Emily Simpson is sharing her ideas about Actual Housewives of Orange County costar Alexis Bellino‘s intentions with Shannon Beador.
Whereas talking solely with Us Weekly forward of the Thursday, August 8, episode, Simpson, 48, recalled Bellino, 47, and Beador, 60, coming head to head for the primary time at Heather Dubrow‘s Wishing Wall occasion, the place Bellino introduced alleged receipts about Beador’s $75,000 face-lift. (Bellino is relationship Beador’s ex John Janssen, who sued Beador in March for the cash she allegedly borrowed from him for the process.)
“I believe 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 occasion on the Balboa Debate Membership, I truly rode there with Alexis and I felt like on the best way there, she was very cheap. She was like, ‘I don’t wanna combat with Shannon. I don’t wanna be in a foul place along with her.’”
Noting that she thought Bellino’s perspective concerning 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 mates.’ However then she’ll humiliate her. She’ll say, ‘I simply wanna get together with this girl.’ However then she’ll always speak about John in entrance of her. And it’s like, it doesn’t make sense.”
She added, “I imply, whenever 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 making an attempt to humiliate her.”
The fact star additionally advised 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 totally totally different Alexis,” Simpson defined. “I had all the time recognized her as a woman’s lady. And really candy. After which to see this different aspect of her the place I felt like her essential objective was simply to sabotage Shannon and to make her look unhealthy – that’s unhappy.”
Bellino made her return to Bravo throughout the season 18 premiere of RHOC in July. When followers have 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 essential forged 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 have been launched by mutual mates. 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 wish to pursue a friendship with [Alexis],” Shannon beforehand advised 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. Take pleasure in!”
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
