Having watched Lisa Oldfield and her husband really go at each other on The Real Housewives of Sydney, when Pettifleur Berenger met David Oldfield she says her first instinct was to feel sorry for him.
“I thought he was a browbeaten husband, a stay at home dad,” she says.
But when his first comments to Pettifleur, herself a former Real Housewife, were all about the shortcomings of his wife, that pity soon turned to anger.
Not only did she believe it was unacceptable that he talked so badly about his wife to complete strangers, but she says what she perceives to be David’s disrespect towards women soon spilled over onto his Hell’s Kitchen companions.
“My feeling was that he has something against women,” Pettifleur, 52, says of the former One Nation politician.
“He picked up on at least a couple of the girls there and he had a massive altercation with Candace Falzon which was just awful. I have to say though, I’m no saint. I would stir him on a bit because I was having a lot of fun.”
Likening the feud in the kitchen to being “a comedy” Pettifleur says the air often turned blue as David responded to her jibes.
“He didn’t let me talk without telling me to shut up or the swear words would come out,” she says.
“There were a few horrible things said and then it was hard to get back to a neutral place with him. But from my end I wasn’t bothered by it because I just ignored any insults he made and I didn’t take it personally.”
David’s wife, and The Real Housewives Of Sydney star, Lisa Oldfield.
Still, while she found it hard to form a bond with David, 59, Pettifleur says she made great friends with her other Hell’s Kitchen castmates.
“We were all in the same mindset of being happy to be there cooking and trying hard,” she explains.
