Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Season 5, Episode 8 Recap: A Trip to Palm Springs or “A Living Hell?”

RHOSLC Season 5 cast
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Welcome to the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Season 5, Episode 8 recap. Last week, Justin and John still had issues after getting pulled into the women’s fight at Angie’s anniversary party, but Justin refused when John asked him to apologize to Lisa. Angie questioned Heather’s loyalty. Bronwyn invited Heather to her home to try to repair their relationship before the girls’ trip, but it went left. Keep reading to see exactly what went down in the RHOSLC Season 5, Episode 8: “The Desert and the Deserted.”

What happened on Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Season 5, Episode 8?

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In this week’s episode, Bronwyn and Todd host a couples’ weekend in Palm Springs, but Todd warns her ahead of time that he won’t put up with any bullsh*t. Bronwyn is hurt that Meredith and Lisa take Heather’s side in their fight, without listening to Bronwyn’s account of what happened. When Lisa decides to check in with Heather while they’re all in the hot tub, Bronwyn is annoyed. As the bickering escalates, Todd reminds Bronwyn that he won’t put up with this nonsense. Todd tells John that either Lisa stops the fighting or they have to go. Here are some of the highlights from RHOSLC Season 5, Episode 8.

Heather reports her fight with Bronwyn to Frick and Frack Meredith and Lisa

RHOSLC Heather Gay, Lisa Barlow
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Meredith and Lisa are getting massages at a Park City resort. Heather meets up with them to spill the tea about her disastrous visit to Bronwyn’s house.

“This morning, Bronwyn invited me over to her house,” Heather says. “I assumed, it was because she wanted to make up … but, I was invited for her to tell me how I’m a sh*tty person.”

“She basically told me that she has this group trip planned,” she continues, “and she was gonna wait and see whether she was going to include me or not.”

Heather recalls that Bronwyn apologized for some things, but then asked, “Now, what would you like to apologize to me for?”

“It was weird,” Heather concludes. “We were going around in circles, not getting anywhere, so I grabbed my stuff, and I left.”

In addition to Heather’s issues with Bronwyn and Lisa’s issues with Justin and Whitney, Meredith has issues with Shawn, Angie’s husband. He accused Meredith of using her son Brooks “as a pawn to deflect from her own wrongdoings.” Wow. The kids are off limits, Shawn. Ask your wife about that.

They all agree that it’s not a good time for Heather to get on a PJ with Bronwyn. As Lisa considers flying commercial, Meredith comments, “A quick little jaunt to Palm Springs sounds more like it might be … a living Hell.”

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City ladies take a PJ to Palm Springs

RHOSLC Season 5 cast
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Over at Bronwyn’s house, she and three of her six dogs are wearing matching pajamas. I’m not sure whether that’s cute or kind of weird. She’s on the phone with her hubby, Todd, who’s in Korea, and tells him Mary isn’t coming on the trip to Palm Springs. Typical. Why is she even on this show? All she does is fight with everyone anyway.

Todd will fly back just in time to jet off to Palm Springs. He warns Bronwyn, “I really don’t want to have a weekend of drama with these people … We’ll see, I guess.”

Meanwhile, over at Lisa and John’s, they’re packing for the trip. Lisa says that Justin “still owes me an apology.” Actually, Lisa is the one who started the fight when she got in his face and yelled, “How do you put up with her, Justin? Your wife is a liar.” Can production roll the tape, please?

Wow. The PJ Bronwyn rented is huge! “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard Bronwyn Air,” the socialite interviews in her best flight attendant voice. “Please make sure all of your luxury carry-on items are safely stowed, although I doubt some of the baggage you ladies are carrying will fit in the overhead compartment.” She also advises the ladies not to sit near anyone they’re “currently feuding with.”

The women are a house divided

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In Palm Springs, Bronwyn’s talking about how awkward it was on the PJ. “I’m incredibly hurt by my conversation with Lisa and Meredith from the plane,” she interviews. “I don’t know why they weren’t open to hearing my side of [the fight with Heather] … If you agree with Heather that I’m two-faced and bitchy and Todd’s too stupid to realize I’m a gold-digger, why the f*ck are you here?”

The house the group is staying in goes for $20,000 a night. Wow. It had better be really nice …  and it is. Everyone declares it beautiful, except for Meredith’s husband Seth, who only wants a bathtub for his wife. But there are no tubs in the house. Really? You’d think they’d have at least one. That might be a problem.

Bronwyn realizes that Lisa is avoiding her, which is not okay since she’s the hostess and paying for this trip.

Whitney knows how “incredibly awkward” it is with everybody so divided (sounds familiar), but she knows they need to play nice for their hosts’ sake. She confides in Bronwyn that John wants Justin to apologize to Lisa, but they don’t think he owes her an apology. “She should apologize to my husband,” Whitney says.

Bronwyn says the obvious in a confessional: “If Lisa were to give Justin an apology, first she’d have to admit she was wrong.” Yeah, I don’t see that happening anytime soon.

Lisa decides to call Heather and check in from Palm Springs on Real Housewives of Salt Lake City

RHOSLC Season 5 Whitney Rose, Heather Gay, Bronwyn Newport
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All the ladies are in the hot tub, while the men are in the pool. Angie brings out some Vida Tequila shots to get the party started. Lisa brings up Heather and they all wish she were here. Whitney says Bronwyn invited her over to work things out, but it didn’t go well.

Lisa says, “That’s not the story I heard.” So Lisa decides to get Heather on the phone and see what she has to say.

“Look, I do miss Heather,” Angie interviews, “but I’m not dumb enough to pick up the phone and call her on a trip that Bronwyn is hostessing.” Excellent point, Angie.

“It’s a double standard,” Angie continues. “If you had called Lisa’s mortal enemy, you’d be in the pool right now.”

When Bronwyn hears them talking to Heather, she rushes over to the hot tub. “Why are we doing this right now?” she asks. Bronwyn’s furious.

“Feels a little weird that I went to the bathroom, and you guys called Heather,” she says. “I invited Heather with the intention … to fix it with her so that Heather could come [on the trip]. It feels a little shady to call her and be all, ‘We miss you!’”

Bronwyn’s offended that everyone’s taking Heather’s side. She claims that she’s a loyal friend to Lisa and would never just jump to someone’s defense without hearing both sides.

“I did recently go on a hike where Lisa was poorly talked about, and I defended her,” she adds. “So you’d think if I wasn’t owed loyalty, I’d probably have bought it by now with this trip I’m taking her on.”

The girls’ fight escalates and Todd is annoyed

RHOSLC Whitney Rose, Heather Gay, Lisa Barlow
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As the bickering gets louder, the men start to take note. While John, Seth, and Justin know better than to get involved in the “women’s business,” this is new to Todd, and he’s not okay with it.

“This is really stupid,” he observes. “I don’t like it.”

Bronwyn explains that it’s okay to listen to Heather’s feelings, but they need to consider her feelings too. She wants to be friends with Heather. But she thinks they’re holding her to a higher standard than they are Heather.

In typical Lisa fashion, she tells Meredith and Angie, “This is just amazing. I didn’t do anything wrong, so I don’t feel even a little bit bad … [They’ll] work it out, and everyone can apologize to me.”

Being the good little soldier she is, Whitney follows Bronwyn into the house, “Just wanted to make sure you’re okay.”

Bronwyn says, “I just need a little break from that insanity.”

She says that Lisa needs to admit that Heather was wrong and it was wrong for her and Meredith to call Heather to stir things up again. She feels they didn’t defend her character when Heather told them what happened.

Though she’s concerned about Bronwyn, Whitney doesn’t know who’s in the wrong, so she doesn’t want to get in the middle. But she can see that Bronwyn’s hurt that Lisa’s defending Heather. She thinks Lisa should stay out of it, and let Heather and Bronwyn work things out.

“Here’s the problem,” Bronwyn tells Whitney. “Not only is Lisa blindly loyal to Heather … but Lisa is a big part of some stuff that’s going on with my family right now, she knows things are hard for me, she has not checked in on me.”

Todd lays down the law with a machete, not a Nerf gun

RHOSLC Meredith Marks, Angie K, Bronwyn Newport
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When Todd comes to check on his wife, Whitney excuses herself. “I told you I wasn’t going to deal with this with these people,” he says. “Either I can leave, or they can leave.”

“I’ll just tell John and Lisa they can leave,” he decides. “We’ll give them some money, get ‘em a car, and they can leave.”

“Maybe I should tell them, cause I’m nicer than you,” she says tearfully.

“Todd can be an asshole,” she interviews. “But in this case, he’s kind of my knight-in-shining asshole … He’s riding into battle for me. I appreciate Todd coming to my rescue, but I would like him to do it with a Nerf gun, not a machete.”

“I’m not sitting through this all weekend,” he insists. “This is bullsh*t.” Todd reminds me of my husband. He wouldn’t put up with the BS either.

Todd returns outside, where John’s sitting in a deck chair. “All right, dude,” he says. “This is out of control … I told Bronwyn, I wasn’t coming to spend the weekend sitting through a bunch of arguments … Lisa’s gotta stop, or you guys gotta go.”

John’s stunned, but he says he’ll go talk to his wife. I don’t see her backing down. Buh-bye, John and Lisa!

TO BE CONTINUED …

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on Bravo.

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RHOSLC Alum Monica Garcia Ordered To Pay Heather Gay’s Beauty Lab $35,000 in Settled Lawsuit

Monica Garcia Beauty Lab
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Even though Monica Garcia is no longer on The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, she’s still catching our attention. The villain of Season 4 was involved in a lawsuit against Heather Gay and her Beauty Lab. She has been fighting for months, but the verdict is in, and Monica has been ordered to pay up. 

Monica Garcia has lost her case with Heather Gay’s Beauty Lab

Monica Garcia Beauty Lab
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After failing to pay for her lip injections, Monica has been ordered to pony up and pay Beauty Lab $35,000.

The US Sun reported that the lawsuit, which had been going on for over a year, had finally been settled. In October 2024, Heather’s spa filed a proposed judgment with a Salt Lake City court. The documents were approved and signed off on November 4, 2024. The paperwork shows that the judgment was in favor of Beauty Lab for a total of  $35,853.60.

The amount in question included the “principal amount that the company initially sued for in August 2023, $2,000, plus pre-judgment interest at 18 percent per year (from February 2020 until October 2024). The interest totals $1,683.62.”

To add insult to injury, Monica was also charged a $15 late fee, and $604.98 for costs and fees associated with the lawsuit. The former Bravoleb was also told she would have to pay Beauty Lab’s attorney fees, which added up to $31,550.

In addition, Heather’s spa can collect post-judgment interest at the rate of 18 percent annually until the judgment is fully paid off. The ruling added that the “Plaintiff is entitled to recover all future collection costs, court costs, and attorney’s fees incurred in enforcing and collecting this judgment.”

Upon hearing the verdict, Monica’s lawyer, Larry Reed, told the outlet, “An appeal will be filed. We are confident.” 

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Why Carole Radziwill and Dorinda Medley Would Make the Best Presidential Election Commentators

Carole Radziwill Dorinda Medley
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Well, that happened. I’ll avoid getting into my personal opinions, but now more than ever, I wish we had Dorinda Medley and Carole Radziwill at the helm talking us down off a ledge. Both Bravo stars made their political stance very clear during their time on Real Housewives of New York. If all else failed, Dorinda and Carole would stand by the facts and try their best to move forward in a positive light.  

Carole Radziwill threw an election party that ended in Democratic disaster

In 2016, most Americans were pretty convinced that Hilary Clinton would win the presidential campaign. No one gave a former reality TV star and now felon a second thought. For most of the season, Carole had made sure to voice her opinion, especially to co-stars like Ramona Singer, who didn’t seem to understand what was at stake.

The episode was traumatic as Carole and viewers finally learned the result, and it wasn’t good for Democrats. No amount of “I’m with her” chants seemed to help Carole’s broken heart. At the time, Carole noted, “This is unthinkable. It’s like I don’t even live in the same country. I came into this night thinking it’s going to be a celebration. Right now, I just can’t believe what is happening … I’m just dumbfounded.”  

But just because the Dems lost didn’t mean Carole would fall back into the shadows. The journalist made sure to continue sharing facts about Hilary and Donald. She railed against the machine and didn’t pretend to support a president she had no faith in. If she were commentating on this week’s results, I know she would be hitting viewers with hard facts and shaking her head. I’m right there with ya, Carole. 

Dorinda Medley takes on anti-vaxxers

Dorinda will never host Vicki Gunvalson again at Bluestone Manor, and for good reason. The OG of the OC has been vocal about her Republican support in the past. When the worldwide pandemic hit, Vicki complained about being unable to get her hair done. The mother of two also spread misinformation about the vaccine. Thankfully, Dorinda wasn’t having any of that nonsense when she hosted the Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip. Three weeks before filming, Vicki contracted COVID-19. She carelessly told the women, “I was so happy I got it, oh my god, it was the best thing ever.” 

Vicki added, “There has to be an end to this booster, this, this, this … don’t even get me started. It’s a rabbit hole I will go down. Follow the money, baby, follow the money!” The hostess with the mostess had enough as she shamed Vicki for her careless attitude in regard to people dying. Dorinda noted, “Vaccination is not politics! Be intelligent enough to separate science from politics.” Dorinda’s emotions bubbled to the top as she added “I don’t know, you’re not sounding intelligent right now, that’s scary! My friend died from not being vaccinated.”

Dorinda and Carole are the election night duo America needs

Call it what you want; yelling, fact spewing, or emotion but Dorinda and Carole are passionate that the United States and women don’t get screwed in the process of voting for the next president.

Carole has not been quiet on this election eve as she has shared multiple Instagram Stories showing how Trump claimed that refugees were eating dogs and cats in Ohio. Carole has also kept her day full by calling residents in swing states and encouraging them to vote. Dorinda has also been active. She has encouraged her followers to vote. Dorinda told followers it is “so important that you vote today. It’s a privilege to use your voice.”    

But perhaps Carole summed it up best, writing, “We can’t have our country run by an obese 80-year-old man in clear cognitive decline with seething rage against women and minorities who has committed numerous crimes in three different states and called for the assassination of his political opponents. Come on. You know I’m on the right side of history.” She ended, “Even Nixon knew when to bow out. Looking back, Nixon was a hero. Reagan was inspiring. Bush 41 was intelligent. What happened to the Republican party?”

We’re about to find out.

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Bravo Reality Stars React to Presidential Election 2024

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“The time has come,’ the Walrus said. To talk of many things…” Any presidential election gets people talking, but the 2024 election has people cheering, crying, and praying. I won’t bore you with my personal political views but I am sure you’ll get the idea. I’ve always believed that, as Americans, voting is our right, and we are allowed to exercise that right. But in the voice of Ms. Piggy, “Beauty (or in this case, voting) is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.” Even Bravo stars have their deep-rooted opinions, and a lot of them speak out.

Carole Radziwill made a prediction for the Presidential Election

Early into the wee hours of November 6, Carole Radziwill took to her Instagram Story to share some thoughts as Donald Trump was in the lead. Carole shared a 1950s clip from All About Eve. Anne Baxter asks, “Is it over, or is it just starting?” But Betty Davis, presumably Carole’s alter ego, swigs her dry martini and notes, “Fasten your seat belts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.”

Carole has been a staunch supporter of Kamala Harris and has worked tirelessly on her campaign. During election day, she took part in a phone chain. She and other volunteers connected with over 400,000 swing state voters in hopes of turning the tide. She even predicted “a huge win” for Kamala. That didn’t come to pass.

One thing is for sure: now that the election hasn’t gone Carole’s way, she won’t sit idly by and watch the world burn. She will make sure her voice is always heard. 

RHOP’s Dr. Wendy Osefo is rallying her sorority sisters

The Real Housewives of Potomac star has done her best to volunteer for the Kamala Harris campaign. She even attended the DNC.

Dr. Wendy Osefo has actively encouraged her followers to vote and posted a photo of herself and Eddie Osefo. Both proudly wore “Hotties for Harris” t-shirts and showed their “I voted sticker.” At around midnight, the results came in for the District of Columbia and the state of Maryland. Both voted blue and chose Kamala as their winner. Wendy took her Instagram Story to share the news. 

Along with a photo of the results, she added Beyoncé’s Freedom as the soundtrack. Unfortunately for Dr. Wendy, many parts of the country didn’t follow suit. But Wendy kept intervening with major stations regarding the “fear-mongering of the right.” Wendy is making sure to speak out throughout election day in hopes of seeing a brighter future.

Andy Cohen is voting for his daughter

Andy Cohen posted a photo of himself and his daughter Lucy on election day after leaving the polling station. He simply wrote, “I voted for Her, for her.” Andy has openly supported Kamala and never had any qualms explaining why. He wrote in a social media post, “I am voting for Kamala Harris because:

“I believe women should have jurisdiction over their bodies. As a gay American dad who had kids through IVF, the Supreme Court is on the ballot, and I don’t want it filled with (more) right-wing extremists who will take away my rights. I believe in sensible gun control. I believe in building the middle class and raising the minimum wage. She is mentally fit to serve as Commander in Chief and not too old for the job.”

Andy ended his post by adding, “America should never cozy up to dictators. She will be a President for all Americans. I believe January 6 was one of the darkest days in our history, the result of a weak man’s fragile ego.  I don’t want to go back!”

After Trump’s victory was declared, Andy took to socials once more and posed the question: “so the election ISN’T rigged????,” clearly jabbing at Trump’s unsubstantiated claims that there was a stolen election in 2020 when he lost to Joe Biden.

Dr. Jackie Walters makes her mission known

As fans of Married to Medicine know, Dr. Jackie Walters had a strong connection to the Democratic nominee. During Season 10, Jackie was able to sit down with the Vice President to talk about the maternal health crisis in the United States. Jackie has not wavered in her support for Kamala and worked tirelessly to help her win.

As election day unfolded, she posted information about voter registration, encouraged her followers to vote, and shared numbers for the election protection hotline.

Now, let me note. I did go to usually staunch Bravo Republican’s social media, but everything was quiet. Vicki Gunvalson didn’t share one story, and there was no post. I checked on Ramona Singer, and it was quiet. Perhaps we’ll hear more now from those Bravo stars now that the presidential election 2024 result is clear.

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