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Bravo is never suffering from a shortage of drama—on-screen and off. The latest source of it, however, is somewhat surprising: The wildest Bravo fights and gossip are happening, of all places, on podcasts.
In recent weeks, the Bravo universe has been overrun with podcast-fueled drama. We’ve got divorce gossip on Vanderpump Rules, salacious family slander on The Real Housewives of New Jersey, and cheating rumors on The Real Housewives of Potomac. It seemed like exciting content for any Bravo fan hungry for all the latest developments in their favorite (or most despised) stars’ rumors and feuds.
As social media came into power in the 2010s, Bravo stars quickly understood how essential these tools were to the stories of their lives. Rather than leaving everything in the hands of editors and producers, they could just start posting, sparking drama and leaking gossip, knowing how it would rile the fan base and their fellow castmates. Fans knew if they weren’t following the Housewives, they were only getting half the story. This has never been clearer than this past weekend, when infidelity news broke about members of the Vanderpump Rules cast and everybody spent hours refreshing Lala Kent’s and Kristen Doute’s Instagram feeds to hear their latest biting updates.