The midseason trailer for The Real Housewives of Rhode Island Season 1 is here, and the drama in the smallest state is about to be bigger than ever.
The sneak peek, which dropped on May 1, kicks off with the inaugural RHORI cast — which includes Alicia Carmody, Rosie DiMare, Ashley Iaconetti, Liz McGraw, Rulla Nehme Pontarelli, Kelsey Swanson, and Jo-Ellen Tiberi — toasting to “beginnings and ends,” and, even more cryptically, to “peace and war,” right before all hells breaks loose.
Still to come on The Real Housewives of Rhode Island Season 1…
Jo-Ellen Tiberi shows “proof” of Rulla Nehme Pontarelli’s husband Brian’s affair
As Rulla is shown exiting a vehicle, Jo-Ellen announces, “I got her proof,” presumably referring to her husband Brian Pontarelli’s affair that she’d previously alleged is still “still going on.”
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When Jo-Ellen holds up her phone, Liz, Rosie, and Alicia’s jaws drop. “Holy s–t,” Liz exclaims, before a wide-eyed Rosie declares, “This is bad.”
Alicia, meanwhile, reveals that what Jo-Ellen has shown them is a video, and the timing could not be worse for her, considering she and longtime fiancé Billy Kitsilis are just about to have dinner at Rulla and Brian’s home.
“I want to die,” Alicia admits in a confessional. “I feel like I’m carrying a poster, like, ‘I know. I know what you did last week.'”
It seems as though she and Billy make it through the meal without any slip-ups, however. In a later clip, Rosie asks Rulla, “Do you know about the video,” to which she replies, “I know nothing about a video.”
Rulla Nehme Pontarelli reveals that her husband Brian “was arrested”
The teaser, then, cuts to Rulla telling some of her castmates, “Brian was arrested for tracking me,” in another jaw-dropping moment.
“I mean, obviously, like, Rulla, like, what are you gonna do?” Rosie asks as Alicia also chimes in, “Yeah, what are you gonna do?”
Before Rulla reveals her answer, however, the RHORI sneak peek ends.
Kelsey Swanson moves out of her mystery boyfriend’s home, post-split
After dropping hints that she was considering breaking up with her boyfriend of 10 years, it appears as though Kelsey has finally pulled the trigger.
As she unpacks moving boxes, including such items as her Miss Rhode Island USA sash and other various pageant plaques, Kelsey’s mother, Julie, asks, “How much is the rent?” When she explains that she’s “not paying for it,” her mom questions if Kelsey’s ex is footing the bill. That’s when Kelsey emphatically states, “My ex.”
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Elsewhere, Kelsey sits down with her “other man,” William “Bill” L’Europa, who firmly tells her, “It’s us, and that’s it. You put me through hell for long enough.”
Liz McGraw and Jo-Ellen Tiberi clash amid more RHORI cast feuds
In another scene, Alicia asserts in the back seat of a moving vehicle that Liz has shown her “true colors,” prompting the latter to fire back, “My true colors are f–kin’ beautiful!” Fellow passenger Jo-Ellen, meanwhile, tries to rein in Liz, telling her to “stop.”
While standing in an alleyway afterward, Liz fumes at Jo-Ellen, “Get the f–k out of my face!” As Liz takes off through a nearby door, Jo-Ellen follows her, demanding to know, “What did I do?!”
As the cast sits around a table in a crowded room, Jo-Ellen further accuses Liz of “looking for a fight” with her, and another dustup erupts between them.
Though this marks the first sign of any serious conflict between Liz and Jo-Ellen, the existing feud between Kelsey and Rosie reaches a new boiling point in another scene. “Everybody in f–kin’ Rhode Island knows you f–k married men!” Rosie shouts at Kelsey. “You’re a f–kin’ slam pig!”
Check out all of that drama and more — including Ashley discussing the future of husband Jared Haibon’s struggling coffee shop, as well as Jo-Ellen’s emotional heart-to-heart with her mother amid their unresolved issues — by watching the video at the top of this post.
In the meantime, you can also find out everything to know about the RHORI cast’s families, friendships, feuds, and more, in Bravo’s exclusive Season 1 guide.
