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First up this episode we’re with Gamble and Anjali, who clashed in their first on-camera meeting last episode, when Anjali accused Gamble of secretly conspiring against another of this season’s new girls, Kyla.

Gamble insists she never had it out for Kyla – but notes it’d be “easy to make fun of someone who calls themselves the Great Dane … the Lady of Grape …” That’s Champagne Dame, Gamble.

Anjali’s planning a housewarming party at her box-fresh new apartment later in the episode, so Cherry’s playing peacemaker and has invited both Janet and Kyla – who’ve previously clashed – shopping to find outfits.

But there’s no time for homicide, because next Janet’s meeting with her Housewives bestie Jackie in the Botanical Gardens to hear some big news.

It’s not the most romantic of dinners, as Kyri begins listing the ways Kyla has hurt him – all before the bread’s even arrived, which just seems like bad manners!

“I was trying to love somebody who doesn’t love me back,” he claims – which to me, sounds like the sort of bombshell statement that would immediately end all hopes of a reconciliation, but Kyla just nods sagely.

By this point we know Anjali loves talking about Anjali, but it does seems like there’s a wall up.

“I feel like it’s all about her yachts and this and that – and I don’t really know much about her, other than her job from 10 years ago,” says Jackie, who it’s good to know can still deliver a solid burn while pregnant with twins.

For Jackie, it’s more a sense of relief that she “doesn’t have to hide it anymore.

Some viewers have asked when exactly this season was filmed given Australia’s frequent pandemic lockdowns – and it is hard not to hear “girls trip to Queensland” without worrying Annastacia Palaszczuk will shoot their plane out of the sky with a bazooka.

As she packs, Jackie starts filling husband Ben in on the intricate layers of social dysfunction she expects will surface among the Housewives on this trip.

It’s an idyllic first night of holidays – but there’s drama just around the corner