Emily Simpson is sharing her ideas about Actual Housewives of Orange County costar Alexis Bellino‘s intentions with Shannon Beador.
Whereas talking completely with Us Weekly forward of the Thursday, August 8, episode, Simpson, 48, recalled Bellino, 47, and Beador, 60, coming nose to nose for the primary time at Heather Dubrow‘s Wishing Wall social gathering, the place Bellino introduced alleged receipts about Beador’s $75,000 face-lift. (Bellino is courting Beador’s ex John Janssen, who sued Beador in March for the cash she allegedly borrowed from him for the process.)
“I feel what was bothering me was I by no means had an issue with Alexis being with John,” Simpson started. “After which the primary group outing we went to, which was Heather’s social gathering on the Balboa Debate Membership, I really rode there with Alexis and I felt like on the best way there, she was very cheap. She was like, ‘I don’t wanna struggle with Shannon. I don’t wanna be in a foul place together with her.’”
Noting that she thought Bellino’s perspective in regards to the state of affairs was “mature” on the time, Simpson continued, “Then [when] we’re there, it’s, like, she says one factor, however then she acts fully totally different. She’ll say, ‘I wanna be associates.’ However then she’ll humiliate her. She’ll say, ‘I simply wanna get together with this girl.’ However then she’ll continually discuss John in entrance of her. And it’s like, it doesn’t make sense.”
She added, “I imply, once you present up at a dinner and there are a bunch of individuals there and you’ve got copies of receipts, there’s nothing else [you’re trying to do] besides attempting to humiliate her.”
The fact star additionally instructed Us that watching Bellino work together with Beador in the best way that she did modified how she checked out her.
Emily Simpson. Andrew Eccles/Bravo
“I really feel like I noticed a very totally different Alexis,” Simpson defined. “I had at all times recognized her as a woman’s lady. And really candy. After which to see this different facet of her the place I felt like her major aim was simply to sabotage Shannon and to make her look unhealthy – that’s unhappy.”
Bellino made her return to Bravo in the course of the season 18 premiere of RHOC in July. When followers had been first launched to Bellino throughout season 4, she was married to now-ex-husband Jim Bellino. The previous spouses wed in 2005 and finalized their divorce in 2018. Collectively they share three youngsters: son James, 18, and twins Miles and Mackenna, 16. (Alexis left the franchise as a major solid member after season 8.)
For his half, Janssen, 62, has a protracted romantic historical past with Beador. The twosome dated on and off from 2019 to 2023 after her cut up from ex-husband David Beador. The previous spouses share three daughters: Sophie, 22, and twins Adeline and Stella, 19.
Alexis and Janssen first sparked romance rumors in December final yr after they had been launched by mutual associates. The most recent season of the long-running Bravo sequence marked the primary time Alexis and Shannon have filmed collectively.
“There have been different causes, John apart, that I don’t need to pursue a friendship with [Alexis],” Shannon beforehand instructed Us whereas discussing season 18. “There’s the clip of her going, ‘You’re not going to win my man,’ or one thing. It’s like, I’m not within the competitors. Get pleasure from!”
New episodes of RHOC air on Bravo Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET and might be streamed on Peacock the next day.
With reporting by Christina Garibaldi
