RHOSLC Star Says Heather Gay’s Season 5 Finale Game Was a ‘Good One’

Brownwyn Newport said she’s all good with the “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” season 5 finale “game”— and its aftermath.

After reading a brutal text message penned by her co-star Angie Katsanevas in a “Mean Girls”-themed game suggested by Heather Gay, Newport said she stands by her decision to forgive her co-star.

During a January 22 appearance on “Watch What Happens Live,” Newport was asked if she was able to forgive Katsanevas for the cruel words about her marriage. “So I might be the only person in America who thought Heather’s idea was a good one,” Newport replied. “I was kind of like, ‘Yeah, let’s burn this, let’s do this for sure.'”

She added, “I meant it when I told Angie whatever I read I was just gonna move on from.”

“I don’t like it,” she clarified. “I don’t appreciate it, but I’m done with it, I will never say it again.”

WWHL host Andy Cohen said he was “stunned” that Newport accepted the attack so easily.

“Honestly, Todd has seen it, and he was not happy about it,” Newport said of her husband, Todd Bradley. “And I talked Todd off the ledge. So, I’m real Team Angie right now if I’m even defending her to Todd.”

Bradley called out from the audience to clarify that he had not forgiven Katsanevas for her remarks.

Bronwyn Newport ‘Respected’ Heather Gay’s Game

During the season 5 finale episode, titled “Burn Books Revisted,” Gay came up with the idea for the co-stars to read mean things they’ve written about each other so they could let go of their anger. “We all have our own burn books,” Gay told her co-stars. “But our burn books aren’t a curated copy like ‘Mean Girls.’ They’re in our phones, and none of us, none of us, are without fault. We’ve all said horrible, hurtful things about each other when we should have been honoring and celebrating and keeping this space sacred and private.”

The cast mates then went around the table and read things they’d written about one another. When it was Katsanevas’ turn, she pulled up a text she had previously sent to Gay. “Text to Heather. Wrote a little ditty about Bronwyn. It was in a moment of some emotion,” she prefaced things before handing her phone to Newport.

Newport read the message, which said, “Bronwyn seems nice, I like her business plan, marrying a guy who has one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. But I like mine better. I’d rather be self-made. She’s nice but she doesn’t listen because her ears are stitched down to her face so tight she can’t hear anything.”

Katsanevas also made fun of a hotdog costume Newport wore and made a crude remark about how she got to the “top.”

As Newport read the text, Katsanevas apologized. “You don’t need to be sorry. It’s how you feel. I can take the feedback,” Newport said calmly.

Katsanevas apologized again, explaining, “I said it in a moment of emotion. And I think you’re beautiful and I’m sorry.”

On the RHOSLC After Show, Newport said the game actually helped her as a newcomer to the show. “I think it helped me realize what I already knew about everybody sitting at the table,” she said. “I’ve always wanted to be friends with Heather,” she added. “I think there’s a lot of value in who Heather is and how she conducts herself, I think we have a lot in common and could be really good friends.”

Of the game she added, “I respected her coming up with this.”

Heather Gay Said the Game Brought the Best RHOSLC Finale

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Gay pumped up the RHOSLC finale more than a month before it aired on Bravo. In December 2024, she told Us Weekly that the cast’s “colossal” finale dinner in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico ended the season in a way that surpassed season 4’s Bermuda blowout. Season 4 ended with Monica Garcia exposed as the mastermind of the troll Instagram account Reality Von Tease,

“I think it’s gonna rank up there,” Gay said of the season 5 finale that culminated with her game. “I’ve heard from people that had a bird’s-eye view that it’s better than Bermuda and that Salt Lake City really brought it.”