The saga continues.
Marketing manager Patrick Somers claimed that he and Lisa Rinna are responsible for “concocting” the latter’s present feud with Kathy Hilton.
“What was put in front of you was all manufactured in hopes of pushing [Rinna’s] storyline for next season,” Somers alleged in a Monday Instagram video, refuting previous claims that Hilton paid him to go after Rinna on social media.
“It’s not true. Kathy Hilton did not have any involvement,” Somers added, further alleging, “It was strictly me and Lisa Rinna concocting this plan. It just went south really fast and so did our friendship. We’re no longer friends.”
But sources close to Rinna exclusively assure Page Six that she does not know Somers. A rep for the actress didn’t immediately return our request for comment.
Meanwhile, insiders have also told us that Hilton has never had any involvement — professional or otherwise — with Somers.
Last week, Rinna, 58, posted — and then deleted — screenshots of Instagram direct messages purportedly sent between Bravo fan account Your Moms Are Watching and Somers that suggested Hilton, 63, offered him financial compensation to plant negative stories about the Rinna Beauty founder.
“I have tea. I just DMed with Patrick Somers, that kid that sent Rinna a text last weekend threatening her,” Your Moms Are Watching’s initial post began.
“Rinna then posted the text and the kid posted Rinna’s number and it became a big thing. Well, he just admitted to me KATHY HILTON PAID HIM TO DO THIS. …. Turns out he made everything up just to divert focus from the fact that Lisa was calling out Kathy for the slurs she made in Aspen.”
The fan account then posted the messages in which Somers allegedly claimed that the name of the “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star who hired him rhymes with “Milton” and that he was “given one job: to pull attention away from my client. I did that… I was given a couple of specifics to make sure I hit our marketing strategy.”
After the supposed exposé, Somers released a statement describing the job he was allegedly tasked with — and claimed that Hilton cut him a fat paycheck for his services.
“My latest assignment was executed against Lisa Rinna. I never reveal a clients [sic] personal information per my NDA agreement,” his message began.
“My latest marketing campaign was to draw attention away from my client.. That’s exactly what I did. All narratives associated with my latest campaign are false. I was compensated $27,527.72 for my work.”
He concluded, “And frankly I’ve never met Lisa Rinna.”
Disassociating from Rinna was part of the plan, Somers alleged, despite his more recent claim that they’ve known each other since October 2020.
“We developed a personal relationship,” Somers said on Monday. “Really, this tale is a tale of two friends that got together, that had no idea what they were doing and wanted to stir some drama up.”
As their alleged plan crumbled, Rinna posted Somers’ phone number online — and Somers quickly retaliated by sharing Rinna’s.
“What I didn’t know in our plan was she was actually going to expose my real phone number. It was never supposed to be my real phone number. And I think that’s what people need to understand. So yes, I released her real phone number,” he stated.
“I thought she was going to blur out my number and just post the text message in hopes that people would then link it to Kathy Hilton, because she is alleging that Kathy said some not-so-nice remarks and that was going to fuel her storyline for next season.”
Back in February, RadarOnline reported that Hilton had a “meltdown” during the “RHOBH” cast trip to Aspen, Colo., in January. It wasn’t long before Bravo fans began speculating that the off-camera incident involved Hilton’s alleged use of a gay slur. Rinna and co-star Erika Jayne are rumored to have instigated the gossip.
Castmate Sutton Stracke subsequently denied Hilton used a gay slur while talking about her employee, Joshua Roberts.
“When I saw that about Josh, that’s going to make me not happy because untruths need to be squashed,” Stracke, 50, exclusively told Page Six last month. “And no one ever said that. Josh was not even in Aspen. This was ridiculous.”
“The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.