Shannon Beador Opens Up to Kelly Ripa About Tamra Judge, Katie Ginella, and Lying to Her Ex About ‘RHOC’ Audition

Shannon Storms Beador joins Kelly Ripa on a new episode of SiriusXM’s “Let’s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa.” The full interview is available one week early on the SiriusXM app and web player.

During the show, “The Real Housewives of Orange County” star gets candid about her feelings on Tamra Judge and Kelly Dodd, dishes on being secretly filmed by Katie Ginella, opens up about her DUI and drinking, and reveals she lied to her ex-husband, David Beador, when she auditioned for “RHOC.”

“This is gonna bite me in the a**, but Kelly Dodd, sometimes she’s been a wonderful friend to me, and then other times, depending on her mood, she goes for the jugular,” Shannon says. “I just kind of keep at peace with her. I don’t wanna fight. I don’t like to fight, but I will fight.”

“I didn’t tell my ex-husband that I was interviewing,” she says auditioning for Season 9 of the show. “They called me and they said, ‘Can you send us a red carpet photo?’ I go, ‘I can send you my Christmas card photo,’ and I faxed over a Christmas card picture of my family and they go, ‘We wanna meet you.’ So I didn’t even tell him because I thought, I’m gonna be 50. They’re not gonna want me. And then they gave me a callback on the spot and I came home going, I wasn’t really where I said I was gonna be and foreshadow because he had an affair, but he thought, ‘Oh, she had an affair.’ And they came down and met my family. And I got it.”

The “Let’s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa” podcast, featuring beloved celebrity interviews, returned on April 29 for Season 3 and expanded to include a new live call-in series exclusively on on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy.

Since launching in March 2023, “Let’s Talk Off Camera” has garnered over eight million downloads from listeners who tune in for insider Hollywood stories, hot gossip, and a look into Kelly’s own life alongside guests like Rob Lowe, Rita Ora, Jimmy Kimmel, Kristin Chenoweth, Chelsea Handler, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Andy Cohen.