'Real Hoewife' Heather Gay pens a juicy ex-Mormon memoir

Contents:

• HEATHER GAY’S EX-HBAND LEGALLY TRAMARKED THE TERM ‘MORMON ROYALTY’ AFTER THE ‘RHOSLC’ STAR REVEALED HER FAY LEAGE
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RHOSLC STAR HEATHER GAY'S EX-HBAND
• HEATHER GAY SAYS FEELS GOOD TO BE A 'BAD MORMON'
• HEATHER GAY
• THE MORMON CHURCH WON’T LET HEATHER GAY MAKE MERCH
• RHOSLC STAR HEATHER GAY PAVED THE WAY FOR HER BROTHER TO LEAVE THE MORMON CHURCH
• ‘REAL HOEWIFE’ HEATHER GAY PENS A JUICY EX-MORMON MEMOIR
• HEATHER GAY SAYS SHE'S 'SMARTER AND WISER' SCE CALLG JEN SHAH THE 'MVP' OF 'RHOSLC' 'BAD MORMON'
• HEATHER GAY OF ‘REAL HOEWIV’ KNOWS SHE’S A ‘BAD MORMON’
• 'RHOSLC''S HEATHER GAY TO RELEASE 'VULNERABLE' MEMOIR, 'BAD MORMON', ABOUT LEAVG THE MORMON CHURCH
• RHOSLC: FANS SPL ON HEATHER GAY'S MORMON STORYLE
• RHOSLC: WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT HEATHER GAY'S NEW MEMOIR 'BAD MORMON'
• GET TO KNOW HEATHER GAY — UNEXPECTED FACTS ABOUT THE RHOSLC BLOND BOMBSHELL
• EXCLIVE: 'RHOSLC' STAR HEATHER GAY RELLS HER DAYS AS A MORMON MISSNARY NEW MEMOIR
• RHOSLC: HEATHER GAY WRG MEMOIR ABOUT LEAVG THE MORMON CHURCH
• HEATHER GAY INTRODUC US TO HER OLR BROTHER TYLER
• HEATHER GAY GIV AN UPDATE ON RELATNSHIP WH HER SISTER AFTER NIECE'S RHOSLC APPEARANCE
• 'RHOSLC': TIRED FANS BEG HEATHER GAY TO MOVE OVER HER 'BAD MORMON' STORYLE

HEATHER GAY’S EX-HBAND LEGALLY TRAMARKED THE TERM ‘MORMON ROYALTY’ AFTER THE ‘RHOSLC’ STAR REVEALED HER FAY LEAGE

Wh a st that featur fan-favore characters such as Meredh Marks, Lisa Barlow, and Heather Gay, The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy has quickly bee one of the most popular realy shows on televisn. Acrdg to the report om The Sun, Gay was a vout Mormon om birth and was raised an exclive environment. “I am a purebred, pedigreed, pneer, Mormon, ” Gay said an terview early on the seri.

The spl om her hband not only shook up Gay’s love life, but affected her attu toward the church, as well. Gay distanced herself om Mormonism after the divorce, even as her hband went on to legally tramark the term “Mormon royalty.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RHOSLC STAR HEATHER GAY'S EX-HBAND

” Acrdg to Monsters & Crics, the label started gag promence amongst Gay’s ner circle thanks to her fay’s associatn wh the famed film producer Howard Hugh.

HEATHER GAY SAYS FEELS GOOD TO BE A 'BAD MORMON'

In November 2020, Gay sat down wh The Salt Lake Tribune to discs her attu toward relign—and why she has taken a step back om Mormonism.

"Chad Kirkland/BravoWhen to -parentg, Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy star Heather Gay has a unique arrangement wh her ex-hband, Billy. " In the RHOSLC premiere, Heather said that the Gay fay was "worth billns" and nsired "Mormon royalty" — a phrase that her ex, Frank William "Billy" Gay III, filed to tramark September 2020. His grandfather, Frank William Gay, worked as billnaire Howard Hugh' driver and "henchman" before movg up to top executive posns at Hugh Tool Company, Hugh Air Corporatn, and the Summa Corporatn.

Though Heather said on the show that the Gay fay "hered a huge portn" of Hugh' tate followg his 1976 ath, F. Gay’s 2007 obuary stated that his money me om "nng Hugh’ many bs ventur, not om the Hugh tate. Heather Gay, a star on Bravo’s “The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy, ” has cemented herself as a fan favore one of the most buzzy hoewiv anchis.

HEATHER GAY

Throughout her three seasons on the show, which premiered 2020, Gay has spoken about her evolutn om vout Mormon to divorced mother of three and succsful bs owner, now openly distanced om the Mormon Church.

We have secrets that spo keep om each other, hbands never disclosed certa oaths to their wiv, ” Gay ntu. The book offers a drastic juxtaposn between the Heather Gay that once was and the Heather Gay of today. Ahead of s publitn, ught up wh Gay to hear about puttg the memoir together and what says she's 'loved' sharg the book wh her 3 dghters"Wrg a memoir nsumed my life, " Heather Gay tells was no distance, she says, between her life and the memoir, pecially as she was wrg events real time as they unfold.

”‘No one talks about ’: How Gay’s fay is alg wh the bookA large portn of the memoir is voted to Gay's marriage to ex-hband Frank William Gay. Speakg to the Salt Lake Cy Tribune 2015, Gay said she knew om "day three" of her marriage that she "didn't want to grow old" wh her ex-hband, and that she "supprsed every personal stct orr to be a good wife and a good mother, but didn’t work out. Gay says that he hasn’t read the book to her knowledge, and that “no one really talks about” the book her fay.

THE MORMON CHURCH WON’T LET HEATHER GAY MAKE MERCH

It’s really the last few weeks of the book g out, readg the dbook and lookg at my story om tip to tail that I n see how much I’ve been strivg for someone to not discred my story and my experience, ” she ‘never imaged’ her book would land on the radar of the Mormon ChurchGay felt the stak were high when wrg her memoir. Now, I want to fend my own story, my own experience wh the same vulnerabily and rawns, bee I don’t want anythg to be left to chance, ” she is already fendg her words, as she’s active ligatn wh The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, monly known as the Mormon Church, over her tramark of the book Augt 2021, Gay’s pany, Heathertament, Inc., filed a tramark applitn for the term “Bad Mormon, ” ially for e of “bottle openers; beer mugs; ffee mugs; drkg bottl for sports; plastic water bottl sold empty; sports bottl sold empty; squeeze bottl sold empty; travel mugs.

"“I never imaged a ln years that my ltle book would be even on the radar of The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, " Gay fed the book wh pop culture for a reasonGay took a unique approach to wrg the memoir.

RHOSLC STAR HEATHER GAY PAVED THE WAY FOR HER BROTHER TO LEAVE THE MORMON CHURCH

Gay creds her edorial assistant, John Jard, for helpg her fd her voice the wrg procs.

"Why she voted a sectn to each of the origal ‘RHOSLC’ hoewivIn “Bad Mormon, ” Gay vot a portn to each of her fellow Season One "RHOSLC, " hoewiv — Meredh Marks, Lisa Barlow, Mary M.

Cosby, Whney Rose and Jen Shah — offerg an unvarnished and often posive mentary on what each brought to the many realy televisn stars e their memoirs to throw sha at their on-screen fo, Gay took a different approach. ”Out of the OG "RHOSLC" hoewiv, Gay shar that she’d be most exced to read a memoir om Cosby, sayg would be “beyond wild. “(If Cosby wrote a memoir), I would vour , ” Gay memoir she’d be least exced to read?

‘REAL HOEWIFE’ HEATHER GAY PENS A JUICY EX-MORMON MEMOIR

It would probably not be raw and vulnerable, which are two of my thgs that I like to read a book, ” Gay addrs other ‘Hoewiv’ hot topics and her tentn for the futureLike any good Real Hoewife, Gay knows how to keep her name the prs … and on the lips of other recently told TV Deets that she would love to see Season Three stmate Angie Harrgton holdg a snowflake for Season Four of "RHOSLC.

" Harrgton has been around sce Season One of the show’ but never has snagged an official "hoewife" signatn, which Gay tells is bee “she’s very nice, and she’s very acmodatg. Gay ed a stir after she unfollowed Teddi Mellenmp (formerly of “The Real Hoewiv of Beverly Hills”) and Tamra Judge (“The Real Hoewiv of Orange County”), who host the podst “Two T’s a Pod wh Teddi Mellenmp and Tamra Judge.

” Durg a December 2022 episo, the pair noted that Gay “officially unfollowed” them, which Mellenmp emed “a shame.

HEATHER GAY SAYS SHE'S 'SMARTER AND WISER' SCE CALLG JEN SHAH THE 'MVP' OF 'RHOSLC' 'BAD MORMON'

” Judge said that they had a good time wh Gay when they met at says there's no story here. I have no beef, ” she that squashed and three seasons of ”‘RHOSLC” unr her belt, the qutn aris: What’s to e Gay’s next chapter?

Gay says, “I would love to be a torrid sex romp lled ‘Bad Missnary Posn, ’ but I know I have more books me and more thgs I want to wre.

HEATHER GAY OF ‘REAL HOEWIV’ KNOWS SHE’S A ‘BAD MORMON’

“The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy” often addrs Latter-day Sat issu, even though there are no fully active members of the fah the are three former members (Heather Gay, Whney Rose and Jen Shah), and one (Lisa Barlow) who profs belief the church whout adherg to all of s standards. )But amid all the yellg, screamg, fightg and fdg, Shah’s arrt on feral d charg, and Mary Cosby and Jennie Nguyen’s racism, “RHOSLC” clus a storyle viewers have never seen play out on a TV seri — the journey of one woman as she stggl to leave The Church of J Christ of Latter-day the show premiered November 2020, Gay scribed herself as a “good Mormon gone bad.

'RHOSLC''S HEATHER GAY TO RELEASE 'VULNERABLE' MEMOIR, 'BAD MORMON', ABOUT LEAVG THE MORMON CHURCH

”The end of a marriageGay told viewers that she grew up a strong Latter-day Sat fay, went on a church missn, and attend church-owned Brigham Young Universy. "Acrdg to Gay, whose divorce was falized 2014, members of her ward, or ngregatn, began treatg her and her three dghters differently after the divorce.

”In Season Two, Gay’s send olst dghter, Geia, 15, said she’s “worried” about gog back to church “bee we haven’t been so long.

”“It’s never too late, ” Gay said, vowg to acpany Annabelle to church “not bee I believe and I’m gog to do aga — [but] so I n support you. ”A big cisnGay said that fay members look at her divorce as “the nsequence of [her] bad choic.

RHOSLC: FANS SPL ON HEATHER GAY'S MORMON STORYLE

Her ex-hband n remarry and “still have full church stat, ” but she feels she has been marked as Season One of “Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy, ” Gay told her dghters about the “double life” she had been livg and ma the cisn to stop tryg to “straddle the fence” between beg or out of the church. ”(Nile Weagart | Bravo) Heather Gay and Lisa Barlow on "The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy" rnn. Fractured fayGay said that once she cid to leave the Utah-based fah, she realized she had been actg badly toward her younger sister, Nancy, who married outsi The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats and moved to Colorado.

“She broke away om the Mormon church about 30 years ago, and was a huge acture our relatnship and her relatnship wh our fay, ” Gay said. ”Gay said she now feels “horrible guilt about the fact that I did not have a relatnship wh my sister for s” and hop for a renciliatn. ”She has regretsGay is brash and outspoken, but she has exprsed heartfelt regret about her spl om the church.

”At the end of Season Two of “RHOSLC, ” Gay anized a memorial for her father, who died April 2020, and all but one of her fay members who are still active Latter-day Sats refed to attend. Gay said her mother and most of her siblgs were “takg a stand and refg to participate bee my mom [said] my dad was rollg over his grave, ” and bee “they thk ’d be a promise of their valu and a betrayal of their fah if they were to endorse me any way. ”At the Season Two rnn of “The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy, ” however, Gay vents agast her former church.

RHOSLC: WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT HEATHER GAY'S NEW MEMOIR 'BAD MORMON'

A vout Mormon om birth, Heather Gay was married to Mormon royalty for 11 years but has distanced herself om the church after her divorce. But if the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, the erstwhile Mormon Church, has anythg to say about , there is no way outer darkns Gay should be allowed to palize on beg a “bad Mormon.

” Followg the Febary 7 release of her memoir, tled Bad Mormon, the Church is opposg Gay’s requt to sell merchandise to fans (and other ex-Mormons) wh the cheeky name. Gay’s clean break om the relign fally happened when she realized the negative “through-le” her life was Mormonism. Gay said thgs changed when she cid to start livg her life thentilly for herself and her dghters, Ashley, 19, Geia, 17, and Annabelle, 15.

“I’m a bad Mormon now bee I stopped believg this stutn that had bigoted prcipl and was teachg me to basilly look at my dghters and lie to them and say, ‘You know, marriage is only between a man and a woman, women n never have the prithood, and men are the only way we n get to heaven, ’” Gay said.

GET TO KNOW HEATHER GAY — UNEXPECTED FACTS ABOUT THE RHOSLC BLOND BOMBSHELL

Prr to her book release, Gay asked the Church to expunge her name om s rerds — a standard requt typilly granted by bishops — but the LDS appears termed to prevent Gay om profg off the break.

EXCLIVE: 'RHOSLC' STAR HEATHER GAY RELLS HER DAYS AS A MORMON MISSNARY NEW MEMOIR

The ia for Bad Mormon me om Gay’s publisher, who suggted after Real Hoewiv mil-parody wrer Dylan MarcAurele posted a song wh that tle durg the COVID-19 lockdown. “I immediately crged bee I thought, Oh, I uld never proudly say ‘bad Mormon’; that would be blasphemo, and I’d be ed, ” Gay said. Before her book party whout a book, Gay had filed a requt to tramark the name Bad Mormon so she uld emblazon on a wi variety of merchandise she planned to sell.

The Church promptly disagreed and filed paperwork opposg Gay’s requt, sayg owns the legal rights to the words Mormon, Book of Mormon, and Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

RHOSLC: HEATHER GAY WRG MEMOIR ABOUT LEAVG THE MORMON CHURCH

Dpe the Church allowg the ne-time Tony Award–wng mil The Book of Mormon to thrive, LDS attorneys said their urt papers that Gay would be g “the name of an ancient prophet” and that her requt would damage the Church’s reputatn and goodwill, g “nfn, garnishment, and dilutn” by falsely suggtg “a nnectn or affiliatn wh or approval or endorsement” om the Church.

HEATHER GAY INTRODUC US TO HER OLR BROTHER TYLER

Gay, who is always quick to crack a joke any suatn, often at her own expense, said the Church’s adamant opposn to the “Bad Mormon” merch is il.

“It seems sort of funny bee there are “Bad Jew” or “Bad Catholic” T-shirts and sweatshirts and merch, and, you know, no one’s steppg to sort of stop that, ” Gay explaed. A vout Mormon om birth, Heather Gay was married to Mormon royalty for 11 years, but has distanced herself om the church after her divorce.

HEATHER GAY GIV AN UPDATE ON RELATNSHIP WH HER SISTER AFTER NIECE'S RHOSLC APPEARANCE

When The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy premiered 2020, star Heather Gay told Btle that fans shouldn’t expect to see her fay on the show. Of the, one of the least tra-wrecky is Heather Gay, who’s generally a clear-eyed mediator of the juvenile tfights the other characters routely engage .

She’s sarstic and fierce, but also vulnerable; the show’s first season picks up as Gay is reelg om a divorce om a proment man she scrib as “Mormon royalty” and h om her very recent spl om The Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats. Both of those trmatic breakups are chronicled Gay’s tell-all memoir “Bad Mormon, ” out this week. Gay hs upon some gent observatns about how tough Mormonism n be on those of who don’t que f the mold.

'RHOSLC': TIRED FANS BEG HEATHER GAY TO MOVE OVER HER 'BAD MORMON' STORYLE

It will only tick you off, pecially when Gay spills the herbal tea on the LDS temple ceremony.

This is a straight-om-the-hip acunt of one dissint’s experienc, and I spect om a uple of small miscu about Mormonism that may have been at least partly ghostwrten by someone who was not as steeped the fah as Gay herself.

Dpe some closet doubts, Gay was a hypersuccsful missnary who spouted the church’s prcribed answers to every qutn. Gay’s picture-perfect marriage was not the fantasy she portrayed as her extravagant annual Christmas rds.