The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City stars are already knee-deep in drama this season!
Whitney Rose and Meredith Marks have been feuding for quite some time on the Bravo streamer staple, and have resorted to taking jabs at each other online beyond the peripheries of the show.
On November 23, Marks, 52, appeared on the Bravo Fan Fest, and shared an update on the feud, adding that her fellow co-star had not only blocked her on Instagram but also her husband and two children.
She revealed, “I mean, somebody told me she blocked me on Instagram,” before adding, “I think mine and my entire family. I don’t really know. I didn’t check it myself. I was told this, so I’m not 100 percent sure.” This revelation was posted on Bravo’s official page, with the caption, “The ultimate diss.”
Once this post circled the internet and reached Rose, 38, she did not hold back her tongue and retaliated dedicating a post to her explanation of what actually happened. She wrote on X admitting, “She is lying. I only blocked her to see if the excessive trolling would stop, and it did,” before clarifying, “I still follow Seth and Brooks. Chloe and I never followed each other. She wishes this was a diss.”
Instead of ignoring Marks’ comment and settling the misunderstanding behind closed doors, Rose took a jab at her co-star online giving the impression to fans that she wants to keep their feud alive to fuel their plotlines for the entire season.
Meredith and Whitney’s feuding started with a misunderstanding surrounding the latter’s jewelry line, PRISM, where Lisa Barlow was also dragged in.
In episode 4 of RHOSLC Season 5, Meredith told Heather Gray that Whitney sources her jewelry from Alibaba, garnering murmurs of distaste and disapproval from the rest of the cast.
In a confessional during the interview, Whitney addressed these baseless rumors clarifying that she did not source her jewelry from Alibaba, but from actual “vendors, that’s called ‘commerce,'” before taking a dig at Meredith saying, “It’s not like Meredith is out there in the ocean diving for her caviar.”
Lisa Barlow was also subject to feuding with Whitney over her jewelry line because the latter claimed that Barlow was the one to feed the rumors to an anonymous gossip Instagram page. Lisa had outright denied the claims, but Meredith did not believe her and later accused her co-star again in a future interview of selling wrong gossip.
Meredith also has her own jewelry line, ‘Meredith Marks Jewelry’ which has been a cause of conflict between her and Whitney in the past. The feud surrounded Meredith accusing Whitney of usurping her idea of introducing bath bombs into her brand.
This happened during Lisa Barlow’s Valentine’s Day-inspired Besos party, where Meredith directly confronted the PRISM founder taunting, “What is up with the bath bombs?” She continued cross-questioning her co-star alleging, “You launched jewelry last year, you launched bath this year after I said I was doing it. What is your problem with me?” Whitney dismissed this claim as a mere coincidence.
At the moment, it feels like Meredith and Whitney are using any minute trigger to keep their feud alive, which no doubt will continue throughout this season, and even spill over to the reunion episodes.
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City season 5 releases new epiosdes on Bravo every week at 9 p.m. ET.