--- title: "Tamra Judge Slams Jeff Lewis’ Claim That RHOC ‘Set Up’ Shannon " url: https://allabouttrh.com/2024/06/22/tamra-judge-shannon-jeff-lewis-rhoc/ type: post date: 2024-06-22 modified: 2024-06-21 markdown_url: https://allabouttrh.com/2024/06/22/tamra-judge-shannon-jeff-lewis-rhoc.md author: "Lara Sophia" --- # Tamra Judge Slams Jeff Lewis’ Claim That RHOC ‘Set Up’ Shannon  ## Tamra Judge fires back at Jeff Lewis’ claim that Bravo "set up" Shannon Beador & fired her allies ahead of RHOC season 18. Tamra Judge clapped back at [Jeff Lewis’ claim that Andy Cohen and Bravo set up Shannon Beador to fail](https://allabouttrh.com/2024/06/21/rhoc-shannon-beador-fail/)during season 18 of the *Real Housewives of Orange County* by removing all her allies from the show.  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](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 Bravo ***“set her up.”*** While Andy attempted to defend himself and Bravo by noting that Shannon and Tamra were allies before filming for [season 18](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](https://allabouttrh.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/rhoc-season-18-cast.png)The season 18 cast of Bravo's the Real Housewives of Orange County [Tamra Judge](https://allabouttrh.com/category/the-real-housewives-of-orange-county/tamra-barney/)publicly reacted to Jeff's claims in an Instagram comment under the post shared by the Instagram account *[@ByeWigHelloDrama](https://www.instagram.com/byewighellodrama/)*. ***“Come on Jeff! You know that’s not true,”*** she wrote. ***“Taylor was her friend, but the second Taylor was fired, Shannon stopped speaking to her… sound familiar?”*** ***“Vicki hasn’t been full-time in years. I was her friend, but you will see what she did to me,” ***Tamra added. ***“Shannon is NOT the victim.”*** ![Tamra Judge Slams Jeff Lewis’ Claim That RHOC ‘Set Up’ Shannon ](https://allabouttrh.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/tamra-judge-slams-jeff-lewis-claim-shannon-beador-had-no-allies-on-rhoc-season-18-709x1200.jpeg)Tamra Slams Jeff's Claim That Bravo ‘Set Up’ Shannon  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? Sound off in the comments!