Bronwyn Newport, 40, is sitting across from her husband, Todd, 65, in a rare 2016 Gucci sweatshirt adorned in glittering parrots. She is broaching the idea of an open marriage , if Todd so desires.

“If you wanted to do something different, or have an arrangement, or be open, I would consider it,” she says, tucking her hair behind her ears. “I would do whatever I needed to do to evolve with you.”

Todd rejects the idea, but it’s the sort of conversation plenty of women across the globe have with their spouses. It’s just that Bronwyn is choosing to do so to an audience of over half a million, alongside a running online commentary from Bravo’s many feverish, parasocial viewers. But that’s what it means to be a cast member on The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City —one of the television

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