Rumors have been swirling that Suzanne Somers is in talks to join Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for the upcoming fifth season.
Multiple sources confirm to E! News that Somers will not be joining the cast of RHOBH. She is friends with many of the cast member and may have filmed or is going to film scenes in a social setting, but she is not joining the cast.
A rep for Somers tells there is no truth that the actress is in talks, saying, "We do not have any comment, since no one has contacted Suzanne about these talks."
Somers went on Access Hollywood Live this month and said she isn't interested in joining the cast of the Real Housewives shows, because, "That's not my nature. I don't fight."
She then revealed that she was originally offered a spot at the very beginning of The View, but turned that down, because, "I don't see myself in that [situation], where I am like, screaming for time."
As for RHOBH, filming is already underway for season five, and we know that Lisa, Kyle, Brandi, Kim and Yolanda have all signed on for another season, while Joyce and Carlton will not be returning. Sources tell us that Bravo has sought out other cast members, but so far, none of the empty spots have been filled.
Dina Manzo is back—but not with a vengeance. After leaving The Real Housewives of New Jersey in 2010 amid lots of family drama, the Bravo star is ready for a fresh start in season six. It worked out that estranged sister Caroline Manzo and estranged sister-in-law Jacqueline Laurita are no longer on the show, but Dina insists that she had nothing to do with Jacqueline's exit.
"I didn't get anyone fired," the reality star, 43, shares exclusively in the new issue of Us Weekly. "One of my first questions for the producers when I was invited back was, 'You're not getting rid of anyone because of me, right?' And they said, 'Absolutely not.'"
Things have been chilly between Dina and her family for years. As RHONJ viewers know, her rift with Caroline, Jacqueline, and brother Chris Laurita became a major story line when Caroline blamed costar Teresa Giudice for the falling out. (Both Teresa and Dina have denied that she's at fault.)
"Other than my daughter [Lexi, 18]—we share a bond that nothing can break—I will never do a reality show with family ever again," Dina, who's separated from husband Tommy Manzo, tells Us. "It's just not a healthy environment."
Carole Radziwill has been accused of posting fake comments on her Bravo blog by several people, but she has responded to the rumors by claiming they are lies. On Monday, the official Twitter account of Radziwill posted a reply to a fan question about her blog. The star clarified that she believed more than one person was behind the lies.
Radziwill mentioned Aviva Drescher and Rob Shuter in her recent post on Twitter, but Ramona Singer and Sonja Morgan have also allegedly accused her of having fake comments on Bravo. Radziwill claimed Drescher and Shuter have a great deal of free time to create lies about her blog comments. Singer and Morgan allegedly thought it was strange for Radziwill’s blog on Bravo to have multiple positive comments while other blogs were either ignored or attacked by fans.
Bravo has removed all of the comments from the blogs of the Real Housewives of New York cast members, so it is difficult to investigate the allegations. However, Shuter claimed the removal was caused by Bravo discovering the fake comments on Radziwill’s blog and wanting to stop the problem before it escalated.
NeNe Leakes is bringing the drama of her often-controversial TV appearances to a run of 10 Zumanity shows.
It’s part of the 10th anniversary celebrations of the show, and Cirque du Soleil officials have told me that if successful, it will herald other guest stars and new cast and routine changes into its second decade.
NeNe, who appeared as a stripper in the 2003 Cuba Gooding and Beyonce film The Fighting Temptations, starts her guest-hosting role Friday night, but this evening I’ll chat with NeNe after I watch her rehearsals as the erotic Edie, Mistress of Sensuality, in Cirque’s sexy, adult-centric show at New York-New York.
She’s already made it clear that while the show is provocative and risque and several performers go topless, she won’t be getting naked. However, fans will see plenty of skin.
“We’ll be as sexy as we can be,” 46-year-old NeNe told our colleague Susan Stapleton at Las Vegas Magazine. NeNe worked as a stripper when she met husband Gregg Leakes, whom she married in 1997.
NeNe says that while in Las Vegas, she expects to do a lot of shopping and dining at Strip restaurants.
sources: Examiner, LasVegasSun, US, E!