‘The Real’ Co-Hosts Explain Why They Never Replaced Tamar Braxton After Dramatic Exit
“You’re leaving too?” Tamera Mowry-Housley asks celebrity make up artist Renny Vasquez with that signature pout we all fell in love with on Sister, Sister.
He along with several other members of The Real‘s glam squad had been with the co-hosts since 5 a.m. that morning, and it was now close to 5 p.m. in the evening.
“OK! I love you!” she says when he confirms that he indeed has to run.
As Mowry-Housley plops down onto the couch beside her co-host, Adrienne Houghton, she scratches at a persistent stain on the singer’s knee. It was the smallest of gestures between the two co-hosts, but one you’d only expect from a sister just making sure her girl looks presentable for the last interview of the day.
When the ladies of The Real are in a room together, it is a complete love fest peppered with inside jokes. And the love is contagious. No one is exempt from it. Not this interviewer, not the make up artist, not even the show’s publicist.
Five seasons after being placed together by some very smart executives at 495 and Telepictures Productions, the co-hosts of The Real have sort of crossed the burning sands. Their Emmy win is proof of that. Their guests — which have included Issa Rae, Jada Pinkett Smith and forever first lady Michelle Obama — is also proof.
And they’ve been through some things. Most of which they’re happy to open up about during their popular “Girl Chat” segment.
“Back when you used to watch our show we had lots of games,” Jeannie Mai admitted. “Now, we’ve gotten so close and intimate with our fans, it’s a lot of ‘Girl Chat’ because we have a lot to talk about.”
“When you’re vulnerable, that’s when people start relating…and that is a powerful and beautiful thing,” Mowry-Housley added.
“There was a time when we were flooded with talk shows and they were just chopping them after the second season,” Loni Love continued. “We are continuing because…you have this chemistry of women who are discovering themselves, and opening themselves up and people are relating all across the world.”
Co-host and big sister of the foursome, Love, said proudly that “the hosts have not changed” during all five seasons. But fans who’ve been with them since earlier seasons have noticed one person indeed dropped the line — or if we’re forgetting the sorority analogy altogether — was forced off the show after season two.
The co-hosts only recently decided to open up about Tamar Braxton’s 2016 departure during their New York City press run earlier this month.
“That’s embarrassing when you get let go of a show. That’s embarrassing so sometimes it’s better to just not say nothing and let the process play out,” Love said of why the co-hosts remained silent. “Timing is everything.”
Mai added, “And we couldn’t say anything either because we have a job to uphold, and we also didn’t know what was going on because it’s just our job.”
Houghton said it’s also the reason why The Real hasn’t replaced Braxton, even after rumors swirled that she was being replaced by reality stars Joseline Hernandez, or Ray J.
“The same way we can’t get rid of people on the show, we also can’t stop them from adding one,” Houghton said, noting that the co-hosts preference is for the slot to remain unfilled.
She added that the ordeal was hard on the hosts, but it’s forged a sisterly bond between the foursome — one that they don’t take for granted.
“In all honesty, there was a moment in time when we said, ‘Why is this happening to us?’” Houghton recalled. “But because of going through that, we more than ever value this…and what we went through has made our bond so much stronger. And we’re grateful for that so we value this; its precious to us; and we don’t allow anything to infiltrate this.”
Looking over at Houghton, Mowry-Housley chimed in, finishing her sentence, “You can’t force this.”
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Loni Love Reveals Why Tamar Braxton Was Fired
Tamar Braxton’s unceremonious exit from “The Real” two years ago has gone without explanation for some time, but now, her former co-host Loni Love has addressed what led to the singer’s firing.
Love explained on “The Breakfast Club” Friday, Oct. 12 that during the first and second seasons of their daytime talk show, she, Braxton, Tamera Mowry-Housley, Adrienne Houghton, and Jeannie Mai were all different people and didn’t know each other well. Still, Love was excited to get to work on a show for women of color and she maintained she had no involvement on who was cast. When she sat in on the auditions, she said the women who were picked were the best of those who came through.
“We had a different type of show back then,” she says. “Then season 2 happened and it was getting better but there’s something that had happened and I don’t know what happened … everybody has a different story with Tamar. My story is this.”
Love explained that as she sat with Braxton in the singer’s kitchen, Braxton said she wanted new management and asked Love for the number of Steve Harvey’s former manager, Rushion McDonald. Love gave the reality star McDonald’s number. But then, Braxton broached the subject of having her husband Vince Herbert manager her.
“I believed in her talent so much that if she asked me for something, we all sisters … even when her sisters wasn’t around, we were around for her,” Love says. “So when the incident happened when she got fired, I didn’t know about it because I went on ‘The Wendy Williams Show’ that Friday. Why would I go on ‘The Wendy Williams Show’ if I knew one of my castmates was gonna get fired that next Monday? I got a call on Saturday that said Tamar was being let go.”
Love and Houghton then explained that the women jumped into a text thread and tried to get in touch with Braxton but the star failed to respond to their inquiries and stopped talking to them.
“She put out an Instagram that she said she had been backstabbed and the first person she unfollowed was me, so people assume that I was the one [responsible],” Love explains. “And then, I know Tamar cause she’s a good person. She probably saw all the heat that I was getting, then she unfollowed Jeannie. Then, after a couple of days, she unfollowed [Mowry-Housley and Houghton]. These two was still trying to get in contact with her because they went to [Braxton’s son] Logan’s birthday party to talk to her.”
Love said she later caught a flight to Atlanta and ran into Braxton’s sister Towanda Braxton on the plane. Towanda told her an emergency episode of “Braxton Family Values” was taped that showed Herbert was pinning Tamar’s firing on her and her co-hosts.
“I called my attorney I said, ‘You gotta call WEtv and let them know that if they’re naming us, we’re going to have to have legal action because we had nothing to do with this defamation of character,” Love says.
WE tv ultimately aired a different version of the episode without “The Real” hosts being named.
“There was a blogger that actually saw the rough cut and it says Vince names us saying that we jealous — he names me specifically — and you know why he does that? Because I gave [Tamar] the number of Rushion McDonald,” Love says.
The co-hosts also confirmed that they have not spoken to Braxton ever since she left the talk show. Love also added that there was something that had fallen through for Herbert and Tamar and he tried to “save face” by pinning his now-estranged wife’s firing on the hosts.
Online, fans shared their own feelings on the matter.
“I honestly think Vincent (Tamar Ex Husband) got her fired from the Real.”
“The show boring without Tamar…”
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Vimeo removes Infowars content
Vimeo has pulled Infowars content from its site for violating the platform’s standards.
A spokesperson for the video hosting service told Business Insider on Sunday that the Infowars videos “violated our Terms of Service prohibitions on discriminatory and hateful content.”
The videos had been uploaded to the site on Thursday and Friday. The Vimeo spokesperson also told Business Insider that the company had told the account owner of the videos’ removal, and also issued a refund because “we do not want to profit from content of this nature in any way.”
The site reported that Infowars had less than a dozen videos on the platform as of Wednesday, but that more than 50 videos were posted to the site on the following days.
Vimeo reportedly determined that the content violated the company’s trust and safety standards within 48 hours of the videos being posted.
Business Insider reported that Vimeo CEO Anjali Sud will announce the removal of the Infowars content during a town hall meeting on Monday.
Vimeo is the latest platform to pull content posted by Infowars or its founder Alex Jones. Facebook, YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts have all recently banned or removed content from the site or its controversial conspiracy theorist founder.
Twitter has said that Infowars and Jones will be permitted to stay on the site because they haven’t violated its policies.
A Twitter spokesperson said Friday the decision to allow them to remain on the site will stay in place, despite a CNN report revealing that Jones had repeatedly violated its policies.
Jones has faced criticism for spreading conspiracy theories, and was suedby the parents of two children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting for allegedly claiming the shooting was a hoax. Jones has denied making the statements.
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Leslie Jones: America is ‘way more’ than Trump
Two years later the nation is still recovering from the election of #45. But Leslie wants us to remember what America is, aside from from Trump.
Kanye West says he ‘wasn’t stumped’ by Kimmel’s Trump question
We all fell in love with cool Kanye, ‘Heartless’ Kanye, the “Bush doesn’t care about Black people” Kanye. But we have to be honest with ourselves: that is the Kanye of yesteryear, he is long gone. Today we have “It’s good Tyga got in early [with Kylie]”, Kanye West Kardashian, poopity poop head@$$ Kanye.
Just yesterday we watched Jimmy Kimmel stump Kanye:
“You so famously and so powerfully said, ‘George Bush doesn’t care about black people,’” Kimmel said, referring to comments West made at a 2005 benefit for Hurricane Katrina relief. “It makes me wonder what makes you think that Donald Trump does or any people at all?”
After four seconds of silence, Kimmel offered a lifeline, throwing to a commercial break and promising to let West answer later.
The question didn’t come up again.
Now, Kanye claims that he was not, in fact, ‘stumped’ by Kimmel.
“On Jimmy Kimmel we had a great time having a dialogue,” West tweeted Saturday. “I’m reading that I was stumped by a question. Let me clarify the click bait. I wasn’t stumped. I wasn’t given a chance to answer the question.”
He continued, “The question was so important I took time to think. And then I was hit with the let’s go to commercial break. That interview showed strong personalities with different opinions having a civil conversation.”
West also said that he was “so happy” to see Kimmel wearing a pair of Yeezys for the interview, which he interpreted as “an olive branch.”
Kimmel replied to West’s tweets Saturday evening.
“Not every question warrants an immediate answer,” he wrote. “Some answers need to be considered and a talk show with time constraints is a difficult place to do that. I know how much Kanye cares and I am so impressed by what he is doing quietly and without fanfare to help those who need it.”
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Tamron Hall To Host Daytime Talk Show With Disney/ABC
Former “Today” show host Tamron Hall is developing a daytime talk show that will make its home at Disney/ABC more than a year after exiting the morning staple on rival network NBC.
Details are scant, but Hall said in a statement provided to HuffPost that she aims to make the show “unconventional, fun, intimate and sometimes even raw.”
“My new partners appreciate and respect the relationship I’ve built with my audience and know that if we create television worth watching, they’ll join us for the ride,” she said. “I’m so grateful and excited for this next chapter. The landing makes the leap of faith so worth it!”
Hall previously served as an anchor for “MSNBC Live” and has been the host of Investigation Discovery’s “Deadline: Crime with Tamron Hall” since 2013.
According to gossip site Page Six, her NBC departure was brought on by Megyn Kelly’s addition to the schedule. With her solid ratings, Hall was reportedly hurt by management’s decision to bump her and Al Roker from the show’s 9 a.m. slot in favor of Kelly.
The journalist has been mulling the idea of a talk show for some time. In the summer of 2017 she reached a deal with Weinstein Television to develop a show that she would host and executive produce, but the deal was abandoned when disturbing sexual abuse accusations against the studio’s head, Harvey Weinstein, became public.
Now she’s packed up and moved on.
“We are incredibly excited to partner with Tamron and look forward to bringing a fresh, new daytime talk show to stations across the country that will showcase her enormous talent and dynamic personality,” Disney executive Janice Marinelli said in a statement to HuffPost.
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