The much-anticipated DadTok and Vanderpump Villa crossover took a turn when Marciano Brunette accused Jordan Ngatikaura of cheating with Jessi Draper when she was still married to her first husband.
During the third season of the hit Hulu series, which started streaming on Thursday, April 16, Marciano, 32, apologized to Jordan, 31, for having an emotional affair with Jessi, 33. Jordan, however, accused Marciano of not being sincere, and the Vanderpump Villa star hinted in a confessional that he was “biting his tongue” on a big secret.
Marciano elaborated the next morning to Lisa Vanderpump, claiming, “Jessi cheated on her ex-husband with Jordan.” He went on to share that he knew about the alleged infidelity “for a long time” but chose not to call Jordan out on screen.
“But what am I supposed to say?” he asked Lisa, 65. “I didn’t know we were going to have this conversation and I was going to have to stand on it and stick up for it.”
Jessi and Jordan’s marriage has been a major story line on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives since she was accused of cheating on him after meeting Marciano on season 2 of Vanderpump Villa. (Before finding love with Jordan, Jessi was married to Zach Gish from 2014 to 2019.)
Jessi confirmed she had an emotional affair with Marciano, but Jordan wondered whether his wife and Marciano were hiding something more from him. After filming Vanderpump Villa, Jordan filed for divorce from Jessi in March after five years of marriage.
Once Marciano put Jessi and Jordan’s alleged history on blast, Lisa and later Stassi Schroeder sided with him. Lisa referred to Jordan’s behavior as an “absolute example of f***ing hypocrisy” due to Jordan’s own alleged affair with Jessi.
Stassi, 37, was also not thrilled about Jordan’s “emotional manipulation.”
“Jordan is out here acting like the victim,” she said. “He is crying and putting it on and we were all just fooled.”
Before confronting Jordan, Stassi tried to have another conversation with him but was put off by how the DadTok member openly brought up Jessi’s “insecurities” on screen.
“When my wife is naked at the house and I am telling her how beautiful and sexy she is, it makes her uncomfortable. She has all these complaints about the way she looks and her body,” he said, to which Stassi replied in a confessional, “Someone who says they want to protect their wife doesn’t go around and talk about her insecurities.”
Stassi made it clear that she found Jordan to be “f***ing hypocritical” for “coming at” Marciano when “that is how you met Jessi.” She cornered Jordan in front of his Secret Lives of Mormon Wives costars and asked whether he was “lying” to her.
“Jessi was married when you met her. Are you saying that isn’t the truth?” she asked before Jordan fired back, “When I met her, not when we got together. I am telling you the truth. That’s so stupid. The stupidest s*** I have ever heard.”
Stassi stood by her assessment of Jordan’s behavior, telling producers, “There is just something about Jordan where he was on a mission to get me on his team, and the second he saw I wasn’t fully there, I felt a shift. He got weird. I don’t f*** with people like that.”
Ultimately, Stassi asked Zac Affleck and the other guys from DadTok why they didn’t tell her about Jordan and Jessi’s alleged history. Zac, who looked surprised when Stassi brought up the supposed affair while filming, defended his silence.
“It is super sensitive and not our story to tell,” he concluded.
Vanderpump Villa is now streaming on Hulu.
