Jeff Lewis May Already Be Burning Bridges on the Eve of His Bravo Return
Jeff Lewis is returning to Bravo, and he’s wasting no time in stirring up controversy.
Jeff Lewis returns to Bravo in ‘Still Flipping Out’
On Friday, Bravo announced that it had greenlit Still Flipping Out (WT), which will follow “king of controlled chaos” Lewis “as his hit show on Radio Andy, design empire and combustible personality converge.”
“Lewis navigates the hilariously unpredictable nature of his professional and personal lives as his trademark spontaneity collides with the people who work with him, for him and still somehow survive him,” reads Bravo’s description of the new show. “Jeff Lewis can still flip out when he wants to, and he calls that personal growth.”
Lewis previously starred in Flipping Out, which aired on Bravo from 2007 to 2018. The show was canceled after Lewis’ falling out with his co-star, Jenni Pulos.
Andy Cohen takes issues with Jeff Lewis’ ‘insensitive’ comments at BravoCon
While Lewis might have lost his show, he stayed in the public eye thanks to his radio show, where he didn’t hesitate to share his sometimes controversial takes. And at BravoCon 2025, he proved that even though he’s now back in the network’s fold, he won’t be muzzled.
During a discussion on November 14, Lewis asked fellow panelist and Real Housewives producer Andy Cohen why there wasn’t more economic diversity among the Housewives. He then gave former Real Housewives of Salt Lake City cast member Monica Garcia as an example of a less affluent Housewife.
“Didn’t Monica Garcia’s food benefits just get frozen?” he asked.
Cohen wasn’t thrilled with Lewis’ jab at Garcia, and he defended her casting. Garcia also took issue with the remark. In a post on her Instagram Story (via Us Weekly), she pointed out it was “horrible” given that many SNAP recipients had been struggling to put food on their plates during the government shutdown.
In an interview with Us Weekly, Lewis said that Cohen, who is an executive producer of Still Flipping Out, found his remarks ““inappropriate and insensitive.”
“I thought I killed, but Andy did not,” he said.
“I have apologized. Look, I know this guy. We’ve known each other for 18 years. He vents and, look, I sincerely did apologize,” Lewis said. “Now I gotta give him time to cool off. My experience with him, he’ll get back to me in one to three weeks.”
“I’ll talk to you in three weeks,” he added.
“I’m sorry you didn’t like our panel,” Lewis wrote on Instagram.
Jeff Lewis says he was ‘angry’ at Bravo after ‘Flipping Out’ was canceled
Earlier this year, Lewis opened up about his complicated history with Bravo during an appearance on the My Friend, My Soulmate, My Podcast podcast.
“I had left Bravo, and I don’t want to pretend like, ‘Oh, I decided to spend more time with my family.’ No. They didn’t renew my contract.”
After Flipping Out was canceled, Lewis starred Hollywood Houselift With Jeff Lewis, which ran for two seasons on Amazon’s now-defunct Freevee service. But he always kept in touch with the decision-makers at Bravo.
“I had burned a few bridges, but I didn’t burn the house down. I was angry at the time, when they didn’t renew the contract. I didn’t like the reasoning behind it,” he said. “It wasn’t that there was low ratings or that people lost interest. It was the Bravo executives who felt the show could not go on without Jenni. And I disagreed and I actually proved them wrong.”
But Lewis also admitted that the cancellation might have been a blessing in disguise. Soon after, his life “collapsed” as he navigated his grandmother’s death, the end of his relationship and an ugly custody battle, and a lawsuit.
“I don’t know if that would have been the best look for me had we continued,” Lewis said. “Especially after my 10-year relationship ended I was spiraling. I was self-destructing. I mean, if you though old Jeff, 2009 Flipping Out was bad, it was bad. I mean, there might have been behavior I could not come back from.”
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