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Who Is Marciano Brunette on ‘Vanderpump Villa’? Inside His Season 3 Drama and Backstory

Amanda Orlando

The lead server with a Las Vegas background, a complicated history, and the most talked-about season on the show.

If you have been watching “Vanderpump Villa” Season 3 and trying to figure out exactly who Marciano Brunette is beneath all the chaos surrounding him, you are not alone. He is simultaneously the show’s most polarizing cast member and its most emotionally complicated one. Here is everything you need to know.

Who Is Marciano Brunette?

Marciano Brunette joined “Vanderpump Villa” as a lead server with years of high-end hospitality experience behind him, including a background working in Las Vegas. He first appeared in Season 1 and returned for Season 2, where he was fired mid-season following a confrontation with another staff member — and where the situation that would define his entire public image began to take shape, when the ‘Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” women visited the villa in Italy.

Lisa Vanderpump said publicly that she thought long and hard about bringing him back for Season 3, taking the allegations against him seriously before ultimately deciding to give him another chance at redemption.

“Very grateful Lisa called me back,” he said in his Episode 1 confessional. “But I have a lot of stress back home. A lot of it due to Mormon wives.”

The Mormon Wives Backstory

The short version: Marciano had a connection with Jessi Draper — who was married to Jordan Ngatikaura at the time — during the “SLOMW” crossover visit in Italy during Season 2. Jessi later admitted to an emotional affair and confirmed they kissed twice, taking a lie detector test to back up her denial of anything physical.

Marciano initially claimed the relationship had been physical, then walked it back entirely, telling Stassi Schroder in Season 3 that Demi Engemann and Scheana Shay had three-way called him and pressured him into saying it. He said he was hurt, believed what they told him, and that walking that claim back was the one thing he most wished he could take back.

Demi’s groping allegation against him — made without naming him on Nick Viall‘s podcast — added another layer he denied categorically.

Stassi confronted him about it immediately in Episode 1. She told him he had to be “a horrible, horrible person” to make up a rumor like that if it wasn’t true. He insisted he didn’t. Both Hannah and Stassi said in separate confessionals that they believed Marciano was a good person — but also that he was a liar. Both things, apparently, can be true at once.

The Hannah Fouch Situation

Hannah Fouch and Marciano arrived at Rosecroft Park having hooked up three weeks before filming and having told each other “I love you” at some point in between. Hannah told cameras she was trying to move on. Marciano told anyone who would listen that he was not.

What followed was ten episodes of kissing, denying, spying from hallways, fighting in stairwells, comforting each other at two in the morning, and going right back to the beginning. Marciano revealed to Charlie Tiedemann on night one that Hannah had left his house to go to the airport and that he was trying to figure out what he was supposed to do. He said “no one will ever understand the bond between me and Hannah” in confessional and meant every word of it.

He got Hannah in trouble repeatedly — threatening to tell everyone they had been kissing when she denied it publicly, exposing to Gabriella Sanon and Sher Suarez that Hannah had been talking about them, and then watching as the fallout landed on Hannah while telling the cameras he had warned her.

Gabriella screamed at him to “leave her the f—k alone, you’re obsessed with her, and you’re a psycho.” He cried in the courtyard. Stassi told him if he really loved Hannah he would sit her down soberly and say it. Hagen Bach, across the courtyard, yelled: “Marciano, are you fake crying?” Marciano lost it.

The turning point came in Episode 7 when Hannah confided in Dom DeAngelis that she had gotten pregnant with Marciano’s baby two years ago and lost it. Dom said he got it now. Viewers got it now. The cycle that the entire cast was exhausted by suddenly had roots nobody had seen.

By Episode 9, after Hagen officially ended his friendship with Hannah over the situation, Marciano ran across the courtyard to her side the moment he saw her walking away in tears.

Dom offered the most generous read of the season: “People are acting like Hannah and Marciano are like domestic terrorists. They’re just two toxic people that love each other. Just let ’em love.”

The Jordan Sit-Down

Lisa facilitated a meeting between Marciano and Jordan in her office and left them alone. Marciano said he wanted to apologize for everything. Jordan told him he had his number and could have called at any time. Said the apology was hard to accept because Marciano had kept trying to contact Jessi even after Jordan found out. He explained he and Jessi had spent close to $100,000 in therapy.

Marciano bit his tongue through the whole conversation — because he was sitting on the fact that Jessi had cheated on her first husband to be with Jordan. He went to Lisa afterward and told her. Lisa’s response was immediate: “What an absolute example of f—king hypocrisy.”

DadTok toasted to “Marciano’s funeral” and wore all black to dinner. Marciano took a backseat and stayed out of the lineup to avoid conflict. Jordan pulled him aside at the end of the visit and asked him to stop talking about it publicly, delete photos with Jessi, and let it die for the sake of his kids. Marciano agreed. Stassi, in confessional, said she was proud of him for not blowing up. Lisa said she hoped he would leave with his pride intact and feeling like he had done the right thing.

He then posted very intimate photos of himself and Jessi — feeding her grapes, holding hands walking away from the camera — shortly after the show premiered..

What the Rest of the Cast Thought

The staff was split, but not entirely along the lines you might expect. Keviah Healy said she had tried her best to get to know him but had to leave people where they were. Chef Anthony Bar found him difficult. Sam Terry went back and forth. Hagen blamed him as the root of the Hannah situation entirely. Dom defended him fiercely. Hannah defended him publicly while privately questioning whether she knew what love was because of him. Stassi kept returning to him — frustrated, suspicious, and grudgingly sympathetic in equal measure.

He didn’t win the bonus. He didn’t receive a badge of excellence. His confessional response was that he worked his ass off and that the badge of excellence was not Hagen’s. He was not subtle about it.

By the end of the episode, he said he didn’t think he would be returning to the villa.

Where He Stands Now

As of April 2026, Marciano and Jessi Draper have still not officially confirmed a relationship. What they have confirmed — through a photo shoot, a TMZ Nashville sighting, a kissing photo at the Hulu Get Real event with her face covered by a green heart emoji, and a comment section full of coordinating green hearts — is that whatever this is, it is not nothing. For the full timeline, read our complete breakdown here.

Whatever happens next, it will not be boring.

The “Vanderpump Villa” Season 3 reunion streams April 30 on Hulu. There is a secret recording. Hannah walked off set in tears. Marciano will be on that couch. See what we know and check out the trailer here. Click here to watch the trailer.

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