Andy Cohen is retaining it transferring. In a digital cowl story for At present, the Bravo figurehead immediately addressed Vainness Honest’s Actual Housewives story “Contained in the Actual Housewives Reckoning That’s Rocking Bravo” from reporter Anna Peele. In response to Cohen, Bravo has “moved ahead” from the incidents the story reported on.
One month after Vainness Honest revealed Peele’s story, the Bravo patriarch sat down with At present to share his ideas on the piece, which he continues to name factually inaccurate with out explaining which information he disputes. (Bravo and At present are owned by the identical mum or dad firm, NBCUniversal). Cohen’s main concern, he says, was a scarcity of context surrounding sure anecdotes. Cohen had declined to reply questions for the story. Vainness Honest stands by its reporting.
“You may say, ‘Oh, Andy did a ballot evaluating two Housewives’ dangerous nostril jobs,’ and with none additional clarification, which will trigger you to boost your eyebrow,” he stated. “However the continuation of the sentence could be ‘…after an episode of the Jersey ‘Housewives’ the place two ladies in contrast what they described as their dangerous nostril job.’ So I simply thought that there was a number of context lacking.”
Cohen maintained that Bravo had beforehand addressed varied incidents that bubbled up within the piece, which included allegations of on-set racism, poisonous work environments, and criticisms of extreme ingesting on the truth collection from former Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis stars Eboni Ok. Williams, Leah McSweeney, and Bethenny Frankel. “Particularly, it was a rehash of issues which were reported on and — most significantly — addressed by Bravo,” he stated. “We’ve addressed every of the issues that did occur, and we’ve moved ahead.”
Earlier this 12 months, McSweeney filed a discrimination criticism with the Equal Employment Alternative Fee towards Bravo after filming Actual Housewives: Final Ladies Journey, citing an alleged violation of the Individuals with Disabilities Act. The criticism was dismissed on the grounds McSweeney plans to sue the respondents in court docket. In August, attorneys Bryan J. Freedman and Mark Geragos, representing former and present solid and crew members on a few of NBC’s actuality TV exhibits, issued a authorized letter to NBCUniversal alleging that their purchasers had been “mentally, bodily, and financially victimized by NBC and threatened with spoil ought to they determine to talk out about their mistreatment.” In an announcement to Selection, Bravo responded, saying, “Confidentiality clauses are commonplace apply in actuality programming to stop disclosure of storylines previous to air. They aren’t meant to stop disclosure by solid and crew of illegal acts within the office, and so they haven’t been enforced in that method.” (NBCUniversal didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.)
Cohen pointedly didn’t say Bethenny Frankel’s identify throughout his interview with At present however appeared to reference the previous RHONY star. “Look, there’s all the time one query that you simply really feel such as you actually need to ask. You could be scared, it could be off limits,” he stated to interviewer Evan Ross Katz. “For you, for this interview, it might have been about that former Housewife.”
As for the present state of housewives, Final Ladies Journey: RHONY Legacy continues to be slated to premiere on December 14 on Peacock. The solid consists of former RHONY solid members Kelly Killoren Bensimon, Luann de Lesseps, Dorinda Medley, Sonja Morgan, Kristen Taekman, and Ramona Singer, who was just lately dropped from BravoCon after reportedly texting a Web page Six reporter an abbreviation of a racial slur adopted by an ellipses. Nevertheless, she’s nonetheless anticipated to seem on this system.
Cohen pointed to BravoCon, which happened in Las Vegas in early November shortly after the VF story dropped, as proof of the franchise’s well being. “I feel BravoCon was additional validation of what’s actually happening between the truth of our relationship with our expertise and the place that these exhibits maintain with our viewers,” he stated.
