The name on everyone’s lips is Reality Von Tease. Ever since The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Season 4 finale, Bravo fans have been wondering whether Reality Von Tease’s RHOSLC Instagram account is still active and if Monica’s alleged posts about her cast members are still live. Keep reading for what we know about Reality Von Tease now and the mystery that rocked the Bravo world and Salt Lake City forever.
Monica Garcia is one of seven cast members on Season 4 of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, Bravo’s reality TV series following the personal and professional lives of wealthy women in and around Salt Lake City, Utah. The cast also includes Housewives Heather Gay, Lisa Barlow, Meredith Marks, and Whitney Rose; new Housewife Angie Katsanevas; and Friend Mary Cosby.
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In The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Season 4 finale, Monica, who joined as a cast member in the current season, was revealed to be behind the reality TV Instagram fan account Reality Von Tease, which has dozens of posts slamming former cast member Jen Shah, as well as the rest of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City cast. “Monica is not who she says she is,” Heather told Whitney, Lisa, and Meredith in the finale. “She’s not our friend. She’s someone that has schemed and worked to infiltrate our friend group. And the name that you all know her as, the woman whose birthday was celebrated, who we’ve been trying to champion and support and defend is Reality Von Tease.”
She continued, “The real Monica is someone who really doesn’t want to be our friend but wants to profit from our lives and our pain.”
In a confessional interview, Heather explained that Reality Von Tease was “created over three years ago” with a mission to destroy the cast. “[It] was dedicated to annihilating and exposing Jen Shah, but it quickly expanded to troll all of us: me, Whitney, Meredith, Lisa. These were character assassinations,” Heather said. “We never knew who it was.”
After The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Season 4 finale, viewers accused Monica of deleting posts from Reality Von Tease’s account that appeared in the show. Read on for what we know about the alleged Reality Von Tease deleted RHOSLC posts and what Monica has said since The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Season 4 finale bombshell. Heather found out about Reality Von Tease’s identity through her hairdresser, Tenesha and as Monica’s friend, it’s been strongly implied that Tenesha was involved personally in the account too.
During the season 4 reunion, Monica shouted at Heather and Lisa Barlow: “Heather, shut the f—k up. Your hair girls, [are] Reality Von Tease. It’s six people. It’s six people Lisa, and you don’t know what you’re talking [about].”
What is Reality Von Tease’s Instagram from The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City?
Reality Von Tease’s Instagram handle is @realityvontease2. “Your local RHOSLC hot tea hoe. For entertainment purposes ONLY. ✨👄 🧾 💋 Black Lives Matter. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 #RHOSLC ❄️,” their Instagrambio reads. Their name is also stylized as “Reality Von (Tea)se.” The account is still active as of January 3, 2024.
What are Reality Von Tease’s deleted Instagram posts?
After The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Season 4 finale aired, fans claimed that many posts about cast members Heather Gay, Lisa Barlow, Meredith Marks, and Whitney Rose had been deleted from the account, with only posts about former cast member Jen Shah remaining. “Why did you delete all the posts about the other women ?? You’re also deleting comments that you don’t like,” one user commented. Another user wrote, “lol so even 30 seconds scrolling on this I legit see nothing about the other women.”
During The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Season 4 finale, Bravo shared screenshots of many posts about the cast “Actually, #WhitneyRose is a sw!nger! She uses the bathroom as an opportunity to recruit. #rhoslc,” Reality Von Tease captioned an alleged post. While Monica was accused of deleting many of Reality Von Tease’s posts about her cast mates, many of the Instagrams shared in The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City finale remain including an alleged DM thread between Jen Shah and another account, where she allegedly criticized her cast mates’ weight. “Hey white girls… stop doing white girl shit and STFU and take a seat next to your best friends Karen and Becky in the back row,” the alleged DM read. “They’re fake ass white girls. Lisa is the only other person I can fuck with. The rest think they’re actresses. Bitch…you ain’t a fucking actress. Unless you are auditioning for a manatee. Or Shrek.”
After The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Season 4 finale, Monica confirmed she was one of the people running the Reality Von Tease account with a series of Instagram photos on her own account. The photos showed Monica holding fake newspapers with the headlines: “Reality Von Tease Exposed. Salt Lake City’s Very Own Gossip Girl” and “Monica Garcia is Reality Von Tease!!!! Real-Life Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liar.” The post also included a photo of Monica holding a newspaper on fire with the the sentence written on it. “Warming my hands on the bridges I’ve burned.”
After the finale, model Dita Von Teese also asked her followers to report Reality Von Tease’s Instagram page for using her photo as their profile picture. “Please report this page @realityvontease for using my photo for their profile,” Von Teese, 51, she captioned an Instagram Story post on January 2. 2024. “Apparently it’s being used right now on @bravotv as well.”
Von Teese also shared a screenshot of her responding to a fan asking if she watches The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. “No, I do not watch this show and this account is using my photo. Please report @realityvontease.”
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City airs on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on Bravo and is available to stream on Peacock. Here’s how to watch it for free.
Photo: Courtesy of Andy Cohen Books.
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For more on The Real Housewives, check out the 2021 book, Not All Diamonds and Rose: The Inside Story of The Real Housewives from the People Who Lived It
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