After trying and failing to dump Vicki Gunvalson off of the Real Housewives of Orange County for last season, it seems they have finally pulled the plug on the OG of the OC. To me that just seems wrong. However, her behavior on the reunion this past season didn’t do her any favors.
Vicki Gunvalson made the announcement moments ago on Instagram. Andy Cohen was right there to “like” the post. Kyle Richards and Luann de Lesseps also posted kind words… or emojis.
Here is what Vicki Gunvalson posted with her season one head shot above.
I will always be the OG of the OC, but it’s time to say goodbye to The Real Housewives of Orange County. It’s been an incredible ride for 14 years and I want thank all of you for your support, for your love and for “whooping it up” with me along the way. I’ve been working on new projects that will be exciting, empowering and inspirational. My podcast with Westwood One will be launching soon and I will have much more to say about this on “Whoop it up with Vicki.”
I hope you will join me with my new journey so please stay tuned. I love all my fans, and I want to thank Bravo and Evolution for this incredible experience which my family and I have will never forget.
Thoughts? Is it time for Vicki to leave? I wonder if they will film her wedding. Does this mean Steve doesn’t have to marry her now? The deal for getting back on last season was an engagement and wedding.
The episodes without Vicki last season were horrible. This franchise needs her. I know a lot of people have issues with her but she made this franchise what it was in it’s glory days. Tamra, Shannon, and Braunwyn cannot carry the show. They should just keep Kelly, Emily, and Gina then build from there.
Vicki NEEDS to stay on the show.. Im sooo Sad to see her go. Bronwyn is the one that needs to go.. I’m sorry she offers nothing to the table. I won’t be watching the show anymore if it is not going to be on it we truly love her.
*SHE
Done watching this show!!
Me too! Now tamra is gone? WTF
Good riddance I say. I never liked her and that didn’t change. Her screaming is just way over the top. Now get rid of Tamra and all will be well in the OC on my TV.
Good Bye Vicki and good riddens
What are riddens?
She can riddens on the horse she rides in on for all I care. The entire Brooks thing turned me off big time.
Riddens- the poor mans riddance
You’ve never had riddens? Oh my gosh, they’re delicious! You’ve got to try them, TT!
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Agree! Vicki was horrible and got worse the last few seasons. She always had double standards. She could call Slade out over child support but no one was supposed to say anything about Brooks not paying his. Simon was a prick to Tamra, but Vicki would exacerbate their issues, stir trouble then lecture Tamra on how she better be in her side. I thought she interfered w/Brianna & Ryan. I guess she felt she paid for interfering privileges. The cancer scam was the worst with her story she could not keep straight. She lectured the others on their marriages. She policed the other ladies morals…the woman who bitched if others got naked but she could flash her tits at the dinner table…the woman who cheated on Donn. Her squawking and screeching was intolerable. She could always bitch about mean girls, but she was an outright bitch to any new cast. She really showed the true Victoria at the reunion. She did this to herself.
Agree MelG!
Double agree!!
You summed it up perfectly. So glad she finally got what she deserved.
MelG — Those are all great reasons AGAINST having Vicki as a friend, but FOR having her around to spice up the RH, in my humble opinion.
Well said…completely agree with you. Maybe I’ll start watching again. Though, Tamra is still there 🙁
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I agree with everything. I always FF through her parts. It’ll be great to see the show expand.
Yes! Vicki has been the absolute worst for several seasons. I’ve always found her annoying for her constant attention seeking with her kids and her lack of boundaries with them, The Brooks cancer scam is what finally put it over the top, though. The fact that she has been on the show for several seasons since then is why I have stopped watching the show consistently.
Remember the reunion when Shannon was totally done with her, but Vicki cried and the three amigas reluctantly embraced? Remember Shannon’s face? And then the follow season it was like all the BS had never happened. You know production held some kind of threat over them.
Remember the episode where she showed up, unannounced, at her son’s college/frat house and then let all his friends see how sad she was that Michael wasn’t doing cartwheels, then she partied with them all day? Maybe this is judgy, judgy, but I just thought that was pathetic. What normal person would have thought that was a good idea to begin with?
Goodbye Old Paint!
Hallelujah! Au Revoir! Sayonara! Bye Felicia!
Sorry, not sorry but she needed to go. She rested too much on her OG laurels and didn’t integrate well with the new women to move the show forward. She was also HORRENDOUS and beyond off-putting at the reunion.
I also wonder if her engagement will last. Steve didnt seem that into her at the finale. He definitely didn’t help fuel her drama at the reunion.
I hope Vicki’s ouster gets Tamra to try a new approach and not be such a disgusting person.
That’s never gonna happen, Tamra is a nasty cunt.
Good one
While it’s true Vicki showed her ass at the reunion I think it’s worth noting that production (and probably shit-head Andy) baited her by making her stand around for what seemed like eons before they finally called her in to film. You could see she was getting more agitated as time passed and her worthless fiancé did nothing to diffuse the situation or give her emotional support. She was loaded for bear by the time she walked out to the reunion (I mean, everyone knows Vicki has the patience of a saint, right?). And the reception she got upon her arrival was very, very chilly which I think put her even more on the defensive.
I’m sure Andy was punishing Vicki (Jane Doe) for her lawsuit against Bravo and true-to-form, he did it in the cruelest, most passive aggressive way possible.
Vicki can be funny, evil, conniving, frustrating and face it — sometimes pathetically dumb, but I’ve never found her to be boring like Gina or Braunwyn.
To me, she is as iconic with the RHOC as those gates that open the show each week.
Completely agree with all of this!! I would LOVE to know the true backstory of the reunion. I believe it was all a set up to make her react. Really wish she could have held it together just to beat them at their own game.
The conniving and evil part are driven by her making up shit to stay relevant. Or letting production use her as a mouthpiece for their bullshit. The ridiculous train rumor, the cocaine rumor – all dirty tricks to hurt another HW. And the fake cancer – don’t get me started!
Soooooo agree. From day one she has been liar. A narcissist and down right condensating . Oh yah this woman has more fake faces than a room full of manican heads. At least they keep their mouth shut.
I agree. She was no worse than some of the others. I hope the show tanks now.
Anytime someone is just a friend of the show they never sit on the couch thru the whole reunion. They only film a segment. And they never have first seat, but Vicki did, they tried to show her some respect. But she deserved none. And anyone else would have taken that big hint, when they told her she would only be a friend and not a full.time cast member, and they would’ve quit. She put the final nail in her own coffin with the lawsuit. Ding dong the WITCH is dead. Good riddance ICKY!
There have been other friends who have come out and then set in the first seat and then left. Vicki did stay out for nearly the whole show though, and that rarely if ever happens.
RHOC should be cancelled. I don’t know anybody thst wants to watch Shannon, what a pathetic waste of a human being and never ever funny. And I’m certainly nit ever gonna watch Braunwyn, trashy and just plain uncomfortable when she’s on screen. And Kelly’s antics are old and juvenile. And those other two, just plain boring. EITHER CANCEL IT COMPLETELY, OR RECAST IT COMPLETELY.!
Does Steve have a place to live? I know Brooks is married, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they end up back together in two years.
Not very smart. Vicki needs to reinvent herself, like Madonna. She should have bought new boobs, pumped up her butt, release a tape with Brooks and Steve, maybe fight with Shannon and pull her hair and she would have been fine.
Dannifrommiami: Thanks so much for burning the image of that 3some in my brain. I WAS going to bed but I’ll never sleep tonight now!! ?
Brooks before she replaced his missing chipped and rotten teeth. Her love tank was probably full of gingivitis
Not sure what they were thinking with this move…..they may as well kill off OC…..love her or not there is no one that can carry it….when you think of OC, you think of Vicki.
Agree. Same for RHONJ that show would be belly up if not for Theresa. Love her or hate her the entire show revolves around her. I think if not for the Brooks situation Vicki would be regarded as the most valuable player on Bravo but alas not now. . Which gives Theresa even more power than ever to renegotiate her Bravo contract .
Don’t care that Vicki was the OG of OC…or of the Housewives franchise. It was time for her to go. She was dispicable, nasty, and downright dirty and I am happy this is happening!
1000% agree! Such a nasty, manipulative liar. It really became disheartening to watch her needy antics.
it’s best for Vicki to leave and it’s in her own interest to go although she may not fully realize it yet. The way she was portrayed in the reunion footage told me she wouldn’t be back.
RHOC’s ratings will likely decline (again) next season. I give it 1-2 more seasons total before it’s retired.
Totally agree. She wasn’t hugely in the fray last season. Had she not melted down she would have gotten by unscathed. Who knew Braunwyn had such power? It took one person to rattle her cage to the point of the OG of the PC getting bounced.
End of an era. I think I was over the era a hair before her. I am personally over the HWs. I hope she can move forward without looking back.
Agree Kipper. When the storylines end up being the continuation of three years ago, time to wrap them all up.
Everything has been done, at least numerous times, never improves, and TT is the gift that keeps us in the know. The show is just a time schedule for when the recap may go up, lol. At least that is how I watch, recap, comments, and the show offers ummmm, ummmm, ?
I haven’t watched since she was pitching some swill that cured fake cancer. That’s just too low. Then there’s the constant brawling. Past time to pull the plug on the whole show.
Amen
At the reunion, Vicky forgot that AC is the true HBIC.
So true, so true, AC is definitely the HBIC of the RHOC!
She was fired just at the right time. The Housewives shows have become ridiculous. Let’s face it, Braunwyn is a disaster and I’m sure she will be back. I won’t watch.
I remember the first fight on OC. It was between Vicki and Jeana. They were in a limousine, I think Tamra was there as well, anyway, they argued over real estate. Jeana had her friend and if I recall, Slade living in one of Vicki’s homes that Jeanna was suppose to be selling. Vicki was mad that Jeana let them stay there and yelled at Jeana over it. I was shocked that they were arguing. I didn’t think it was a show about drama! Ha!
Braunwyn is definitely back. She was the one who was shooting test shoots with the potential new cast members.
Couldn’t happen to a better person, except Tamra.
Tamra needs to go next, Vicki tried her best and it was more than anyone wanted, but lord,Tamra is just biohazard toxic to all of the human race.
There is a God. Now, send Tamra packing!
Pretty much this.
Vicki was just so entitled and horrible. Her screaming ‘Family Van” meltdown wasn’t cute or good TV.
Tamra is also horrible
they could send all these folks home for all i care.
Yep! Cancel it!
Yes, please, CANCEL or completely RECAST.
I’m turning cartwheels in my head!!!!!
Vicki didn’t even try to embrace new people. I think that was her downfall so it’s time for her to go.
Now PLEASE SEND TAMRA PACKING TOO!!!!!
Vicki will be gone next Season. There will be a media release that she and Steve are ‘lovingly parting ways’. And she will return @ 63 with yet ANOTHER version of the Whoop it Up personality in 2022. The franchise will be revamped Real Widows and Aged divorces that used to live in OC and it will be shot in an over 65 trailer park in Norco.
#OVERit
One down, dos amigas to go and maybe this franchise will turn around. In the words of Melissa Gorga “Thank you Jesus!”
How Bravo thinks is beyond me. Catering to Nene while she attacks production staff ( alledgedly) yet casting Vicki G aside boggles the mind. I am not a fan of Vicki yet even I can see that her departure is going to affect the entire brand. I believe the housewives will go the way of the dinosaurs any day now.No LVP No Bethanny & now no Vicki I bet it’s going to be a slaughterhouse situation for all of them. I predict Lu from New York will be the next to go as Ramona will never step foot out of the spotlight.
One down one more to go (Nene).
I couldn’t stand Vickie for years, it when her mom died it broke my heart as my mom had just died and then I was in her corner. I wasn’t totally all in but I was giving her massive grace. Then the whole brooks thing, I thought he was faking, was sure if it but did t think she was in on it. After that mess I was just kind of over her, loved her kids. Loved Don.
Glad she’s gone. After she got divorced, from Don, she’s not been the same for me anyway. I don’t think it will really hurt the show, but I’m glad to see long standing cast members getting cut. If only this worked for Nene! I heard Gina was out too, I figure with her husband charged for DV they’d want her, curious to see if this is the case. At any rate I will not miss hearing about Coto insurance anytime soon!
She’s never been my favorite but I’ve always thought she brought a lot of color to the show. Her way of thinking & operating is really what made the show memorable. Unfortunately, all good things come to an end and we can’t be watching great-grandmas on housewives
Maybe you just haven’t met the right great-grandmas. My Annie says I rock!
Love her or hate her, she was good TV. If she had just applied the same skills to her RH job that she does to succeed in business, I think she would have stayed. She wouldn’t be in business if she treated new insurance clients the way she treated new housewives. That was her main undoing. Even the Brooks fiasco gave us something to hate. The enmity toward newcomers was BORING. She could have been the BEST at letting us get to know newcomers. I wish her well.
I agree Nanette. The Vicki we knew got lost somehow, perhaps by trying to adjust her personality and self to please a man. She has a tendency to be sadly the woman who does.
Tamra has mentioned how she becomes different people to be the woman her man wants. That is so sad since on her own she’s a boss.
I’ve never needed a man, and your true self always pops through, so bad plan. Lol. (First serious time being really pissed off, you become exactly who you are!!)
She should have dropped the character, and been more herself, and I wish her well and she is the/an OG. She deserves that.
Great news!!!! All we need is for NeNe to go next or just go!!!!!!!
Always best to walk away with your head held high and the respect of those around you. Too bad Vicki has neither.
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It’s time. She’s been very defensive and hard to watch since cancer scam.
I cant speak highly of Vicki’s scruples, but you’ve got to admit she’ll be missed. She was so nuts, she made me pee my pants laughing! ( not really ? that was a nod) The OG is gone and it is a sign the Housewives are dying off. I don’t think they can rejuvenate them with young newbies. The zeitgeist is moving on!
Agreed!
Nene should have left years ago.
I totally agree!!!!
Yes, she’s much worse than Vicki, much!
Not surprised by this news, it was a long time coming. She has always been a bit high on herself, and losing her stature last season really made her spiral (in my opinion). The reunion really showed how much of an impact the show has/had on her life. I do hope her fiancée isn’t a bum and that their relationship is for real. She’ll be okay. She’s got an actual job, her own money, and her kids aren’t useless douche bags like most other Real Housewives’ offspring.
She is not THE OG but AN OG. Her entitlement takes her obnoxiousness to a whole new world.
Also. I somehow think she’ll get a mini 4 part wedding series out of it.
Naw…she is THE OG. Like it or not, she is the only one who was there from the beginning. Can’t take that title away.
I miss the old days like back during the first few seasons. It was fun and exciting getting a peek into the lifestyles of the people of the OC. There was nothing like it on TV back then and it was enjoyable to watch. Really wasn’t very scripted back then either. Just footage of the women and their families and lives. I don’t watch any HW’s anymore. Way to ruin a ruin a good thing Bravo and AC. Greed is a horrible thing.
Now, except for Dallas, the riches we were ahhh about were all a facade. I thought the wealth was real. I was so naive as to why or how could you pretend that your rich, and your not. I’m a cash payer, so assumed that what they had, they owned. Again, raised rather naive.
I don’t think I would ever (except the New York ladies) want or wish I had that life. But troubled women they are as well.
Now, I don’t believe what I see, and i sure enjoyed being oblivious a lot more.
No longer can you get too involved, happy about, sad about anyone or anything, because the house has begun to crumble.
She should’ve gone after the Brooks thing. Good riddance. They need to just get rid of the OC housewives. Such a weak franchise
It’s the beginning of the end of OC. I love Vicki, flaws and all…she made for good TV.
Tamra’s next, which will make me skip with glee.
Vicki was always such a miserable person. Her presence on the show made me cringe from the very first moment that I saw her treating her family so horribly. I hope that this guy marries her just for the sake of her kid’s mental health. Icky Vicki, ta ta…
Tamara, why not contact Vikki and offer to ghostwrite a book for her, chronicling the good, the bad and the downright ugly rollercoaster of a ride she’s been on?
Did it ruin her life, chip away at her integrity, damage her business, drive her daughter and husband away? Chances are Brooks wouldn’t have been sniffing around had she not been a reality star.
I would read it. My best guess is that these shows turn women into caricatures of themselves. I wonder if they gain perspective after they’ve been gone, or if they just grow bitter at being reduced to glaring through the window, always wanting back in.
What a pile of wreckage these franchises have left along the road through the years.
Wonder if they’ll bring back Meghan?
Yes, Vicki is “The OG of all OG’s”. Yes, she was the very first Real Housewives. And yes, she was one of the few OG’s left standing.
However, I can’t help but feel relief that she’s finally gone. She’s done so many people so fucking dirty throughout her 14-year run, and she still refuses to apologize or rectify most of it. Hell, she still won’t even admit to her role in furthering Brooks’ cancer scam!
Yes, I know Nene does a lot of dirty shit. I know Teresa G does a lot of dirty shit. I know Ramona does a lot of dirty shit. And yes, they all need to be held accountable, along with the producers who encourage all of it. Still, just because all their shit stinks to high heavens, that doesn’t give Vicki carte blanche to be a garbage person.
You are spot-on!! Nailed it!!! PERFECT summation!!!
I feel like I’m losing a best enemy. She bullied and badgered all in her path. I wanted to whoop her not whoop it up with her. Not my kinda girlfriend I’m afraid and watching her repeating her past mistakes became tiresome. I don’t think Steve is much better than smarmy Brooks when it comes to staying around for the bad and the good. Hope I’m wrong. Even bad girls deserve a few breaks.
Ya know, Steve is boring. It does not feel like he is her “soul mate”. Sadly I think Don was. Steve is like her consolation prize. ☹
All Vicki did was scream and screech. The other two amigas are the same. Like nails on a chalkboard. And it’s not and never has been “Vicki’s show.” Someone tell Vicki it’s called an ensemble where everyone is replaceable. RHOC needs a complete revamp. I like the show and I have stuck it out since season 1. I don’t want to see it go under so I hope the can revive it.
Personally, I think all the HW franchises have run their course and Bravo should scrap all of them and come up with better shows, tho I doubt that happens within the next couple of years at least. That includes VPR too because I don’t care about middle-aged children bartending and waitressing who seem to be all stuck in Peter Pan mentalities. When the news broke about Vicki finally leaving the OC, it got me thinking about an episode from either Season 1 or 2, where Vicki was driving somewhere and either had her mom in the vehicle with her or was talking to her mom on the phone (it’s been a few years and my memory is not what it used to be) – the conversation was centered around Vicki preparing to undergo her first (maybe her first – who knows) plastic surgery and her mom was not in favor of it at all. I remember how insecure about herself Vicki sounded in that episode and it was pretty sad really. I think it’s been a lifelong struggle for her, feeling insecure about herself – just my opinion. Growing up insecure comes with a whole host of offshoot issues too. Then, that whole “love tank” crap – which is also another manifestation of insecurity really. I do agree with some who say that she never should have given up so easily on her marriage to Donn. I think she has actually acknowledged that fact more than once on the show since. It was a huge mistake. Wish both of them would have worked harder to save their marriage. Who knows, maybe someday – I’ve seen it happen before with other couples once divorced, who after years, even decades of not being together, circumstances come up where both are single again and they realize they’ve never truly gotten over each other. Oh well, good luck to Vicki in whatever she does. I no longer watch any of the HW shows anyway so I won’t be brokenhearted over anyone leaving or getting fired. I think they’ve all just run their course. None of those women on the HW shows seem truly happy and fulfilled in their lives – it just proves the old adage that money can’t buy happiness (even if that money is borrowed from a bank/loan company) – and all the plastic surgery in the world isn’t going to stop you from aging and dying. My Dad used to have this silly saying about those who have more money and/or power than others – “Everyone still puts their pants on the same way – one leg at a time.” Cheers to Tamara and the very best group of commenters out there – this site is the best of the best!
Now Tamra!! Wow!
Tamra just posted on Instagram that she’s out too. I feel like she was fired because she didn’t post some long goodbye. I feel like she’s bitter about this. It also makes sense why she posted her study materials to renew her real estate license. Gotta pay for that house in Coto.
God I hope that this is the next post! I’m so ready for ALL of them to fade into the woodwork!
Yay!!! 27mins ago she tweeted her farewell!!!! Thank goodness.
IJC gosh, if Salt Lake City sees the light, probably will be more of the same, unfortunately. What could possibly be done that hasn’t? Hmmm.
Telling Andy to remember where he came from must’ve played a big factor in this one.
Tamra gone too, just announced
2/3s the Amoebas, gone. one who definitely relies on the RHOC income & one who lives off the perks of exploiting that relationship.
Hmm
Am I the only one catching the stench of ‘Resign or we fire your ass’ cast shake up ?
They don’t resign or get fired technically. Bravo just opts not to pick up their option for the next season.
Well, I certainly plan on making Vicki a casserole.
Aw, that is very nice of you! 🙂
She can just ride off into the sunset in her family van.
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