The tension between Sai de Silva and Jessel Taank boiled over on the penultimate episode of Real Housewives of New York, before next week’s season finale.
De Silva, 42, and Taank, 43, met for lunch, which Taank – who former RHONY star Betheny Frankel called the most overrated housewife – hoped with clear the air about an awkward exchange on the boat in Anguilla.
The lunch didn’t go as planned, with the awkwardness leading to a hostile exchange during a group dinner and mini-golfing outing.
Sunday night’s new episode – entitled A Night at Swingers (the NYC mini-golf club they met at) now sets the stage for another potential blow-up during next week’s season finale.
Bravo will air the season finale of RHONY on Sunday, October 15, followed by a two-part reunion on Sunday, October 22 and October 29.
Tension: The tension between Sai de Silva and Jessel Taank boiled over on the penultimate episode of Real Housewives of New York, before next week’s season finale
Hostile: The lunch didn’t go as planned, with the awkwardness leading to a hostile exchange during a group dinner and mini-golfing outing
The episode begins with Brynn Whitfield talking with her brother Daris, revealing she has ‘a little bit of COVID.’
‘Yeah. I got a little bit of covid, but I’m so over it,’ Brynn tells Daris, who jokes that a woman is nearly passed out near him.
Ubah Hassan is in the midst of a photo shoot, joking that she’s looking for a Valentine, adding that all of her suitors don’t know she’s going to turn them down yet.
The photographer says she’s giving her Iman vibes before wrapping up the photoshoot as the episode switches to Erin Dana Lichy.
Erin is with her family when she gets a call from Sai, who says, ‘I gotta tell you about this lunch that I went on with Jessel. It was so f***ing awkward,’ as Erin adds, ‘I’m gonna sit down for this. I think it’s gonna be a long one.
Before Sai tells her side of the story, the episode switches to Jenna Lyons’ home, as she’s visited by Jessel, as both tell their stories to different housewives.
Jenna tells Jessel that she’s going to Scotland soon, adding, ‘I was invited by a brand, and they are flying me out and doing, like, a spa weekend in an insane countryside. I can’t wait,’ joking that she doesn’t know the accent at all.
Jenna says she’s bummed that she’s missing out on their couple’s outing at Swingers, which is described as, ‘a restaurant that has mini golf.’
COVID: The episode begins with Brynn Whitfield talking with her brother Daris, revealing she has ‘a little bit of COVID’
Iman: The photographer says she’s giving her Iman vibes before wrapping up the photoshoot as the episode switches to Erin Dana Lichy
Erin: Erin is with her family when she gets a call from Sai, who says, ‘ I gotta tell you about this lunch that I went on with Jessel. It was so f***ing awkward,’ as Erin adds, ‘I’m gonna sit down for this. I think it’s gonna be a long one
Sai: Before Sai tells her side of the story, the episode switches to Jenna Lyons’ home, as she’s visited by Jessel, as both tell their stories to different housewives
Scotland: Jenna tells Jessel that she’s going to Scotland soon, adding, ‘I was invited by a brand, and they are flying me out and doing, like, a spa weekend in an insane countryside. I can’t wait,’ joking that she doesn’t know the accent at all
Jessel also reveals to Jenna that she and her husband Patel finally had sex, as Sai tells Erin the same thing.
Sai tells Erin that Jessel told her, ‘Yeah, it took me 25 minutes to warm up down there,’ as she joked to Erin, ‘I’m like, “Are you a f***ing oven? Does everybody need to preheat you?’
Jessel tells Jenna, ‘I had lunch with Sai, and the reason why I wanted to have lunch with her was to– I felt like there was tension in Anguilla between the two of us.’
She also told Jenna that she felt ‘so bad’ because she was running late, adding it was only, ‘about 15 minutes,’ but on Sai’s conversation with Erin, she paints a different picture.
Sai tells Erin, ‘Lunch was at 11:00. She gets there at 11:35 or 11:40,’ as Erin adds, ’40 minutes late? That’s really rude.’
Sai continues, ‘Doesn’t even call me. So then she brings up my freaking mother. She’s like, “You know, when you brought up the situation with your mom, you know, I related because my uncle is an alcoholic,”‘ which stuns Erin.
Sex: Jessel also reveals to Jenna that she and her husband Patel finally had sex, as Sai tells Erin the same thing
Tension: Jessel tells Jenna, ‘I had lunch with Sai, and the reason why I wanted to have lunch with her was to– I felt like there was tension in Anguilla between the two of us’
Erin says, ‘That is so insensitive to compare that to your mother,’ as Sai adds, ‘I just think she’s trying to find something that’s relatable, but it didn’t come off that way.’
Jessel tells Jenna, ‘My uncle that I was living with, you know, he was an alcoholic, and I thought if anyone would understand, it would be her, just ’cause she had the same, or lived the same reality that I did. I mean, I think that she understood where I was coming from, but she also said she doesn’t care.’
Jenna says, ‘It sounds like it’s more meaningful to you to be understood, and I think that’s what you were looking for, and it doesn’t sound like you got it.’
Jenna adds in confession, ‘I know that her intentions were good. I know she was just trying to connect and relate… But your mom is your mom, and it’s really different than anyone else on the planet.’
Sai also tells Jenna that Jessel’s husband Pavit is going to Vietnam for three days… solely to get 60,000 airline points, which they both think is bizarre.
Sai says in confession, ‘That’s enough time to get into trouble. Lots can happen in 24 hours, can’t it, Pavit?’
Erin’s husband David comes over as they explain the situation about Pavit, but David says, ‘Three or four days of peace and quiet, and you get the points? It’s not a bad deal.’
Erin jokes, ‘I think Abe and David just wish they could get on a plane for three days and have peace and quiet, but we just would not let them do that.
The episode continues with Ubah Hassan meeting at Beatnic with their director of marketing Lucy, to discuss a collaboration for her Ubah Hot brand.
‘All these restaurants wanted me to do collabs with them. It has so much joy, like, ten-time fold more than modeling, because… They actually want my input,’ Ubah says in confession.
Different: Jenna adds in confession, ‘I know that her intentions were good. I know she was just trying to connect and relate… But your mom is your mom, and it’s really different than anyone else on the planet’
Collab: The episode continues with Ubah Hassan meeting at Beatnic with their director of marketing Lucy, to discuss a collaboration
Ubah says in confession, ‘I eat at Beatnic all the time, and for them to give me an opportunity to create an Ubah dish, this is the greatest thing.
They all land on a sandwich for their collaboration together as Ubah leaves the meeting quite happy.
‘Collabs like this helps Ubah Hot to kind of tap clientele that I don’t have. This way is very authentic ’cause you’re introduced without putting people in their face.
They talk about organizing the photo shoot as Ubah teases, ‘Maybe you might want one of me wearing bathing suit. I’m kidding.’
The episode transitions to Sai’s house, where her Aunt Sufia is visiting and helping her in the kitchen, saying she will, ‘make the sofrito.’
‘Aunt Sufia and my mom were sisters. She’s the glue to our family, and she holds us together. My aunt is extremely emotional and very sensitive, so she wears her heart on her sleeve. So, you know, to see your older sister in that situation is never ideal,’ Sai explains in confession.
Sai gives Sufia a Christmas gift, a book of all Sai’s mother’s artwork put into a book, which makes Sufia cry.
Sai adds in confession, ‘‘Everyone in my family is very creative. If you’re not a painter or an artist, you are a musician. Like, we all do something completely different, but we are all in a creative space.’
Sandwich: They all land on a sandwich for their collaboration together as Ubah leaves the meeting quite happy
Collabs: ‘Collabs like this helps Ubah Hot to kind of tap clientele that I don’t have. This way is very authentic ’cause you’re introduced without putting people in their face
Cry: Sai gives Sufia a Christmas gift, a book of all Sai’s mother’s artwork put into a book, which makes Sufia cry
Confession: Sai adds in confession, ‘ ‘Everyone in my family is very creative. If you’re not a painter or an artist, you are a musician. Like, we all do something completely different, but we are all in a creative space’
The episode transitions to Jenna, who is getting ready for her trip to Scotland, while shopping for some new glasses with her 15-year-old son Beckett, who joins her as she goes shopping for new glasses.
‘Okay. I’m off to Scotland tomorrow. Beckett is deeply independent, I think, having joint custody, so he is used to being a week without me and a week with me, so I always try to schedule my travel in the week that he would have already not been with me,’ she says.
‘So leaving Beckett is not easy, and it’s never gonna be easy, but it’s gotten easier over time,’ she says in confesssion.
The mother and son try on various frames in the store before she finally picks one for her trip, while raving about her son in confession.
‘First of all, I can’t believe that I actually have a teenager. Beckett, I really like him,’ Jenna continues in confession.
‘Like, I remember my mom didn’t like me, and I knew that. It’s so rewarding ’cause I feel like I get kind of a do-over,’ Jenna explains.
‘Being able to have a loving relationship with Beckett, I think, mends a little bit of what I didn’t have,’ she added.
The episode transitions to Jenna and her husband having dinner with Sai and her husband, though Jenna gets slightly upset that Sai already ate.
Glasses: The episode transitions to Jenna, who is getting ready for her trip to Scotland, while shopping for some new glasses with her 15-year-old son Beckett, who joins her as she goes shopping for new glasses
Scotland: ‘Okay. I’m off to Scotland tomorrow. Beckett is deeply independent, I think, having joint custody, so he is used to being a week without me and a week with me, so I always try to schedule my travel in the week that he would have already not been with me,’ she says
Like: ‘First of all, I can’t believe that I actually have a teenager. Beckett, I really like him,’ Jenna continues in confession
Do-over: ‘Like, I remember my mom didn’t like me, and I knew that. It’s so rewarding ’cause I feel like I get kind of a do-over,’ Jenna explains.
‘That’s, like, actually insulting. It’s like, now she comes to my event, so she eats before ’cause she thinks I’m not gonna feed her?’ Erin said in confession.
Sai asks who is coming as Erin says Ubah is but Brynn is still sick, as Erin asks if she’s talked to Jessel since their lunch.
‘No, I haven’t seen her. I mean, I don’t know what to say. I don’t genuinely don’t care, as Erin adds, ‘But I think she cares.’
Erin jokes that she gave her husband David oral sex and that is, ‘a big deal,’ as David jokes in confession that he feels bad for Erin because he wants it all the time.
Jessel and Pavit arrive and the others almost immediately start talking about Pavit’s bizarre trip to Vietnam.
Pavit explains, ‘This ticket normally costs… $15,000 round trip. This ticket was going for 900 bucks, so I bought three of them.’
A confused Erin asks why Jessel isn’t going, as Pavit explains he already went twice and he’s waiting for the tickets to ‘open up’ so he can use his third ticket.
Sai keeps asking why he’s going, as Pavit explains, ‘Have you ever flown international first class? Right, it’s literally, you just sit on a plane, eat caviar, get fed good food,’ as David says, ‘Oh, you’re going for that experience,’ as Pavit agrees.
Insulting: ‘That’s, like, actually insulting. It’s like, now she comes to my event, so she eats before ’cause she thinks I’m not gonna feed her?’ Erin said in confession
Sai says in confession, ‘I honestly am so confused. What person flies to Vietnam for miles? Is his business there? Does he have some “Business” there?’
Pavit exlpains in confession, ‘These trips, for me, I see ’em as two things. First, it’s getting away. We have so little free time. It’s ridiculous. The second benefit of that is it allows me to earn miles, and I can eventually use these miles to take us on vacations.’
Pavit says there is no date for the flight yet, as Sai says, ‘I thought you were leaving next week?’ since that’s what Jessel told her earlier.
‘I’m not going next week,’ Pavit says, as Jessel adds, ‘He’s not going next week. He’s trying to figure it out.
Jessel says in confession, ‘I’ve never in my life had friends so invested in my husband’s travel schedule. It’s none of your business, full stop. “Hey, Abe, like, how many s***s did you take today?” I don’t f***ing care.’
They’re told golf is ready, so all the husbands go first, as they tell Pavit he has the ‘blue ball’ as they laugh and he confirms he and Jessel finally had sex for the first time in years.
Sai goes to the bathroom as Jessel talks to Erin about the lunch with Sai, which she admitted did not go as planned.
‘It was definitely not what I expected, you know? I felt like her energy was very, like, cold and, like, almost, like, negative towards me, and I honestly don’t know what I’ve done,’ Jessel says.
Sai: Sai says in confession, ‘I honestly am so confused. What person flies to Vietnam for miles? Is his business there? Does he have some “Business” there?’
Never: Jessel says in confession, ‘ I’ve never in my life had friends so invested in my husband’s travel schedule. It’s none of your business, full stop. “Hey, Abe, like, how many s***s did you take today?” I don’t f***ing care.
Sai comes back and overhears Jessel and Erin talking and admits, ‘Oh, my God, that was the most awkward f***ing lunch I’ve ever had,’ as Jessel asks, ‘Yeah, but why?’
‘I just felt like the reasons why you wanted to talk to me were– it could have been a phone call,’ Sai says, as Jessel adds, ‘I know, but sometimes you just wanna have a lunch.’
Sai said Jessel was trying to, ‘compare our struggles,’ as Jessel clarified, ‘Yeah, ’cause I just wanted to make sure you understood that, adding, ‘Because we had that moment on the boat where you seemed upset, Sai.’
They show a flashback shot on the boat where Sai yells, ‘We wanna know about you! It’s that simple! It’s that simple!’
Jessel asks, ‘Why are you f***ing yelling?’ as Sai responds, ‘Because I can’t get the point across the same sh–! I was upset because you’re not understanding what we’re saying to you. It’s like there’s no accountability for anything, and you’re talking in circles. It’s like nothing is making sense.’
Sai adds at Swingers, ‘Then I’m sitting at the lunch, and you bring up my mom. I’ll be honest with you, I don’t wanna talk about my mom in that aspect. Like, I was actually offended, to be honest.’
Jessel responds, ‘And I was just like– – I was talking about my uncle, and I thought that my experience with that would relate to yours.
They get into it again but they’re interrupted by Ubah arriving, as Ubah says in confession, ‘Maybe Jessel didn’t tell me everything. Maybe she had a reason to, like, worry. I don’t know, but it’s always nice when the spotlight of sh—iness and dysfunction is not there for you.’
Awkward: Sai comes back and overhears Jessel and Erin talking and admits, ‘ Oh, my God, that was the most awkward f***ing lunch I’ve ever had,’ as Jessel asks, ‘Yeah, but why?’
Jessel admits she wouldn’t have brought it up if she knew it would have offended her but Sai says she has never opened up about her mom before.
Sai adds that Jessel, ‘talks in circles’ and Jessel says, ‘I’m a f***ing publicist, like that’s what we do.’
‘I just want you to be real. I want you to be honest,’ Sai adds, with Jessel says, ‘I am being real. I am being honest. I’ve never lied. I’ve literally never lied to you guys.’
Sai responds, ‘You lie all the time. You just told me that Pavit was going to Vietnam next week,’ as they show a flashback of Jessel telling them that.
A frustrated Sai adds, ‘You know, at the end of the day, Jessel, I don’t care. I don’t care.’
Jessel adds, ‘And I don’t care either. I seriously am, like, so over this mean-girl s**t, and it is mean-girl s**t,’ while calling Erin Sai’s, ‘f***ing pet parrot.’
They keep arguing before Sai just gets up and leaves the group and goes over to the husbands playing golf, bringing up the Vietnam trip to Pavit again.
‘I’m actually wondering why Sai keeps bringing up this trip to Vietnam. I think she thinks that there’s something else going on, so maybe she’s trying to catch me in a lie. I don’t know. There’s no lie, though. I’m going to eat a Banh MI. Be concerned about your own relationships. Let me and Jess be,’ Pavit says in confession.
Wouldn’t have: Jessel admits she wouldn’t have brought it up if she knew it would have offended her but Sai says she has never opened up about her mom before
Sai comes back and says, ‘So I’m just being honest. I say the s**t that everybody is thinking that they wanna say, but they don’t because they’re being cordial. I’m just being f***ing honest. One, I didn’t wanna be at the lunch. Two, you were late. It really pissed me off,’ Sai says, as Jessel says she’s sorry.
‘Three, you lie to me about the f***ing Vietnam s**t, and then you tell me you’re not a liar. You told me he was leaving next week, and that was the whole point of the staycation. – The reason why he rushed was the staycation,’ Sai says.
They all get back together and Umah asks what made the husbands choose, ‘these b***hes’ as their wives.
Sai’s husband David says, ‘The honest answer is, I have never met a woman in my life who is more honest than my wife. And on top of that, we laugh hysterically all the time, so humor and honesty are very important.’
Erin’s husband Abraham says, ‘ The biggest thing was somebody who’s gonna keep me honest, who I could make happy by just having, like, not a boring f***ing life. Somebody gonna have an exciting life with. Love to travel, loves to try new things… Love music, loves sex… Love food, put up with my sh–. I can put up with her sh– for the most part. I could marry this girl.’
Pavit says, ‘Life is an adventure, and you don’t wanna live a boring life, and I just want to travel, eat, have fun, and do whatever, and she’s the perfect partner for that, so it’s being able to do what you love with someone else and they put up with your s**t.’
Erin adds she’s a, ‘perfect partner ’cause she lets you go on the trips…’ as Jessel says, ‘I’m so chill, dude. I don’t give a s**t what he does. He can do whatever he wants.’
Both Sai and Erin are curious as Erin says in confession she has, ‘theories’ about what is really going on in Jessel and Pavit’s marriage.
Husband: Sai’s husband David says, ‘The honest answer is, I have never met a woman in my life who is more honest than my wife. And on top of that, we laugh hysterically all the time, so humor and honesty are very important’
Umah shows Sai something on her phone, adding in confession, ‘Sai can keep a secret.’
The next day, Jessel invites Brynn and Jenna over as Jessel explains what happened last night, as Jenna explains where Sai may be coming from.
‘ Just from the outside looking in, like, losing your mom the way, losing her mom the way she did and what she went through… is, I think, for her– is probably very different than an uncle, and I say that with respect,’ Jenna says.
Pavit suggests that Sai might be bipolar, which all of the women are fairly shocked by, asking him to retract that statement, which he does.
Brynn explains that Erin told her that at the dinner, ‘What Pavit said was like, “I like Jessel because she lets me do what I want.”
‘Um, that’s exactly not what he said,’ Jessel says as Brynn added that Erin thought it was weird Pavit wasn’t wearing his wedding ring.
Jessel says, ‘Oh, and she said that you don’t wear your wedding ring, but he’s actually never worn his wedding ring. He lost it the second week that we got married, and we just never replaced it.’
Jessel insists she wants to move on but she has to wipe tears away while talking about it so she’s still very affected by
‘I have a family, I’m successful, I have a career. I don’t need this mean-girl bullying s**t. Like, now it’s turned, like, a leaf, I think. You know what I mean? It’s not being opinionated anymore. Like, this is just, like, targeting,’ Jessel says as the episode comes to an end.
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