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This season on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, we’ve seen drama over a burglary, racist comments, miscarriages, an eating disorder, and an alleged drinking problem, and quite frankly, all of those fights have been kind of a snooze. Eighteen episodes into the season, though, the show has finally gotten compelling thanks to an altercation over celebrity-owned tequila brands.
Last week, fans gleefully watched as Kathy Hilton stormed out of an Aspen store because Lisa Rinna pulled a stunt that landed her in the Real Housewives pettiness hall of fame, right up there with Teresa Giudice throwing Melissa Gorga’s sprinkle cookies in the garbage and the Kenya Moore Haircare drumline (whose catchy chant is on a constant loop in my brain).
After weeks of Hilton hocking a tequila brand called Casa Del Sol, in which she and her daughter Nicky and son-in-law James Rothschild all invested, Rinna slithered up to the bar that was inexplicably inside that cowboy hat store that Kyle Richards was way too excited about and loudly ordered a glass of 818 Tequila, a brand by Rinna’s 26-year-old “friend” Kendall Jenner. Hilton lost her mind and viewers everywhere felt drunk on this absolutely shining example of the type of trivial drama that makes Real Housewives the powerhouse series that it is.