The “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” cast is in Milwaukee so naturally, the producers do a fun “Laverne & Shirley” intro. Whitney Rose has organized a fun Milwaukee-filled day of beer, Harley-Davidsons, and drag queens.
The day starts with Meredith Marks telling Lisa Barlow that Angie Katsenevas and Whitney warned her about being friends with Lisa.
“I am completely shocked right now that these two are like, trying to like, convince people I’m not trustworthy. Who’s not trustworthy? It’s like, literally like, are you looking in a mirror because you’re talking about yourself,” Lisa says oh so eloquently. “There’s no reason why you should be like trying to f*ck with my friendship. Friendship f*ckers.”
The RHOSLC group divided
Whitney visits Lisa’s room to tell her the day’s plans and gets told, “I’m going to pass.” She asks why and Lisa just says she has other plans.
On the bus to the Milwaukee beer factory, Whitney tells the group that Lisa decided to spend the day with Meili Workman and Britani Bateman. Bronwyn Newport thinks she hasn’t been invited because she told Lisa off the other day. Angie says that she hasn’t been good with Lisa either and hasn’t gotten a text or call from her friend of 15 years.
Whitney puts two and two together and asks Meredith if she told Lisa about their conversation. “Of course I did,” Meredith responds. “Well, there you go,” Angie says through her huge red goggles.
Meredith explains that she and Lisa have an agreement that if something were to affect their friendship, they would always talk about it. Heather Gay wonders if Lisa is avoiding Whitney or Angie. At this point, Lisa is likely avoiding Whitney, Angie, and Bronwyn.
Beer and cheese in Milwaukee
Whitney has taken the cast to an actual cave where beer is made. Sounds more fun than curling, which is what Lisa, Britani, and Meili are doing instead.
They’re sitting down to some good ole’ Miller High Life and Milwaukee cheese. Mary Cosby has never had beer before and the Miller guy tells her that it’s the champagne of beer. She thinks she’s drinking an upscale beer but she doesn’t know that it’s like $7 for a six-pack.
After they’re done pushing big rocks around the ice, Britani tells Lisa and Meili that her maybe-boyfriend Jared Osmond texted her. This was after Britani found out that he was DMing Angie’s brow girl and broke up with him.
They read the text that says he was hurt Britani “terminated the friendship.” Lisa declares, “This is so manipulative.” She adds, “He’s calling you ‘bestie’ instead of his love, he’s saying ‘friendship’ instead of ‘relationship.'” Jared’s literally waving a red flag in front of Britani and she doesn’t want to see it.
Heather Gay tells Whitney Rose about the Alibaba rumor
The other ladies go to the inn to listen to spooky ghost stories about Milwaukee but Heather and Whitney stay behind. This is the perfect opportunity for Heather to tell Whitney that Meredith brought up rumors about her jewelry line copying Alibaba’s designs.
“That’s my business and there’s nothing shady about it,” Whitney fumes. She reveals that the rumors began on social media and when her business partner found the source, she asked if it could be one of Whitney’s friends.
Whitney tells the cameras that she buys the jewelry from “curated vendors” and points out that Meredith isn’t fishing for her caviar herself.
Heather tells her that Meredith seemed concerned that the rumors would hurt her brand but Whitney doesn’t see it that way. “Did she not learn anything from last year?” she asks, referring to Meredith digging up rumors on social media that Angie was in the Greek mafia.
She thinks Meredith is just trying to sabotage her business and accuses her of never being supportive. “It didn’t feel like she was the source of the information,” Heather suggests.
Whitney points out, “If she was my friend, she’d call me and be like, ‘Hey, Whitney, did you see this?’ Nope. She’s going to all of you to make me look bad and discredit me.”
Heather begs her not to bring it up in the Sprinter van ride home and miraculously, Whitney listens.
The Milwaukee Sprinter van ride from hell
However, Whitney brings up the Alibaba rumor in the Sprinter ride to dinner. “It has been brought to my attention that people are starting rumors that I buy my pieces from Alibaba,” she announces. Cue awkward silence.
“I don’t think anyone started that rumor. I said that I saw it and I told Heather that I felt badly about it because I would have helped you,” Meredith slurs. Whitney asks why she didn’t come to her directly.
“Because you didn’t want to discuss it with me. You had every opportunity to say, ‘I’m starting something in your industry. Do you have advice?'” Meredith responds.
The two go back and forth and the poor cast is stuck in the van with no escape into the Milwaukee night. Thankfully, they arrive at the Harley-Davidson Museum for dinner and Whitney asks to put a pin in the conversation.
The pin falls out very shortly and after sitting down for dinner, Whitney brings up the rumor again.
After gifting everyone with a necklace from her jewelry line, she asks Meredith why she didn’t come to her about the rumors. “You’re making this into something much bigger,” Meredith tells her. “I felt badly about it.” Then, Lisa jumps in and all hell breaks loose.
Lisa Barlow makes the conversation about Lisa Barlow
Lisa tries to defend Meredith and when Whitney tells her to butt out, she says, “Whitney, you did the same thing to me. You and Angie talked to Meredith about me. And that is also gossip,” she points out.
Angie responds by telling Lisa that she hasn’t heard from her since she backed Whitney at her Besos event. “We went to lunch and I told you I don’t care if you back Whitney. I know you back Whitney,” Lisa says.
Angie tells her, “You don’t like that I’m not just doing whatever you want me to do.” Lisa and Angie start screaming at each other about who’s the better friend and hopefully, the museum is heavily insured.
Lisa then pulls a low blow by telling Angie to call her daughter Elektra. “Isn’t that what you do? ‘Hold on, it’s Elektra.’ That’s what you do when you have to get away from having a conversation with me.”
Everyone is stunned into silence. Britani chooses this moment to make an announcement about Jared. “We are officially broken up!” Everyone cheers.
Bronwyn Newport vs. Britani Bateman
Bronwyn is trying to understand what Britani saw in Jared and asks her what’s so special about him. “He’s an Osmond!” Heather exclaims. “Is it because he’s an Osmond?” Bronwyn asks.
“Of course not,” Britani answers. “I think you should worry about your own marriage,” Bronwyn.”
“I don’t have a ton to worry about,” Bronwyn shoots back. Britani thinks that if Bronwyn has such strong opinions about her relationship, she should be put in the hot seat as well.
She starts asking question after question about her marriage to Todd Bradley, one being if she’s attracted to him. It’s a dirty dig but everyone wants to see how Bronwyn will answer.
Bronwyn tells them that she was working in fiance when she met Todd so she was not after his money. “Todd and I are in a genuine relationship that does include a physical attraction, it includes a mental attraction, it includes a best friendship. And I wouldn’t take Todd to the cleaners, which is why we don’t have a prenup.”
Everyone is shocked at the revelation but it’s now time for a drag queen show so there’s no time to dwell. Bronwyn goes as a giant hot dog, which she insists is fashion because she saw the outfit on a runway in Milan. Someone needs to tell her that she spent a lot of money on something she could have gotten from Party City.
