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BEHIND THE VELVET ROPE

Come step ‘Behind The Velvet Rope’ with all your favorite TV stars and pop culture icons with host David Yontef as he asks his guests all the pressing questions YOU want answered!

David’s relaxed, friendly interview style has welcomed a wide variety of guests — from Real Housewives, musicians, comedians, actors, reality stars, designers, Bravolebrities and more!

Behind the Velvet Rope has been mentioned in publications and media like Vanity Fair, The Today Show, Variety, The Wall Street Journal People, TMZ, Page Six, OK! Magazine, Us Weekly, Entertainment Tonight, ExtraTV, Billboard Magazine, Telemundo, Marie Claire, the Wendy Williams Show, Life & Style, Access Hollywood, Perez Hilton, The Daily Mail, Radar Online, Bravo Daily Dish, E!, The Sun, Just Jared, InStyle, Watch What Happens Live, Architectural Digest, Fox News, Hollywood Life, Too Fab, Rolling Stone, USA Today, MSN, The Drew Barrymore Show, Yahoo Online, The Mirror, Women’s Health and more!

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RHOA, Kandi Burruss, Bob The Drag Queen, Miley Cyrus, & Drag Race (w/ Shuga Cain) Apr 06, 2025

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Shuga Cain steps Behind The Rope. Shuga is here to discuss it all! Of course, all includes RuPaul’s Drag Race and Shuga’s Season Eleven contribution to the brilliant show. Shuga takes us down the road of her journey from quitting a six figure a year job, to performing nightly in the legendary New York City nightlife club scene with the likes of Bob The Drag Queen to eventually applying and being chosen for Drag Race. With all the drama so far this season on RHOA, RHOBH, Summer House and more, we figured today the perfect day to share something fun in this blast from the past chat with the one and only Miss Shuga Cain. Shuga opens up about the positives and negatives of Drag Race, the judges Michelle Visage, Carson Kressley and Ross Mathews as well as RuPaul herself. Shuga breaks down the best and hardest parts of Drag Race and lifts the curtain for a look into what filming the hit TV show is really like. We also chat about guest judges Miley Cyrus, Adam Rippon and last, but certainly not least, The Real Housewives of Atlanta’s Kandi Burruss.

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Kyle Reveals Dorit’s Job “At Risk”, Garcelle Labeled Dangerous, Sutton's Fear of Kyle & Garcelle’s FU To EJ Apr 05, 2025

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The RHOBH Reunion has finally arrived and it did not disappoint. Garcelle did not come to play calling out Kyle for not showing or talking about Morgan all season, Sutton for playing both sides of the fence when it came to her and Kyle, Dorit and PK for their home invasion and, of course, Erika who she wants to go F herself. Sutton felt blindsided, Boz mentioned lawsuits and Andy looked on shocked as Erika called Garcelle boring. In other RHOBH news, Lisa RInna reveals her RHOBH PTSD, has a stern new message for Andy Cohen, shades Garcelle and claims the fans’ bullying drove her to hand her diamond back in. Speaking of Lisa Rinna, Denise Richards says she is still not over the fall out of her twenty year friendship with Rinna. Erika Jayne gets closer to a court date to answer for the 24M Tom stole from the victims and may be facing a default judgement in her now infamous lawsuit by Marco Marco. Finally, Brit Eady admits on air to weapons and whips, Kenya prepares for her RHOA exit next week and you, the audience declare you will no longer watch RHOA due to this entire debacle which seemingly favors a newbie over an OG who has given us more shade, sound bites and twirling than we can even remotely recount.

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Teresa May Lose RHONJ Due To Tax Liens, Slams "Horrible" Bethenny & Lies About a Few Things Apr 04, 2025

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With all the talk about Teresa and Luis’ tax liens, million dollar plus loans, TikTok QR bar codes to scan, Vinivia lawsuits and more, it is shocking that no one is talking about the effect all of this will have on Teresa Giudice’s future on RHONJ, assuming RHONJ ever returns to our Bravo screens, which is a big assumption, and / or a spin off. No one has been talking about that until now because, here, today, we break all of this down and things are not at all what they seem. In other RHONJ news, Teresa slams Bethenny as “horrible”, Bethenny claps back - kinda and also, at the same time, cannot even remotely be bothered. Gia announces her plans, to no ones surprise, to pause law school. RHONJ Producers watch RHOA closely for ideas on how to possibly integrate a future old/new cast. All this and more as the denial, delusion and pure twilight zone behavior continues as we close out this epic week and head into the weekend. Did someone say RHOBH? #staytuned…

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Boz’ Upcoming Difficult RHOBH Season, Jeff Lewis’ Big News, Rinna’s New Message for Andy & BravoCon 2025 Tea Apr 04, 2025

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There continues to be so much said, written and hypothesized about Garcelle’s RHOBH exit that today, again, we separate the new facts from fiction. Truth from untruth. Erika continues to slam Garcelle as she faces her own legal setbacks. The audience slams Erika and we look ahead to Boz’ seemingly difficult season two. Will the current members of the Fox Force Five - Kyle, Dorit and Erika - turn on Boz next season? After all, they can only pick on Sutton for so long, no? In other news, Jeff Lewis reveals big life news and realizations as we deep dive the status of Flipping Out 2.0. Lisa Rinna has a new message for Andy Cohen, RHOM prepares to return in June, according to Marysol, and last, but certainly not least, new details about BravoCon 2025 are spilled.

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Teresa & Louie’s Life Without RHONJ, Bethenny’s Unsolicited Advice & Jen Shah’s Prison Release Moved Again Apr 03, 2025

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Now that the dust has settled from Teresa and Luis’ new financial and legal woes, we break down just how dire their situation really is or is not, discuss what Luis does to make a living and what the Giudice-Ruelas’ plan to do until a year from now when RHONJ maybe, possibly will start production on its next season. Jen Shah’s prison release date is moved up again which makes it very likely Ms. Shah will be back on RHOSLC before RHONJ returns to our airwaves. Bethenny Frankel reveals TMI regarding her dating life and offers advice, unsolicited, to the rest of us. RHOC and RHOSLC’s new seasons continue to film, RHOBH wraps up and RHOA continues to shine as this return to form season carries on.

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RHOBH Concludes, Stassi's Vanderpump Return, Kyle Richards' Girlfriend & Porsha's Double Standards Apr 02, 2025

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Kyle Richards joins girlfriend Morgan Wade on tour in Amsterdam, revisits her RHOBH days of yesteryear, prepares for one epic reunion show down with Dorit which will determine the entire future of their friendship and looks ahead to next season where the cast will look somewhat different. Farewell Garcelle. Stassi Schroeder prepares to return to TV in a huge way as the main reason to watch Vanderpump Villa. Paige and Craig share new details about their toxic relationship, Summer House and Southern Charm casts weigh in and both prepare to run into each other in a few short months at BravoCon 2025. Porsha Williams gets dragged for double standards, Drew Sidora loves her life and Angela Oakley makes her mark. Finally, Kanye West comes more unraveled by the second, trashes J and Bey’s kids and prepares for the fight of his life as Kim Kardashian lawyers up.

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Gia Giudice Slams Bethenny & Acts Clueless Like Teresa, Rumors of Feds To Target Tre & Tre Blames Marge/Melissa Apr 01, 2025

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Despite the headlines that have gone viral worldwide over Teresa and Luis’ approximate $3 Million Dollar Tax Lien and $1.25 Million Dollar Unpaid Loan, Teresa remains in her love love love bubble claiming, “everything is under control”, Luis is a smart businessman who “has things together” and that she is not even remotely concerned about his, or her, finances. Well, alrighty then. The TreHuggers’ Queen hath spoken. In other news, Tre blames me, you, the RHONJ bloggers, the fans, the media, Marge “The Sarge” Josephs, The Gorgas and anyone and everyone else for the recent headlines and financial, and possibly legal, mess that she is in. Everyone except Luis, of course. Rumors of the Feds potential involvement arises, Bethenny speaks out again and last, but certainly not least, Tre’s Mini Me Gia reminds us all how hard Tre works, how amazing a Step Dad Luis is and just where Bethenny Frankel and her TikTok can go and it aint’ pretty.

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Garcelle’s Next Moves, Sutton’s Difficult Upcoming Season, Tre's Trolls & The Real Housewives of Rhode Island Apr 01, 2025

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Garcelle Beauvais has exited the RHOBH building. We break down the reasons for her exit, the casts' reactions, Andy’s thoughts, which, if any, of our fav Diamond Holders are her real friends, Garcelle’s next carer move, the truth behind her love life and answer the question on everyone’s mind, whether she resigned or was asked to leave. Let’s be honest here today! Sutton has an upcoming difficult season in desperate need of someone to be hired as her friend. Alternatively, Kyle could step up and have her back against RHOBH’s new power trio - Dorit, Erika and Boz. Rumors about Andy Cohen’s future at Bravo resurface - yes again, again as we prepare for the announcement of The Real Housewives of Rhode Island. Last, but certainly not least, Teresa’s TreHuggers continue to troll anyone and everyone who doesn’t bow down at the alter to their, dare we say, Queen.

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Kyle’s Failure To Reveal Real Life, Sutton's New Problems & Kelly Dodd Reconciliation (w/ Patrik & Pol) Mar 31, 2025

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Everyone’s fav chumps, Patrik and Pol, return!! First things first, Patrik and Pol spill all the tea on next week’s ChumpCon, Jeff Lewis’s first foray into bringing lots of Housewives and Chumps together for a weekend, some say, you will never forget. Next the boys share a Kelly Dodd update, we are as nice as we can be, before the convo quickly turns to Sutton and Dorit’s current feud which gets nastier and stranger by the week with no end in sight as the RHOBH reunion is ready to begin tomorrow night. Kyle stands tall still not wanting to share a lot of what is really going on behind the scenes. Love is in the air. Finally, RHOC explodes again behind the scenes, RHOBH prepares to reunite and still no one is asking, where is RHONY?

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Teresa Allegedly Bullies Bloggers Over Tax Bill, Bethenny Slams Luis' Fake Money, Dolo Claps Back & RHONJ’s Future Effected - II Mar 30, 2025

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Earlier this week, Luis Ruelas $2.7 Million Dollar Tax Bill came to light. We chatted about this shocking revelation. Since then, many new facts have arisen regarding Mr. Ruelas which we discuss here today and break down exactly how one man ends up with a 2.7 million dollar tax lien. Also, since then, Teresa Giudice has been hit with a 300k tax lien, leaving this couple with over 3 million dollars owed to the IRS. We go fact by fact addressing the mounting financial and legal troubles that currently exist against the Ruelas-Giudices. In other news, Luis has gotten an extension on a $1 million dollar loan he took out last year, just took out an additional $250K loan and seems to be asking for money on TikTok. Allegedly. Bethenny Frankel weighs in slamming Tre, Luis and the entire RHONJ franchise. Jen Fessler claps back. Shockingly, so does Dolores Catania and, in a strange turn of events, this could all have a very unexpected effect on not only RHONJ’s future, but the possibility of a Teresa / Luis spin off. Way to bury the lead…. PART TWO Starts Now!

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