Bi 'Selling the OC' Cast Member at the Heart of Season 3 Rumors

There's a little "Challengers"-esque testosterone flying on Netflix's new season of "Selling the OC" as bi cast member Sean Palmieri stirs things up with claims about two straight colleagues.

Although Palmieri generates some heat at various points in the new season, which dropped May 3, claiming that two of his straight male co-stars on the real estate reality show were putting moves on him, castmates say there was no fire.

Spoilers ahead.

Things seemed to be going sideways when Palmieri's friendship with fellow relator Tyler Stanaland started to fizzle out – something that Palmieri seemed upset about.

After confronting Stanaland about how he was seemingly distancing himself from Palmieri, Palmieri began alleging to others in the office that another male friend and colleague, Austin Victoria, had intimated to him that Victoria and his wife, Lisa, were looking to experiment with group sex situations. More than that, Palmieri claimed that Victoria and his wife had invited him over one night and fed him marijuana cookies.

Victoria didn't take kindly to that, and things came to a head in Episode 5 when Victoria confronted Palmieri in what looked like an impending knock-down-drag-out on the patio of the real estate office. The argument only got slightly physical, but it proved a watershed moment, with the two men hurling accusations at one another in front of their shocked colleagues until a couple of the other guys – including Stanaland – intervened.

"Everything was fabricated, everything was a lie that was said," Victoria told ET in a post-mortem of the season."

"What truly happened the night that he came over to my house, we were just texting back and forth, my wife and I, we're gonna have dinner, she was gonna bake some cookies and I just got an Oculus – a VR, I'm a big gamer – so Sean and I are texting back and forth.

"He asked if he could join us," Victoria continued. "I said, 'Sure,' so he joined us for dinner. My wife baked some cookies – she does a lot of baking, she's, like, in her Martha Stewart era – and then Sean and I played Oculus."

And that was it, Victoria said; no hinting about threesomes and "flipping," as Palmieri had claimed, and definitely not pot-laced cookies.

Palmieri himself seemed to have forgotten all about that one detail, ET noted.

"When the group asked Sean to clarify that specific in the finale, he claimed he never said that and didn't even like edibles.

Netflix zeroed in on the office confrontation between Victoria and Palmieri in a post on X (formerly Twitter).

Fans weighed in on the controversy.

"Sean is trying to stay relevant on the show," one person responded. "This is third season where I was like 'Who is he? Oh that's who that is' so that says something."

"I think Austin has every right to be pissed and Sean has no proof," the post added.

Others took Palmieri's side.

"Austin is def giving bi vibes," one respondent declared.

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Palmieri also claimed that Stanaland had sent him suggestive messages, complimenting his legs in response to an Instagram post and adding heart emojis to texts.

"Sean provided screenshots of text messages and DMs as a way to back up his claims about Tyler," ET detailed, "but in the finale, Kayla and Ali commented on how he would only let them see select excerpts. They weren't allowed to scroll up or down in the conversations to see the full context."

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