Hilton has been rumored to join her sister Kyle Richards on the show for years — however, this time around, she certainly didn’t deny the rumors like she has in the past.
“@KyleRichards18 drum roll @kathyhilton next season,” a user wrote in the comment section of Kyle Richards’ Instagram post which was dedicated to Teddi Mellencamp following her announcement that her contract wasn’t renewed.
According to Us Weekly, Hilton quipped back, “Your [SIC] very kind. I am thinking?????”
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The news comes after TMZ reported that Kathy is in talks to join RHOBH. The outlet claimed that the mother of Paris and Nicki Hilton has been offered the role of “Friend” — meaning she would be making regular appearances but she would not hold a diamond. The source revealed that Hilton is indeed interested but has not made a decision.
Hilton has made several guest appearances on the show, as her sister Kyle Richards and Kim Richards have been part of the series for ten seasons now.
This is not the first time Kathy has been rumored to be joining the show. Last year, rumors about her joining the show went viral after Andy Cohen‘s friend Bruce Bozzi shared a photo of them together on Instagram. “Sign on the dotted line… a true diamond 💎 in Beverly Hills.. @kathyhilton ! #RHOBH! @bravoandy GoodNight LA,” Bozzi captioned the photo.
Andy also briefly addressed his encounter with Hilton on his radio show a week later. He shared that they ran into each other in Beverly Hills last week and "Kathy was like, ‘Oh, we gotta take a pic.' Before we are out the door, I get in the car and look on Instagram, and there’s Bruce’s post that says, ‘Sign on the dotted line.' I will say I was amazed at how overwhelmingly positive people’s reaction to this was," he said at that time, adding, “There have been absolutely no conversations about this.”
Hilton denied the rumors that she was replacing Lisa Vanderpump on RHOBH via Instagram in a hilarious way. “Rumors of me joining the Beverly Hills Housewives would interfere with my real job of cutting hair,” she captioned a video of her poorly cutting a man’s hair on Instagram on Sunday, June 9.
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