George, 64, previously appeared on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alongside Dorit, 49, and PK, 58, the latter of whom manages the Grammy winner, and even sang at a party thrown by Dorit in season 7.
However, it seems the Culture Club singer is Team PK after the Kemsleys’ split.
Dorit was asked about the status of her friendship with George during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen on Thursday, December 11, to which she responded, “He’s firmly in the PK camp.”
“[He] hasn’t even reached out. It’s kind of like … yeah,” Dorit said before trailing off.
Dorit and PK announced their separation in May 2024. At the time, they said in a joint statement, “We as a couple have been subject to a lot of speculation about our marriage. We have had our struggles over the last few years and continue to work through them as two people who love each other and share two amazing children together.”
“To safeguard our deep friendship and maintain a harmonious environment for our children, we have made the mutual and difficult decision to take some time apart and reevaluate our relationship while we prioritize our children,” the pair continued. “We appreciate your love and support while we continue to do the work necessary throughout this journey. With love, Dorit and PK.”
Dorit filed for divorce from her British businessman husband in April after 10 years of marriage, per court documents obtained by Us Weekly.
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Dorit cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the divorce and asked for sole legal and physical custody of her and PK’s two children, son Jagger, 11, and daughter Phoenix, 9. She also requested spousal support.
The RHOBH star previously touched on who’d get George in the divorce during a November 2024 appearance on Bravo’s “Hot Mic” podcast.
“Boy George is firmly in PK’s camp,” Dorit said. “Firmly.”
However, at the time, Dorit said she was hopeful she would maintain her friendship with the singer.
Dorit Kemsley offered some new details into her divorce from estranged husband PK Kemsley during the new episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. “My kids are supposed to go to Florida with their grandparents,” Dorit, 49, said during the Thursday, December 11 episode of the Bravo show. “They’re so excited about going to […]
“I think George and I still will always be friends, but I think he’s definitely firmly in PK’s camp,” she said.
“I’m also not fighting for people that are in his camp,” the Bravolebrity added. “It’s like, let PK have whomever he needs [for support]. He should have that, as I should.”
Back in RHOBH season 7, Dorit introduced viewers to George, who was her and PK’s houseguest at the time.
“There was like an instant love between George, PK, and I. We met George a few years back when he had approached PK about managing him,” she told Bravo’s Daily Dish in January 2017. “And when he came to L.A., PK had suggested, ’cause we had the room, he said, ‘You’re welcome to come to the house.’”
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During Thursday’s appearance on WWHL, Dorit also gave an update on where things stand between her and PK as they go through the divorce process.
“It’s so unfortunate because it’s so unnecessarily contentious,” Dorit said of her relationship with PK. “More challenging than it needs to be. … If you’re not communicating, it’s very difficult to coparent effectively.”
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo and the next day on Peacock.
After all the relitigation and denial about what happened on the plane, the wives’ ability to resolve this conflict is unprecedented. Photo: Natalie Cass/Bravo
Did Mary’s church service help to heal (or “hill” if you’re Whitney) our fractured group? Of course not, but one can dream! Maybe they’ll have better luck at the post-service Sunday Social that Mary is hosting for them all at our favorite Salt Lake jaunt: Valter’s. “Oh, your guests are here,” Angie tells Mary when Meredith and Lisa walk in, so then again, maybe not. But at least Mary is gifting them all beta fish as party favors!
The only person missing from the lunch is Britani, whom Mary called ahead of time to explain that she was snubbing her because she called her ungodly. Britani ultimately apologized, and while it didn’t earn her an invite, it did inspire Mary to think that there might be hope for this group yet.
So let’s get into it. We’ve heard what all the other women say happened, but Meredith maintains that they’re blowing it out of proportion — so where do we go from here? When Meredith says she couldn’t have tormented Britani the whole flight because she watched two movies, the women begin investigating. What movies? “Crazy Rich Asians, and one other movie I don’t recall the name of,” she says. Rough start. And what happened at the end of Crazy Rich Asians? Genius question. “I don’t remember,” she says. Meredith, you shouldn’t be answering any more of these questions without a lawyer present! “Crazy Rich Asians has a big ending. It’s a big moment, you’ll remember,” Heather says. This is one of the funniest gotcha moments I’ve ever seen on Housewives. Since Lisa watched it too, they ask her if she remembers how it ends, and without hesitation (but with a spoiler alert warning from Bravo), Lisa rattles off the movie’s ending. “I obviously fell asleep before the end because I didn’t see that part,” Meredith chimes in, trying to cover her ass.
Since Lisa continues to downplay the situation, they tell her that she clearly realized how big a scene it was, and that’s why she didn’t go through customs with them. But Lisa says that was just because she didn’t realize she had Global Entry. Alright, if we’re investigating whether Lisa Barlow has Global Entry to get to the bottom of this mystery, I fear we’re too far gone.
Meredith then directs her ire to Whitney (as she is wont to do), after hearing that she was gossiping about this incident behind her back (as Whitney is wont to do). Specifically, Whitney told Bronwyn that she was drinking before the flight and wondered whether she blacked out. She proposed three explanations for the incident: “she has hatred in her heart, an anger problem, or a problem mixing substances.” She’s like if Hercule Poirot were a Real Housewife.
The lunch leaves them with little resolution, and leaves Meredith ally-less, apart from Lisa, whom she meets up with for manicures in spa chairs that I’m convinced get bigger each time we cut back to them. They debrief the lunch, with Meredith expressing her frustration with Heather and Whitney, especially, before Lisa tells her that she met up with Britani to hear her side of things. We flashback to that sit-down, where we hear Britani say, “It was literally, like, the sixth worst thing that has ever happened to me in my entire life.” It’s a sentence that stopped me dead in my tracks. The level of specificity instantly grips me. What were the other five things? And does she have a notes app ranking them? All in all, Meredith basically says she pities Britani and thus is fine to move forward from all of this.
Then, in a jump cut for the ages, we find ourselves in a U-Haul that Whitney is driving to Heather’s house, where she finds her buzzin’ cousin dressed for a funeral. Specifically, the funeral for her marital mattress, which Whitney is helping her haul away. While she assures us that the stains aren’t from sex, I’m more disturbed by her confession that she’s had the mattress for 20 years. That seems like much too long. She talks about Meredith being mad at her, and Whitney talks about being angry at Bronwyn for ratting, but all I can think about is that geriatric mattress.
While Britani is still recovering from the plane ride (and I suspect will be for seasons to come), she says it helped her focus on what’s truly important: healing her relationship with her daughter, Olivia. And now, thankfully, they’re getting professional help and are deciding to give a family therapist a real run for her money. It’s mostly a rehash of what we already know, but Olivia says she feels better hearing her mother take accountability, and Britani is happy to finally get the chance to make things right, so this situation seems to be looking up.
Speaking of mothers and daughters, Bronwyn, Gwen, and Muzzy (and their bobs) spend the afternoon trimming Bonsai trees. Both Gwen and Muzzy say that they’re getting ready to spread their wings and move out, which sends Bronwyn — who has never really lived alone in her entire life — spiraling. You might be thinking, well, doesn’t she still have Todd? But perhaps that’s the problem. Without her whole family under that roof with her, she’s left taking a cold, hard look at her marriage, and she might not like what she sees. After all, if she’s mourning her emotionally abusive mother of all people moving out, then you know things must be rough.
The episode concludes with a meeting so shocking that I wondered if perhaps I was the one who blacked out after combining substances. Meredith and Britani reunite — on the ground this time — at a park, as if producers were afraid they’d destroy a home or place of business. Meredith kicks things off by apologizing to Britani for being overheard talking to Lisa on the plane, saying it was the wrong place and time and that she didn’t intend to hurt her feelings. This feels almost too good to be true, as if a Bravo HR representative is standing just off camera, holding up cue cards.
While Britani says she still feels traumatized, she’s choosing forgiveness. And for her part, she apologizes for bringing up the TikTok in the first place, admitting that it was a shady move meant to hurt her. I almost can’t believe what I’m watching. After all this hubbub sent shockwaves throughout the group, the two of them can sit down and communicate in the name of civility. This kind of resiliency and ability to move forward is what makes this show so successful. As I watch them sit across from one another, I’m reminded of a song made famous by Britani Bateman singing it on TikTok…
And just to clear the air, I ask forgiveness for the things I’ve done you blame me for… But then, I guess we know there’s blame to share And none of it seems to matter anymore.
I can’t believe it’s been over six years since the infamous barn fight between Candiace and Monique. It honestly feels like a lifetime ago that we saw Monique latch onto Candiace’s wig and summarily fight her way out of a job, but in retrospect, not all that much has changed. Sure, everyone is divorced now, and Candiace has taken her talents for histrionics out of the music studio and into the podcast mic for the time being — but we have the same President, Ashley remains as messy as ever, and Gizelle still won’t bring a man on camera. Some truths remain immutable in the Potomac universe.
I can be honest and admit that at the time, I was a bit clouded in my distaste for Candiace’s antics in a way that probably let me give Monique a bit too much grace about the situation. For one, the franchises are no strangers to violence: RHONJ occasionally serves as a WWE undercard, depending on the season; Salt Lake City has thrown more drinks in people’s faces than Susan Lucci; and Atlanta couldn’t even keep a slumber party peaceful. During this period, the ladies of Potomac still held onto a delusional pretense that they represented a specific style of Black upper-class genteel that had long been abandoned – the cast may be products of Jack and Jill, but the show is no The Gilded Age. And so once the fight actually aired, over a year after the fiasco had already leaked to the press, we spent an entire season being beaten over the head with the insistence that the cast was above this.
While I can now recognize that what Monique did was an unacceptable escalation of interpersonal issues in a workplace (which is what the show is, after all), her reunion performance will remain an all-time moment in not just Potomac, but Housewives history simply because she broke the show. Fully knowing she was on her way out, she summarily dismissed Gizelle with the binder moment that aired all over the world (Karen asking “is Jamal coming” with sardonic satisfaction remains etched in my cerebellum), but more importantly forced everyone to acknowledge that despite her being the deserved target of the reunion, all of the women have skeletons in their closet that they were unwilling to confront. Gizelle was reunited with a man who had embarrassed her numerous times with his penchant for skirt-chasing; Robyn was in an endless engagement with a now-husband who, then and now, seemed to barely humor her; Karen is a sugar-baby turned breadwinner who could be found at any watering hole in Potomac; Ashley was married to the personification of the grim reaper.
All of the women were trapped in their own cages of misery, trying to make Monique look like the primary cause for their own distress. Monique very much needed to leave, but the chaos she left behind, while occasionally resulting in uneven, stilted television, forced the women to acknowledge their own shortcomings in her absence. Ashley could no longer hide her disaster of a marriage; Robyn’s permanent state of melancholy became unavoidable; Chris Bassett was unable to hold a job longer than a season. I don’t think it’s that much of a stretch to say that women seem to be in 10 seasons is at least partially influenced by Monique wiping the slate clean on her first ousting.
Monique’s penchant for forthrightness, almost to the point of abruptness, is what makes her reintegration to the cast fascinating already. Thankfully, she makes no bones about addressing the elephant in the room, namely, the state of her divorce. It is no secret that Housewives can be taxing on any marriage, but often we hear it from the perspective of women who come on the show to build a career and a platform to split safely. Monique, however, freely admits that being on the show kept her marriage alive for years longer than it should have. Judging from her original run on the franchise, I fully believe that she held onto her marriage out of spite; at that time, there was no way she was going to let Gizelle have one up on her, and the image of her successful Black family with numerous houses, investments, and businesses was her ultimate trump card.
It was refreshing to hear the women reflect on that time without the show turning into a forlorn “very special episode.” Gizelle being able to acknowledge the strain she recognized in Monique’s marriage coming from the side of a divorcee is a conversation Monique simply would not have been able to receive five years ago, and I think it’s healthy that both women recognize that. I don’t know if we’ll get Gizelle to admit on camera that Monique gave her a run for her money at that reunion, but we’ll take the small victories where we can.
Unfortunately, Gizelle and Monique finally finding common ground is not the animating vehicle they are using to structure Monique’s return to the group. Nor are Monique and Wendy finally attempting to establish a relationship outside of Candiace’s sphere of influence after Monique was effectively removed from filming on Wendy’s rookie season. For whatever reason that I am still desperately attempting to make sense of, we are continuing to draw out this tired string of “Stacy being desperate for Chris.”
Listen, I get it. Stacey is definitely nimble with her understanding of the truth. I have dated enough men who told me they had no girlfriend, only to find out they actually had a wife (this has happened only three times, but it’s crazy that it happened more than once), so I recognize a person whose statements of fact come with terms and conditions. But here’s the thing: I don’t care that she fucked Chris, or didn’t. I don’t care that her husband, Temu, barely wants to be on camera and filming with the rest of the cast, or that they are too lazy to come up with coherent excuses to avoid participating in events. Temu says five words a minute, and to my ADHD brain, it feels like nails on a chalkboard; I won’t miss him if he doesn’t get mic’ed up ever again.
What Stacey understands well is that if you are not going to give authenticity, you have to sell the fantasy. Stacey has chosen to be the peppy, out-of-touch model who has the spirit of Mary Poppins in the package of Kenya Moore. Whether or not it’s legitimate is irrelevant to me until it fundamentally becomes irreconcilable with her on-camera persona, à la Grande Dame. Perhaps it’s the QVC training, the same stomping grounds that birthed us the scourge known as Lisa Rinna, but you simply cannot move her off her square.
Stacey’s consistent persona ultimately makes the women look even more deranged for calling it out. Monique already said she couldn’t possibly care less who Chris is dating, but Ashley, Keiarna, Tia, and Gizelle simply couldn’t leave well enough alone. Now I have to pretend that I care that Stacey told Chris that Monique was miserable by the end of her marriage? I’m sure that’s nothing Chris doesn’t already know, whether this Cookie lady is reporting back to him or not. Considering how the last fiasco with a third party bringing gossip went down, I just am not intrigued or inclined to explore this line of inquiry any further unless Stacey ups and leaves Temu for Chris.
All these shenanigans ultimately end up doing is cementing Stacey as indispensable to the group. I can somewhat understand Tia’s frustration — despite overselling the Nigerian royalty bit, she has, for the most part, been sharing her personal life on camera, warts and all, and is frustrated that Stacey won’t do the same. But Keiarna is getting irate on Monique’s behalf when there is absolutely no indication that Monique would even care or be bothered by this at all, and as a result, Stacey dealt with her accordingly. Keiarna may be a breathtaking beauty, but she was not prepared to step into the ring for a war of words with the Detroit Barbie. Stacey cheekily telling K that “the only time you get heated is about me” was a nice little jab, but when K tried to counter by saying “I would never leave my husband around you,” Stacey had no choice but to hit her with the uppercut: “You don’t have one.” I’m excited to see Keiarna finally show up this season, as I prefer a beautiful bitch on wheels to a sedate one, but unfortunately, she still came up short this time around. See you all next week!
• The more Angel carries on about her imagined issue with Wendy, the less rational she sounds. Her husband can’t even pretend to be bothered about this nothingburger of an issue on his wife’s behalf. Every time she insists that Wendy somehow betrayed her more than Gizelle by defining what a catfish is, a clown nose starts to sprout on her face spontaneously. Wendy and Gizelle were indeed being messy and mean, but nothing about that warranted the weeks-long spiral our WAG has been going through.
• Wendy was really rocking the finger waves! It’s such a shame that her best season to date is coming on the heels of what we know to be a precipitous downfall. (Yes, yes, I know she gave a gracious showing at BravoCon and had a generally good reception, but when your local paper is reporting claims of alleged aliases and over 40 credit cards, there is clearly still a long road ahead.)
• When it comes to crossover moments, I allow/overlook them if they make sense for the show and the groups’ connections. The Vanderpump Boys on Summer House, sure, whatever, they basically helped launch that franchise. Cynthia making a guest appearance on any franchise she wants is fine because I appreciate any excuse to swoon over her cheekbones. Bringing in competitors from the Love Hotel, however, is where I have to draw the line. I’m sure Wale is a lovely man, but this isn’t Marvel, and I’m not about to start watching three other franchises just to understand what is on my TV screens. I already have to monitor the subreddits like a hawk!
• At this point, “What is GNA” could be a Jeopardy category. We have gone from clothing line to wellness brand to events promotion to philanthropy, and now we’re making floats. Many companies do PRIDE floats, but they are usually selling something. What, pray tell, is GNA selling? I still have no clue.
• Ten million downloads on Reasonably Shady? Y’all are really listening to that podcast? Color me shocked.
Kim Zolciak has accused her estranged husband, Kroy Biermann, of cheating on her during their 12-year marriage.
When asked what the final straw was that led her to file for divorce in 2023, Zolciak told Entertainment Tonight, “He cheated.” The former “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star got candid at Bravocon over the weekend about the status of her divorce from the former NFL player.
“No movement, no change, just constant antics,” she told the outlet. “When I said I was filing for divorce, he said, I’m gonna publicly destroy you. And he told both my daughters that as well, and that’s been his goal, and that’s all he cares about. It hasn’t worked yet.”
Kim Zolciak opened up about her split from Kroy Biermann, accusing the former NFL player of infidelity during their 12-year marriage.(Paras Griffin/Getty Images)
Zolciak said she’s happier than ever at this point in her life and has even moved on with a new man, who is also going through a divorce.
“I’m sorry, I’m legally married and so is he,” she told the outlet responding to the claims she’s dating a married man. “So he’s been going through a divorce for years as well.”
“So I don’t know. I guess I’m supposed to wait until I’m legally divorced, which I don’t think Kroy will ever give me a divorce,” she claimed.
Fox News Digital reached out to a representative for Biermann for comment.
Kroy Biermann refiled for divorce from Kim Zolciak in 2023, calling their marriage “irretrievably broken,” according to court documents.(Peter Kramer/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)
Zolciak and Biermann both filed for divorce in May 2023. However, the two quickly called it off.
Biermann filed for divorce again just months later in August 2023. The former professional football player stated his 12-year marriage was “irretrievably broken” in documents obtained by Fox News Digital at the time.
The two share four children: Kroy, Kash, and twins Kaia and Kane. Biermann also adopted Zolciak’s adult daughters from a previous relationship, Brielle and Ariana Zolciak-Biermann.
The former couple’s ongoing divorce has played out publicly as they navigate co-parenting their six children amid financial and personal disputes.(Prince Williams)
Kim Zolciak’s daughter spoke about the couple’s divorce during Bravocon.(Griffin Nagel/Bravo via Getty Images)
Zolciak’s daughter Ariana admitted she prays for everyone to move forward amid the contentious divorce.
“I feel like the only place we can turn now is to pray,” she told Us Weekly at Bravocon. “I pray every night about it, and pray that God helps heal everybody, and they’re able to move forward and everything like that.”
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.
In the words of the esteemed founder of the Reality Television Arts and Sciences, Brian Moylan, most fights on Housewives are not really about whatever the ladies are talking about on camera, but are really about the show and the power struggles around what is going on behind the scenes, namely, compensation. When the girls locked in on Denise Richards in Beverly Hills, a big part of that was because of the seven-figure paycheck she commanded while barely filming. The Atlanta ladies turned on Kim Zolciak as soon as she got too big for her britches and thought she had secured a gravy train with her NFL husband and spinoff. The hierarchy that income presents is understood subtext for those who are savvy (or nosy enough) to make sense of the maze of blind items, shady Instagram stories, and thinly-veiled tweets from glam team assistants to understand that when the ladies of Married to Medicine engage in their seasonal Quad humiliation ritual, it’s not solely because she’s insufferable and annoyingly dramatic, but also because she establishes clear boundaries between her coworkers on the show and her real-life friends.
Because I am incorrigibly nosy, I can generally immediately glean what the subtextual shade of any scene is about — odds are I’ve already listened to the obscure podcast posted in the recesses of the official subreddit months ago — I am primed to understand the actual tension onscreen. For example, it was clear in the premiere of Potomac that Stacey was putting Keiarna on notice with the “you’ve been trying to come around for years.” They’re both trying to stand out, and Keiarna is realizing that Stacey’s star is rising as hers is dimming — Stacey is calling out her desperation to get a camera moment by manufacturing tension between them. It’s cheeky but fairly straightforward. This episode, however … I have no idea what, if anything, the actual issue is between these women.
I’ll go from most to least comprehensible. Stacey is not taking the jabs against her lying down and is recruiting Jassi for her revenge. Stacey is well within her rights to want to strike back, but I must say, her acting was worse than the time Cynthia was forced to expose Mr. Chocolate. That said, Jassi seems down for the tag team, and oohed and aahed appropriately at the reveal that — drumroll, please — Gizelle is dating. If they want to return fire, they’re just going to have to come harder than that.
Then we have Wendy versus Keiarna. I get the gist of Keiarna’s issue: she wants them to be legitimate friends, and Wendy views her and K as work friends, which doesn’t suffice for her. She doesn’t want to do the phony double kiss at events; she wants genuine friendship, sisterhood, bonding … but that is just not what Wendy offers. Explaining the intricacies of tensions between women and they ways that passive aggressive tactics are used damn near requires and advanced degree in sociology so I’m not all that surprised that Keiarna is getting flustered at Wendy’s deadpan energy; but she has to know that she is simply not communicating her issue well at all, and Wendy is not going to give her any rope beyond the exact amount she needs to hang herself. Wendy laughed in Keiarna’s face, and they both threw up middle fingers at each other, yet they walked out of that scene arm in arm — I would need 10,000 words to explain how that indicates the emotionally volatile behavior of women who have dominated their respective group chats, fuming about each other.
While I more or less get the gist of the above issues, when the horses start coming in, everything stops making sense. First, there’s tension about two competing events between Keiarna and Wendy, except Keiarna’s is a pre-party at the condo, and Wendy is hosting a formal party at the race, so there’s actually no conflict at all. Then, the chin-checking issue is resurrected, except now Gizelle is mad that Angel said Keiarna doubled back, and Angel claims she would have a serious issue if she lied. So then Keiarna cops to saying it, and Angel seems happy as a clam, and now Wendy and Gizelle are annoyed with her that she’s not mad at Keiarna, and now Keiarna is mad at everyone in her condo? I genuinely don’t understand what we are supposed to care about here or why. I get that Angel is wishy washy about calling out her best friend in front of the crew, but most people wouldn’t leap to drag their best friend with an audience. I just am struggling to wrap my head around why the phrase “chin-check” is such an issue to be continuously dragged out like this; it’s starting to remind me of how we spent an entire season arguing the semantics of “violated” on Beverly Hills.
By the time Stacey and Keiarna reprise their argument, I am simply fully lost as to what everyone’s issue with each other is. Stacey hasn’t gotten invited to Keiarna’s functions, Keiarna doesn’t care for her, Stacey reminds her of the physical altercation they had, and I am just wondering why this has all gotten so hostile. Now we’re piling into the van, and Angel has an issue with Wendy, and I’m just stuck, wondering how the word “chin-checked” caused all this. Usually, the alliances and subtext are quite obvious — this time, it felt like Keiarna was trying hard to establish her rightful place at the table, and everyone endured friendly fire as a result of her half-hearted efforts.
Anyway, the taglines have finally arrived. Let’s rate them, shall we?
Gizelle: “When the nest is empty, it’s time for naked, grown, and sexy.” Given that we never see any real information on her personal life, I don’t even understand what this is supposed to mean. I can’t tell if Gizelle is threatening us with more rompers or doing a sponsored ad as an ambassador for Porsha’s Go Naked Hair. 3/10
Wendy: “I put the high in higher education.” Given the state of bliss the Osefos seemed to be in in their mugshots, I do believe that Happy Eddie indeed does the job. But talk about some awful timing, my word. 5/10
Stacey: “Some people believe the lies, but still I rise.” Given that TMZ recently confirmed Stacey’s divorce, she may very well be right. 7/10
Keiarna: “Beauty is my business, but getting you together is my specialty.” Unfortunately, I fear that recent evidence does not support this claim. 5/10
Tia: “You can only clutch pearls if you have them, and darling, I have loads.”The delivery is what really sells this. She’s up against a weak field, but definitely the strongest one. 7/10
Angel: “Hell hath no fury like an Angel scorned.” Cute enough but if this episode is any indication, I think she may be writing a check that her mouth can’t cash. 6/10
Ashley:“This cherry blossom is ready for her second bloom.” Who has got this whole concept of a second bloom stuck in Ashley’s head? It’s nonsensical and silly. 4/10
This episode might have been more confusing than the third act of a Chris Nolan movie, but we are about to take the cast to St. Kitts and Nevis, where we can at least be befuddled while staring at the beach. See y’all next week!
• I laughed out loud when Gizelle politely informed Angel that her sound bowl event was boring as hell. I am sorry, but I have seen enough faux meditation routines for the next four lifetimes.
Genuinely astonished by how little I miss Mia on my screen, but I hope her and Bobby Valentino (or whatever obscure Atlanta area man who was relevant 15 years ago she has glommed onto now) are doing well.
Stacey being a pageant mom is as predictable as Kenya Moore’s color contacts. But Arabella looked cute!
Ashley looked beyond absurd doing spin class with a melted wig and a full face of makeup. Just splash on some powder, fill in the brows, and call it a day!
“And through it all, GOD remains faithful,” Wendy, 41, wrote via Instagram on Sunday, October 19. “Thank you for the outpouring of love, support, and prayers for myself and most importantly my family during this time. We are forever grateful🙏🏾.Tune into @bravotv tonight for a new episode of #RHOP.”
Alongside the message, Wendy shared a series of photos of her wearing a black floor-length gown with white collared straps and a matching hat.
Wendy’s RHOP costar Stacey Rusch wrote in the comments section, “Love you❤️.”
Wendy and Eddie made headlines earlier this month when they were indicted on insurance fraud, conspiracy insurance fraud and making false statements to police officers, according to court documents obtained by Us Weekly.
The pair were booked in Westminster, Maryland, and were released the following day after posting $50,000 bond each, a rep for the Carroll County Detention Center confirmed to Us.
“Dr. Wendy Osefo and her husband, Edward Osefo, are back home safely with their family and in good spirits,” a rep for the pair told Us in a statement. “They are grateful for the outpouring of concern and support from friends, fans, and colleagues. The Osefos, alongside their legal team, look forward to their day in court. At this time, they respectfully ask for privacy as they focus on their family and the legal process ahead.”
One year earlier, the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office responded to a reported burglary at Wendy and Eddie’s home. After returning from a trip to Jamaica in 2024, the duo claimed several designer bags and pieces of jewelry had been stolen.
“There was a screen with damage laying on the roof, and the window was not locked. To go in or out of that window, one has to step on the toilet. The toilet lid was down and had no debris on it. When Sheriff’s office personnel stepped onto the roof and back into the home, they tracked roof ‘grit’ back inside,” the docs read.
The docs continued, “The Osefos had an ADT system and a ring camera. The Osefos activated the ADT alarm system upon leaving for vacation. During the time they were away, there was no motion detected inside the residence. There was activity, such as package deliveries, on the ring camera that was monitored remotely by the Osefos.”
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Eddie shared statements with two insurance companies regarding the stolen items at the time. He and Wendy signed their statements, claiming $2,500 in damages to their home and $450,000 in property.
After the alleged burglary, Eddie included Wendy’s gold diamond anniversary band in the insurance claim. They received a $25,380 settlement from Travelers Insurance. In a second claim with Jewelers Mutual Insurance, Wendy’s gold diamond anniversary band was not mentioned nor was the Travelers Insurance settlement.
Authorities reportedly saw photographs of Wendy wearing the stolen band after the reported burglary A search and seizure warrant on their home found that at least 15 items Wendy and Eddie claimed were stolen were in the house. In docs obtained by Us, the investigation found that the pair were allegedly “burdened by substantial debt.”
Whitney Rose is a civil-rights leader for redheads. Luckily for Lisa Barlow, she didn’t even realize that she had called her a “redhead” derogatorily last week until the episode aired, when she posted a lengthy message bravely standing up for all of those with the hair color. Her storming out wasn’t even about that, and, as it turns out, was only temporary. She tells us she just wanted to remove herself for a little bit until Lisa “tuckered herself out.”
So with Whitney gone, Lisa turns her ire toward Angie and her businesses — saying that she only owns one and a half Lunatic Fringes and the rest are franchises. Okay, but which half? Angie pushes back, saying she actually owns three, and adds, “You do French fries, I do franchise.” She’s one of our sharpest minds, and I’m not the only one who thinks so. “Oh, that was good,” Mary says across the table with a chuckle. These attacks are particularly hurtful, given that Angie has been supporting Lisa’s sons’ Fresh Wolf business by stocking their products on her shelves. However, Angie can be hurtful, too, referring to it as a C-level business. I do love that we’ve ascended to the heights of a Real Housewife dragging a child’s line of conditioner.
Heather finally speaks up, and to her credit, she calls them all out for going low, including Lisa. And to think they were doing this in front of Amy, the Utah Socialite! Against all odds, Heather gets through to Lisa, who starts crying and telling Angie how much she loves her, and Angie says the same back. I feel like I have whiplash. Even Lisa and Bronwyn call a truce, enough so for Lisa to raise a glass with the whole table. “I love each and every single one of you, even when I’m mad at you.” This is why this insane show works, and why there’s been so little cast turnover. They’re all the best thing a Housewife can be: resilient.
Do you know what else makes this show brilliant? All of the magic in the smallest of details. There’s a brief scene of Heather and Mary getting lunch, where nothing narratively important seems to happen, so on any other franchise, this would have been cut. But on Salt Lake, they simply had to include it because Mary casually says that tequila “tastes like hospital.” This, of course, calls back to the historic premiere where she told Jen Shah that she smelled like a hospital, and Mary says that anything with a smell has a taste, including farts. As she tries to explain this, Heather breaks the fourth wall, looking directly into the camera to laugh with us. Because first and foremost, Heather is a viewer like us — she just happens to have the best seat in the house.
Another small throwaway moment that I loved? The show including footage of Bronwyn driving over the curb as she arrived for her sit-down with Lisa. Luckily, the meeting goes much better than the parking job. They very smartly take it back to the beginning of the issue, which was Lisa’s coincidental connection to Gwen’s paternal grandparents and how that whole plotline was handled. Everybody apologizes for their part in that fumble; they both apologize for the low blows, as well as all the digging up of dirt, and they vow to turn a new page.
But Lisa’s not turning a new page with Angie, who tells Heather that the other day at Lunatic Fringe, Lisa’s assistant arrived unannounced to pick up all of the Fresh Wolf products. I say it every week, but these are artists at work who continually find new and exciting ways to play with this medium. Lisa then Venmos Angie and texts her, “I can send my cleaners to help you too. Sorry your salon is so dusty,” to which Angie quickly responds, “My salon is not dusty; your products are, though, because they’ve been sitting here for two years.” Lisa fires back with some vague dig about Angie borrowing money for a vacation and using a credit card she shouldn’t have. Angie doesn’t know what she’s talking about, but something tells me Lisa will be clarifying that very soon.
Speaking of people’s businesses, Mary and her cousin Big Joe check out her church now that the renovations are finally complete. But more importantly, they reflect on Mary’s tumultuous relationship with her estranged mother, who died a few months ago. Newer RHOSLC viewers might not be aware of the full bizarre backstory surrounding Mary, who married her step-grandfather to inherit her grandmother’s church, which her mother felt should have gone to her instead. This conversation is the first we’ve heard from Mary about that in quite a while, and she agrees that it was as weird as it sounds, but it was her grandmother’s wish. Now with her mother gone, it feels like the end of that tough chapter. But even as she’s crying, Mary still manages to make us laugh by mistaking a Louis Vuitton mask for a Kleenex.
Meanwhile, Whitney and Britani — paired up by production because their names rhyme, I can only assume — go plant shopping, and Whitney asks where things stand with Jared. The engagement is off, but they’re working toward getting reengaged, which is tough because Britani thinks her daughter, Olivia, wants to be put ahead of her relationship. Well, duh. But Britani says that’s a big ask. I can see it in Whitney’s eyes that she feels like she’s being Punk’d; she simply can’t fathom a mother saying this. So much so that she grabs Britani by the shoulders and tries to have a come-to-Jesus with her. She tells her that she simply has to put her daughter first, even if that means putting a pin in her relationship. Did this actually get through to Britani? Time will tell, but I don’t see Jared going anywhere anytime soon.
Speaking of mothering, over at Bronwyn’s house — where bobs are a genetic condition — she’s talking to her mom about Gwen and her boyfriend. Bronwyn explains that she wants her relationship with Gwen to be transparent and would rather know what she’s doing than have her sneaking around and keeping secrets like she had to. Naturally, Bronwyn’s mother disagrees, and they spar over what’s the right way to parent a teenager. What’s crazy is that Bronwyn’s mother is so adamant that her way is more successful, even though Bronwyn got pregnant. Worst of all, she’s still horrible to Bronwyn over the pregnancy and talks about it like it was a terrible mistake that she was the victim of. I try not to speak ill of women with bobs, but this is vile behavior.
While conflict continues to run amok within families, peace is still being brokered elsewhere. After a scroll-themed olive branch on the camping trip, Meredith and Angie meet up to continue to foster their budding friendship. Just kidding; Angie is using this as an opportunity to go after Lisa. She tells Meredith about the Fresh Wolf incident, and then goes on to tell her that back when the two of them (Angie and Meredith) weren’t on good terms, Lisa was in her ear telling her to dig up dirt on Meredith, even telling her specific things to look up about her family. In her confessional, Meredith says this is hard to believe, but in the moment, her face tells a different story. It looks like she actually can believe it. One way or another, they both know that she’ll have to confront Lisa to get to the bottom of this.
“Most of [the trip] was kind of like a pile-on to bash Lisa, to be totally honest. It was not really positive for her,” Meredith, 53, exclusively shared with Us Weekly when celebrating her RÜMORS & NASTINESS game, available for preorder now. “I felt pretty bad because she wasn’t there, and there was a lot of conversation about things that I didn’t know all that much about. I was only able to speak to the parts that I knew, and it was not that easy to defend her, because we were talking about things that she should have been there to talk about herself.”
On the Tuesday, September 16, episode of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,Mary Cosby and Angie Katsanevas hosted a girls’ camping trip that kicked off with an RV ride.
Lisa, 50, was noticeably missing for the overnight getaway, which also included Whitney Rose, Heather Gay, Britani Bateman and Bronwyn Newport.
“I definitely did defend Lisa, and for me, it was really, really difficult, because it’s kind of like people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones,” Meredith explained to Us when looking back on the season premiere. “I do not have legal issues going on, but a lot of the people on the cast do, and we kind of give a lot of space to that, and they didn’t give that to Lisa. They didn’t give her the ability to answer it for herself.”
She continued, “They threw it out there into the universe to sit and stew for however long until she can answer for herself. And I don’t think anyone else was shown that disrespect with their legal issues. In fact, there are several that are outstanding that have not been discussed yet. Perhaps it’s time.”
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When The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City launched in 2020, Lisa and Meredith were best friends. While the duo’s friendship has faced some highs and lows as the show has progressed, they are in a good spot as season 6 kicks off this month on Bravo.
From Meredith’s perspective, some of her costars tried to create a wedge in her friendship with Lisa.
“What really was a turning point for both of us was the realization that there was a lot of gas being poured on the fire that we’re seen as too strong together,” Meredith shared. “A lot of the women wanted to break that down, and were determined to break it down, and there were several attempts over the course of this past season to break it down. The problem is we’re on to you. Your tricks don’t work anymore.”
As a new season begins, Meredith is having some fun with all the rumors and nastiness that she faces.
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The Bravo star teamed up with Samantha Topping Gellert to create an outrageous new party game designed for watch parties, pre-games and unforgettable nights with friends.
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Meredith’s newest business venture — TOGG, or The Original Game Girls — is launching RÜMORS & NASTINESS, described as a bluff-and-gossip game built for the reality TV era.
“We all know there’s a lot of rumors and nastiness and obviously, the name ties back into the way you play — Is it a rumor or a nasty truth?” Meredith shared when teasing the game. “I just think it’s fun and it’s light. … We were looking for something to play off of rumors and nastiness. It’s just a really fun game.”
RÜMORS & NASTINESS is available for preorders online now. The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City airs on Bravo Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET. Stream old episodes on Peacock.
If Marysol and Alexia want to put Stephanie in her place, they need to actually stand up to her and not opt for this passive-aggressive strategy. Photo: Bravo
This season has been less about who is right or wrong in any argument and more about the tactics they use to fight each other. Just like Guerdy was totally right in her fight with Julia, especially after she threw water at her, but the tactics she used to publish Julia’s texts made her behavior unseemly to the women. The same is happening with Stephanie and her fight with Marysol and Alexia. (Marexia? Alesol? But also, how do these two not have a friendship name like “The Green-Eyed Bandits” or “Frick and Frack”?) They are entirely right that Stephanie is seeking too much control in her interactions with the women and is using her money to exert that control, but they were also entirely wrong to skip the trip on her plane without a proper explanation.
It starts the day they’re supposed to fly to Marbella for the afternoon so that Julia can ask only one of her friends, Derek, the world’s foremost Elton John impersonator, if he and his husband will be her new sons’ godfathers. Julia breaks it to the group that Marexia isn’t coming. They told her that they needed a day to rest away from the drama of the group, but also that they were worried that Stephanie would leave them behind in Marbella with no way to get home if they behaved in a way Stephanie didn’t like.
They send Stephanie a text saying they won’t be flying with her, but they say that they need a break from the craziness. That’s the problem with this tactic. First of all, they’re lying. Second, this is so passive-aggressive that it’s begging for a conflict. It’s setting it up so that when Stephanie finds out that she will have to confront them, it makes her look like the bad guy when they’re the ones who are misbehaving. Additionally, when that confrontation occurs, they will have to discuss their lie, and then they’ll appear not only rude and meddlesome but also dishonest.
This is all a trap that Stephanie walks into like it’s a room-size Birkin. It starts on the bus on the way to the jet when Julia tells Stephanie that she is a bit bossy. “You clearly don’t think I’m that bossy if you’re about to get on my plane to go,” she tells Julia. This is precisely the problem. Stephanie thinks that because she’s generous, she can treat people however she likes, and if you accept her generosity, it is a tacit approval of how she behaves, even when she’s also using that generosity to control people. Julia describes it perfectly, saying, “You don’t offer something, then point it out in a kind of belittling way.”
They get on the plane, and Stephanie decides to daub her eyes and turn the party up for the 22-minute, $44,000 trip. We get the shades lowered, the disco lights flashing, the music cranked up to 11, though production probably couldn’t clear the song, so we just hear generic dance tracks. Now, if we saw more of this Stephanie and less of the one who wants to lay down the rules like a too-strict substitute teacher, then maybe the women would like her even without a PJ. Even still, Stephanie trash-talks Alexia and Marysol, which is just what they want. But she thinks they’re not getting on the plane because she has lots of rules about her “jet-iquette,” like they have to take off their shoes and not scratch her seats. It’s her plane, she can make the rules, but that isn’t the reason they’re not there. The reason they’re not there is that Stephanie is using the plane and the threat of taking it away to try to tell the women what they should and shouldn’t do. Considering her whole fight with Alexia started when the Cuban Barbie tried to order her around, she should be a bit more aware of that.
Stephanie does say something with which I agree: “[Marysol and Alexia] cared more about making me look bad than being here for Julia.” That’s what I don’t like about this stunt. They’re hiding behind the notion that everyone’s behavior is too much, but what they’re trying to do is force a discussion about Stephanie and the way she treats people without bringing it up themselves. They’re trying to exert their dominance, because if they refuse to go, it puts them in a position of power and Stephanie on the defensive. While I agree with Alesol’s position, this is the coward’s way out.
They go to Villa Moana, named after Derek’s favorite Disney movie, and have a lovely dinner with a bunch of English gays who seem enchanting and rich. So rich that Lisa has to keep talking about how rich they are, doing rich-people things, and serving rich mustard and drinking out of rich flutes. You would think she never lived in a giant rich person’s house on a rich person’s island in a rich person’s town. Everyone keeps pretending like this is the biggest day of Julia’s life, but Derek’s partner isn’t even there and neither is Martina. This doesn’t seem like that big of a deal, honestly.
While at the villa, Julia has a conversation with Derek about how her two daughters aren’t talking to her and Martina at the moment because Julia never told them that they were adopting two human children before those children were moved into the house. I’ve been holding off on discussing this all season because, while I respect people’s families and that not everyone does things the same way, this is totally weird. What do you mean Julia and Martina never mentioned it? They were just like, “Surprise, you have two new brothers!” That’s not something you spring on someone. That is something you discuss, even the potential of, before going through all the steps, the Byzantine bureaucracy, the countless reams of paperwork. Yes, as Julia says, it might have happened quickly, but they couldn’t give these girls even the slightest heads-up, let alone let them have some input into the composition of their family? I’m sorry, that’s strange, and I feel like we’re not getting the full story.
Also at the villa, Adriana says that she didn’t mean to call Kiki “ratchet,” she meant to say “wretched,” and she mispronounced it. I’m all for Adriana wanting to make amends, and I’m glad that she and Kiki quashed their animosity by the end of the episode, but I’m not buying this for one second. English isn’t Adriana’s first language, but have you ever heard her mess up this badly or mispronounce a word? Adriana is essentially an AI chatbot who is pursuing her Ph.D. at Harvard. She is a deeply intelligent woman. She would not make this mistake. Also, no one, including Adriana, would ever say, “Stop being wretched.” That’s wild. I think Adriana made a mistake, thought she was cute saying “ratchet,” didn’t fully understand its implications, and is now looking for an out without saying she was wrong. But she apologized; I believe she didn’t mean any harm, and it’s over, so whatever, Bev.
Back in Seville, they all put on their flamenco dresses and head in carriages to the giant plaza with a palace by it. It’s time for Stephanie’s birthday surprise, which is a flamenco band singing “Happy Birthday” in Spanish, and luckily, that weird guy who sang to Alexia on their first night has been put into musical prison and we don’t have to see him again. Stephanie is thrilled by this surprise; what is the first thing she does? FaceTimes her husband, talks to him, and makes him watch it. I’m sorry, but never do this to me. I don’t want to watch the grainy video and shitty audio of your singing birthday surprise. Also, those are roaming minutes. I know she has a jet and all, but AT&T is not getting any more of my money. Just enjoy the moment with your friends. Lock it into your memory rather than ignoring it, so you can be on your phone with your husband, who has better things to do than not fully hear people singing to you.
Stephanie is so touched that Julia and Marysol arranged this for her birthday that Marysol is now off the hook for not making the plane because she did something nice for Stephanie. Okay, got it. Stephanie then pulls Alexia aside and asks her what was up with the plane yesterday, making sure the Cuban Pinkie and The Brain’s plot comes to its inevitable conclusion. Alexia says they should get Marysol in on the conversation, because they both decided not to go. This is another tactic I hate. Like other friendship duos that turn into alliances, they act as if they are constantly in the right because they always have a lieutenant to back them up. They never have to stand alone in their decisions, so they feel forever justified even when they’re wrong.
Stephanie confirms with Alexia that they were afraid that if they broke a rule, she would leave them in Marbella. “What kind of human do you think I am?” she asks Alexia. Um, the kind who said, multiple times, that if people didn’t behave, she would kick them off the plane and make them walk back. They believe the kind of person that Stephanie said she was. If she didn’t want them to think that, maybe she shouldn’t say it repeatedly and not use spots on her plane like they were bribes. Stephanie then says that she wanted to include everyone on the plane, and Alexia wanted to kick people off. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. She needs to back up. We all saw the footage. We all saw Stephanie, out of the blue, ask Larsa if she thought Lisa should get booted if she would make her feel uncomfortable. Alexia and Marysol never had any part in that. That is a plot she hatched herself.
When Alexia storms off and they join the larger group, Marysol gets to the point Alexia was trying to make earlier in the argument: that Stephanie can’t control them. This is both a fight for autonomy and for dominance. The problem is, Stephanie is now calling Alexia a liar, but it’s unclear what she’s lying about. Stephanie tells Lisa that Alexia and Marysol didn’t want her on the plane, but that is, in fact, a lie. Stephanie, somehow, has the story all twisted, and her admission to Lisa has her and Larsa going at each other like a plastic dog trying to eat its own tail. Suddenly, everyone is sniping in the middle of this gorgeous plaza in their polka-dot dresses, and nothing is going forward except for Guerdy and Kiki’s embarrassment that they’re once again lumped in with these relentless squawkers.
The fight doesn’t end so much as it’s abandoned, with all of the ladies going back to the hotel and going to their separate locations. Stephanie and Larsa head to Stephanie’s room; Guerdy, Kiki, Marysol, and Adriana head (where else?) to the bar; and Julia, Alexia, and Lisa check out the hotel’s roof. While they’re assessing their fights and skirmishes, Julia, Alexia, and Lisa hear the banging of drums and smell the acrid pall of smoke coming from the street. They walk over to the edge of the balcony and see a funeral procession with crowds of people, priests, and altar boys, icons, and reliquaries hoisted above the crowd. They see the plumes of incense swirling up, past the windows, past the suites, headed toward the clouds, trying to find their way to heaven. They look down, and the eyes of the corpse in the casket are looking up. Their gaze somehow meets in the middle, joining each other, contrasting each other, the eyes of the dead pleading through the smoke and the drums and the wailing for all of the women to release themselves to the universe, to merge with everything around them, to coalesce what little love and affection they have left for each other into something unstoppable and eternal. But they won’t, they’ll just let the procession pass until the loudest of drums fails to resonate at all.
As humans, we are deeply flawed. We will lie, cheat, and steal…but most of all, we’ll watch any sort of gruesome reality show because we crave drama that isn’t our own.
Growing up, I remember my mom watching The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. I knew about Lisa Vanderpump before Vanderpump Rules entered the chat. But I never understood her fascination with a bunch of women fighting on-screen…until I got older.
Last year, I attended Summer House’s Danielle Olivera’s app launch party, where most of the cast was in attendance. After spending the night unknowingly surrounded by Carl Radke and Lindsay Hubbard (the night before the end of their engagement), Paige DeSorbo and Craig Conover, and more…I had to find out who the hell these people were.
Now, at 26 years of age, I’ve pored through most of the Bravo catalog myself. I’ve caught up on Summer House, the majority of the Real Housewives franchises, and I was there for Scandoval.
Reality TV has taken over since the Writer’s Strike brought show production to a grinding halt and it’s finally catching up to us. After a slow summer of barely any new scripted shows, it was time to fixate on reality.
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives aired on September 6 on Hulu. And at first glance, it seemed like a tell-all documentary about the horrors of Mormonism…but actually, it was a reality television show about crazy Mormon women who founded “#MomTok” on TikTok.
Everyone’s watching, but honestly…this isn’t the finest Mormon television I’ve seen. If you’ve already watched The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and can’t get enough of the “Bad Mormons,” then here are a few shows that are just as shocking.
The Real Housewives Of Salt Lake City
I think the real reason I wasn’t utterly shocked by The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives was because prepared for it by this show. Because, sure, there’s nothing scarier (I mean better) than a bunch of 20-something Mormon women making TikToks…until you’ve met a group of disgraced Mormon women double their age with double the drama.
In terms of reality television this show has been through everything in only five seasons: Jen Shah, now imprisoned for fraud, Monica Garcia, who ran an anonymous gossip account about her fellow housewives, Meredith Marks, who has a strange Transatlantic accent…I could go on.
Constant drama, mentions of Mormonism, and many quotable moments, this show makes The Secret Lives look like child’s play.
Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey
If you want more of a documentary ( shockumentary?), then watch Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey on Netflix. All about the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints cult that’s led by Warren S. Jeffs (from jail!), you’ll hear all about the male-dominated, polygamist group in this tell-all docu.
The series documents the physical, psychological, and emotional abuse of young women in the FLDS, with a focus on the survivors who have safely escaped. There are mentions of child abuse, sexual assault, and more, so be cautious when viewing — this content may not be safe for everyone.
However, if you want the dark truth about some sectors of the Latter Day Saints sect, this is a good start.
Under The Banner Of Heaven
A mixture of fact and fiction, Under The Banner Of Heaven stars Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones. It follows Detective Jeb Pyre as he investigates the murder of Brenda Wright Lafferty and her daughter in Salt Lake Valley. Along the way, Pyre (Garfield) starts to uncover the truth about the LDS religion.
It’s one of Garfield’s best roles (and yes, I’ve seen his Spiderman) as he grapples with his faith while investigating a major murder. It blends fundamentalism, ethics, and the Mormonism in a way that has you questioning what’s real and what isn’t.
Based on Jon Krakauer blockbuster of a novel, it’s a great fictional take on the FLDS that will have you binge watching the entire show in one night.
Hofmann faked documents relating to the Latter Day Saints religion, including letters “from” Joseph Smith, Lucy Mack Smith, and David Whitmer. When Hofmann was close to getting caught, he set off three bombs across Salt Lake City, Utah to kill three people.
It’s a bizarre tale that turns deadly, but is an easy binge watch for you and your friends.
Update: 9/25/24, 12:12 p.m. ET — Kyle Richards provided Bravo fans with answers, confirming she’s the Real Housewives star teaming up with Reese Witherspoon.
During an Amazon Live on Tuesday, September 24, Richards replied to a fan who wondered, “Kyle, did you happen to be sitting next to Reese Witherspoon on a flight by chance?” the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star responded, “Yes, I was. And yes, that was me that she was referring to.”
She continued: “In case you guys didn’t see, Reese Witherspoon said something at the Emmys about being on a flight with a Real Housewife and working with her in some vein. So yes, that was me.”
Richards did not go on to share any details about her and Witherspoon’s upcoming collaboration.
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Reese Witherspoon revealed she’s working on a new project with a Real Housewives star — and fans are buzzing about who it could be.
The actress, 48, made the revelation on the 2024 Emmy Awards red carpet at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, September 15. After telling Live From E! cohost Heather McMahan that she’s “never watched” the Bravo reality franchise, Witherspoon stated, “But I did sit next to a Real Housewife on a flight recently.”
She remained mum when asked to name names. “Well, we might have a Hello Sunshine project cooking now, but I can’t say anything. But it was cool, it was really cool.” (Witherspoon cofounded her production company Hello Sunshine with Seth Rodsky in 2016.)
Bravo fans were quick to share their theories on which Housewives personality is collaborating with Witherspoon, with many immediately thinking of stars who have acting experience.
What, like it’s hard? Reese Witherspoon has had quite the evolution throughout her career — as an actress, producer and businesswoman. The southern belle made a splash with her debut film, 1991’s The Man in the Moon, at the ripe age of 14. While she briefly put her acting aspirations on hold following her high […]
“I’d put good money on it being Kyle Richards,” one X user posted on Sunday, while another added, “It’s prob Kyle Richards! She’s a producer already.” Richards, 55, famously got her start as a child actress in projects such as The Car, Halloween and Down to Earth. In recent years, she reprised her role as Lindsey Wallace in 2021’s Halloween Kills and 2022’s Halloween Ends, and starred in movies and TV shows such as The Housewives of the North Pole and Beautiful Wedding.
Other fans suspected Richards’ Real Housewives of Beverly Hills costars Garcelle Beauvais and Lisa Rinna could also be Witherspoon’s mystery colleague. “I bet she is working with Garcelle,” wrote one X user. Another tweeted, “Watch it be Rinna.”
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Both RHOBH ladies have built extensive acting careers outside of the reality TV world. Beauvais, 57, has appeared in projects such as Spider-Man: Homecoming, The Magicians, Tell Me a Story, The Real Murders of Los Angeles and Tempted by Love in recent years, while Rinna, 61, has followed up her 2023 RHOBH exit with roles in American Horror Stories, So Help Me Todd, Lopez vs. Lopez and Mommy Meanest.
The Real Housewives of Atlanta alum Kandi Burruss also has a handful of acting credits, making her another likely candidate to work with Witherspoon. “Kandi … it’s kandi,” another X user tweeted on Monday, September 16.
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One fan also suggested Witherspoon could be working with The Real Housewives of New York City alum Bethenny Frankel, given her reality TV and business experience. Other Housewives viewers, meanwhile, pitched potential projects they’d love to see Witherspoon create.
Nicki Minaj and Rihanna are self-proclaimed Real Housewives superfans — and they’re not alone. In July 2021, Minaj revealed via social media that she would love to host the Real Housewives of Potomac reunion, which host Andy Cohen supported. “I want to see this!” he wrote in the comments section of Minaj’s post. Several cast […]
“A docu-series following approachable lifestyle guru Sonja Morgan as she relaunches her line of toaster ovens,” one X user wrote. Another shared, “Ooooh! Maybe she’ll do a real life crime drama with Erika [Jayne] 😉.” (Jayne’s estranged husband, Tom Girardi, was found guilty on four counts of fraud last month after being accused of embezzling over $15 million from various clients.)
Witherspoon walked the Emmys red carpet in a black, strapless tulle dress with white floral embellishments. She and her The Morning Show costar Jennifer Aniston were both nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, which was ultimately won by Shōgun’s Anna Sawai.
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City fans are eager for new episodes after the dramatic conclusion to season 4. During the January 2024 season finale, Heather Gay revealed the jaw-dropping secret that costar Monica Garcia was behind the anonymous troll account Reality Von Tease, which has been antagonizing the women of RHOSLC since March […]
Whitney, looking utterly bewildered, then listened as Meredith took her back to three months earlier when she launched a bath collection of her own.
“You did jewelry last year, you launched bath this year after I said I was doing it,” she explained. “What is your problem with me?”
“I have no problem with you, I think that you’re reading way too much into this,” Whitney replied.
Then, the teaser cuts to a confessional where Whitney delivers a zinger of her own.
Whitney Rose, Meredith Mark.Fred Hayes/Bravo
“I am genuinely concerned that Meredith is spending too much time in the bathtub because I think everything is starting to shrivel up and prune — including her brain.”
Meredith did not back down.
“The message I’m getting from you is ‘I don’t want to be your friend,’” she said, as Whitney protested. “Based on your reactions and your history.”
Meredith was candid with Us, not bashing Whitney but making it clear that the two of them just don’t see things the same way.
“Whitney and I, I feel like butt heads every year,” she explained. “We just don’t see life from the same standpoint, is really what it boils down to.”
She also spoke about the full season 5 trailer, which Bravo released in August. In it, Meredith can be seen speaking to Lisa Barlow, then turning to the door and saying, “And I’m sure she can hear me now,” seemingly talking about Whitney. The camera then cut to Whitney with her ear firmly pressed against the door.
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Meredith admitted she had to ask production if that was really happening or if the footage was edited together to appear that way.
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“I was like, ‘That is hysterical,’” she said. “I called to ask because it is just a teaser. I’m like, ‘Well, maybe they just put that together.’ Really, that really happened.”
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City season 5 premieres on Bravo Wednesday, September 18, at 9 p.m. ET.
In November 2023, The Real Housewives of Dubai star Caroline Stanbury’s husband, Sergio Carrallo, took followers along on her postoperative journey. In the vlog shared via Instagram, Stanbury sat in the passenger’s seat of the car while she was covered in bandages and scars.
“I love you so much,” he told her through tears, while Stanbury couldn’t respond due to the facial coverings.
Less than a year later, The Real Housewives of Orange County’s Tamra Judge gave a glimpse at her healing path in August 2024 after receiving a brow lift. Judge, who had bandages around her face and a discoloration to her skin, explained that the doctor did a CO2 laser with a blue peel.
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“Took a little skin out of the corner of my eye, had a little fat pocket,” Judge explained while pointing to a spot above the corner of her eye. “But not too much pain, honestly.”
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This was something of a strange episode for our orange claspers, as they all had meetings in pairs (and one trio) to discuss Gina’s disastrous dinner last episode. Then, they go on two separate vacations. Tamra takes Katie, Jenn, and Alexis JJ Bellino to her gorgeous red schoolhouse-looking house in Big Bear, and Gina takes Emily, Shanon, and Heather for a night in La Quinta and a house she’s trying to sell that they then spill cocktails all over the white kitchen. Gina is such a girl boss.
The bisected nature of this week’s installment highlighted that this has become a season with one-on-one but intersecting feuds between the women. Rather than looking at the episode as a whole, let’s look at each of these fights and decide whose side we’re on, shall we?
Emily vs. Jenn: As part of Gina’s dinner that we didn’t see, Emily comes after Jenn for wearing a Rolex when she has bills to pay and sings, “I owe, I owe, so not to work I go,” every morning. I was on Jenn’s side on this one. I don’t think Emily is wrong, but there is no reason to go as hard at Jenn, and she goes as hard as JD Vance in a Jennifer Convertibles. I could see Gina criticizing Jenn about this because Jenn’s financial troubles directly impacted Girlboss Gina’s business, but Emily has no skin in this particular game.
Then Emily says that she asked Jenn the time, and she said the watch didn’t even work. You’re telling me you’re poor and you’re wearing a broken Rolex out and about town so that people think that you’re rich when you’re really letting your “entrepreneur” boyfriend pay for everything. Fuck that. Just like Emily says, “It tells me you’re stupid.” (But Heather Dubrow was right, “Don’t yell at someone ‘cause they’re dumb.”)
WINNER: Emily
Katie vs. Heather: Now that Katie’s five-episode grace period is up, I can firmly say that I like Katie. She seems smart, funny, and like she doesn’t care too much about this fame bullshit, and I think those are just the vibes we need right now. Also, when she was describing “Asian flush” to a table of oblivious white women, I felt like her past was retraumatizing her as the only Korean in a white family.
And this “Heather called the paparazzi” nonsense is just the kind of petty fighting I like on my Housewives. I completely and totally believe that Heather Dubrow called the paparazzi, but I also believe that Heather is making a semantic argument that she didn’t. It’s just like Lisa Vanderpump said, “I never sold stories to RadarOnline.” She’s right. She didn’t sell them, she gave them away for free. I also believe that Heather herself did not call up a photographer and had them show up at Disneyland to snap some awkwardly posed photos of Dr. and Mrs. Guinea Pig. So she can say, “I never called the paparazzi in my life,” but you don’t have to be Tree Paine to know that Heather’s publicist (or assistant or hair girl or favorite hostess at Nobu) calls the paps for her. Let’s be honest: that is the kind of housewife Heather has always played, and that’s fine. That’s part of the game. No one cares.
WINNER: Katie
Katie vs. Gina: Katie is upset that when Heather found out what Katie said about the paparazzi, Gina didn’t have her back. Gina hung Katie out to dry like a damp bikini bottom the minute Fancy Pants took umbrage with Gina not defending her. This is the thing about Heather: she wants us to think she’s so demure, but everyone on the cast is scared of pissing her off. If she’s so sweet why is she so scary?
If I were Katie, I would be pissed that Gina at least didn’t say, “Heather, she didn’t mean it to be that bad. Let’s cut her a break with this one,” but she didn’t. When Katie talks about the fight with the women in Big Bear, Tamra says, “You were set up.” Tamra is a little too used to playing a dirty game and sees one wherever she looks. I don’t think Gina was plotting Katie’s demise; I just think she’s way more scared of Heather — and also of losing her job, should she run afoul of Heather — than she is of Katie.
WINNER: Katie
Heather vs. Gina: Heather is pissed that Gina didn’t shut down Katie when she brought the paparazzi stuff up. This one is a little hard for us to adjudicate because Heather’s whole argument hinges on the idea that she didn’t call the paparazzi and, I’m sorry, I just don’t believe that to be true. (For what it’s worth, I also believe Katie when she says weeks passed between when she told Gina about the paps and when Gina told her not to say it.)
Where Heather loses me, though, is talking about how much this upset her children (two of whom are college-aged) and comparing it to when Gina got upset at the last reunion when Shannon was talking about her children. Okay, Shannon said that Gina’s kids were going to be taken by CPS, which is something directly about Gina’s kids. Heather’s children were only obliquely affected by this whole thing in a way that everything that comes up on the show could obliquely affect her kids. If she doesn’t want stories about her or her relationship in the press because the kids might see it, well, maybe don’t be on a reality show.
What’s weird about this is how wrong Heather is playing it. If she said, “Yes, there were rumors about Terry cheating and us splitting up. The kids heard about it and were upset, but it’s really not true. We all know how the tabloids make up stuff up. So, did I pose for pics with Terry to get Page Six off our backs? Yes, I did, and I have no problem with that, but I don’t want this bad part of my life to keep coming up all the time.” Everyone in the audience and Gina would have totally understood and dropped it. Because Heather’s fighting it, we’re all stuck in this mire pretending like Heather didn’t call the paparazzi like she’s Lady Gaga’s fourth-best song.
WINNER: Page Six
Emily vs. Gina: This one was overshadowed by the Heather and Gina fight over half-eaten chili dogs (brought to you by Ozempic). Shannon pulls Emily aside and says, “I don’t want to make you mad, but…” and then tells her about how Gina was telling the ladies that Emily has gotten meaner now that she’s spending all of her time up Tamra’s ass. Yeah, Shannon didn’t want to make her mad except, um, to totally make her mad.
Emily then becomes passive-aggressive with Gina, not telling her what is wrong when something is very wrong. I see where Emily is coming from. She feels like she and Gina are the ones who say that kind of shit to each other about the other ladies, she doesn’t like to be on the receiving end from her best friend. (I would love to be on the receiving end from my best friend if my best friend was Pedro Pascal.) I know these two are going to work it out. For stirring up drama and then getting out of the way, I have to go with…
WINNER: Shannon Storms Beador
Emily vs. Shane’s Car: Shane (who probably needs a step ladder to get into the giant truck that he loans Emily for their road trip) was very clear that he doesn’t want any eating in his car. I was really on board with Emily when she was like, “Yes, Shane, we won’t eat in your car,” and then pulled out a Costco-sized bag of Twizzlers as soon as she rounded the corner. That is a great car snack: no crumbs, no Cheeto dust, no lingering odor. Genius.
She lost me though when she pulled into Jack in the Box and they all ate fast food sitting in that pickup. There isn’t an outdoor picnic table? They couldn’t eat inside? And why is Heather telling us their tacos are popular? Why are they all talking about how much they liked it? Is this like a stealth Lisa Barlow Wendy’s commercial? What is even going on here?
WINNER: Sponcon
Elizabeth Vargas vs. Obscurity: Why do Housewives shows pretend like the women who were in previous seasons don’t exist at all? Gina is like, “Oh, my friend, Elizabeth Vargas.” Yes, we all know. We watch this show. We know that she was the one in a cult who only lasted one season. Can’t the chyron be like, “Fired Housewife”? Just acknowledge that we know!
WINNER: Cults
Alexis vs. Decency: The whole way up to Big Bear, Alexis is talking about just how great her Johnny J is. “He’s so sweet and decent and pays for everything and has a huge schlong, and we went to two different Christian services on Christmas because that makes Jesus even happier and, oh, since we’re on our way to Big Bear I should mention that he can hang a television in about 7 minutes. Can you believe it?”
Then she’s on the phone with him talking about how he gets a night off from having sex since she’s away and crowing about how if she was there with him she would only be wearing her high heels and then pulled up her leg to make sure her Faux-bitan was in the frame. God, it’s so gross. Just as Heather didn’t call the paps, I firmly believe that John is only with Alexis to attack Shannon on the show and that Alexis is only with John for some good D and to get back on basic cable. Shannon deserves hazard pay for this.
WINNER: The memory of Scheana’s ex-boyfriend, Rob
Shannon vs. The Forces of Evil: At the very end of the episode, Alexis says that John has videos of Shannon from the night she endangered Archie Beador’s life driving drunk. She says if Shannon doesn’t stop “lying on” John, then he’s going to release them. This guy already sued her for the facelift money he lent her. Isn’t that humiliating enough? What’s next? Telling everyone she got an enema stuck up her ass, and he had to dig it out. Oh, wait. That already happened. Anyway, as Jenn points out to Alexis, “When do you stop the fight? You’re on such a hell path.” It just all seems so base, so tawdry, so Teresa Giudice coded.
Anyway, Alexis says, “Johnny is ready to talk.” Okay, then why isn’t he on the show? Why is he making Jesus and her Juggs take all the bullets here when he’s just hiding behind FaceTime and a smile? And just what can be in those videos? If it’s just Shannon drunk, well, we all know that. Even if she is more wasted than all the girls during Bama Rush, we wouldn’t be surprised. Unless she’s dropping the N-word or talking shit about her supposed friends on the show, I don’t see how these videos could hurt Shannon any more than she’s already hurt. Also, it’s gross to come on her show and hold her hostage. God, this guy is grody.
WINNER: The rest of this season because, girl, this is gonna be good.
“I’ve been left no choice but to sue Bravo,” she wrote via X. “This stress has ruined my health. I have uncontrollable stress induced angio-edema I haven’t worked for a year … to [sic] depressed to do my podcast.” (The last episode of Glanville’s “Brandi Glanville Unfiltered” podcast was released on May 15.)
Us Weekly has reached out to Glanville’s rep for comment.
While some Real Housewives of Beverly Hills stars have been a part of the Bravo hit since season 1 — looking at you, Kyle Richards — others have proved that diamonds aren’t forever. The sixth installment in the Real Housewives franchise was announced in March 2010 and aired its first season seven months later. At the […]
While it is unclear what “stress” Glanville is referring to, her post also claimed she is “being used as a fallguy.” Glanville also said she has “receipts 4days” regarding the unspecified matter and said she was also “to [sic] swollen 4cameo or OF [Only Fans].”
The former Real Housewife joined Cameo in 2019, which coincided with the beginning of her second stint on RHOBH, and joined OnlyFans in July 2023. She revealed on her podcast in February that OnlyFans “saved” her “life” after the reality star failed to earn an income for six months.
Glanville’s legal announcement comes after a tumultuous period for the reality star who was accused of sexually harassing Caroline Manzo during the January 2023 filming of The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip season 4 in Morocco.
Manzo, 62, filed a lawsuit against Bravo and its production companies in January 2024 over an alleged “traumatic” incident, according to documents obtained by Us Weekly at the time. The Real Housewives of New Jersey alum alleged that a “clearly intoxicated” Glanville kissed her without consent.
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Although Glanville was not listed as a defendant in Manzo’s lawsuit, Glanville’s legal team responded in a statement to Us, which read: “Sadly, Brandi had to wake up to yet another lawsuit that includes defamatory, false accusations about her. While filming, Brandi followed what the producers asked of her, and there was no sexual assault. She is innocent of these absurd accusations that have weighed on her mental and physical health for far too long without a word of support from Peacock, Shed or Bravo.”
In April, the Real Housewives spinoff’s executive producer Lisa Shannon also responded to Manzo’s lawsuit. In court documents obtained by Entertainment Tonight, Shannon alleged that Manzo “told us that she did not feel sexually violated, she felt ‘disrespected’ by Glanville.”
While it’s unclear if the Morocco trip will ever air, Glanville toldUs she is hopeful viewers will one day watch what happened for themselves.
Divorce drama! Brandi Glanville feuded with ex-husband Eddie Cibrian and his current wife, LeAnn Rimes, for nearly a decade after his headline-making cheating scandal. The reality star’s issues with Rimes began when the singer was rumored to be having an affair with Cibrian in 2008 after they costarred in the film Northern Lights together. Glanville […]
“I’ve been asking for it to air this whole entire time,” she told Us on April 25. “We were having such a good show that there was no need for this to be a part of the storyline. Just girls at a party having fun, everyone having fun, no one uncomfortable.”
Glanville also shared that LeAnn Rimes, who is married to Glanville’s ex-husband, Eddie Cibrian, has encouraged Glanville to take better care of herself. “[LeAnn] said, ‘You need a breath coach,” Glanville said. “She told me a long time ago, but it just kind of resonated with me.”
Glanville, who shares two sons, Mason, 21, and Jake, 17, with Cibrian, 51, once blamed Rimes, 41, for her former husband’s infidelity, which led to a decade-long feud between Glanville, Cibrian and Rimes. The feud ended in 2018 when Glanville shared via X that the three parties “sat and talked for hours [and] hashed everything out.”
There are so many stories, so many events, so many people that I just don’t care about on this here season of The Real Cash Payers of the Home Goods Parking Lot. I love gay love as much as the next middle-age homosexual, but why are we at Cousin Nick’s big gay wedding? Over the years, we’ve heard more about Melissa’s long-long-lost sister that doesn’t even exist than we have about Nick and his fiancé, and now we’re supposed to care what these grooms are up to just because Joe Gorga is officiating their wedding? At least they aren’t wearing matching tuxes; I hate when the gays do that. And they are cute … okay, if they DM me some photos of them in their Speedos from the honeymoon, then all will be forgiven.
This is going to come across callous and mean, but I don’t care about Joe Benigno’s cancer scare, either. It’s not like I want Joe to get cancer or anything, quite the opposite, but this medical story line is not getting me excited like playing doctor with Nick and his groom would. Joe may or may not have prostate cancer, which is like the easiest of all the cancers; if breast cancer is a marathon and ovarian cancer is a Tough Mudder, then prostate cancer is a two-block walk downhill. You can live with it for like 50 years. Of course, all the guy cancers are not that lethal; meanwhile, there are about 75 different cancers that a woman can get and they’ll all kill you dead in six months. It’s hell being a woman. But, yeah, prostate cancer is not that terrible and we don’t even know if Joe has it yet. I’m a little bit yawn! to this one until the diagnosis comes in.
I can’t manage to find one fuck to give about Danielle and her father’s reunion. Even if you downgrade it, I can’t find one freak to give. Maybe a frig. I could give a frig. No. Wait. I take that back. I would have given half a frig if Danielle’s dad actually showed up to her Boujie Kidz relaunch event — don’t worry, they won’t be relaunching proper spelling — but he was sick and bailed at the last minute, so I am taking back my half a frig and I will give half of that to this season of Real Housewives of Dubai because that is how much I care about that: one-quarter of a frig. (Sorry, Stanbury.)
The worst part about this whole season, however, is these friends-of they keep trying to make us care about. We’ve never seen Cousin Nick before, and yet we still see more of him than these two invisible friends-of that keep popping up at events. The only reason I know they’re supposed to be part of the cast is because they arrive in a full beat of makeup. Otherwise, they would just be like the other indistinguishable mothers trying to get their kids not to eat other kids’ boogers off of the balls in the ball pit at the Boujie Kidz relaunch party.
Now, that shit is a party. Not only is there a hair-tinsel station, a make-your-own-sweatshirt bar, a slide into a ball pit, and a mirrored photo station, there’s also DJ Sabes. Do you know DJ Sabes, the pint-size Skrillex? He’s a 10-year-old DJ who spins professionally. Yes, he’s a reality show waiting to happen. Who does his marketing? Who hires him? Do you think that his polo shirts always smell like bubble-gum-flavored Bonne Belle Lip Smacker from all the girls who are macking on him while he’s behind the ones and twos? He is the coolest kid in the tristate area, and I need to meet this mini-Diplo ASAP.
Okay, so DJ Sabes was cool, but everything else this episode I didn’t care about. What I care about is relitigating the Danielle and Jen Aydin brawl from last episode, but everyone is avoiding this like a squid that Nonno has been boiling in a pot for the better part of three days. We get a little bit of chat about it when Jen Fessler and Teresa go over to Jen Aydin’s house. Jen A. is mad that Teresa and Fessler are going to go to Danielle’s event even though she smashed a cup on Jen Aydin’s face. Teresa gets in her favorite all-time excuse, “Danielle didn’t do anything to me.” Teresa Giudice wouldn’t know loyalty if it hatched from an egg nestled in her eaves, got feathers all over her furniture trying to get out of the house, and then took a big shit right on her extensions.
I have no clue what Jen Fessler is doing in all of this. I want to like Jen, I really do, but she’s trying to be Dolores and play both sides, but she doesn’t have the tough-talking gravitas that Dolo musters, so it just ends up seeming mealy-mouthed and obsequious. She is trying to justify Jen Aydin’s behavior in the brawl when there is no clear justification. She also wants Danielle to take some accountability for what happened even though Jen Aydin’s retelling of events is so ungenerous toward Danielle and her motives I can’t believe that Danielle ever considered that woman a friend.
Just as Jenf is throwing Danielle under the bus so that she can stay friends with Jen Aydin and Teresa, she’s also putting her friendship with them in jeopardy by defending Rachel and John Fuda. Gia shows up to the party with her mother and is upset that John Fuda used her in some kind of analogy just like Jackie did seasons ago. (But we’ve gotten over that and are friends with Jackie now, I guess? The logic on this show makes about as much sense as trying to learn trigonometry in Russian.) Then we see the offending comment that John made at the Gorgas’ housewarming party. He says that the drug arrest that Teresa brought up happened when he was “younger than Gia.” He’s just using Gia, who is 22, as a yardstick for youth with no harm or malice intended. It’s like if someone said, “When I’m old, I’m going to start smoking again. How old? When I’m older than Billy Joel.” You don’t want to offend the Piano Man even though you are using him as a barometer for oldness.
Also, we need to tell Gia to knock it off with not wanting people on the show to talk about her. I assume that she’s getting at least some kind of stipend for being on RHONJ and she’s officially a Bravo employee now that she’s been cast in Making It in Manhattan along with Brooks Marks and some other Bravo spawn. Once you start taking Bravo’s money, you are fair game. If Gia doesn’t want them talking about her, then she shouldn’t be showing up onscreen, and she certainly shouldn’t be taking Andy Cohen’s crypto to sell her personal life for our entertainment. Yes, kids are off-limits, but fellow employees are well within bounds.
Melissa disagrees. When Jenf tries to explain to Teresa why John said it, Melissa says, “She’s a child. Why are you talking to a child about adult conversations?” See paragraph above please, Melissa. But Rachel is mad at Jenf for another reason: for always getting in the middle of her and Teresa’s bullshit. She doesn’t want anyone talking to the Giudice-Ruelases about her, even if it’s for Jenf to justify why what John did wasn’t so bad. I am almost on Jenf’s side here, because she is staying loyal to Rachel, but if she thinks that one word of what she says is going to get through even Teresa’s thinnest wig to find its way to the crushed garbanzo bean she calls a brain, then she is wildly mistaken.
Meanwhile, as they’re talking about Gia, John Fuda, Boujie Kidz, Cousin Nick, DJ Sabes, and all the rest that is going on, the Tandy computer that powers Teresa’s brain lurches to a stall and says, “But how is this about Margaret? She’s the real devil here. This is all about Margaret, right? Right? Right?!”
In a series of posts shared via Instagram Story on Friday, March 15, Leakes, 56, shared that her management company had approached her with an offer from The Upshaws (starring Mike Epps and Wanda Sykes) saying the series was “interested in casting [her] for a part” in an episode directed by Kim Fields.
“I was excited to do it. It’s a comedy, I love comedy [and] I used to have a comedy show … so comedy is something I love to do and was really happy to do it,” Leakes said. “They told me that Porsha Williams Guobadia was also playing in this particular series. She would be side-by-side with me. I was excited, I hadn’t seen Porsha. We always have a good laugh when we see each other, so I was like, ‘Me and Porsha gonna kill this part.’”
The former RHOA star reportedly landed in Los Angeles and went to the Upshaws set expecting to see Williams, 42, at the show’s rehearsal, but she was a no-show. “Porsha never came,” Leakes said. “Production called me and asked me if I had any issues with any Housewives because they were going to be recasting the other position.”
Leakes said she told production that she had no issues with any Housewives, but Williams’ role eventually went to RHOA’s Cynthia Bailey instead.
NeNe LeakesCourtesy of NeNe Leakes/Instagram
“I was later told that Porsha did not show up and said that she did not want to work with me, that we had had issues from the past and she did not want to work with me,” Leakes said, adding that she was “shocked” and “more than disappointed” by the outcome. She added that she and Williams had “double-dated a few times,” taking trips together to places like Miami, Dubai and Las Vegas.
“I am shocked to hear that Porsha would go to a production company and say that she doesn’t want to work with me because we’ve had a lot of issues in the past. What lots of issues did we have in the past?” Leakes asked. “We don’t have any issues that we can’t work together. We are professionals.”
Once a peach, always a peach! The Real Housewives of Atlanta has said goodbye to a few cast members since its Bravo debut in 2008 — but there’s always a chance they could return. For instance, original RHOA star NeNe Leakes left the show in season 7 before rejoining the cast in 2018. “It’s been a […]
In 2019, Williams publicly called out Leakes for “fat-shaming” her just days after giving birth to her first child. Leakes later served Williams with a cease and desist letter after she shared screenshots via Instagram of text messages Leakes had sent her at the time, wherein she allegedly called Williams “a lying ass fat hungry bitch,” among other things.
“We’ve had petty things, we’re on a reality show,” Leakes said via Instagram Story in 2024. “So we obviously are gonna have some sort of issues. But we’ve not had anything where we could not work together. I’m sad and disappointed that Porsha would go to any company and say that she’s had issues with me and that we cannot work together. That is a lie.”
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Leakes also claimed she had texted Williams before posting to her Instagram Story, who allegedly replied saying she was “going through a divorce and [Leakes] didn’t reach out to little sis.” Williams filed for divorce from her husband Simon Guobadia in February after 15 months of marriage.
“The bottom line is, Porsha did not want to share the spotlight. That’s it. And professionals can share the spotlight,” Leakes concluded in her video. “Porsha is not a star. She is a Bravolebrity. Be clear.”
In December 2018, a source shared with Us Weekly that Williams was being iced out by Leakes. “There’s no reason that NeNe and Porsha can’t be friends,” the source said at the time. “It’s on NeNe’s end. There’s nothing Porsha can do to maintain a friendship with NeNe if it’s going to be like this.”
Back in 2019, Braunwyn Windham-Burke was starring on The Real Housewives of Orange County with her businessman husband, Sean Burke. The seemingly perfect couple lived in a mansion with stunning ocean views, threw booze-filled parties for friends and traveled the globe with their seven children (Bella, 23, Rowan, 21, Jacob, 18, Caden and Curren, both 10, Koa, 9, and Hazel, 6.)
Five years later, Windham-Burke’s life couldn’t look more different. In 2020, she got sober and came out as gay. She’s been engaged to Jennifer Spinner since July 2022 and finalized her divorce from Sean last November following 23 years of marriage. She and Spinner left the OC and ventured to the small town of Franklin, Tennessee, where they now reside in a modest townhouse after briefly living with Sean in a “nesting” situation.
It’s a fresh start for the reality TV alum, who’s currently working as a recovery coach and had to save for months to get a car. “I had it all, but I wasn’t happy,” says the 46-year-old. “Turns out I didn’t want any of that. Things are really different now, but they’re also really good.”
Windham-Burke opens up about what the future holds in Us Weekly‘s newest issue:
Every orange can’t last forever! Following exits from OG star Vicki Gunvalson, Tamra Judge and Jo De La Rosa, Us Weekly is revisiting favorite former Real Housewives of Orange County stars. After 14 seasons on the Bravo series, Vicki announced in January 2020 that she was leaving the show. The news came after Tamra was […]
Why did you leave the OC?
I was having a hard time after Real Housewives and coming out and getting sober. I went to junior high school and high school in Laguna Beach. Everyone knew everything about me. I’d have panic attacks when I went to the grocery store.
Courtesy of Braunwyn Windham-Burke
Why Tennessee?
I never found Orange County to be the wholesome environment I wanted for my kids. I had sober friends out here, [The Hills alum] Jason Wahler, and he was like, “Move to Franklin.” We came here and the first house we saw, I was like, “This is it. This is the life I want.”
And Sean was OK with the move?
He said, “Yes, you can go as long as you put my name on the lease, too.” He wanted to know that he had a place to stay with the kids. He was only supposed to be there for a little bit. I said, “We can go back to nesting, where you can stay in our guest room 10 days a month to be with the kids.” It worked well for a while, [but in the end], I had to be the one to leave. I actually had to have my psychiatrist write me a letter to get off the lease and say this is not a healthy living environment.
(When reached for comment, Sean Burke denied creating an unhealthy living environment and stated that he was a “supportive and caring husband through the course of the marriage.”)
Your life has changed a lot since your RHOC days…
It’s a riches-to-rags story. I have less than I did when I was 18. I have to work, which is hard after you’ve never been in the workforce. I’m lucky I was able to go back to school with my parents’ help.
Do you wish you’d been involved with your family’s finances?
Any woman should be seeing her bank account. She should be paying bills, too. I fell into the trap of easiness. I had a credit card and it worked, and that’s all I needed to know.
Courtesy of Braunwyn Windham-Burke
Would you say you lost your identity during your marriage to Sean?
I met Sean when I was 18. Then I was so busy being a stay-at-home mom and wife that I never asked myself, “Who is Braunwyn?” When I got older, I realized I had wanted all the wrong things.
Do you have any regrets?
It’s hard not to be positive when you have an amazing fiancée and four little kids who are so cute running around with our puppy. Do I wish I stayed in school [and] got a job? Yes. But when you have children, you can’t have regrets because you love your kids.
No remorse about doing RHOC?
[No], for one reason — without the accountability, I don’t think I would’ve stayed sober. I remember Kelly Dodd saying I was faking being an alcoholic. There were times I wanted to drink so badly but didn’t want to give her the satisfaction. I was like, “I dislike her more than I want to drink.”
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Have you finally found yourself?
Courtesy of Braunwyn Windham-Burke
I’ve found my voice. For so long, people told me to be smaller and quiet. I was put down a lot during my marriage … To find someone who fully loves you for who you are is magical.
What’s your message to other women who are struggling?
You have to take charge of your life and control your situation. If you’re going through a divorce or considering it, at the end of the day, there is freedom. There is an empowerment. And it’s going to be OK.
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If you’re a fan of The Real Housewivesfranchise, you might be wondering where to watch The Real Housewives of Salt Lake Cityonline to see all of the drama unfold in the remaining reunion episodes of season 4. Brace yourself because the preview shows tears, yelling, and a mysterious pink burn book.
Season 4 of RHOSLC started filming in March 2023 (primarily filmed in Salt Lake City, Utah) and premiered on September 5, 2023. The show lets viewers in on the personal and professional lives of six SLC housewives and one friend of the housewives, in season 4. Danna Bui-Negrete appeared as a friend of the housewives in season 3 and returns as a guest this season. So far, 16 episodes have aired, with the three-episode reunion remaining.
So where can fans stream RHOSLC to tune into the drama-filled reunion episodes? Read on for where to watch The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City to see the return of all of your favorite (and least favorite) Salt Lake City housewives.
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When does The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City air?
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City airs on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.
When is The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City reunion?
The RHOSLC season 4 reunion spans three episodes. Part 1 airs on Tuesday, January 9, 2024, Part 2 airs on Tuesday, January 16, 2024, and Part 3 airs on Tuesday, January 23, 2024.
How to watch The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City live for free
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City airs on Bravo, which is available to stream on services like DirecTV Stream, Fubo, Sling Orange, and Hulu+ With Live TV. DirecTV Stream offers a five-day free trial, starts at $74.99 per month after the trial ends, and includes similar channels like E!, WE TV, Oxygen, TLC, Lifetime, and Hallmark Channel. Fubo offers a seven-day free trial, starts at $74.99 per month after the trial ends, and includes similar channels like E!, TLC, Oxygen, and Hallmark Channel.
Sling Blue and Hulu+ With Live TV don’t have free trials, however, they are cheaper per month than the other options. Sling Blue costs $20 for your first month, $40 per month after your first month ends, and includes similar channels like E!, TLC, and Lifetime. Hulu+ With Live TV starts at $68.99 per month and includes similar channels like E!, TLC, and Hallmark Channel.
Best Overall Pick to Watch The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City: Direct TV Stream’s Free Trial
Direct TV is our best overall pick to watch The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City live for free for its free trial, price (including its current deal), and channel selection. Direct TV Stream offers a five-day free trial and has a current deal where new subscribers can receive $10 off their first three months. Direct TV offers four plans: Entertainment, which costs $74.99 per month with the first three months at $64.99 per month; Choice, which costs $99.99 per month with the first three months at $89.99 per month; Ultimate, which costs $109.99 per month with the first three months at $99.99 per month; and Premiere, which costs $154.99 per month with the first three months at $144.99 per month. Bravo is available on all plans, as well as similar channels like E!, WE TV, Oxygen, TLC, Lifetime, and Hallmark Channel.
As for other differences between the plans, Entertainment includes more than 75 channels, the ability to stream on unlimited devices in your home, unlimited cloud DVR storage, and a special offer on premium channels. Choice, which is the most popular plan, includes more than 105 channels, regional sports networks, and everything included in Entertainment. Ultimate includes more than 140 channels and everything included in Entertainment and Choice. Premiere includes more than 150 channels including premium channels like HBO and Starz and everything included in Entertainment, Choice, and Premiere. Read on for step-by-step instructions on how to watch The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City with DirecTV Stream’s free trial.
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Best Free Trial Pick to Watch The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City: Fubo’s Free Trial
Fubo is our best free trial pick to watch The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City live for free. Fubo offers a seven-day free trial (two days longer than DirecTV Stream) and offers three plans: Pro, which costs $74.99 per month; Elite, which costs $84.99 per month; and Ultimate, which costs $99.99 per month. Bravo is available on all plans, as well as similar channels like E!, TLC, Oxygen, and Hallmark Channel.
As for the difference between the plans, Pro includes 180 channels, 1,000 hours of Cloud DVR, and the ability to watch on up to 10 screens at once. Elite includes everything in Pro, as well as a total of 256 channels and 4K resolution. Ultimate includes everything in Pro and Elite, as well as a total of 299 channels, Showtime, and Red Zone NFL Network. Read on for step-by-step instructions on how to watch The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City with Fubo’s free trial.
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Best Budget Pick to Watch The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City: Sling
Sling TV is our best budget pick to watch The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City live for its price and channel selection. Sling TV offers three plans: Sling Orange for $40 per month; Sling Blue for $45 per month; and Sling Orange + Blue for $60 per month. Sling also has a current deal where subscribers can sign up for 50 percent off their first month, bringing Sling Orange’s price down to $20 for your first month; Sling Blue’s to $22.50 for your first month; and Sling Orange + Blue’s to $30 for your first month. Only Sling Blue and Sling Orange + Blue include Bravo. Both of those plans also include Bravo, as well as similar channels like E!, WE TV, Oxygen, TLC, Lifetime, and Hallmark Channel.
As for the difference between the plans, Sling Orange includes 32 channels and the ability to stream on one device at a time, Sling Blue includes 42 channels and the ability to stream on three devices at the same time, while Sling Orange + Blue includes 46 channels and the ability to stream on three devices at the same time. Read on for step-by-step instructions on how to watch The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City with Sling.
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Best Upgrade Pick to Watch The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City: Hulu+ Live TV
Hulu+ With Live TV is our best upgrade pick to watch The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City based on its channel selection and its free subscriptions to Hulu, Disney Plus, and ESPN Plus. Hulu+ With Live TV offers four plans: a $68.99 per month plan with access to only live TV; a $69.99 per month plan with free subscriptions to Hulu with ads, Disney Plus with ads, and ESPN Plus with ads; a $74.99 per month plan with free subscriptions to Hulu with ads, Disney Plus with no ads, and ESPN Plus with ads; and a $82.99 per month plan with free subscriptions to Hulu with no ads, Disney Plus with no ads, and ESPN Plus with ads. Bravo is included on all plans and includes similar channels like E!, TLC, and Hallmark Channel. Read on for step-by-step instructions on how to watch The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City with Hulu+ Live TV.
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Who’s in The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City cast?
Barlow, Gay, Marks, and Rose are back on the RHOSLC in season 4. Additionally, Katsanevas moved up as a full-time cast member and housewife, while Garcia made her first appearance on the show as a housewife. Lastly, Mary Cosby returned to the show as a friend of the housewives.
Lisa Barlow – housewife; (seasons 1-4)
Heather Gay – housewife; (seasons 1-4)
Meredith Marks – housewife; (seasons 1-4)
Whitney Rose – housewife; (seasons 1-4)
Monica Garcia – housewife; (season 4)
Angie Katsanevas – housewife; (seasons, 2, 3, and 4)
Mary Cosby – friend of the housewives; (seasons 1, 2, and 4)
