Carole Radziwill Accuses Jessel Taank of Faking Her Fury Over the Pavit Rumor: 'You Pretended to Be Furious'
Carole Radziwill is not an alum dropping in from the sidelines — she came back to The Real Housewives of New York City this season, a friend in March, full-time by the summer, and filmed the Moskito trip right next to Jessel Taank. So when Pavit answered the rumor with a joking gym video captioned "#fakenews," and Carole accused her own castmate, in his comments, of faking her fury for the cameras, it carried weight — she was in the room. Jessel fired back. Then Carole's comments were deleted. The whole fight is about a timeline — so BC News checked it.
The Fight in the Comments
Carole opened it, pinned at the top of Pavit's post: "Lol. Go Pavit! This is hilarious. I actually love how Jessel jokes about it now... you'll see, that was her initial reaction. I just wish she then didn't act 'furious' about it for the rest of time! It gets very 'Jam'."
Jessel answered: she did treat the rumor as ridiculous — "but watching the season and seeing Erin's 'I know something that will ruin her family' comment and intention behind it?! Now that's weaponizing the rumor against us. And THAT is why I have every right to be 'furious'."
Carole came back with a calendar. "Babe, your timeline is off. Let me fix it." Her claim: Jessel "decided to be furious about the 'ridiculous rumor' and your fury continued the entire time we filmed LAST SPRING. Jam." And: "you only found out that Erin thought it would ruin the family when you watched the show LAST WEEK." Then the line the whole fight turns on: "you thought the rumor was ridiculous but you pretended to be furious while we were filming."
Jessel got the last word: "I don't need you to 'fix' anything. Just keep watching and stay cosy in ur tube socks." The tube socks were a callback to Carole's own After Show segment defending her signature pair, days earlier. Carole's comments have since been deleted.
The bad blood predates it — the Episode 2 Bessette brunch blowup, Carole's "dingbat" diss, Jessel's "old" jab on the October 6 After Show.
The Timeline, Checked
Carole's whole case is a calendar. Here it is, claim by claim.
"We filmed last spring" — HOLDS. Filming began the week of March 2, 2026, wrapped by late spring — Carole filmed it too, Moskito trip included. On "last spring," the dates back her.
What the rumor is — alleged, all the way down. On the trip, Sai de Silva told Jessel on camera that Erin had allegedly told Sai's makeup artist Chris, at BravoCon 2025, she had proof Pavit is gay — caught with men at his gym. It aired in Episode 6, "Moskito Madness" (October 13); Erin denied saying anything about Pavit. It is unproven: both deny it; Erin denies spreading it.
"You only found out last week" — BREAKS. Episode 5 aired October 6 — so if Jessel first heard Erin's wording at home, "last week" is close enough. But by Jessel's own After Show account, Erin had texted her before filming about a podcaster's blind item on someone in the cast, and Jessel declined to hear more. A rumor's existence was not news to her in October; Erin's "ruin her family" framing was. "You only found out" is too clean.
Her first reaction — HOLDS, so far. In Episode 6, Jessel rejected the rumor and joked about it — per Bravo, that Pavit does not even go to a gym. The fury on the public record is aimed at Erin, after broadcast, on the After Show. Point, Carole.
"Your fury continued the entire time we filmed" — UNPROVEN. No aired episode shows season-long spring fury — the rumor scene is a late-trip Episode 6 beat, and Episode 7 (October 20) is where Carole's "you'll see" gets tested. One hole nobody can fill: Erin said "ruin her family" to Daisy, on the trip. If Daisy repeated it to Jessel during filming, Carole's case collapses. No report found says either way.
What "Jam" Means
Twice, Carole dropped one word in quotes — "It gets very 'Jam'"; then, alone: "Jam." No outlet covering the fight explained it. The season does.
In Episode 2, Hailey Glassman called Erin "strawberry jam" — her word for boring. In Episode 3, at a Passover seder, Erin gifted Hailey a Jam of the Month. On Page Six's Virtual Reali-Tea (September 29), Hailey said the Jam of the Month was a fabrication — she never received it.
Against the season's own facts, it fits: "Jam" is the name this cast already has for a small joke inflated into a storyline — and, in Hailey's telling, a storyline built on something that never happened. Carole was most plausibly telling Jessel: you are doing that to this rumor. Her exact intent is unconfirmed — she never explained the word, and she deleted the comments.
The Take
Fair is fair, both ways. Carole is right about the shape of it: Jessel's aired first reaction was a joke; the public fury arrived after the episodes did. Jessel is right about the meaning: a rumor friends laugh off is one thing — a castmate saying it "would ruin her family" is a threat, wording she only heard on TV. Neither full story survives the check. Carole skips the pre-filming text. Jessel answers the feeling, never the spring calendar.
One thing is not in dispute: a woman who filmed every scene typed it under the husband's own post, in public — then deleted it. Whose account holds up? Now it's the Family's turn to call it.
Questions About the Carole and Jessel Fight
What did Carole Radziwill accuse Jessel Taank of?
In the comments of Pavit Randhawa's Instagram post, Carole accused Jessel of pretending to be furious about the rumor concerning Pavit while they filmed The Real Housewives of New York City Season 16 last spring. Carole returned to the show this season and filmed alongside Jessel, including the Moskito Island trip. Her point: Jessel only learned of Erin Lichy's "ruin her family" comment when the show aired last week, so the fury Jessel showed on camera could not have been about that comment. Carole's comments were later deleted. BC News checked the timeline in the article above: parts hold, parts break, and her claim of season-long fury is unproven.
What is the rumor about Pavit Randhawa on RHONY?
On Season 16, Sai de Silva told Jessel on camera that Erin Lichy had allegedly repeated a rumor to Sai's makeup artist: that Erin claimed proof Pavit is gay and was caught with men at his gym. Pavit answered with a joking gym video on Instagram captioned "#fakenews," and Jessel has denied the rumor completely. Erin denied in Episode 6 that she said anything about Pavit.
What did Erin Lichy say about ruining Jessel Taank's family?
On the cast's Moskito Island trip, Erin told Daisy Toye she had information she could release about Jessel and that "it would ruin her family." Jessel says that comment, and the intention behind it, is the real reason she is furious — not the rumor itself.
What does Carole Radziwill's 'Jam' comment mean?
Carole twice called Jessel's fury "Jam" in the thread. "Jam" is Season 16's own shorthand: in Episode 2, Hailey Glassman called Erin Lichy "strawberry jam" (boring); in Episode 3, Erin gifted Hailey a Jam of the Month; Hailey later said that gift was a fabrication she never received. Read against those facts, Carole was most plausibly accusing Jessel of inflating a small thing into a storyline. Carole has not explained the word herself, so her exact intent is unconfirmed.
Sources & Verification
The exchange: the comments ran under Pavit Randhawa's Instagram post — his gym video answering the rumor, posted October 15, 2026, captioned "I do love to break a sweat at Equinox but not in that way. #fakenews." The thread was captured in @queensofbravo's Instagram carousel on October 15, 2026, and screenshotted by BC News's owner on October 16; that capture is shown in this article. Every quote was checked against Reality Blurb's report of the same thread (published October 15, 2026, 1:00 PM ET), which transcribed the comments and agrees with the capture on all substantive wording. Two small differences: Reality Blurb's transcription trims the opening "Lol." of Carole's first comment and both of her "Jam" asides; BC News follows the capture for exact wording. Carole's comments were later deleted, as noted in Reality Tea's and The Tab's follow-up coverage (October 15–16, 2026). BC News did not pull the thread directly from Instagram; the quotes rest on the owner's screenshot of the @queensofbravo capture plus one independent outlet's matching transcription.
Carole's return and the timeline: Bravo announced Carole's return on March 2, 2026, as a friend-of, after eight years away (Parade); she was promoted to full-time by the season's July trailer (People). Filming began the week of March 2, 2026, and had wrapped by late spring, per the season's production and episode records. Episode dates: Episode 5, "Trouble in Paradise" (the Moskito trip begins), aired October 6, 2026; Episode 6, "Moskito Madness" — Sai delivering the rumor to Jessel on camera, via her makeup artist Chris, and Erin's denial — aired October 13, 2026; Episode 7 had not aired as of publication. The rumor's details and Jessel's After Show account — including Erin's pre-filming text about a podcaster's blind item — are from Bravo's Daily Dish (October 14, 2026) and Reality Blurb's After Show reporting (October 14, 2026). Erin's "ruin her family" remark to Daisy Toye on the trip is from Reality Tea's episode coverage (October 14, 2026); whether Daisy relayed it to Jessel during filming is not in any report BC News found, and this article says so. The rumor is reported here as a rumor: Pavit and Jessel deny it, and Erin denies spreading it.
The "Jam" decode: Hailey Glassman calling Erin "strawberry jam" (Episode 2) and Erin's Jam of the Month gift at the Episode 3 seder are from Reality Blurb's and Reality Tea's episode coverage (September 2026). Hailey's statement that the Jam of the Month was a fabrication she never received was made on Page Six's Virtual Reali-Tea (September 29, 2026) and reported by Reality Blurb (October 10, 2026). The reading of Carole's "Jam" lines offered in this article is BC News's interpretation of those season facts — Carole's exact intent is unconfirmed and is labeled that way in the article.