May 112013
 
Photo Credit: @neneleakes Twitter

Photo Credit: @neneleakes Twitter

By: Amanda Anderson-Niles

NeNe Leakes is probably the only star in the “Real Housewives” franchise who was able to take her reality television stardom and launch a real acting career. NeNe has always had a passion for acting, and after she blew up on “Real Housewives of Atlanta,” she was able to book two roles on two major shows, “The New Normal” and “Glee.” Although the star recently confirmed that she and ex hubby Gregg Leakes got their own spinoff show that will focus on their upcoming nuptials (I Dream of NeNe), it looks like her new show on Bravo couldn’t have come at a better time. According to multiple reports, her show “The New Normal” was cancelled by NBC.  Zap2It reports:

NBC, continuing the purge of their comedy division, has canceled first-year series “The New Normal.”

The semi-autobiographical comedy from “Glee” creator Ryan Murphy and Ali Adler is the last of the Peacock network’s comedies to learn its fate, joining Tuesday companion “Go On,” among many more, in the trash heap. Of the 11 comedies to air on the network this year, only “Parks and Recreation” and “Community” earned renewals.

“The New Normal” starred Justin Bartha and Andrew Rannells as a gay couple starting a family via surrogacy. The show, Murphy’s first half-hour comedy, also starred Georgia King, Bebe Wood, NeNe Leakes and Ellen Barkin.

 

In more TV cancellation news for NBC, actress Meagan Good’s “Deception” also got axed, as the network confirmed ratings were too low for it to renew the show for a second season.

May 082013
 
Photo Credit: Twitter/Urban Belle

Photo Credit: Twitter/Urban Belle

By: Amanda Anderson-Niles

NeNe Leakes may be the queen bee when it comes to the Real Housewives of Atlanta series, but she may have a little trouble keeping the other housewives in the other cities in check. NeNe made a recent appearance on Watch What Happens Live, and in the interview, she didn’t hold back her feelings on the other housewives on RHOA. But she didn’t stop at her own show, and when Andy Cohen asked her how she felt about the other shows and women in the franchise, NeNe took shots at Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville. After claiming Brandi likes to act “gangsta” when she’s had too much to drink, Brandi is not too happy with NeNe and took to Radar Online to “get her together.” In the process, it kind of sounds like she tried to label NeNe as racist for suggesting white women can’t get gangsta too. The website reports:

NeNe Leakes ripped on fellow Real Housewives star Brandi Glanville on Sunday night calling her a “train wreck” and made fun of her because she “thinks she’s a gangsta,” but Brandi exclusively tells RadarOnline.com that Nene should get to know her first before judging her.

“It doesn’t affect me. She doesn’t even know me. If she wants to sit down and hang out with me and my boys and come have dinner, come on over. Get to know me first. Then she can say what she wants about me,” Brandi told Radar.

“At the end of the day, at least she’s talking about me. It doesn’t matter if she’s saying good or bad, she’s talking about me. And I am gangsta! Why can’t I be gangsta? Because I’m white, skinny and tall?!”

“…So I said I was gangsta. It’s NeNe…I could care less. I don’t know her. I enjoy her on the show and I think she’s really good TV, but as I was watching the show last night I felt like she was drinking her own kool-aid a little too much.”

May 072013
 
Photo Credit: Too Fab

Photo Credit: Too Fab

By: Amanda Anderson-Niles

NeNe Leakes may still be the only original housewife standing on Real Housewives of Atlanta, but that doesn’t mean she’s ended all her feuds with her original costars that were there with her in the beginning. In fact, NeNe recently called out the first season housewives for not making it long on Bravo’s hit show recently, however, she’s still made amends with Kim Zolciak. But if there’s one original housewife NeNe has no plans of ever making up with, that would have to be Sheree Whitfield. During a recent appearance on What Happens Live, NeNe said she feels Sheree is a real b*tch, mean and evil. She tells Andy Cohen:

“Sheree, out of all of the girls, is the very one person I will never have anything else to do with. I think Sheree is very evil. I think she’s very mean and she is the true b*tch. And that’s not cute…To be honest, Sheree and I had an argument before the cameras actually started rolling. It was like our first ‘Housewives’ meeting with the production company and we were in a restaurant and Sheree and I got into our first argument… I just felt Sheree wasn’t being a good friend. Like, I felt like she would always want information from you, like you tell her stuff but she’d never really tell you anything. And I hated that about her. You know, I was just like ‘Listen, I’m the kind of friend that, like if I tell you about something, you tell me about something’. And she never would tell me about stuff. I felt like she was just super secretive. I hated that about her.”

 

Interestingly enough, Too Fab caught up with Sheree on Sunday night at the airport and asked her what she thought about the jabs NeNe threw her on Watch What Happens Live. Sheree claimed she didn’t watch the show, but after the Too Fab pap told her that NeNe called her mean and evil, Sheree promptly clapped back:

“Well that sounds like the pot calling the kettle black. But I would say, I’m just flattered that she’s still thinking about me that much. I haven’t been on the show in a year. And she still has that much of me on her brain. I don’t think about her. I don’t talk about her. I think that’s sad. But I wish her the best in everything she does.”

 

When asked what she thinks NeNe’s real beef with her is, Sheree says:

“I don’t know. We have a lot of history and I can say probably when someone knows your baggage and someone knows all your dirt, that’s probably…and I’m not afraid of her, you know? But I wish her the best, I wish her the best.”

 

Check out the video below:

May 062013
 
Photo Credit: Bravo

Photo Credit: Bravo

By: Amanda Anderson-Niles

NeNe Leakes made it clear during the reunion for season five of Real Housewives of Atlanta that she believed one of the current housewives needed to be replaced. Although she didn’t reveal a name on the reunion show, she did confirm in a short promotional clip to Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live that she was referring to Porsha Stewart. According to NeNe, she believed Porsha and Kordell weren’t being “real enough” on the series, and she also believed the many restrictions Kordell gave Porsha made it hard for her to fit in with the other housewives. The full episode aired last night and fans of RHOA were able to hear if NeNe’s opinion on the subject has changed any since Kordell has filed for divorce from Porsha. So has her mind changed?

NeNe confirmed on last night’s special episode of Watch What Happens Live that she now wants Porsha to come back for another season of RHOA, but only of she actually goes through with her divorce from Kordell. NeNe says she feels Porsha has a very big personality and is more entertaining with Kordell out of the picture, and now that she spends a lot of time with the new housewife, she realizes now how much Kordell held her back on the show. She says:

“If Porsha came back a second season with Kordell, he would keep her from saying things. He’d already stopped her from saying and doing stuff, you know what I mean. This show is about your life and what’s going on your life. I thought that Porsha wouldn’t be right to come back with Kordell.

“My opinion has changed now that Kordell has filed for divorce – she should come right on back! He didn’t want her to be ‘Porsha’. Now she can be herself. Porsha has a big personality and a lot of life in her.”

May 052013
 
Photo Credit: Bravo

Photo Credit: Bravo

By: Taren Vaughan

The NeNe and Sheree beef still not over? Season 5 of Real Housewives of Atlanta is over yet the drama is still going strong. Much talk has continued to surround newbie Porsha Stewart and the status of her marriage to Kordell as the couple is now getting called out for allegedly faking their divorce. And while NeNe Leakes has been acting as a great support system for Porsha as she was going through her divorce drama with Kordell, NeNe made some interesting comments during a clip of her appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. In a sneak peek of the upcoming show, NeNe tells Andy that Phaedra Parks is not the one she wanted gone from the show like many thought after what was revealed, but rather it was Porsha Stewart that she wanted to get kicked off of RHOA because she felt Porsha and Kordell were not keeping it all the way real.

NeNe says:

“I did feel like at that time that Porsha needed to leave the show because I felt like…I’m a good judge of character, I’ve been blessed child. I’ve been given a gift and I kept feeling like Porsha and Kordell were not being real enough.”

As expected, Porsha didn’t seem to take too well to NeNe’s comments. But Porsha wasn’t the only one NeNe had something to say about. Though Sheree didn’t come back for another season of RHOA, her name made its way into conversation on the reunion special for season 5 as NeNe took jabs at Sheree’s looks and Sheree made a point to address it. In another clip from her appearance on Watch What Happens Live, NeNe further elaborates on the real problem that she has with Sheree. Andy Cohen asks NeNe if there was one moment that happened between her and Sheree that set things off between them. And NeNe says:

“Sheree, out of all of the girls, is the very one person I will never have anything else to do with. I think Sheree is very evil. I think she’s very mean and she is the true b*tch. And that’s not cute…To be honest, Sheree and I had an argument before the cameras actually started rolling. It was like our first ‘Housewives’ meeting with the production company and we were in a restaurant and Sheree and I got into our first argument… I just felt Sheree wasn’t being a good friend. Like, I felt like she would always want information from you, like you tell her stuff but she’d never really tell you anything. And I hated that about her. You know, I was just like ‘Listen, I’m the kind of friend that, like if I tell you about something, you tell me about something’. And she never would tell me about stuff. I felt like she was just super secretive. I hated that about her.”

The full episode of Watch What Happens Live with NeNe Leakes where she talks about Sheree and Porsha will air tonight at 8:00pm ET on Bravo.

May 022013
 
Photo Credit: @porshadstewart Instagram

Photo Credit: @porshadstewart Instagram

By: Amanda Anderson-Niles

Can things get any worse for Porsha Stewart? Not only did her appearance on season five of Real Housewives of Atlanta subject her marriage to Kordell to intense criticism, but many also believe it led to her now estranged hubby’s recent move to file for divorce. Although Kordell has made it clear that he now wants to work on their marriage, it appears that Porsha has decided to move forward with the dissolving of their marriage. Interestingly enough, she’s confirmed that she’s leaned on the shoulders of two of the other housewives, NeNe Leakes and Phaedra Parks, during the split. She tells Hollywood Life:

 

“Well NeNe and Phaedra have just been amazing to me. You know, after they heard about the situation (the divorce), everybody reached out. So I was thankful for that. That was nice to see everybody come together for the sisterhood in support of me. So that was nice. But those two ladies are ladies that I talk to.”

 

So imagine how terrible it probably felt to hear that NeNe actually wanted Porsha to get the boot from the show when she hinted at replacing one of the housewives on the reunion. NeNe told Andy Cohen on the upcoming episode of Watch What Happens Live she was taking about Porsha because she felt her marriage to Kordell wasn’t “real enough”:

“I did feel like at that time that Porsha needed to leave the show because I felt like…I’m a good judge of character, I’ve been blessed child. I’ve been given a gift and I kept feeling like Porsha and Kordell were not being real enough.”

 

While it won’t be clear until the full episode of Watch What Happens Live airs on Sunday whether or not NeNe’s mind has been changed regarding kicking Porsha off the show, it appears Porsha is hurt by NeNe’s comments. She subtly tweeted about the situation on her Twitter account and although she wasn’t clear, it appears she may feel NeNe’s public comments feel a lot like backstabbing to her during her divorce. She tweets:

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Porsha could be talking about anybody, but the timing of this tweet has many thinking she was referring to NeNe.

May 012013
 
Photo Credit: Bravo

Photo Credit: Bravo

By: Amanda Anderson-Niles

Season five of Real Housewives of Atlanta may be over, however, the drama surrounding the current set of housewives is all but over these days. Since the last part of the reunion, drama between Phaedra Parks and Kenya Moore is still going strong and the beef between those two has even spilled over into NeNe and Phaedra’s rocky relationship. After NeNe dragged Phaedra for trying to get dirt on her by secretly reaching out to her estranged sisters, many suspected NeNe would pull a few strings to have her kicked off the show. Rumors intensified after NeNe made it clear on the reunion that she believed one of the housewives needed to be replaced. Although she confirmed that she would reveal who she feels should get their walking papers on the upcoming episode of Watch What Happens Live, in a sneak peek of the upcoming show she reveals that it was Porsha that she was talking about. According to NeNe, she felt like Porsha should have been replaced at the time because she didn’t believe she and Kordell were “being real enough.” She tells Andy Cohen:

“I did feel like at that time that Porsha needed to leave the show because I felt like…I’m a good judge of character, I’ve been blessed child. I’ve been given a gift and I kept feeling like Porsha and Kordell were not being real enough.”

 

NeNe and Porsha have grown close since the reunion and since Kordell filed for divorce, so everyone will have to tune in on Sunday to see of she still feels Porsha needs to go.

Apr 262013
 
Photo Credit: @neneleakes Twitter

Photo Credit: @neneleakes Twitter

By: Amanda Anderson-Niles

Reality television star and actress NeNe Leakes may have quite a bit of family drama going on these days, but when she’s not getting into shading wars with her sisters on Twitter, she’s actually planning her upcoming wedding to ex husband Gregg Leakes. In fact, NeNe just confirmed that Bravo has given her a show that will be centered around the couple’s upcoming nuptials (I Dream of NeNe), and in between her two acting gigs on Glee and The New Normal, she’s been working on getting things together for her big day. As always, when it comes to anything that NeNe does, there will be plenty of gossip and speculation. Popular tabloid The National Enquirer even claimed that her big day might not happen because Gregg is allegedly refusing to sign the prenup NeNe has drawn up. Although neither NeNe nor Gregg have confirmed or denied the report, in a recent interview with USA Today, the reality star confirmed that there will be a prenup and she defends her choice to have one. However, she admits she doesn’t understand why anyone is surprised that she would be so adamant about having one this time around. NeNe says:

“Yeah. I’m definitely going to have a prenup. Yeah.

“I think any business person that is smart would have a prenup and that is why. I don’t even understand why people are talking about me having a prenup. I don’t really understand it. A lot of people have prenups. I don’t know why my situation is any different than anybody else’s.”

 

NeNe talks more about her big day in the rest of the interview. Check it out below:

Apr 252013
 
Photo Credit: @neneleakes Twitter

Photo Credit: @neneleakes Twitter

By: Amanda Anderson-Niles

Hell hath no fury like a family member scorned. Reality star and now actress NeNe Leakes may be the head housewife in charge when it comes to the Real Housewives of Atlanta, but she can’t manage to get her family drama under control like she checks her cast mates each season. As we reported recently, things between NeNe and her sisters turned for the worse when she mentioned them on the reunion show for season five. Apparently, Phaedra Parks decided to have a conversation with NeNe’s estranged sisters behind her back, and it made NeNe furious. After NeNe called out Phaedra for allegedly trying to dig up dirt with the help of her siblings, NeNe’s sister Kendra Sherman went on a rant on her Facebook page. In the rant which eventually spilled over to Twitter, the sister claimed she would expose NeNe and start giving interviews providing info on NeNe that would be damaging to her image.

NeNe of course responded on her Twitter account, and claimed her sibling is just jealous of her success. She then hit her where it really hurts and referred to her girlfriends as her “biological sisters.”

Kenya has decided to get even and she actually tweeted the staff of Bravo and accused NeNe and Gregg of faking their divorce for financial reasons and to secure a spin-off show. The accusation comes just days after NeNe confirmed that she is getting her own wedding special on the network (I Dream of NeNe). Peep the tweet:

nene sister twitter

 

Things got even more interesting when NeNe’s other sister began tweeting, Shaquon Sparks tweeted that NeNe recently texted her and told her she hates her. Despite the alleged text message, she claims she still loves NeNe but NeNe has been lying for years. Peep the tweets (read from top to bottom):

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The youngest sister also claimed that they never told NeNe about the conversation they had with Phaedra and accused her of lying on the reunion. NeNe’s other sister Kenya says NeNe is lying on Phaedra to get her kicked off the show. Interestingly enough, both sisters did say that they did know Phaedra before she invited them to Aiden’s birthday party (read from top to bottom):

 

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So how did NeNe find out Phaedra’s talk with her sisters? The latest gossip suggests the producers are behind that.

Apr 202013
 
Photo Credit: @neneleakes Twitter

Photo Credit: @neneleakes Twitter

By: Amanda Anderson-Niles

NeNe Leakes spent most of season five of Real Housewives of Atlanta staying neutral and not involving herself in any of the beefs with the other housewives. However, the reunion was an explosive one for her considering that she did end up dropping a bomb on Phaedra Parks. According to NeNe, Phaedra attempted to get dirt on her by talking to her sisters behind her back and NeNe was furious that Phaedra would so such a thing considering that she hasn’t talked to his sisters reportedly for eight years. One of NeNe’s sisters took to her Facebook account to make it clear that she wasn’t happy NeNe referred to her and her other sister as “half sisters,” so she threatened to expose Nene and give interviews telling all of her business. NeNe clapped back on Twitter and called her sister jealous, but it looks like her sister isn’t taking the clap back without a fight. In fact, both have been trading jabs on Twitter for the last couple of days. And according to NeNe’s sister Kenya Sherman, NeNe has completely turned her  back on her sisters. She tweets (read from the bottom up):

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nene sister twitter

 

NeNe of course saw Kenya’s tweets, and the reality star decided to throw some jabs herself. NeNe appears to have been on her way to LA when everything popped off on Twitter, and she has several of her close girlfriends in attendance. When she got word of her sister’s Twitter rant, she started to tweet photos of her friends and referred to them as her “biological” sisters. And just to throw a final blow, she made sure to add “U MAD” in the tweets (read the tweets from the bottom up):

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nene twitter

Apr 202013
 
Photo Credit: Bravo

Photo Credit: Bravo

By: Amanda Anderson-Niles

Reality star Phaedra Parks of Real Housewives of Atlanta has always been accused by her cast mates of being dirty and low down, but Phaedra has always brushed off the labels and insisted that she was only defending herself against the “mean girls” of the reality show. Throughout most of season five, Phaedra’s main nemesis has been Kenya Moore. The feud between these two ladies stems from their workout DVD fallout, and it’s clear by what went down so far at the reunion show that things won’t get peaceful anytime soon. NeNe also recently called out Phaedra for attempting to get some dirt on her from her sisters, and although Phaedra apologized for trying to talk to her sisters behind her back, NeNe doesn’t seem to be over it just yet. So it’s no shocker that NeNe is most likely sitting somewhere laughing at the new reports floating around about Phaedra. A woman claiming to be a former friend of the attorney is accusing her of being a criminal and even accuses the reality star of having an affair with her husband back in the day before the fame. Now we can’t verify that any of these accusations contain any truth, but we do suspect that this is the same woman who tried to “expose” Phaedra on Twitter some time last year. While we don’t know if she’s making up lies to get some blog attention, we do know she, Jessica Voker, granted an interview with Hip Hop Daily Press. Here’s some of the highlights of the interview.

On how she met Phaedra, Jessica says:

“Phaedra was my son’s godmother. My affiliation started with her back in 2000. I met her through my ex-husband at a huge carwash on Peachtree street. [Her southern belle act] is really cute, but it’s a lie. I started calling her ‘faker’ years ago. You know, just finding out that she was sleeping with my husband, all of the criminal activity that she was involved in, everything that she had me involved in and everything that she would allow herself to do. Now I do believe people can change. I’ve changed; however, she’s still a grimey person. She’s still conniving and sneaky.”

 

Jessica also says that Phaedra has an alleged criminal past:

“She has her hands in things that people wouldn’t believe that she’s a part of. To keep it real, I’m sure he [Apollo] is cleaner than her. This woman does mortgage fraud, prostitution, all types of things. He didn’t ever involve himself with anything like that…”
“I’m sure a lot of people will come out of the woodworks once my book comes out and I’m sure Fulton County would like to know some things as well.”

“When I met her she was on top of her gold J30 Infiniti, beat up, with makeup all in the car, dirty, in a short dress, clapping her a** in front of Too Short and my husband and several other people at a car wash at 3 o’clock in the morning.”

 

She even accused Phaedra of having an affair with her husband:

“I divorced him [my ex-husband]. He’s incarcerated. He’s supposed to get out of jail next year. She still takes his calls and has promised him all kinds of things when he gets out. She’s really grimey. She will be your best friend and then turn around be with your man and take everything from you. That’s who she is. She wants to hurt you. She’s very evil and vindictive.”

 

And if that wasn’t enough, Jessica also spoke on Phaedra’s marriage to Apollo:

“She has a key to the door he wants in right now. I’m sure she has a lot of stuff on him and he has a lot of stuff on her. It’s not love there. You can see that it’s fake. It’s something there that I’m sure will come out eventually.”

 

Again, we don’t know if this woman is telling the truth, but if she isn’t, we expect Phaedra to slap her with a lawsuit just like she did Angela Stanton, another woman who made similar claims recently and even penned a book about the reality star. Interestingly enough, NeNe threw a little shade and retweeted the link to her followers:

 

nene leakes twitter

 

Messy. Listen to the interview below:

 

And here’s a photo of Jessica Voker:

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Photo Credit: Twitter

Apr 182013
 
Photo Credit: @neneleakes Twitter

Photo Credit: @neneleakes Twitter

By: Amanda Anderson-Niles

NeNe Leakes is still on top of the Real Housewives franchise, and the Real Housewives of Atlanta star just continues to add to her resume. Although she still finds a little time to beef with her cast mates, it’s clear NeNe’s main focus is extending her time in Hollywood. The reality star can be seen now on two shows (Glee and The New Normal) but she recently hinted that she was possibly in the works of getting her own show and she is even in rumored to be going after securing a spot on daytime talk show The View. However, NeNe’s beef with Phaedra has taken an interesting turn and might have initiated what looks like a nasty turn to her troubled relationship with her sisters. After NeNe confronted Phaedra for talking to her sisters behind her back to dig up some dirt on her, NeNe’s sister took to her Facebook page and slammed her.

NeNe’s sister told her friends that people are lined up to interview her and she’s seriously considering exposing her and putting her famous sister’s dirt in the streets. While it’s still not really clear what went down to cause the friction in their relationship, she did say she’s angry NeNe referred to them as “half-sisters” and she really feels like the star has forgotten where she came from.

Interestingly enough, NeNe took to her Twitter account to subliminally respond to her sister’s Facebook diss and basically said she’s only being targeted by her because she’s so successful. Then a few tweets later, NeNe announced her upcoming spin-off show, which is actually a wedding special centered around her upcoming nuptials to ex husband Gregg Leakes. Read the tweets from the bottom up:

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We can’t say we didn’t see this one coming. Congrats to NeNe.