The Viall Files
E888 - Denise Richards Returns, Traitors w/ Chrishell, Love Is Blind w/ Alex, RHOBH, & Justin/Blake Update
Thu, 20 Feb 2025
Welcome back to The Viall Files: Reality Recap! Bravo, Bravo, effing BRAVO! Denise Richards returns to talk life updates and her new show Denise Richards & Her Wild Things. We also welcome the queen of vibes herself, Chrishell Stause, to talk Traitors. Meanwhile, Alex from Love Is Blind joins to get into his relationship with Madison and discuss whether or not he should grow a beard. Plus, RHOBH recaps, fishies swimming up to the surface, and more! “I wanted to see if there were sharks!” Subscribe to The ENVY Media Newsletter Today: https://www.viallfiles.com/newsletter OUT NOW! Listen to Humble Brag with Cynthia Bailey and Crystal Kung Minkoff. Available wherever you get your podcasts and YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@humblebragpod https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/humble-brag-with-crystal-and-cynthia/id1774286896 Start your 7 Day Free Trial of Viall Files + here: https://viallfiles.supportingcast.fm/ Please make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss an episode and as always send in your relationship questions to [email protected] to be a part of our Monday episodes. Follow us on X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheViallFiles Listen To Disrespectfully now! Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/disrespectfully/id1516710301 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0J6DW1KeDX6SpoVEuQpl7z?si=c35995a56b8d4038 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCh8MqSsiGkfJcWhkan0D0w To Order Nick’s Book Go To: http://www.viallfiles.com If you would like to get some texting advice on Office Hours send an email to [email protected] with “Texting Office Hours” in the subject line! To advertise on the show, contact [email protected] or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/TheViallFiles THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS: OUAI - The OUAI to a healthy scalp starts here. Go to https://theouai.com and use code VIALL for 15% off any product. IQ Bar - IQBAR is offering our special podcast listeners 20% off all IQBAR products, plus get FREE shipping. To get your 20% off, just text FILES to sixty-four thousand. Helix Sleep - For their President’s Day Sale, Helix is exclusively offering our listeners the best offer available! Better than what you’ll find on their website! Go to https://helixsleep.com/viall Helix is offering 27% off sitewide + 2 FREE Dream Pillows with Mattress Purchase + a Free Bedding Bundle (2 Dream pillows, Sheet set, and a Mattress Protector with any Luxe or Elite Mattress order!) Beekeeper’s Natural - Today, Beekeeper’s Naturals is offering you an exclusive offer. Go to https://beekeepersnaturals.com/viall or enter code VIALL to get 20% off your order. Timestamps: (00:00) - Intro (01:15) - Household Headlines (07:53) - Denise Joins (14:23) - Join Special Forces (18:44) - New Show (20:22) - Denise Updates (30:44) - Special Forces (34:02) - Reality TV and More (52:21) - Love Is Blind (55:06) - Alex Interview (01:09:34) - More Love Is Blind (01:20:19) - RHOBH (01:38:08) - Chrishell Joins (01:43:14) - Selling Sunset (01:48:25) - Traitors (02:14:12) - Real Estate and More (02:23:26) - Outro Episode Socials: @viallfiles @nickviall @nnataliejjoy @deniserichards @chrishell.stause @iamalexbrown @ciaracrobinson @justinkaphillips @the_mare_bare @leahgsilberstein @dereklanerussell
Chapter 1: Who are the guests on today's episode?
What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to another exciting episode of the Vow Files Reality Recap Edition. And boy, do we have a jam-packed episode for you. Momentarily, the icon herself, Denise Richards, will be joining us to just, you know, gab a little bit, talk about her new Bravo show. What's it?
called denise in the wild things denise and her wild denise in the wild in her wild things either way it's a great title we love it uh we're excited to talk with denise fresh off her appearance on special forces and just like i honestly like denise's has good stakes on life so we're excited to talk with her then we have alex from love is blind the guy who's in or was in the uh relationship with madison
What a couple. Anyways, we'll be talking with him and get into the rest of episode three through six. I love his wine. I think that's what we were talking about.
Four through six. Four through six.
Then we have another icon herself. Grishel Staus is with us to talk about her time on Traders. Catch up with her. Great conversation that we have with Grishel. Very exciting stuff for you ahead. What's going on with this fish? All right. I came in here. You guys are obsessed with some fish. You asked me if I watched Finding Nemo. I was like, why do I care about this?
She's a diva taking the world by storm, Leia. It's really the only thing I care about right now, if I'm being honest.
No, please. Okay. This black sea devil angler fish was spotted swimming to the surface of the ocean. Oh, this ugly little thing.
Oh.
They're not ugly.
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Chapter 2: What updates does Denise Richards share about her new show?
Thank you.
You're amazing.
It's probably because you came on.
Oh, stop. Welcome back, by the way. Thank you for having me. So good to be with you.
How have you been? I've been great, thank you. It's nice to know. I hope you agree. But first time you came on here, it was like, oh my God, we're having Denise Richards on.
Like a Bond girl. And now we're friends. I love that.
Now we're family.
And when I was here last time, you weren't parents yet. You were pregnant.
That's crazy.
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Chapter 3: Why did Alex from Love Is Blind decide to break up with Madison?
Was there any part of you watching it back? That was like, I never saw it. Oh, really?
I saw the clips. I don't like watching my like stuff, but also that because in the room where they take the potato sack off your head, you know, I said stuff that I've never talked about before and I didn't know what they were airing. And I was like, and when I left there, I was like, oh my gosh, why did I say this? But I wanted to be honest too and get out what I could from the show.
But I think that's part of it too.
Yeah, you're a little bit like, I don't need to.
I don't need to.
So how do and how are we feeling about Denise and the Wild Things?
I mean, the one thing that people will see, we have pretty much no filter, which is not a surprise with myself and my family. And it's just slice of life. And I'm excited about it. And it's also, you know, you're so vulnerable, like, you're like, oh, my gosh, we shot a reality show. And it's all of us just out there. But
Did you feel safer in this environment than with like the housewives? Because obviously you can't control what all these other women are saying and like they want to create drama and like here you're with your family.
I think I was more protective in this situation because of my girls. Oh, that's funny. You know, they've lived in the shadow of their parents their whole life. And for them to be out there on their own, in a sense, that's, you know, they're doing press, they're doing stuff. They've never done this before. So it's new for them.
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Chapter 4: What insights does Chrishell Stause provide about her time on Traitors?
That's so sweet. Steve and River are going to be very close friends.
Oh, that's really sweet.
Was Tim around when your girls were younger?
No, Tim, he's only two years old. Him and his sister are dogs that most of them have passed away, but they were always good with the girls. We do have Lily. She's 12 though. Wow. Yeah, she's a lab. She's getting up there. She loves to sleep in the bed, but she's a lab. So she had stairs. But then my husband now, he moves the stairs so she can't go up. He's like, this is too much.
With the naked cats. With the naked cats. And the naked cats, they're like heaters. So are they? Yeah. And blue sleeps down by my legs and it's really hot. And then Tim sleeps on Aaron's under his armpit. So we have a full bed too. It's a full bed. Yeah. It's, it gets hot. There's a lot going on. Other couples, isn't it?
Do you and Aaron share a drink?
What do you mean?
We have a communal cup. We drink like at dinner. Nick and I will make one big Stanley of like full water.
And we there's one straw and we share. I mean, I would take a sip out of it if I couldn't find my water. But you have your own. But we have our own. But I'm not judging. No, of course. Yeah.
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Chapter 5: How does Nick Viall feel about Denise Richards' Special Forces appearance?
It felt like I was really, really pressing the fact that I understood Mason's perspective and which definitely I mean, I did keep saying that thing or that line over and over. But again, it was in response to. negativity that I feel like was not aired. You know, there was a lot more negativity being said about Mason.
And so I was saying, well, I understand his perspective in response to that negativity. And so, and again, I totally understand, you know, her perspective and why she would be negative towards Mason. He did screw up, right. You know, there's no question about it. He screwed up. He said the wrong thing. He, you know, Didn't handle himself in the way that I know he wanted to.
But also you have to understand that I actually knew Mason better than I knew Madison because I spend more time with the guys in the lounge than I do with the women in the pods. Right. So Mason and I at that point were fairly close and I knew he was such a genuine good guy. And I just didn't want to see someone talking so negatively about him when I feel like he didn't deserve it.
Yeah, it was tough after her and Mason broke up. Hearing her kind of talk shit. I think she called him a clown or something like that. It felt a little icky given that she was the one who ultimately decided she didn't want to be in that relationship. Given that she kind of came into that breakup with all the power. And I think she left with all the power.
And for her to talk shit about Mason just felt so unnecessary.
She also talked shit to his other girl.
Yeah.
Yeah, I was watching that to see her kind of trying to like ruin that relationship as well between Meg and Mason.
I just thought it was maybe a little... manipulative. I didn't see that. You know, all I see is this limited perspective of in the pods with one person at a time. So it was definitely interesting to watch after the fact, after a year, you know, since being there. But yeah, it just didn't feel great. And I think it may be confirmed that I did make the right decision.
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Chapter 6: What does Denise Richards say about her experience on reality TV?
Yeah.
I did watch like the other seasons. I love the show. But other than that, I didn't really do any.
You didn't do any like research or strategy?
Did Rob blow your mind when he was like, like just how calculated you were?
I love Rob. I had just watched Deal or No Deal Island. I haven't seen his Survivor seasons, but I knew that he was going to be a player I didn't want to play against. So I was like, listen, if we get to a certain point and I need to think about this harder, I know he's not someone you can trust. But right now... I don't want to play against him.
And I liked feeling like, you know, I was in, I don't know, like, to be honest with you, it feels like a little bit of a nerd, like playing with Rob, because I was like, felt like it was like fun to, I don't know. That's where I'm not a good gamer.
I just want to play with him. Did you ever suspect he was a traitor?
For sure. I mean, obviously, you have to. But that last day when we were doing Bug Challenge, it was the longest we're out of the castle and we're together in that car. Me, Sierra, Dolores, and Rob. So everybody else is away from Rob. Imagine, he's the kind of player, the closer proximity you are to him... the harder it would be to, you know, to not believe him.
It just kind of felt like, oh, like, think about it. Ciara and Dolores, none of them voted for him that day. No. So I'm just saying, like, with a little separation, I would have been able to be like, okay.
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