Season 15 of The Real Housewives of New York didn’t perform as well as Bravo had hoped. This was the second season with the rebooted cast. The ladies didn’t gel, and the season was punctuated with vicious fighting. So, if you were feeling nostalgic for the earlier seasons of RHONY, Dorinda Medley may have the solution. Bravo, are you listening?
Should the old and new RHONY casts combine on Bravo?
Dorinda was famously put “on pause” and left RHONY. She was heartbroken. Now, it looks like the RHONY franchise, along with Real Housewives of New Jersey, are both in danger. When Bravo announced its renewals and new programming, both shows were missing from the list.
After last season’s ratings debacle, it was clear that RHONY was ready for some possible cast changes. The show was casting new faces, but there is no word on whether the Season 15 cast was booted. Enter Dorinda and her thoughts on RHONY.
“People miss New York and the nostalgia of the old Housewives,” Dorinda told OK! “I don’t want to say anything bad about the girls because they’re just different,” she said of the new cast for Season 14 and 15. “How can you follow with these girls that literally were each together incredible and individually characters?”
Meanwhile, Dorinda feels strongly that combining the current cast with some former RHONY cast members would fix the ailing franchise. Dorinda doesn’t “personally understand” the “absolute resistance” to combining the casts. I think that would be perfection.
“I don’t think you have to get rid of all them, and you say, ‘I made a mistake.’” Dorinda explained. “But I do believe there’s a world, if not to put us all back together, to be putting us together on some [level].” Plus, Dorinda hasn’t ruled out a return to the franchise. Even if the original members were featured less than the new cast, it would be a welcome change. I’d love to see these two worlds collide!
Real Housewives of New York is streaming on Peacock and Hayu in the UK and Ireland.
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