Crystal Kung Minkoff took to her podcast “Humble Brag” today to reveal the details behind her firing from the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills earlier this year. Kung Minkoff said that fellow cast members Sutton Stracke and Garcelle Beauvais were already in pre production when she got the call with the bad news. She thought she was moving forward to start the show, and had start dates in place. She then had a call with producers regarding what her season would look like, something she hadn’t had to do before. She knew this was probably not a good sign. She felt like what they had wanted to do was “stretching the truth for (her) to make a story that didn’t really make sense”. She was concerned that it would become her reality once the show aired, but she didn’t discuss exactly what it was that they wanted her to do. She described it as that they had asked her to “embellish her life in a way that felt unnatural”. The next day she got a call stating from a prouducer saying that she had been in the conversation the day before but they were not going to have her on the cast this season. Kung Minkoff said that she is very protective of the show and grateful for it, and is reluctant to give all of the information. She thinks it’s a great platform for people and would go back.

Lisa Barlow appeared on Sheananigans today, and was asked by host Scheana Shay if she stays in touch with former castmate Jen Shah, who is currently serving a six and a half year prison sentence for running a nationwide telemarketing scheme that targeted elderly victims. Barlow said that Shah told Murilo (Shah’s former assistant”, that when she “gets out of prison she would like to have a relationship with me and Meredith”.

The stars of the Real Housewives of New York appeared together on The Today Show this morning, and Jenna Lyons was asked about her indecision to return to the show for a second season. Speaking about her time on the show during season fourteen, she stated that she was “the oldest one last year - I was fifteen years older than any of the cast”. She also discussed how she was the only openly gay cast member to appear last season.