The Bahamas might not be paradise for the cast of Southern Charm.
On the Feb. 27 episode of the Bravo show, Jarrett “JT” Thomas arrived in The Bahamas, where the cast had been visiting Shep Rose’s supposed girlfriend Sienna Evans, and immediately got into it with his costars.
Craig Conover and JT sparred over dinner about whether or not the real estate pro called Patricia Altschul a bitch and his comments about Madison LeCroy wanting to hook up with him. Shep, 45, took JT’s side, and the tension upset Venita Aspen.
“It’s hard to watch your best friend get verbally beat up but you feel like there’s nothing you can do or say in this moment,” Venita, 31, said in an on-camera interview.
When the dinner wrapped, Venita and JT spent time alone in his hotel room.
“[I] literally straddle this man and I said, ‘Don’t act like you don’t want this just as bad as I do,’” Venita admitted to the cameras. “For him to come out and just say like, ‘Listen the feelings you have for me are the same I have for you but stronger,’ it was very like, woah. And he was just like, ‘I can’t do that. I’m, you know, I’m supposed to be in this relationship I’m supposed to be dating this girl. Like, I can’t.’”
JT said he made it “pretty clear” to Venita that he didn’t want to go beyond a friendship with her by removing her “not once but twice off me in my bed.” “That’s not easy as a guy to do,” JT told the cameras.
Meanwhile, Craig, Shep and Whitney Sudler-Smith decompressed at the resort casino, where Shep got kicked out because he was “so drunk he couldn’t stand up,” Craig said.
After Shep left the casino, Craig said he was “nowhere to be found.” Shep revealed the next morning that he slept on the beach.
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“I sort of spiraled last night ’cause of the Sienna stuff,” Shep told Craig. “I woke up on a beach chair like, by a pool and was just like, okay, go home. Nothing bad happened.”
Craig told Shep that he and Whitney “were looking for you for like, two hours.” “Whatever this is isn’t healthy,” the Sewing Down South founder said to Shep, adding that Shep shouldn’t want “anything to do with” Sienna.
After Sienna, 26, dodged Shep’s calls and bailed early on dinner earlier in the trip, his friends thought the Average Expectations: Lessons in Lowering the Bar author should end things with the former pageant queen. Craig FaceTimed his then-girlfriend Paige DeSorbo and hoped she could get through to Shep.
“If it’s already a little shaky, it only gets shakier,” Paige, 32, said to Shep.
Shep explained that he laid out his feelings in a lengthy text message to Sienna. “So it’s literally on her,” Paige said. “And if she doesn’t give you the same energy back, then let her go!”
The Summer House star passed along some insight that her mom gave her. “If they liked you, you would know it,” Paige said to Shep. “She doesn’t like you. So you gotta let her go.”
Sienna then bailed on the group’s boat trip to Rose Island — and so did JT.
“I see mission impossible right now with the friend group,” JT said in a confessional interview. “I also see an escalation with Venita. That can’t happen, right? I put the kibosh on that one.”
Shep joined his friends on boat trip, but he felt downtrodden. “Maybe I don’t even deserve anyone, like who am I?” he said to Madison, 34. “Who the f— am I? I’m a f—ing wild son of bitch, sort of disaster zone, and like, how am I a good idea for anybody?
Madison assured him he deserved love. Still, the unraveling of his relationship with Sienna had Shep looking inward and reflecting on his previous behaviors.
“I’m realizing that in the past, I was a wild man from hell and how much stress that put on my relationships,” the reality star said in a confessional. “So, I’m feeling a bit inadequate because a lot of girls are seeking, you know, a stable life and I’m like Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride, so I don’t know.”
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Southern Charm airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.
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