The “RHOC” cast is back from Shannon Beador’s disastrous London birthday trip. Shannon, Emily Simpson, Gina Kirschenheiter, and Jennifer Pedranti meet up for some good ole axe throwing to let off some steam because that trip was no bueno.
Jennifer walks in wearing a huge diamond ring on THAT finger and Gina’s eyes bug out. She reveals that her boyfriend fiancé Ryan Boyajian proposed to her while they were in the Bahamas.
As Gina congratulates Jennifer, Shannon walks in yelling, “Who’s ready to whoop some axe!” She then sees Jennifer’s ring and says, “Are you freaking serious?” She’s happy for Jennifer after all the negativity surrounding her relationship with Ryan.
Emily says she had her doubts but has come around. “I do think Ryan treats Jenn well but I do think that maybe there’s some red flags,” she tells the cameras.
Gina is also happy for Jennifer but in a shady moment says, “Instead of ring like this, couldn’t he have just given her the rent?”
To celebrate Jennifer’s new engagement, Alexis Bellino is throwing her a tacky bridesmaid dress-themed party. Jennifer tells the ladies that Tamra Judge wants to meet up but she’s not ready to talk to her yet. She’s still planning on inviting her to the party, though.
Emily wonders if Tamra will try to corner Jennifer at the party but Shannon doesn’t think even Tamra is that evil.
The RHOC ladies are tacky
The “RHOC” cast arrives at Jennifer’s engagement party in all their tacky finery. Emily is wearing white, which is the epitome of tacky because she’s not the bride. Nailed it!
Heather is wearing a frilly blue chiffon dress that while tacky, is probably the most expensive one at the party. Come on now. Fancypants would never wear polyester.
They all start arguing about whose dress is the least tacky and we all know that they’re too vain to really go with the theme. Even Alexis, who is hosting, is wearing a generic bridesmaid dress that looks like it’s from David’s Bridal.
Gina then arrives and she tells everybody, “Hold my beer.” Her dress is a hideous ill-fitting cobalt blue number with a halter top and she has accessorized with long puffy gloves. The sad part is that she probably just grabbed this outfit from her closet. It may have even been a failed confessional look.
“It’s not the best outfit she’s ever worn,” Heather says. “No. Not the worst, though?” Emily asks. “Well…” Heather responds. It’s not catty because it’s true.
Then, Heather tells Emily that Katie walked by with her husband Matt Ginella without saying hello. Meanwhile, outside, Matt notes how Heather didn’t bother acknowledging them. Heather thinks she’s snubbed and Katie thinks she’s snubbed but in reality, they both snubbed each other.
The party is tacky, all right
The “RHOC” cast is divided, with Tamra and Gina on one side of the room while Shannon and Vicki Gunvalson are hiding in a corner.
Tamra tells Gina that she’s decided to quit drinking after the disastrous dinner party at Katie’s house when she accused Ryan of being a criminal.
Gina thinks that Tamra and Shannon’s feud is causing collateral damage within the group. “Now it’s bringing in sh*t about me that could f*ck things up with my life,” she tells Tamra.
“Tamra, honestly, is just the type of person that it’s not good enough for her to burn down the bridge. She’s going to burn down the entire f*cking town,” Gina says in a confessional. “It’s like a narcissistic type of behavior.”
Meanwhile, Jennifer asks the Dos Amigas why they’re not mingling and she asks them if they’re avoiding Tamra. They say they’re not and Jennifer tells them that she’s done with her.
She wants them to hang out with the rest of the crowd but Vicki and Shannon are happy in their little corner. There’s also the matter of no food being served and Shannon says, “Leave it to Alexis to throw a cheap party with no food.”
Heather Dubrow has met her match
After several espresso martinis, Emily confronts Katie about her daughter Kaili supposedly talking smack about Heather while babysitting her kids. “When Kaili came and stayed with my children, she did an amazing job. Then when Kaili left, my boys looked at me and they were like, ‘Mom, is Heather mean? Kaili told us that Heather’s mean.'”
Katie’s mouth drops. Kaili’s version is different and according to her, Emily’s boys are the ones who said that Heather is mean. However, Emily says her boys have no idea who Heather is and are only repeating what they heard from Kaili.
According to Katie, Kaili never meant it in a malicious way and she says, “It was a mother-daughter moment. We were giggling about it.”
Heather is all huffy and says, “Giggling about the fact that I’m mean?” Katie responds with a smirk, “Yeah.”
“You know what Katie, I’m done,” Heather says. Except she’s not done and comes back. “I’m done with all your lies and all your coming after me and all your nonsense.”
At this point, Katie can’t care less and laughs in Heather’s face. Meanwhile, Emily is trying to talk but no one’s listening to her.
“You’re boring and you lie,” Heather tells Katie. “I’m not lying about it. You lied. And you swore on your kids and you lied,” Katie responds.
Heather’s whisper voice comes out. “That is bullsh*t. How dare you.” She doesn’t get the reaction she wants from Katie so she says, “Oh, you’re so evil. You’re so badass.” Katie just rolls her eyes.
Jennifer Pedranti is done with Tamra Judge’s fake apology
Tamra goes up to Jennifer and tells her that she wishes they had a chance to talk. “I don’t want to keep rehashing things. I think that’s the problem that we keep having,” Jennifer tells her. Tamra agrees but she wants her to understand that there was more to the text thread Shannon revealed about her allegedly having Ryan investigated.
“Shannon brought that up to get in between us,” Tamra says. Regardless of her so-called receipts, Jennifer is over Tamra’s manipulation and appreciates that at least, Shannon can take accountability for her actions.
That’s not all. Jennifer calls Tamra out for how she acted at Katie’s dinner. “You talk sh*t about Ryan, you tell the women sh*t. You ran out yelling, ‘FBI.’
Tamra can’t help her messy self and says, “By the way, a lot of the girls talk sh*t about Ryan, okay?” She then apologizes for how she behaved a Katie’s dinner. Jennifer responds calmly, “I just feel like with you, I talk through things and then things go right back and that’s why I’m uncomfortable within the friendship.”
For some reason, Tamra interprets that as Jennifer yelling at her and tells her she’s going to leave. Jennifer is like, okay, there’s the door, Shannon Beador. Oh wait, wrong housewife.
Shannon Beador has a meltdown
The “RHOC” cast plus Alexis take a group picture and say “Tacky!” Gina for some reason makes a big deal out of Shannon being in the same room as Tamra and that’s when the spiral starts. “I want everybody to understand here that I have been doing nothing but working on myself and creating healthy boundaries.”
Shannon continues, “That’s why I left London. Because you, my friend, blasted me for four freaking days in a row for a trip that I was so excited for and had only good and fun intentions. So I’m out. I’m done. When I say I’m done this time, I mean it.”
She then stomps away and looks for someone named Steve. Unfortunately, Steve is nowhere to be found and Shannon takes her ire out on Katie’s husband Matt.
Shannon is so distressed that Matt has to take off his glasses to deal with her. “What happened?” he asks with a tone of resignation. Dude just wants to enjoy his drink in a quiet corner but here we are.
“I used to say all the time, ‘I’m done,’ and then I’d come back. When I say I’m done now, I mean it. I’m done,” she answers, seemingly hinting at quitting “RHOC.”
Matt is a reasonable guy so he tells her to just walk away because he cares about her as a person. For some reason, this infuriates Shannon and she goes off about how he doesn’t know her and she’s strong.
Poor Matt has the befuddled look of a husband who has no idea what he did wrong and Shannon storms off in a huff. Again.
RHOC Season 18 last scenes
Jennifer’s engagement party is coming to a close, just like “RHOC” Season 18. Johnny J shows up to retrieve Alexis with his midlife crisis skinny scarf.
“I am not going to have people like Tamra Judge, Alexis Bellino, and John Janssen get me to a point that I’m going to stoop to their level. I want to go to bed at night knowing that I’m doing the best I can,” Shannon tells the cameras.
Tamra tells Eddie outside that she tried to talk to Shannon but couldn’t get through to her. As always, nothing is her fault. “She just wants to be nasty to me,” she says.
Meanwhile, Heather is still not recovered from Katie pointing out that she swore on her kids’ lives that she never called the paparazzi.
“Whatever I’m done with her. There’s no coming back from that,” she huffs. Terry listens like he cares.
Katie started off the season shaky but she has solidified herself as “RHOC” material by going after Heather and not only surviving but thriving.
When Jennifer throws her faux bouquet, Gina catches it and hopefully, Travis can get divorced so that he can marry her.
As for Ryan, after all the speculation surrounding his shady dealings this season, he was never charged and was granted full immunity.
Until the “RHOC” Season 18 reunion!
