TWO Bravo Dyke posts in one day? How did I get so lucky?! We dropped by Real Housewives of New York earlier today to cover Jenna Lyons’ trip to Henrietta Hudson, and now we’re moving across the coast to Beverly Hills.
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills has had its fair share of homoerotic imagery and subtextually queer conflict throughout its more than a decade of drama, but it wasn’t until season 10 of the series that we got an explicitly queer storyline in the form of a…rumored love triangle involving the actress Denise Richards?As part of this plotline, former Housewife Brandi Glanville came out as bisexual that season, claiming to have had a sexual relationship with Denise. As a result, Denise finally left the show. After a brief absence from the spotlight and her continued denial of Brandi’s account of what transpired between them, Denise is back for the 13th season of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. She makes a dramatic arrival in the teaser that was released yesterday. Look at this:
Denise won’t be a full-time Housewife, simply a “Friend of the Wives,” as the Bravo audience refers to a supporting cast member. It’s not yet certain how or when we’ll pick up the threads of the dyke drama between her and Brandi over the season, but given how important it was to Denise’s final season, it’s probable that it will be mentioned at least passingly. There’s always “Bravo Bravo fucking Bravo.”
But Denise’s appearance in the trailer is actually NOT the most sapphically charged moment. The trailer opens with the tabloid headlines about a separation between Mauricio and Kyle (Bravo really is leaning into these dramatic headlines opening post-Scandoval…I have a feeling it’ll eventually get old, but for now, I’m living for the drama). When those headlines first surfaced earlier this year, rumors also started swirling about Kyle — who has been on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills since the beginning — and the country musician Morgan Wade. Kyle and Morgan have subsequently leaned in to those rumors (while vaguely denying them), with Kyle appearing as the hot MILF next door in Morgan’s latest music video.
Someone asks Kyle when she introduces Morgan, “How did you guys meet?” Morgan makes a joke about “stalking” him. In fact, Morgan started a dialogue with Kyle after Kyle became fixated with her music and followed her on Instagram.
“You wrote your name’s first letter on her body?” Before we actually transition to Kyle tattooing Morgan with her initial, Dorit asks Kyle in the trailer—a tidbit that some of the Bravo investigator girlies had already picked up on earlier this summer.
“I’m just glad it’s you out there having the affair,” Kyle’s husband says in the trailer, presumably joking and trying to make light of the situation. “For once, it’s me,” Kyle says, alluding to past instances of there being tabloid rumors of Mauricio having an affair.
I honestly don’t know how much credence to put to the allegations around this connection, but I do believe we’ll find out a lot more once the season premieres. Regardless, the upcoming season is exciting.