{"id":477361,"date":"2026-02-19T07:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/477361\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T07:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:01:10","slug":"lisa-rinna-on-colton-underwood-after-the-traitors-reunion-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/477361\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Rinna on Colton Underwood After ‘The Traitors’ Reunion Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFresh from her run on \u201cThe Traitors<\/a>,\u201d Lisa Rinna<\/a> held court at a backyard luncheon at her Beverly Hills home on Tuesday to celebrate the release of her latest memoir, \u201cYou Better Believe I\u2019m Going to Talk About It.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGuests included friends, such as fellow \u201cHousewives\u201d Dorit Kemsley, Teddi Mellencamp and Erika Jayne; her co-stars on \u201cThe Traitors,\u201d Mon\u00e9t X Change and Maura Higgins, Carmen Electra and comedian Atsuko Okatsuk. Her family, husband Harry Hamlin and daughter Delilah Belle, were also by Rinna\u2019s side.<\/p>\n

\n\tRinna, who hosted the lunch with Instyle editor-in-chief Sally Holmes, lived up to her fashionista reputation in a Richard Quinn dress and latex top by Busted.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI feel it\u2019s part of my job to show women that you can be so much more than an expiration date that they\u2019ve given us as women,\u201d Rinna, 62, told me. \u201cIt really is a mindset. If you don\u2019t feel like you have to be older person, then don\u2019t. Have fun!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe soiree took place just days after Rinna filmed \u201cThe Traitors\u201d reunion, where she reportedly had a dust up with her show nemesis Colton Underwood<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s silly,\u201d Rinna said. \u201cIt\u2019s a game. I never meant any harm\u2026Hopefully, we can all have a kumbaya moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile a Page Six<\/a> report alleges Underwood stormed out of the reunion taping because of Rinna, she offered her account of what happened. \u201cI didn\u2019t see it myself,\u201d she said. \u201cI saw him leave, but I saw other people leave too, to go to the bathroom and such, but it took a long time for people to come back. That I can share with you. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBut let\u2019s put it on the record, because they probably won\u2019t air it, right?\u201d Rinna continued. \u201cI said, \u2018Colton, I have a question for you: What did you mean when you said, \u201cI\u2019m going to take her hostage?\u201d\u2019 That\u2019s all I said. And that spun him out.\u201d (A source who was at the taping of the reunion tells me that Underwood \u201cdid not storm out or spin out at any point.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\n\tUnderwood came under fire when he said during a confessional on the show that he wanted to take a Traitor \u201chostage.\u201d When Rinna wouldn\u2019t accept his offer to protect each other for the rest of the season, he schemed to get her banished.<\/p>\n

\n\tRinna, in turn, took to social media and called Underwood a \u201cstalker,\u201d a reference to allegations made against him by his ex-girlfriend Cassie Randolph after they met on \u201cThe Bachelor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSadly, some fans took things too far, with Underwood telling Variety\u2019s Emily Longeretta that he received death threats<\/a> during his time on \u201cThe Traitors.\u201d Rinna immediately denounced the toxicity.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s just insane, and that is unnecessary,\u201d she told me. \u201cI do think that\u2019s ridiculous. I\u2019m fine with Colton. I think Colton is also fine with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, Rinna pointed out, \u201cHe did unfollow me on Instagram. So that is the drama. I\u2019m like, \u2018Really? somebody unfollowed me like a boyfriend, a girlfriend?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen asked for a comment, a representative for Underwood said, \u201cLisa has always been privately kind to Colton, which makes some of her public behavior all the more confusing \u2014 it doesn\u2019t match their private communications, and it seems like she\u2019s trying to manufacture conflict that doesn\u2019t exist. Colton feels incredibly grateful for the overwhelming support he\u2019s received from the cast.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tExpect more tea to be spilled when Rinna is a guest on \u201cWatch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen\u201d for the first time in four years on Feb. 25. She and Cohen have feuded over the Bravo host sharing their private text messages in his book 2023 book, \u201cThe Daddy Diaries: The Year I Grew Up.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tShe and Cohen did have a chance to catch up when he hosted the reunion of \u201cThe Traitors.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI sat next to him at the reunion, so we chatted,\u201d Rinna said. \u201cHe knows I threw his book in the fireplace and all of that. It\u2019s all out there. It\u2019s all cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

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