RHOC’s Vicki Gunvalson Seemingly Blames Gina & Emily For The Show’s Bad Ratings (Exclusive)

Vicki Gunvalson is making a instrumentality to The Real Housewives of Orange County successful Season 17, and she’s ace excited for the “Tres Amigas” to beryllium reunited. After a fewer years of immoderate ups and downs — some on-camera and disconnected — she, Tamra Judge and Shannon Beador are successful a bully spot again, and fans volition spot much of their shenanigans erstwhile the caller play debuts aboriginal this year. But adjacent though Vicki is blessed to beryllium backmost connected the show, she isn’t a immense instrumentality of her different co-stars.

“I’m good with Heather [Dubrow]. Gina [Kirschenheiter] and Emily [Simpson] — I mean, there’s nary existent narration there,” Vicki, who’s apt lone returning to RHOC successful a guest-starring capableness astatine this time, told america during a caller occurrence of HollywoodLife‘s Real Housewives podcast, Pay Attention Puh-Lease!. “They’re fine. I mean, truly, they’re fine. Emily’s great. Gina’s fine. [But] I don’t person a narration with them. We don’t talk. There’s nary [commonality].”

“I don’t truly recognize [their roles connected the show],” she continued. “I don’t. I don’t. When I created the amusement — you know, [producer] Scott Dunlop, [and OG star] Jeana Keough, and I — we were astir women working, showing our existent life, and it conscionable changed, you know? Everything conscionable changed. They brought successful radical that weren’t friends together, and I don’t cognize if it’s worked arsenic well. It hasn’t due to the fact that the ratings person gone down.”

Vicki went connected to accidental that she has a hard clip connecting with caller people, particularly connected the amusement — “I consciousness territorial” she told us. Gina and Emily some joined RHOC astatine the commencement of Season 13, and they precocious filmed Season 17 with Vicki, Tamra, Heather, Shannon and RHOBH alum Taylor Armstrong.

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Vicki thinks Bravo is presently making bully changes by bringing her, Tamra and Heather backmost to the show. “It’s ever bully to bring backmost successful the aged ones — that’s wherefore they’re doing these bequest shows and [RHUGT],” she said. “I bash judge there’s country for the younger ones, but astir of the radical that I tally into say, ‘I watched you since I was successful college,’ and present they’re successful their 40s,” she said, noting that longtime fans of the amusement privation to support pursuing her and her life. “I deliberation amusive needs to travel backmost in.”

To perceive that and more, including Vicki’s caller AirSculpt process that helped her driblet a ton of weight, perceive to the afloat podcast occurrence above.

Season 17 of The Real Housewives of Orange County is expected to premiere aboriginal this year.

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