Vicki Gunvalson seeks solace with the man who is driving a wedge between her and her daughter Briana in the next episode of the Real Housewives of Orange County. The tearful 50-year-old tells boyfriend Brooks Ayers that her daughter branded him an “opportunist” which of course, he vehemently denies.

RadarOnline.com has a sneak preview of their sit down which shows Vick’s tearful heart-to-heart in full.

Last week saw Briana tell her mother she’d changed as she reeled off evidence of Brooks’ unsuitability, such as his DUI and lack of care for his "four children by three different women."

Vicki Gunvalson has battled with her co-stars on The Real Housewives of Orange County, but she hits a new low when she tells her daughter Briana to “shut up” during a fight caught on camera.

In a sneak peek of the new episode of the over-the-top reality show obtained by RadarOnline.com, Vicki appears without makeup and drinking wine during an epic battle with her daughter over their respective relationships, and the claws come out!

Is outspoken reality star Vicki Gunvalson heading for heartbreak?

Seems that way, as a well placed source tells RadarOnline.com exclusively that her relationship with current beau Brooks Ayers is deteriorating by the day.

"Brooks is totally at the point of dumping Vicki," the source says. "Problem is, he really enjoys all the fame and attention that goes with dating her, so looks like he will be hanging on for a little longer to milk it for all it's worth.

Real Housewives of Orange County star Vicki Gunvalson didn’t waste much time after her divorce before she jumped back in the dating pool, but boyfriend Brooks Ayers isn’t winning any fans among her costars, and RadarOnline.com has a sneak peek at his latest strange behavior.

During a group dinner in an upcoming episode of the Bravo reality show Brooks tells his fellow diners how he sends out an “affirmation of the day,” via e-mail.

The original Real Housewives, the blonde Orange County ladies, are the most drama filled of them all, even when they’re not on TV.

Tamra Barney is the latest to get into the fray and during an interview with the Johnjay and Rich radio show on Tuesday she slammed her co-star Vicki Gunvalson, calling her a “hypocrite.”

The early returns from the new season of The Real Housewives of Orange County have provided as much drama as their well-documented neighbors up I-5, and it turns out we might have had a hand in the bad blood a’ flowin near Disneyland, between beauties Gretchen Rossi and Vicki Gunvalson, over a double deadbeat dad debacle.

Here’s how it all went down:

Vicki’s always been critical of co-star Gretchen Rossi's boyfriend Slade Smiley, who as RadarOnline.com previously reported, owes $138,857.64 in unpaid child support.

There is nothing better than a good old scandal and that made 2011 a banner year for reality TV!

From cheating spouses, to fake marriages to shocking suicides and risking children’s lives, reality stars showed their true colors by fighting, making-up, dodging debt and raking up arrests, and RadarOnline.com has a gallery of the biggest scandals of the year.

Kim Kardashian tied the knot with Kris Humphries in an $18 million made-for-TV extravaganza but filed for divorce just 72 days later, prompting outcry that the nuptials were fake and only for ratings on her reality show. The backlash was swift, especially when Kim cashed in with huge ratings for the new season of Kourtney and Kim Take New York, which was re-edited to make Kris look like the bad guy.

Taylor Armstrong’s financial troubles were simmering when her estranged husband Russell hanged himself in August, followed by the shocking news that Russell had allegedly abused her during their tumultuous marriage.  His suicide stunned family and friends, but the couple’s troubles are proving to be a ratings bonanza for the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, with their counseling sessions aired on TV and the couple’s dark secrets revealed weekly.

Real Housewife of Orange County Vicki Gunvalson is dating a man with a pretty long rap sheet, but in a strange twist it turns out she’s been involved with him for a lot longer than anyone first suspected.

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, when Brooks Ayers was arrested twice in 2010 for not paying child support Vicki wrote a letter to the judge asking him to release her friend from jail.

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His ex-girlfriend, a woman named Debbie Keane, told RadarOnline.com that she started dating Ayers in 2005 and had a run in with a jealous Vicki way back in 2007, years before Vicki went public with their relationship and while she was still married to Donn Gunvalson.

“I was tagging along on a business trip with Brooks in 2007 in West Palm Beach, Florida and he kept talking about how his friend who was famous was coming to the conference,” Keane said. Sure enough, Vicki arrived at the financial planning group conference and immediately sought Brooks out.

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“She sent him a text saying ‘finally here, I need a drink,’” Brooks’ ex said about Vicki.

Debbie said that two nights later she and Brooks were in a bar when Vicki walked in, so she followed her to the bathroom and confronted her about flirting with Brooks.  “She told me to mind my own business and then went and told Brooks he needed to ‘keep your girl in check.’”

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However, Vicki remembers things quite differently -- when contacted by RadarOnline.com she admitted to having met Debbie at the conference but claims that there was no fight, and in fact that Debbie “was really nice and complimented me on the show and on my outfit.” Vicki also insists that she was at the conference with Donn.

Debbie goes on to make a further, shocking, claim about Vicki and Brook’s relationship though: “In 2009 Brooks was at my house in Memphis when Vicki started texting him while she was away renewing her vows.  He told me she was saying that Don was so good to her but she didn’t really care anymore.”

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Vicki totally disputes this ever occurred however, swearing to RadarOnline.com that she had no cell service in Turks & Caicos, where they were, so it would of been impossible for her to send any text messages.

Meanwhile, just last week Debbie said she had been communicating again with Brooks, who despite still being married, and reportedly dating Vicki, was trying to visit her in her new home.

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“He wanted me to pay to fly him out here to meet him,” Debbie said.  She said she asked Brooks why he didn’t have his own money to fly and see her since it was reported that he had paid for a shopping trip with Vicki on May 11.

Debbie alleges that Brooks told her he didn’t actually pay for the purchases!  “Vicki went to change and I signed her name to her credit card receipt in the store, I didn’t pay for her new clothes myself,” Debbie says Brooks told her.

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As for his relationship with Vicki, Debbie said he told her it isn’t exclusive.  “I’m not just seeing Vicki,” she claims he told her.  “I’m talking to three other women too.”

Meanwhile, Vicki insists that she and Brooks were never serious in the first place and that they are “taking a break” right now.

Seems like a case of she says... he says.... she says...

Either way, watch out Vicki, it sounds like Brooks has a lot to hide!

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The new boyfriend of Real Housewives of Orange County star Vicki Gunvalson has had multiple arrests relating to unpaid child support, and now RadarOnline.com has exclusively uncovered another arrest - this time for a DUI!

Brooks Ayers was arrested on June 15, 2009 for DUI in DeFuniak Springs, Florida and RadarOnline.com has obtained his mug shot.

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According to his ex-girlfriend Debbie Keane she paid his $1,000 bail in cash after he was arrested while driving to visit her on vacation.

Brooks Ayers, the new boyfriend of Real Housewives Of Orange County star, Vicki Gunvalson, is a ‘deadbeat dad’ who owes thousands of dollars in child support to TWO separate women -- and now we have the mug shot to prove it!

Ayers’ mug shot was taken on August 29, 2010 at the Lee County Jail where he was incarcerated for failure to pay child support.

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As RadarOnline.com previously reported Brooks' was arrested twice by police in Alabama and Mississippi last year for failing to meet his child support obligations to estranged wife Kim.

It's claimed he owes about $40,000, in total, to her and another woman: his ex-girlfriend, Nicolette Catanzarite from Indianapolis, IN., with whom he has a son.

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