Bravo Fires Jennie Nguyen From ‘Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’ After Racist Social Media Posts

It took six days of shock, however Bravo has lastly taken motion in response to racist social media posts from Real Housewives of Salt Lake City cast member Jennie Nguyen.

“Bravo has ceased filming with Jennie Nguyen and she’s going to now not be a forged member of The Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis,” the community stated in a post on its official Instagram account Tuesday afternoon.

Over the span of six months in 2020, as Black Lives Matter demonstrations electrified the nation, Nguyen shared and reposted memes, photographs, and statements that many thought of to be anti-Black, pro-police, and blatantly racist.

“I’m sick of individuals saying cops want extra coaching,” one Fb put up from September 2020 learn. “You had 18 years to show your youngsters it’s fallacious to loot, steal, set buildings a blaze, block visitors, laser individuals’s eyes, overturn vehicles, destroy buildings and assault residents. Who failed who?”

One other put up she shared earlier that month learn: “Tons of of blacks shot and plenty of killed (together with kids) by different blacks each week. Over a thousand Officers violently injured, some completely, by rioters. Anarchists rioting in main cities each night time, which has induced billions of {dollars} of destruction to personal and public property. And you continue to suppose Police Officers are the issue. You’re an fool.”

After the now-deleted posts surfaced final week, Nguyen shared an apology, saying, “I need to acknowledge and apologize for my deleted Fb posts from 2020 that resurfaced in the present day. On the time, I believed I used to be talking out towards violence, however I’ve since realized how offensive and hurtful my phrases have been.”

She continued to movie with the forged, as Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis is at the moment in manufacturing, however Bravo followers and Nguyen’s castmates have been fast to precise their anger and disappointment.

Fellow forged member Jen Shah posted on her Instagram account: ​​“I’m deeply offended by the racially insensitive posts and feedback. It was infuriating to see her like and repost feedback that made a mockery of and confirmed full apathy towards these killed marching to carry consciousness to the deep-seeded [sic] social justice points that plague our nation. I’m equally dissatisfied by the disingenuous apology that was issued. Evidently, we have now some actual sh*t to speak about.”

Different forged members initially posted obscure maxims condemning hateful speech, with out going into element about Nguyen’s feedback. On Twitter, Meredith Marks alluded to the fact that, at first, the forged wasn’t allowed to say extra; it’s been reported that it’s towards the Housewives’ contracts to publicly focus on plot factors whereas the present is in manufacturing. When that gag order was lifted, they didn’t mince phrases.

“Because it was not completely clear in my earlier tweet and I can now converse out in additional depth, I’m sickened by my co-worker’s racist and prejudicial posts that lately surfaced,” Marks wrote. “I don’t stand behind or assist these posts in any method, form, or kind.”

Forged member Heather Homosexual additionally alluded to having to attend to share her full ideas, eventually writing on Instagram, “I can lastly converse out in the present day and I need to say that I’m deeply shocked saddened and dissatisfied by the blatantly racist and derogatory statements reshared and preferred by one in every of my fellow castmates. There may be no haven on this world for hateful anti-black and violent rhetoric. It’s as much as all of us to do the work of anti-racism and educate ourselves on the experiences of others.”

Over the previous two years, Bravo has had a public reckoning with the allegedly racist habits of among the forged members on its reveals, and its personal duty as a platform to be anti-racist.

Vanderpump Guidelines stars Stassi Schroeder and Kristen Doute were fired for reporting a Black forged member to the police for against the law she didn’t commit, whereas fellow forged members Max Boyens and Brett Cipriani have been fired over past racist tweets. Jax Taylor was additionally later fired. In the meantime, Actual Housewives stars Kelly Dodd (Orange County) and LeeAnne Locken (Dallas) have been let go due to controversial remarks. And makes an attempt to carry racial consciousness and constructive dialog into the Dallas franchise backfired so upsettingly that the collection was successfully canceled.

Given these previous actions, followers have been confused why Nguyen wasn’t equally reprimanded and as a substitute allowed to nonetheless movie the collection. Even when the forged introduced up the posts and held her to activity for them, she was nonetheless primarily being paid to defend her previous alleged racism—one thing that didn’t sit proper with plenty of followers.

Bravo’s assertion addressed these missteps as nicely. “We acknowledge we didn’t take acceptable motion as soon as [Nguyen’s] offensive social media posts have been delivered to our consideration. Shifting ahead, we are going to work to enhance our processes and make higher knowledgeable and extra considerate choices.”