Miami Housewives Reunion Will Be A Live Show

Bravo is taking its always unpredictable and often chaotic Real Housewives reunion show to the next level: A live telecast.

For next month’s Real Housewives of Miami reunion special hosted by Andy Cohen, Bravo will run the special live on the East Coast.

The Housewives reunion special has become the Mad Max Thunderdome of Bravo — Have a dispute? Housewives in conflict? Save it for the reunion! You remember last year the Housewives of New Jersey got into a headline-making red-faced brawl, then the ladies of Beverly Hills weren’t exactly civil during their reunion in January.

Watch What Happens: Live Miami Housewives Reunion will air on April 5 at 9 p.m. ET. (with a seven-second bleep delay, of course).

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Andy Cohen: Miami Is the Last Stop on the Train

When Bravo launched the Real Housewives of Miami, it seemed like there was hope for a franchise in every city. However, Bravo’s Andy Cohen exclusively tells OK! that Miami is the last stop for the Housewives train. Last night, OK! talked to the host with the most as he helped celebrate MCC Theater’s 25th Anniversary in NYC. Andy sounded off on some of the most controversial housewives in seasons past and he even told OK! which franchise he would love to see Whitney Houston star in!

When asked about which city he would look to next to find more housewives, he told OK!, “I really feel like we’re done.” So is Miami the last stop on the Housewives train? Andy answered, “Yeah.”

But if any housewife thinks this is her chance to star in a spin-off series like Bethenny Frankel, she should think again. Andy explained of the other housewives, “I think they’re all good where they are.”

Even though he might think they should stay put in their hometowns, Andy had nothing but love for some of his favorite housewives. The king of Bravo used word association to describe the happy homemakers.

OK!: Camille Grammer

AC: Rich!

OK!: Teresa Giudice

AC: Strong!

OK!: Bethenny Frankel

AC: Hilarious!

OK!: Nene Leakes

AC: Bam!

Andy continued to gush about Miss Leakes, “She’s just in your face and fun!”

He then told OK! that he would also like to see Whitney Houston kick it with Nene and the gang on the Real Housewives of Atlanta. “I’d like to see her shake things up with those women.” Maybe she could team up with Kim Zolciak for “Tardy for the Party Part II”!

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NeNe Leakes No Longer An 'Atlanta Housewife'?

Has NeNe Leakes gotten too big for her Bravo britches?

An insider tells us Leakes' stint as a cast member of the Real Housewives of Atlanta may be coming to an end for a number of reasons - including her extra-grande ego.

The reality star, who shot to fame on the franchise along with "Tardy for the Party" singer Kim Zolciak and amateur designer Sheree Whitfield, has become best known for her catty comments and friendship with Bravo exec and television personality Andy Cohen.

But our insider tells us that Cohen's relationship with the housewife has become strained due to NeNe's "disrespectful" and "arrogant behavior."

The insider says Neakes' aggressive behavior toward Zolciak - one incident of which was depicted on the reality series - has prompted the network to reevaluate NeNe's position on the show.

At the end of season two, Leakes grabbed the aspiring singer by the throat. The two began season three by making up but had fallen out again by last month's finale.

Apparently, Zolciak is not the only one who wants nothing to do with Leakes. "She's alienated all of the women other than Cynthia [Bailey]," the source says. "So, as of now, the plan is to "phase" Leakes out within the first two to three episodes of season four, which begins in October.

A spokeswoman for Bravo has no comment.

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Will Nene & Kim Zolciak Ever Be Friends Again?

After part one of the Real Housewives of Atlanta reunion, it seemed obvious that NeNe Leakes and Kim Zolciak's relationship was irreparably shattered as the ladies revisited their nasty fight aboard that bus.

Yet on Sunday's reunion, the second and final part, Zolciak offered an olive branch (of sorts), telling host Andy Cohen that she couldn't deny that she wished Leakes well in her life. True, it wasn't an all-out declaration of friendship but, as Cohen pointed out, Zolciak seemed genuinely moved – even wistful – while watching a montage of her greatest hits and funniest moments with Leakes over the course of the season.

Leakes, however, sat impassively and didn't seem to share in Kim's sentiment at all. In fact, she said that she thought their friendship was over, definitively.

Before arriving at this détente (of sorts), which concluded a rather staid, drama-free reunion, the two did get into another round of she-said, she-said, arguing again about the origins of their fight.

Perhaps they really won't reconcile – though NeNe and Kim have certainly been down this road before.

Will NeNe and Kim be friends again?
Yes. They'll eventually reconcile
No. This time they're done

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Which Atlanta Housewife Is the Biggest Freak?

The sassy ladies of the Real Housewives of Atlanta aren't shy about their, ahem, bedside manners. During the second part of the Real Housewives reunion, host Andy Cohen got down to business, asking Kandi Burruss who had the highest "freak number" -- as in, how freaky they are behind closed doors.

"Sheree did," admits Burruss, speaking of her castmate Sheree Whitfield. But Whitfield denies her freaky side, though she originally admitted on the show that her freak number was probably a 9 or 9-1/2 out of ten. "I think Kandi's is higher. I don't do the sugar and the Pop Rocks and stuff like that," she says.

"No, but that's the thing: I passed that on, but I've never actually done it," counters Burruss, before adding, "That's not to say that I won't do it."

The highest freak number in the group? It might just be … Phaedra Parks. Parks admits that "I'm very familiar with the sugar. It's delicious!"

Parks explains, "I've got a pretty hot husband, so you know, I'm willing to try a few things."

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Caroline & Andy Cohen Talk RHONJ Season 3

The Real Housewives of New Jersey cast must really dislike their former co-star Danielle Staub. When it was announced in September that Danielle would not be returning to the franchise for its third season, there were suggestions that other stars would not come back if Danielle did. Now, both N.J. housewife Caroline Manzo and Housewives honcho Andy Cohen say that it’s a good thing that she’s gone.

“Without Danielle, it’ll be great!’ Andy tells Hollywood Life exclusively.

“People worry that the show won’t be what it was. I’m glad it’s not what it was,” Caroline agrees. “Now, it’s drama that’s memorable.”

Expect some new people to be joining the cast this season. “There’s a couple of new faces,” Caroline states. “It’s a very different dynamic this year. It’s a lot of fun.”

“Jersey is filming right now,” Andy said at the Diane von Furstenberg Fall 2011 New York Fashion Week show. “It’s going really well.”

“It’s the best it ever was,” Caroline finalizes.

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Alex McCord: "We Go to the Brink of Insanity!"

The Real Housewives are about to get real ugly.

Real Housewives of New York City star Alex McCord says this season viewers will see some extreme craziness go down—even with Bethenny Frankel and Jill Zarin's fighting done—because all is not rosy between the seasoned Housewives and new castmember Cindy Barshop.

"Oh, it's not one epic fight, it is 100 fights," McCord told us. "We're comfortable enough with each other now that it's no holds barred. I did not know Cindy before. You'll have to see what happens with her and everyone."

And where does her husband, Simon, fit in to all of this?

Simon says he's still pressing buttons, annoying the other wives—including Barshop—and, as usual, tagging along with his wife for this season.

"On Cindy all I can say it's really hard to come into a mature cast that has been around each other for four years," he told us today at the Cynthia Steffe show at Lincoln Center. "It takes a while to work out how to avoid the drama."

Alex says one incident reaches such madness that "you can't make up what happens."

"People go all the way to the brink of insanity and back and there and back again," she told us.

Bravo honcho and Watch What Happens host Andy Cohen also weighed in on the Housewives rumors from the front row at the Diane Von Fürstenberg show today. He assures us rumors of the show being pushed back because of problems with a boring plot are not true.

"It's great, it's an amazing season, we just wrapped three weeks ago, we really wanted to get it perfect and we had Miami sitting on the shelf," he told E! News. "It's great, we all love it. Bethenny and Jill had their own drama. What's interesting about the premiere is the dust is still settling on that feud so it's interesting to see how these women are picking it back up."

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Andy Cohen Brutally Responds To Heidi Montag

In addition to being the Executive Vice President of Original Programming and Development at Bravo, Andy Cohen is also the host of his own show, and he used that platform tonight to address rumors that Heidi Montag was in talks with the network to be the newest cast member of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

On last night’s episode of Watch What Happens Live the special guest was Jimmy Fallon and for almost the entire show it was all fun and games as the funniest man on late night television and Jimmy Fallon hooped it up about a number of real housewives as well as Jimmy’s recent appearance on Top Chef.

But, things seemed to take a serious turn towards the end of the show when Andy adopted a humorless tone and began…

“On Tuesday Heidi Montag tweeted ‘Watch out Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Here comes Heidi…’ with a link to an article saying she and her husbland were talking to our producers about coming on the show.

“Professionally, I’m not supposed to discuss any negotiations so I have to parse my words here. That trash is delusional and I would sooner stab my knives into my eyes than see her on this network.

“But good news! Heidi, you’re on my show tonight because you’re the ‘Jackhole of the Week!’”

Dayummm!!! Heidi’s gonna need ten plastic surgeries on her ego after that one!

And just in case you wanted to see it, here’s a picture of Heidi’s tweet:

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Real Housewives of Atlanta Reunion Preview

If a preview of the Real Housewives of Atlanta reunion is any indication, feuding costars NeNe Leakes and Kim Zolciak have done nothing to end the fight that began on board Kandi Burruss's tour bus.

The heated argument over how Zolciak speaks to her assistant will continue – and sparks will fly – in front of the former friends' costars and speechless host Andy Cohen when the two-part reunion begins Sunday (10 p.m. ET) on Bravo. The second part will air Feb. 20.

"You said eff-you, b––h to me several times," Leakes says of the bus ride brawl.

Zolciak doesn't deny it, admitting, "Yeah, I did. I said a whole lot, because you had a whole lot to say."

"I think you can dish it out but you can't take it," Leakes continues. "I'm not going to get deep into it. I'm gonna tell you this: I'm offended by it. I don't know who likes it and who doesn't ... I don't accept verbal abuse well, and I will not accept it, okay? So I am completely done."

Tell us: Whose side are you on?
NeNe's - Kim's was out of line
Kim's - NeNe was just jealous of her success

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Heidi Montag On RHOBH? "Hell No!" Says Andy

The rumors about who’ll be on the still yet-to-be-greenlit second season of Bravo’s Real Housewives of Beverly Hills continue to swirl.

In the latest twist, the Spencer Pratt half of reality-show duo Speidi (the other half, of course, is Hills alum Heidi Montag) reportedly said that he and his sometimes-estranged wife are in talks with the minds behind Beverly Hills. “We would move to Beverly Hills in a heartbeat,” Pratt told Radar. “We would be psyched if this happened for us.”

It’s no secret, however, that Pratt is Pratt’s No. 1 promoter, so his comments could easily be a ploy to garner even more media attention. In fact, Bravo’s Housewives reunion host extraordinaire and executive vice president of programming and development Andy Cohen — he’s intimately involved in all aspects of the Housewives franchise, especially when it comes to casting — was quick to squash the rumors.

After someone sent him the public message via Twitter, “Spencer Pratt says he and Heidi want to be on RHOBH. Is there any way you would consider that?” Cohen tweeted in response, ”Hell no.”

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Camille Not Joining RHONY Despite Rumors

Could the Real Housewives of New York City handle another dramatic addition to the cast? For a moment it seemed like a possibility, but Bravo has shot down reports that Beverly Hills housewife Camille Grammer would join the East Coast cast, according to E! News.

Grammer, who Bravo host Andy Cohen once remarked was "one of the most hated 'Housewives' ever," appeared on the debut season of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

After a tumultuous season and countless spats with castmates, rumors started swirling that the blond bombshell might switch coasts to join the New York cast.

Not so fast, according to Cohen.

"Not true by a mile," he tweeted this week when asked about Grammer's rumored move.

He also debunked reports last week, tweeting, "Where do they come up w/ some of it -Camille on RHNYC?? THAT might make my head explode!"

Why all the rumors? Perhaps it's because Bravo has delayed the next season of the NYC 'Housewives,' opting instead to air a brand new set of housewives in Miami. The move had people speculating that the New York cast didn't bring enough drama this season without former cast member Bethenny Frankel.

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