Jennifer Coolidge's Tanya Makes a Return (in a Way) in The White Lotus Season 3

Warning: This post contains spoilers for The White Lotus season 3.

After appearing in the first two seasons of The White Lotus, there's a void in season 3 without fan favorite Tanya McQuoid, played by Jennifer Coolidge. But in episode 3, she makes a return (in a way).

The ditsy, wealthy shipping heiress died at the end of season 2, when she discovered her husband Greg (played by Jon Gries) plotted her murder to take her fortune. She pieced together his plan onboard a yacht filled with "gays" who were "trying to murder" her (as the viral meme goes). She tried to escape by grabbing an Italian mafia member's bag containing a gun, and shot nearly all on board.

But, as she attempted to get off the yacht, she tripped on her sandal, hit her head on the dinghy's railing and drowned.

Tanya may not be in season 3 physically, but her character is very much present. Greg (or rather, Gary) is one of the guests staying at the White Lotus hotel in Thailand. Season 1's Belinda (Natasha Rothwell) who works at the White Lotus Maui, is visiting the hotel to learn techniques from their spa staff, and notices Greg in an earlier episode.

It takes her until episode 3 to figure out how she knows him. While eating dinner with her Thai wellness counterpart, Pornchai (Dom Hetrakul), Belinda tells him that she was supposed to open her own spa with Tanya's financial assistance.

"Of course, she flakes. Runs off with some guy she just met," Belinda says of Tanya as a light bulb goes off when she realizes the man she saw at dinner [Greg] is the man Tayna ran off with.

She goes up to his table at dinner to say hello, while he's eating with his girlfriend Chloe (Charlotte Le Bon) and Rick (Walter Goggins) and Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood) but he insists they've never met.

"Greg, isn't it?" she asks. "It's Gary," he replies.

She presses, "Did you date a woman named Tanya McQuoid?"

When he says no, Belinda replies: "You must have a doppelganger then because I swear you look just like this man I met in Maui."

The episode ends as she and Greg (er, Gary) stare at one another from across the restaurant.

Earlier, Tanya's death was a topic of conversation by Greg's new girlfriend Chloe. She opens up to Chelsea as they're laying by the pool and starts by complaining that Greg is "so secretive."

She then shares that his ex-wife was a "real mental patient" and killed herself by walking "out into the ocean and kept going and never came back."

"All they found was a part of her leg," she adds.

While fans wait to see what unfolds with Greg, Coolidge weighed in during a new interview with Forbes.

"As you know, Jon Gries has shown up," Coolidge said of season 3. "I hope he gets it! I hope they do something terrible to him."

She said of the new installment, "It's really eerie — you're not quite sure what people are up to yet. My guess? Something's going to go horribly wrong. I think it's really going to go wrong. [Creator] Mike White, he wants us to have it all, I think. I can't wait."

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Season 3 of The White Lotus airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and Max.

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