One of Tamara Tattles best sources has provided me with some interesting, yet confusing, exclusive information regarding Radar Online. I’m trying to sort through it but between my Covid brain, the dentist fiasco, and just generally not feeling well, it’s a lot to sort out. But Tamara Tattles exclusive source claims Nene Leakes may have put the final nail in Radar Online’s coffin. But I need to give a rather lengthy backstory until we get to the Nene Leakes part.
Let me try to start from the beginning. Radar Online is owned by American Media. American Media owns a lot of tabloids and fitness magazines including The National Enquirer. American Media was planning to sell The National Enquirer to Hudson News for $100 million in early 2019. That sale never happened. Instead, Jeff Bezos accused the National Enquirer of blackmailing him over nude photos. And also with private text messages with his then girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez. American Media felt that the richest man in the world could afford a few million dollars to shut them up.
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Instead, Bezos response was “Of course I don’t want personal photos published, but I also won’t participate in their well-known practice of blackmail, political favors, political attacks, and corruption. I prefer to stand up, roll this log over, and see what crawls out.” Basically, Bezos replied with “game on.” And that dealt a blow to American Media including a “change in corporate structure.” There was also a whole thing with American Media being accused of “catch and kill practices.” Basically America Media CEO David Pecker (heh) is a Trump Supporter. And, Pecker was paying for exclusive rights to negative stories about Trump that were never published.
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The point is American Media that owns Radar Online was having a lot of struggles over the past couple of years. And Jeff Bezos is also CEO at the Washington Post . The Post ho has published many articles that irritate Trump. At some point, the staff at Radar Online was drastically cut. There have been very few new stories on the site for months. Additionally. the pandemic drastically cut revenue at American Media. American Media generates revenue from print tabloids sold in the checkout aisle of most grocery stores.
And Now For The Part Where Nene Leakes Enters The Picture
Nene Leakes hired Lisa Bloom to represent her in early spring. There is a lot of inaccurate information on the Internet about why she did. First, no lawsuits have been filed. Nene suspects that the reasons she is not getting work is because someone is black balling her. So, she hired Lisa to determine and acquire evidence, facts and information. Nene felt someone was trying blackballing her at Debmar-Mercury, BET Networks, Bravo Media and POP TV. This action caused Nene to be unable to book appearances, series, and specials on those networks.
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Despite never filing a lawsuit, Tamara Tattles exclusive source says that Lisa Bloom did uncover a Bravo executive who strongly dislikes Nene Leakes. Bloom feels she has information to prove that executive was instrumental in Nene being absent from multiple episodes last season. Apparently, Nene has beef a this particular executive. And no, it is NOT Andy Cohen. Andy is not an Bravo executive. He is Bravo “talent” with an honorary executive producer credit on all the housewives shows that he brought to the table.
In The End, It Was Nene’s Unprofessionalism That Caused This
The executive in question is someone related to a Nene spinoff that never happened. The executive feels that Nene’s unprofessional behavior that kept the spinoff from happening. Also, the executive had personal and financial consequences for the show not happening. I feel like the executive should be within bounds discussing Nene Leakes trashing a show. But apparently, threats of defamation were made by Nene’s legal team. They sent Radar an case and desist and apparently it has the potential to be a seven figure suit because of “loss of income.” At that point the digital writers who remained after the initial cut due to the Bezos problem were also let go. And Tamara Tattles exclusive source claims that Radar Online is now “defunct.”
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The Bravo executive mentioned above, whose Bravo contract was up for renewal, was not renewed a “part of a reduction in force.” But, there is another Nene naysayer. That executive left Bravo for another network. That executive is also not a fan of Nene Leakes. To me, It seems like if multiple people are discussing Nene Leakes alleged lack of professionalism, that is their opinion and common in the entertainment industry. I presume there is a reason that Ryan Murphy chose not to keep Nene in his stable of actors he likes to reuse. There are numerous people currently coming forward to discuss Lea Michele from Glee being horrible to work with. People get black balled in the entertainmenSt industry all the time. Especially now with the “cancel culture.”
The Clock Is Ticking For Nene…
That said, it appears to the critical observer that Nene managed to get an executive at Bravo “non-renewed.” That was allegedly the person she was talking to in her infamous “You will not get away with this!” And the reason she is hell bent on a “pay or play” clause in her contract. So now Nene Leakes feels empowered to demand she get to go over to E! and be an executive producer herself. And she wants to tell RHOA to kiss her ass. She is welcome to tell Bravo to kiss her ass if she wants. But she doesn’t have much more time to make up her mind. There is an all cast meeting on Zoom coming up very soon. We’ll see if she shows up.
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So what do you think? Is Radar Online down for the count? Will Nene Leakes accept her contract with a 5% raise in the coming days? Or does she think she can get better treatment at E! who has never paid her anything close to her RHOA salary? A smart person would show up to the RHOA meetings and filmings. But with Nene Leakes… you never know.
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It’s really hard to root for anyone here (other than you, of course!). Nene is terrible. Radar Online and American Media are terrible. Bravo and Comcast are terrible. While I love The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos does a lot of terrible shit. And of course, Donald Trump is always terrible.
If Nene is actually playing a role in American Media tanking, I’m not mad about it. And if the Bravo suits finally put their feet down and stop giving Nene so many hall passes, I certainly won’t be mad about it.
This is my opinion as well. Thank you!
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Let’s face it, Nene has never been very smart. I mean she’s close to illiterate. I hope her inflated ego sees her fleeing Bravo in hopes of a bigger and better position which never materializes or tanks due to her lack of professionalism. As stated above by @atdnext, there’s really no one to root for in this story, sadly. Also, Pecker is an unfortunate surname. But the fact that he’s affiliated with the orange one, fitting.
TT, hope you’re feeling better soon. The dentist is the absolute worst!
I stopped reading reading Radar at least three years ago because they never posted any breaking celebrity news. All their stories were obviously features where a “famous” person gave three sentences and planned paparazzi photos. They have been recycling the same crap for years.
I got so annoyed with radar online when they post the same post about JLaw being a stripper or something like that. Radar Online isn’t in business anymore because Lisa Vanderpump is on RHOBH and cant sell her co-stars stores. Sorry I had to throw that in.
That site will literally post a story that is 10 days old and label it as breaking news. Radar is like the featured dancer at a Vegas strip club at 1 pm.
This!
I really dislike Nene and like only little of what Bravo does so between the two I’d prefer Nene to take the fall.
I wouldn’t give her that much credit. This is the woman that can’t even pronounce “bridesmaids.”
Nene should have 100% been fired after putting hands on a camera person last season. I cannot for the life of me understand who at Bravo really likes her and is her advocate. She is a bully and I am sick to death of her.
WOW, TT! I needed a couple of cigarettes after that EXQUISITE tea…and I’m a non smoker 🚬🚬🚬
The thing that I don’t understand is that Nene is so insulted over being offered an 8 episode trial that would pay her about One Million Dollars, she wants to chuck the whole thing in hopes that E! will give her a show. E! has expressed no interest in giving her a show, and I don’t think she is smart enough to attempt to be professional on the the show she is doing a couple of Zoom episodes for. I don’t think the in person glam show thing will ever see air.
All she has to do is take the 8 episodes and stop being….well Nene… and earn her bag.
Does she have to film the entire time? Then they pick what they want to use.
Nope she tapes for the first eight episodes and then they decide if they want to keep paying for her. It is a rather insulting offer for someone who is without question the biggest personality on the show. Her problem is people don’t like working with her.
I can’t wait to see what Nene does…I hope she moves to E!
It’s her ego. Somehow, somewhere, someone made her think she is smarter, prettier, funnier, more talented and more marketable than she really is. Maybe that someone is herself. Maybe her Agent or Manager doesn’t have the guts to tell her like it is. She has a big, slick, rude, illiterate mouth, that’s her claim to fame. I do feel sorry for her in a way, I imagine when the cameras aren’t rolling she lives an empty life of jealousy, greed and pettiness.
Ok totally out of left field speculation. Did all of this happen with the end of Wendy Williams show? I mean every one of her hot topics came from Radar. All the stories on the site about Wendy had an “exclusive source”. Just curious
Nene can try this all she wants, but to prove that this person is deliberately blocking her opportunities with libel is beyond difficult. She should play nice and take her mil for those first 8 episodes. If someone who worked with you said you’re difficult and told their friends and colleagues not work with you, that’s not illegal nor libelous in a way that u could show damages.
I think Radar was just dying its slow death anyway
I get the feeling Nene is going to make the stupid decision and she will be no more.
I pray that Nene, take two steps back, and pray over her moves, and decisions, she is making. I would really hate to see her lose all of what she has been blessed with thus far. Simetimes, people let to much PRIDE, rule their common sense thinking. In times like this, you must think before you leap. My advice to Nene, is go to Proverbs 3:5,6.
Wishing Nene Leeks, well in whatever she decides to do.