Extra servings of food and New Jersey are coming to Bravo.
In a programming announcement today, the network officially renewed The Real Housewives of Orange County, while also ordering a quartet of other programs.
Said Shari Levine, senior vice president of production at Bravo Media: "We are confident these new series will reinforce Bravo's pop culture brand and resonate with our engaged and upscale audience."
"I don't think the way this went down was treated with class or dignity," says Donn, Vicki Gunvalson's estranged husband, of the reunion show for The Real Housewives of Orange County's sixth season.
Indeed!
Between the screaming, the tears and the eye-rolling, there's going to be plenty of insults and accusations – all of which can be seen in a just-released, minute-long trailer for the upcoming episodes.
Tamra Barney, whose troubles with her ex and a new romance have been documented on the show, seems to be at the center of the storm.
"You were sleeping with another guy while your fiancé was dying," she says to Gretchen Rossi, who was engaged to the late Jeff Beitzel.
At one point in a clip of the show, which will air starting June 12 (9 p.m. ET) on Bravo, Tamra shrieks, "Is your ass jealous of the s–– that comes out of your mouth?"
She also accuses Jeana Keough of lying and gets into an argument with Gretchen's boyfriend, Slade Smiley, who accuses her of ... uh, promiscuous behavior.
"You're the lowest form of s–– in the world," Tamra says as she storms off the set.
Someone should tweet Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live and ask Andy:
‘How did Vicki Gunvalson manage to hold her ‘annual fall party–the party in the final episode that contains Bravo footage of the Tamra Barney-Jeana Keough ‘brawl’–one day after Vicki left the hospital after her emergency ‘surgery’?’
The following screenshot from TV Guide, the Bravo info on the RHOOC final episode set to be aired Sunday, June 5, at 10 EST, 9 Central.
Wow! That Vicki is one hell of a trooper! Two days after ‘surgery’ in the hospital, Vicki throws a big party at her house. You’d think her BFF Tamra Barney, who, in episode 12, the episode before the final episode, knew Vicki was having trouble with her marriage and who, two days earlier during Alexis Bellino’s fashion show, was freaked out Vicki was in the hospital about to have surgery, would have reconsidered showing up at Vicki’s party with the intention to serve to a cease and desist letter to Jeana Keough? Tamra’s actions leading to a nasty confrontation that turned into a ugly brawl, footage Bravo heavily touted in promos beginning the first episode of season six, the Tamra Barney-Jeana Keough ‘fight’.
According to TV Guide, Bravo will rerun episode 12 on Sunday during the Memorial Day weekend. Episode 12 contained footage of Vicki confiding to Tamra, Vicki wasn’t sure if she could stay in her loveless marriage, and, the footage from the Alexis Bellino fashion show. During the fashion show, footage of the cast members being relatively ‘polite’ until Tamra received a phone call or text message from Vicki, Vicki was in the hospital, ‘hemorrhaging’ and about to go into surgery. (Tamra’s claims.) Missing from the episode the curious lack of Bravo video footage of Vicki’s trip to the hospital. A trip to the hospital, prime Real Housewives’ ‘drama’ footage.
According to court documents Vicki Gunvalson filed for a divorce on October 18, 2010.
Hard to believe there was once a gentler time in Bravo's sordid "Real Housewives" era - before such women were yanking out one another's hair extensions, sneaking into the White House and inflating tiny grudges into ceaselessly overblown animosities punctuated by overturning tables in one-star restaurants.Of course, there is some irony that Vicki is the "longest-lasting Housewife" considering how many people (including myself) who can't stand her. But give credit where it's due as she certainly has shared a lot of ups and downs with audiences over the years and yet she's still here...despite what we think. Then too, like I always say in order for a show like 'Housewives' to be successful you need a villain and Vicki has certainly mastered that role to a tee.
Five years ago, in what was supposed to be a larky, reality-TV retort to ABC's fictional hit "Desperate Housewives," Bravo bought into a show in which camera crews hunkered down with five women living in (or very near) a pricey, gated Orange County community called Coto de Caza.
"Really, it's been seven years since they first started following us around," says Vicki Gunvalson. Her son had responded to a producer's search for subjects willing to participate in a documentary-ish look at the privileged lives of Coto teenagers. Instead, the show ended up being about their moms.
"The Real Housewives of Orange County" returns Sunday night for a sixth season, and it doesn't look to be a good one for poor Vicki.
She's on the phone, speaking to us from another sunny Coto day. She's busy at the office, doing Vicki things, between business appointments; keeping herself in the (here it comes) "top 1 percent" of insurance sales agents in the country, whatever that means.
In all, 13 women have rotated through the show, and at one time or another, they've all had something bad to say about Vicki, and vice versa. Since the show began, many of the women on it have split with their husbands. One lost her rich boyfriend to cancer. One left the show to give her family more privacy, including a son who had a drug problem; another left because she was fed up with it. One left under the shadow of eviction and recessionary comeuppance; a current cast member is staving off foreclosure.
Some of these Lost Housewives of Orange County still visit the show in cameo appearances, but only Vicki, who will turn 49 this month, has endured the whole way. This makes her the longest-lasting Housewife on Bravo, an honor of dubious distinction.
Over the years, viewers have watched Vicki cut loose on her party boat at her vacation home in Lake Havasu, Ariz., emitting her trademark cries of "woo-hoo" wherever a margarita could be found. They listened to her talk endlessly about her 12-hour workdays. They watched her needle her layabout son, Michael, into joining the insurance business. They watched her claw and be clawed in the show's usual she said/she said warfare. They watched her complain that her long-suffering husband, Donn Gunvalson, was not "filling up my love tank"; and then they watched her renew her wedding vows with him at a Turks and Caicos beach resort.
It's no secret to gossip-blog readers that Vicki and Donn separated last fall - which looks to provide one of the bigger OMGs of the new season. Vicki won't elaborate on it. "You'll have to watch," she says, ever the good promoter.
The Real Housewives of Orange County have a new blonde in town!Well if she really gets along with "everyone" (esp. Vicki) than I don't see how she's gonna stand out and make an impression on anyone.
Stay-at-home mom of two Peggy Tanous is set to join the cast of the smash Bravo reality series, UsMagazine.com can exclusively reveal.
The 41-year-old Tanous, a former swimsuit model and TV host, says she's ready to bring the drama for season 6.
"People call me 'Feisty Peggy' and I can definitely be feisty! I'm an Aries [with a] very strong personality. Friends say I'm the life of the party," Tanous, who joined the cast at the urging of fellow Housewives star Alexis Bellino, tells Us.
"When Alexis got on the show, we saw her, and my husband said, 'Maybe this is something you should try because you've already been in the industry your whole life, and I feel like this could be something really good for you,'" says Tanous, adding that the series provided an outlet for her to overcome the postpartum depression she battled after the birth of daughters London, 3, and Capri, 1 1/2.
"It was kind of a perfect way for me to kind of get me back in the swing of things but not take me away from my family too much."
And Tanous tells Us not to expect any table-flipping antics in her early episodes.
"I didn't clash with anyone! I got along with everyone," she insists. "Tamara [Barney] and I hit it off the most. She's got a daughter a couple years older than London and our personalities are alike. She's really funny and she jokes around a lot and so do I."
As for Tanous' first impressions of lively Vicki Gunvalson?
"Vicki and I are both Aries! So when I met her, I was like 'You have got to be great because you're an Aries, because I'm an Aries and I'm great!'" Tanous jokes. "We had a whole Aries vibe going."
The Real Housewives of Orange County premieres March 6 on Bravo.
Just when ya thought Danielle Staub and lesbian superstar Lori Michaels were as gay as it was going to get among the Real Housewives, along comes a fitness trainer from Laguna Beach.Well, the 'Housewives' certainly has enough gay dudes on their shows, guess the lesbos are looking for their turn.
Say hello to Fernanda Rocha, a 33-year-old out lesbian who will be a regular on the next season of The Real Housewives of Orange County…
The tan and toned beauty isn't a main Housewife, but is set to be one of the often seen side characters, according to a source. She won't make her debut as a series regular until March, but that hasn't stopped her from getting, um, out there.
She recently tweeted about how happy she was with the new interview she did with the...National Enquirer.
Calling herself "the real thing," Rocha dismissed Staub and Atlanta's Kim Zolciak's same-sex relationships because they were only going through a "faux lesbian experimental stage," according to the tabloid.
She's already appeared on the show. Some of the gals took one of her workout classes at the Art of Fitness & Spa, which she co-owns, during season five. "Definitely makes me want to switch teams," Housewife Tamra Barney said about Rocha's body.
Rocha grew up in Brazil, but moved to the U.S. to study marketing and business at UCLA, according to the Art of Fitness website. She's also the creator of the Brazilian Booty Workout and the JingaBrasil fitness clothing line.