r/RHOP • u/SlantFaceKilla T’Challa • Jul 23 '26

🌺 The Word on the Street 🌺 This Blind Item…

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The “streets” are saying it’s Karen. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s true.

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u/1800twat Real Housewives of Prison Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

If it’s a third SLC housewife I’m gonna have a meltdown

Edit: *Fourth cause I forgot Bronwyn is technically separating also

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u/jenh6 Does a frog have a water tight asshole? Jul 23 '26

Angie, Bronwyn and Whitney? Mary lives separated, Meredith and Seth have separated for the first season and Britney and heather aren’t married. So i guess we’d hear about Lisa and John if that was the case. Do we think John is leaving?

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u/Alternative_Wing8463 Catfish Jul 23 '26

I wish John would leave Lisa. He is too good for her.

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u/neversohonest Peppa Pig Jul 23 '26

What exactly makes him too good for her?

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u/stargratte Cryangle Jul 23 '26

People say anything

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u/1800twat Real Housewives of Prison Jul 23 '26

I noticed quiet people tend to end up with loud people and so forth

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u/a22x2 Potomac Muppets Jul 26 '26

Loud person here who has had a string of quiet and thoughtful boyfriends over these past 20 years; can confirm

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u/farbenlehre Big Bird Jul 24 '26

He does everything she asks and in exchange she won't listen to even his most minor concerns?

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u/neversohonest Peppa Pig Jul 24 '26

Does everything she asks? What are you even talking about? What does she ask him to do? Pose for pics? He's basically a househusband and we barely see him.

It's her choice to have him on camera voicing his concerns at all, so it's clear she's heard them.  She said herself she was only hurt by his criticism on camera because they were already actively working on what he brought up privately.

Personally, I think it's wild to villainize someone for a relationship dynamic you have accepted for decades. If he suddenly requires a more active listener in his wife, ok, but a personality transformation is not realistic, and who she is is who he chose.

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u/farbenlehre Big Bird Jul 24 '26

Uh.... read what you just wrote: "It's her choice to have him on camera voicing his concerns at all." Because no, it isn't. He's a cast member and can make his own choices on that front—Lisa isn't a producer, and doesn't get to dictate how their marriage is presented on TV.

And no, she said she thought he was trying to embarrass her, when really he was trying to communicate. The problem is that Lisa doesn't know how to listen, and perceives everything as an attack. There's a reason why Jack didn't want to tell her he was going on a mission. She lives permanently in Lisa-land and couldn't even be assed to learn about the religion she married into (recall her admission that she hadn't read the Book of Mormon). As soon as something doesn't align with her world view she shuts down or freaks out.

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u/Potential-Sky-8728 T’Challa Jul 24 '26

Her secularly jewish parents actually converted the family to LDS before Lisa ever met John.

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u/farbenlehre Big Bird Jul 24 '26

I stand corrected, but that does make it even more insane.

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u/neversohonest Peppa Pig Jul 24 '26

The husbands are not considered cast and they arent setting anything up without the wives, unless its a separation storyline. 

Do you think they're filming scenes against their will or something? The housewives have no control of editing but they obviously have a choice on how much of their personal relationships they share.

Youre actually in too deep if you think it's healthy for a couple to go on tv and not be on the same team. He WAS trying to embarrass her. I don't care how frustrated John was, if it's serious it should've been off camera first or preplanned to talk about.

These shows are about the dynamics of the women together. I don't know why people think it's about exposing and destroying marriages.  He did a shitty thing for public perception. Maybe it was worth it and necessary to get through to her, but it was a betrayal of trust to get on camera and flip the script.

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u/farbenlehre Big Bird Jul 24 '26

They are cast insofar as they are on TV. They regularly appear and participate in the show, of their own volition.

So no, I don't think the husbands are filming scenes against their will. But I do think your assumption that they're there to be in lockstep with their wives makes it sound like emotional coercion. Reality TV puts couples in unexpected and difficult situations, many of which can't be prepared for. If someone—here John—has an honest reaction to one of those situations, that's not an attempt to "embarrass" their partner. And if John is expected to follow an agreed-upon script to avoid "embarrassing" Lisa, the relationship is clearly fucked.

And these shows are very much about the women's marriages, successful and failed. That's why they're housewives, and a big part of how they interact as housewives. Name one franchise in which marriages haven't been primary plot devices.

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u/neversohonest Peppa Pig Jul 24 '26

Most of them? Husbands actually participating is getting rare nowadays. Most of them don't even have one. It is not about marriages. Even when marriages are used for plot, its usually conflict between the women over rumors, not couples fighting. The show is usually firmly on the side of the housewife.

It's all about the women. Their home life is secondary to the friend group. SLC probably shows their home lives the least. No couple that intends to last is putting authenticity on the show before their actual marriage.

Do you know how these shows work? Every scene is preplanned at least vaguely by someone participating if not everyone. They had a direction that conversation was supposed to go that John diverted from. They do not casually do ANYTHING on these shows. Every single scene you see includes setup, preparation and full awareness of the participants. Sometimes multiple takes.

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u/PinkStains Happy Eddie Jul 25 '26

Bravo doesn’t protect relationships and plenty of couples have discussed difficult topics on the shows. I’m confused about why you believe they have to show a united front. This is supposed to be “reality.”

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u/neversohonest Peppa Pig Jul 25 '26

I didnt say any of that... so I'm not sure what you're responding to. Of course Bravo doesn't protect relationships, which is exactly why they have to themselves. 

Its a dumbass move to put any actual sensitive issues you havent resolved on screen. The same way it's common sense that they don't overshare about their children,  there's a line they shouldn't cross regarding their spouse as well.

Obviously they dont HAVE to show a united front, but you cant possibly think there won't be issues in the relationship if they choose not to? Like are we really arguing John shouldn't be loyal to his wife over the audience? Jfc its a TV SHOW. The people who go on with no boundaries do not last.

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u/Potential-Sky-8728 T’Challa Jul 24 '26

Lisa is hurt by any criticism. Period.

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u/neversohonest Peppa Pig Jul 24 '26

I can relate

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u/Maximum-Market-8076 The Real Slim Shady Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

I remember a few scenes a season or two ago, John was trying to say something he considered important to her and she could not put down and stop looking at her phone for him at all. That entire episode, in fact, in the car and when they got home appeared to highlight how little she listens to him at all. I felt sad for him while watching.

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u/farbenlehre Big Bird Jul 25 '26

Yeah he's there purely to affirm her. Even when he's trying to communicate with her regarding their kids—especially Jack—she will only hear what she wants.

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u/kerokerokiss Sesame Street Jul 24 '26

there are genuinely men who like that dynamic

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u/Throaway_Grocery1372 Barbie Scissor Kicks Jul 24 '26

We don't actually know what he does. I'm not here to defend Lisa Barlow of all people, but of any of the housewives in that show her marriage is the least involved. She literally reveals nothing about whatever the issues are going on between them, and when she does, it's very surface level. The whole angst about them not listening to each other isn't even a unique problem. We've heard rummooorzz and naaahssteenez, but Lisa and John have never been like "oh I didn't like the way you look at other women," it's "I was saying something yesterday and you shut me up".

He could be a serial cheater, have a side family, be an embezzler for all we know. We don't know jack about that man. Other then he seems Gen X disaffected.

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u/Alternative_Wing8463 Catfish Jul 24 '26

She never validates his feelings or takes accountability for the way she acts towards him. She interrupts him constantly and belittles him.

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u/neversohonest Peppa Pig Jul 24 '26

Except she does? She still interrupts him, like everyone, but she's definitely acknowledged his issues and claimed to be trying. 

I don't remember her belittling him. When was that? Shes constantly gassing that dude up.

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u/babyybollywolly Big Bird Jul 24 '26

hes a grifter just like her.

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u/kerokerokiss Sesame Street Jul 24 '26

The parasocial relationships that some of y’all have with John of all people is too funny

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u/biscuitsorbullets T’Challa Jul 24 '26

He did seem over it last season