Andy Cohen recently appeared on Brandi Glanville’s podcast, “Brandi Glanville Unfiltered,” where the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum first asked Cohen about Vicki Gunvalson and Tamra Judge’s exits from The Real Housewives of Orange County.
“I felt like [Vicki and Tamra] told their entire stories and they both said that [you are] an ageist,” Glanville said on a recent episode of her podcast, according to Us Weekly. “They said you were going against them because they got too old.”
Back in June, Judge claimed Bravo wants “younger Housewives” on the “Behind the Velvet Rope” podcast.
Cohen, however, was quick to point out that Real Housewives of New York City’s Ramona Singer, who is 63 years old, is older than Gunvalson (58).
“If you look at the women on our shows, there are a lot of women that are really thriving in their 50s and late 50s. Yeah, no. I don’t care for that [remark],” he responded, noting that Gunvalson “to this day makes me absolutely laugh.”
He continued: “We just felt that the show needed some new air. We needed to air it out and see where it went. These two women were so identifiable with it and will always be. I hope they will someday be back in some capacity.”
Glanville also asked Cohen about RHONY alum Carole Radziwill, who he was friendly with before she joined the cast in 2011.
“We were in each other’s circle for years,” he said about Radziwill, who left the show after six seasons in 2018. “We didn’t talk on the phone. We didn’t email but I think we had genuine [love] for each other.”
As to why he believes Carole is upset with him? “I think she’s angry toward the show and me and she felt like I was up Bethenny’s ass,” Cohen told Glanville.
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