Believe it or not, being a Real Housewife is a real job.
These ladies all got booted from the Bravo franchise, either for not bringing the drama…or
for bringing way too much of it for producers to handle.
Get a girlfriend to hold your earrings, cuz these ladies really know how to throw down.
Brandi Glanville
In the summer of 2015, it was revealed that Brandi Glanville wouldn't be returning to
the Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills.
It wasn't clear at the time whether Glanville was fired, or quit, but she set the record
straight in January 2016 on Kocktails With Khloe, saying, "They didn't ask me back full-time.
I was really counting on the paycheck as a single mom."
After admitting on Kardashian's show that she told "Andy Cohen to f--k off, not only
on TV and via text and via email and via Twitter," she answered producers on whether she was
just in it for the cash:
"I signed up for money.
They said to me, 'We think if you come back, that you'll only be doing it for the money.'
It's the only reason I ever did it is for the money!"
Phaedra Parks
Of all the Real Housewives Of Atlanta who should have known better, Phaedra Parks — an
attorney — confessed to spreading a bogus rumor that fellow housewife Kandi Burruss
and husband, Todd, planned on drugging co-star Porsha Williams.
Parks said during the reunion show on May 7th, 2017, "I repeated it because I heard
it.
Something was brought to me...I shouldn't have repeated it…I screwed up…I'm sorry."
The following day, TMZ reported that Parks was fired from the show, with production sources
saying she was "out of line."
An insider told Page Six, "They were so disgusted with her.
The entire cast and Andy [Cohen] agreed Phaedra would not be coming back next season.
She dug her own grave.
She's considered a liability and will not be returning."
Adrienne Maloof
Though Adrienne Maloof claimed to have left the Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills on her
own accord, sources told Radar Online that she was fired after her feud with Brandi Glanville
started costing producers money.
A source said, "Adrienne's lawyers came at Bravo with all guns blazing after Brandi began
mentioning the surrogacy of her twin sons.
She didn't want that aired on television.
Producers of the show spent hours going over footage and editing it out.
It cost a lot of money and took a lot of manpower to do.
For Adrienne to then give an interview to a celebrity magazine about the surrogacy was
a slap in the face to producers to say the least!"
The source added that it "...was ultimately the reason why Adrienne was fired.
Bravo had no legal obligation to edit out all the mentions of the surrogacy, but they
wanted to do the right thing for Adrienne and her family, so they obliged."
DeShawn Snow
Fired for being boring?
DeShawn Snow was let go from the first season of the Real Housewives of Atlanta for being
"too human for a circus show."
She later told Essence, "They didn't think that I would fit in...But I'm not the type
to go 'television' and start acting crazy because somebody's talking about me.
I'm fine with the decision.
It wasn't my decision.
They let me go and there are no hard feelings.
I am thankful for the opportunity."
"I've had a lot of drama in my life, but I'm thankful that the cameras weren't there."
Gretchen Rossi and Alexis Bellino
Friends Alexis Bellino and Gretchen Rossi were both given the Bravo boot from Real Housewives
Of Orange County at the same time because they weren't dishing the drama.
An insider told E! News, "Neither will be returning for season nine.
The feeling is both of their journeys on the show have come to an end.
Bravo is constantly looking at the casting and dynamics and it felt like time for a change."
A source told Us Weekly, "Alexis and Gretchen were fired.
They just had run their course.
Gretchen has been on the show a long time, and it was the same old story."
"See ya later, bye!"
Claudia Jordan
Atlanta Housewife Claudia Jordan was fired in summer 2015, with many believing that her
beef with breakout star NeNe Leakes was what did her contract in.
Leakes, a Housewives fixture, told Extra before the news of the firing hit, that she'd return
to the show on one condition:
"I will return, however, if some of the other girls leave the show."
"I feel like we have a bunch of gold diggers on the show, so it'd be great if we found
somebody really looking for love."
Leakes wound up returning.
Jordan didn't.
Jill Zarin
In 2011, four Real Housewives Of New York were fired: Jill Zarin, Cindy Barshop, Kelly
Killoren Bensimon, and Alex McCord.
No concrete reason was given for the other firings, but a source told Us Weekly of Zarin,
"[The producers] were sick of her being a diva."
In 2014, Zarin explained to Oprah,
"One night I was just, I think I took a sleeping pill… and I typed out an email to my producer."
In a moment she later regretted, the reality star remembered that she wrote:
"I said, 'I'm leaving the show.
I want to leave on a high.
I'm in a good place right now.'"
Zarin didn't include any Bravo heads on the email, but the damage had already been done.
Danielle Staub
After a whole lot of drama on the Real Housewives Of New Jersey, Danielle Staub was fired from
the series in 2010.
The network never went into detail on the severance, but Staub insisted to Us Weekly
that it was because she was getting her own spinoff show.
She said, "I'm way too good for this.
They have used me about as much as I can be used … I think it's time for me to move
on and upward…
A spinoff is absolutely, positively where I'm going."
Aviva Drescher
Just acting?
Aviva Drescher brought the drama to Real Housewives Of New York, even hurling a fake leg at her
castmates — but it wasn't enough to keep her on the Bravo payroll, and she was fired
in 2014.
She later told the New York Post, "For me the whole thing was sort of an acting job.
It was never a reality for me….So when I threw my leg, I was looking at it as entertainment.
I just hope that in real life, nobody thinks that I really do that, I have three kids!"
Reality TV unsuccessfully imitating real life?
All in a day's work for these housewives!
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