Viewers shocked by TV stars’ candid marriage ‘arrangement’ confession

The frank chat started when Housewife Bronwyn Newport, 40, opened up about allegations she’d been hearing about her husband Todd, 65, who she wed in 2016. A person on social media alleged that they’d been sat behind Todd on a flight and watched on as he looked at photos of a lingerie-clad woman in the messages app on his phone. Bronwyn said she believed the claims: “They knew where Todd was sitting on the plane, they knew what flight he was on …” she told castmate Whitney Rose over lunch. But Bronwyn insisted it wasn’t the alleged infidelity she was mad about. “If it was someone sending him photos, and we’d talked about it ahead of time? It wouldn’t bother me.” “I don’t know that I could say that to anyone else in this group,” Bronwyn confessed, saying their younger age and their shared distance from the Mormon church made her feel comfortable opening up to Whitney. “If Todd said to me, ‘I’d like to sleep with other people, or I’d like to do it together’? I’d at least try it,” she revealed. Bronwyn’s revelation was met with a shocked expression from 39-year-old Whitney Rose – but soon she was confessing some secrets about her own marriage to husband Justin, who is 18 years her senior. They’ve been married since Whitney was in her early 20s. Whitney said that, while she wouldn’t call hers an “open” marriage, she and Justin did have an “agreement” which she outlined. “If there’s something that I wanna do,” she explained, “then I would bring it to Justin, and we’d talk about it. The minute you break trust with the agreement, it’s over. So you can’t do anything behind each other’s backs.” “You have to live your life, and they’re older than us. It’s a natural thing that’s going to happen. So agreements need to be had,” Whitney told her friend. “And we need to be evolving in the same place,” Bronwyn agreed, saying she was hoping to come to a similar agreement with her husband. “The same direction at least.” “I don’t want to be done with Todd. I want to evolve with Todd. And I need him to evolve with me.” Fans of the show applauded the duo for their candour on social media. “Bronwyn is a god-tier reality star for this, some housewives could learn a thing or two,” wrote one fan. Another called it “one of the most amazing conversations in housewives history. So vulnerable; so smart; so real.” Another joked that Bronwyn and Whitney were “low key sending swinger signals to each other.” Not everyone agreed though: “[Bronwyn’s] trying to justify her cheating husband it’s transparent and sad,” said one viewer. While Salt Lake City fans will know Todd as a gruff, frequently combative presence on screen during his brief appearances on the show, Whitney’s husband has opened up a lot more – so much so that it cost him his job. The couple stripped near-naked and covered each other in body paint for one early scene on the show, shot in their bedroom. Whitney later confessed that her husband was later fired from his high-flying corporate job over their racy on-camera antics. Meanwhile, singer Lily Allen is another celeb who’s also recently made headlines for speaking about an unorthodox marriage “arrangement”, if her brutal new break-up album West End Girl is to be believed. On the album, which traces her divorce from actor David Harbour in forensic detail, Allen shares that the couple opened up their marriage to deal with long periods spent apart, but that it ended badly when he failed to adhere to their “arrangement”: “Be discreet and don’t be blatant / There had to be payment / It had to be with strangers.” With listeners poring over the album’s candid lyrics, Allen has insisted that, while largely autobiographical, not all details on West End Girl are 100% factual.