi pledges to tell Taylor about Dakota sexting Taylor’s “almost family member” if he doesn’t do it himself. And so far, he has not. He and Taylor chill in bed, looking at all their Stagecoach pictures. She’s so glad they’re all getting along and even tells him she’ll always love him. You can already see exactly how this will be edited for an intro supercut for The Bachelorette.
I’m getting ahead of myself, though. It must be hard for the moms to keep all these timelines straight, especially with multiple seasons being filmed and aired in rapid succession. For instance, they just filmed the season-two reunion, where they could only talk about what happened months ago, but in “real time,” they’re living out a totally different mess in public and online, much of which could spoil season two — and this is all occurring toward the end of season three. It hurts my head!
After having to film with Nick Viall, Whitney and Conner take their kids to the park to blow off some steam. They talk about how shocked they were to see the receipts on display, specifically Demi’s messages to Marciano and her recorded conversation with Jen, where she provides Jen a detailed script and acting coaching. To me, that recording will always say more about Demi’s character and motivations than any other receipt we have seen as of yet. It’s so transparently manipulative! In light of all this new information, Whitney feels she needs to talk to Demi to better understand the whole situation.
But before that can happen, we must tease MomTok’s new “LGBTQ allies!” core brand tenet. Mayci is buying apples at the grocery store because Jacob says she eats too much Del Taco. In the middle of the produce aisle, they discuss Jacob’s gay cousin and how Mayci and Jacob aren’t like other Mormons. So MomTok will host a pride event to show they’re allies to the community, especially in light of Utah’s shitty House Bill 77.
In what feels like a slightly more authentic conversation, Jen meets up with DWTS pro, Ezra. Like Jen, he is also Hispanic, from Utah, and grew up Mormon. Unlike Jen, he is gay, and when his parents found this out, they pulled him out of dance. He eventually left Utah and the church, and stopped talking to his parents. Then later, his whole family left the church and now his mom has a pride tattoo. After telling this whole story, Ezra says to Jen, “God doesn’t give you something you can’t handle … wanna film a TikTok?” Impeccable stuff. Any underperforming MomTok members should be ready for an elimination vote at the next board meeting because Ezra is here and ready to PERFORM. He’s fun and raw and living out most, if not all, of the MomTok brand tenets. Who cares if he’s not a mom? Many of the best Real Housewives aren’t wives. Semantics!
Anyway, it’s time for Whitney to sit down with Demi to get to the bottom of what Demi really meant by “eggplant, water, clam” emojis, among other post-reunion pressing questions. Demi has answers for everything. Flirty texts? It’s how she talks to all her friends. Her pet name for Marciano? A “funny prank” her daughter made up. Marciano FaceTiming her daughter in the first place? An accident. Talking to Marciano if he’s her abuser? A trauma response and also a plan to prevent the sexual assault from “coming out.” Any other questions? Bret knows everything.
Whitney returns to the hotel after hearing Demi out and immediately reports everything to Conner, as it’s not adding up for her. He points out that Bret wanting to order DoorDash food to his wife’s abuser is “odd” (a very diplomatic way to put it!), then goes on to say if Whitney came home and reported she was assaulted, he’d do everything in his power to keep this person away from both her and their kids. Whitney ultimately thinks Demi is not being 100 percent honest with her, and also likely not being honest with herself. Conner ultimately wants to err on the side of believing the person who said they were inappropriately touched but the story isn’t adding up. If you’d have told me during season one that these two would have the most measured and mature response to really anything, I’d have done a hearty chortle. But my favorite part of being a reality television fan is being proven incorrect! People are complicated.
Back in Utah, the Swig sponsored beverages are flowing at the MomTok pride event. Taylor eats funeral potatoes while Jessi feels sick to her stomach knowing Dakota is there doing bumps of caviar and wooing his baby momma back. Everyone, including the podcast bozos who busted their way onto the guest list, is well behaved. Mayci pops over to Joseph (Jacob’s cousin) and is all like, “I [production] was JUST wondering: was it hard to come out to your family?” Mayci compares his coming out journey to her telling her parents she was pregnant out of wedlock while at BYU. Mikayla asks about any changes at BYU with the pride flag law as if BYU was flying pride flags in the first place. When Mayci and Jacob get home, they plant a pride flag in their yard because MomTok needs to use their platform for good and be more active allies for the LGBTQ community. Okay, so … y’all are going to be supporting progressive candidates and measures up and down the ballot from here on out, then, right? RIGHT?!
Earlier in the episode, Jace and Mikayla went to a couples therapy session. It’s the same therapist who tried to refer Mikayla to a sex therapist, so I assume it’s an interim situation. They rehashed their struggles around vulnerability and disparate sex drives. Jace was concerned Mikayla wouldn’t have the motivation to work through this stuff, but the therapist reminded them that building a better relationship as an example for their kids could be a powerful motivator. This seems to work. While discussing their birth plan, Mikayla tells Jace for the first time that her abuse started even earlier than at 15 — that there were other instances when she was six, but she felt like she had to protect her abuser. Jace’s heart hurts so bad (same!) and he says his job is to create the first safe space for her. If Jace ends up taking an evil (or even just classic shitty man on this show) turn, so help me god.
Speaking of classic shitty men on this show, Taylor learns about Dakota’s discretions. Her therapist told her she was going to get news of something really hard. Is this normal? I’ve never had a therapist who also acts as an oracle. The therapist tried to get Taylor and Dakota to come in so he could tell her in a controlled setting. This did not happen because Taylor was about to leave for Los Angeles, so Dakota told her immediately about his dalliances with [basically-a-family-member]. I totally get Demi’s daughter’s name being censored out, but a friend of Liann’s mother, who is presumably a grown woman? Surely the TikTok detectives will figure it out soon enough.
Alas, it’s a mess and Taylor is mad she’s going to have to disassociate while filming Jimmy Kimmel. She had a glimmer of hope last week, and now she has nothing. But soon, she will have no less than five limousines full of suitors vying for her hand. And that’s to say nothing of the most important thing she has: SISTERHOOD.
Jessi tells Layla in the first episode that she buried the news of her affair with Marciano because her and Jordan were going to stay together.
“We didn’t need outside opinions and voices,” Jessi said.
Jordan told Jessi there are “dark parts” of him that don’t want to work on the marriage anymore and Jessi later opened up about “emotional abuse” in their marriage.
“The question I have to ask myself is if you’re the person I still want to be with,” Jordan tells Jessi in episode one.
Throughout the season, Jessi and Jordan get into fights over the Marciano issue and even separate. In episode 4, Jessi tells the rest of the women that they’re doing “two nights on, two nights off” and it’s hardest to imagine her life without Jordan when she’s at home doing bedtime alone with the kids.
“Infidelity is definitely frowned upon in the church and I’m really afraid of the backlash that’s going to come with it,” Jessi says in the first episode. “I’ve worked really hard to earn [Jordan’s] trust back and now it feels like all of that progress is going to go out the window.”
In the series finale, Jessi notes that the couple’s 90-day separation is coming up and she needs to make a decision about the future of their marriage. She says if it was up to Jordan they’d already be back together, but she’s feeling a lot of pressure and unsure of what she wants.
During a conversation in the finale, Jordan said the 90 days gave him a chance to realize how much he loves her and wants to make their marriage work.
“Not out of necessity but because that’s what I want,” Jordan says. “I can’t imagine my life without you and I believe we both deserve to put what’s happened behind us and try to move forward from it.”
Jessi said her “biggest fear” is that they get back together and fall back into their old ways. However, she said the couple has worked on communication and if they’re both putting work in they “deserve to give it a chance.”
At the end of the season, Jordan moves back in and he said he’s “over the moon” to have the chance to work on their marriage.
“I sometimes question, have I made any progress?” Taylor Frankie Paul, who in just three short years leapt from being the leader of #MomTok on Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives to the single lead of ABC’s The Bachelorette, asks Vanity Fair. “We’re humans, we make mistakes; and I feel like I do [make] a lot of different mistakes. That’s what life’s about—it’s trial and error. I’m learning different lessons now in this phase of my life.”
Paul’s latest chapter plays out on season three of the wildly popular Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, which reveals that while promoting the show’s second season this spring, Paul privately suffered personal betrayal involving on-again, off-again ex-boyfriend Dakota Mortensen, father of her one-year-old son, Ever True, and a close family friend. When I reach Paul, she’s in the backseat of a moving vehicle, being whisked from one mystery location to another for her turn on The Bachelorette. Paul can’t technically disclose that she’s not near home, but the palm trees peeking through the car’s back windows confirm: we’re not in Utah anymore.
Since 2022, when Paul, now 31, revealed she was divorcing husband Tate (father of Paul’s daughter Indy and son Ocean, who do not appear on Mormon Wives), after she engaged in “soft swinging” (some heavy petting and emotional affairs, but no “full-on” sex) within their married friend group, she has been filming her life at a near-continuous pace.
Before sending shockwaves through Utah’s #MomTok community, Paul already shared near-daily snippets of her more buttoned-up Mormon life with what eventually grew to 1.8 million Instagram and 5.8 million TikTok followers. When the first season of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives premiered last September, it launched the eight MomTokers, led by the headline-making Paul, to something approaching Housewives-level fame.
“Sorry if I sound like I’m losing my voice, we’re getting over a little cold,” Paul rasps. The “we” another reminder that as the single mother of three who blew up her life, then made a reality show about it, is far from an obvious pick for ABC’s increasingly staid reality dating series—but more on that adventure later.
Taylor Frankie Paul (center) catches up with her fellow #MomTok members Miranda McWhorter, Mikayla Matthews, and Mayci Neeley during Secret Lives of Mormon Wives season three.Fred Hayes
That the premiere revolves around Cialis-induced semen found in some barely famous bro’s underpants is a sign that MomTok has never been weaker. Photo: Fred Hayes/Disney
The time has come to convene an emergency meeting of the MomTok board of directors. Never in the storied history of MomTok have the core brand values been this desecrated. Female empowerment is at an all-time low.
Brand-health alarms should have gone off when the first words of this season were spoken by Nick Viall and cranked even louder the first (or even the fourth) time Jordan used the word “emasculating.” Maybe if all MomTok members past and present united, they could have prevented the premiere’s main character from becoming the Cialis-induced, blackout-produced semen found in some barely famous bro’s underpants.
But MomTok has been running on a skeleton crew stretched to their limits, attending influencer events and feeding the algorithm. So here we are. But I have faith the ladies will turn it around as long as they don’t appoint Taylor’s mom as interim CMO. Faith is very important to the MomTok brand. It is also important to me, because I believe in the power and resiliency of Emmy-nominated reality-television franchises the same way people from Wisconsin believe in the Green Bay Packers.
After a glorious reveal of the updated intro theme — now with more horny fire! — we kick things off in Provo at Taylor’s house. Dakota swings by to pick up Ever because he’ll be watching him while Taylor attends a two-week therapy retreat. Hoping we get more details on this because I’m dying to know the amenities and practices on the menu. “Therapy retreat” could mean “repeatedly doing ayahuasca in the Peruvian Amazon,” or “checking into an inpatient drug and alcohol rehab,” or “sitting silently in a meditation center.” It could also mean “doing a lot of yoga and trauma-informed talk therapy with some nice scenery,” and this is most likely the case. Separately, what a joy to enter this season knowing Taylor and Dakota theoretically do not end up together. A brief respite for all involved!
On the other end of the spectrum, we have the Minky Couture influencer event. Minky Couture makes blankets, and we do not need to get into how blankets can be “couture” because I have learned that living in Utah requires a willingness to suspend disbelief. Mikayla and Mayci walk us through the state of MomTok. It’s bad. Taylor and Jen are both on a mental-health break. Miranda is TBD. Demi left MomTok during that ultimatum last season. Whitney left MomTok (again) because she didn’t get the Oscars tickets and scripted-series role she wanted during contract negotiations. If you think this means we will be free of Whitney and Demi this season, sorry! Remember: MomTok is always a clique, usually a brand, and never an accurate cast list.
Anyway, the remaining MomTok members, Layla and Jessi, have a rendezvous in the parking lot of the Minky Couture event. Layla is pressed to tell Jessi what she learned when the producers set up that little meet and greet with Marciano from Vanderpump Villa. Jessi comes clean immediately and lays out facts she will repeat on loop throughout this episode: (1) Jessi and Jordan have been struggling and separated in September; (2) Jessi was drinking in Los Angeles and kissed Marciano twice; (3) Jessi and Marciano had an emotional affair, texting for two weeks after; and (4) Jessi told Jordan everything right away, and they’ve worked through it.
Jessi freaks upon learning that Marciano told Layla they also had sex, which she insists is false. So, naturally, Layla calls him on speaker. He reports live from the gym that he remembers — and I think the exact quote is important here — “I took a Cialis … I had cum stains in my shorts, but okay, whatever you say.” Correlation does not imply causation, my guy! Marciano’s details feel like the equivalent of saying “I took a Dramamine … I didn’t throw up” to imply that one survived a particularly turbulent Disney cruise. Whether he’s lying or not, Jessi calls Jordan right away, and he says that if she brings the cameras home, he’s done with the show.
But those contracts are ironclad! The very next morning, the cameras are up and at ’em at the Ngatikaura household. Jessi and Jordan “discussed it more” and “agreed” to share this story (own the narrative). Jordan says he feels broken, asking himself if he can live with “lingering disrespect and emasculating feelings.” Jessi thinks it’ll be healing that Jordan can get comfort from his friends and family now that this is out, but she’s nervous to tell MomTok because it’s yet another scandal, and they’ve been trying to get away from all that. I, for one, think this is perfectly aligned with the true consumer perception of MomTok (scandal!), even if it does not match what appears in the MomTok brand guidelines.
Jordan invites Dakota over for some guy time since he’s the only one Jordan knows who’s dealt with this level of relationship struggle in public. Jordan says it’ll be hard to explain it to his oldest daughter and that it’s “super emasculating.” Dakota hugs Jordan and advises him to pray to a higher power of his choosing and focus on his family since everything else is outside of his control. I’m tempted to make a joke about these two bozos solving the male-loneliness crisis, but I find it genuinely endearing that Dakota is whipping out his recovery toolbox to help out a friend going through it.
Those feelings left my body immediately once Zac showed up on the screen. He and Jen are living in Arizona, focusing on their marriage and doing a lot of therapy. Fresh from a session, Jen explains how everyone knows about postpartum depression, but not prenatal depression, which was what she was experiencing last season. They’ll be driving back to Utah in a few weeks to have their new baby there. Jen is stressed because she has some tough conversations ahead, including making amends with Jessi for saying her husband has a small weiner. Oh, no, not more fuel for Jordan’s “emasculation” fire. I do not like where this could be heading.
Back in Utah, Jessi has Mayci and Mikayla over to detail the Marciano sitch. She gives her whole spiel and adds further information about how Marciano blacked out and fell asleep on her bed while she was up all night panicking about the consequences of her (presumably intercourse-free) actions. Even though Jessi reminds them that horny guys get pre-cum in their undies on the regular, especially while on drugs, Mayci and Mikayla are skeptical after leaving. They think something feels off. What feels off to me is Mayci making a joke about how “these things happen” when you drink alcohol, and how Jessi shouldn’t have left the church.
At Layla’s birthday dinner, the girls discover that a mole among their dwindling ranks has been sneaking information to Demi. Their tip-off was Bret doing drive-bys while Mayci and Mikayla were at Jessi’s, and Demi texting them right after to gossip. Jessi thinks Layla and Miranda are the two most likely suspects. Layla offers to show her phone logs as proof of her innocence. Miranda doesn’t even know what planet she’s on. Whatever Miranda’s reps negotiated contract-wise, good on them. She puts on cute little outfits, gets full glam done, smiles and nods, then collects her check.
Once the girls’ dinner transforms into Layla’s full birthday party, things escalate into madness. Harbinger of mess Liann is there because “she had a business event in the area.” Okay, sweetie! Jordan continues yapping about being emasculated and being less of a man for staying with his wife. Chase from the Halloween party shows up to stir the pot. His mere appearance causes a full meltdown for multiple attendees. Not a single soul in attendance is happy to see this man besides Layla. He has a podcast that I will not name here because I refuse to give straight-dude chatcasts free publicity. All you need to know is that he regularly drags MomTok and its members.
On one hand, if Layla wanted to bone this man’s brother, surely she could have set up a double date instead of inviting MomTok enemy No. 1 to this contractually obligated event. On the other hand (unless there was some wild producer manipulation), Mayci and Mikayla were given a heads-up at JZ Styles that he was on the guest list. We saw it earlier in the episode. On a third hand, a reminder that this birthday party is to celebrate Layla’s 24th birthday. Twenty-four!
Jessi tries to resolve the situation between Layla and Mayci/Mikayla, which is what pushes Jordan over the edge. Her getting involved in the drama “makes him feel like he has no value.” He cries in the snow as Dakota pulls up in his Tacoma to ferry him to safety. It’s all a textbook case of how the real villain of this show remains the Mormon church. You take repression and traditional gender roles and an obsession with purity and perception, then smash all of that into the algorithm economy, throw a Cialis into the mix, and we end up in places like this one.
And it appears we shall embark on many similar journeys this season. We’ve got more secrets! More toxic men! More discussion of the mole! Taylor promising to make someone’s life “a miserable fucking hell” yet again! But MomTok is sisterhood. So everything will be fine. And if it’s not, all the better for the content machine.
“About three days into my marriage, I realized that we were fiercely, deeply incompatible,” Heather, 51, revealed in the first episode of her new docuseries, Surviving Mormonism, which premiered on Bravo Tuesday, November 11. “I thought he was marrying me for all the reasons he wasn’t, and I was marrying him for all the reasons he did not want to be a husband.”
In the new series, Heather set out to dive deeper into the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, exploring the scandals and secrets kept behind closed doors. She opened up about how her own relationship with religion shifted over the years.
“It wasn’t like I hit some point in my life where Mormonism started to be a burden,” she told the cameras. “From the moment I was aware of it, it supplanted my identity. I’m a cradle Mormon, I was born into the faith. And I loved being Mormon growing up.”
Real Housewives often go through relatable ordeals — divorce, family drama, health issues, etc. — but they’re very rarely relatable themselves. Sure, they might get nervous about running into an ex-husband (or his first wife) in public, but they can recover in the comfort of their private jets. Not so with Heather Gay, the down-to-earth […]
Both of Heather’s parents were from Mormon families. “All of our family rituals and family traditions and family togetherness was centered around church activities and our church beliefs,” she said. “I had these siblings who were my built-in best friends and we were all in on it together. And I didn’t feel like it was fake.”
According to Heather, one of the most important principles of the Mormon faith is “that the greatest happiness on earth can be found within the family and the family is the vehicle by which to grow closer to God and attain eternal life.”
“That belief informed the type of family I wanted to create for myself,” the reality star continued. “The second I met someone that was willing, I knew that I had the capacity to make any marriage work because I loved God, I loved being Mormon, I was good at being Mormon. But I was very, very wrong.”
Heather and Bill — who also comes from a long line of loyal Mormons — got married in 2000 and separated after 11 years. The former couple’s divorce was finalized in 2014.
“Divorce wasn’t in my vocabulary,” Heather said in Tuesday’s episode. “I didn’t know anyone that was divorced. But he did. My marriage was ending and my Mormon dream was shattered too. And my entire life imploded.”
RHOSLC fans have seen Heather navigate her life post-divorce with her and Bill’s three daughters since the show debuted in 2020. During season 6, Heather got candid about coparenting with her ex-husband.
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“My husband never had custody of the children,” she said on RHOSLC in September. “He never had them overnight. I had them 100 percent of the time. And his involvement was, you know, fun dad visits once a week.”
Heather admitted that raising her kids alone was a “really hard” era in her life. “And mostly hard because I couldn’t show them it was hard,” she told her fellow Housewives. “I acted like it was perfect and normal, and I was so happy, and I was so fine. And I loved everything I was doing. But I was gritting my teeth the whole time. I’m exhausted, honestly. I’m just looking forward to a new chapter.”
All three episodes of Surviving Mormonism With Heather Gay will be available to stream on Peacock Wednesday, November 12.
Whether on a van, a boat, or a plane, there is no form of transportation that Meredith won’t rage at Britani on. Photo: Bravo
Leave it to Britani to bring up Seth’s alleged infidelity and then act completely shocked when Meredith gets angry about it. Better yet, over yoga (where everybody but her gets a mat), Britani even describes bringing up the accusation as well-intentioned. Meanwhile, Meredith is still fuming in her room, where she’s telling Lisa that Britani “thinks she’s a Disney Princess,” but to be fair, she did play Ariel and Belle at Disney World. Seeking an even better comparison, she then asks Lisa to remind her who from The Wizard of Oz didn’t have a brain. “The Tin Man,” Lisa confidently replies, and Meredith deems Britani “The Tin Woman.” What a missed opportunity for Wicked: For Good cross-promotion!
But luckily for Meredith, Bronwyn arrives at her door with an opportunity to get out some of this anger. She kidnapped Britani’s stuffed unicorn, and goads Meredith into throwing it overboard with her. But we should have known that more than anything, this was really just a ruse for Bronwyn to make use of those dumb inflatable costumes yet again — and she and Meredith don them so they can be “incognito” while tossing the unicorn off the ship. Gone forever is the only surefire way Britani could hear Jared say he loves her.
With the unicorn slowly floating away, Meredith turns her ire toward Whitney at breakfast for seemingly cosigning the TikTok allegation. Meredith tells them all that she’s done with Britani, and she’s done with anyone who supports her. Heather correctly thinks this is absurd, because you can’t operate on a show with that attitude. Bronwyn even tries to bring the temperature down by asking Mary for help: “Mary, can you say something as a mother, as a woman of God here?” But some things are just out of God’s hands.
As they disembark and apologize to the crew for their behavior and volume writ large, one of the crew members rushes out to return to Britani something she thought was forever gone: the unicorn … soaking wet. “Who threw this over?” she asks everybody, as if it’s some big mystery. Meredith eventually cops to it, while also throwing Bronwyn under the bus for good measure, and then hauntingly says, “Uni wanted to swim. You got tanner and makeup all over him. He needed a little dip in the ocean.” Chilling.
What happens next is an all-too-familiar phenomenon that Housewives fans will immediately recognize from the sudden shift in editing. Something happened when cameras were down. It’s a producer’s nightmare, and yet they have to think on their feet to cover whatever incident happened off screen, usually filling in the gaps via confessional retellings and dramatic B-roll. All in all, it’s cobbled together like an episode of Dateline or Celebrity Ghost Stories. We’re told that Meredith’s rage continued at the airport, and then when they boarded, she and Lisa were seated directly behind Britani — and a scene erupted. The way these women tell it, you would have thought Meredith was about to bring the plane down. Apparently, she was calling Britani names, grabbing and shaking her seat, splashing her with wine, pulling her hair, demanding to see the TikTok, and reducing her to tears. For Meredith’s part, she says she was simply venting to Lisa, and adds, “Obviously nothing was that deep, because I would have been arrested by an air marshal.”
While it’s a good point, none of the other women (apart from Lisa) are backing her story up. While very few people were on Britani’s side on the trip (or ever), this mid-air incident seems to have really turned the tide, and now they have no choice but to sympathize with her. When Britani meets up with Heather after the flight, she tells her that what hurt the most was Lisa egging her on the whole time, which she felt was the ultimate betrayal — especially since she had her back so strongly earlier in the season. “I keep saying that I’m the unsinkable rubber ducky, but I feel really broken right now,” Britani says, showcasing her ability to string together a truly insane turn of phrase in even the darkest of times.
Since Bronwyn was on a different flight altogether, Whitney has to fill her in on what went down, and she brings up a good point. Bronwyn questions how this could have happened on a commercial flight without anybody talking cell phone footage of it? Firstly, you would have thought that at least one other passenger would have wanted to record this scene playing out, especially if they recognized the players. But what’s been annoying me even more is that these women should have been trained by producers to start recording on their own cell phones if drama starts to unfold after cameras go down. Then again, secretly recording Meredith last year was what first got Britani in this whole mess, so I’ll cut her some slack there.
But then Bronwyn hits us with an even crazier curveball. “Apparently, Todd and Meredith need a reminder of fight etiquette,” she says to awkward silence. “I don’t know if you’ve seen on Twitter or not that people are accusing Todd of getting caught on a plane cheating on me.” She learned from this trip and is bringing it up herself, not only to get ahead of it, but because she believed it to be true. She says that this person claiming that Todd was getting sent lingerie photos knew too much accurate information about the flight and where Todd was sitting, so she confronted him about it and temporarily kicked him out. This leads to a fascinating conversation between her and Whitney about being open to the idea of being open, and that this wouldn’t be as much of an issue to her if it were something they had discussed or agreed upon. This conversation cements Bronwyn’s place as a phenomenal Real Housewife.
We then see Heather arrive at a coffee shop, and a chyron appears that reads “11:10 a.m.” — we all know what that means. Someone is about to be late. Sure enough, we watch a montage of Heather sitting there for over an hour until Lisa finally arrives at 12:26 p.m. without apology. Most interestingly, though, is that Heather doesn’t make a single mention of her tardiness, which is either incredibly mature, a power move, or is focused on the more pressing matter at hand.
Lisa is shocked when Heather tells her how upset Britani is with her, because, as you might have guessed, Lisa maintains that she did nothing wrong. All she did, according to her, was tell Britani to show Meredith the TikTok in question, and she denies that a big scene erupted. She explains away the jostled chair as Meredith using it as leverage to stand up, and says the the spilled wine really landed on her, not Britani. But all of these explanations do sound a lot more like confirmations. Nonetheless, Lisa says she was trying to diffuse Meredith, not egg her on, and is annoyed to once again be getting the blame for something she maintains she’s innocent of.
Meanwhile, Mary gets the unenviable job of sitting down with Meredith, who continues to deny. “What is it that you think happened?” she asks Mary, who quickly responds with, “I don’t think anything happened; I was there.” Meredith maintains that she was simply venting to Lisa, for maybe 15 minutes. Mary says it was much longer than that, and then they start doing math. Meredith says she was asleep for over an hour on the flight and watched two movies, and there’s only so much time on the flight, so how much longer could this incident really have been? I, for one, would like to know what movies Meredith was watching. Fight Club? Snakes on a Plane? She thinks that this exaggerated story started getting spread to women who didn’t actually see it for themselves (because they were either on the other side of the plane or sleeping). In any case, if Meredith really did wait to pop off until they were airborne with no cameras rolling, it makes for the perfect crime.
Bergeron, 70, served as a guest judge during the Tuesday, November 11, episode of the ABC reality competition series, joining Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli and Derek Hough at the judges table to score the remaining couples’ dances.
Current host Alfonso Ribeiro kicked off the night by asking his dear friend Bergeron to introduce the show.
“I’d love too,” he said, shortly before new cohost Julianne Hough started tearing up when they all walked down the ballroom steps. The veteran host added, “I am thrilled to be here, it’s such a rush. So great to see you all, and we have a number of familiar faces in the audiences.”
The Dancing With the Stars showrunners caused a stir when they replaced hosts Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews with Tyra Banks in July 2020 — but it wasn’t the first time the role had a change of guards. Bergeron served as the constant host for the dance competition from its 2005 debut through season 28, […]
Before taking a seat at the judge’s table, Bergeron revealed just what he was looking for from the remaining competitors.
“You’e a week away from the semifinals, so I’m looking for the type of dance that induces goosebumps,” he said. “But since I’m sitting next to Bruno, I’m also trying to avoid a concussion.”
Tonioli, for his part, showed off his signature hand gestures.
The 20th anniversary episode of Dancing With the Stars also included first round dances set to music from iconic freestyles throughout the show’s run and, for the first time ever, competitive dances by the celebrity contestants without their pro partners for bonus points.
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As for Bergeron, he hosted Dancing With the Stars for its first 28 seasons. Over the years, he was joined by cohosts Lisa Canning in season 1, Samantha Harris for seasons 2 through 9, Brooke Burke for seasons 10 through 17 and Erin Andrews for seasons 18 through 28.
After serving as the main host since the June 2005 premiere, Bergeron and his then-cohost, Andrews, now 47, were axed in July 2020. Tyra Banks replaced the pair as the host of season 29, while current hosts Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough took over in season 32.
Ever since the 2005 debut of Dancing With the Stars, fans have been very vocal about what they do and don’t like — and who deserves to be on the show. Thank You! You have successfully subscribed. Subscribe to newsletters Please enter a valid email. Subscribe By signing up, I agree to the Terms and […]
“I think it’s all about evolution. I think any show like this that has been on many, many seasons needs to continue to evolve,” executive producer Andrew Llinares told reporters in September 2020 of the decision to part ways with Bergeron and Andrews. “I think changing the host was all about evolution, it was about making the show feel fresh, making it feel new [and] kind of make it reach out — maybe to a new audience as well, as well as the audience that’s been there for years.”
Bergeron’s exit came after he publicly criticized Dancing With the Stars for casting former White House press secretary Sean Spicer for season 28. He later confirmed the mounting tensions behind the scenes of the show factored into his departure.
“In all candor, the show that I left was not the show that I loved,” he said during an October 2021 episode of the “Bob Saget’s Here for You” podcast. “So, the end of the season that turned out to be my last season [in 2019], I kind of knew. So I took everything out of my dressing room that I really wanted. … It was kind of obvious that we were kind of butting heads.”
Dancing With the Stars has found plenty of success since its debut in 2005. Over the years, the ABC dancing competition has launched the careers of many new pros and has said goodbye to a few OGs along the way. Julianne Hough, who competed from seasons 4 to season 8, announced in 2009 that she […]
“I look at the math and 95 percent of my experience was really quite wonderful,” he noted during an October 2023 episode of Cheryl Burke’s “Sex, Lies and Spray Tans” podcast.
Bergeron is not the only familiar face to return to Dancing With the Stars during its milestone 20th year. Burke, 41, stopped by Halloween Night on October 28 to serve as a guest judge after concluding her lengthy tenure as a pro in 2022.
While some Dancing With the Stars contestants are understandably eliminated for their two left feet, other entrants are sent home far too early. The voting system got an overhaul for season 28, following the controversial victory of radio host Bobby Bones one season prior, but the changeup didn’t stop formidable competitors from leaving the ballroom. […]
“It’s so special to go back home, I guess, to a place where I have spent most of my life in that ballroom,” Burke exclusively told Us Weekly on October 23.
Burke also reflected on her “heartbreaking” exit, describing it as “the hardest decision of my life.”
“I mean, I’ve spent most of my life on that show, so I think the umbilical cord is still attached,” she explained. “Like, I love the show, and I have so many great memories, and it’s changed my life. It helped me find my voice in general, like, when I look back at my audition, it’s just insanity. I would say that I am the woman I am today because of the show, and I am grateful to just even be asked back and to also bring another perspective.”
Mayci Neeley won’t be in New York City with the rest of TheSecret Lives of Mormon Wives cast for press this week while she takes a small mental health break.
Newsweek reached out to Neeley via email for comment.
Why It Matters
Several women on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives have stepped back from the demands of being on reality television to protect their mental health.
During Season 2, Jen Affleck took a break from filming after finding out she was pregnant because she was dealing with prenatal depression. Her absence got mixed reactions from cast members, and she decided to return for Season 3, which will premiere on Thursday.
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On Monday, Neeley posted on her Instagram story that she had some downtime and would be taking questions from her followers. One person asked why Neeley wasn’t in New York with the rest of the cast.
Neeley responded, saying that she was very sad not to be there, but summarized her decision not to go as “travel logistics and protecting my mental health.” She added that she’s been struggling and hasn’t stopped working.
The 30-year-old gave birth in July and said on Instagram that she only had a 2-week postpartum break before she had to return to work. After months of going nonstop, she said it’s “catching up” with her.
“My body and brain was telling me to stay back and I decided to listen,” Neeley said. “I needed to put me first this time.”
Neeley also embarked on a nationwide book tour to celebrate the release of her memoir, Told You So. In the book, Neely opens up about becoming a mom at only 20 years old and the loss of her son’s father, who died in a car accident. She also discusses her Mormon upbringing and being in an abusive relationship.
Her book was released on October 7, and Neeley has had events across the country over the last few weeks to help promote it.
Neeley was also asked how she manages to be a mom and an author. She posted on Instagram that she honestly didn’t know how she did it, but that she was exhausted and a little bit burned out. She praised her husband, Jacob Neeley, for his support and said that none of it would have been possible without him.
Along with her 3-month-old daughter, Charli, the Neelys have two other children: a daughter named Harlow and a son, Hudson.
While Neeley is staying home, several of her castmates from The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives are in New York to celebrate the new season, which is dropping on Thursday. Some members of DadTok, including Jordan Ngatikaura and Dakota Mortensen, are also in New York.
What Happens Next
TheSecret Lives of Mormon Wives Season 3 will be released on Thursday. This season is expected to expose rifts between the women over a rumored affair between Jessi Ngatikaura and Vanderpump Villa’sMarciano Brunette.
The Selling Sunset fans have watched the cast change on and off screen since the series first debuted.
Christine Quinn, for instance, has been forthcoming about the way she appears on the Netflix reality show — which premiered in March 2019 — versus how she looks when the cameras are not rolling.
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“I tell people all the time: I got my boobs done, I get my lips done, tons of Botox, tons of makeup. How I look on [Selling Sunset] is not how I look when I wake up in the morning,” the realtor told Vogue in September 2020. “When it comes to the show, I don’t do my own hair. I do my own makeup because I love doing it. The full start to finish, including wardrobe, is around two and a half to three hours. My glam isn’t cheap either — $1,000 a day, if I go all out. It’s expensive to look this cheap.”
Despite changing her appearance for the show, Quinn noted that she is “all about plastic surgery truth-bearing” because of the expectations that come with it. “It’s important in a world where there’s this façade of social media causing people to have body dysmorphia,” she said. “People think that [things are] real, and they’re not.”
Scroll through the gallery below to see how the cast of Selling Sunset has changed through the years.
Love Is Blindseason 9 star Madison Maidenberg has a theory about her ex-fiancé Joe Ferrucci briefly dating fellow contestant Kacie McIntosh.
“I don’t know if we can call it dating, first of all,” Madison, 28, said on the Wednesday, November 5, episode of the “What’s the Reality?” podcast. “I think they were mutually using each other’s bodies. That’s what I think was going on.”
Madison and Joe, 29, got engaged sight unseen during Love Is Blind season 9 but didn’t make it to the aisle. Joe ended their engagement after his wedding tux fitting, claiming that he suddenly realized Madison wasn’t The One.
Within weeks, Joe started seeing Kacie, 34. (Kacie had been single after ending her Love Is Blind engagement to Patrick Suzuki hours after they met in person.)
The Love Is Blind season 9 reunion saw ex-fiancés Joe Ferrucci and Madison Maidenberg pointing fingers regarding their broken engagement. “At this point, I’ve accepted that I’m not going to get a full sentence from Joe as far as what actually happened,” Madison, 28, said during the Wednesday, October 29, special. “So, that’s OK.” Joe, […]
“I knew that it started probably a month after our engagement ended,” Madison told podcast host and franchise alum AD Smith. “It’s alleged. I don’t know exactly the timeline. I can’t totally speak to it, but I do know the night of tux fittings, we had gone to [meet] a few of the couples — and a bunch of singles showed up.”
While Madison told several of Joe’s friends that she picked her wedding dress and was “so excited” to tie the knot, she allegedly looked across the room to find Joe in conversation with Kacie.
“As I’m standing there with a ring on my finger, I look over and Kacie has both hands on Joe’s chest, talking to him,” Madison claimed. “In Joe’s words, he said, ‘She was giving me googly eyes.’ … I don’t know if it started then or later.”
Both Joe and Kacie denied Madison’s version of events, stressing that they only explored a romantic connection after her engagement had already been called off.
Another month later, Kacie confided in Madison about the nature of her relationship with Joe at costar Mike Brockway’s pool party.
“I was standing in a group. Kacie came to the party, she’s making rounds [and] saying hello,” Madison recalled on Wednesday. “She came up to a group of us girls and I was asking her, like, ‘How’s wedding season going?’ I already [knew] about the her and Joe thing, [so] I said, ‘How’s dating going?’ She was like, ‘Oh, you know, good.’”
According to Madison, the hairstylist said that she was “meaning to talk to” her about the situation.
Love Is Blind season 9 star Joe Ferrucci is speaking out following his shocking split from ex-fiancée Madison Maidenberg, filling in what you didn’t see on TV during an exclusive interview with Us Weekly. “My connection with Madison in the pods was great. There were a lot of butterflies. It was a very deep connection. […]
“We go sit down, there is no recognition of the fact that [she was] talking to his ex-fiancée,” Madison said. “She immediately starts talking to me about how he treated her poorly, [and] she went so far to say, ‘Oh, we’re Eskimo sisters’ to me. I said to her, ‘I’m gonna say to your face what I’ve been saying. I don’t respect your choice. The way that you’ve gone about this has been classless and it does hurt me.’”
Joe and Kacie both shut down Madison’s accusations during the season 9 reunion, which aired late last month.
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“[It was] a month and a half. I think it just kind of fizzled out. It just ultimately didn’t work out,” Joe said of his connection with Kacie. “That has nothing to do with [my engagement]. That was after, and that was never in my mind when I broke it off.”
Madison and Kacie are both still single, while Joe has since moved on with Denver-based dating coach Averee Madison.
Hilarious co-op video game Overcooked is making the move to the real world. A24 has acquired the rights to the popular indie hit and Deadline reports that the company is working with Netflix to develop the concept into an unscripted competition reality TV series. I adore this idea, and with the right people behind it, I think it could be a masterwork of reality TV. According to the reports, this is the first time independent film and TV studio A24 will make a reality show, but Netflix has already had some success with food and cooking programs, such as with the absolute gem that is Nailed It!
The often ridiculous antics of Overcooked are a wonderful match for that type of lighthearted competition show. In the game, one to four players work together to cook customers’ food orders as quickly as possible while the environment creates silly, unexpected obstacles. Unfortunately, there’s no way the Netflix legal team will green light challenges where contestants might fall into actual lava, and recreating the space travel levels would probably blow the budget. But I can see all sorts of Overcooked-style mayhem from sliding on icy floors or suddenly moving countertops. I’m also imagining a lot of dashing between inconveniently placed kitchen appliances and occasionally plunging the contestants into total darkness. There’s no timeline given in Deadline’s report, but I cannot wait for this to exist.
“We just got to start bribing the judges with more money. We just got to up the ante a little bit,” Chmerkovskiy, 39, teased to Us Weekly exclusively following the Tuesday, November 4, episode of the ballroom competition show.
Chmerkovskiy and Earle, 24, nearly received all 10s for their paso doble to Bon Jovi‘s “Livin’ on a Prayer” on Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Night. It was the second week in a row the duo were one point away from a perfect 40.
“I just think they want us to work for it,” Chmerkovskiy told Us, “and we are, but they want us to work a little harder. I think that’s part of what’s exciting about the competition is that there’s so many really good couples that that’s what it takes. It’s about [having] the emotional stamina — together [and] by yourself — and they’re squeezing us for it.”
Chmerkovskiy added that “it’s going to be that much more rewarding” when the pair finally lock in a perfect score.
Earle agreed, telling Us she felt “ecstatic” about earning 39 points on Tuesday. “I mean, it is not an easy competition this year, and I think I take it almost as a compliment not getting a perfect score because that means they see more potential,” she explained. “I’m excited to unlock that new potential and hopefully squeeze out a perfect score eventually at some point during this competition.”
The influencer was proud that their hard work in the rehearsal studio paid off. “It still feels like a crazy ‘pinch me’ moment that I’m able to come on here, do this show, and then to get amazing scores like that,” she gushed. “I’m just living out my biggest dreams right now, so just trying to soak it all in.”
Flavor Flav joined judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli and Derek Hough during Tuesday’s episode, keeping fans on their toes with his unpredictable scores. Flav, 66, was the only judge who didn’t give Earle and Chmerkovskiy a 10 — which he chalked up to a technical error.
“As a judge on #DWTS,,, you hit your score on a computer first,,, then hold up the sign,” Flav explained via X on Tuesday. “I accidentally hit 9 for someone and told the crew I meant to hit 10,,, and they said they can’t change it and there’s nothing I can do. That girl deserved perfect 10s.”
Even the Dancing With the Stars pros wish they got breakdowns of the weekly voting results. “If we saw that, I would know everything. I would love to see that,” former pro Peta Murgatroyd recalled on the Friday, October 31, episode of her “Penthouse With Peta” podcast. “We’ve begged to see that.” The two-time mirrorball […]
Despite having trouble with the scoring system, Flav enjoyed every minute of his DWTS experience.
“It was amazing. It was phenomenal. It was out of this world,” he told Us after the live broadcast. “It was kind of breathtaking, man. It kind of took my breath [away], you know what I’m saying? ‘Cause I can’t believe I’m on Dancing With the Stars tonight. One of the biggest and largest shows in America right now.”
Flav’s passion came through to the fans at home and, while he may not be a ballroom expert, the rapper knew exactly what he was looking for.
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“What I’ve seen was some of the greatest footwork, you know what I’m saying?” Flav said. “And some of the greatest teamwork. … I look for precision. I look for preciseness, you know what I’m saying? And I study the moves. I watch out for the timing. And each one of these couples, man, has some perfect timing tonight. So it was great.”
Dancing With the Stars airs on ABC and Disney+ Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET, with new episodes streaming the next day on Hulu.
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