Jeff Lewis and Brynn Whitfield Charles Sykes/Bravo (2)
Things are getting heated in the Bravoverse between Brynn Whitfield and Jeff Lewis.
After the Real Housewives of New York City star, 37, called him a “pig” on the Tuesday, December 3, episode of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, Lewis is fighting back.
“I’m not that affected by her calling me a pig. I just find it interesting because I feel like if I were to call someone a pig, there would be major backlash and consequences,” the former Flipping Out star said on his SiriusXM radio show, Jeff Lewis Live, Thursday, December 5. “I also didn’t feel like it was a very intelligent response.”
Lewis was central to one of the early storylines on RHONY season 15 after Whitfield took offense to an interview between Lewis and costar Erin Lichy on his radio show during the break between season 14 and the current season. (During an August 2023 appearance on Jeff Lewis Live, Lewis quizzed Lichy about where Whitfield gets her money and questioned whether she was being “supplemented” by a benefactor.)
On Tuesday’s WWHL, Whitfield told host Andy Cohen that she was ready to set some records straight during the upcoming RHONY season 15 reunion — and took a shot at Lewis. “I’m energized [for the reunion]. I’ve been quiet on purpose,” she said. “A lady doesn’t wrestle with pigs. None of my [costars] … my friends aren’t pigs. Jeff Lewis is a pig.”
Lewis clapped back during Thursday’s episode of his radio show, saying, “I found it interesting when she said, ‘A lady doesn’t wrestle with pigs.’ I don’t find her to be a lady. I don’t even find her to be an adult.”
“I think she acts like an oversexed teenager on that show, and that’s what I have said. She’s desperate for attention — she flirts with other people’s spouses, and partners, and parents,” he continued. “This is all I have said. This is what I have noticed. I don’t like the schtick. It seems to me like she’s very desperate for attention.”
“And, by the way, the audience is turning on her,” he added. “The things that I said are really indefensible — you can’t say that that’s not the truth. This is what we have witnessed [on RHONY]. So her response is I’m a pig. I think Andy was even uncomfortable.”
Whitfield has not publicly addressed Lewis’ comments.
