Marlo Hampton’s time as a fulltime housewife was a rather short-lived and bizarre experience.
Was she the real disaster, or the producers who protected her?
The only reason why Marlo became upgraded to a housewife, was because the casting for season 14 was reported to have been a disaster.
Drew Sidora got her second chance, Sanya Richards-Ross was the newbie, and Shereé Whitfield made her second return to the show.
In my opinion, season 14 wasn’t as bad as the disastrous casting process forecasted, but it wasn’t before season 15 that it became apparent that this cast didn’t work.
And instead of admitting that Marlo had been a mistake, Bravo doubled down on it at the reunion for season 14.
They portrayed her as the traumatized foster child who became the fabulous Marlo Hampton, but Kenya Moore wanted no part of the martyr edit.
Kenya saw that this was heading for a disaster, as she confronted the women in a deleted scene about them ruining the show and made an interview with Carlos King.
When Carlos asked her why season 15 was so bad, she answered: “Choices. Casting choices.”
The most bizarre thing about Marlo’s time as a housewife was how the producers and editors were seemingly protecting her, by covering up for her lies.
Had they asked her to come for Kandi Burruss and bring up the shootings at her restaurants, since Kandi and Todd Tucker weren’t legally allowed to talk about it?
Was that why they misrepresented situations to benefit Marlo? Needless to say that it all failed.
The viewers aren’t stupid, and I would argue that the producers of RHOA was perhaps more to blame for the show’s failure than the women.
Marlo was a liability for RHOA and Bravo, and I would argue that she’s one of the reasons why the show is now getting a revamp.
Kandi has quit, Marlo is fired, Porsha Williams is coming back.
One of my arguments for what makes a good housewife is that she must want to be a housewife.
Well, things definitely escalated after Porsha Williams announced that she was returning to RHOA.
She just filed for a divorce from Simon Guobadia!
This news comes after a week of fans and content creators investigating Simon’s criminal records, that showed that he couldn’t get a permission to live in the US.
Was Porsha blindsided by this information about Simon? Or did she use this as an opportunity to get out of the situation? Was it planned?
A source close to Porsha told People that the divorce had nothing to do with the revelation of his criminal record, but can we really believe that?
It’s incredible timing! They were married for only 15 months!
She had just posted “Be his peace” on Instagram with a video of them being on a date.
Days later she filed for a divorce. There’s nothing peaceful about a divorce.
According to the bloggers, content creators and fan slouths, Simon had violated his visa multiple times through the 80s and the 90s.
He was arrested for felony bank and credit card fraud in 1987.
He was also allegedly using a fake identity on trips to the US and didn’t inform about his criminal past on the immigration documents.
He had applied for citizenship again in 2016, but he was denied because “his temporary resident status was unlawfully granted.”
He was denied citizenship in 2020 and 2022 too. And he was denied in 2024 too. He had claimed to be unbothered by the rejection on social media though.
Porsha had made a statement where she said: “I’m looking forward to being back on RHOA and showing the world my new world!"
But what kind of world will she show if she’s in the middle of a divorce?
Couldn’t she have waited for the cameras to roll until she filed for a divorce at least? Save some of the drama for the show. Is this another deflection?
I always thought that if Porsha would ever return to RHOA it would be crying on her knees as her marriage was in ruins.