BRAVOCON — BravoCon 2022 Crimson Carpet from the Javits Middle in New York Metropolis on Friday, October 14, 2022 — Pictured: Lisa Rinna — (Picture by: Cindy Ord/Bravo through Getty Photographs)
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Lisa Rinna is bidding farewell to The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
After eight seasons of delivering sassy one-liners, drama-filled moments, social media messiness and self-deprecating lip humor, Rinna is departing the beloved franchise, PEOPLE can completely affirm.
“That is the longest job I’ve held in my 35 12 months profession and I’m grateful to everybody at Bravo and all these concerned within the collection,” Rinna, 59, says in an announcement. “It has been a enjoyable eight-year run and I’m excited for what’s to return!”
The choice was made as Rinna’s contract expired on the finish of final season. After weighing her choices and enterprise obligations, she and Bravo mutually determined that she wouldn’t return to RHOBH.
Rinna joined the franchise in its fifth season, which premiered in 2014. In her debut season, the actress was concerned in one of the show’s most memorable fights when she hurled a wine glass at then-costar Kim Richards, who’d alluded Rinna did not need one thing to get out about her husband Harry Hamlin.
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The Days of Our Lives alum has additionally change into identified for her “Personal it, child” catchphrase, which is a mentality to which she subscribed all through her run.
However Rinna’s exit seemingly does not come as a shock to RHOBH followers. Although she’s in contrast herself to a “cockroach” you “cannot eliminate,” she dropped main hints about the likelihood all through season 8.
Posting a pre-Housewives throwback picture on her Instagram Story, Rinna wrote: “I used to be Lisa F—ing Rinna earlier than HW and I will be Lisa F—ing Rinna After.” She then adopted this with lyrics from “Roxie” beside a picture of Renée Zellweger in 2002’s Chicago, which is a task Rinna additionally portrayed on Broadway in 2007.
“I am a star! And the viewers loves me! And I really like them. They usually love me for loving them. And I really like them for loving me. And we love one another. And that is as a result of none of us acquired sufficient love in our childhoods. And that is showbiz, child,” the picture learn.
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Following the November 2021 death of her mom Lois, Rinna stated her “grief” was the cause of her many online rants, together with towards some Real Housewives of Dubai forged members.
“I have had a really rough time of it I believe you’ve got seen how laborious this has hit me,” she wrote in July in a since-deleted Instagram post. I am sorry if I’ve raged on you, about you — it actually has nothing to do with any of you.”
THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS — Season:12 — Pictured: (l-r) Diana Jenkins, Crystal Minkoff, Erika Girardi, Kyle Richards, Garcelle Beauvais, Dorit Kemsley, Lisa Rinna, Sutton Stracke
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She then criticized RHOBH for failing to properly memorialize Lois, as a substitute specializing in trivial drama from the earlier season that resurfaced. “I acquired one episode of grace. That is it,” Rinna wrote. “Lois deserved and deserves rather more. Disgrace on everybody.”
On the most recent season of RHOBH, the Rinna Magnificence founder raised her voice repeatedly at Sutton Stracke after her costar claimed to have never received a thank you for buying Rinna and husband Harry Hamlin’s tickets for Elton John‘s annual charity profit.
Later, followers — and present RHOBH stars — took situation with how Rinna continued to leverage over Kathy Hilton’s alleged meltdown through the forged’s Aspen journey.
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For her half, Rinna seemed to be unbothered by the fan backlash — even when she received loud boos from the gang at BravoCon 2022.
“I acquired booed! It was fabulous,” Rinna informed PEOPLE completely. “I am like a wrestler. The wrestlers get booed. Probably the most well-known wrestlers on this planet get booed. The Rock [Dwayne Johnson] acquired booed for God’s sake. I liked it. I have been on this enterprise for 32 years.”
Rinna additionally stated on the time she was comfortable to “have the primary present on cable on Bravo of the Housewives,” and famous that she was not fazed by RHOBH followers who known as her hypocritical for her onscreen conduct.
“It is a TV present, for God’s sake,” she shared. “Name me no matter you need, consider no matter you need, I inform the reality. I at all times have. Return to that.”
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