'Real Hoewiv,' but make gay(er): MTV troduc 'Real Friends of WeHo'

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• THANK GOD AND ANDY COHEN: THE NEW ‘RHONY’ ISN’T A DISASTERMADE IT NICEFANS WERE NERVO THAT THE REBOOTED “REAL HOEWIV OF NEW YORK CY” WOULDN’T LIVE UP TO THE FORMER ST. IT’S A VERY DIFFERENT SHOW, BUT GETS OFF TO A PELLG START.KYNDALL CUNNGHAMENTERTAMENT REPORTERUPDATED JUL. 16, 2023 3:23AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 15, 2023 9:49PM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY ER O'FLYNN/THE DAILY BEAST/GETTY IMAG AND BRAVOAS A LONGTIME FAN OF THE ORIGAL REAL HOEWIV OF NEW YORK, A DORDA MEDLEY WARRR AND RAMONA SGER APOLOGIST, I MOURN THE LOSS OF THE VETERAN ST ON MY TELEVISN LIKE A CEASED RELATIVE. (I’M ONLY SLIGHTLY KIDDG).AFTER 13 YEARS ON THE AIR, ONE OF THE OLST AND HIGHT-RATED HOEWIV ANCHIS ME CMBLG DOWN AFTER A STAGGERGLY BAD AND BORRLE-UNWATCHABLE SEASON 13. ALREADY HAMPERED BY FILMG RTRICTNS DUE TO PANMIC, THE SEASON WAS LARGELY FED BY UNFORTABLE RACIAL NVERSATNS—GUID BY THE SHOW’S FIRST BLACK STMATE EBONI K. WILLIAMS—A GLARG LACK OF CHEMISTRY, AND A LOT OF RANDOM OUTBURSTS OM LEAH MCSWEENEY.LEADG UP TO THE ULTIMATELY AXED RNN, SEEMED LIKE THERE WERE SOME TRICKY BEHD-THE-SCEN TENSNS AT PLAY. APPARENTLY, THGS WERE SO MSY THAT THE EASIT CHOICE AT THE TIME WAS TO PLETELY DISBAND AND REBUILD THE SHOW OM SCRATCH. THE MORE TIME HAS PASSED, THOUGH, THE MORE THIS CISN SEEMS HASTY AND UNLLED FOR, GIVEN THAT THE CENTRAL ST HAS REMAED TIGHT. BRAVO VIEWERS WILL FIVE AN UTTERLY TERRIBLE SEASON, AS LONG AS THE NEXT ONE IS EVEN JT SLIGHTLY BETTER. THIS NEW EXCELLENT SEASON OF REAL HOEWIV OF ORANGE COUNTY IS CURRENTLY PROVG THAT. MEANWHILE, THREE ABYSMAL SEASONS OF REAL HOEWIV OF ATLANTA A ROW HAVE MA ME WONR WHY BRAVO ULDN’T GIVE RHONY ONE MORE CHANCE. BUT WHAT’S DONE IS DONE. THE NEW SEASON OF RHONY WH S PLETELY REBOOTED ST PREMIER SUNDAY NIGHT ON BRAVO, WHETHER VIEWERS ARE READY FOR OR NOT.AND THERE’S NO POT MOPG ABOUT THE OLD RHONY ST WHEN BRAVO SEEMS TERMED TO KEEP THEM ON OUR SCREENS ONE WAY OR ANOTHER—SONJA AND LUANN: WELE TO CRAPPIE LAKE BEG THE LATT EXAMPLE. BRAVO HAS ALSO GIVEN VIEWERS A NEW GROUP OF YOUNGER, MORE DIVERSE AND UTTERLY FABULO WOMEN TO FILL THEIR VOID THE HOEWIV UNIVERSE. DO THE NEW LADI NECSARILY ACPLISH THIS? NO. IS THAT THE POT OF THE REBOOT? IT DON’T SEEM LIKE .LET’S GET THIS OUT OF THE WAY: THERE’S NO E PARG THE NEW WH THE OLD. LIKE THE RECENTLY LNCHED REAL HOEWIV OF DUBAI, YOU N TELL RHONY SEASON 14—NOT SURE WE’RE NOT STARTG AT “SEASON 1” SCE 'S A REBOOT—EXISTS ON A PLETELY DIFFERENT, ASPIRATNAL PLANE. NOAM GALAI/BRAVO THE NEW ST MEMBERS, CLUDG FORMER J. CREW CREATIVE DIRECTOR JENNA LYONS, ARE THE SORT OF WEALTHY WOMEN YOU ACTUALLY WANT TO BE–AT LEAST, AS FAR AS THEIR GEO APARTMENTS AND QUIET-LUXURY FASHNS GO. THEY’RE NOT THE GENRE OF “RICH” WOMEN BRAVO TYPILLY LIK TO POKE FUN AT, LNAL DIVORCE WHO ARE HANGG ONTO EVERY LAST DIME OF THEIR ALIMONY AND LIVG LIKE GWYH PALTROW WHILE GOG TO CRIPPLG BT. INSTEAD, WE’RE GIVEN YOUR STEREOTYPIL NEW YORK GO-GETTERS AND #GIRLBOSS, LIKE MANHATTAN NATIVE ER DANA LICHY, A FORMER REAL TATE AGENT WHO NOW NS HER OWN HOME SIGN FIRM. THERE’S JSEL TAANK, A U.K. IMPORT OF INDIAN HERAGE, WHO’S A FASHN PUBLICIST AND BRAND NSULTANT. (THIS WAS THE WOMAN WHO APPARENTLY VOMED AT THE PREMIERE PARTY). IF YOU N’T IMMEDIATELY TELL BY HER PERFECTLY SYMMETRIL FACE, UBAH HASSAN IS A FASHN MOL. SAI DE SILVA, AN UNEXPECTED BROOKLYN RINT—SAVE FOR O.G. ALEX MCCORD, RHONY STARS TYPILLY LIVE MANHATTAN—WORKS DIGAL NTENT. AND POT-STIRRG REDHEAD BRYNN WHFIELD WORKS BRANDG AND MARKETG, BUT ASPIR TO BE A MORE TRADNAL, “KEPT” HOEWIFE.LYONS DON’T FEEL QUE LIKE THE RGLEAR OF THE GROUP, BUT YOU N TELL SHE HOLDS A DISPROPORTNATE AMOUNT OF POWER, GIVEN THAT SHE’S THE MOST SUCCSFUL AND VISIBLE FIGURE. NOTABLY, SHE’S ALSO THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ORIGAL HOEWIFE. PRUMABLY, HER STAT IS WHY THE FIRST EPISO ENDS WH HER HOSTG A DNER PARTY HER CHIC, LAVISH APARTMENT. THE WOMEN SCRIBE HER AS AN “ENIGMA,” WHICH SEEMS ACCURATE BASED ON HOW RERVED SHE IS. WE’LL FD OUT LATER IF SHE’S GENUELY JT AN TROVERT OR SOME SORT OF PUPPETEER WORKG BEHD THE SCEN. SEAN ZANNI/BRAVO THE ENTIRE PREMIERE IS QUE ENJOYABLE, SPE HAVG THE TED TASK OF TRODUCG TO SIX, BRAND-NEW FAC AND MAKG THEM APPEAR LIKE PEOPLE WHO ARE WORTH TUNG FOR. THERE’S STILL A LOT MORE TO BE REVEALED ABOUT THE WOMEN’S PERSONAL LIV AND DYNAMICS WH THE GROUP. BUT RIGHT OFF THE BAT, WE UNRSTAND THAT WHFIELD WILL BE THE SHOW’S PRIMARY MENACE AND THE MOST STEREOTYPIL HOEWIFE. EVERY SEASON OF REAL HOEWIV HAS TO START WH SOME OFF-SCREEN DRAMA, AND THIS WOMAN IS ALREADY SPREADG GOSSIP ABOUT CHEE BOARDS TO KICK THGS OFF.IF YOU WERE WORRIED THIS SHOW WOULDN’T HAVE AN ABSURDY ELEMENT, CERTALY DO. IN THE ORIGAL ERATN OF THE SHOW, WAS THE IRONY OF THE WOMEN’S SELF-PROCLAIMED “CLASS” PARED TO. HOW THEY ACTUALLY BEHAVED AROUND ONE ANOTHER THAT MA FOR THE SERI’ BIGGT LGHS AND MOST MEME-ABLE MOMENTS. IN SEASON 14, THE WOMEN’S INSTAGRAMMABLE LIFTYL AND ATTUS TOWARDS THGS LIKE TWO-PLY TOILET PAPER AND OUT-OF-TREND DG TABLISHMENTS ARE MEANT TO BE MOCKED.OF URSE, THE MOMENTS OCCUR MORE OFTEN ANIC NVERSATNS, AS OPPOSED TO THE PRE-MEDATED DNER TABLE CHATTER BRAVO PRODUCERS FORCE ONTO THEIR REALY STARS. YOU N ONLY WATCH GROWN-ASS WOMEN PLAY TWO TTHS AND A LIE SO MANY TIM! CHARL SYK/BRAVO OVER THE URSE OF SEASON 14’S FIRST THREE EPISOS, THE WOMEN FALL TO A RHYTHM AND CREASGLY SEEM LS AWARE OF THE MERA. BUT AS I PREVLY ALLUD, THEY NEVER REACH THE EDIC AND/OR MELODRAMATIC HEIGHTS OF THEIR FOREMOTHERS—GRANTED, THERE’S STILL PLENTY OF TIME TO DO SO.OVERALL, THE NEW RHONY IS FELY MORE GEARED TOWARD THE SELLG SUNSET/DOCOAP CROWD, WHO TUNE , FIRST AND FOREMOST, TO OBSERVE A CERTA LIFTYLE AS OPPOSED TO NAIL-BG DRAMA. WHETHER THIS NEW VERSN N STA AN DIENCE WH RHONY’S OLD ST MEMBERS STILL ROAMG AROUND BRAVO AND EVOKG A SENSE OF NOSTALGIA WILL BE FASCATG TO WATCH.LIKED THIS REVIEW? SIGN UP TO GET OUR WEEKLY SEE SKIP NEWSLETTER EVERY TUDAY AND FD OUT WHAT NEW SHOWS AND MOVI ARE WORTH WATCHG, AND WHICH AREN’T. KYNDALL CUNNGHAM
• A NEW GAY REALY SHOW – “THE REAL FRIENDS OF WE HO”
• 'REAL HOEWIV,' BUT MAKE GAY(ER): MTV TRODUC 'REAL FRIENDS OF WEHO'
• HEATHER GAY OF ‘REAL HOEWIV’ KNOWS SHE’S A ‘BAD MORMON’
• OUR IAS FOR THE GAY ‘REAL HOEWIV’-STYLE SHOW SET WEHO
• A GAY VERSN OF 'REAL HOEWIV' IS ON THE WAY, AND TWTER HAS THOUGHTS
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• IS IT TIME FOR BRAVO TO CAST ITS FIRST GAY MALE ‘REAL HOEWIFE’?
• 'REAL HOEWIV,' BUT MAKE GAY(ER): MTV TRODUC 'REAL FRIENDS OF WEHO'

THANK GOD AND ANDY COHEN: THE NEW ‘RHONY’ ISN’T A DISASTERMADE IT NICEFANS WERE NERVO THAT THE REBOOTED “REAL HOEWIV OF NEW YORK CY” WOULDN’T LIVE UP TO THE FORMER ST. IT’S A VERY DIFFERENT SHOW, BUT GETS OFF TO A PELLG START.KYNDALL CUNNGHAMENTERTAMENT REPORTERUPDATED JUL. 16, 2023 3:23AM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 15, 2023 9:49PM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY ER O'FLYNN/THE DAILY BEAST/GETTY IMAG AND BRAVOAS A LONGTIME FAN OF THE ORIGAL REAL HOEWIV OF NEW YORK, A DORDA MEDLEY WARRR AND RAMONA SGER APOLOGIST, I MOURN THE LOSS OF THE VETERAN ST ON MY TELEVISN LIKE A CEASED RELATIVE. (I’M ONLY SLIGHTLY KIDDG).AFTER 13 YEARS ON THE AIR, ONE OF THE OLST AND HIGHT-RATED HOEWIV ANCHIS ME CMBLG DOWN AFTER A STAGGERGLY BAD AND BORRLE-UNWATCHABLE SEASON 13. ALREADY HAMPERED BY FILMG RTRICTNS DUE TO PANMIC, THE SEASON WAS LARGELY FED BY UNFORTABLE RACIAL NVERSATNS—GUID BY THE SHOW’S FIRST BLACK STMATE EBONI K. WILLIAMS—A GLARG LACK OF CHEMISTRY, AND A LOT OF RANDOM OUTBURSTS OM LEAH MCSWEENEY.LEADG UP TO THE ULTIMATELY AXED RNN, SEEMED LIKE THERE WERE SOME TRICKY BEHD-THE-SCEN TENSNS AT PLAY. APPARENTLY, THGS WERE SO MSY THAT THE EASIT CHOICE AT THE TIME WAS TO PLETELY DISBAND AND REBUILD THE SHOW OM SCRATCH. THE MORE TIME HAS PASSED, THOUGH, THE MORE THIS CISN SEEMS HASTY AND UNLLED FOR, GIVEN THAT THE CENTRAL ST HAS REMAED TIGHT. BRAVO VIEWERS WILL FIVE AN UTTERLY TERRIBLE SEASON, AS LONG AS THE NEXT ONE IS EVEN JT SLIGHTLY BETTER. THIS NEW EXCELLENT SEASON OF REAL HOEWIV OF ORANGE COUNTY IS CURRENTLY PROVG THAT. MEANWHILE, THREE ABYSMAL SEASONS OF REAL HOEWIV OF ATLANTA A ROW HAVE MA ME WONR WHY BRAVO ULDN’T GIVE RHONY ONE MORE CHANCE. BUT WHAT’S DONE IS DONE. THE NEW SEASON OF RHONY WH S PLETELY REBOOTED ST PREMIER SUNDAY NIGHT ON BRAVO, WHETHER VIEWERS ARE READY FOR OR NOT.AND THERE’S NO POT MOPG ABOUT THE OLD RHONY ST WHEN BRAVO SEEMS TERMED TO KEEP THEM ON OUR SCREENS ONE WAY OR ANOTHER—SONJA AND LUANN: WELE TO CRAPPIE LAKE BEG THE LATT EXAMPLE. BRAVO HAS ALSO GIVEN VIEWERS A NEW GROUP OF YOUNGER, MORE DIVERSE AND UTTERLY FABULO WOMEN TO FILL THEIR VOID THE HOEWIV UNIVERSE. DO THE NEW LADI NECSARILY ACPLISH THIS? NO. IS THAT THE POT OF THE REBOOT? IT DON’T SEEM LIKE .LET’S GET THIS OUT OF THE WAY: THERE’S NO E PARG THE NEW WH THE OLD. LIKE THE RECENTLY LNCHED REAL HOEWIV OF DUBAI, YOU N TELL RHONY SEASON 14—NOT SURE WE’RE NOT STARTG AT “SEASON 1” SCE 'S A REBOOT—EXISTS ON A PLETELY DIFFERENT, ASPIRATNAL PLANE. NOAM GALAI/BRAVO THE NEW ST MEMBERS, CLUDG FORMER J. CREW CREATIVE DIRECTOR JENNA LYONS, ARE THE SORT OF WEALTHY WOMEN YOU ACTUALLY WANT TO BE–AT LEAST, AS FAR AS THEIR GEO APARTMENTS AND QUIET-LUXURY FASHNS GO. THEY’RE NOT THE GENRE OF “RICH” WOMEN BRAVO TYPILLY LIK TO POKE FUN AT, LNAL DIVORCE WHO ARE HANGG ONTO EVERY LAST DIME OF THEIR ALIMONY AND LIVG LIKE GWYH PALTROW WHILE GOG TO CRIPPLG BT. INSTEAD, WE’RE GIVEN YOUR STEREOTYPIL NEW YORK GO-GETTERS AND #GIRLBOSS, LIKE MANHATTAN NATIVE ER DANA LICHY, A FORMER REAL TATE AGENT WHO NOW NS HER OWN HOME SIGN FIRM. THERE’S JSEL TAANK, A U.K. IMPORT OF INDIAN HERAGE, WHO’S A FASHN PUBLICIST AND BRAND NSULTANT. (THIS WAS THE WOMAN WHO APPARENTLY VOMED AT THE PREMIERE PARTY). IF YOU N’T IMMEDIATELY TELL BY HER PERFECTLY SYMMETRIL FACE, UBAH HASSAN IS A FASHN MOL. SAI DE SILVA, AN UNEXPECTED BROOKLYN RINT—SAVE FOR O.G. ALEX MCCORD, RHONY STARS TYPILLY LIVE MANHATTAN—WORKS DIGAL NTENT. AND POT-STIRRG REDHEAD BRYNN WHFIELD WORKS BRANDG AND MARKETG, BUT ASPIR TO BE A MORE TRADNAL, “KEPT” HOEWIFE.LYONS DON’T FEEL QUE LIKE THE RGLEAR OF THE GROUP, BUT YOU N TELL SHE HOLDS A DISPROPORTNATE AMOUNT OF POWER, GIVEN THAT SHE’S THE MOST SUCCSFUL AND VISIBLE FIGURE. NOTABLY, SHE’S ALSO THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ORIGAL HOEWIFE. PRUMABLY, HER STAT IS WHY THE FIRST EPISO ENDS WH HER HOSTG A DNER PARTY HER CHIC, LAVISH APARTMENT. THE WOMEN SCRIBE HER AS AN “ENIGMA,” WHICH SEEMS ACCURATE BASED ON HOW RERVED SHE IS. WE’LL FD OUT LATER IF SHE’S GENUELY JT AN TROVERT OR SOME SORT OF PUPPETEER WORKG BEHD THE SCEN. SEAN ZANNI/BRAVO THE ENTIRE PREMIERE IS QUE ENJOYABLE, SPE HAVG THE TED TASK OF TRODUCG TO SIX, BRAND-NEW FAC AND MAKG THEM APPEAR LIKE PEOPLE WHO ARE WORTH TUNG FOR. THERE’S STILL A LOT MORE TO BE REVEALED ABOUT THE WOMEN’S PERSONAL LIV AND DYNAMICS WH THE GROUP. BUT RIGHT OFF THE BAT, WE UNRSTAND THAT WHFIELD WILL BE THE SHOW’S PRIMARY MENACE AND THE MOST STEREOTYPIL HOEWIFE. EVERY SEASON OF REAL HOEWIV HAS TO START WH SOME OFF-SCREEN DRAMA, AND THIS WOMAN IS ALREADY SPREADG GOSSIP ABOUT CHEE BOARDS TO KICK THGS OFF.IF YOU WERE WORRIED THIS SHOW WOULDN’T HAVE AN ABSURDY ELEMENT, CERTALY DO. IN THE ORIGAL ERATN OF THE SHOW, WAS THE IRONY OF THE WOMEN’S SELF-PROCLAIMED “CLASS” PARED TO. HOW THEY ACTUALLY BEHAVED AROUND ONE ANOTHER THAT MA FOR THE SERI’ BIGGT LGHS AND MOST MEME-ABLE MOMENTS. IN SEASON 14, THE WOMEN’S INSTAGRAMMABLE LIFTYL AND ATTUS TOWARDS THGS LIKE TWO-PLY TOILET PAPER AND OUT-OF-TREND DG TABLISHMENTS ARE MEANT TO BE MOCKED.OF URSE, THE MOMENTS OCCUR MORE OFTEN ANIC NVERSATNS, AS OPPOSED TO THE PRE-MEDATED DNER TABLE CHATTER BRAVO PRODUCERS FORCE ONTO THEIR REALY STARS. YOU N ONLY WATCH GROWN-ASS WOMEN PLAY TWO TTHS AND A LIE SO MANY TIM! CHARL SYK/BRAVO OVER THE URSE OF SEASON 14’S FIRST THREE EPISOS, THE WOMEN FALL TO A RHYTHM AND CREASGLY SEEM LS AWARE OF THE MERA. BUT AS I PREVLY ALLUD, THEY NEVER REACH THE EDIC AND/OR MELODRAMATIC HEIGHTS OF THEIR FOREMOTHERS—GRANTED, THERE’S STILL PLENTY OF TIME TO DO SO.OVERALL, THE NEW RHONY IS FELY MORE GEARED TOWARD THE SELLG SUNSET/DOCOAP CROWD, WHO TUNE , FIRST AND FOREMOST, TO OBSERVE A CERTA LIFTYLE AS OPPOSED TO NAIL-BG DRAMA. WHETHER THIS NEW VERSN N STA AN DIENCE WH RHONY’S OLD ST MEMBERS STILL ROAMG AROUND BRAVO AND EVOKG A SENSE OF NOSTALGIA WILL BE FASCATG TO WATCH.LIKED THIS REVIEW? SIGN UP TO GET OUR WEEKLY SEE SKIP NEWSLETTER EVERY TUDAY AND FD OUT WHAT NEW SHOWS AND MOVI ARE WORTH WATCHG, AND WHICH AREN’T. KYNDALL CUNNGHAM

Notably, she’s also the first openly gay origal Hoewife. Move on over Hoewiv, the gays are takg over!

MTV is puttg the spotlight on 6 hot succsful gay guys a new realy show The Real Friends of WeHo, which will be sort of like the gay equivalent of the popular Bravo anchise The Real the show is about a group of six gay iends Wt Hollywood, California and is scribed as an “unfiltered and hont look at a select group of iends livg, lovg, and pursug their passns the Wt Hollywood muny. ” “Wt Hollywood is the epicenter of the gay world”!

The upg realy seri follows six gay iends Wt Hollywood, cludg celebry stylist Brad Gorki and sger Todrick st of "The Real Friends of WeHo, " om left: Curtis Haton, Dorión Rend, Brad Gorki, Todrick Hall, Jaym Vghan and Joey Keily / Courty of MTVJan. 5, 2023, 9:36 PM UTCGay men, who have arguably been the lifeblood of “The Real Hoewiv” fan base, will fally get a drama-filled realy TV show they n ll their own. 20 “The Real Friends of WeHo, ” which will follow six gay iends livg Los Angel' premiere gayborhood, Wt Hollywood.

A NEW GAY REALY SHOW – “THE REAL FRIENDS OF WE HO”

"I like women, I'm gay. Is the all-gay versn of The Real Hoewiv fally here?

MTV is puttg s money behd the new realy show The Real Friends of WeHo, hopg scratch the ch fans have had wantg a gay equivalent of the popular Bravo anchise The Real show follows a group of six gay iends Wt Hollywood and is scribed as an "unfiltered and hont look at a select group of iends livg, lovg, and pursug their passns the Wt Hollywood muny. Jenna Lyons says LGBTQ+ reprentatn 'eply important' on 'Real Hoewiv'As the first openly gay st member on "The Real Hoewiv of New York Cy, " she discs beg outed by tabloids while she was gog through a 19, 2023.

It also featur two firsts for RHONY hoewiv: the first openly gay hoewife, Lyons, and the first Indian hoewife, Taank.

'REAL HOEWIV,' BUT MAKE GAY(ER): MTV TRODUC 'REAL FRIENDS OF WEHO'

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTA star of the Salt Lake Cy anchise tails her separatn om the church a new Raff for The New York TimSALT LAKE CITY — For Heather Gay, beg a st member on “The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy” was like “drawg a le the sand” wh her inty as a member of the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats. Gay, who was divorced when she joed the show, flirt wh men, party and cricize her former relign — breakg the l of “The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy” is rponsible for some of the most dramatic story l the anchise — one st member plead guilty to wispread d feral urt and another is married to her step-grandfather — and Ms.

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

Gay’s stggl wh her fah are often relegated to B or even C plots. Gay’s new memoir, which out on Feb.

7, is her opportuny to explore her own feelgs at Gay, 48, tails the pa, nfn, shame and prsn she experienced durg four-and-a-half s of loyal membership the church, and her eventual cisn to leave. Gay filed a tramark applitn on the words “Bad Mormon” for e on merchandise like beer mugs, shirts and socks.

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OUR IAS FOR THE GAY ‘REAL HOEWIV’-STYLE SHOW SET WEHO

Gay 2008 when their dghters were krgarten together, addg that she always lled her “the queen of the moms. Gay’s hband left, and the veneer she had nstcted cmbled.

Gay said, “I didn’t get h by lightng, and I’m happier than I’ve ever been. Gay, the third of six siblgs, was born Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif., and moved to Denver wh her fay when she was 5.

Gay and her siblgs were raised the church, and most of her fay are still fully volved . Gay walked the le, participatg church activi and takg s teachgs to heart while surreptly tryg alhol, kissg boys and watchg forbidn TV shows and films like “Big Bad Mama” when her parents were out, she wr the 21, she graduated om Brigham Young Universy wh a gree Humani but saw herself as a failure bee she hadn’t found a hband.

A GAY VERSN OF 'REAL HOEWIV' IS ON THE WAY, AND TWTER HAS THOUGHTS

Gay and gave birth to three dghters, Ashley, Geia and Annabelle.

Gay refed to give up. Gay felt isolated. Gay began workg on a medil spa bs wh Ms.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

Gay began to distance herself om the church, driven, she said, by the divorce, by the church’s treatment of L.

People and women, and by her sire for her dghters to live and love eely, to not fe themselv by their pury and abily to stay married and have Gay said that wrg her memoir was the first time she really gave herself space to unrstand her story and her Raff for The New York TimRight now, she is sgle, and she isn’t serly lookg for a partner. Gay is nsired a fan favore, viewers have taken issue wh her support of Jen Shah, another st member, who plead guilty to nspiracy to m wire d feral urt July, and was sentenced to six and a half years prison last month. Gay said that she also felt rponsible for Ms.

Gay Ms. Gay first joed the st, she reveled the opportuny to she a light on herself and on her now-former relign, to stop performg goodns and to fally let herself be a ltle b bad. “Real Friends” brgs together six succsful gay men as they live their bt liv Wt Hollywood while alg wh everyday problems and overg terpersonal drama, hopefully via we throwg and table flippg.

IS IT TIME FOR BRAVO TO CAST ITS FIRST GAY MALE ‘REAL HOEWIFE’?

20, “The Real Friends of WeHo” is billed as “an unfiltered and hont look” at six gay iends who are “livg, lovg and pursug their passns” Wt Hollywood, where many members of Los Angel’ LGBTQ muny seri’ st members clu celebry stylist Brad Gorki, actor Curtis Haton, sger and dancer Todrick Hall, Buttah Skre CEO Dorión Rend, TV host and bs owner Jaym Vghan and digal entreprenr Joey Zzig. “Origally I was like ‘what gay guy wants to watch this’ and then remembered this sort of thg is for straight women and Real Hoewiv is for gay guys, ” one person quipped. Major profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay.

Last Febary, Maxen nnected wh lebacker Carl Nassib, who beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay 2021, as he navigated a path forward.

'REAL HOEWIV,' BUT MAKE GAY(ER): MTV TRODUC 'REAL FRIENDS OF WEHO'

His sensibily as a gay artist has shaped and elevated the magaze’s athetic, but he has to keep his creativy check lt Mx be seen as a magaze for gay men. But fish strong, as the nflict over Richie’s bathhoe project grows and Mx has to nsir whether ’s too risky for the magaze to speak to gay men, or even gay moments like this, the historil fictn feels not entirely historil. Every queer viewer nodd unison when Real Hoewiv of Beverly Hills' newbie Diana Jenks, meetg her stmat on mera for the first time the Season 12 premiere, nfsed that she is a gay man trapped si a woman's body.

And on a show that clus veterans Lisa Rna and Eryka Jayne, Jenks is hardly the only one at the table whose personaly channels bold queerns or whose style might dabble fact, what gay man hasn’t seen themself one of the eccentric, fearlsly bedazzled women that have brought ternatnal acclaim (and cricism) to the Bravo anchise?