There Will Be No ‘Selling Sunset’ Season 8 Reunion, Amid Cast Mutiny (EXCLUSIVE)

SPOILER ALERT: Although this text is a information story, it additionally accommodates spoilers for Season 8 of “Promoting Sundown.”

The drama among the many “Promoting Sundown” solid continues to spill out onto social media and within the press, however sadly for viewers, Netflix will not be filming a reunion for Season 8 of the present. Reunions for “Promoting Sundown” aren’t ritualized in the best way that reunions for Bravo reveals are, however after the Netflix collection produced its first one in 2022 for Season 5, the solid sitting down with “Queer Eye” star Tan France for a particular that drops inside two weeks of the season is one thing that audiences have grown to anticipate. And after a messy eighth season of the favored actual property present, the castmates of “Promoting Sundown” have a lot to debate in entrance of their followers — however gained’t be doing so. (Netflix’s representatives had no remark.)

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The melodrama is manifold. Season 8 of “Promoting Sundown” premiered on Sept. 6, however even earlier than that, the present’s stars had begun expressing anger about what viewers can be seeing inside it. Particularly, the week earlier than the premiere, Chrishell Stause — the closest “Promoting Sundown” has to a point-of-view character, in that her becoming a member of the Oppenheim Group in Season 1 in 2019 kicked off the collection — took to Instagram for what would transform many posts. She referred to as out fellow castmate Nicole Younger, writing, “I’ll NEVER work on a present together with her on it once more. I’d reasonably be sued.” Within the , she tagged the present’s producers, Adam DiVello’s Carried out and Carried out Productions, including, “And you might be disgusting for blindsiding her with this to see with the world as an alternative of letting her at LEAST defend herself with the TRUTH.”

At difficulty: All through this season, Younger, who joined the solid in Season 6, repeatedly floats an unsubstantiated declare that Emma Hernan, certainly one of Stause’s closest pals on the present, is having an affair with a married man. Younger brings this matter up on digicam 3 times, regardless of most of her castmates displaying little to no real interest in partaking about it. The primary point out is throughout a visit to the desert, when everybody pretends to not know what Younger is speaking about till she stops. The second occasion is extra in depth. Within the penultimate episode, Younger says in a confessional interview, after having introduced it up as soon as once more in entrance of fellow realtors Mary Bonnet and newcomer Alanna Whittaker, “I did hear from a dependable supply that Emma has probably had relations with a married man.” She then provides elliptically: “There are specific folks you shouldn’t be concerned with. Significantly if sure folks have, I don’t know, sure jewellery on sure elements of their fingers.” Within the finale, Younger raises the topic as soon as extra — when talking with castmate Bre Tiesi, she then twists the dialog round to Hernan, saying, “I’d watch out in her place, as a result of she’s been concerned with folks she shouldn’t have been.” Tiesi replies, “Married folks?” Younger says: “I wouldn’t belief Emma with my husband,” after which tells Tiesi that her supply confronted Hernan. (On this dialog, Younger lastly discovered a keen viewers, with Tiesi telling her, “I want I’d have identified this earlier — this could have been precious data.”)

That’s one layer of the solid’s in-fighting that gained’t be resolved by a reunion episode. The opposite one includes Tiesi’s feud with Chelsea Lazkani.

Tiesi and Lazkani have hated one another from the beginning. In Season 6, Lazkani greeted new solid member Tiesi — who has a toddler with profligate father Nick Cannon — by judging her association with Cannon, during which she is certainly one of a variety of moms of his kids. On the present, Lazkani referred to as their relationship “reasonably off-putting,” and stated “the best way I reside my life could be very totally different to her as a Christian.” Tiesi, no shrinking violet, naturally fought again towards Lazkani’s judgment, and although they’ve referred to as occasional truces since, they simply don’t get alongside.

Lower to Season 8, during which Tiesi will get a name frrom her realtor buddy Amanda Lynn, whom she then meets for lunch. On digicam, Lynn reveals Tiesi textual content messages despatched by a buddy saying they’d witnessed Lazkani’s husband dishonest on her on the W’s Residences in Hollywood. Tiesi seems to have a dilemma: Ought to she inform her sworn enemy Lazkani in regards to the dishonest? After all she does: The 2 have a drink, and what appears to be a heartfelt dialog, shedding tears and bonding. This communing doesn’t final, after all, and by the finale, Tiesi and Lynn — whose after she put herself within the public eye — are casing the workplace of the Oppenheim Group, seeking to be in full villain mode. Within the second to final scene of the season, Lynn sits down purposefully at Lazkani’s desk, as Tiesi calls boss Jason Oppenheim eager to introduce him to Lynn. And within the closing moments of Season 8, Lazkani takes her wedding ceremony ring off throughout a confessional, as she walks right into a home she’s expressed curiosity in shopping for.

In the course of the press cycle for Season 8, in the meantime, Tiesi has blown up this whole timeline. In a this week, she stated she came upon off-camera —  in December of final yr about Lazkani’s husband dishonest, and referred to as Hernan so she may inform Lazkani, which Tiesi says Hernan did. From there, in line with Tiesi, “Chelsea calls me immediately. We now have a full dialog. Very, very clear. She is aware of precisely each element, and we had been in good standing.” She and Lynn then shot the lunch scene for the present in March of this yr, and Lynn confirmed her the “receipts” from Lynn’s buddy in regards to the dishonest — for the primary time, Tiesi says. (March can also be when Folks broke the information that .) For her half, Lazkani just about (although clearly not Tiesi’s benevolent intentions), tweeting, “I hear what’s swirling whereas filming, and I ask manufacturing to arrange a scene with Bre. I did this so she may inform me immediately, in order that it’s not previous round to a trillion folks earlier than me. Hope this helps!” Lazkani , “Made it clear and placing it in writing, if racist Amanda is on the present as a solid member. I’m out.”

“Promoting Sundown” is in some ways about artifice. Like DiVello’s earlier reveals “Laguna Seashore” and “The Hills” for MTV, it reveals Southern California as a beautiful tableau, and it highlights probably the most picturesque points of Los Angeles as an instance why the “Promoting Sundown” realtors’ shoppers would wish to drop thousands and thousands and even tens of thousands and thousands of {dollars} to reside right here. Its staged points — taking pictures and reshooting scenes — have at all times been apparent, even when by no means fairly this apparent. Versus earlier years, Netflix didn’t shoot two seasons again to again, and hasn’t introduced a renewal of the collection but. And the solid rebellion does really feel very actual, if not fairly existential. For now, at the very least, the way forward for “Promoting Sundown” has a haze over it that DiVello would possibly present in a scenic view of downtown Los Angeles.

Then again, “Promoting Sundown” is presently No. 2 in Netflix’s Prime 10 for the U.S., No. 6 within the world Prime 10 and, in line with the , is being watched all all over the world. So let’s assume that — because the realtors of “Promoting Sundown” know as a lot as anybody — every thing is negotiable.

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