Why Andy Cohen Does not Suppose Jen Shah Will Be Again for ‘RHOSLC’

Retaining it actual. Andy Cohen doesn’t assume Jen Shah will return for season 4 of The Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis — due to one main potential impediment.

“She’s being sentenced on December 15, so I don’t know what to say to individuals who need her on the present,” the Bravo exec, 54, completely instructed Us Weekly on Thursday, November 17, whereas selling his partnership with Fresca Combined. “I hope that she will get no jail time in any way and she will be able to come proper again … however I’ve a sense that she’s not going to be accessible to be on the present.”

The Utah native, 49, pleaded responsible to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in July after initially coming into a not responsible plea following her March 2021 arrest. “I knew this was improper,” she instructed the decide on the time. “I knew many individuals had been harmed and I’m so sorry.” She faces a most jail sentence of 30 years and 5 years of supervised launch.

“That’s a very long time,” Cohen instructed Us. “Some individuals on Twitter had been saying, ‘We would like Jen subsequent season.’ And I’m like, ‘OK, properly, discuss to the decide.’”

The Most Talkative creator first addressed Shah’s future on the present at BravoCon, telling the group throughout his “Ask Andy” panel that he didn’t assume she’d be again after season 3. “As soon as we wrapped she pled responsible, I feel that was type of, sadly, the top of, you already know, the engagement there,” Cohen mentioned in October. “However I hope to take a seat down together with her and discuss to her sooner or later on digital camera, as a result of I’ve a number of questions for her.”

The previous advertising and marketing professional has maintained her innocence all through season 3, which premiered in September. A few of her castmates are nonetheless in contact together with her, however others — together with Lisa Barlow and Whitney Rose — mentioned they haven’t spoken to her since she modified her plea.

“It might be very nice to have the ability to sit down together with her and have her clarify,” Rose, 36, completely instructed Us earlier this month. “She’s accountable to us. We spent all this time together with her mendacity to us, and I wanna hear from her.”

Cohen, for his half, didn’t deal with whether or not the RHOSLC women will get their sit-down with Shah, however he famous that “tweaks are all the time good” when talking about rumors of a forged shakeup on The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills.

As viewers await RHOSLC reunion particulars, the Superficial creator is gearing up for the vacation social gathering season. “You need to get the lighting proper, you need to get the music proper,” he instructed Us, including that Fresca Combined will play a job within the festivities. “And the drinks that you simply’re serving — I imply, even earlier than Fresca Combined, I might’ve been serving Fresca and making them by myself. So, now they made it very straightforward as a result of I can simply dole out the Fresca Combined Vodka Spritz and Tequila Paloma.”

With reporting by Christina Garibaldi