Inside Vanity Fair’s Real Housewives Story

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Vanity Fair

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4.2 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Contributor Anna Peele spent months speaking to ‘Real Housewives’ cast members, crew, and people on set to understand the dynamics on and off screen. Here, she takes Chris and Hillary through her explosive story and the history of the Bravoverse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to Still Watching, a weekly television podcast from Vanity Fair.
0:09.3	I'm Chris Murphy.
0:10.3	I'm Hilary Buses.
0:11.3	This week we are taking a detour into an area that Chris knows very well, and I know
0:16.8	not as well, which is the real housewives of Bravo.
0:19.4	Yeah.
0:20.4	Hilary, you are right.
0:21.4	I am a super fan of the franchise, and I guess well, it's usually all fun and games,
0:26.6	you know, it's throwing drinks as well as shade.
0:29.2	New reporting from Vanity Fair reveals that there is a dark underbelly to the real housewives
0:33.7	franchise.
0:34.7	I am shocked to hear this.
0:36.7	Are you?
0:37.7	No, but really, this story that we published on Vanity Fair.com, it has a lot of really disturbing
0:44.4	allocations and a lot of details about, you know, from crew and from housewives themselves
0:49.7	about things that happened while making the show and deep in the fabric of the franchise
0:55.2	and how it's produced.
0:57.0	Yeah, specifically mental health struggles and alcohol abuse and accusations of racism.
1:03.7	There's also talk of unionizing at Bravo and an idea that's been spearheaded by one
1:08.7	of the franchise's biggest names and former stars Bethany Frankl.
1:12.7	Vanity Fair contributor and appeal has been investigating the show and she published them
1:16.8	in her big bombshell story, which is called a house divided and is available on vf.com.
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