The Real Housewives of New York City cast are trying out an unexpected new group activity — and Us Weekly has the first look.
During the Tuesday, November 12, episode of the Bravo series, Sai De Silva, Erin Lichy, Jessel Taank and Brynn Whitfield face off against Jenna Lyons, Racquel Chevremont and Rebecca Minkoff in a game of dodgeball. Ubah Hassan decides to watch safely from the sidelines.
In Us’ sneak peek at the episode, Brynn gets a little excited and whips a ball at Jenna, hitting her right in the face and knocking off her sunglasses.
“Oh, my God, that’s why I’m so scared of this s—,” Ubah whispers to Rebecca. “I can’t do plastic surgery.”
Brynn, whose team wins the intense match, goes over to check on Jenna, who pouts and jokingly declares, “I don’t like you anymore.”
As Brynn apologizes and hugs Jenna, Jessel and Sai are unimpressed with the soft approach to dodgeball.
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“OK, guys, it’s a game!” Jessel shouts across the room. She then turns to Sai and Erin and says, “You know, in England, you do that s— , you don’t hug it out. You just keep going.”
Sai, who doesn’t always see eye to eye with Jessel, approves of the tough love.
“Yeah, where the f— you came from?” Sai says, high-fiving Jessel. “This is my bitch now.”
In a confessional, Sai trolls Jenna for wearing sunglasses to dodgeball in the first place.
“Why are you wearing those sunglasses? We’re playing dodgeball. It’s not cool ball,” she quips. “Come on, you can’t just stand there, wear glasses and then expect not to get hit. You gotta dodge the ball, Jenna.”
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Brynn, however, understands why Jenna is sensitive about getting hit directly in the face.
“If there’s any part of Jenna Lyons that thou shall not hit, it’s probably the face and the glasses,” she says in a confessional. “It’s the whole thing. What else is there, you know?”
Season 15 of RHONY premiered on October 1, marking the show’s second season with an all-new cast. While Sai, Erin, Brynn, Jenna, Ubah and Jessel all starred on season 14, Racquel joined the cast for season 15 while Rebecca is featured as a “friend.” Racquel has been pals with Jenna for years and thought that joining the cast would help round out the friend group.
“I think Jenna felt a little lonely last season. She was much older than the women, and queer, so she had an idea: would I be interested in joining the show? She said, ‘It’s not as scary as you might imagine,’” Racquel told W magazine in an interview published last month.
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The model and art curator also jumped at the chance to make the show more diverse as a Black queer woman from The Bronx.
“I thought, this could be interesting. It could push what I’ve been doing over the last couple decades of my life, which is using whatever platform I have to advance representation,” Raquel said. “I mean, you have a girl that grew up in the Bronx on Real Housewives, how much more authentic can you get than that?”
The Real Housewives of New York City airs on Bravo Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET. You can stream episodes on Peacock the next day.
