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Andy Cohen recalled discovering when a ‘Real Housewife’ leaked info about a past reunion. The host also shared more details about the recent leaked audio of the Summer House reunion – and hinted at a mystery fan who “cracked the case” of who did it.
Last week, someone leaked audio of Summer House costars as they called out Amanda Batula and West Wilson over their controversial romance. Soon after, Andy declared that the leak was “illegal.” Some fans assumed that a castmate was the culprit, though we now know this wasn’t the case.
“Thursday was the ‘Summer House’ reunion, and I have to say it was truly … one of the most emotional reunions that we’ve ever shot,” said Andy on SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live. “It was [also] one of the most emotionally draining [because] there were so many emotions on that stage. Deep anger, deep hurt.”
“We started rolling around 10:30, and we wrapped around eight,” he said. “This situation has truly sent shock waves through this group … in ways that even I didn’t realize until I sat there looking in the faces and hearing from some of these housemates. … It was very intense and I got home and I needed to kind of de-stress.”
Andy said he woke up the next morning to news of the leak.
“When I tell you that I was mad. It felt like a violation [and] betrayal,” he said. “Here [is] this cast, they all showed up and they all laid themselves totally barren. [A leak] just totally demeans the work of this crew.”
“It seemed like it happened in the middle of the night,” he went on. “It happened overnight, and then there were these hot takes blaming the cast, which I knew immediately. I was like, ‘The cast did not leak this.’ They’re like, ‘Oh, the cast leaked it. Bravo leaked it.’ Just dumb takes and reasons why they would’ve leaked it. To get a better edit, to get a worse edit, to protect themselves, to combat others. I was like, ‘This is stupid.’”
According to Andy, he texted the head of publicity at Bravo, Jen Geisser, at an “ungodly hour.”
“[I wrote] ‘WTF with this leak,’ da da da da da,” he said. “Now, I wake up from the thing and she’s like, ‘Cagney and Lacey are on it.’ She’s like, ‘Don’t you worry.’ … So they had investigators, and they had … audiologists. I mean, they didn’t really have audiologists, but they had people analyzing what kind of device recorded.”
“And you will hear more about this later, but a Bravo fan came forward. And let me tell you that Bravo fans are the best, and may I also thank the Bravo fan accounts, the dedicated Bravo fan accounts, none of whom posted this illegal audio,” said Andy, who then brought up a similar situation from another reunion.
“I remember after a [past] reunion — I’m not gonna say what Housewives, and I’m not gonna say ’cause I know which housewife leaked it — but a housewife leaked everything that happened at [this] very dramatic reunion,” said the host.
Andy said he DM’d the fan account that posted the information.
“I was so pissed, and I said, ‘You know, what you’re doing is you are now ruining it for everyone. Why is this gonna be fun for anyone to watch, or why is it gonna be interesting? Why, if you love the shows so much, why would you do that?’” he recalled. “And the fan account responded and was like, ‘I am so sorry. I actually really, I’m your fan. … What can I do?’”
“I go, ‘Well, first of all, take this down. Second of all, tell me who leaked it to you,’ and they told me, and the housewife doesn’t know that I know that it was them, but I do know,” he continued. “Anyway, so the Bravo fan accounts, they really respected that, which I thought was so cool, and by the way, they also weren’t posting any garbage hot takes blaming the cast, but let me say that though this team of investigators were on it, a Bravo fan, who you’re gonna hear more about, cracked the case. Delivered crucial information.”
Andy shared that he’s aware of “additional improperly obtained audio circulating,” and he cautioned “all parties and platforms to refrain from posting” it.