Reunion shows Confessions that Shook Us to the Core

If you’re a fan of the kind of awkward moments that only reality television can really deliver, then you’re more than familiar with some of the classic reality television gathering tropes. Of course, there’s the retreat, the tried-and-true move in which a cast member is so overwhelmed by a comment that he leaves the set to refresh himself in his dressing room. There’s also the gossip session of hot microphones, a fun thing that happens when the cast and crew take five but the cameras keep rolling.

The blooper reel is a guarantee. And every once in a while, there is a time when a cast member spills something important. They may decide to share surprising news about the state of their relationship. Maybe they open up about something that happened behind the scenes. Or it could be a life update that comes straight out of the left field.

Whatever the case may be, when tea is spilled during these grabbing gatherings, it often becomes a feast in good faith. Fire up your MJ popcorn memes, because these are the most memorable reality TV meeting confessions we could find.

Kandi Burruss found herself at the center of damaging gossip in Season 9 of The Real Atlanta Housewives , and the source of that rumor was finally revealed at the meeting. In the middle of the season, word spread that someone told co-star Porsha Williams that Burruss and her husband Todd Tucker allegedly conspired to take drugs and take advantage of her when they were out one night. Williams confronted Burruss about the allegations while the cast was in Hawaii, and Burruss denied the claim and threatened to take legal action. As his colleague Shereé Whitfield said in a confessional segment: “That is not a shady shadow. That is a deep and deep libel ».

When the Atlanta housewives gathered for the meeting, it was time to get to the bottom of the accusations. Host Andy Cohen asked Williams to share what led her to believe that Burruss and Tucker wanted to get high and take advantage of her, and she revealed that Phaedra Parks was the person who alerted her. Parks admitted to repeating the rumor, but did not share its source. Burruss exploded at this revelation, and Williams said he felt Parks “used [her] as a pawn against] Burruss].”

Spreading this rumor nailed Parks’ friendship with Burruss, and his role on the show. After the meeting, TMZ reported RHOA fired Parks from the reality series.

Thanks to Baccalaureate Season 15, Bachelor Nation will never see a windmill the same way. During Hannah Brown’s special reunion for the season, Chris Harrison invited second runner-up Peter Weber to the stage so they could chat about the infamous fantasy suite date that took place at a windmill in Greece. Before the meeting, the world had the impression that Brown and Weber were intimate not once, but twice when they were in that windmill. This information first emerged when Brown was discussing one of his many heated conversations with contestant who will soon be eliminated Luke Parker. In a confessional segment, she told viewers that she and Weber connected twice during the night, and she refused to be embarrassed about it.

It turns out that that was not the whole truth. At the meeting, Brown shared that she “was a bit dishonest” when she talked about her evening at the windmill. She continued, “Since it’s out there, and I said there’s something Peter and I did twice, um, actually it was four times.” The gathering crowd, which included Weber’s fully entertaining parents, went wild.

Brown went on to win Dancing with the Stars , and Weber went on to be the star of the upcoming season of The Bachelor . Naturally, his season was at eye level in the windmill references.

After Kristen Doute and James Kennedy’s relationship imploded in the third and fourth seasons of Vanderpump Rules , there were rumors that the DJ only chased the series veteran because he wanted to be on the reality show. Doute herself suspected that this was the case, recounting Bravo’s Daily Dish in 2015 that she believed he used to carry on Pump Rules . She said, “He just did his homework and knew exactly what he was doing. And he played with me to the point where he spent an entire season, became a primary, and then left me. A few days after Bravo’s Daily Plate launched that interview, Kennedy told Andy Cohen about Mira What’s Happening Live that the idea of him dating Doute just to secure his place in the cast was “absurd.”

However, he seemed to change his tone when it came time to film the Season 5 reunion in 2017. When his co-star Jax Taylor commented that Kennedy’s relationship with Doute is what led him to the series, Kennedy gave him A score of five and he said, “Shit, yes, buddy.” The rest of the cast laughed, including Doute. Kennedy went on to say that he knew he would end up on the show no matter what because he planned to “move in with [castmate Tom Sandoval] or start beating up his ex-girlfriend. Well, at least everyone can laugh at this now.

One of Love is Blind Married couples disclosed at the meeting that their relationship had a significant obstacle after the season ended. When the cast of the Netflix dating show reunited for the reunion, Amber Pike was candid about her relationship with Matt Barnett, admitting that they struggled to adjust to married life after they got married in November 2018, So much so that Pike »called to get a divorce attorney«. She finally did not file, and the two are still together as of this writing. Pike said, “Seeing how we’re both so stubborn and stubborn, stubborn, when we bump into our heads, it could be bad. It could be intense. So figuring out how to handle that made a big difference for us.

Barnett added: “We stopped trying to force what we expected from each other. Once it happened… nothing but really good things since then.

It took some time and a lot of tears, but Shahs of Sunset The Mercedes couple “MJ” Javid and Tommy Feight finally won over their biggest critic. MJ’s mother Vida Javid revealed at the season 6 reunion that she was finally beginning to cheer up with her daughter’s future fiancé, the future husband. Andy Cohen couldn’t contain his surprise, and MJ’s co-stars, several of whom she grew up in, were incredulous.

Feight kept turning when he added, “I like Vida more than MJ. It’s funny! There is no person more fun on the planet than Vida Javid ». And just as the rest of the cast thought their jaws couldn’t be on the ground anymore, Vida said, “I said to Mercedes, ‘If you don’t marry him, I will marry him.’

Just two years before Shahs of Sunset the cast reunited for the Season 6 reunion, Vida so disapproved of her daughter’s partner that she left the MJ and Feight engagement event. However, the dynamics of Life and Feight changed when MJ’s father, Shams Javid, fell ill, and since then they have been a relatively strong unit.

When The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Reunion Season 9 filmed in June 2019, host Andy Cohen took a moment over lunch to upload to Instagram Live (via IM! News ) to tell friend Anderson Cooper (as well as fans watching the broadcast) that stalwart Lisa Vanderpump was not present. Cooper asked if Vanderpump had been there for the session, and Cohen only offered a cryptic smile. This hot scoop came a few days after DailyMailTV released an interview in which Vanderpump said that he would likely not appear at the meeting or return to the series.

Still, it was tempting to wait for Vanderpump to make a surprise reunion cameo and solve the Puppygate fiasco that ended his friendships with the rest of the cast. Unfortunately, when the episodes of the meeting premiered the following month, the restorer was really nowhere to be found. Cohen then turned to social media to confess that Vanderpump did not call, did not show up. Viewers heard the meeting confession. while it was happening .