'RHOSLC': Heather Gay's Book Deal Was Brokered by a Friend Who Says She Kicked Him to the Curb (Exclive)

Contents:

• ‘REAL HOEWIFE’ HEATHER GAY PENS A JUICY EX-MORMON MEMOIR
• ‘RHOSLC’: HEATHER GAY’S BOOK DEAL WAS BROKERED BY A FRIEND WHO SAYS SHE KICKED HIM TO THE CURB (EXCLIVE)
• HEATHER GAY SAYS FEELS GOOD TO BE A 'BAD MORMON'
• RHOSLC: WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT HEATHER GAY'S NEW MEMOIR 'BAD MORMON'
• HEATHER GAY
• HEATHER GAY
• BAD MORMON BOOK BY HEATHER GAY ON RHOSLC IS RELEASED ON FEBARY 7
• EXCLIVE: 'RHOSLC' STAR HEATHER GAY RELLS HER DAYS AS A MORMON MISSNARY NEW MEMOIR
• HEATHER GAY
• 'RHOSLC''S HEATHER GAY TO RELEASE 'VULNERABLE' MEMOIR, 'BAD MORMON', ABOUT LEAVG THE MORMON CHURCH
• REAL HOEWIV OF SALT LAKE CY STAR HEATHER GAY WROTE A BOOK
• WHO IS HEATHER GAY OM RHOSLC?
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• RHOSLC’S HEATHER GAY SHAR REGRET AMID FD WH WHNEY ROSE, PL TALKS SUPPORTG JEN SHAH AFTER GUILTY PLEA, AND NEW MEMOIR

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

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 .

‘RHOSLC’: HEATHER GAY’S BOOK DEAL WAS BROKERED BY A FRIEND WHO SAYS SHE KICKED HIM TO THE CURB (EXCLIVE)

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. 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.

Gay grew up as a middle child a by-the-book LDS fay out wt.

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

Dpe some closet doubts, Gay was a hypersuccsful missnary who spouted the church’s prcribed answers to every qutn.

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

Gay’s picture-perfect marriage was not the fantasy she portrayed as her extravagant annual Christmas rds.

That’s a fascatg nvergence of events, bee her dghter entered the fold jt as Gay was begng to see no role for herself , even though she was servg as a Relief Society print.

HEATHER GAY

Enter the former Entreprenr Stunt of the Year (honorable mentn): What saved Gay was nng and growg her new bety servic bs.

In her pre-terview dns, Gay let the filmmakers see her life warts and all:. Ironilly, the manufactured “realy” of realy TV enabled Gay to fally be herself. In the journey om hoewife to Hoewife, Gay wr, she has fally found herself.

HEATHER GAY

When The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy premiered 2020, Heather Gay was an immediate fan favore for her self-pretg w and everywoman relatabily.

BAD MORMON BOOK BY HEATHER GAY ON RHOSLC IS RELEASED ON FEBARY 7

(I even had pneer anctors datg back to 1856, jt like the on Gay proudly referenced her Season 1 tagle. )And jt like Gay, I also grappled wh a paful, yearslong procs of breakg wh anctral tradn and leavg the church. Realy TV memoirs are a ttage dtry wh varyg gre of lerary mer, but Gay’s book has major stak: In tracg her journey om aspirg hoewife to pal-H Hoewife, she wr about Mormonism’s sacred ruals manner that is not only grounds for exmunitn the church but also risks ostracizatn om the entire muny she held ar for so long.

“There was no gray area, no between, ” Gay, 48, wr the book.

”Below, Gay opens up redisverg herself outsi of the church, how Mormonism still rms her life, and where she stands wh her surprised you most while you were lookg back at your life through this book?

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

” You did that tryg to live up the standards of righteons and perfectn that make a “good” Mormon, and that’s what I did for so long, too, beg gay and closeted at don’t work. TVHeather Gay's former iend Jordan Ross Meyers said he gave Gay accs to his extensive ntacts to put together a 'RHOSLC' book al. Not so “vulnerable, ” says Jordan Ross Meyers of Heather Gay om The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy.

HEATHER GAY

Gay recently announced a trophy book al wh Simon & Schter that will tail her emotnal journey out of Mormonism. But Meyers told Showbiz Cheat Sheet he helped Gay fd the book and now she won’t speak to him. He said the nice person image fans origally enuntered on RHOSLC is gone and Gay is playg hardball wh him.

Friend says Heather Gay iced him out after she got her book al.

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

Meyers said he leveraged his nnectns to put Gay touch wh the publishers. He heard they were lookg to sign a Real Hoewife to wre a memoir, and sce he was already iendly wh her, he reached out to Gay and set up a meetg for her wh his ntacts.

Heather Gay om The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy land a book al that Jordan Ross Meyers said he helped to broker. Meyers hoped to celebrate Gay’s succs.

And Meyers said Gay ni that she ever had him set up the meetg. He was ially shocked when he learned about the book, pecially bee Gay later said that she wasn’t terted .

REAL HOEWIV OF SALT LAKE CY STAR HEATHER GAY WROTE A BOOK

Publisher Simon & Schter teas a book that reunts Gay’s wty and hont journey. Gay told People that she looked forward to wrg the memoir and hoped people will learn om her challeng and mistak.

WHO IS HEATHER GAY OM RHOSLC?

Showbiz Cheat Sheet reached out to Gay’s team for ment.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

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. 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.

Speakg to, Gay says she's ntually breakg the iologil shackl that once nfed her thkg.

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

We have secrets that spo keep om each other, hbands never disclosed certa oaths to their wiv, ” Gay ntu.

RHOSLC’S HEATHER GAY SHAR REGRET AMID FD WH WHNEY ROSE, PL TALKS SUPPORTG JEN SHAH AFTER GUILTY PLEA, AND NEW MEMOIR

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.

”Frank William Gay isn't mentned much on the show, but plays to the memoir. Gay says that he hasn’t read the book to her knowledge, and that “no one really talks about” the book her fay. "How do Gay al wh the rejectn of her public life?

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.

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