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\n From left: Brooks, Chloe, Seth, and Meredith Marks on day one of BravoCon 2025.
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Of course they got Meredith Marks to open BravoCon<\/a> with a DJ set. At 9:30 a.m, under the bleaching Las Vegas sun, fans gather at a stage set up on the plaza outside the convention center, their phones aloft to take pictures of the catchphrase factory of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City<\/a> playing remixes of gay bar hits \u2014\u00a0Lindsay Lohan\u2019s \u201cRumors,\u201d Tinashe\u2019s \u201cNasty Girl,\u201d Dua Lipa\u2019s \u201cHoudini\u201d \u2014\u00a0spliced with those catchphrases \u2014\u00a0\u201cRumors and nastiness about the husband,\u201d \u201cI\u2019m disengaging,\u201d \u201cYou! Can! Leave!\u201d<\/p>\n Fans are eating it up as she fiddles with knobs, holds headphones to her impeccably blown-out hair (body count: low), and throws roses and rubber duckies into the crowd. She\u2019s wearing a sparkly maroon sleeveless dress reminiscent of her season-five reunion gown, only this time shorter than a one-season Housewife\u2019s tenure. \u201cI don\u2019t care if she\u2019s doing nothing,\u201d one visitor who paid between $620 and $1,460 to attend the weekend says. \u201cIt\u2019s a great selection of tracks.\u201d<\/p>\n Meredith wasn\u2019t selected as BravoCon\u2019s opening ceremonies mascot for her turntable skills. RHOSLC, the tenth of its kind, had runaway success when it debuted in 2020, introducing the world to Lisa Barlow\u2019s Mormonism and a not yet incarcerated Jen Shah. While Heather Gay arrived with a $20 million medspa chain, Meredith arrived with Brooks, her then-21-year-old son who inherited his mother\u2019s ability to unleash droll one-liners and apply skin care. Brooks didn\u2019t so much overshadow his mother as he bolstered her appeal. The series is now nearing the end of a mind-meltingly good sixth season, and it\u2019s never been more clear: Meredith Marks is a family business.<\/p>\n Shortly into Marks\u2019s DJ set in Vegas, her husband Seth, 53, emerges to enormous applause. On RHOSLC, Seth is a self-described \u201crodeo clown\u201d \u2014 \u201cWhen the real cowboys and cowgirls are battling and they get bucked off the bronco, if I\u2019m in town and the cameras are on, I feel like it\u2019s my job to diffuse it,\u201d he explains. Onstage, he\u2019s a corporate suit with ample enthusiasm for his wife\u2019s art. \u201cThis is the best day of PTO ever!\u201d he shouts into the mic, just as the lyrics of a remix settle into repetition of the word slut. He holds the mic up to an audience member and asks her to sing along. \u201cHow do you know all the words?\u201d he jokes.<\/p>\n After Seth exits, the stage is clear for the other members of the Marks clan, Brooks, 26, and Chloe, 24. They come out together and subtly sway to their mother\u2019s beats, whispering and laughing conspiratorially. They\u2019re both on Next Gen NYC<\/a>, which follows the children of Housewives (Kim Zolciak-Biermann, Kandi Burruss, Teresa Giudice, Meredith) as they attempt to survive in the Big Apple with nothing but family money, connections, and nascent track-suit empires to fall back on. When the trailer dropped, Bravo fans derided the exercise in nepo babies. But, like Meredith\u2019s DJ set, Next Gen NYC turned out the fanbase. Its 2025 series premiere was the most-watched Bravo debut of all time<\/a>.<\/p>\n If Next Gen NYC was built on a premise that reality-television stardom is congenital<\/a>, the Markses are indeed genetically blessed. They have stiff competition: The Giudice-Gorga family, whose internal feuds are so intense that The Real Housewives of New Jersey<\/a> has been sidelined for years as Bravo tries to figure out new casting. The Hilton-Richards-Umansky clan has plenty of reality bona fides in previous generations, but Buying Beverly Hills failed to launch Kyle and Mauricio\u2019s daughters and was cut loose after two seasons. The Zolciak-Biermanns\u2019s Don\u2019t Be Tardy lasted for eight seasons, but Kim and Kroy canceled their marriage after 12 years, and now their acrimonious divorce is playing out on TMZ. None can quite match the Markses\u2019 stats: two current shows, four beloved members, one seemingly thriving marriage, and scads of entrepreneurial adventures to keep them on Las Vegas stages and inside West Village apartments.<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes I have a fantasy of running away to Croatia and living my own life,\u201d Brooks, in an outfit that screams quiet luxury and a full face of barely there makeup, admits. \u201cBut no, at the end of the day, I think I would last for 24 hours when I\u2019d come crawling right back. God has truly blessed us with such an incredible family, and I literally could not imagine my life without my parents being so close.\u201d<\/p>\n \n \u201cMy therapist said, \u2018Do not sign that fucking waiver or go on that show,\u2019\u201d says Seth. Offstage at BravoCon, it\u2019s hard to get the Markses in the same place at the same time. Between Meredith\u2019s appearance at the RHOSLC panel (the best attended of the weekend), Brooks\u2019s and Chloe\u2019s red-carpet obligations, and Seth\u2019s desire to take pictures at Meredith\u2019s Bravo Bazaar booth, we find a moment for discussion. But before we settle into a spare couch at the Caesars Forum, a fan spots the quartet and asks for a photo. Lisa Barlow once derisively called them the family that poses, and here they do, Meredith in her short, high-collared black dress, Brooks in his lux knit and espresso trousers, Seth in jeans and a black button-down (done enough you can see he\u2019s wearing one of Bravo\u2019s signature \u201cMazel\u201d T-shirts underneath), and Chloe in full Gen-Z uniform: barrel-legged jeans and a black tank.<\/p>\n To this day, the Markses squabble about their RHOSLC origins. Meredith was an obvious choice from a casting perspective: smart, attractive, connected in business, located in the Salt Lake City vicinity (she lives in Park City) and, crucially, willing to use her law-school education to argue anyone under the table. \u201cI don\u2019t know if it was a single sit-down altogether, but there were a lot of conversations about the show,\u201d Meredith starts.<\/p>\n \u201cMom, it was absolutely a single sit-down conversation,\u201d Brooks interjects. \u201cYou threw a contract down on the table for all of us, and you said, \u2018We\u2019re doing it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think that\u2019s what she said,\u201d Chloe says, shooting eyes back at Brooks. Here, they play out their archetypal roles: Brooks is the magician, brimming with opinions and strategy. Chloe is the caregiver, the one who does the hard work to reach their goals and keeps all the warring factions in line.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think that\u2019s exactly how it transpired,\u201d Seth shouts, sounding a bit like Frank the Tank, the Will Ferrell character from Old School. \u201cI think there were multiple conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDad, you don\u2019t have to yell to be heard,\u201d Brooks chides in his trademark monotone. (\u201cSometimes he needs to shut his mouth and open his ears,\u201d Brooks adds later. \u201cSometimes he gets a little preachy,\u201d Chloe agrees.)<\/p>\n \u201cMy therapist said, \u2018Do not sign that fucking waiver or go on that show,\u2019\u201d Seth continues.<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t need the F-words,\u201d Meredith jumps in.<\/p>\n \u201cBut that was a fact,\u201d Seth says, finally able to finish his train of thought, this time F-bomb free. \u201cWe were trying to repair our relationship and my therapist said, \u2018If you want to make your marriage work, do not go on that show.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n This is part of the Marks family lore. Meredith and Seth \u2014\u00a0who were introduced by a friend when Meredith was studying business and law at Northwestern \u2014\u00a0were on the verge of divorce when RHOSLC started shooting in late 2019. Seth was traveling a lot for work, but Brooks was at home, spending a semester off between his two years at New York University and his intended two years at University of Southern California. (He never quite made it and returned to NYU instead.)<\/p>\n \u201cIn my mind, I was being there to support my mom through her separation and having an opportunity to work on my brand full time in the interim of my semester off from college,\u201d Brooks says. Some fans incorrectly assumed he quit school to be on the show, initially giving him something of a too-try-hard reputation. (He famously launched his Brooks Marks track suit<\/a> that first season.) But after being on the receiving end of Jen Shah\u2019s online wrath, audiences grew sympathetic and came around to his deadpan charms.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know how I would have survived without Brooks,\u201d Meredith said about that season. \u201cI needed support and help. I didn\u2019t have any clue what I was getting involved in. I hadn\u2019t even watched Housewives or seen a full season of it.\u201d<\/p>\n Fans came around to Meredith, too. At first the joke was that she and her onscreen bestie, Lisa Barlow, were interchangeable with their long, straight brunette hair and soup\u00e7on of vocal fry. Sentiments started to shift after she exited a fight with Shah with the words, \u201cI\u2019m disengaging,\u201d a line that became a catchphrase and also defined her strategy on the show. It\u2019s a gameplay choice that hadn\u2019t been seen on Bravo \u2014 getting involved in intra-cast tussles is often a Housewife\u2019s most pressing duty. The reason she could skirt this responsibility was because she was so good at showcasing her familial interactions. She talked openly about how she and Seth had been separated, how she\u2019d seen other people during that time. Bravoholics know this tale well: A first-season Housewife in a bad marriage enters her second season with a divorce story line. But then Meredith and Seth did the most shocking thing of all \u2014\u00a0they actually made up.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re the only couple on earth who can say that Real Housewives coupled with COVID saved our marriage,\u201d Meredith says.<\/p>\n \n Brooks with his co-stars Gia Giudice and Georgia McCann at the Next Gen NYC panel on BravoCon day three. The only thing more delicious than a successful spinoff is a Bravo universe crossover, and the Markses got one of those this year, too. On RHOSLC season six, the Housewives go on an instantly iconic yacht trip with the cast of Below Deck Down Under<\/a> (shockingly, the first time Bravo attempted such a collaboration). Meredith\u2019s b\u00eate noire, Britani Bateman, brings up a TikTok accusing Seth of cheating. Meredith responds with a drawling, quote-riddled rant, calling Bateman \u201ca liar and a despicable, malicious person,\u201d each word landing with more vowels than it deserves. The proceeding episodes are consumed with the fallout of that trip. Meredith allegedly went on an hourslong tirade against Britani on the plane ride home. No footage exists (though some fans think it will be trotted out at the upcoming reunion), so it\u2019s unclear what was actually said. But several members of the cast say Meredith harangued Britani while pushing the back of her seat repeatedly. Meredith and Barlow say that\u2019s hyperbole; Meredith says she wouldn\u2019t have had time to watch Crazy Rich Asians on the plane if she spent all that time yelling at Britani. \u201cI get upset because no one likes to be lied about,\u201d Meredith says. \u201cBut you look at the source and these women have been caught in lies over the years, and I\u2019m not going to worry about it. It\u2019s that simple. If you are going to believe people that get caught in lies, if you\u2019re dumb enough to believe it, I don\u2019t care what you think of me. I don\u2019t care what stupid people think of me.\u201d<\/p>\n What Meredith cares about is business, including a line of jewelry sold in a brick-and-mortar in Park City, Utah, which is getting transformed into a speakeasy and caviar bar, because she launched a brand of caviar, too. And a line of bath bombs inspired by her well-known love of soaking. And a new board game called Rumors and Nastiness. And those DJ gigs. She says she was dabbling on the ones and twos when her manager got her a gig at Pittsburgh Pride, then rolled her onstage in a bathtub. That translated to a much bigger gig at West Hollywood Pride this past summer followed by a tour around the country of sold out sets mostly at, you guessed it, gay bars \u2014 much to Brooks\u2019s chagrin.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not trying to see my mom every time I go out,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n Both Brooks and Chloe say that reality television hasn\u2019t changed their mother, but their mother thinks reality television has been foundational for her children. \u201cI think the show changes everyone,\u201d she says. \u201cI don\u2019t think you can go on it and be in the public eye and under the microscope that we\u2019re all under and the criticism and the praise and not have it change you.\u201d<\/p>\n \n \u201cI think the show changes everyone,\u201d says Meredith. \u201cI don\u2019t think you can go on it and not have it change you.\u201d Brooks admits he\u2019s more confident and trusting his gut more in Next Gen season two. He\u2019s pulling away from mom, too. The first-season finale<\/a> featured a teary scene where Brooks told Meredith that he needed to distance himself from her businesses to focus a bit more on his fashion line, which launched its first resort collection this December. Brooks\u2019s ascendency has pulled Chloe\u2019s orbit closer to the family. \u201cChloe is doing a lot right now,\u201d Meredith says, listing her duties: brand extensions, distributor relations, generally advancing the Marks family plans for global domination. \u201cLosing her right now would be very hard for me.\u201d Perhaps in gratitude, Meredith recently spun her daughter\u2019s debut single<\/a>.<\/p>\n And there\u2019s Seth, who remains happy to be on both his wife\u2019s and his children\u2019s shows. At the RHOSLC panel, Seth is in a playful mood. He hypes up the crowd to sing \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d to John Barlow, Lisa\u2019s husband, then prompts the fans to do it again when he realizes he didn\u2019t adequately capture the moment for social media. At a Bravopalooza event involving 20 Bravolebs and the Bravocon VIPs who paid to be in their presence, Seth gets a fan to approach Meredith and deliver her signature line, \u201cYou\u2019re a liar and a vicious, despicable person.\u201d<\/p>\n This kind of eagerness can be a kiss of death for some husbands, but Seth seems undaunted by the idea. \u201cI enjoy being a part of it, because we use it for a lot of positive,\u201d he says. \u201cOur son is becoming who he was born to be. That played out in front of the world on reality TV and it was one of the happiest moments of my life.\u201d Seth appears slightly choked up, discussing Brooks\u2019s coming out journey and how he\u2019s handled the spotlight with the same cool detachment as his mother.<\/p>\n \u201cMy dad always jokes that I\u2019m my mother\u2019s son,\u201d Brooks tells me, with a sly smile. \u201cAnd she hates that.\u201d<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/f14fa4a4d0c46f0a37f35efcae8a520250-meredithmarks-bravocon.rhorizontal.w700.jpg\")
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