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Angie Katsanevas has thrown some serious shade at her Real Housewives of Salt Lake City costar Lisa Barlow over the ongoing Ben Affleck drama.
Alongside a clip of Affleck seeming to be clueless about ever meeting Barlow, Katsanevas, 51, wrote via Instagram on Friday, January 16, “[Ben] didn’t know Lisa but he recognized Celia.”
As any RHOSLC viewer will surely know, Celia is Katsanevas’s beloved pet poodle, who played a pivotal part in an iconic season 6 argument about farting with her owner’s castmate Mary M. Cosby. (Cosby, 53, infamously blamed Celia for farting during a scene with Katsanevas, though the exact culprit has never been confirmed.)
Meanwhile, all of the Affleck drama started in The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City season 6 when Barlow, 51, name-dropped Affleck and Blake Lively as her excuse for missing Katsanevas’s girls trip.
“I don’t want to spend the night with [costar Bronwyn Newport]. She’s a pathological liar. She can’t tell the truth to save her life. It’s like, disgusting,” Barlow complained. “Also, I have a work thing. It’s like, a big deal. I think what people forget is I have a very full life. Because I keep it kinda private. And like, I’m not gonna drop names, but like, I’ll be with Ben [Affleck] and Blake [Lively].”
She then quipped, “I’ll be with Ben Affleck and you’ll be with Bronwyn.”
However, Affleck, 53, seemed utterly clueless about ever meeting Barlow when asked to fact-check the Bravo star’s comments during a recent interview with Access Hollywood.
“I don’t want to get anybody in trouble or – I don’t know what this is – an event in Salt Lake City? Like, prove somebody right or wrong?” he replied in a clip shared on Friday.
Affleck later admitted, “I haven’t been in Utah in maybe, 8, 9 or 10 years, I don’t know. It doesn’t look familiar to me and I don’t remember anything.”
Angie Katsanevas, Heather Gay, Bronwyn Newport, Meredith Marks, Lisa Barlow, Mary Cosby, Whitney Rose on “RHOSLC” Jocelyn Prescod/Bravo
Affleck and his The Rip costar Matt Damon pointed out that it’s possible that he may have crossed paths with Barlow at some point without realizing it.
“I don’t want to embarrass her because, I say hi to a lot of people, I don’t want to be the jerk who is like, I didn’t meet you… You don’t remember everyone you meet,” Affleck said. “I don’t think I’m qualified to weigh in on this, whatever this raging controversy is.”
While there was speculation that Barlow may have been referring to meeting Ben at a Sundance Film Festival event in Park City, Utah, she later set the record straight.
“[It was] SXSW [for] The Accountant 2,” Barlow clarified via Instagram on Friday. “And it was a great movie and party.”
The Affleck-starring action thriller The Accountant 2 did have its world premiere at the SXSW Film & TV Festival in Austin, Texas, on March 8, 2025. Affleck and Damon were reportedly in attendance for the screening and a premiere party that night. (Lively’s thriller Another Simple Favor also screened at SXSW on March 7, 2025.)
This latest incident is not the first-time Barlow has name-dropped Affleck. On the heels of Affleck’s split from ex-wife Jennifer Lopez in August 2024, Barlow shared a throwback photo of the actor with his arm around her shoulder.
The Instagram Story was set to Lopez’s hit “If You Had My Love” and featured Barlow’s playful caption, “I always throw a great house party.”
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City airs on Bravo Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET. New episodes stream the next day on Peacock.
