Andy Cohen and his group at Bravo developed a collection primarily based across the group of husbands of Orange County, California, years in the past however in the end determined in opposition to transferring ahead with the present.
Throughout an “Ask Andy” phase on a November 2022 episode of Watch What Occurs Stay, Andy confirmed that three years after the launch of the Actual Housewives of Orange County, which started airing in 2006, a collection titled The Actual Husbands of Orange County was created.
“We did consider doing a househusbands present,” Andy defined to a fan, per All Concerning the Actual Housewives.
“Early on, we developed a present referred to as The Actual Husbands of Orange County, and we solid a bunch of husbands, and the reality is, guys are kinda boring — no offense. And so… we simply, we had been like, ‘You understand what? We’re not doing this,’” he continued. “It was like three years into [RHOC].”
Whereas Andy didn’t appear taken with going again down the route of a present primarily based round husbands, many commenters on WWHL‘s Instagram publish had been for the concept.
“Homosexual home husbands present can be wonderful! Begin in NYC! I’ll audition,” one wrote.
“SO CAST GAY GUYS CAUSE WE’RE MORE FUN!!!” stated one other. “C’MON [ANDY] NO ONE CAN THROW SHADE BETTER THAN THE GAYS!
“Y’all want a present for the homosexual husbands!!! That can be juciyyy!” agreed a 3rd.
Others felt that present househusbands can be extra attention-grabbing, with one particular person stating, “Andy has the proper househusbands for a present now.”
“Possibly some All-Star Husbands or simply the [Real Housewives of New Jersey] guys,” urged another person.
Final month, throughout an interview with Yahoo! Finance, Andy defined what’s made the Actual Housewives franchise so profitable.
“The key sauce of ‘The Housewives’ is all within the casting,” he famous. “I believe we’ve achieved a number of nice work — discovering the proper girls after which determining maintain the vitality going and taking folks out of the combination and placing folks again in and placing new folks in. There’s not a science to it, however [it’s] a course of that all of us care very a lot about.”
Watch What Occurs Stay airs on Sundays by means of Thursdays at 10/9c on Bravo.