Rachel Zoe is returning to Bravo — this time with a diamond in hand.
The style designer introduced Friday that she is becoming a member of the solid of The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills for its upcoming fifteenth season.
“It’s official, I’m coming again to Bravo!” Zoe mentioned in an Instagram video. “I’m becoming a member of the solid of The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills.”
Zoe starred within the community’s The Rachel Zoe Mission for 5 years. After making her TV breakout in 2008 on the truth present, the collection ran for 5 seasons and chronicled the previous celeb stylist’s skilled and private life till 2013. Her addition to RHOBH will mark her return to Bravo for the primary time in roughly 12 years.
“It’s been some time and also you’ve been asking me to return again to tv and I mentioned when the celebs align or it is sensible or I’ve sufficient to say to share with all of you and now’s the time,” she added within the Instagram video. “Actually excited to be with all of you once more and I hope you’re too, so let’s have some enjoyable!”
Zoe’s addition to the solid of RHOBH comes on the heels of Garcelle Beauvais’ exit from the present. Earlier than the Beverly Hills-based Actual Housewives collection aired its season 14 finale earlier this 12 months, the actress introduced her departure in an Instagram video.
Alongside Beauvais, the season 14 solid starred Kyle Richards, Dorit Kemsley, Erika Jayne, Sutton Stracke, Bozoma Saint John and recurring stars Kathy Hilton and Jennifer Tilly. Apart from Zoe confirming her casting, it’s unclear which housewives will return for season 15.
The style designer lately mirrored on her rise to fame following The Rachel Zoe Mission in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. She admitted that she “by no means wished to be well-known” and “grew to become by accident well-known, in truth.”
“From the day I graduated faculty, my dad’s like, ‘You’re on the incorrect facet of the digital camera. It is advisable be in entrance,’” she recalled. “And I might say, ‘Dad, I’m the individual that declines the lead within the play,’ which I’ve achieved … I used to be at all times extra snug behind. I actually was.”
Zoe added, “Somebody would possibly say, effectively, however you probably did a actuality present (The Rachel Zoe Mission). The reply to that’s the intention of that present was to not be about me. It was truly to be in regards to the designers. Truly, I used to be making an attempt to be Elsa Klensch for CNN Type.”