--- title: "RHOC: Kelly Dodd and Gretchen Rossi Agree With Jeff Lewis That Bravo Set Up Shannon Beador To Fail on S18" url: https://allabouttrh.com/2024/06/21/rhoc-shannon-beador-fail/ type: post date: 2024-06-21 modified: 2024-06-21 markdown_url: https://allabouttrh.com/2024/06/21/rhoc-shannon-beador-fail.md author: "Lara Sophia" --- # RHOC: Kelly Dodd and Gretchen Rossi Agree With Jeff Lewis That Bravo Set Up Shannon Beador To Fail on S18 ## Former Bravolebs Kelly Dodd, Gretchen Rossi, and Jeff Lewis believe the network set up Shannon Beador to fail while filming season 18 of RHOC. On Tuesday's episode of* [Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen](https://allabouttrh.com/category/wwhl/)*, guest Jeff Lewis admitted that he ***"feels" ***for his longtime friend [Shannon Beador](https://allabouttrh.com/category/the-real-housewives-of-orange-county/shannon-beador-rhoc/)ahead of [season 18](https://allabouttrh.com/2024/06/07/rhoc-season-18-trailer/) of the *Real Housewives of Orange County*. ***“Shannon, this season, has a lot coming at her. I will say, watching Shannon activated though, it’s fascinating on television,” ***[Andy Cohen](https://allabouttrh.com/category/wwhl/andy-cohen/) noted. ***“There’s no better TV than when Shannon is activated. That’s true,”*** [Jeff Lewis](https://allabouttrh.com/2024/01/30/jeff-lewis-filming-s18-rhoc/) agreed. > Not Jeff Lewis saying Bravo set up Shannon!!! ? And he asks Andy why they took away all Shannons allies. [#RHOC](https://twitter.com/hashtag/RHOC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [pic.twitter.com/7wpBNU4BGg](https://t.co/7wpBNU4BGg)— Bye Wig Hello Drama (@nosmokenomore) [June 19, 2024](https://twitter.com/nosmokenomore/status/1803492380513018247?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) However, the former *Flipping Out *star added: ***“I feel for her. I just didn’t like that you took away all her allies. You know what I’m saying? She went in with the wolves.”*** Jeff called the whole situation ***"terrible" ***and said that Bravo ***"set her up." *** While Andy attempted to defend himself and Bravo by noting that Shannon and [Tamra Judge](https://allabouttrh.com/category/the-real-housewives-of-orange-county/tamra-barney/) were allies before filming for [season 18 of RHOC](https://allabouttrh.com/2024/04/15/rhoc-tamra-shannon-kelly-dodd/) began, Jeff criticized him for removing [Vicki Gunvalson](https://allabouttrh.com/category/the-real-housewives-of-orange-county/vicki-gunvalson/) and [Taylor Armstrong](https://allabouttrh.com/2023/11/30/rhoc-taylor-armstrong-exit-s18-cast/)from the season 18 cast. ![RHOC season 18 cast photo](https://allabouttrh.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/rhoc-season-18-cast-photo-1200x669.png)RHOC season 18 cast photo ***“I would make Vicki a full-time cast member. I’d bring Taylor back as a friend, and I may bring [Gretchen Rossi] back as a friend,”*** he argued. After Jeff's comments spread around Bravoverse, two former *Real Housewives of Orange County* stars couldn't help but agree with him. [Gretchen Rossi](https://allabouttrh.com/2024/02/09/gretchen-rossi-great-housewife/)said she ***"100% Agreed"*** with Jeff's take that Bravo sabotaged Shannon while filming season 18. [Kelly Dodd](https://allabouttrh.com/category/the-real-housewives-of-orange-county/kelly-meza-dodd/) then entered the chat in response to Gretchen's comment. ***"@gretchenrossi, I wish you were there to go after TamRat,"*** Kelly wrote. > [View this post on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/C8dwZB0ssG9/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading)[A post shared by All About TRH (@allabouttrh)](https://www.instagram.com/p/C8dwZB0ssG9/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading) Season 18 of [The Real Housewives of Orange County ](https://allabouttrh.com/category/the-real-housewives-of-orange-county/)premieres on Bravo Thursday, July 11, at 9 p.m. ET. ## Thoughts on this all? Do you think Bravo set Shannon up this season? Sound off in the comments!