

Trouble was brewing back on the mainland, as someone (their identity remains a mystery, probably either D.B. Cooper or a producer) sent Bethenny an incriminating picture of Tom kissing a mysterious woman (probably D.B. Cooper) at The Regency.
There are some weekend shenanigans: the gals visit a sandbar, Carole eats a hotdog, and Bethenny invites an artist wearing pajamas to dinner, but who remembers anything but Bethenny, clad only in a bikini, breaking the news to Luann that “it’s about Tom.” Heartbroken Luann dictates the following talk-to-text message for her fiancé: “How could you do this to me question mark.”

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Satchels of gold, satchels of gold. Bethenny Frankel, the first truly famous Housewife, was ascendent this season, her feud with ex-friend Jill Zarin and her pregnancy belly both burgeoning. You might even say that she was “up here” and Kelly Bensimon was “down here.” And thus the scene was set for Scary Island.