{"id":434490,"date":"2026-01-28T09:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/434490\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T09:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:17:12","slug":"gretchen-rossi-not-returning-for-rhoc-season-20-tamra-judge-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/434490\/","title":{"rendered":"Gretchen Rossi Not Returning for ‘RHOC’ Season 20, Tamra Judge Will"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWith \u201cThe Real Housewives of Orange County<\/a>\u201d gearing up to begin production on its history-making 20th season \u2014\u00a0a landmark for the Bravo franchise that changed popular culture as we know it \u2014\u00a0its cast is taking shape, and Gretchen Rossi<\/a> will not be in the ensemble, Variety has learned.<\/p>\n

\n\tSeason 20 is set to begin filming soon, and, Rossi aside, the rest of the 19th season\u2019s cast is expected to remain intact, minus one other: On Jan. 9, Katie Ginella posted on Instagram<\/a> to say that she\u2019d been fired, writing, \u201cAfter two seasons as a cast member on RHOC, the network has decided to move forward with Season 20 without me.\u201d Ginella\u2019s ouster was not unexpected, after a disastrous season in which she was caught in a number of lies \u2014\u00a0about having made an illicit recording of fellow castmate Shannon Beador the previous season, and after being accused of spreading information about the show and the cast to Bravo content creators. After flagrantly failing a lie detector test on camera, Ginella more or less stopped filming, apparently at the producers\u2019 insistence. Ginella was the first Asian American woman to be cast on \u201cThe Real Housewives of Orange County.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRossi had returned to \u201cThe Real Housewives of Orange County\u201d with some fanfare<\/a>, as a \u201cfriend\u201d of the cast, having been brought in as a foil to her arch-nemesis Tamra Judge. Rossi was a full-time cast member from Seasons 4-8, and had always clashed with Judge: a situation that grew worse in Rossi\u2019s years off the show as the two of them continued to feud off-camera. Their enmity did continue to play out throughout Season 19, but Judge \u2014\u00a0who had a horrendous season for personal reasons, and quit the show several times while being filmed \u2014\u00a0gained the upper hand in the finale when her vessel Gina Kirschenheiter\u00a0brought up an infamous Twitter thread<\/a> from 2023 that catalogued screenshots of Rossi liking transphobic, anti-abortion and anti-vaccine posts on social media. Rossi\u2019s reaction to the sudden introduction of this topic at the cast\u2019s final dinner in Amsterdam was bizarre, and she gave the impression she was in a fugue state \u2014\u00a0and sort of denied liking the posts, but not really. During the show\u2019s reunion episodes, she put up more of a fight, and tried to turn the tables on Judge by saying she\u2019d hired a cyber analyst who tied something on social media (it wasn\u2019t clear) to Judge, but she didn\u2019t produce any tangible receipts either during the reunion or later on Instagram, and her allegations didn\u2019t stick.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd Judge will return for Season 20, despite her behavior the previous season: She\u2019s been saved because of the storyline potential that comes from reuniting the now-splintered \u201ctres amigas,\u201d which consisted of Judge, Beador and Vicki Gunvalson. \u201cReal Housewives\u201d executive producer Andy Cohen offered Gunvalson, the \u201cOG of the OC,\u201d an orange on stage at BravoCon<\/a> in November, fittingly making her the first cast member of Season 20. It seems that the trio of former besties \u2014 who exist in various states of conflict, always \u2014 must be allowed to enact their psychodramas on camera.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for the rest of the cast, despite speculation in the Bravosphere about a more major overhaul, the remaining Season 19 group will be back, with (a newly engaged) Kirschenheiter, Emily Simpson, Heather Dubrow and Jennifer Pedranti alll returning for Bravo\u2019s milestone 20th season.<\/p>\n