Jessel Taank Reveals a New Person Is at the Top of Her "Al Capone List" After Reunion
Things are already heated between the RHONY women, but is this a sign that things won't be resolved before season's end?
She’s making a list and checking it twice! Jessel Taank of The Real Housewives of New York City is taking no prisoners when it comes to her much-talked-about checklist.
What is the Al Capone list?
Introduced in RHONY Season 14, Episode 11, Jessel revealed she (literally) keeps track of those who’ve wronged her and how, a written record coined by Brynn Whitfield as the “Al Capone List.”
At the time, Jessel cited Erin Lichy as being most prominent on the list, and much of it had to do with Erin calling her the “dum-dum of the whole group,” according to Jessel.
“Who is she to make that judgment?” Jessel asked in the RHONY episode. “I have a f-cking checklist that I keep on my phone about this bitch.”
At the time, Jessel also took issue with Erin because of the restaurant drama earlier this season and Erin categorizing Jessel as someone who’s “used to be being catered to.”
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“When someone rubs me the wrong way, I start making a checklist,” Jessel told RHONY producers. “If you rub me the wrong way once, it’s mental. Twice, it’s on my phone.”
Who's on Jessel's list?
Though Jessel previously admitted that Erin featured most heavily on the list, things have changed since filming wrapped for the RHONY Season 14 reunion. During the After Show of the October 1, 2023 episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Jessel was asked which ‘Wife has “the longest checklist” on her phone’s Notes app.
“I think it might have to be Miss Sai,” Jessel answered, referring to Sai De Silva.
Andy and Jessel tried recalling “the long day” of filming this season’s reunion, though Andy called it an “excellent” reunion.
“We definitely cleared some cobwebs,” Jessel continued.
Tensions continue to simmer on RHONY Season 14, Episode 12, especially after Jessel planned what she hoped to be a “relaxing” lunch of sorts, though it was anything but.
Sai, who has been critical of Jessel’s sex life with husband Pavit Randhawa, challenged Jessel’s claims that she and Pavit were intimate for the first time since the birth of the couple’s twins. Sai also questioned Pavit’s motives for traveling for an overnight trip to Vietnam for a sandwich and some air miles, something Jessel has defended.
Jessel also wanted to discuss the pair’s Anguilla row, during which Sai and Erin picked apart Jessel’s upbringing, believing Jessel exaggerated her backstory to make her struggles seem as bad as Sai’s. Jessel felt Sai viewed Jessel’s backstory as a means of comparison, something Jessel tried apologizing for at lunch.
“Jessel, to be honest with you, I really don’t care,” said Sai.
Sai then added that she didn’t find Jessel’s story about her uncles “straightforward,” adding there was “some sh-t missing from the story” and that the rest of the group felt “offended.”
A preview of RHONY Season 14, Episode 13 shows the lunchtime topics bubbling to the surface in a profanity-laced argument between Jessel and Sai. And if Sai has made it to the top of Jessel’s Al Capone list, it’s safe the say the drama will continue.
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