The Super Bowl is supposed to be about the game. In the Bay Area, it quietly became about something else. Two women once linked by one man, standing side by side in matching jerseys, hosting a party built on the idea that scandal can evolve into something softer.
Lala Kent and Ambyr Childers did not just attend a Super Bowl LX party. According to Page Six, they cohosted iHeartRadio’s “An Unlikely Affair” pregame celebration at the Casa Madrona Hotel & Spa in Sausalito, California, turning football weekend into a live episode of their new chapter.
It was a party with massages, rooftop views, and celebrity guests. It was also, very clearly, a statement.
The Super Bowl Party Where the Drama Softens
According to Page Six, iHeartRadio teamed with “Vanderpump Rules” alum Lala Kent and actress Ambyr Childers to kick off Super Bowl LX weekend at the swanky Casa Madrona Hotel & Spa, just across the water from San Francisco. The event carried a fitting title, “An Unlikely Affair,” and it played out like the glossy soft launch of a truce years in the making.
The guest list leaned reality-forward and instantly recognizable. Page Six reported that “Next Gen NYC” star Gia Giudice mingled with “RHONJ” alum Dolores Catania, “RHOC” star Tamra Judge, and “The Valley” star Brittany Cartwright. Former “Dancing With the Stars” pro Cheryl Burke was there, as were TJ Holmes and his fiancée Amy Robach, bringing their own headline-making romance to the mix.
Every Super Bowl has its cluster of VIP parties, but this one came with a built-in storyline. Kent, who previously admitted she was the “mistress” to producer Randall Emmett while he was married to Childers, now sharing a stage and a mic with the ex-wife? That is the kind of emotional plotline that hangs in the air, even when the music is loud.
From Mistress Confession to Hosting as a Team
For years, the Kent and Childers connection existed as a Hollywood whisper and a reality TV talking point. Kent publicly acknowledged her role in Emmett and Childers’ marriage, a confession that made her both villain and truth-teller in different corners of the internet. Childers, who shares children with Emmett, largely stayed out of the Bravo spotlight, but her name was always there, just off-camera.
According to Page Six, the new iHeartRadio project and party are framed around the evolution of that relationship. Childers, 37, put it simply when she spoke to the outlet about their upcoming podcast and partnership, explaining that listeners will hear about their
“journey coming together … from enemies to friends.”
The quote hangs like a thesis statement over the entire Super Bowl weekend event. The women who once shared only pain and tabloid speculation now share a hosting credit, a business opportunity, and a photo backdrop.
Kent, 35, walking into a Super Bowl party not as the woman who fractured a marriage but as the woman standing next to the ex-wife, suggests a recalibration of roles. Childers, often framed as the wronged party, is now openly choosing collaboration over distance. The optics are powerful because they are deliberate.
A Bay Area Escape Built for Instagram
The setting made the emotional reset feel even more aspirational. According to Page Six, the party unfolded at Casa Madrona Hotel & Spa in Sausalito, a waterfront escape with rooftop views that stretch across the San Francisco Bay toward the Golden Gate Bridge.
According to Casa Madrona, the property overlooks the bay and offers hilltop terraces, which helps explain why the iHeartRadio event read like a highlight reel of pampering and content-ready corners. Guests could slip into massages, get their nails done, and walk out with custom trucker hats adorned with patches tailored to each person.
The experience did not stop there. As Page Six detailed, attendees could sit for tarot card readings, then wander over to make custom charm bracelets and necklaces. It was the kind of hands-on, hyper-curated party that turns every guest into both participant and storyteller.
The menu leaned into fun rather than fussy. According to Page Six, guests dined on burgers and fried chicken sliders, fruit kabobs, and cheese and pepperoni pizza. It is comfort food chosen for a crowd that came to relax, gossip, and pose, not count calories. All of it played out against those Bay Area views, turning a football-adjacent event into a lifestyle postcard.
Celebrities, Second Chances, and Quiet Rebranding
Super Bowl weekend has long been an unofficial convention for brands, influencers, and power players, and this party slotted neatly into that ecosystem. What made it memorable was not just who showed up, but what the hosting duo represented.
Seeing TJ Holmes and Amy Robach, who left their morning show roles after their relationship became public, at an event centered on a reimagined love triangle felt almost symbolic. The guest list was thick with reality TV veterans, people who know exactly how fast a narrative can flip, and how essential it is to own your version of events before someone else tells it.
For Kent, attaching her name to an iHeartRadio event at the Super Bowl positions her more as a multimedia personality and less as a reality side character. For Childers, who typically felt more through headlines than heard in her own words, it nudges her into the spotlight on her own terms. The party was not just about sponsors and snacks. It was about both women showing they can share a storyline without sharing a man.
There is a subtle power in letting cameras capture them laughing together, interacting with guests, and moving through the space as functional partners. It does not erase history. It simply reframes it.
What This Truce Means for Their Next Chapter
When Childers talks about going from enemies to friends, it opens up a new kind of Super Bowl narrative, one that has nothing to do with yardage and everything to do with emotional yardage. Forgiveness, or at least coexistence, is not traditionally the stuff of red carpet sound bites, but here it is, packaged as a party and a podcast hook.
The iHeartRadio collaboration, launched in such a public, high-stakes weekend, suggests that Kent and Childers intend to tell this story themselves, in their own voices. Hosting a lavish event during one of the busiest publicity weekends of the year is a way of saying that whatever happened with Randall Emmett is the prequel, not the main feature.
For viewers who watched the drama unfold from the sidelines, the image of these two women clinking glasses instead of trading barbs offers a different ending than many expected. It also hints at how modern celebrity culture treats scandal. The fallout is real, but so is the opportunity to repurpose that fallout into a brand, a show, or, in this case, an “Unlikely” alliance.
If this Super Bowl weekend is any indication, the next phase of Kent and Childers’ story will not be whispered about in the corners of reality TV blogs. It will be recorded, edited, and streamed, with the two women at the center, not the man who once defined the space between them.
