Nick King walked into Rosecroft Park calling himself a bartender. He left with a reputation as something else entirely, and honestly, the signs were there from minute one. The 25-year-old Edinburgh native was one of the most chaotic new additions to “Vanderpump Villa” Season 3, and the chaos had nothing to do with his drink-making skills. Mostly because he doesn’t have any.
Here is every messy Nick moment this season, broken down for anyone who needs it.
He Applied as a Bartender and Could Not Make a Single Drink
Let’s start at the beginning, because the beginning is genuinely unhinged. Nick described his confidence as coming “in heavy doses.” That tracks. What did not track was applying for a bartending job without knowing what a gimlet is.
During the very first guest event, Sam Vanderpump and Alice Yaxley‘s engagement party, guest Tina Stinnes asked Nick to pour her a glass of wine. He wouldn’t do it. A guest ordered a whiskey sour. He didn’t know how to make one. Someone asked for a gimlet. He didn’t know what it was. Tina ended up going behind the bar and pouring her own drink, which is not something a guest should ever have to do at a luxury estate.
Alice brought it to Lisa the next morning. “Your bartender doesn’t know how to bartend,” she told her. She also clocked something else about Nick specifically‚ that he was very good with words. “It’s manipulative, almost.”
Nick’s own confessional assessment of the situation: “Worst nightmare.”
Marciano Brunette said it plainest: “It seems like Nick doesn’t know how to bartend for shit. It’s weird. It really makes me question his motives here. And it doesn’t seem, to me, it’s for the right reasons.” Lisa, for her part, referenced a whole prior season of being fooled: “After Siadi last summer, how many fake Brits do I have to deal with?”
She demoted him to barback instead of firing him. Because charm is a skill, apparently.
He Was Already in Bed With a Guest Before the Complaint Even Got to Lisa
Here is the timeline that nobody is talking about enough. Tina complained about Nick’s incompetence to her group, noted on camera that he didn’t know how to pour wine, and then kissed him that same night. He told her he was attracted to her. She said he had “something about him.” They made out at a table outside and then continued in his room. He confirmed they hooked up to his coworkers the next morning, because of course he did.
Then Ekin-Su arrived for her birthday celebration. Nick immediately started flirting with her too. Tina, who had explicitly told the group Nick was “hers,” noticed. Her exact words: “He’s mine.” Ekin-Su’s exact response, with full Love Island energy: “You’re not married. You just met him.”
Ekin-Su’s unprompted review of Nick: “A really nice bum.”
Nick in confessional did not appear particularly concerned about any of this.
He Pivoted to Alyssa Like Tina Never Happened
By Episode 3, Tina was gone and so was Nick’s interest in her. The staff took a punting trip to Oxford, Nick kissed server Alyssa Johnston on the boat, held her hand through the streets, and was kissing her hard in front of the entire group by the end of the night. His confessional: “I think I’m in trouble because I really like her.”
Both of them called it casual. Neither of them was remotely convincing about it. They were in bed together. They kissed poolside constantly. It walked and talked like a situationship, which it was, except Nick had already made out with a guest and flirted with another one in roughly the same window of time.
Nobody seemed to hold him accountable for the Tina overlap, which feels like a recurring theme.
He Made Out With Hannah in Front of Alyssa
The Challenge group arrived, things got unhinged fast, and during a wild poolside nightcap Hannah Fouch made out with Nick, directly in front of Alyssa. Meredith’s confessional: “I think Hannah needs to be more of a girl’s girl.” Marciano’s confessional: “I’m sick of this horny Hannah trying to make out with everyone right in front of me.”
Alyssa’s reaction on camera was minimal. Which was somehow more painful to watch than if she had said something.
Nick’s accountability for this moment: nonexistent.
Bachelor Nation Jess Showed Up and He Completely Unraveled
Bachelor Nation guest Jess arrived in Episode 5 and Nick was completely cooked. His confessional: “As soon as I see Jess, I’m shook. She’s got me by the pinky.” He kissed her multiple times, called her “my little babycakes,” and flirted with her so aggressively that her friend Maria pulled him aside: “If you f—k with Jess, you —k with Me.”
Meanwhile, Alyssa’s confessional on the whole thing: “Nick’s falling in love with Jess and then I’m just here, I’m chopped liver?” She said she didn’t really care because things were always casual between them. She then kissed bachelor nation guest John twice and ended up in his bed, so you can read that however you want.
Nick told his confessional he might still be thinking about Jess while in bed with Alyssa. He said that out loud. Into a camera.
When the Bachelor Nation group left, Nick ran after Jess’s car, kissed her, and picked her up. He got choked up in confessional talking about her. The most genuine emotion he showed all season was for a woman who was there for three days.
He Kept His Job Anyway
Nick made it all ten episodes. No firing, no real consequences, one demotion that barely registered. He did not win a bonus. Hagen Bach took the $50,000. But he also didn’t leave in disgrace, which feels like it should have at least been on the table.
His professional legacy at Rosecroft Park is essentially: couldn’t make a whiskey sour, kissed several women, got away with it. Marciano called it in Episode 2. The show spent eight more episodes proving him right.
“Vanderpump Villa” Season 3 is streaming now on Hulu.
The ‘Vanderpump Villa’ Season 3 reunion airs April 30th. See what we know and watch the trailer here.
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