Ali Landry, Heather Locklear and More Actresses Who Have Been Rumored to Join the Cast of ‘The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’

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Ali Landry, Heather Locklear and More Actresses Who Have Been Rumored to Join the Cast of 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills'

Several actresses have been featured on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills over the years — but who turned down the opportunity to hold a diamond? Child stars Kyle Richards and Kim Richards were the first actresses to appear on RHOBH. Lisa Vanderpump, another OG, also had several British acting credits under her belt before the show premiered in 2010. Camille Grammer, for her part, tried her hand at acting and producing during her marriage to ex-husband Kelsey Grammer. By season 5, the cast was half made up of actresses as Lisa Rinna and Eileen Davidson landed full-time roles on RHOBH. While the Daytime Emmy winner left in 2017, Denise Richards added even more star power during her two-year stint on the show, which began in 2019. Garcelle Beauvais became the next actress to venture into the Housewives universe for season 10. Producer Andy Cohen has been open about how casting for Real Housewives works over the years. “It’s a mix between the production company, myself and the executives at Bravo,” he explained via Instagram Live in 2019. “We either have casting directors in each city or we go to the women and say, ‘Do you know anyone?'" [jwplayer sjcUdQEM-l3ahXupL] The Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen host also provided insight into how the network decides it’s time for a Housewife to walk away at the Tribeca TV Festival in 2018. “It’s usually a conversation. At the end of every season, we talk to the women about what they have coming up and whether they want to come back. What they see for the future. Then we also look at the show and say, ‘How do we want to change the show?’ I think part of the reason the entire franchise is successful is it’s an ensemble show,” he explained. “It’s all about what’s best for the group. What’s best for the ensemble? How’s it going to be different? Do we want to continue this conversation? Do we want to pivot into a new conversation?” Scroll through for a list of actresses who have linked to RHOBH:

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Ali Landry, Heather Locklear and More Actresses Who Have Been Rumored to Join the Cast of 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills'

Several actresses have been featured on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills over the years — but who turned down the opportunity to hold a diamond? Child stars Kyle Richards and Kim Richards were the first actresses to appear on RHOBH. Lisa Vanderpump, another OG, also had several British acting credits under her belt before the show premiered in 2010. Camille Grammer, for her part, tried her hand at acting and producing during her marriage to ex-husband Kelsey Grammer. By season 5, the cast was half made up of actresses as Lisa Rinna and Eileen Davidson landed full-time roles on RHOBH. While the Daytime Emmy winner left in 2017, Denise Richards added even more star power during her two-year stint on the show, which began in 2019. Garcelle Beauvais became the next actress to venture into the Housewives universe for season 10. Producer Andy Cohen has been open about how casting for Real Housewives works over the years. “It’s a mix between the production company, myself and the executives at Bravo,” he explained via Instagram Live in 2019. “We either have casting directors in each city or we go to the women and say, ‘Do you know anyone?'" [jwplayer sjcUdQEM-l3ahXupL] The Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen host also provided insight into how the network decides it’s time for a Housewife to walk away at the Tribeca TV Festival in 2018. “It’s usually a conversation. At the end of every season, we talk to the women about what they have coming up and whether they want to come back. What they see for the future. Then we also look at the show and say, ‘How do we want to change the show?’ I think part of the reason the entire franchise is successful is it’s an ensemble show,” he explained. “It’s all about what’s best for the group. What’s best for the ensemble? How’s it going to be different? Do we want to continue this conversation? Do we want to pivot into a new conversation?” Scroll through for a list of actresses who have linked to RHOBH:

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Heather Locklear

After the T.J. Hooker star’s former friendship with Denise was brought up by Rinna during the season 10 reunion in September 2020, an insider told Us that Locklear was contacted by production.

While Locklear has yet to publicly address her name being dragged into the season 10 drama, Cohen and Rinna first discussed the possibility of her joining the show back in 2018.

“Now that I know that you have a real friendship with her … I never considered that one of you know her,” the host said on Radio Andy at the time. “Lisa, start checking in with her.”

Rinna, who worked with Locklear on seasons 5 through of Melrose Place in the ‘90s, replied, “I have a real friendship with her. ... Wouldn’t that be great? We need some new blood. You know we do. I don’t want old blood. We need new blood.”

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Ali Landry

"I talked to them, like, three or four different times, the executive producers," Landry dished to Jeff Lewis on his Radio Andy SiriusXM show, Jeff Lewis Live, in September 2020. "They said, of course they would let [me] know. … We'll see. I’m surrendering to the whole experience, no plans no expectations."

The former Miss USA added that she’s “really good friends” with Kyle and Garcelle, who are expected to be part of season 11. 

"They genuinely do like each other, Kyle and Garcelle. I adore them both. I feel it's a big misunderstanding, and we need to start from scratch," Landry said, noting it’s “killing her” that the two women didn’t get along during season 10 of RHOBH.

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Jennie Garth

The What I Like About You alum claimed during an appearance on WWHL in August 2019 that she was offered a role on RHOBH “two years” earlier.

During a different appearance on Jenny McCarthy’s radio show, Garth quipped, “I’m the furthest thing from a desperate housewife.”

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Tori Spelling

Garth’s Beverly Hills, 90210 costar and bestie, meanwhile, said during the joint appearance on McCarthy’s radio show that she was “sad” she’s never been asked to join. Cohen subsequently asked her about her remarks on WWHL.

“I’m, like, the biggest fan, and I feel like I grew up in Beverly Hills, and [Jennie’s] been asked, and she doesn’t do reality TV,” Spelling said, noting she’s friends with Denise, Kyle and Rinna.

The True Tori alum backtracked on her desire to join the franchise in December 2019, telling Us that she “would get eaten alive” by the other women.

“I am like, ‘That drama …’ but, God, I love to watch it and I’m friends with them. I’m just like, ‘Nope, I just wanna watch it on TV,’” she told Us at the time. “I am too nice and a people pleaser to be, to get in those fights they get into.”

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Jana Kramer

The One Tree Hill alum claimed she and husband Mike Caussin “auditioned” for RHOBH during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.

“I’m like, ‘All right, well, we’re not doing anything else. We might as well entertain it.’ But we haven’t heard anything. So I’m like, ‘Maybe we were just boring people.’ I don’t know,” Kramer said in July 2020. “I’d be so afraid we’d be just be eaten alive, spit out and then canceled the next day.”

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Lori Loughlin

Reports that the Full House alum was looking to land a diamond surfaced after she was arrested for her alleged role in the nationwide college admissions scandal. (Loughlin and husband Mossimo Giannulli were sentenced to two months and five months in prison, respectively, in August 2020 for paying bribes to ensure their daughters’ admissions into the University of Southern California.)

Cohen, however, shut down the speculation in June 2019. "Lori Loughlin is a very nice person," he said on Radio Andy. "She's going to have quite a story to tell. And she's always been lovely. So, anyway, that is not true."