{"id":299194,"date":"2025-11-22T07:49:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/299194\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T07:49:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:49:19","slug":"jenna-lyons-quits-rhony-the-rumors-are-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/299194\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenna Lyons quits &#8216;RHONY&#8217;: &#8216;The rumors are true&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jenna Lyons has made the \u201cdifficult decision\u201d to quit \u201cThe Real Housewives of New York City\u201d after two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The fashion designer made the announcement Friday, a few days after Andy Cohen revealed at BravoCon 2025 that the cast for the forthcoming 16th season of the beloved reality show had been locked in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rumors \u2026.. are true,\u201d Lyons, 57, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DRU4vq8jwTF\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">told her Instagram<\/a> followers, going on to share the \u201cbackstory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jenna Lyons has made the \u201cdifficult decision\u201d to quit \u201cThe Real Housewives of New York City\u201d after two seasons. Gavin Bond\/Bravo<\/p>\n<p>The fashion designer made the announcement Friday, a few days after Andy Cohen revealed at BravoCon 2025 that the cast for the forthcoming 16th season of the beloved reality show had been locked in. Danielle Levitt\/Bravo<\/p>\n<p>Lyons explained that she was asked to participate in Season 16 as a \u201cfriend of\u201d the cast given that her \u201cpersonal life was not really available to be filmed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While she and the showrunners initially \u201cagreed that made sense,\u201d Lyons gave it more thought and ultimately decided to \u201cnot return\u201d in any capacity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would be the oldest and only openly gay woman on [\u2018RHONY\u2019] and feel like this is an opportunity for a new dynamic to emerge,\u201d she shared, making sure to note, \u201cI LOVE THE GIRLS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rumors \u2026.. are true,\u201d Lyons, 57, told her Instagram followers, going on to share the \u201cbackstory.\u201d Elder Ordonez \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n<p>Lyons explained that she was asked to participate in Season 16 as a \u201cfriend of\u201d the cast given that her \u201cpersonal life was not really available to be filmed.\u201d bravotv\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStay one step ahead with all the exclusive tea on your favorite reality TV stars!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for Virtual Reali-Tea with Danny and Evan, our must-read newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThank for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Lyons then tagged now-former co-stars Erin Lichy, Jessel Taank, Sai De Silva, Ubah Hassan and Racquel Chevremont, in that order, leaving out Brynn Whitfield, who <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2025\/06\/09\/entertainment\/brynn-whitfield-leaving-rhony-after-two-seasons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced her departure<\/a> from the series in June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have so much respect and gratitude to the Entire BRAVO team who produced the show with grace and care,\u201d Lyons marveled.<\/p>\n<p>She expressed gratitude for Cohen \u201cfor the opportunity and support,\u201d Sezin \u201cfor always treating [them] with so much respect and kindness\u201d and Shed Productions, \u201cwho handled all of [their] nonsense and egos with patience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While she and the showrunners initially \u201cagreed that made sense,\u201d Lyons gave it more thought and ultimately decided to \u201cnot return\u201d in any capacity. Gavin Bond\/Bravo<\/p>\n<p>Throughout her time on the series, Lyons filmed with her teenage son, Beckett Mazeau, a handful of times but refused to discuss her love life on camera. Getty Images for Vox Media<\/p>\n<p>The former executive creative director and president of retailer J.Crew expressed the \u201cmost\u201d gratitude for \u201call the fans who have said hi on the street, asked for a photo, supported [her] here on instagram. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU !!!! it\u2019s so incredibly meaningful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lyons insisted she would be \u201cwatching and bitching from the sidelines with love and outfit judgement,\u201d signing off with: \u201cSincerely, JFL,\u201d which famously stands for \u201cJenna F\u2013king Lyons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Throughout her time on the program, Lyons filmed with her teenage son, Beckett Mazeau, a handful of times but refused to discuss her love life on camera.<\/p>\n<p>She <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/05\/10\/entertainment\/jenna-lyons-fuels-rumors-shes-engaged-to-girlfriend-cass-bird\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed her long-rumored engagement<\/a> to photographer Cass Bird in October 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jenna Lyons has made the \u201cdifficult decision\u201d to quit \u201cThe Real Housewives of New York City\u201d after two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2109,49,48,361,362,5784,75,134407,5020,14498,11239,14983,348],"class_list":["post-299194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bravo","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-celebrity-social-media","tag-entertainment","tag-jenna-lyons","tag-real-housewives","tag-real-housewives-of-new-york-city","tag-reality-stars","tag-reality-tv","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}