Forever in the shadow of Maddie Ziegler along with everyone else, Brynn Rumfallo’s time to shine arrived on Dance Moms last night.
Picking up where last week left off, Dance Moms Season 6 Episode 12 saw Abby Lee Miller gifting the 12-year-old dancer a trio.
What does that mean? Brynn is allowed to pick two teammates.
If her trio wins, and beats Maddie Ziegler’s group (she also gets two teammates), she will score a permanent spot on her ALDC team.
Wow, this doesn’t sound contrived whatsoever from the fakest reality show of all time. Lifetime just has this kind of drama handed to it!
Jill Vertes, mother of Kendall, makes it clear she doesn’t want Brynn to triumph because her mother, Ashlee, will join their studio if so.
“Brynn’s a cute kid. I don’t have a problem with her at all, but I do have a problem with Ashlee always picking on my kid,” Jill laments.
“I can’t have that,” she adds.
Jill makes no bones about the fact that she hopes Maddie’s trio of dancers with her daughter, Kendall, and JoJo Siwa wins first-place.
Alas.
Brynn’s dance with Kalani Hilliker and Mackenzie Ziegler, “The World’s Ours,” ends up taking first-place in the junior duet-trio division.
Maddie, with her contemporary jazz number “The Golden Girls,” places second, and naturally, the moms question the results immediately.
The judges confirm Brynn’s team won by two points, so as promised, Miller presents Rumfallo with her official elite junior team jacket.
Jill is just crushed.
“I can not rejoice in Brynn getting her jacket, sorry,” Jill tells the Lifetime cameras, and then exchanges some harsh words with Ashlee.
After Ashlee slams her for trying to “discredit” Brynn and her success, Jill tells her to “go cry somewhere.” Damn, those fightin’ words!
Later, in the dressing room, Ashlee also vents about the moms’ actions, while the back-and-forth makes its way back to the girls as well.
“Ashlee said you were mean to her daughter,” Kendall says to her mom. “Ashlee said that all the moms are mean to her daughter.”
Apparently someone doesn’t watch Dance Moms online if they’re at all surprised by this. Which is probably a good thing in the end.
In any case, it gets worse.
Jill shares what Kendall said with Abby, and confronts Jill, who responds by calling Ashlee a “stupid you know what.” Feel the burn.
“I’m not going to listen to her lies!” Jill says, while Ashlee replies, “I’m always the bad guy because everybody turns against me and I’m stupid!”
“They don’t want us here, fine. I’m done!” Ashlee declares, storming out and bringing her victorious but devastated daughter with her.
“Jill and Kendall say that you’re an awful person,” Brynn says, fighting back the tears. “And she created it and she doesn’t even care!”
Sad.