Many women from the Real Housewives franchise reacted to Tamra Judge calling Jill Zarin a “thirsty bitch” for revealing her Real Housewives of Orange County return on social media.
Medley added a water emoji, seemingly agreeing with Judge that Zarin is thirsty while Williams “applauded” Judge.
Meanwhile, Phaedra Parks revealed that the RHUGT Season 2 cast is in a group text, and following Jill and Tamra's drama, the group chat was in high demand.
“We definitely have a Girls Trip text thread that gets very interesting sometimes,” the Real Housewives of Atlanta alum told Entertainment Tonight. “And you have to put it on mute because everyone's chattering about crazy stuff. But yeah, it definitely gets extremely interesting.”
“It was very active this weekend,” she continued. “I think everybody’s phone was very active this weekend because it was Jill’s [charity] party and Vicki attended, but we obviously had some craziness that resulted from that event. ... I was supposed to attend the party, but I had something that came up and so I couldn’t attend and now I’m happy I didn’t, because I don’t like to be in the middle of the mess. It’s a lot of B words that go around in this type of busybody business.”
If you recall, Zarin spilled over the weekend that Tamra was returning to RHOC for the show's upcoming seventeenth season. “Tamra’s coming back, and you know, my friend Vicki [Gunvalson]’s not happy,” the Real Housewives of New York City alum said in a since-deleted Instagram Live video on Saturday, July 16.
Judge responded to the clip via Twitter on Saturday. She tweeted, “Go f–k yourself @JillZarin! You thirsty bitch!”
Tamra then shared a video via her Twitter and Instagram Story where she slammed Zarin for commenting about her RHOC return. “Hey guys, I have a big announcement. Jill is the thirstiest bitch I’ve ever met.”
Moments later, Zarin clarified her comments via an Instagram post. “I read online that she’s coming back. I’m not a source. That’s what I heard,” she told E! News. “I don't know anything. I don’t know if she has a contract. That’s what I heard from other people. I don't know anything about anything except myself.”
The former Real Housewives of New York City star also took to social media to address the topic.
“I just have to straighten something out, this morning I was on my way to the event and I used an expression often breaking news buts it doesn't mean that there's anything breaking that wasn’t broken to me,” she said in an Instagram post. “I had read online that Vicki was not coming back and Tamra was and I said that.”
“I just repeated what I had read, I don’t have any inside information, nobody talks to me at Bravo, I know absolutely nothing, I just repeated the news that was already printed,” she continued. “I don’t know why Tamra attacked me today calling me a thirsty b**ch. Thirsty about what?”
She added, “I'm happy for you, you wanted this and I'm happy for you. Why is there any animosity? Anyways, um, we're gonna have to straighten that one out but congratulations anyway.”
Zarin along with her daughter, Allyson Shapiro, noted that they love Tamra and Vicki together.
Multiple sources revealed that Judge is returning to RHOC for the show's 17th season. “Tamra is thrilled to come back to the show, especially after feeling the fan love from her stint on ‘Ultimate Girls Trip,'” an insider told Page Six. “She can’t wait to get back in the mix on ‘RHOC’ and see how she can shake up the dynamic.”
On the July 20th episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, it was officially confirmed that Judge was returning to RHOC for Season 17.
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