Andy Cohen is breaking his silence on news that season 14 of The Real Housewives of New Jersey won’t be getting a traditional reunion.
Over the weekend, it was reported that the New Jersey ladies will not be sitting down for a reunion partially due to the fact that there is a major divide between the cast.
While calling in to SiriusXM’s Reality Checked with Kiki Monique on Monday (June 3), Andy, 56, shared some context behind Bravo’s shocking decision.
Keep reading to find out more…“I do want to give some context to the announcement over the weekend that there was gonna be no Jersey reunion because I feel like there are a lot of theories about what this could mean,” Andy started. “I think that the main thing is this will all make sense once you see the finale. It is one of those classic Jersey finales that people will be talking about for a long time to come. And when all of us producers saw the last cut of the finale, we all came to the decision separately and then we talked.”
“We all had the same thought, which is the finale is kind of the finale and the reunion all in one. It’s in the great tradition of absolute shocking, dramatic Jersey finales and they have this final epic group encounter, which is like, it feels like the Last Supper and is just so Jersey,” Andy explained. “And it’s shocking and it’s dramatic and it’s amazing TV. I’m telling you, when you see it, I think that you’ll feel complete. I really do. And there will be something that Bravo is cooking up in place of a reunion, and so that is to be announced.”
He continued, “This season, it is really catching fire. There’s stuff happening with everyone. I feel like this announcement about the reunion came without much context, and so I just wanted to fill in some of the blanks for you. The reason that you guys heard about it. If you think about the timing of when we tape reunions, typically we tape them about six weeks before the end of the season, which means that we would’ve been taping this one in a couple weeks, which means you have to let the cast know, okay, what date are we taping it and what kind of clothes and whatever. We were letting the cast know. And of course it leaked as things do.”
Ahead of the RHONJ season 14 premiere, Andy explained why this current cast “isn’t sustainable.”
New episodes of The Real Housewives of New Jersey air on Sundays at 8pm ET on Bravo.
