Of course it only took one week in the House of Villains for rivalries to form among reality TV’s most notorious villains.
In a Thursday’s second episode of the E! series, Love Is Blind’s Shake Chatterjee chats with Bobby Lytes about who the Love & Hip Hop: Miami star should target for elimination.
“So our boy Jax, all I hear from him is about his wonderful wife and his vintage car collection, a deal for $2 million,” Chatterjee, 36, says, referring to Jax Taylor. “Yeah, he doesn’t need the money.”
The Vanderpump Rules star overhears Chatterjee and Lytes’ conversation and chimes in.
“Yes, I do need the money,” Taylor, 44, says.
After Chatterjee and Lytes, 32, realize Taylor heard them, Taylor jokes, “Yeah, I’m everywhere.”
But Taylor didn’t like what Chatterjee said and digs into him.
“Here I am trying to be your friend and you’re talking behind my back,” the father of 2-year-old son Cruz says to Chatterjee. “You don’t live in California, you don’t have a mortgage, you don’t pay California taxes. You live in Florida, you don’t even pay taxes in Florida.”
In a confessional interview, Taylor expresses further frustration with the Love Is Blind star.
“Being on Vanderpump, I tried to give him some pointers,” Taylor says. “I tried to say, ‘Hey, you got to use this as a platform for other things, for your social media and your business. Like we built this for 10 years, it doesn’t just happen overnight. So, I’m trying to tell him, I’m giving him free knowledge. And I just feel like, I’m playing this f — -ing game the wrong way.”
Back in the house, Taylor and Chatterjee, who lives in Miami and works as a loan officer and a veterinarian, debate who needs the $200,000 prize money more.
“Everybody needs money or they wouldn’t be here,” Taylor says. “Nobody’s rich enough to do anything.”
“Some of us need it more than others,” Chatterjee replies.
Taylor threatens to take Chatterjee out in the competition. “Beat me in the challenge, man, and then you’ll send me home,” Taylor says.
Reflecting on the awkward moment, Lytes says he thinks his costars displayed novice villain behavior. “How do you talk about somebody and not make sure that they’re not listening?” he wonders aloud to himself in the clip. “Are you dumb?”
In a previous interview, Chatterjee said he and Taylor “were okay in the very, very beginning” of filming the E! series.
“But the nature of the show is, we’re competing with each other,” the Netflix star said. “This show almost forces you to do some sneaking around and some backstabbing.”
Chatterjee teased that he and Taylor “were put into a situation where we’re competing pretty early, and I knew I had to get an edge on him, so I did whatever I felt I had to do.”
Accordingly, Taylor “reacted a certain way,” Chatterjee said. “Jax and I didn’t get along with very well, but his reputation speaks for itself. It’s going to be very entertaining to watch.”
House of Villains airs Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET on E!
