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EXCLUSIVE RHOA Filming News: Will There Be Seven Housewives?

September 16, 2018 by tamaratattles 30 Comments

Many of y’all have asked me about this blurry photo of seven women floating around for the past few days of the six upcoming Real Housewives of Atlanta that includes a seventh person. As I told you before, the upcoming season has two new housewives, Eva Marcille (promoted from last season) and Shamari Devoe who claimed the peach Kenya Moore left behind. Shamari signed her contract in mid August. At that same time Tanya Sam was offered a friend contract. She refused to sign it and walked away from the show. At some point after that, after further negotiations, Tanya agreed to sign the friend contract.

This left us with six housewives, one friend, and Marlo who is a recurring character expected to be on every episode of the upcoming season. We’ve talked many times about the Marlo situation. There has always been some sort of roadblock to Marlo getting an actual peach. HOWEVER, production loves her pot stirring ways. If you recall, Kandi had plans to produce a show starring Marlo on WeTV. Bravo has first rights of refusal for all of Kandi’s productions and they turned the show down for Bravo leaving her free to pitch the show elsewhere. When WeTV picked it up, Bravo was not happy. So they gave Kandi a limited run Kandi Koated Nights show and promised Marlo a big pay raise if they would scrap the WeTV show. And they did. So Marlo’s contract as a recurring guest was sweetened. A LOT. She is getting a very high episode rate and will be paid more than all the new housewives. And she will be on every episode. So she will not hold a peach, but she will make more money than some of those who do. She owes Kandi a fruit basket or something. She is sitting pretty.

So eight women from RHOA took off for Tokyo. A Tamara Tattles  exclusive source reports that the trip to Tokyo was very successful. I’ve never heard such glowing accounts of the footage that they got on this trip. In an unexpected twist, some things came out about Tanya Sam that gives her a particularly compelling storyline. I working to find out what it is but the source is so far not willing to give all the details. Whatever it is was so intriguing that they are renegotiating Tanya’s contract. They have now offered her a full time position. They have put the offer on the table and are waiting for Tanya to sign off on it.

So it looks like there will be seven official housewives for next season, plus Marlo who while legally not a full-timer, will be a very well paid part-timer working as much as the full timers. In reality, we will have eight housewives next season assuming Tanya signs the new deal.

I still don’t understand why this oddly photochopped blurry photo was released when it was. They seem to be jumping the gun. They are clearly VERY excited about Tanya’s new storyline. So much so that they could not even wait for her to sign the contract and for the ladies to do a proper photo shoot before sending out that hot mess.

Marlo Hampton

The networks see this as the “big refresh” they have been wanting on the RHOA. It’s very rare that everyone is so happy during production. Oh, and I meant to tell you, Michael Beck is NOT the showrunner, he’s off to other things. The showrunner for the upcoming season is a female. And that is very good news as well.

I don’t know much about Tanya. I do know that she is very smart and well spoken and recently became involved in program that partners her tech company with Morehouse College and JP Morgan to assist minority entrepreneurs with their start-up companies. It’s kind of a big deal and perhaps that is her compelling storyline? Or maybe she was the one crying in Tokyo about something?

That’s enough tea for now. More to come after Tanya signs the contract.

Eight essentially full timers seems like a whole lot to keep up with. What do you think?

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Filed Under: Entertainment News, Filming Real Housewives of Atlanta, RHOA Tagged With: Cynthia Bailey, Entertainment News, Eva Marcille, Kandi Burruss, Kim Biermann, Marlo Hampton, Nene Leakes, Porsha Williams, Real Housewives of Atlanta, RHOA, Shamari Devoe, Tanya Sam, Todd Tucker

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  1. Katherine 2.0 says

    September 16, 2018 at 4:54 pm

    Guess they need two Housewives to replace one Kenya Moore.

    Reply
    • LaLaFly says

      September 16, 2018 at 5:54 pm

      Pretty much this. Two for Kenya still doesn’t make me wanna watch.

      Reply
      • SJ says

        September 17, 2018 at 5:25 pm

        I totally agree – still not interested without Kenya not that she finally really has a man and a baby!

        Reply
    • ShebeSheBroke says

      September 16, 2018 at 9:59 pm

      To repair the damage her stale storyline did, yeah.

      Reply
  2. Lovher says

    September 16, 2018 at 4:58 pm

    I’m here for Tanya having a peach and looking forward to seeing her and Shamari this season.

    Reply
  3. GLH says

    September 16, 2018 at 5:19 pm

    There will be 5 married triflers, 4 cast trips, 3 major fights, 2 desperate single bitches and a stab happy hoe in Gucci.

    It’s like the 12 days of Christmas except Bravo has ruined it like everything else.

    Reply
    • SJ says

      September 17, 2018 at 5:24 pm

      Okay that was good – I’m am going to totally plagiarize this…..

      Reply
    • Uncle Sigmund says

      September 18, 2018 at 10:05 am

      4 cast trips? (4 field trips for Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader).

      Reply
  4. Laura says

    September 16, 2018 at 5:38 pm

    Why is NeNe upset on instagram about this picture?

    Reply
    • beekay says

      September 16, 2018 at 5:52 pm

      Maybe because she looks so bad in the picture.
      Cynthia looks so bad! Her face is different, but the side boob is inexcusable. Her stylist needs to get some matching fabric and sew it so it comes up high under her arm and pushes that side boob back into place.

      All of them look like it was one of those throw-away shots the cameraman takes to check the light level LOL! Not like their official picture.

      Reply
      • Floridagirl says

        September 16, 2018 at 8:15 pm

        If anyone should be annoyed with this photo it would be Porsha. It makes her look like she has a weird muffintop!
        Poor Eva looks blocked out and hidden in the background.
        The whole photo looks disjointed.

        Reply
    • sandra000 says

      September 16, 2018 at 6:05 pm

      I think because of Nene’s boobs. I have implants and one time, one of my implants “fell” through it’s pocket (I needed surgery to fix it). Anyways, as soon as I saw Nene in the photo above, I thought her implants got messed up, and wondered why the hell they allowed this photo to be published.

      Reply
      • tamaratattles says

        September 16, 2018 at 6:36 pm

        All of the photochops are awful and distorted which again begs the question, WHY ARE THEY IN SUCH A HURRY TO GET THIS OUT? Especially since the contract is not even finale yet. It’s very weird.

        Reply
    • Rebecca says

      September 16, 2018 at 6:19 pm

      She looks like Tamar Braxton now. I thought she was beautiful before. Now she doesn’t even resemble Nene.

      Reply
      • Shortcool1 says

        September 16, 2018 at 7:09 pm

        She will look more like Tamar when someone snatches that wig off her head.

        Reply
  5. tamaratattles says

    September 16, 2018 at 8:21 pm

    It’s a patchwork of really bad photoshopping. Even worse photo shopping than the original photos. None of this was supposed to go out to the public like this. Someone sent it to Shop By Bravo and they put it up as their header. But Shop By Bravo isn’t really on the Bravo network. It’s just a site hired to sell the Bravo crap. So it is very weird that the photo was sent to them by whoever threw this mess together. It’s definitely someone who is Team Tanya since she was chopped right into the middle.

    Reply
  6. pkati says

    September 16, 2018 at 8:30 pm

    I’m not watching RHOA without Kenya. They chose Marlo an illiterate prostitue over Kenya. I’m done. The two new gurls are not interesting and look like clowns. Buh bye RHOA.

    Reply
  7. Stenbeck says

    September 16, 2018 at 8:48 pm

    Nov. 4th is the premiere date that’s floating around.

    TT, any word on when NJ will start?

    Reply
  8. Blondesense says

    September 16, 2018 at 9:02 pm

    Well this is just terrific. Eight housewives & 2 substantial friend roles?!

    My 60 year old mother, who has the worst facial recognition I have ever seen in a legally sighted person is going to drive me insane this season.

    Not only can she not recognise a face to save her life – she is terrible with names. Housewives are usually ‘the fat one’ – ‘the one who thinks she can sing’ – or my favourite – ‘the one with the gay husband’.

    She actually calls RHOA ‘the black ones’ – no matter how many times I angrily snap ‘ATLANTA MUM- it’s set in ATLANTA!’

    God help me.

    Reply
    • tamaratattles says

      September 16, 2018 at 10:15 pm

      I want to be your mum’s best friend. She can call me the fat one. I have trouble with the new girls on RHOA. These girls change their hair too much and it confuses me. I can keep the OGs straight but the new ones are all interchangeable. I’ve had Tanya and Shamari backwards up until two days ago.

      Reply
  9. Marynew36 says

    September 16, 2018 at 9:22 pm

    I won’t watch without Kenya!!! Period ?? Sorry no sorry those women aren’t my Kenya.

    Reply
  10. Charmion says

    September 16, 2018 at 10:45 pm

    I’m not watching this wash out old stale shit nothing new or interesting nope

    Reply
    • tamaratattles says

      September 16, 2018 at 11:17 pm

      There are literally three new housewives, an exciting trip to Tokyo, a new baby, a wedding, and Kandi’s expanding empire. They literally have TOO MUCH new information.

      Reply
  11. Shawn says

    September 17, 2018 at 8:51 am

    Not interested at all…

    Reply
  12. Michelle says

    September 17, 2018 at 10:03 am

    The plastic surgery and subsequent photoshop is quite strong in this group.

    Reply
  13. FarFromPerfekt says

    September 17, 2018 at 10:48 am

    Tanya Sam looks very manly to me and Shamari Devoe looks a little like Cynthia. Weird!

    Reply
  14. NancyintheSmokiesam says

    September 17, 2018 at 11:34 am

    I can say all day long I won’t watch-but I will!! I think the women look beautiful-am I looking at the same photo as y’all?

    Reply
  15. Trish says

    September 18, 2018 at 11:40 pm

    TT, I won’t be watching this season. Your recaps ar good enough. I cannot watch without Kenya. Why is Porsha still there??? This franchise needs to end.

    Reply
    • tamaratattles says

      September 19, 2018 at 12:59 am

      Production thinks this season is a huge REFRESH that will give the franchise many more years. We shall see.

      Reply
  16. Pat says

    October 12, 2018 at 12:06 am

    No matter how much work Nene has done on her face, she still looks like a cross between a gigantic clown and a gigantic muppet. Her best face was her original face.

    Reply

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