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Tamra Judge and Teddi Mellencamp lashed out at Bethenny Frankel on a recent episode of their podcast.
After the 55-year-old Real Housewives of New York City alum was called out by Dina Manzo‘s daughter, Lexi Ioannou, 30, for tagging a dupe of shoes she’d gifted her in an effort to make money for herself, rather than give Lexi’s own brand a shoutout, Tamra, 58, and Teddi, 44, slammed her as a “douchelord” for what they deemed a “sh*tty” move.
“Bethenny was kind of a douchelord,” Teddi began on the May 18 episode of Two Ts in a Pod.
“Lexi, Dina’s daughter, does she have a shoe line?” Tamra replied.
“Yeah, she has a shoe line,” Teddi confirmed.
After Tamra explained that Lexi gifted shoes to people with the expectation that they would promote the product and send her business, she wondered, “How hard is it,” in regard to Bethenny.
“She tagged the dupes, and she didn’t say, ‘They’re sold out. Here’s the company.’ She just tagged dupes,” Teddi explained further, as Tamra expressed shock.
“Oh no way … I just feel like it was a sh*tty thing to do. Just shout out,” Tamra pressed, as Teddi suggested, “You can say, ‘Hey, it’s sold out, but this is the brand.’”
In closing, the ladies said that Lexi did herself good by publicly calling Bethenny out.
“Now her post, her link is everywhere,” Tamra mentioned.
“Yeah, now it’s everywhere. Now everybody wants those damn shoes,” Teddi agreed.
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Following the sharing of the post, Dina agreed with the ladies’ sentiments, writing, “She is a douche lord,” and encouraging their followers to visit Lexi’s Nou link.
Also during Tamra and Teddi’s podcast, Teddi mentioned that Lexi had called Bethenny a “weirdo.”
“The W word was used again: Weirdo. When did people start using that word again?” she asked.
As fans may have seen, Lexi clapped back at Bethenny’s snub with a lengthy statement on Instagram.
“Bethenny Frankel is a weirdo,” she began. “I sent her a pair of shoes, from Nou, almost a year ago because I look up to her. Female entrepreneur, Bravo universe like me and she’s been on Shark Tank … She didn’t tag us after wearing the shoes multiple times online which, okay, that happens. But then today she posted a video that’s going viral and a bunch of people are asking where the shoes are [from]. And instead of linking them, she linked a dupe and with an affiliate link.”
“I guess she’s gotta get that bag in some sort of way,” Lexi continued. “So she got the shoes for free from a woman-founded brand, mine, and then she made money sending her followers somewhere else. Anyway, Bethenny, you’re a weirdo. And for all the people asking, her shoes are Nou.”
A short time later, on TikTok, Bethenny lashed out at Lexi by suggesting that “magazines do this all the time” and noting that she had “no obligation to link” Lexi’s product.
She then accused Lexi of “playing the short game,” “whining,” and “being a crybaby.”