Andy Cohen recently appeared on SiriusXM’s Reality Checked, discussing the possibility of a RHONJ reboot and leaks surrounding the show.
On Monday, June 3, Andy Cohen called into SiriusXM’s Reality Checked with Kiki Monique to give context on the recent announcement that the RHONJ cast will not be having a traditional reunion for season 14.
He also addressed the possibility of rebooting the RHONJ cast for season 15 and the highly publicized leaks surrounding the show.
Kiki Monique asked the Watch What Happens Live host, “If there’s no reunion, is there talk about there being a Jersey reboot?”
Andy Cohen explained, “Yeah. There was a lot of play with that one and I think the answer is, I was talking to a cast member about this today. We are gonna cross next season as that comes. Right now, we’re just kind of focusing on, ‘Okay, well, if we’re not doing a conventional reunion, what are we doing, and what is something different that we could do?'”
“And also, look, I think that you saw, I think Atlanta was a really good example of, we came out of that last season, and we knew, ‘Okay, we want to do extensive casting, and we want to just give this some time,’ and I will say, we gave it time and a lot of people were saying, ‘Well, where’s Atlanta? What’s happening? There hasn’t been any announcements,’ whatever. I’m so happy with what’s going on down in Atlanta right now. Some things take time, and we want to take a minute to figure things out. You know, there’s no point in rushing into something just to rush into something,” he continued.
The conversation then shifted to the leaks surrounding RHONJ.
“I will say Jersey this season had an unprecedented amount of leaks this season. Do you think that sort of contributed to sort of, you know, what fans were feeling as they were watching this season and is production, Bravo, are they doing anything to sort of like prevent this because you know, obviously we saw everything go down with Reality Von Tease and Salt Lake City and with Jersey, how do we sort of prevent, you know, cast and fan accounts and these sorts of things from happening?” KiKi asked the Bravo head honcho.
“Right. I hate leaks as you can imagine because it just, I mean that’s what was so fun about that Reality Von Tease thing. It was like no one knew about it and it was just so fun as a viewer, so I hope that we can get into a vibe of not leaking. I think that the cast on Jersey is so fed up with each other. There are teams of people against each other and I think you would probably agree that one of the things that didn’t work about the last season of Potomac was that the group, it was kind of no coming together for this group,” Andy explained.
“It was like unheard of, so that’s our thing to solve for next season of Jersey, and we can do it, and we will figure it out, but in terms of the leaks, I hate leaks. I just think that there’s a supreme level of kind of distrust amongst the cast with each other and that’s never healthy in terms of trying to make a great television show,” he added.
As AllAboutTRH EXCLUSIVELY reported on Saturday, June 1, Bravo has canceled the RHONJ season 14 reunion.
The cancelation comes as the hit Bravo show has drastically declined in ratings in the last four episodes. Our inside sources reveal why this decision was made, saying, “The reunion is all about resolution, and there is so much divide amongst the cast that Bravo feels like they would be wasting everyone’s time filming a reunion that would mirror season 13’s reunion.”
So what does that mean for the future of the Real Housewives of New Jersey?
“Sadly, the cast have been so divided with many refusing to film with each other that Bravo thinks it best to take a long pause on Jersey,” our inside source admits.
The reunion was set for June 27th, but production notified each RHONJ cast member that it had been canceled.
Our sources reveal that all of the ladies are in complete shock and are worried that they will be fired.
The only other Real Housewives franchise that did not have a reunion following a season was the Real Housewives of New York season 13 cast. This resulted in Bravo completely revamping the New York Housewives franchise with a new cast.
Real Housewives of New Jersey airs on Sundays at 8 pm on Bravo.
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