This Week On ‘Selling Sunset’: Irreconcilable Differences

By Emma Chance | Celebrity | March 29, 2024 |

Am I surprised that a show about people selling multi-million dollar homes on the precarious cliffs of coastal California has more interpersonal than real estate drama? Of course not. I mean, we are in a down market, after all. Or so I’ve heard.

Let’s break it down:

Last week I caught you up on what was going on with Christine Quinn, OG Villainess of Selling Sunset, and her marriage. She called the cops on her husband, Christian Richard, amid a domestic dispute in which her two-year-old son was allegedly injured. Ricard was arrested and released on bond, then returned to their shared home, was arrested again, released on bond again, and then Quinn and her son moved to a safe house.

Richard then filed a restraining order against his wife, ordering her to stay at least 100 yards away from their marital home. He also requested that she not be allowed to travel outside of Los Angeles with their son without his permission and claims that he is worried she will abduct the child and take him to her family home in Texas, as he alleges Quinn has a “history of threatening to take away or hide” their son from him. He denies his wife’s allegations of domestic abuse but elaborates in the filing on what led to the fight that got him arrested. His claims mostly amount to Quinn not taking proper care of her two untrained dogs, who have apparently caused extensive damage to their home.

They were fighting about the dogs on that fateful day when he says they urinated on his “very valuable, irreplicable and sentimental items.” He claims he found Quinn on the bed, having attempted to clean up the mess “with cleaning items, soda cans, and food waste haphazardly strewn around the room, cleaning fluid spilled on the floor and seeping into the hardwood, towels and rags strewn about the floor and a mostly empty trash bag filled only with some soiled rags and paper towels in it, on the ground.” He says an argument ensued and he “grabbed the trash bag from the floor and threw it to the side of the room, against the wall,” but there was “no glass in the bag, as there was no broken glass in the room or anywhere in the house,” so therefore, he claims, he couldn’t have hit his son with a glass bottle, accidentally or otherwise.

Quinn’s story, as you can imagine, is very different. In a restraining order filed by her against him, Quinn claims that she and her husband were having an argument about family expenses when he “flew into a fit of rage” because she expressed dissatisfaction at “his lack of financial contribution” and what she “perceived as a lack of effort he made to be a true partner.” She claims he started throwing things at her and that he “pulled out his penis and started urinating on the floor and threw dog feces at her.” She says the marriage had been failing for some time already, but this incident convinced her to leave him for good, so she’d started to pack her things when he bombarded her, at which point she claims he threw the bag of recyclables that hit their son, prompting her to call 911. In addition to the restraining order, Quinn is requesting sole physical and legal custody of their son, and expresses fear that Richard will abduct their son and take him to France, where he is a citizen and has family property.

So, there’s that. But Quinn isn’t the only SS star to be experiencing marital stress. Her co-star and buddy Chelsea Lazkani filed for divorce from husand Jeffrey Lazkani earlier this week after 7 years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences and requesting spousal support and attorney’s fees.

And then, over on the beach, Tyler Stanaland, former star of Selling Sunset’s sister show, Selling The OC (doesn’t quite roll off the tongue the same way, does it?) is responding to ex-wife Brittany Snow’s comments about the dissolution of their marriage from a recent interview on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast.

Here’s the short version: Stanaland was married to Snow when he appeared on the first season of SOC, but from minute one his storyline was about his questionably flirtatious and professionally inappropriate behavior with his costars Alex Hall and Kayla Cardona, eventually amounting in cheating allegations. Snow and Stanaland then announced their divorce in September 2022, and then Stanaland and Hall were all will they won’t they on season 2 of SOC, and then he disappeared and Hall claimed he’d blocked her on Instagram at the reunion.

Snow was decidedly absent and silent during this whole thing until now.

“They took up a lot of energy and emotion and time and real estate in my head. I don’t want to give them any more time and energy, because then they would win and they would get what they wanted, which was getting my time and energy and attention,” she told “Call Her Daddy” host Alex Cooper.

“I will say, what people think happened, happened…What it’s alluded to in the press is true,” she said, meaning cheating. “They messed up. But I tried very hard to see it all from every side and release that anger, because it doesn’t serve me.”