Season 16 of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” has a brand new marquee star: The Bravo present has landed actor/anti-Scientology activist Leah Remini as a full-time forged member.
Remini received’t be the one new forged member on “RHOBH.” Tracy Tutor, the actual property agent and former “Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles” star announced on Instagram on Aug. 19 that she’s additionally becoming a member of the forged. Remini and Tutor will co-star with returning full-time forged members Kyle Richards, Erika “Jayne” Girardi, Dorit Kemsley, Bozoma Saint John, Rachel Zoe and Sutton Stracke. Kathy Hilton and Jennifer Tilly can even be again as “friends” of the forged. Amanda Frances — the manifesting guru added to the forged for its fifteenth season — was not requested again, regardless of Rihanna’s DM to Frances saying, “We need more of you!” Frances herself announced her personal departure on Instagram on Aug. 5.
Season 16 has already begun filming, with a number of of the forged (although not Remini and Tutor) attending Saint John’s wedding ceremony to Keely Watson in Ghana on Aug. 21. Kemsley, Richards, Tilly and Stracke have been among the many visitors. Remini will start filming in Los Angeles later this week.
“The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” is the most-watched version of the “Real Housewives” franchise, which turned 20 this 12 months. Within segments of the Bravosphere, it’s additionally essentially the most complained about, with quibbling followers always calling for a significant forged overhaul, 12 months after 12 months. As govt producer Andy Cohen put it sarcastically in an interview with Variety in June, “They hate it so much, it’s the No. 1 ‘Housewives.’” Now, with eight full-time forged members and two veteran (and in style) pals, maybe this full deck of Housewives will tamp down the griping. It will definitely put an finish to the rampant (and incorrect) hypothesis in regards to the Season 16 forged, which has included an nameless tip to DeuxMoi claiming that Kyle had filmed a farewell scene throughout manufacturing on “Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip Roaring 20th” and a blind merchandise despatched to Bravo and Cocktails that stated Dorit was being placed on pause. (Executive producer Alex Baskin debunked the Kemsley report, which had unfold far and extensive.) There was additionally hypothesis that Crystal Kung Minkoff, who was on Seasons 11-13, may rejoin the forged, particularly after she was featured on “Ultimate Girls Trip.”
Remini and Tutor’s new associates are a divided group — Season 15 concluded in May after a fiery three-part reunion, throughout which the strain between Richards and Kemsley, who have been as soon as shut pals, boiled over. Kemsley’s divorce from Paul “PK” Kemsley has continued to make headlines over the summer season, with each of them accusing the opposite of monetary mayhem, with their school-age kids caught within the center.
Remini, 56, grew to become a family identify through the nine-season-long run of “King of Queens” on CBS. In 2015, she launched the memoir “Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology,” wherein she recounted her rise in Hollywood in addition to her indoctrination into Scientology starting at age 9. (“Where is Shelly?” Remini has requested since 2006, questioning in regards to the whereabouts of Shelly Miscavige, the never-seen spouse of Scientology chief David Miscavige). Remini’s high-profile exit from the group triggered her to grow to be an anti-cult crusader, and he or she and fellow ex-Scientologist Mike Rinder hosted “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath” on A&E, profitable two primetime Emmys for the collection alongside the best way.
As for Tutor, 51, she’s no stranger to Bravo. As a profitable actual property agent, Tutor starred on the community’s long-running present “Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles” from Seasons 10 by 15, earlier than it was placed on pause final 12 months. Tutor has lengthy appeared to followers like an apparent alternative to hitch “RHOBH,” and on her Instagram submit, Cohen wrote, “This has been a long time coming!”