Tamar Braxton needs The Actual regarded a bit of completely different when she first launched the present.
Whereas showing on the Wednesday, Could 15, episode of The NeNe Leakes Show, Braxton reacted to NeNe Leakes’ declare that she was initially picked to cohost the present earlier than Loni Love took her place.
“I want they’d have advised me,’ Braxton, 48, stated. “I wouldn’t have solid large again Cadillac. We’d in all probability be in our tenth season by now. Thanks. Ain’t that dumb?”
Whereas Braxton clarified that “it’s no shade,” the laughter on set and Leakes’ resolution to instantly sip a drink proved the remark was sufficient to lift eyebrows.
“I used to be requested to be on The Actual, and this was the start of the method of them casting,” Leakes, 57, defined earlier within the present. “I’m certain it was Tamar and the opposite women, however I used to be requested to be one of many first women of the present … and I ended up not doing The Actual. They ended up casting Loni.”
As for why Leakes turned down the gig, she claimed it was as a result of she was swamped with filming The Actual Housewives of Atlanta for Bravo.
“Yeah, I knew you wouldn’t like me first. I’m simply kidding,” she joked. “I used to be on Actual Housewives of Atlanta, so I simply didn’t do The Actual, however Tamar in the end did The Actual.”
The Actual kicked off in July 2013 with Tamera Mowry, Jeannie Mai, Adrienne Houghton, Braxton and Love, 53. In Could 2016, nonetheless, information broke that Braxton was leaving the present after two seasons.
“The Actual and Tamar Braxton have mutually determined that Tamar is not going to be persevering with with the present for its upcoming third season,” Tamar and a The Actual rep stated in a press release to E! News. “She can be leaving with a purpose to focus on her solo profession. Everybody related to The Actual appreciates Tamar’s efforts and the contributions she has made to the present’s success, and we want her all the perfect for the longer term.”
The information seemingly caught her cohosts unexpectedly, with Love explaining by way of Fb that “there was no indication that Tamar was going to be let go…We genuinely all like one another.”
Days later, Braxton sparked rumors that her exit wasn’t as pleasant as it might seem.
“I like u all however I’ve been stabbed within the again by somebody I stupidly trusted (not my man or my sisters). I’m not about to be tried and examined to snitch,” she wrote via Instagram on the time. “However know that all who smiles in your face is NOT your pal and is NOT cheering for you and can LIE and try to tear u right down to TRY and dim your mild.”
The Actual would proceed by means of June 2022. Through the sequence finale, Houghton, 41, Mai, 46, and Love had been nonetheless cohosting alongside The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills star Garcelle Beauvais.
Us Weekly has reached out to Love’s reps for remark.