Fans can seemingly thank producer Carlos King for one of the franchise's most defining moments. Danielle Staub told Carlos she wanted to bring a copy of Cop Without a Badge -- the book that grabbed the attention of Danielle's season 1 castmates, because it documented her pre-show life under her birth name, Beverly Ann Merrill -- to the finale dinner. Because Danielle wanted the book reveal to be a surprise, she couldn't just walk into the restaurant holding a copy, which (by the way) she asked be hardcover. While The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is known for actresses joining the show, a handful of famous faces have expressed interest in doing the other Southern California-set show. Kristy Swanson, the original Buffy from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie, auditioned for season 12, while Mariel Hemingway entered talks a few different times over the years. Casting producers also regularly reach out to Vanessa Bryant , wife of the late Kobe Bryant , who turns down the offer year after year.

or they’d sit and watch the women take it upon themselves to create drama for the cameras, instead of being like “we want real shit, not manufactured bullshit”, which is what they’d do if they actually cared about the reality of it. but at the end of the day, it’s a tv show. these situations we watch on screen would not happen without the cameras, so there is always a level of fabrication, and i don’t know why the producers cling so hard to this idea that it’s all real and they never get involved or guide a storyline or pull strings. especially when we saw them doing exactly that on beverly hills with denise. production in general comes off very gross in the book. along with the cancer thing i mentioned, they treat emotionally upsetting and potentially traumatizing or damaging moments and certain* physically violent moments as iconic, amazing, hilarious, etc. and just the way some of them talk about the women was iffy, like how andy talked about carole for example. a lot of the women come off very gross, too. it seems a lot of them took this book as an opportunity to further trash the other women, and the women who did not participate got trashed the most. Scott Dunlop: Jeana’s family was very unusual. They were perfect for television, really. Jeana came from Hollywood—she was a Playboy Playmate of the Year, she had been one of the muses in ZZ Top’s music videos, but she was now working as a real estate agent. Her husband, Matt Keough, was a retired baseball player. They were always gone, and their three children sort of roamed the streets of Coto de Caza wild. I remember seeing their son Shane one day, he must have been about seven years old, just standing at my door. I asked, “Shane, what are you doing?” He goes, “I’m hungry.” I said, “Where’s your mom?” and he didn’t have an answer. That was the Keoughs. I knew we could get a lot out of them. Kathleen French (Senior Vice President of Current Production, Bravo): It is the weirdest place. You go through this first gate—you have to give your name—and you’re in this completely different land. Immediately, the world changes around you. It’s a huge community, and there are gated communities within the gated community. More fabulous homes behind other gates of their own. Full Book Name: Not All Diamonds and Rose: The Inside Story of The Real Housewives from the People Who Lived ItThe fight, which The Real Housewives of New Jersey cast has never publicly spoken about before, somehow ended, but the next morning, the police arrived to question everyone. Melissa and Joe Gorga had already left the country, and though Caroline said Bravo advised her to do the same, she insisted on staying when authorities took Greg, Albie, Chris and Joe Giudice's passports. Danielle had handed me her purse when she had arrived to set with the book,"Carlos explains. "And when the time was right, I crawled under the table and put the book next to Danielle. … Next thing we knew, Teresa flipped the table. And all the other producers ran for cover, but I ran into the dining area because my instinct was like, 'OK, let me make sure no one got hurt.'" Bravo they keep harping on “it’s not about the sex, it’s about her lying” and like, aside from them very clearly being focused on the sex...how are you gonna tell a grown woman what her truth is, and how she has to speak about it? why are they entitled to know about her sex life? they also harp on “you can’t have secrets on the show” and aside from certain housewives being allowed to not talk about every rumor or accusation someone throws at them, the producers spoke about several housewives who refused to talk about things and they either demoted them or fired them, so why spend an entire season and reunion trying to force denise to talk about something she clearly didn’t want to talk about, instead of just demoting or firing her, like they’ve done with previous housewives? For the first time, the Real Housewives go on the record with the incredible story of the juggernaut franchise. With the full support of Bravo and Andy Cohen, Not All Diamonds and Rosé is the definitive tell-all of the hit television saga, from its unlikely start in the gated communities of Orange County, to the pop culture behemoth it has become—spanning seven cities, hundreds of cast members, and millions of fans. This is the whole story straight from the lips of the women and men who have made it one of America’s favorite television shows.

Before Coto, I was living in Los Angeles. And Coto is a beautiful place—five thousand homes, fifteen thousand people, it’s the largest gated community in America. But I was used to diversity, and it’s very WASPy. All-white conservatives in this uber-wealthy area.

Writer Quinn said in a statement: "As a dedicated viewer of Housewives since day one, it was such a thrill to walk through 15 years of history with the Housewives, producers, executives, and guest stars who helped make this franchise into the cultural phenomenon it is today." Part retelling of the storylines from the show, part behind the scenes tea on what went down in the production side of things, the book sheds light on some interesting tidbits that even a longtime fan of the franchises didn't know. It's enlightening, but I wish there had been more focus on the juicy stuff that we had seen, rather than some Housewives recounting the exact scenes from TV and not adding anything new. You can't tell me Carlton Gebbia, iconic witch, didn't have any dirt on that famous screensaver witchcraft from season 4 of RHOBH. And speaking of falling out—Bethenny and Nene are not in this book and their absence looms so very large. LVP only gives a couple quotes at the end of BH chapter.