NeNe Leakes recently announced her departure from The Real Housewives of Atlanta. Her friend Wendy Williams believes that she will return.
NeNe Leakes just announced her departure from The Real Housewives of Atlanta last week. Leakes was a fan-favorite on the show's past 12 seasons. However, according to the daytime talk show host, Wendy Williams, Leakes 'won't' be returning to the franchise.
Leakes was a standout star on The Real Housewives of Atlanta since its first season in 2008. Fans were drawn to her style elevation and witty one-liners on the show. Her outspoken personality and dramatic face-offs with cast members often placed her at the center of the show's many catfights. Leakes was also transparent about her personal life on the show. She allowed the cameras to follow her as she searched for her birth father, dealt with marital woes, and handled her husband's cancer scare. But, after Leakes failed to come to a contract agreement with Bravo, she revealed her exit on social media last Thursday. The announcement wasn't received well from RHOA fans who have grown to love Leakes's presence on the hit show.
Her split from the show comes on the heels of her landing her own show coming to the E! network. The Swag Boutique's friend and fellow TV star Wendy Williams returned to her daytime talk show on Monday and dished on Leakes exit. She shared why she thinks the Bravo star 'won't' return to the hit reality show. “It’s a money thing,” Williams told her viewers, according to Page Six. “She said she can’t do it. She knows what she’s worth and she can’t be there. There’s not enough filming time for her to make sense and there’s not enough money in it for her to make sense.”
Williams went on to explain why she thinks Leakes will return to Bravo in the future. “NeNe will always be the queen bee and I don’t believe she won’t be back,” she stated. “I think she likes a lot of attention and I think Bravo likes to boil the pot and bring them back.” Williams even shared a private conversation she had with the show's executive producer Andy Cohen who she claimed “texted [her] back and said [there will be] ‘a lot of surprises this season.'”
Williams wrapped up the RHOA gossip session by adding, “I don’t believe anything about the NeNe thing." Williams and Leaks have had an on-again-off-again friendship over the years. The talk show queen is known to spill the tea on the latest in Hollywood. Could her predictions about Leakes and RHOA be true? Only time will tell if she actually makes a full-time return to the show.
Source: Page Six
