There Will Be No 'Sailing Sunset' Season 8 Reunion Amid Cast Rebellion (EXCLUSIVE)

Spoiler alert: Although this article is a news story, it also contains spoilers for Season 8 of “Sailing Sunset.”

The drama between the “Sailing Sunset” cast is spilling over on social media and in the press, but sadly for viewers, Netflix no filming a reunion for season 8 of the show. “Sailing Sunset” reunions aren't celebrated the way Bravo shows are, but after the Netflix series premiered in 2022 for Season 5, the cast sat down with “Queer Eye” star Tan France for a special that drops two weeks into the season. One thing that audiences have grown to expect. And after a tumultuous eighth season of the popular real estate show, one of the castmates of “Sailing Sunset” a lot To discuss it in front of their fans – but it won't be done. (Representatives for Netflix had no comment.)

Melodrama is manifold. Season 8 of “Sailing Sunset” premiered on Sept. 6, but before that, the show's stars began to tease about what viewers would see in the meantime. Specifically, in the week leading up to the premiere, Chriselle Stouge — the closest “Sailing Sunset” has a point-of-view character, which started the series in 2019 when she joined the Oppenheim Group in Season 1 — took to Instagram to find out what would happen. Turns out to be a lot of posts to take away. She called out fellow castmate Nicole Young, writing, “I will never work on a show with her again. I'd rather sue.” In Same Instagram storyShe tagged Dawn & Dawn Productions, the show's producer, Adam DiVello, adding, “And you hate her for blinding her to the world instead of letting her at least defend herself with the truth.”

At issue: Throughout this season, Young, who joined the cast in Season 6, repeatedly made an unsubstantiated claim that Emma Hernan, one of Stowes' closest friends on the show, was having an affair with a married man. Young brings this up on camera three times, though most of his castmates show little interest in engaging about it. The first mention is during a trip to the desert, when everyone pretends not to know what Yang is talking about until he stops. The second example is more elaborate. In the final episode, Young says in a confessional interview, after bringing it up again in front of fellow realtor Mary Bonnet and newcomer Alana Whittaker, “I heard from a reliable source that Emma is probably having an affair with a married man.” Then she adds elliptically: “Something. There are people you shouldn't associate with. Especially if some people have certain jewelry on certain parts of their fingers, I don't know.” In the finale, Yang brought up the topic one more time — while speaking with castmate Bray Tyce, he turned the conversation to Hernan, saying, “I'd be careful with his position, because She's been involved with people she shouldn't have been.” Tyce replies, “Married people?” Young says: “I wouldn't trust Emma with my husband,” and then tells TC that her source was confronting Hernan. (This In conversation, Young finally found a willing audience, with Tyce telling him, “I wish I'd known that earlier—it would have been valuable information.”)

It's a level of infighting among the cast that won't be resolved by the reunion episode. The other involved Tyce's feud with Chelsea Lazkani.

Tycee and Lajkani hate each other from the start. In Season 6, Lazkani congratulated new cast member Tycee – who has a child with abusive father Nick Cannon – judging her arrangement with Cannon, where she is one of the mothers of his children. On the show, Lajkani called their relationship “rather awkward” and said “the way I live my life is very different from him as a Christian.” Tycee, no shrinking violet, naturally fought against Lazkani's ruling, and though they occasionally called a truce, they didn't quite get it.

Cut to Season 8, where Tyce gets a call from her realtor friend Amanda Lynn, whom she's meeting for lunch. On camera, Lynn shows Tiesi text messages sent by a friend saying they saw Lajkani's husband cheating on her at the W's Residences in Hollywood. Tiesi seems to have a dilemma: should he tell his sworn enemy Lajkani about the deception? Of course he does: the two have a drink, and what appears to be a heartfelt conversation, shed tears and bond. This contact does not last, of course, and by the end, Tiesi and Lin — whose Racist tweets from the past have resurfaced After he puts himself in the public eye — doing the case at the Oppenheim Group's office, he's in full villain mode. In the second-to-last scene of the season, Lynn purposefully sits at Lazkani's desk, as Tyce calls boss Jason Oppenheim to introduce him to Lynn. And in the final moments of Season 8, Lazkani takes off her wedding ring during a confessional, as she walks into a house she's expressed interest in buying.

During Season 8's press cycle, Tyce blew up this entire timeline. A “Entertainment Tonight's” sitdown interview with Brice Sander This week, she said she found out — off camera — about Lajkani's husband's cheating in December of last year, and called Hernan so she could tell Lajkani, which Tyce said Hernan did. From there, according to Tyce, “Chelsea called me directly. We have a full conversation. Very, very clear. He knew every detail exactly and we were in good position. Then he and Lynn shot the lunch scene for the show in March of this year, and Lynn showed him the “receipt” from Lynn's friend about the cheating — for the first time, Tycey said. (March is also when People broke the news Lajkani filed for divorce.) For his part, Lajkani is quite X confirmed this timeline (Though clearly not Tiesi's benevolent intentions), tweeting, “Hearing what's going on during filming, and I ask production to set up a scene with Bray. I did it so he could tell me directly, so it wouldn't be passed on to a trillion people before me. Hope this helps! “Shame Also tweet“It made it clear and put it in writing, if the racist Amanda was going to be on the show as a cast member. I'm out.”

“Sailing Sunset” is about artifice in many ways. Like Divelo's previous shows for MTV, “Laguna Beach” and “The Hills,” it presents Southern California as a fantastical tableau and highlights the most beautiful aspects of Los Angeles to illustrate why “Selling Sunset” realtors want clients to ditch. Millions or even millions of dollars to live here. Its staged aspects – shooting and reshooting scenes – were always obvious, even if never quite this In stark contrast to previous years, Netflix has not shot back two seasons, and has yet to announce series renewal. And the cast coups feel very real, if not quite existential. For now, at least, the future of “Sailing Sunset” has a haze that Divelo can show in a scenic view of downtown Los Angeles.

On the other hand, “Sailing Sunset” is currently No. 2 in Netflix's Top 10 for the US, No. 6 in the Global Top 10 and of the streamer Public InformationSeen all over the world. So let's assume that – as the realtors at “Selling Sunset” know as much as anyone – everything is negotiable.