RHOC's Kelly Dodd Is Happy Not To Be Tied to Bravo Contract

Onto the following! Kelly Dodd might not be returning for season 16 of The Real Housewives of Orange County, however she is still grateful to Bravo as she considers her long run outdoor the network.

“I had a perfect five years on RHOC. I will be able to omit working with the ladies and the crews from Evolution and I would like to thank Bravo for the entire alternatives they gave me,” Dodd, 45, mentioned in a commentary to Us Weekly on Wednesday, June 16. “If it weren’t for the display, I’d never have found my husband Rick, the best love of my lifestyles and for that I’m forever grateful. I’m additionally so grateful for the numerous hundreds of fans who’ve proven me love and make stronger for the reason that information broke.”

The reality famous person added: “Now it’s onward and upward! I’m super excited to be a loose agent, not tied to a Bravo contract, and can’t wait to paintings with Rick on new tasks. I wish the display not anything however good fortune.”

Cast participants Elizabeth Lyn Vargas and Braunwyn Windham-Burke have also exited the truth sequence. Heather Dubrow, who used to be originally at the show from 2012 to 2016, has confirmed her go back.

After the scoop broke on Tuesday, June 15, Dubrow, 52, printed to Andy Cohen why she changed her mind about coming back to the franchise.

“Honestly, a 12 months ago or two years in the past, I might’ve stated no ‘reason [of] what you’re speaking about. Timing is a large deal, however at the time that I left, the tradition of the display had modified a little since when I joined the display. I feel we could agree on that. I wasn’t happy, and I think it was a excellent mutual decision that maybe my time at the show was done,” she clarified throughout the Wednesday episode of the “Heather Dubrow’s World” podcast.

The That’s Life in 2000 alum endured: “Now, issues are just a little bit different, proper? My family’s in a special place, my youngsters are a bit of bit older, the [coronavirus] pandemic has sort of given me a different point of view on issues. Then I began fascinated by, ‘OK, how again and again do you get to go back and try something once more?’”

Dodd, for her part, prior to now claimed she would give up the Bravo series if costar Windham-Burke, 43, returned.

“I know I cannot film with Braunwyn,” Dodd stated in an Instagram Live in January. “I know for a incontrovertible fact that I can't movie along with her. There’s just no means, and if she comes again then I’m out as a result of I do know for a proven fact that I cannot. She’s bad and calling other people racists and homophobic.”

Dodd defined that working alongside Windham-Burke would be the ultimate dealbreaker for her.

“If I’m coming again subsequent year, I just can’t come again subsequent year filming with someone so reckless,” she shared on the time. “I simply can’t. If she’s on, I’m most likely out. So, that’s almost definitely the way it is going. And via the best way, she says she couldn’t film with me, so there you move.”

One month later, Dodd teased that she was planning to return to the next season of RHOC, after rumors spread that she have been fired.

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“It’s in reality kinda funny … I’ve heard these rumors every year for the ultimate 5 years,” she wrote via Twitter in February. “Looking ahead to my 6th season #RHOC 16!”

Shannon Beador, Gina Kirschenheiter and Emily Simpson will be returning for the upcoming season.

With reporting via Diana Cooper

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