Teddi Mellencamp Arroyave Says Kathy Hilton Is “Going To Be TV Gold” On RHOBH!

Teddi Mellencamp Arroyave reveals whether or not she’s going to watch the upcoming eleventh season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills after her departure.

“I have to see what happens. I had already said on another podcast, ‘I’m not watching any of that Real Housewives’ show until I get, like, a new TV job,’” Teddi told Us Weekly’s “Here the Right Reasons” podcast. “But then I just saw the trailer for [Real Housewives of New Jersey] and I’m like, ‘Wow, I have to go back.’”

Teddi then reveals how she feels about Kathy Hilton joining the cast of ‘RHOBH’ as a ‘friend’ of the series.

“[Kathy] is hilarious. I can’t wait to see her,” Teddi told Us Weekly. “She is going to be TV gold. She’s so funny. She lights up the screen.”

Mellencamp believes that it will be interesting to see Erika Girardi’s divorce from Tom Girardi.

“It’s definitely been interesting,” she told Us Weekly. “Of course, there’s that original point of like, ‘Wow, did this really happen? That was a lot to go on in 2020.’”

Teddi added that her three children and husband Edwin Arroyave are happy to have her more time at home following her departure from RHOBH.

“My husband and I wanted to go out to an outdoor dinner alone without our kids on Valentine’s Day because [outdoor dining] opened up for us. And my kids sobbed. They were like, ‘No!’ They’ve gotten really attached,” she explained, noting that she doesn’t know if she could have been “in it to win it” if she filmed a season of RHOBH amid the coronavirus pandemic when her kids really needed her. “We were in a really transitional time, Dove had neurosurgery. There’s just so much going on that even if I was there — it felt better to not be.”

She added, “I still talk to 90 percent of [the women]. I have real relationships with them,” she said. “There are those moments where you’re like, ‘Oh, that was so funny, that sounds fun.’ And you remember the good times, but it’s like a bad relationship. You remember the good times and sometimes you forget all those times he cheated on you or you did this.”

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