Within the “Actual Housewives” universe, issues typically don’t go as initially deliberate.
I signed on to be a part of this weekend’s sold-out BravoCon and host a panel on the three-day Javits Heart occasion known as “The Jersey Boys,” that includes the husbands from “The Actual Housewives of New Jersey.” The panel could be a testerone-rich companion to a panel starring the Backyard State’s housewives.
However, as infidelity rumors swirled round New Jersey housewife Melissa Gorga and the longstanding feud between Gorga and sister-in-law Teresa Giudice reignited, Bravo execs needed to give you a brand new plan. Gorga, 43 and Giudice, 50, couldn’t share a stage.
So, on Saturday afternoon, I’ll average “Jersey Women & Their Males: Half 1” with Gorga, Jackie Goldschneider, Margaret Josephs and their respective spouses. Hours later, Giudice, Jennifer Aydin, Dolores Catania and their males will sit down for Half 2.
“It’s heavy,” Sezin Cavusoglu, Vice President of Manufacturing at Bravo and a former producer on “RHONJ” producer, instructed The Publish of the behind-the-scenes drama. She famous that the panel shakeup didn’t come on the behest of both Gorga or Giudice.
“We’re simply very conscious that they’re not getting alongside proper now, so we made the collective determination to maintain them aside,” she stated. “We would like our expertise to get pleasure from their time right here as a lot because the followers.”
Such is the problem for what Bravo hopes can be a memorable however peaceable weekend. 100 forty-five of the community’s actuality stars can be in attendance, together with 35,000 followers, nevertheless it’s not supposed to be a large-scale reunion particular — the acrimonious extravaganzas which might be identified for shrill screaming, dramatic exits and pained response pictures from mastermind Andy Cohen. BravoCon is meant to be lighter and brighter.
“This isn’t a tense reunion taping,” Cavusoglu, stated. “It’s meant to make you snigger.”
However holding issues from getting heated isn’t simple.
“There may be a number of drama amongst our casts,” Cavusoglu admitted.
“Actual Housewives of Potomac” star Dr. Wendy Osefo instructed The Publish she hopes to take care of loads of distance from her onscreen adversary Mia Thornton at Sunday’s “Potomac Takes Manhattan” panel.
“Ensure that we’re seated far aside,” Osefo, 38, says of Thornton, 37, who threw a drink within the professor’s face whereas filming Season 7. “As a result of I could give y’all a present at BravoCon. Don’t sit her by me!”
In the meantime, “Actual Housewives Salt Lake Metropolis” foes Meredith Marks and Lisa Barlow and “Beverly Hills” former besties Lisa Rinna and Kyle Richards can be sitting on panels collectively, regardless of mounting discord enjoying out on their reveals and social media.
The battle between Rinna, 59, and Richards, 53, notably entails the latter’s sister, Kathy Hilton. Rinna has alleged {that a} tirade Hilton went on in Aspen was “abuse,” whereas Hilton has called Rinna the “greatest bully in Hollywood.”
Hilton, 63, a socialite and mother of Paris and Nicky Hilton, is skipping out on the group panel, however nonetheless interacting with followers throughout a Friday photograph op.
“It’s a giant win for us that every of these women agreed to attend, contemplating the circumstances,” Cavusoglu stated.
She even holds out hope that BravoCon might be a therapeutic second.
“Perhaps a few of these ladies will make up right here,” Cavusoglu stated. “It doesn’t matter what, I belief our stars and I do know that no one is coming right here to make a scene. All we all know is that our expertise and the followers are coming right here to have enjoyable.”
However, for a lot of, making — or watching — an unpleasant argument unfold is what’s enjoyable. Jersey “Housewife” Margaret Josephs is keen to see how issues play out between Rinna and Richards.
“I do know this sounds loopy, however I’ve to see the ‘Beverly Hills’ women as a result of I’ve been watching all of the craziness on the present,” she stated. “I’ve bought to see what goes down.”
