Bravo Marriages We Always Knew Would Go Up In Flames

It's far from unusual for Bravo marriages to end. The network has gained a reputation for its couples going their separate ways, so much so internet users have dubbed the string of divorces "The Bravo Curse." Sometimes, those splits were surprising, like when "The Real Housewives of Atlanta"'s Kandi Burruss called it quits with Todd Tucker after 11 years of marriage or when "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" stalwart Kyle Richards separated from Mauricio Umansky 27 years into their union. Other times though, Bravo divorces seemed a long time coming.

Take "Vanderpump Rules"' former couple Katie Maloney and Tom Schwartz, who split after 12 years together in 2022. The twosome's many ups and downs were featured on various seasons of the Bravo hit, and their romance didn't exactly get off to a healthy start. In Season 2, they got into a major fight that saw Schwartz pour a drink over the woman that would one day become his wife. "F**k off, man," he even told her (via People). They still got married, but the on-camera arguments didn't stop. "I've never been more turned off in my life. That's why I don't have sex with her," Schwartz famously said of Maloney amid a 2019 argument, before calling her names. That came after the infidelity rumors swirled on the show in 2018. Schwartz later confessed to cheating, stating on "Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen" in 2024, "I strayed a few times. There were times where I thought the relationship was gonna come to an end and I was a sloppy d****ebag." And the Maloney/Schwartz union isn't the only Bravo marriage we always knew would go up in flames.

Anyone who's seen at least one episode of "Summer House" will likely have seen how incompatible Amanda Batula and Kyle Cooke were prior to their 2026 split after four years of marriage. Batula, who's more introverted than her husband, grew uncomfortable with his outgoing ways and admitted in the Season 10 trailer, "I wanted him to stop going out and partying and he found a career where he goes out late and parties." That seemingly led to the reality star being less supportive of his business ventures. "I played the biggest gig of my life, but Amanda couldn't care less. I don't know what matters to her anymore," he said in the trailer. Though it's true that people on opposite ends of the personality scale can work, these two were just too far apart. "I think if you're really far extroverted and you meet someone really far introverted, that won't work. I think it kind of has to be a little bit closer," dating and relationship coach Beck Thompson told Body + Soul Australia.

Long-time watchers will also remember Cooke admitted to cheating on Batula during Season 3. "I was absolutely disgusted with him. We were f**ked. Like, once someone loses my trust, it's so hard for me to ever fully trust them again," she admitted (via Bravo). But she married him anyway, only for the infidelity rumors to swirl again. Andy Cohen quizzed Cooke on speculation he'd been getting cozy with fans on "Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen" in March 2026, though he denied cheating (again) on Batula. It can be very difficult to trust someone who's cheated before, so we wouldn't be surprised if a lack of trust contributed to this long-time-coming divorce.

Former "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" star Cynthia Bailey made no secret of the fact her marriage to Peter Thomas wasn't good before they called it quits after six years. In 2015, Thomas was accused of cheating on his now ex-wife after The Shade Room shared a video that seemingly showed him getting cozy with a woman at a club. Thomas addressed the clip in a since deleted Instagram video, telling his followers (via Radar Online), "There's stuff all over the Instagram that made me look like a big [expletive] cheater. Ok, that's not what it is. That's a friend of mine in the club that I was talking to. It looks crazy, I know it does, so I'm apologizing to my wife, I'm apologizing to my two beautiful daughters, okay. Your daddy's not a cheater."

The following year, Bailey admitted their marriage wasn't in a good place — and partially blamed the show. "I don't know what's going to happen with us right now, we're still trying to figure it out. But, you know, it's complicated," she said on "Reality Checked with Amy Phillips." "Maybe if we were married three years before we went on the show, that would have been better. I just have nothing to compare my marriage to outside of the show, and you know it's just been difficult — I mean, the wedding was difficult, everything about our marriage has been difficult," she added. The star appeared to be alluding to the various storms that hit their relationship. In addition to the cheating rumors, Thomas didn't get along with his fellow "RHOA" castmembers (particularly Porsha Williams) and Bailey got candid with Bravo about her dwindling physical attraction to him.

Teresa Giudice and Joe Giudice made their TV debut on Season 1 of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" and it wasn't long before cracks started to show in their marriage. During the first episode, Teresa splashed serious cash on their New Jersey mansion and later clarified on "Turning The Tables By Teresa Giudice" that the scene was improvised. "That's why the government came after us," Giudice jokingly claimed. Her co-star Jacqueline Laurita even claimed on the podcast that Giudice was given extra cash by producers to make it look like she carried thousands. Keeping up the illusion of a lavish lifestyle clearly took its toll on the couple, and both were sentenced to prison time for conspiracy, bankruptcy fraud, and tax-related crimes in 2014.

It wasn't just money that had us calling the Giudices' divorce (which was finalized in 2020 after 21 years of marriage) though. Joe repeatedly faced cheating allegations, including when Laurita told Teresa during the 2012 reunion episode (via Radar Online), "You walked in on your husband when he had somebody on the desk in his office." Radar Online also claimed the former "RHONJ" star had been unfaithful, with a source purporting, "The guy has no shame — he'll pick up girls anywhere."

Then there was the way Joe spoke about his now ex-wife. "He was on the phone and he said, 'My c**t wife,'" Teresa confirmed on Kelly Ripa's "Let's Talk Off Camera" podcast [21:18], referring to the notorious 2012 episode. Teresa admitted she was, understandably, deeply upset over the name-calling. Joe claimed he was talking to a male worker on the phone, but Teresa admitted, "Now I definitely think he was talking to a girl."

"Vanderpump Rules" and "The Valley" star Brittany Cartwright filed for divorce from Jax Taylor after five years of marriage in 2024. Their relationship began in 2015 when Taylor (who had already dated many of his co-stars) asked Cartwright to leave her life in Kentucky to live with him in Los Angeles just one day after they met, despite there being a lot to consider before moving for a partner. Two years later, he admitted to cheating on her as the "Vanderpump Rules" cameras rolled. "This isn't my first time being caught cheating. You know, in the past, I've gone through months and months of deny, deny, deny, and that didn't work out for me ... Brittany and I had been fighting for a long time," he said (via People).

The two worked through the infidelity but Taylor famously broke up with Cartwright in a 2018 episode of the Bravo series, though they'd already reconciled when the episode aired. Following their separation, Cartwright (a Bravo star who's completely unrecognizable now) got candid about the state of their relationship. "I can kind of get how you get into this friendship-roommate-type situation, and then you just feel like you are kind of stuck a little bit," she said on the "Vanderpump Rules After Show." "Not that I am, but I feel that way sometimes, if me and Jax are going through our hard times. It can be very hard to separate that." Taylor and Cartwright being so hot and cold over the years made their split seem unavoidable. "This pattern just leads to hurt feelings, and the inevitable more permanent breakup," Samantha Burns, millennial love expert and author, told Bumble in regard to on/off romances.