Monica Garcia Exits RHOSLC After 1 Season

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RHOLSC’s Monica Garcia is formally a one-season marvel, as she gained’t be again for season 5. Plus, producers communicate out on casting her and extra!

One and accomplished! Monica Garcia‘s time as a Actual Housewife is completed – for now.

Earlier this week, Ryan Bailey from So Bad It’s Good podcast revealed that he had a really dependable supply inform him that Monica Garcia wouldn’t be again for season 5 of RHOSLC.

Hearken to his podcast clip under!

Then, on Tuesday, forward of half three of the RHOSLC season 4 reunion, PEOPLE confirmed that Monica Garcia was departing the present after just one season.

A number of sources confirmed to the outlet that Monica would NOT be becoming a member of co-stars Heather Homosexual, Meredith Marks, Lisa Barlow, Whitney Rose, and Angie Katsanevas when cameras decide again up for season 5 of RHOSLC subsequent month.

This information comes simply days after Andy Cohen teased Monica’s precarious future on the present when chatting with Entertainment Tonight.

Andy defined, “I believe the query is how will Monica, or will Monica discover her approach again into this group?”

Then, on Watch What Occurs Reside, Andy hinted that Monica’s exit from RHOSLC may be a “break” in order that the remainder of the RHOSLC solid has time to regroup.

Talking of the RHOSLC solid needing a break from co-star Monica Garcia, showrunner Lori Gordon informed Variety on Tuesday that followers ought to “by no means say by no means” to Monica’s doable return to RHOSLC sooner or later.

“The ladies simply want a cooling-off interval, and I believe it’s simply too quickly,” Gordon stated. “They’ve articulated it. It’s too quickly for them to reenter right into a friendship — a trusting friendship. Not sufficient time has handed.”

In the meantime, RHOSLC producers Lisa Shannon, Noah Samton, and Lori Gordon additionally spoke with the Hollywood Reporter and opened up about casting Monica for season 4.

They word that they might NOT have introduced Monica on the present had they identified about her troll account, Actuality Von Tease.

Shannon defined: “We didn’t even know what RealityVonTease was. Lori known as me and gave me a heads-up, and I used to be like, “What even is that?” It wasn’t this huge weblog to us, and we might have breadcrumbed it extra all through the season if it was one thing that we knew and we had been main as much as. Our huge concern was like, “Certain, it means loads to the women, however we don’t know what this weblog is, so is that this going to be this huge ‘a-ha second’ for a viewer?” Lori and the group did a tremendous job making the viewer really feel as shocked by it as the ladies had been and as impacted by it as the ladies had been.”

Gordon notes that as surprising because it was to study that Monica stored the Actuality Von Tease account from producers, they determined to let Heather Gay run with the information and reveal Monica’s troll account to the remainder of the solid. Gordon additionally admits that she was targeted on how producers may inform this story as authentically as doable since they had been out of the loop on it.

“It’s two components. One half is like, “How did we miss this? How did we not know,” clearly. And the second a part of that was, “Effectively, we’ve bought to let Heather embrace this and inform this story.” There have been a variety of ideas going by my head personally as a showrunner, like, “What will we do with this? Are folks going to suppose we knew? Are folks going to suppose we lied?” A very powerful factor to us was to inform the story as authentically because it got here out so that folks would notice that we had no thought. However it was upsetting as a result of [Gay] was so upset, and as she began to stroll me by all of the proof that she had gotten in these hours, it was actually fairly surprising, and increasingly flooded in because the enhancing course of went on,” Gordon stated.

Samton notes that producers do intensive background checks on potential new Housewives, so that they had been shocked that they missed Monica’s connection to the Reality Von Tease troll account.

“We do intensive background checking on the solid, however a pretend profile troll account wouldn’t come up. There’s no document of that account by her identify. So yeah, there are issues that may slip by and do, and it’s definitely not one thing we love when we now have a shock like that. It turned out nicely, I assume, creatively for the tip of the season. However it was fairly surprising for all of us, and definitely, we’d not have introduced Monica on the present within the first place if we knew that that was happening.”

He provides that RHOSLC producers might have to alter their casting course of shifting ahead.

“It’s a superb query that we now have not mentioned. I don’t actually see the way you defend for one thing like that. I imply, it’s not my space of experience, nevertheless it’s definitely one thing we must always look into,” Samton stated.

RHOSLC will return for season 5 in late 2024.

Ideas on this all? Do you suppose Monica will return for future seasons of RHOSLC? Pontificate under!