Not All Diamonds and Rosé: The Inside Story of The Real Housewives from the People Who Lived It

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For the first time, the Real Housewives go on the record with the incredible story of the juggernaut franchise.

another thing that’s mentioned several times was how unfair it was that brandi wasn’t at the reunion to tell her side of the story. I'm not mad that I read it, but they didn't really dive too far into the juicy details that fans really want to know about. The way Caroline sees it, "there was no malice" toward Danielle, and they didn't even necessarily want to get her off the show. whether it’s encouraging the women to make up or confront each other, or speak about a certain topic (like bombarding a housewife who just had a cancer scare and didn’t want to get emotional on camera about it with questions about how she’d feel and what she’d miss about her family if she had terminal cancer to emotionally manipulate the kind of reaction they wanted out of her).After the reunion, he said he "kept throwing [Phaedra] life preservers to try to save herself, to explain why she might've been so angry at Kandi to make something like that up, or to profusely apologize, but she couldn't save herself.

Shari Levine (Executive Vice President of Current Production, Bravo): You have to remember: Bravo had started out as an arts channel, so we were at a place where we were really defining ourselves and moving into uncharted reality programming. Notably, this is when the infamous conversation about the show's "queen bee" supposedly kicked off, though the cameras weren't rolling.RHONY fans are well aware of what went down between Carole Radziwill and Bethenny Frankel during season 10, but as it turns out, Carole was also engaged in another battle with none other than Andy Cohen. All the Bombshells From the Real Housewives Tell-All Not All Diamonds and Rosé Dave Quinn's all-new book takes a deep dive into all the Real Housewives franchises. But keep in mind that this makes it more like government-mandated propaganda versus a true tell-all. I was a little worried about it not being juicy enough because it’s an authorized book, but that wasn’t the case at all. This exhaustive oral history features dishy interviews with 185 cast and crew members behind the Bravo phenomenon.

the women also continue to spin the tale of “denise was shaming and vilifying us for talking about sex, even though she always talked about sex” when that was very clearly not what happened at all. Nene Leakes and Bethenny Frankel are both women who really defined the franchise and weren’t included in this book. I will admit, while Bravo had control over approval of the content, there's still some fun sketchy stories here.According to numerous EPs, Vicki just didn't have much of a storyline left, thus the reduced role in season 14. in the room when this was being edited/published, though, because there is a gross accusation of assault and a woman standing by the assault then using it to make the other woman look bad. A previous attempt at this by our dear Brian Moylan got blacklisted and those involved with bravo were told to not do interviews for his book. To this day, Andy Cohen's all-time favorite Real Housewives moment is "Vicki and that little family van. Meghan King's deep-dive investigation ultimately uncovered the fact that Brooks was lying about having cancer.

However, Lea apparently had a stipulation in her contract that prevented anyone from talking about her husband's clients, which included the charity.

production loves to claim they never pull strings or interfere or fabricate situations, yet there are multiple instances in this book where they admit to doing just that. Andy Cohen comes across as a complete and utter d*ck - even at one point, claiming "I made this woman" (talking about Carole Radizwill - an Emmy-award winning journalist). The Real Housewives of Dallas' season three girls trip to Kameron Westcott's hometown quickly deteriorated after LeeAnne Locken and D'Andra Simmons got into a behind-the-scenes battle. This was a lot of fun, especially since so many housewives participated, but there is very little "tea" provided.