Shannon Beador, Candiace Dillard-Bassett and More Real Housewives on Whether They’ve Called Andy Cohen to Complain

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Shannon Beador, Candiace Dillard-Bassett and More Real Housewives on Whether They’ve Called Andy Cohen to Complain

Attention Andy Cohen! Us Weekly hit the press room at BravoCon and asked all the Real Housewives to recall a time they reached out to the producer to complain — about an edit, a shady Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen question, casting decision, etc. — and several ladies admitted to giving him in a ring over the years. “I did call Andy one time,” Real Housewives of Orange County’s Shannon Beador said. “And I don't even know what it was to complain about, but [Flipping Out alum] Jeff Lewis called me the next day and he goes, ‘You text him right now and you apologize. You can't do that.’ And I've never done that since.” While Shannon’s former costar Vicki Gunvalson admitted she called Andy “every season,” Heather Dubrow said her outreach isn’t about complaining. “Andy and I have a great relationship. Sometimes we'll talk about the show a little bit, but we talk about our kids, other things and I don’t know — we have a lot of mutual friends,” she explained. Real Housewives of Potomac’s Robyn Dixon, Real Housewives of New Jersey’s Melissa Gorga, Jackie Goldschneider and Dolores Catania and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' Taylor Armstrong all claimed to be the easiest-going Housewife. “I don’t even have Andy’s phone number!” Robyn said. “I’m probably one of the easiest Housewives in all of the franchises. I go with the flow. I understand, like, I signed up for this job.” Melissa claimed, “Andy will tell you — I complain the least. And if I do ever have something to say, they know that it’s, like, not typical for me and I'm serious.” Her costar Jackie told Us: “I am, like, the easiest Housewife ever. I don't complain. I don't complain about editing. I don't complain about anything. I really don’t. I don't take any of this for granted. I'm always happy to be here. I never complain about me. And I'm never late! I am always early.” Dolores added: “I would never. You don’t call the boss. I used to be a cop. There’s something called the chain of command and I'm the last girl to complain.” Taylor, for her part, insisted: “I bet you if you ask anyone at Bravo, they would say, including our production company, I never complained. Because I know if you sign up for reality, it's going to be your reality. There's no use in complaining because it's coming out.” While Andy doesn’t produce shows like Vanderpump Rules, Southern Charm or Summer House, he regularly interacts with the stars at their reunions and on WWHL. Lala Kent, Craig Conover and Austen Kroll opened up to Us about their relationships with the Bravo boss and production teams. “He reached out to me when Jennifer Lawrence called me the C-word. I dragged her on Twitter and then she sent an apology through Andy and Andy delivered it to me,” Lala told Us, rearing to her 2018 drama with the Oscar winner. “Then we were all good.” “Our producers get an earful. Well, they used to. We’re better now,” Craig admitted, adding with a laugh, “He’d probably be like, ‘Shut up.’” Austen noted, “Andy will tell you firsthand that he has nothing to do with these things aren't Housewives, so he'd be like, ‘I don't know what you want me to say, guys.’ He’d be like, ‘Uh, no, that’s the way it goes.’” Scroll through for how each Housewife responded:

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Shannon Beador, Candiace Dillard-Bassett and More Real Housewives on Whether They’ve Called Andy Cohen to Complain

Attention Andy Cohen! Us Weekly hit the press room at BravoCon and asked all the Real Housewives to recall a time they reached out to the producer to complain — about an edit, a shady Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen question, casting decision, etc. — and several ladies admitted to giving him in a ring over the years. “I did call Andy one time,” Real Housewives of Orange County’s Shannon Beador said. “And I don't even know what it was to complain about, but [Flipping Out alum] Jeff Lewis called me the next day and he goes, ‘You text him right now and you apologize. You can't do that.’ And I've never done that since.” While Shannon’s former costar Vicki Gunvalson admitted she called Andy “every season,” Heather Dubrow said her outreach isn’t about complaining. “Andy and I have a great relationship. Sometimes we'll talk about the show a little bit, but we talk about our kids, other things and I don’t know — we have a lot of mutual friends,” she explained. Real Housewives of Potomac’s Robyn Dixon, Real Housewives of New Jersey’s Melissa Gorga, Jackie Goldschneider and Dolores Catania and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' Taylor Armstrong all claimed to be the easiest-going Housewife. “I don’t even have Andy’s phone number!” Robyn said. “I’m probably one of the easiest Housewives in all of the franchises. I go with the flow. I understand, like, I signed up for this job.” Melissa claimed, “Andy will tell you — I complain the least. And if I do ever have something to say, they know that it’s, like, not typical for me and I'm serious.” Her costar Jackie told Us: “I am, like, the easiest Housewife ever. I don't complain. I don't complain about editing. I don't complain about anything. I really don’t. I don't take any of this for granted. I'm always happy to be here. I never complain about me. And I'm never late! I am always early.” Dolores added: “I would never. You don’t call the boss. I used to be a cop. There’s something called the chain of command and I'm the last girl to complain.” Taylor, for her part, insisted: “I bet you if you ask anyone at Bravo, they would say, including our production company, I never complained. Because I know if you sign up for reality, it's going to be your reality. There's no use in complaining because it's coming out.” While Andy doesn’t produce shows like Vanderpump Rules, Southern Charm or Summer House, he regularly interacts with the stars at their reunions and on WWHL. Lala Kent, Craig Conover and Austen Kroll opened up to Us about their relationships with the Bravo boss and production teams. “He reached out to me when Jennifer Lawrence called me the C-word. I dragged her on Twitter and then she sent an apology through Andy and Andy delivered it to me,” Lala told Us, rearing to her 2018 drama with the Oscar winner. “Then we were all good.” “Our producers get an earful. Well, they used to. We’re better now,” Craig admitted, adding with a laugh, “He’d probably be like, ‘Shut up.’” Austen noted, “Andy will tell you firsthand that he has nothing to do with these things aren't Housewives, so he'd be like, ‘I don't know what you want me to say, guys.’ He’d be like, ‘Uh, no, that’s the way it goes.’” Scroll through for how each Housewife responded:

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Candiace Dillard Bassett

Candiace spilled the tea, revealing that she called Andy ahead of her performance at the WWHL’s Legends Ball, which taped on Friday, October 14, at BravoCon and aired on Sunday, October 16.

“I only recently had a grievance about BravoCon and the length of my set on the show because it was cut and I wanted it to be the length that I submitted. And I got the length that I submitted,” the RHOP star said, noting that Melissa had the longest performance. “I was like, ‘Why is mine being cut?’ And I [called Andy] and was like, ‘Can we … ?’ And he was like, ‘Let’s figure it out.’”

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Dorit Kemsley

“No! Andy would not take those calls. But I will tell you, I do remember calling him out on a second yawn — two years in a row!” the RHOBH star said.

When asked if she had regrets about calling him out, Dorit added: “Hell no! Absolutely not. [But] we’re good now.”

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Kandi Burruss

“I never call him to complain. … I don't ask them to take stuff out. I just roll with the punches. I do talk to Andy, to be clear,” the RHOA star said. “We will talk s—t to each other about things ... but it's not a complaint.”

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Lisa Barlow

“I’ve never called Andy Cohen,” the RHOSLC personality said before adding: “I’m not saying I won’t.”

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Cynthia Bailey

“Maybe a time or two,” the RHOA alum admitted. “I try to not cross that, like, talent/boss relationship with Andy. I definitely text him about funny things or we have our little kikis and stuff. But I try not to really blur those lines too much. Because at the end of the day, he's Andy Cohen. So it's like, ‘Oh, my God,’ I don't want to bug him. But I will say, I do consider him as a friend at this point.”

Cynthia went on to reference her infamous remark from 2018 about “still getting to know” Andy after years on the show.

“He will never let me live down that I said that we're still getting to know each other,” she added with a laugh. “But I know Andy Cohen very well. And I love him. He’s been so supportive throughout this whole process. And as a matter of fact, he was one of the first people that I called when I was trying to make my decision if I wanted to come back to Atlanta as a ‘friend,’ and he gave me some really, really solid, genuine advice. And I took it, and I love me some Andy Cohen.”

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Whitney Rose

“Never!” the RHOSLC star said.

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Karen Huger

“I have never called Andy to complain because I can handle it. I'm like [a] Teflon Housewife, I'm good,” the RHOP star said. “I do thank Andy for, early on in my career, telling me not to read social media. Had I read social media, it would not be the love I receive now. So I'm glad he gave me that advice. I'm loving the fans and fans are loving me and I'm grateful.”

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Kenya Moore

“I don't think so. I mean, we text and stuff all the time. [But] I don't think I have asked for any special requests,” the RHOA star said.

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Robyn Dixon

“I don’t even have Andy’s phone number!” the RHOP star said. “I’m probably one of the easiest Housewives in all of the franchises. I go with the flow. I understand, like, I signed up for this job. It's what it is. And I'm gonna roll with the punches. And although there's some things that, you know, I might see stuff in editing that I don't like or [something] they left that out, they added a couple of words to something I said. It's what I'm signed up for. When you sign that contract, it pretty much says, ‘Shut up and do your job, OK!’ so I don't complain.”

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Gizelle Bryant

“If I need something, I will talk to him. But I don't want to abuse the relationship, so I have not done that,” the RHOP OG said.

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Heather Dubrow

“I actually don’t think I’ve ever called Andy to complain,” the RHOC star said as her husband, Terry Dubrow, admitted he doesn’t have Andy’s number. “Andy and I have a great relationship. Sometimes we'll talk about the show a little bit, but we talk about our kids, other things and I don’t know — we have a lot of mutual friends.”

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Melissa Gorga

“Andy will tell you — I complain the least,” the RHONJ star said. “And if I do ever have something to say, they know that it’s, like, not typical for me and I'm serious.”

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Jackie Goldschneider

“No. I am, like, the easiest Housewife ever. I don't complain. I don't complain about editing. I don't complain about anything. I really don’t,” the RHONJ personality said. “I don't take any of this for granted. I'm always happy to be here. I never complain about me. And I'm never late! I am always early.”

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Shannon Beador

“I did call Andy one time,” the RHOC star admitted. “And I don't even know what it was to complain about, but Jeff Lewis called me the next day and he goes, ‘You text him right now and you apologize. You can't do that.’ And I've never done that since.”

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Tamra Judge

“No, I'm not a complainer. You can even ask him,” the RHOC star said. “I rarely — if anytime — have called him to complain.”

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Margaret Josephs

“No, actually, I don't call him for any nonsense like that,” the RHONJ star said.

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Wendy Osefo

“I have never done that. We’ve only texted pleasantries. He’ll congratulate me on stuff. When my daughter [Kamrynn] was sick [in 2021], he was one of the first people to call and reach out. He’s been a support system,” the RHOP star said.

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Taylor Armstrong

“I bet you if you ask anyone at Bravo, they would say, including our production company, I never complained. Because I know if you sign up for reality, it's going to be your reality,” the RHOBH alum and RHOC “friend” said. “There's no use in complaining because it's coming out.”

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Brandi Glanville

“Andy and I text every day. And I do talk a lot of s—t about people,” the RHOBH alum admitted. “But not to complain because I mean, I feel so blessed, honestly. Without him and Bravo, none of us would be here. So the girls with the big egos can go check themselves.”

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Dolores Catania

“I would never! You don’t call the boss. I used to be a cop. There’s something called the chain of command and I'm the last girl to complain,” the RHONJ star said.

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Jennifer Aydin

“I’ve never reached out Andy except for the time that I got COVID,” the RHONJ star said. “Because it was right after that he announced that he had COVID, so I wanted to ask him what to expect and for advice. I’m not really much of a complainer to my bosses. I like to be a good employee.”

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Teddi Mellencamp

“No, I did today though. I asked him why I was fired,” the RHOBH alum revealed, referring to having Andy on her podcast. “I didn't text him or reach out about it [at the time]. But I feel like I'll reach out [again] soon now that we've had that conversation.”

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Adriana de Moura

“I'm guilty of that,” the Real Housewives of Miami star said. “I tend to text Andy many times.”

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Julia Lemigova

“I did not have that opportunity [yet],” the RHOM personality said after laughing at Adriana’s admission.

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Vicki Gunvalson

“Every season,” the OG of the OC admitted before referencing her ex-boyfriend Brooks Ayers, who admitted to lying about having cancer. “[But] it was usually about Brooks. Because all that was coming out and I’m like, ‘What are you talking about? Why are they doing this?’ That was horrible.”

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Caroline Manzo

“The only time I ever reached out to Andy was regarding something about my brother being gay. And they were putting it out there and I said, ‘You need to get his permission to put it out there first.’ And I was getting nowhere with production and I called Andy,” the RHONJ OG recalled. “And Andy saw my point of view and he agreed.”

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Emily Simpson

“No! … I don't complain,” the RHOC star said.  

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Gina Kirschenheiter

During the joint interview with Emily, Gina added: “We’re not complainers.”