Even although she’s formally left Bravo, Lisa Rinna can’t escape The Real Housewives drama.
Rinna introduced her departure from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills earlier this month. “It has been a fun eight-year run and I am excited for what is to come!” the previous cleaning soap star stated.
At the time, Rinna cited her many non-Bravo enterprise obligations – together with Rinna Beauty and the newly launched Rinna Wines – as a main purpose for leaving the present.
But there could also be one other, much less harmless purpose for Rinna’s exit — her feud with co-star Sutton Stracke.
Last yr, the previous pals had an notorious falling-out over disputed tickets to Elton John’s Oscar get together.
And, based on Page Six, one insider who would know – Rinna’s husband, Harry Hamlin – thinks that drama is what moved his spouse to go away.
Per the outlet’s report, Hamlin even feels that had been it not for ticket-gate, Rinna “might still be on the show.”
Harry Hamlin overheard speaking about Housewives
Over the weekend, Hamlin was in Park City, Utah, for the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. On Saturday night time, he attended a dinner honoring the Creative Coalition Spotlight Initiative, the place Page Six’s supply overheard him chatting with a small group of fellow attendees.
At some level within the night time, the dialog turned to Rinna’s time on The Real Housewives. Discussing the ticket-gate drama, Hamlin informed the group that his spouse “might still be on the show had Sutton not said that.”
The ticket saga started in September of 2021, when Stracke, 51, claimed in an look on Watch What Happens Live that Rinna and Hamlin had attended the famed Oscars watch get together hosted by Elton John’s AIDS Foundation in 2019 as her company – however that the couple had by no means thanked her for the invite.
Rinna claimed that she and Hamlin bought their tickets elsewhere however sat with Stracke on the occasion as a result of she requested them to hitch her. According to Page Six, Hamlin informed the Sundance group that IMDb – not Stracke – had supplied him and Rinna with their tickets.
“Lisa had all the receipts from that night, but they never showed the receipts on the reunion,” the Mad Men alum stated.
Rinna confirmed as much as the Season 12 reunion of RHOBH with two manila envelopes, which she claimed contained receipts supporting her facet of the Elton John story.
But Bravo boss Andy Cohen later claimed that he “never saw” no matter proof Rinna may need thought she had, claiming that the Days of Our Lives alum “never handed [the receipts] over.”
Harry Hamlin thinks Lisa Rinna ‘might still be on’ RHOBH if not for one forged member
According to her husband, it wasn’t simply the fights that bought to Rinna however that viewers selected to imagine Stracke over her.
“She might still be on the show, but the audience believed Sutton,” Hamlin was reported to say.
Regardless of the true purpose for her leaving the present, Rinna appears to be taking all of the RHOBH drama in stride.
Most lately, she’s been in Paris, the place she drank martinis and posed for selfies along with her former co-star Erika Jayne.
“All good things come to an end,” Hamlin reportedly stated of Rinna’s tenure on RHOBH. “She took it as far as she could take it.”
“Now,” he continued, “I’m working like crazy so she doesn’t have to work.”
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is at present on hiatus.
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