Who played Taylor Sheridan’s girlfriend at Yellowstone

SPOILER ALERT! This story contains plot points from Sunday’s episode Yellowstone at Paramount.

God grant us the confidence of a showrunner who continues to write himself into his biggest hit.

On Sunday’s penultimate episode of Yellowstone titled “Give the World Away,” creator Taylor Sheridan penned a flamboyant sequence for his on-screen persona Travis Wheatley: showing off his muscles, his impressive riding skills, and his penchant for wooing the pretty ladies.

After Kelly Reilly’s Beth comes to the realization that everything on the family ranch must be sold to pay off their debts, she travels to Texas, where she expects to find Travis unloading their precious horses to a bunch of “fat Brazilians in tracksuits and jewelry.” Except Travis doesn’t act in the herd of ungulates; Beth finds him instead playing strip poker with a trio of blondes.

Before entering his little bacchanal, however, she is met at the door by a nice woman who mistakes her for the masseuse. It’s that woman supermodel Bella Hadidwho took time off from acting as the face of Chopard and Saint Laurent to play Sheridan’s boyfriend in the episode.

“You seem like a moderately intelligent woman,” Beth tells Hadid. “How can you work for this fk?”

“I would never work for a horse trainer,” Hadid’s character replies. “Travis is my boyfriend.”

“I’ll take the intelligent part back,” Beth replies.

After arriving at the arena, Beth Hadid’s character asks what she sees in Travis after describing him as “the most arrogant man I’ve ever met. Condescending, misogynistic, 25 years older than you.”

Hadid’s character replies, “have you ever seen him ride before?”

Thus, Sheridan’s Travis shows off some more fancy cutting skills in the arena.

“Okay yeah, I get it,” Beth admits.

But she hasn’t escaped Travis’s hubris yet. While trying to convince him to return to Yellowstone to help auction off the rest of their herd, Travis forces her to play a game of strip poker that actually causes her to start unzipping her dress before he admits to having a little fun.

“You’re such a child of–king!” she exclaims. But hey, he still agreed to work for free.

The episode ends with the animals sold, the staff abandoned by Colby’s death, and Beth believing that the $30 million they raised at the auction would keep Yellowstone alive for another year—that is, until her brother Kayce (Luke Grimes) suggests that he has a plan to keep their land virgin by possibly selling it to a sympathetic buyer.

Next week is the series finale Yellowstone.