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Bravo is shaking up The Actual Housewives of Orange County.
With a really acquainted face.
Throughout a taping of The Bravos BravoCon in Las Vegas on Friday, November 14, Vicki Gunvalson was stunned by Andy Cohen in entrance of a legion of followers.
”Vicki, would you be part of us as a housewife for Season 20?” Cohen requested the OG of the OC.
The 63-year-old appeared emotional, giving the chief producer a hug and exclaiming, “Sure!”
Gunvalson — who was a full-time forged member when the franchise debuted in 2006 — appeared on 14 seasons of the collection earlier than saying her departure in January 2020.
“I’ll at all times be the OG of the OC, however it’s time to say goodbye to The Actual Housewives of Orange County. It’s been an unimaginable experience for 14 years and I need thank all of you to your assist, to your love and for ‘whooping it up’ with me alongside the way in which,” she wrote in a prolonged assertion on the time.
“I’ve been engaged on new tasks that will probably be thrilling, empowering and inspirational. My podcast with Westwood One will probably be launching quickly and I’ll have way more to say about this on ‘Whoop it up with Vicki.’
“I hope you’ll be part of me with my new journey so please keep tuned. I like all my followers, and I need to thank Bravo and Evolution for this unimaginable expertise which my household and I’ve will always remember.”
This piece of casting information comes after Gunvalson and former co-star Tamra Choose squashed their feud.
“We’ve had a whole lot of ups and downs in our 20 years. I at all times say we’re like sisters,” Tamra informed Us Weekly on November 5, including:
“It’s that love-hate relationship on a regular basis. I’m speaking sisterly love, like, you will have little arguments. After which, after all, being on a present collectively, there’s at all times ups and downs — particularly the kind of present that we have been on collectively.”
The Actual Housewives of Orange County forged from Season 19 included Choose (who might now be gone), Shannon Beador, Heather Dubrow, Gina Kirschenheiter, Emily Simpson, Jennifer Pedranti, and Katie Ginella.
Shannon Storms Beador, for her half, was requested in regards to the aforementioned second throughout the BravoCon 2025 panel Getting Fortunate on the Love Resort, claiming she was more than happy with the casting transfer.
“, I’m so excited for Vicki,” she stated, earlier than sharing an anecdote from BravoCon 2023.
“And it was actually humorous… Two years in the past, when she gained the Wifetime Achievement award, [Vicki] got here again to the seat and stated one thing like, ‘Oh, why didn’t Andy pull an orange out of his pocket?’ And he did that final evening… I’m so excited for her.”
Bravo is but to introduced who will probably be becoming a member of Vicki on Season 20.
Are you psyched to have her again?
