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Andy Cohen and Alex McCord, who’s one of the only early castmates of Real Housewives of New York who didn’t recently defect to E! for a new reboot, addressed her shady “rewatch vlog” after her firing from the show. She also discussed the mysterious unaired season of Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip in Morocco.
After Alex was fired from RHONY in 2011, she started a vlog accusing production of setting up co-stars. Meanwhile, her husband Simon van Kempen made a website analyzing Bravo’s ratings.
On SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live, Andy addressed the unaired season of RHUGT while interviewing Alex.
“One of the reasons I’m so glad you’re back here shooting this is you were so good on the Ultimate Girls Trip Morocco, which hasn’t seen the light of day,” said Andy. “And, I, just one of the reasons that I’m disappointed in that is that you’re so great for a whole lot of reasons on that show. What was that experience outside of what we’ve heard about? How was it being with the group of women?”
“I remember being really sort of freaked out about it,” said Alex. “Like, ‘What’s this going to be like?’ And you know how sometimes you just have to take a flying leap off a cliff? I thought, ‘All right, I’m doing this.’ And it was great. … It was part of the whole healing of what the negative stuff was at the beginning. I’m like, ‘This is actually a lot of fun.'”
Andy added, “I remember emailing you. I go, ‘All you have to do is go on vacation and have fun.’ Like, take the trust fall. But you did.”
Later on, Andy recalled Alex’s vlog.
“It’s interesting, you were the first housewife to leave the show, and then you started doing like a rewatch vlog, which at the time … we didn’t know how to process it at Bravo,” he said. “But it was the precursor to every podcast that’s out now. And you were really the first to do that. And you were kind of sometimes calling bulls**t on production, which we didn’t love, but … it’s done all the time now.”
“And then Simon had a very interesting reaction to the show, which I was thinking about today, and I would love to see Simon at some point because I think he and I now could have a really good conversation,” Andy continued. “There was a lot of emotion, I think, from Simon when he left the show and from all of us, and I think he felt a little burned by it.”
Alex then shared her reaction.
“You know what? I think he got a lot of hate on the show,” she said. “So I get, and I fully supported, you know, his feelings. By the way, he says ‘Hi.'”
As for their former townhouse in Brooklyn, which castmates shaded at the time, Alex shared that it’s probably now worth about $6 million.