Of all the people to try to befriend, your boyfriend’s ex is probably not top of the list. Unless, of course, you’re Marie-Lou Nurk, the 26-year-old German model who, in the latest season of Netflix’s reality sensation Selling Sunset, makes it her mission to do just that. It doesn’t go very well. At the time of filming, Nurk was going out with Jason Oppenheim, who co-runs the luxury real estate agency at the centre of the show – and once dated Selling Sunset’s breakout star Chrishell Stause.
Though Nurk and Oppenheim have split since filming ended, the show has this season depicted Nurk unsuccessfully pursuing a friendship with Stause, something that culminated in a horrendously awkward lunch. During the encounter, Nurk calls up Oppenheim and puts him on speakerphone so he can hear the two women hash things out. “It’s not my job to ask you questions,” says Stause, who is now married to the non-binary musician G Flip, whom Nurk subsequently misgenders. “The most important person in my life – you don’t know their pronouns, which is totally fine. But my point is that you also don’t know me.” She then delivers one final zinger to a forlorn-looking Nurk: “I’m not going to be your friend.”
