NeNe Leakes followers’ hopes of her making an enormous return to “Real Housewives of Atlanta” — absolutely fueled by Porsha Williams going again — are about to be dashed, as a result of we have realized NeNe just isn’t following in her BFF’s footsteps.
Sources related to the present inform TMZ … NeNe is not in any talks to affix the upcoming season 16 — and, in actual fact, we’re instructed producers have not even reached out to her to have any conversations in regards to the chance. So, bringing NL again simply is not within the playing cards.
For NeNe and ‘RHOA’ followers this is not the information they need to hear with a NeNe-shaped gap of their lives, and storylines, ever since she parted methods with the present in 2020.
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All that is much more devastating for followers, on condition that they’ve lengthy been campaigning for her comeback on social media.
Hopes had been raised additional when she adopted Bravo on Instagram in Nov. 2023 … suggesting she could be again on good phrases with them after issues soured when Leakes filed a 2022 lawsuit claiming the present’s producers tolerate a poisonous work setting crammed with racism.
As of now, the one particular person making a grand return for ‘RHOA’ season 16 is Porsha, who initially exited the present in 2021 after 9 seasons on the present.
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Despite not coming again to our screens proper now, NeNe’s had a complete lot to say about ‘RHOA,’ particularly about its low scores … telling us final month showrunners have to blow one thing up to bolster viewership.
NeNe additionally stated it is about time for some contemporary blood after 15 years of the identical forged — so it feels like even she does not suppose it is a good suggestion to return.