Well, they do have great script writers on the show.

Add in an Adonis like husband who conveniently jets off to NZ to attend his ex's mother's funeral for a week, ignores his girl leaving her at home on her own for a week, and quite miraculously appears just as the group in sitting down for dinner. Now he has "chicken pox" but is allowed to mingle with the others, and his "human megaphone" wife has just gone off with some mysterious illness. Reality? Really?

No ratings for "lived happily ever after".