Fans Are Calling the ‘RHOBH’ Shakeup ‘Desperately Needed’ — Why Adding Leah Remini and Tracy Tutor to the Cast Is the Change the Show Needed
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills will look a little different when it returns to Bravo.
Two new cast members are joining the show for its upcoming 16th season: Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles alum Tracy Tutor and King of Queen star Leah Remini.
Andy Cohen says Bravo has been ‘dancing around’ Leah Remini and Tracy Tutor for years
Both cast additions have been a long time in the making, producer Andy Cohen recently said.
“The big announcement is that Tracy Tutor is joining The Housewives of Beverly Hills and Leah Remini is joining. It’s really great,” Cohen said in a recent episode of his SiriusXM Radio Andy show (via Instagram).
“We have been dancing around both of them for years,” he added.
The Watch What Happens Live host said that he and Tutor had long been flirting with the idea of her joining RHOBH. She already “know[s] everybody” in the cast. “It is very clear that this makes very good sense.”
As for Remini, Cohen made it clear that brining her into the Bravo family was a major coup.
“I think for us – she’s such a big star. And she has such a huge profile. And this show is so different. I love it,” he said, adding that Remini – who is famous for speaking out against the Church of Scientology – is “so tough.”
The new season of RHOBH is several weeks into filming, Cohen added. And apparently, what the cameras are capturing is gold. “It’s going gangbusters,” he said.
New cast members bring fresh energy to ‘RHOBH’
Housewives fans agreed that RHOBH needed some changes.
“BH desperately needed the new blood. Hope they can shake things up,” one person commented.
“All I care about is Leah joining and that for me is going to revived BH,” another person wrote.
Critics have complained that RHOBH has felt stale in recent seasons, with recycled conflict and low-stakes drama. But adding two new full-time cast members has the potential to seriously shift the existing RHOBH dynamic.
Tutor comes into the show with built-in drama with Dorit Kemsley. The pair have been feuding since last year after Tutor accused Kemsley of failing to pay her glam squad, a charge Kemsley denied. Tutor is also friends with Kyle Richards’ estranged husband Mauricio Umansky through the connections in the LA real estate world.
Meanwhile, the Brooklyn-bred Remini is set to bring her signature outspokenness to Bravo. While it remains to be seen exactly how she’ll fit in with the RHOBH cast, it seems unlikely that the woman who publicly took on the Church of Scientology will shy away from speaking her mind to her fellow Housewives.
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