Brandi Glanville Unfiltered

Brandi’s got a surgery date. Dr. Carlo Henrado is going in on Friday to figure out what’s actually going on under her skin — two specific spots, already marked, exploratory. She’s calling it great news, which tells you everything about how the last few months have gone.

Brandi’s face is rattling. That’s not a metaphor. She’s got some kind of fungus situation going on, it’s moving down her body, and she has photos she’s threatening to share with everyone. Recovery continues to be a journey of surprises.

Then it gets worse: somebody leaked her personal information — the full file, medical records included. She and James walk through how she found out and what was in it.

James has an update of his own on where he’s at and what he’s doing about it. Brandi’s in his corner.

And then, because life is a lot: the Halle Berry and Olivier Martinez custody filings and what’s actually in them, Puff Daddy’s reportedly very comfortable accommodations, a Jeff Lewis prank war involving thrown wine and fake crying, the viral Nicole Kidman corset song, some truly savage Joan Rivers stories, and a conversation about how two people can grow apart without either of them being the villain.

Candid, funny, occasionally too honest. As usual.

Brandi's giving the real update — where she actually is with recovery, what the bills look like, and the part nobody asks about: what it feels like to owe that many people and mean it when you say you'll pay every one of them back. She and James get into when she's getting back to work, and what "back to work" even looks like right now.

Speaking of work — Brandi's episode of Special Forces airs tonight on Fox. Watch it, then come back and tell her whether she was right.

From there it's a full grab bag: the Dorit and PK child support math that isn't mathing, celebrity charity theater and the people who got dragged for $5 donations, Carolyn Bessette and that dinner scene, and whether everyone secretly needs a burner account to yell about reality TV in peace. Plus Taylor Frankie Paul's love for toxic relationships,, a girlfriend who made her boyfriend dress up as a pirate. Candid, funny, occasionally too honest. As usual.

Brandi finally has an answer. After three years of being told it was anxiety, stress, or all in her head, an ultrasound showed fluid on her brain — and suddenly every doctor who brushed her off had some explaining to do. She and James get into what those three years actually cost her: the appointments that went nowhere, the $7,000-a-week treatment her insurance barely dents, the creditors calling, and the GoFundMe her friend Gina set up because Brandi was too proud to ask.

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Brandi is flying solo and honestly thriving — James called out last minute claiming his phone got "hacked," and Brandi is not entirely convinced. No cohost means no interruptions, and she's making the most of it, starting with the Kim Zolciak headlines about her 15-year-old son and why everyone needs to wait for actual evidence before piling on a kid.

Brandi and James are back and completely unfiltered, kicking things off with the story Mason brought Brandi — a registered sex offender living just miles from the Kardashians in Hidden Hills. From there they spiral into all of it: whether James would get paid if an AI version of him started running around, Jax Taylor allegedly faking an entire Smart Water campaign, and Kenya Moore reportedly demanding hot tea and honey from a director mid-shoot.

Plus Denise Richards gets real about her past marriage, NeNe Leakes' racism lawsuit and whether she'll ever return to Bravo, Matt Rife being crowned the new Dane Cook, and the celebrity comebacks and trainwrecks that had them both losing it. And yes — they finally address Brandi's now-viral wardrobe moment on the pod.

It's messy, sassy, wildly unfiltered, and exactly the kind of spiral you come back for every week.

Brandi and James are back and getting into all of it — Shannon Beador being nothing like her on-camera self, the Tamra and Emily feud heating up with iHeart event bans, and why Brandi thinks reality TV kids like Grayson deserve way more protection than they get.

Brandi and James are back and Brandi is already in the news — her joke about being ashamed her kids don't do drugs apparently broke the internet, and she has exactly zero regrets about it. They break it all down, plus James drops the confession nobody asked for: he once hooked up with a TMZ paparazzi, and yes, the guy found him.

Also on the agenda: Bethenny Frankel quietly quit her podcast and Brandi has thoughts, Lindsay Hubbard won an argument and then immediately lost it by bringing up the nanny, why middle-aged divorce is a terrible idea, Jussie Smollett's story still doesn't add up, and Brandi's drunk Lionel Richie encounter at Roku Sushi that you need to hear start to finish.

It's messy, sassy, wildly unfiltered, and exactly the kind of spiral you come back for every week.

Brandi and James are back and immediately turning the cameras on themselves — are they best friends, frenemies, or something in between? They work it out in real time, then dive into everything else: RHOOC drama, Love Island finale takes, why The City deserves way more attention, and the Divorce Police coming for everyone on Bravo.

Also somehow on the agenda: coyotes eating people's pets, why lab grown diamonds are never the move, and plenty of opinions nobody asked for but everyone needed.

It's messy, sassy, wildly unfiltered, and exactly the kind of spiral you come back for every week.

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Brandi and James are back — James went straight from a Utah wedding to watching OnlyFans creators box at Coachella, and somehow that's not even the wildest story of the episode.