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Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Lisa Rinna’s reputation is taking yet another hit amid backlash after a resurfaced clip from 2010 has been making the rounds on social media. In it, Lisa can be seen and heard telling a TMZ cameraman named John that she initially thought he was a gang member because of his tattoos.
In the clip, which was posted by Instagram account @FaceReality16, Lisa told the cameraman (who is Hawaiian by the way) that she wasn’t impressed by an interview/encounter they had in the past.
According to Radar Online, their first meeting was in 2010, and in the TMZ video Lisa nonchalantly tells John, “I thought you were a gang member.” She then took the pap’s camera and panned to a tattoo of Guam and a sailboat on his arm.
And it didn’t stop there.
Lisa continued by saying, “Yes, you looked like you just got out of a car from South-Central and you might pop me. You just looked shady.”
The cameraman defended himself, retorting, “But everyone has tattoos!”
Lisa doubled down on her stance, reiterating her previous statements, “No, but you looked shady.”
Needless to say, the clip and Lisa’s remarks have not been sitting well with fans as they are accusing her of racial profiling and stereotyping.
One user commented, “Isn’t that called racial profiling?”
A second chimed in, “Is she going to ‘own it?’ Absolutely not!”
“I really hope she gets fired. They let people go from Vanderpump [Rules] for way less,” another commenter said.
“Lmao please let this circulate everywhere again to remind people of the real Rinna,” said another.
Lisa’s mantra, “I’m gonna talk about it,” is coming back to haunt her, with one user pointing out, “Love how LET’S TALK ABOUT IT RINNA has come full circle.”
Fans have been ripping into the RHOBH star and petitioning for her firing for some time now for her past treatment of former friend and co-star, Denise Richards, and her current feud with Kathy Hilton over Kathy’s alleged “meltdown” in Aspen. Lisa accused Kathy of saying disparaging comments about her sister, Kyle Richards, as well as the rest of the cast.
However, Lisa has no plans of exiting the show of her own volition anytime soon as she recently hinted that she brought too much value to the show to be let go.
Lisa has yet to comment on the resurfaced clip.