The Other Way; Season 5 Tell All Part 2

Continuing from last week were Kirsten and Julio, who were going deep into the intricacies of their breakup as if anyone was interested. The man formerly known as Jewel-Eyo, accused Kirsten of flirting with a “friend” who she referred to as “Papi”. Julio recorded a conversation he had with Kirtsen regarding the alleged “Papi”, playing it for the rest of the cast on stage to prove Kirsten wasn’t as innocent as she appeared to be, thus the reason for his cold attitude when breaking up with her via Facetime. Ultimately all it proved was that Jewel-eyo was a jerk who recorded conversations with his girlfriend to be used against her in the future. Kirsten maintained that this mystery man was only a friend, and cited the real reason for the breakup was that Jewel-eyo had met another girl while he was DJing at the taco shack, whom he was still currently in a relationship with. Julio tried to avoid the topic of his newest love interest, as it did seem to swing the court of public opinion back in Kirsten’s favor, but he eventually admitted he was still with the same woman he had met during their relationship. Whatever the reason for the break up was, the bottom line is they were off of the 21 episode season around episode 5, and we have spent way too much time on them.

During the lunch break backstage, the cast all weighed in on the Julio scenario, especially Tania, who had to wear some kind of smock so she didn’t spill her lunch on her outift like a toddler. 

Back on set, things moved over to Karmando and their surrogacy journey. The guys talked about their adjustments to living in Mexico City, with Armando still acting like a nervous Nelly because of some little pesky kidnapping/murders- always such a worrier! Kenny then revealed that their original egg donor they had selected ended up “ghosting” them, and they had to restart the process all over (Cue part 1 out of 4 times he cried during this episode). Luckily they had a backup plan, and now there are 7 little Kenbryos floating around a petri dish, ready to be implanted in their surrogate as we speak. Armando felt they should start by implanting dos at a time, but Kenny only wanted one (And that was after I translated that “dos” meant “two”). Having had triplets in the past, he worried that both Kenbryos would take, and that might be a bit much at 60 years old. Apparently Tim and Kenny are amigos, and Tim felt it necessary to advise Kenny not to rush into anything, feeling like he was having this baby to try and make Armando happy. Kenny felt he was reproducing for the right reasons, as Shaun moved on to play the strip club scene from their season. During this portion of the Tell All we learned that Armando likes a little role playing in the bedroom, and has a bit of a jealous streak over Kenny and Tim’s friendship. Just the mere mention of male strippers made Sarper’s ears perk up, as he gave an impromptu striptease lesson to the entire cast. Everyone awkwardly tried to follow along like they were doing the “Macarena”, as they quickly went to a very necessary break. 

Backstage, Tania felt the need to ask the cast about their sex lives, surveying the group as to who had been part of a menage a trois (That’s “threesome”, Kenny, and you said “Si”). Turns out Tim and Daniele had also gotten a little “Three’s Company” action, while Undrrrrrrei tried to pretend he had too, just to make it seem like he was part of the group.

Back on set, the attention moved to Daniele and Yohan, who apparently had just spent time together 2 weeks ago, despite their tumultuous break up. Daniele told the group that she had gone for dinner with the Family Yohan in an effort to maintain a friendship with them, and make sure Yohan was okay. Everyone else seemed shocked, given the circumstances of his deceit, as they rewatched scenes from their season. 
Despite Yohan’s claim that Daniele had initially offered to make him a “kept” man and pay for everything, she explained that something must have gotten lost in translation (Maybe they hired Kenny to translate….. I could’ve told you that was a bad move). Since Daniele wasn’t willing to foot the bill for his big feet, Yohan had found many other random women who were on board. One of these women in particular contacted Daniele, sending her photos that the big guy had sent her of his third leg that he had taken while wearing his Santa suit, having just handed out presents to needy kids. Daniele claimed to have found nearly 50 women that were talking to or dating the big guy, some of which thought they were involved in a serious relationship. She even suspected he had brought these random women back to their joint apartment while she was away, though he loosely tried to deny it. Yohan mostly sat dead-eyed, as per the usual, denying any affairs and maintaining that Daniele was just trying to play the victim.

Next in the hot seat were Kimbally and TJ. Kim sat smugly watching as they replayed her season, including all of the fighting and screeching. She maintained that she was respectful to the Family TJ throughout her time in India, and any fighting was done to merely set some boundaries, especially with Brother Yash. Ultimately, Yash agreed to keep working on the relationship with The Kimbally, and even admitted she was making an effort to come downstairs at least 3x’s per week when Mother TJ rings the cow dung dinner bell. 

Then there were Holly and Wayne the Drain, who were putting the “Strange” into Estranged. Holly moved home to the U.S. to take care of her mother while she was sick and to pay off some credit card debt she had racked up while in South Africa, as she had to help Wayne pay for business supplies (Plungers are expensive these days). She claimed that she had barely spoken to Wayne in the last two weeks, and had no intentions of necessarily going back to shed her load any time soon. Wayne felt like Holly had abandoned their marriage, and refused to come to the U.S. to see if they could make things work. Kenny chimed in to point out that Wayne was not exactly the most supportive towards Holly while she was in South Africa, which was news to her. Shekinah, the femme-bot, weighed in from the male perspective, feeling like Holly is a bit too much to handle. Wayne looked more defeated than usual, and seemed unsure if the couple would last (Or maybe it’s just his face that looks like that all of the time). As if on cue, a teary-eyed Holly got out of her chair and ran offstage (At least it looked like her shoes stayed on). Hopefully someone from the production crew found her and she’s not wandering the streets of Manhattan with the other crazies. 

Looks like part 3 of the Tell All will dive deeper into more of the dysfunction and betrayal of the season’s cast of characters, and hopefully we’ll get to see an encore of Mary and Brandan’s (infest)ivites!! (Seriously one of the craziest things to happen on this show ever).