We’ve already endured five seasons of The Real Housewives of Orange County without Vicki Gunvalson at the center of it. Bravo demoted the OG of the OC after Season 13, and things have never been the same since.
With cameras rolling for RHOC Season 19, fans have been wondering if we’ll see any glimpse of Vicki on our screens.
Vicki Gunvalson will not appear on RHOC Season 19 with the cast
Vicki recently appeared on SiriusXM’s Jeff Lewis Live along with her on and again off bestie Shannon Beador. A caller asked if Vicki filmed anything with the Season 19 cast.
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“Are we gonna see little bits of you on this upcoming season of OC? Because I miss you,” the caller asked. Vicki responded, “I miss you too. And the answer is no. They never called me.”
Everyone seemed surprised by that revelation. At the bare minimum, they usually have Vicki pop up at a dinner or something. This time around, Vicki said she didn’t film for a single second.
“Nothing. Which is very rare,’ Vicki noted. “Yeah. I usually come in and do something. If not full time, I’m doing something.”
Shannon said she felt “sad” about Vicki’s exclusion from Season 19. Meanwhile, Jeff Lewis shared an idea about what happened. He theorized that Bravo could be punishing Vicki for appearing on Vice’s The Dark Side of Reality, where Vicki said she would “never forgive” the network for how they captured her reaction to her mother’s death.
“The Dark Side of Reality. I should have never done it,” Vicki admitted. “And I knew they were setting me up, and I told Andy about it. He goes, ‘Well, you said that you’ll never forgive us.’”
Vicki continued, “I said, ‘Well, it was pretty sh*tty. It was pretty sht*ty. End of the day, if you’re hearing that one of your parents died and they’re rolling cameras in your face, and then you have to see it going back in time.’”
Jeff noted that other Housewives have said worse and still been in Bravo’s good graces. He tried to encourage Vicki that she could be back for Season 20, but at this point, she doesn’t seem to care.
In conclusion, she said, “Whatever. I’m working on my own sh*t right now.”
The Real Housewives of Orange County is streaming on Peacock and on Hayu in the UK and Ireland.
