{"id":153049,"date":"2025-11-22T03:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T03:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/153049\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T03:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T03:05:10","slug":"rhocs-heather-dubrow-calls-gretchen-rossis-instagram-algorithm-into-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/153049\/","title":{"rendered":"RHOC’s Heather Dubrow Calls Gretchen Rossi\u2019s Instagram Algorithm Into Question"},"content":{"rendered":"

Season 19 of The Real Housewives of Orange County<\/a> is finally over, and the Bravoverse is better because of it. However, Heather Dubrow<\/a> still has some lingering questions about Gretchen Rossi<\/a> and her alleged Instagram behavior. Specifically, what is going on with Gretchen\u2019s algorithm?<\/p>\n

Heather Dubrow wonders how Gretchen Rossi didn\u2019t notice the offensive Instagram posts<\/p>\n

\"ThePhoto Credit: Griffin Nagel\/Bravo<\/p>\n

During the RHOC Season 19 finale<\/a>, Gina Kirschenheiter<\/a> and Tamra Judge<\/a> called out Gretchen for liking anti-LGBTQ+ posts<\/a> on Instagram. That information didn\u2019t sit well with Heather, who is the mother to a trans child and a fierce ally to the community.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to the RHOC Season 19 reunion, where Gretchen denied having homophobic or transphobic viewpoints. She apologized for the offensive social media behavior<\/a> after previously hiring a private investigator<\/a> to get to the bottom of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI gravely apologize if I liked something that was offensive or something like that,\u201d Gretchen told her castmates. \u201cMaybe that\u2019s my mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gretchen said that the activity could have been the result of \u201cmindlessly\u201d scrolling on Instagram. Maybe! We all do it, but as Heather pointed out to Variety<\/a>, most Instagram users aren\u2019t fed posts that bash the LGBTQ+ community. One of the alleged posts that Gretchen liked compared gay people to pedophiles, for crying out loud.<\/p>\n

Heather said, \u201cTerry [Dubrow]\u2019s<\/a> For You page is cats. Mine is, I like to watch people wrap presents and things like that. But when you follow that many hate accounts, your algorithm has got to be showing you terrible things. And so how do you not notice that?\u201d<\/p>\n

With that said, Heather admitted that she knew Gretchen dipped her toe into Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> MAGA universe during her time away from RHOC. However, she didn\u2019t expect her right-wing views to lead to such harmful rhetoric making its way onto the show.<\/p>\n

Heather continued, \u201cAnd look, there were other posts that she liked outside of the queer community that I also don\u2019t agree with. But you know, everyone\u2019s entitled to their opinions on things, but when someone starts calling it a lifestyle choice being gay \u2014 it\u2019s tough!\u201d<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Heather said it\u2019s not her job to \u201cfix\u201d Gretchen, and she knows that conservative viewpoints come with the territory<\/a> on RHOC. She just hopes that Gretchen can reflect on why this has been hurtful and move forward from here.<\/p>\n

Heather said, \u201cIt\u2019s not my job to fix people. Because I can\u2019t. But what is my job as a mother and a human and someone with a platform is to be a great ally and a great parent. And react to what I\u2019m told. And I feel like I did a good job with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Real Housewives of Orange County<\/a> is streaming on Peacock.<\/p>\n

TELL US \u2013 WERE YOU SURPRISED BY GRETCHEN\u2019S \u201cAPOLOGY\u201d FOR HER ALLEGED SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVITY? IS IT FAIR TO BLAME IT ON THE ALGORITHM?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Season 19 of The Real Housewives of Orange County is finally over, and the Bravoverse is better because…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,13239,48612,61,60,22403,60047,84239],"class_list":["post-153049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-gretchen-rossi","tag-heather-dubrow","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-real-housewives","tag-real-housewives-of-orange-county","tag-rhoc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}