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Golnesa “GG” Gharachedaghi appeared on Jeff Lewis‘ radio show on Wednesday, where she reflected on being snubbed by Amanda Frances at Watch What Happens Live.
Following their joint episode last week, the 44-year-old The Valley: Persian Style cast member, who called out the incident amid the live broadcast of WWHL, revealed what happened between her and the 41-year-old Real Housewives of Beverly Hills newbie, while also shading Amanda’s treatment of fans and explaining how host Andy Cohen, 57, intervened.
“I was just in New York doing Watch What Happens Live, and I was gonna be on with Amanda, Amanda Frances, the infamous. One season and holy sh*t, right? So, unlike a lot of people, I actually like Amanda in a lot of ways … on the show … I did like her. I felt like she was the verbal version of the ladies. The ladies walk in with their bags first; Amanda talks about her bags. So it’s kind of, for me, the same thing. I like that she owns it,” GG noted on the March 4 episode of SiriusXM’s Jeff Lewis Live.
Then, moving on to their encounter, GG pointed out that she and Amanda were staying at the same hotel.
“Lisa Rinna was there, too. I was chatting with her. And I’m outside smoking a J, and out comes Amanda with her whole crew, and I’m like, ‘Hi, Amanda!’ And I wave. It’s snowing. It’s freezing. I’m in my fur. I’m like, ‘Hey!’ And she goes like this, she turns over, looks me up and down, and kind of just smirks,” GG shared. “And I can tell she has no clue who I am, so I say, ‘I’m seeing you at Watch What Happens Live.’ And she goes, ‘That’s where I’m headed,’ and she walks off.”
Later, once they arrived at the set, GG recalled Amanda changing her tune.
“We get to Watch What Happens Live, Andy comes in, love, happiness, hugging, and he goes, ‘Oh, this is Amanda.’ I said, ‘Oh yeah, I know. I know.’ And she’s like, ‘I’m so sorry,’” she revealed. “She was apologizing, and she saw how the crew was taking care of me. We’re sitting down, and she’s like, ‘You’ve been around Bravo a while?’ And Andy jumps in and says, ‘She’s been around forever.’ He goes, ‘GG, how long have you been here? What year was that?’ I was like, ‘Wow, Andy. Thank you.’”
After Jeff, 55, pointed out that Amanda likely thought she was a fan, GG wondered, “Who talks to their fans like that? Who does that to a fan?“
“She’s not nice,” she continued. “If I were a fan, that would’ve been horrible, because she didn’t know who I was, so she did think I was a fan, and I was an over-the-top, ‘hi,’ so excited.”
Although Jeff suspected that Amanda may have simply been shy, GG didn’t agree.
“Does Amanda look shy to you?” she asked.
GG then admitted, after Jeff signaled rumors regarding her own treatment of fans, that she doesn’t feel comfortable when people get too close.
“It’s scary for me,” she explained.
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As Bravo fans may have seen, GG spoke of her run-in with Amanda amid the WWHL last week, telling Andy that while she said, “Hi,” to Amanda outside of their hotel, Amanda didn’t “know who [she] was.”
“I did not know it was her. I don’t [watch Bravo], but I apologized,” Amanda replied.
Season one of The Valley: Persian Style is currently streaming on Peacock.