The “OG of the OC” was an actual B, in accordance with Brandi Glanville.
The “Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum tells Web page Six completely that her “Orange County” counterpart Vicki Gunvalson was a “bitch” on Peacock’s “Final Ladies Journey: Ex-Wives Membership” spinoff on account of a messy breakup with now-ex-fiancé Steve Lodge.
“We didn’t know that on the time, so she simply got here in being a bitch,” Glanville, 49, remembers in a joint interview with “RHUGT” castmate Jill Zarin.
However Zarin — an in depth pal of Gunvalson’s previous to filming — is fast to stay up for the Bravo vet.
“I’m going to defend Vicki. To start with, I’ve a variety of empathy for Vicki,” the previous “Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis” star, 58, explains.
“Everyone knows that Vicki has mentioned she doesn’t wish to be alone, she can’t be alone, she will need to have a person. She says she’s insecure about it, she is aware of it’s her problem. … The day she left to return to the journey, her boyfriend moved out or broke up together with her.”
Gunvalson, 60, and Lodge, 63, break up for good in September 2021, simply because the Coto Insurance coverage founder left Orange County for Massachusetts to movie “RHUGT” at Dorinda Medley’s Berkshires property.
On the time, Lodge had been residing at Gunvalson’s dwelling. She defined to us in February that his choice to maneuver out whereas she was out of city had blindsided her — and gave her cause to imagine that the failed California gubernatorial candidate had been untrue in the course of the tail finish of their relationship.
“I had no concept he was already planning on shifting out after I left,” she mentioned. “I had no concept there was one other girl. He was dwelling with me each single night time.”
Lodge, for his half, beforehand informed Web page Six that he and Gunvalson ended their engagement and relationship in December 2020, although the pair spent loads of time collectively the subsequent yr.
Lodge ultimately married schoolteacher Janis Carlson in April, whereas Gunvalson revealed months in the past that she has an “unimaginable” new man in her life.
Glanville says Gunvalson didn’t share her romantic woes with a lot of the “RHUGT” forged till the “final day” of manufacturing. Zarin, nonetheless, received an advance discover.
“I assumed all people knew. She had informed me. I assume she didn’t inform everybody else. However I knew that this had occurred with this man, and he or she was a multitude! She will’t management her emotions. That’s what makes her the best ‘Housewife’ of all time,” she tells Web page Six of her pal.
“If she’s feeling like a man deserted her and dumped her and all the things else, she will be able to’t put the smile on and faux it. She’s not going to. She’s going to be sullen and unhappy and depressed — and all of us needed to cope with that as a result of that’s what occurred.”
Glanville, however, bluntly provides, “[Vicki] was pissing everybody off — possibly not Jill, however everybody else.”
“The Actual Housewives Final Ladies Journey: Ex-Wives Membership” — additionally starring Tamra Choose, Taylor Armstrong, Eva Marcille and Phaedra Parks — begins steaming Thursday, June 23, on Peacock.
