Vicki vs. Dorinda! Brandi vs. Tamra! ‘Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip’ Season 2 Cast Shares What to Expect

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Vicki vs. Dorinda! Brandi vs. Tamra! 'Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip' Season 2 Cast Shares What to Expect

Andy Cohen referred to the season 2 cast of Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip as his “twisted fantasy” — and according to Brandi Glanville, Tamra Judge, Phaedra Parks, Dorinda Medley and Jill Zarin, the group, which also includes Vicki Gunvalson, Taylor Armstrong and Eva Marcille, lived up to the challenge. “I felt like [Dorinda and Vicki] were both, like, peacocking a lot. It was like, ‘Who's the OG?’ And obviously, it's Vicki. But Dorinda felt like it was her home, so she was in charge,” Brandi exclusively says in the new issue of Us Weekly. “It was almost a queen bee off. I'm like, 'I do not need to be the queen bee, you guys can fight over that all you want.' I feel like it was more of, like, who's more popular? It was really silly. Like, this is not a popularity contest. We're not in high school.” For the former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, however, Tamra was the one she was most nervous to film with. “Originally, I was super excited just because I haven't really traveled, you know, during COVID. And I was like, 'Oh, my gosh, I get to live my life again.' It's like, we're coming out of COVID and I get to go somewhere. And then I heard Tamra was doing it,” Brandi told Us. “We had, like, a social media drama, not even a year — like, six months before so it just kind of changed for me and I was like, 'Oh, I don't want to go and fight. I just want to go have fun and be on vacation.’” Unfortunately for the Celebrity Big Brother alum, it wasn’t long before she and the Real Housewives of Orange County alum were fighting it out. [jwplayer Q5BVKx74-zhNYySv2] “We did not hit it off from the very beginning,” Tamra told Us. “We had some back history, social media stuff that her and I got into and it was a lot. And then when we met, the first day, I think she said to me, 'I kind of like you.' I'm like, 'Of course what's not like?' Then, we kind of went from there, but I think there was a lot of drinking and F-bombs thrown for the first couple days." Meanwhile, Phaedra got along great with the former diamond holder. “Surprisingly, I bonded probably the most with Dorinda and Brandi Glanville. I mean, you know, people warned me about Brandi — 'She's crazy, watch out, you know, she's the devil.' But, man, after I really got to know her, I adore her,” the former Real Housewives of Atlanta star told Us. “Her and Dorinda are our, hands down, two that I just did not realize that I would just fall in love with. So different, yet so similar.” According to all the ladies, Dorinda wasn’t just in the hot seat with Vicki — mostly due to the fact that the show was filmed at her beloved Blue Stone Manor in the Berkshires. “When it's your house, and you're the host, there's certain expectations of the host and certain expectations of being a guest in someone's house,” Jill told Us. “It definitely caused conversations that if we had all been in a hotel or, like, in Turks and Caicos those issues would have come up.” Season 2 of The Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip premieres on Peacock on Thursday, June 23. Scroll through for more from the cast:

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Vicki vs. Dorinda! Brandi vs. Tamra! 'Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip' Season 2 Cast Shares What to Expect

Andy Cohen referred to the season 2 cast of Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip as his “twisted fantasy” — and according to Brandi Glanville, Tamra Judge, Phaedra Parks, Dorinda Medley and Jill Zarin, the group, which also includes Vicki Gunvalson, Taylor Armstrong and Eva Marcille, lived up to the challenge. “I felt like [Dorinda and Vicki] were both, like, peacocking a lot. It was like, ‘Who's the OG?’ And obviously, it's Vicki. But Dorinda felt like it was her home, so she was in charge,” Brandi exclusively says in the new issue of Us Weekly. “It was almost a queen bee off. I'm like, 'I do not need to be the queen bee, you guys can fight over that all you want.' I feel like it was more of, like, who's more popular? It was really silly. Like, this is not a popularity contest. We're not in high school.” For the former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, however, Tamra was the one she was most nervous to film with. “Originally, I was super excited just because I haven't really traveled, you know, during COVID. And I was like, 'Oh, my gosh, I get to live my life again.' It's like, we're coming out of COVID and I get to go somewhere. And then I heard Tamra was doing it,” Brandi told Us. “We had, like, a social media drama, not even a year — like, six months before so it just kind of changed for me and I was like, 'Oh, I don't want to go and fight. I just want to go have fun and be on vacation.’” Unfortunately for the Celebrity Big Brother alum, it wasn’t long before she and the Real Housewives of Orange County alum were fighting it out. [jwplayer Q5BVKx74-zhNYySv2] “We did not hit it off from the very beginning,” Tamra told Us. “We had some back history, social media stuff that her and I got into and it was a lot. And then when we met, the first day, I think she said to me, 'I kind of like you.' I'm like, 'Of course what's not like?' Then, we kind of went from there, but I think there was a lot of drinking and F-bombs thrown for the first couple days." Meanwhile, Phaedra got along great with the former diamond holder. “Surprisingly, I bonded probably the most with Dorinda and Brandi Glanville. I mean, you know, people warned me about Brandi — 'She's crazy, watch out, you know, she's the devil.' But, man, after I really got to know her, I adore her,” the former Real Housewives of Atlanta star told Us. “Her and Dorinda are our, hands down, two that I just did not realize that I would just fall in love with. So different, yet so similar.” According to all the ladies, Dorinda wasn’t just in the hot seat with Vicki — mostly due to the fact that the show was filmed at her beloved Blue Stone Manor in the Berkshires. “When it's your house, and you're the host, there's certain expectations of the host and certain expectations of being a guest in someone's house,” Jill told Us. “It definitely caused conversations that if we had all been in a hotel or, like, in Turks and Caicos those issues would have come up.” Season 2 of The Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip premieres on Peacock on Thursday, June 23. Scroll through for more from the cast:

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Taylor Armstrong

When Brandi joined the cast of RHOBH in season 2, she shook things up — and didn’t get along with Taylor. “I hadn't seen her in God, how many years?” Brandi told Us when asked about their reunion. “I kind of forgot she existed. I'm kidding! … I felt like she had more issues with me than I have with her because, like, we didn't spend that much time together. She had more issues with me than I thought. Like, I think we're fine. I don't know. I don't know her that well. But yeah, she had some issues that she had to get off her chest.”

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Brandi Glanville

“It's a rough start, I'm not gonna lie,” Brandi told Us of filming. “We don't all get along in the beginning. And it takes a whole time until we finally come to a good place. So there's a lot of drama. I can say that.”

The Drinking and Tweeting author added that she’s worried to watch the show because she doesn’t remember everything she said. “I was on vacation in my head because that's what it was to me. There were some drunken moments that I definitely don't recall what happened. And I'm like, 'Huh, wonder how that's gonna play out,’” she admitted. “I was, like, blacked out. So I'm a little nervous about that.”

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Vicki Gunvalson

Tamra told Us that “some of the girls would agree” that she’s “a little bit different” when she’s not around the OG of the OC. “I think we'll see how that plays out,” she said.

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Tamra Judge

The CUT Fitness founder admitted that she’s a “little fearful” to relive the BFFs' candid moments when they didn’t realize a camera was on them. “There were some nights that Vicki and I would get up at 3 in the morning and go in the kitchen. You know, we're half-drunk and we're eating cold pizza,” Tamra explained. “And we're talking, not thinking and not knowing until I look up and I'm like, 'Oh, my God, Vicki there is a camera on the wall and it is following us. I'm like, 'Did we say anything bad? I don't know if we said anything bad.'"

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Eva Marcille

While Phaedra and Eva weren’t on Atlanta Housewives at the same time, they go way back. “Eva and I've known each other, probably, well over two decades. Her family and my family are very close,” the lawyer told Us. “So we've known each other way pre-Housewives, pre-America's Top Model. Her brother worked in my law office for almost 10 years. So yeah, our families are very close. My brother went to school with Eva so we've known each other for a long time. So it was super exciting to be with Eva in this capacity because I don't know her as a star and television star. I know her really as a friend and almost a pseudo-family member.”

Phaedra added that filming the show “strengthened” their relationship. “I mean, me and Eva are both Scorpios and we understand each other, we have such a great respect for each other and we've been through a lot of things outside of television together as friends and family,” she told Us. “And so we enjoy the experience. When Andy asked me who I would ultimately choose from Atlanta, I said Eva. It was a great experience. I love Eva.”

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Dorinda Medley

“Fundamentally, I just have a different outlook on certain topics,” Dorinda told Us of her drama with Vicki. “And she's very vocal and I'm very vocal. She's a strong woman. I'm a strong woman. After these long days and a couple of martinis, our opinions came out strongly. We worked through it. The best part of this whole thing was that we were able — after reaching the comfort level, and sort of got the group thing [down] — we were able to work through these things and you're gonna see that. What's really beautiful about this filming — it reminded me of the old school kind of filming where you did your thing, you had your moments, but we really worked through it as a team.”

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Phaedra Parks

The former peach holder told Us that things get emotional during the trip as the group discusses their departures from their respective franchise.

“It was a moment where I had devotion with the ladies. And of course, the devotion was followed by wine tasting, so we prayed before I made the water into wine,” she told Us. “But during that devotion, I became very emotional because I opened one of my prayer books — my absolute favorite prayer, meditation book — and the reading was just so poignant to what we have all went through as ex-wives and Housewives that it really brought tears to my eyes because it really touched me. It not only touched me but it touched, you know, a lot of people in the room because we were having a discussion about why people left the show. And you know, sometimes people get so caught up on the why versus why not. What did this teach us and where are we now and aren't we all better for you?”

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Jill Zarin

Dorinda teased a new dynamic with her and Jill as they’ve never officially been on RHONY at the same time. “You don't see or know a full person until you live with them. We have moments, but we come out of it stronger,” she told Us. “It was interesting to see Jill because I never felt filmed with her on Housewives.”