Behind-the-scenes footage from The Real Housewives of Sydney – a series so extremely nasty, even for a Real Housewives franchise, that US networks refused to air it – has leaked, showing housewife Victoria Rees absolutely losing her shit and attacking a cameraman with a homophobic slur in Singapore.
In episode eight, which aired in April of last year, six of the seven stars sat down for dinner in Singapore, before Rees and Athena X Levendi had an explosive argument, which ended with Rees throwing a napkin into Levendi’s face, and both women throwing water at each other across the table.
The show cut the scene at Rees’ storm-off. Well, Rees’ outburst apparently only escalated from there, the leaked footage showing Rees having a total meltdown as she tries to leave the venue to go home, swatting cameras away and pushing a member of the crew. The video ends with Rees aiming a homophobic slur at him, and saying “They all fucking hate you“, as she leaves the venue.
The clip was picked up and shared on Instagram by Kiis 1065‘s Kyle & Jackie O on Friday.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BkllTcFA2Wo/?hl=en&taken-by=kyleandjackieo
Two people who are definitely pretty pleased that this clip got out are fellow cast members Lisa Oldfield and Levendi herself.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BklzoDRAfVm/?hl=en&taken-by=lisalocks16
https://www.instagram.com/p/BkmJYEXHMUL/?hl=en&taken-by=athenaxlevendi
As of time of writing, Victoria Rees had not publicly commented on the footage.
Neither Foxtel nor production company Matchbox Pictures have given any word about a second season of RHoS, although it’s seemed pretty unlikely since Foxtel’s executive director of TV, Brian Walsh commented in May last year:
A lot of the women in this show were nasty for nasty’s sake and have no redeeming features.
I’ve raised my concerns with the production team [Matchbox Pictures] from this season. I felt the bad language and behaviour throughout the series did go too far.
Season four of The Real Housewives of Melbourne finished up in February this year.