Now that a few episodes of Summer House have aired, the viewers are really starting to get to know the cast members (or at the very least, they think they are). With that said, people are already starting to form opinions and take sides when it comes to the conflict within the cast. Unfortunately, Lindsay Hubbard knows all about it since we’ve been subjected to her drunk fights with boyfriend Everett Weston (which I am sure are relatable to a lot of couples) and the sad demise of her friendship with Cristina Gibson.
Now, Lindsay is speaking out to defend herself and share what we did not get to see on the show. She also shares her opinions on Vanderpump Rules – the show that introduced us to Summer House. So what does Lindsay have to say?
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Lindsay talked all things Summer House and even a little Vanderpump Rules during a recent interview on the Buttered Pop podcast.
First off, I would love to see a mini-series or something with the Vanderpump Rules and Summer House cast members partying on vacation together, so I will encourage any and all things that associate these shows with each other.
On the podcast, Lindsay explained who her Vanderpump Rules counterpart is and that it’s actually a combination of multiple people. Lindsay admitted, “I think I would be a mixture. From Stassi [Schroeder], I get the detective side of me. Stassi is also a justice seeker. She seeks justice and the truth and I relate to her on that.” I guess that’s why Lindsay went out of the way to repeatedly say that Cristina got fired from her PR job: “justice seeking.”
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Lindsay went on to say, “Katie [Maloney] goes to the dark side and I go to the dark side as well. So Tequila Katie, love you. I feel you, girl.” Yikes. I don’t think that comparing yourself to Katie during a season where she’s getting a ton of hate from the fandom is the best call, but I guess we all have unflattering aspects of our personality, so at least Lindsay was keeping it real. Lindsay also added, “And Kristen [Doute], I met Kristen at the beginning of summer and I really like her. I think she has a fun, spirited, good vibe. I like all three of them.” Kristen owns her shit, has matured a lot, and is getting a great edit this season, so that was a good choice.
So what about Scheana Marie Shay? She was with those three during that first crossover episode where they visited Montauk for Stassi’s birthday. Lindsay said, “Scheana I was kind of… She was a little stand-offish.” SHADE THROWN, Lindsay. Poor Scheana, always on the outs for some reason.
Aside from talking about Vanderpump Rules, Lindsay discussed her conflict with Cristina, of course. Lindsay explained, “Quite frankly, I think we drifted apart. I think my goals and dreams and things that drove me were not the same as hers anymore and our friendship worked when we were on a similar page, but then not only were we on different pages, we were in completely different books.” That seems very clear when watching the show. The drunken argument between them went from zero to one hundred, real quick, so it makes sense to say that there was a lot building up before that explosive moment.
Does Lindsay regret saying that Cristina got fired on a reality TV show? Yes and no. Cristina admitted, “I will say first of all that saying ‘you’re fired’ was probably a little bit harsh. I could have been a little more sensitive to somebody in a sensitive position. ” But she didn’t really “get fired” which is the the actual issue here. Just like many reality TV stars before her, Cristina had to make the choice between her real life job and a reality show.
Lindsay also shared, “What you guys don’t see [on the show] is for weeks and weeks before that party, I was helping [Cristina] try and find freelance work at media outlets. I was giving her advice. I was asking if she was OK at all times. She was telling me the whole entire story. This is her story to tell. She can tell you. It’s her business.” It’s “her story to tell,” yet you decided to let the cat out of the bag on a reality TV show? OK, Lindsay.
And in case you’re wondering, Lindsay refuses to back down from her claim that Cristina was “fired.” She even blames Cristina for bringing on that drunken fight that they had. Lindsay explained, “If you can’t see the bigger picture and everything that I’ve done for you, you brought it on yourself. Sure, I could have reacted in some other way, but couldn’t we all? This is life and I’m a human. I’m as real as I can be with everything that I do. So for her to just call me a liar is just offensive because I don’t stand for liars.”
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Clearly they were both wasted, but I think it’s just getting to be a blurred situation at this point because the Cristina and Lindsay dispute has two different parts in my eyes: the interns in the apartment and Lindsay publicly stating that Cristina got fired. I get that initially Lindsay was trying to convey that she does have a job and needs these interns to help her come through for the start of her company whereas Cristina was in more of a transitional phase. Still, Lindsay’s comment caused (what I view as) a separate argument about sharing Cristina’s business (and possibly lying about it).
At this point, the fight we saw on TV and Lindsay’s defense of it after the fact are not going too well for Lindsay. Thankfully for Lindsay, Cristina got in other people’s business and started stirring stuff up with other cast members in the most recent episode so at least that was a bad look for Cristina.
Lindsay continued to dig at her former bestie when she said, “She needs to do a little bit of work on how to be secure in her own skin is what’s coming across to me. And that’s what’s coming across in that moment. This is why I use words like ‘jealousy’ and ‘bitterness’ because I do not think she is really comfortable in her own skin and I wish that she could be – like most of the rest of us.”
I can see why Lindsay might not like Cristina. When I think about the Summer House cast members, she is not the first on my list when it comes to people I would want to hang out with. She’s also not second or third…or fourth. But every time Lindsay tries to undercut Cristina, she ends up looking bad herself. Maybe she should just let Cristina make herself look bad on her own.
So was Lindsay pissed off when Kyle Cooke sided with Cristina? She didn’t exactly say that, but her explanation for Kyle defending Cristina was passive aggressive – to put it mildly. Lindsay explained, “I think in the Cristina situation, he sees that I’m strong enough to stand on my own and he sees that I also have a very strong boyfriend who’s protective over me. So I think he feels the need to take Cristina’s side so she feels like she has somebody on her side. Which is fine. I don’t blame Kyle for that. It’s kind of like a job he feels like he needs to do and that’s fine. He and I are very close.” WOW. Clearly Lindsay was just trying to put down Cristina (again) and emphasize that she is in fact a member of the cool kids club as a friend of Kyle’s.
I get what she’s saying to a certain extent, it’s hard to see anyone who feels left out or lonely, so yes, maybe Kyle was defending Cristina since no one else was, and the reality of the situation is that Cristina had to leave her job if she wanted to be on this show and that is what Kyle was defending.
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If Lindsay had just defended herself in the intern controversy by citing all of the help she’s given Cristina, the difficult times she was going through in her own life, and the fact that they both pay for the apartment, I think everyone would have been #TeamLindsay. However, Lindsay took the argument to another place when she brought in Cristina’s job situation. Going off topic was what did Lindsay in. If she had stuck to the issue at hand and articulated how much she needed those interns for her career, then we all would have backed her.
Obviously, this is so easy for me to say as a complete outsider and after the fact. In the moment, I’m sure Lindsay was pissed off and drunk so she wasn’t in a spot to devise an effective communication strategy.
Maybe Lindsay will be able to redeem herself as the season goes on? Or maybe in another season? On the possibility of the show getting renewed, Lindsay said, “I think we all hope so. We would love to have a season two. We just don’t know.” I hope so too.
TELL US – WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON: LINDSAY OR CRISTINA? DO YOU THINK CRISTINA GOT FIRED? WHAT DO YOU THINK OF LINDSAY SO FAR ON SUMMER HOUSE?
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