It didn’t take The Valley‘s Brittany Cartwright long to validate Luke Broderick’s reason for not including her in his and Kristen Doute’s top-secret Maui proposal plans.
Before the newly engaged couple could even share the happy news with their own families, Brittany spilled the beans to “big mouth” Jax Taylor on Season 2, Episode 13, igniting a firestorm of worries that it was only a matter of time before the news leaked further.
Both Brittany and Jax acknowledged her error on The Valley After Show: “Big mistake,” he declared, before she separately chimed in that she was “so mad at” herself, afterward and couldn’t believe she made the slip-up.
Indeed, Jax immediately “told the boys’ chat with 30 random dudes,” as Brittany put it — something he fully owned up to both in the above After Show clip and on The Valley‘s July 8 episode.
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“Everybody knows I’m a big mouth,” Jax admitted. “You tell me something, you know it’s gonna be told.”
Despite accusing Kristen of making a bigger deal out of the situation than there needed to be, he also conceded, “I understand. I get it. I made a mistake, and I apologize. I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean to do that.”
Kristen Doute and Luke Broderick react to Brittany telling Jax about their engagement
When Kristen woke up in Maui to a congratulatory text from Jax, “Detective Doute” was immediately on the case to find out who told him about their sunset engagement. After all, she’d already instructed her castmates to keep the news under wraps since their families were six hours ahead of Hawaii’s time zone.
As she revealed on the After Show, Jax told her that he’d read about it online, and the news was “everywhere” already. However, Brittany quickly came clean about being the one who shared the proposal news but had asked him not to tell anyone else.
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“He lied, like he does,” Luke chimed in. “He said, ‘I didn’t want to throw Brittany under the bus.’ … It’s like, ‘Uh, you just sent her into a f–king spiral.'”
With the infamous boys’ chat already in on it, though, “People that I didn’t even know were, like, sounding off being like, ‘Well, that’s not gonna last,” Kristen shared, while Luke added that there were “probably a dozen messages” saying things such as “it won’t last six months” and “pray for Luke.”
Kristen, however, insisted that she was “not mad at Brittany,” echoing what she’d already told her friend when she confronted her in the episode. “It wasn’t purposeful; it wasn’t malicious,” Kristen explained on The Valley After Show. “It was just, like, very thoughtless. So, it was annoying, but I wasn’t, like, upset with her.”
Luke similarly concluded, “When I did talk to Brittany, I believe, genuinely, it was a slip-up, just not thinking about it, which, you know, justified me not cluing her into the engagement.”
How Brittany Cartwright reacted to Jax Taylor spreading Kristen’s engagement news
Brittany, for her part, apologized profusely for her “awful” lapse in judgement, noting that she can’t trust Jax “for nothin'” and was “about to cry” herself afterward.
“I really did not mean to do that,” she added. “I don’t know what I was thinking.”
During Episode 13, she explained to Kristen that “the only reason” she was on the phone with Jax was to discuss something involving 4-year-old son Cruz’s school. “I don’t know if it’s like a habit, like he was my person for so long,” she added. “But, like, I know not to tell him things.”
That’s why she called Jax and “went off on him,” hours earlier, she told Kristen.
Further recapping the convo for Zack Wickham — who actually was “pissed,” at her, after Jesse Lally filled him in on Jax’s boys’ chat text — Brittany elaborated, “I immediately regretted it, obviously. I screamed at him, and he knows if he goes on, like, Twitter or does something dumb, he is done.”
Jax appeared to at least mostly have gotten her message, though: After sharing Kristen and Luke’s news with new next-door neighbor Tom Schwartz later on, he asked him to keep it to himself, as to not dig his hole any deeper with the group.
As Jax confessed to a producer, “That’s one thing that I’ll never be able to fix … I cannot keep a secret.”
Find out how Brittany explained her reaction to Luke excluding her from his proposal plans for Kristen here.
