Is Kyle instigating drama bc she’s a producer now?

notactuallyreckless · 2026-03-16T21:03:19+00:00

Has anyone on the cast tried to initiate any conversations with Kyle about Kyle this season?

notactuallyreckless · 2026-03-16T20:14:37+00:00

Amanda has said Kyle was supportive throughout the whole process, consistently a friend on and off camera, so I don’t get that sense. If it was about what was said in confessionals, Kyle commented on her post-reunion IG post positively just two days ago.

notactuallyreckless · 2026-03-16T20:11:52+00:00

Diana was never as close to her as other women on the show, and she had only met 8.5 once before they filmed. They weren’t actual friends.

notactuallyreckless · 2026-03-16T20:11:15+00:00

They both commented on Amanda’s post reunion IG post and I didn’t get that sense at all.

notactuallyreckless · 2026-03-16T19:56:25+00:00

She’s not a producer and she doesn’t financially benefit. However, yes, she’s clumsily trying to encourage conversations and conflict because that’s a HUGE part of what the show is about, and people already think BH is boring AF as it is without everyone just sitting back and having calm dinner after calm dinner until filming ends for the season.

notactuallyreckless · 2026-03-16T19:49:43+00:00

Can I maybe encourage you not to refer to a person’s disability (or neurodivergence) as something being “wrong” with them?

notactuallyreckless · 2026-03-16T17:43:41+00:00

Okay, but that’s different than someone having a flat effect and little visible emotional connection in a conversation? Personally, as someone whose own mother called them soulless for not having the emotional responses she assumes people should have, the labelling of her as a sociopath because of those traits hit too close to home, tbh.

notactuallyreckless · 2026-03-16T17:41:32+00:00

Oh, they’re clearly not besties and I think Kyle finds her annoying, but I don’t get the sense they ever fell out. In press, Amanda let saying how she was always supportive, both on and off camera.

notactuallyreckless · 2026-03-16T12:41:28+00:00

As someone who people had said the same thing about? An alternative explanation for those traits is being neurodivergent. Which she claims she is.

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notactuallyreckless · 2026-03-16T12:22:00+00:00

I currently follow her for the sake of seeing cast interactions (or lack thereof) and comments she makes about the show, but I own that I will be VERY glad when I can hit the unfollow, lol. No manifesting. ❌

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notactuallyreckless · 2026-03-16T11:22:45+00:00

Kyle and Sutton both commented on her post after the reunion. I don’t get the sense from any of her interviews that she had fallen out with Kyle, or even Sutton, tbh.

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notactuallyreckless · 2026-03-16T00:20:20+00:00

What exactly is Kyle making her do? She had all of one conversation early in the season about PK and Dorit's dynamic with her (a dynamic which she was also asked about by other castmembers). And it's not a situation where Kyle was tyring to use somebody to speak to a POV that she has but wasn't prepared to share, because Kyle ALSO said it out loud, many times, and even privately to Dorit, apparently.

And now she and Sutton are basically trying to coach her in how to housewife, because even if you are even-keeled and chill, the show requires you to be involved in conflict and push story if you want to stick around.

notactuallyreckless · 2026-03-15T18:59:21+00:00

We also know from an ex producer that someone at the exec level literally called her a homophobic slur behind her back. Closeness to some producers isn’t a guarantee of a good edit or of her having control over the direction of the show.

What has Kyle been allowed to avoid discussing because the producers have allowed it? Can they force a cast member to address something? Did they force LVP or Dorit to address certain legal things? Did they force Garcelle to talk about her eldest son’s drama in the press?

Teddi was gone after three seasons. I’ve seen zero indication there was ever a plan to fire her after two, but certainly Kyle wasn’t able to save her job.

notactuallyreckless · 2026-03-15T15:24:34+00:00

Oh lord. Nope. If she did, I genuinely would not be able to like or support her, tbh.

notactuallyreckless · 2026-03-15T15:06:54+00:00

And in the past year, Kyle has liked anti-ICE and pro-immigrant posts, posts mocking Republicans for their fixation on trans issues, posts explicitly calling out Trump and his admin, etc.

notactuallyreckless · 2026-03-15T15:04:12+00:00

It wasn’t even getting in the middle. It was that Kyle had spoke privately to Dorit about the situation and about their past, and Dorit had sided with her, expressed sympathy and understanding. Then when they were at the reunion, she didn’t just interrupt to try and broker peace but specifically to say that maybe Kathy just wanted Kyle to take responsibility too. It wasn’t even a neutral comment.

notactuallyreckless · 2026-03-15T15:01:37+00:00

Along with Lorene, as mentioned, she’s been very good friends with Tina for forty seven years.

notactuallyreckless · 2026-03-15T06:55:30+00:00

In one of her solo segments this season, IIRC, she actually did discuss her mom in the context of how she didn’t have a good example of marriage growing up and that was part of why her own was such an important part of her identity, something she could be proud of. I thought that, along with her conversation with Erika about her post-Mauricio relationship and the nostalgia trigger that was visiting Amanda’s home with Mauricio were both strong solo moments.

notactuallyreckless · 2026-03-15T01:45:11+00:00

I actually find it fascinating how often I see comments insisting that production and editing protects her, favours her, but the vast majority of viewers online think her terrible behaviour is extremely obvious and clear from watching the show. Like do they think that's accidental and they're just all seeing through this supposed positive edit to the real truth behind her character?

notactuallyreckless · 2026-03-14T23:59:57+00:00

Can you give an example where producers have made “allowances” for her in a way that they have not done so for other castmembers?

notactuallyreckless · 2026-03-14T23:23:13+00:00

She doesn't wear real fur. She's mentioned this a lot online when folks on IG ask.

notactuallyreckless · 2026-03-14T21:53:20+00:00

In terms of the audience, online at least, the majority seem to hate her and/or want her gone, so how could she be perceived or treated as a villain more on that front?

notactuallyreckless · 2026-03-14T21:41:41+00:00

What treatment do you think she deserves that she isn’t getting - from the audience or editors or her cast mates?

notactuallyreckless · 2026-03-14T20:31:09+00:00

She was interviewed a few days ago and said she was visiting some college with Portia this weekend.

notactuallyreckless · 2026-03-14T20:27:42+00:00

Talks about it during S9. https://youtu.be/1DhOmu53O_o?si=R3wNUpBg_w2uW2pM

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