


Now that the Shannon Beador and Tamra Judge drama has been put to rest, Gina Kirschenheiter appears to be offset by Real Housewives of Orange County newbie Jennifer Pedranti, who has been open about cheating on her husband.
Pedranti — a mom-of-five and yoga studio owner — recently went through a divorce with her ex-husband, Will, with whom she still shares a home. She got real about their marital struggles in last week’s episode, titled “Friendship Overboard,” when she told Kirschenheiter and Emily Simpson that she began seeing her current boyfriend, Ryan, while she was still married.
“When I met Ryan, I was just in a marriage that was dying. And just having this excitement about someone that I shouldn’t have,” she said, while Kirschenheiter, who has been open about her ex-husband cheating on her, told cameras, “I don’t want to judge Jenn, but obviously I am not pro-cheating. But at least when you’re on my side, you get to walk around with your head held high.”
The conversation came up several times in tonight’s episode — “We Cut It Close(ed)” — with Kirschenheiter venting to her boyfriend, Travis, about the “complicated” situation.
“Although I give Jenn credit for being open about her past, it just makes me uncomfortable because infidelity is something that I have a very close relationship with,” she says in her confessional.

Later on, Kirschenheiter throws Pedranti under the bus after she posted a video celebrating her yoga studio still being open — which the former interprets as a dig toward Judge’s gym closing down. Eventually, it becomes water under the bridge as Pedranti denies any wrongdoing and apologizes for the poor timing of her post.
At the same group event, her infidelity becomes a hot topic amongst the women yet again. Although she insists that she never slept with Ryan while she was still married to her ex-husband, Judge urges her to “just be honest.”
According to the veteran Housewife, Will had caught Pedranti in a car with Ryan. However, the yoga guru doubles down that there had been “no sex” and that he was simply giving her a gift.
Meanwhile, Kirschenheiter slinked away mid-way through the conversation and joined both Travis and Simpson’s husband, Shane, in a less tea-filled chat.
“I’m not sitting there for ‘Let’s pretend that infidelity is OK,'” she whispers to herself, before telling her boyfriend, “I just can’t be there for that. Like, it bothers me.”
The Real Housewives of Orange County airs on Wednesday nights at 8/7c on Bravo. New episodes stream the next day on Peacock.