Speaker 1: It really feels like it came out of nowhere, and
Speaker 1: then also the dismissal kind of feels like it came
Speaker 1: out of nowhere, Like we came in real hot and fiery,
Speaker 1: and then it just kind of quietly washed away.
Speaker 2: Stay tuned. We'll get into my conversation with Evan Real
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Speaker 2: the King is my friend and journalist Evan Real from
Speaker 2: The New York Post. Today we're talking about Nini Leaks,
Speaker 2: who recently dismissed her lawsuit. Now, I know you guys
Speaker 2: haven't asked me tons of questions about this particular situation,
Speaker 2: and because I'm too close to it in terms of
Speaker 2: knowing everybody involved, I never felt it was comfortable or
Speaker 2: write for me to talk about it. You know, there's
Speaker 2: some things that I think are off limits, and when
Speaker 2: something like this happens, I think it's best for things
Speaker 2: to play out on its own. I never wanted to
Speaker 2: make light of this situation or do it for you know,
Speaker 2: the podcast, just to have a conversation. I never wanted
Speaker 2: to do that. So the reason why I've been quiet
Speaker 2: about it in the sense of just not sharing my
Speaker 2: opinion is because I felt, out of respect to all
Speaker 2: parties involved, it was better us to see how things
Speaker 2: played out first. And now that we see that the
Speaker 2: lawsuit that she filed against the network and people has prejudice.
Speaker 2: Now what does this mean for the future of Meini Leaks. Well, today,
Speaker 2: ME and Evan Real are going to get into that conversation.
Speaker 2: We all are fans of Nini Leaks and want her
Speaker 2: back on television. We recently saw her star on the
Speaker 2: College Here Reboot Celebrity Edition on BET and if you
Speaker 2: watched it, it reminded you of how Nini is just
Speaker 2: great television and how funny she is and how great
Speaker 2: she is. So this conversation today, yes, we're going to
Speaker 2: shed light on how this lawsuit became dismissed. But we're
Speaker 2: also going to talk about the state of Nini Leaks
Speaker 2: as a force multiplier in reality te television, and now
Speaker 2: that this situation has seemed to come to an end,
Speaker 2: where does that take Memi Leaks? So, without further ado,
Speaker 2: here's my conversation with Eban Real. We got to talk
Speaker 2: about my girl, who I called the greatest housewife of
Speaker 2: all time number one, Meani Leaks, and the lawsuit that
Speaker 2: was dropped recently, which to me, I'm like, okay, is
Speaker 2: this a good sign for things to come? But I
Speaker 2: cannot do this episode alone. So I decided to bring
Speaker 2: on my friend who also has been covering this story
Speaker 2: as a reporter, a journalist, and a correspondent for The
Speaker 2: New York Post. I'm talking about every reality star's favorite journalist,
Speaker 2: Evan Rel.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Carlos King, the king of reality TV.
Speaker 3: Thank you for that glowing introduction.
Speaker 1: It is an absolute honor to be here today and
Speaker 1: talked about your favorite housewife of all time, Needy Leaks.
Speaker 2: I know I can't wait to get into this. So
Speaker 2: one thing about me. When this lawsuit first came about,
Speaker 2: I respectfully never talked about it because it's such a
Speaker 2: sensitive topic that I didn't want me, somebody who knows
Speaker 2: all parties involved, to make lights of this serious issue.
Speaker 2: I mean, any lawsuit, child is serious. I don't care
Speaker 2: what's in it. If you've got time to go down
Speaker 2: to the court, child to not get married like Jalo
Speaker 2: and Ben the Justice of the piece, but you're going
Speaker 2: down to to file something, honey. I take it seriously,
Speaker 2: and I never wanted to mimic it or sound like
Speaker 2: I was making fun of it. So that's why, guys,
Speaker 2: my listeners, I have never talked about it. But now
Speaker 2: that it's been dropped, in the words of Lisa Rena,
Speaker 2: you best believe in talk about it. So Evan, this
Speaker 2: is what we know, Okay. So at the end of
Speaker 2: the day, what we know is the lawsuit was originally
Speaker 2: filed in April of twenty twenty two in an Atlanta
Speaker 2: federal court, where Nini Leased claimed she worked in a
Speaker 2: hostile and racist environment. She sued NBC, Universal, Bravo Production Companies,
Speaker 2: True Entertainment and Truly Original, and Andy Cohen, who was
Speaker 2: all named in the suit. So before we get into
Speaker 2: the fact that this lawsuit was dropped, talk to me
Speaker 2: about what you learned the moment it was filed back
Speaker 2: in April.
Speaker 1: Well, I was just so shocked to learn that Nini
Speaker 1: felt this way about the production companies, about Bravo, about
Speaker 1: Andy Cohen, because you know, she is one of the
Speaker 1: greatest housewives of all time.
Speaker 3: She truly put Atlanta on the map.
Speaker 1: I would say that she kind of put housewives on
Speaker 1: the map in a way like to me, Nini Lakes,
Speaker 1: this is just my personal opinion, taking off my journalist hat.
Speaker 1: She is more iconic than Bethany Frankel. She is more
Speaker 1: iconic than Lisa vander Pump. She is to me, like
Speaker 1: like you, she is the most iconic housewife of all times.
Speaker 1: So I was just shocked that there was something going
Speaker 1: on with her and the production company and Andy and
Speaker 1: Bravo that was not so great. So that's first and
Speaker 1: foremost what I learned. And then I also learned that
Speaker 1: Bravo and Andy they were absolutely blindsided by this because
Speaker 1: even though you know, Nini had she'd been implying things
Speaker 1: on social media for a while that she wasn't happy
Speaker 1: with the network, she wasn't happy with Andy Cohen. But
Speaker 1: I know that she and Andy were so close at
Speaker 1: one point, So Andy and Bravo. They were absolutely blindsided
Speaker 1: by this. So I think that it's really interesting that
Speaker 1: it has been dropped. I mean, she was really like
Speaker 1: standing in her conviction that she was like mistreated during
Speaker 1: the Real Housewives of Atlanta and Carlos. It took everything
Speaker 1: inside of me not to give you a call about
Speaker 1: this because you.
Speaker 3: Could have been an incredible source. You probably know way
Speaker 3: more than I do. So yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was just a wild ride covering this whole situation
Speaker 1: tops to bottom. And so now I'm glad that you're
Speaker 1: finally talking about it because I feel like you probably
Speaker 1: have the most meaningful perspective that anyone could, being a
Speaker 1: friend of Nini, working on the show, working with the
Speaker 1: production companies, knowing Andy quite well.
Speaker 2: Now, Evan, this one was so interesting about this? I
Speaker 2: a in real life in friends with Niini. Like Nani
Speaker 2: and I have a great relationship. Yes, she and I
Speaker 2: have had ups and downs and we have falling out.
Speaker 2: I'm still blocked on Twitter, Nini. I mean, can you
Speaker 2: please unblock me? Girl? I've been blocked Nani since season seven.
Speaker 2: Damn that long. Please unblock me, Nini? Yeah, what happened?
Speaker 2: What happened?
Speaker 3: Season seven?
Speaker 2: Ah, well, let's okay, let's I'll ask it that out
Speaker 2: and then we'll get back into the topic at hand.
Speaker 2: So I think people need to be reminded that Nini
Speaker 2: Leets and I started out Real Housewives of Atlanta together,
Speaker 2: she as a reality star and me as my first
Speaker 2: time producing reality television. So we were both newbies the
Speaker 2: first day of filming season one of the show, and
Speaker 2: I was assigning leagues and the rest is history. Like
Speaker 2: we just became bosom buddies. People would call us Will
Speaker 2: and Grace. That's how close Nini and I were. Social
Speaker 2: media started to happen around season four, but during season seven,
Speaker 2: Claudia Jordan comes on the show. And the reason why
Speaker 2: I brought up social media is because that's when you
Speaker 2: started to see the stand culture that is housewives. I mean, now, honey,
Speaker 2: that stand culture for housewives is severe up in here.
Speaker 2: So mind you, seven years ago, it was just starting
Speaker 2: to percolate where people would make these ridiculous accusations and
Speaker 2: a lot of people said that I because of course
Speaker 2: they think I have all the power. A lot of
Speaker 2: people thought that I hire Claudia to single handily come
Speaker 2: for Nini, and long story short, Nini would say things
Speaker 2: and interviews about Claudia and I did an interview on
Speaker 2: The Ricky Smiley Show where I said, like, Claudia is
Speaker 2: a great housewife. She and Nini got this epic showdown.
Speaker 2: They read each other like Claudia is great and Nini
Speaker 2: leaks was on the radio and somebody asked her about
Speaker 2: it and she made a shady comment towards me, But
Speaker 2: that's Nini, so I took it as fun shade. But
Speaker 2: apparently she blocked me and we didn't speak for a
Speaker 2: few months. But that's who me and Nini are. Like
Speaker 2: when Nini is mad, she'll block you, but then she unblock. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: I've been blocked for seven years. But we're good.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, do you know what people?
Speaker 1: I feel like Twitter doesn't even matter, Like if she
Speaker 1: blocked you on Instagram, that matters, you know.
Speaker 2: Oh see that's okay. We still follow each other on Instagram,
Speaker 2: so that's a good thing. So, unlike what other people say,
Speaker 2: me and Nini do have a relationship. Ha. So look.
Speaker 2: One of the things that was interesting when all of
Speaker 2: this came about is I was surprised too when news
Speaker 2: came about this lawsuit, did not see it coming, Yes,
Speaker 2: ev when you're right in the sense of you know,
Speaker 2: there was a little stuff percolating here and there, but
Speaker 2: I didn't think it would go that far when it
Speaker 2: did happen. And this is me telling you guys the truth.
Speaker 2: I did not reach out to Nini in the sense
Speaker 2: to talk to her about that specifically, because I respectfully
Speaker 2: wanted her and the rest of the people who I
Speaker 2: know to deal with that. I didn't want any involvement
Speaker 2: in it. I wasn't named in it. Child, And in
Speaker 2: the words of my old school grandmama and Proverbs three sixteen,
Speaker 2: my name is Bennett and I'm not in it. I
Speaker 2: didn't want no parts of it. But I did reach
Speaker 2: out to Needy and say to her, you know, I
Speaker 2: love you. I'm always here for you if you need anything.
Speaker 2: And that was the extent of the conversation when it
Speaker 2: was filed.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, okay, So your respect in Nini's space and boundaries.
Speaker 1: But what did you think of Kim being named in
Speaker 1: the lawsuit? I mean, you were in the trenches with
Speaker 1: these women, you know how Kim and Neini are together.
Speaker 1: Did you ever feel like there was any validity to
Speaker 1: the things that Nini was claiming about Kim. I know
Speaker 1: Kim came on The Nightcap and she said that Nini
Speaker 1: knows what she said, isn't sure and that it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: What's your take on it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the thing. So again I didn't read
Speaker 2: the entire document because I wanted to make sure I
Speaker 2: stay farm away from it. But from my understanding, and Evan,
Speaker 2: you tell me if this was included, but I believe
Speaker 2: what was included was Kim allegedly using the N word.
Speaker 2: And all I can say to you guys is I
Speaker 2: never heard Kim say that, and if I did, I
Speaker 2: would have never invited Kim on my late night show,
Speaker 2: The Nightcap. And if the other women, meaning Deshauncenow, Lisa
Speaker 2: Wu and Scharrey Whitfield, would have heard that, I don't
Speaker 2: think they too would be around Kim. So based on
Speaker 2: my relationship with Kim, I never heard it. And that's
Speaker 2: the reason why I wanted to make sure that Kim
Speaker 2: had the opportunity to say what she wanted to say.
Speaker 2: And what she did say was when she's finished with
Speaker 2: them is when I will start with her something along
Speaker 2: those lines. So the jury no pun intended it's still
Speaker 2: out as it relates to what Kim Zosiak is going
Speaker 2: to do. But knowing that the lawsuit has been dismissed, right,
Speaker 2: what have you been hearing Eva in terms of the
Speaker 2: reasons behind this dismissal.
Speaker 1: So the reasons remain are pretty unclear. No one seems
Speaker 1: to have a grasp why it was dismissed. But it
Speaker 1: was dismissed without prejudice, which means that she can reopen
Speaker 1: it at a later date if she chooses to do so.
Speaker 1: The parties involved in the case also agreed to not
Speaker 1: seek recovery of costs or attorney fees, so it kind
Speaker 1: of seems like both like all parties are just walking
Speaker 1: away from this situation unscathed. It doesn't seem like Nini
Speaker 1: received any sort of settlement outside of court. It just
Speaker 1: kind of feels like they all decided to table this conversation.
Speaker 1: I definitely don't think that the production companies in Brava
Speaker 1: want to revisit this conversation, but the way it was
Speaker 1: dismissed leaves the opportunity for Nini to revisit this in the.
Speaker 3: Future, which I hope she doesn't.
Speaker 1: I just hope we were all able to have some
Speaker 1: sort of like secret peace meeting where everything was hashed
Speaker 1: out and everyone's relationship is good right now, because I
Speaker 1: want Nini to have the opportunity and ability to return
Speaker 1: to the franchise in the future. I am hoping that
Speaker 1: this was dismissed because there was an agreement made, there
Speaker 1: was a reconciliation, and now Nini is back in the
Speaker 1: good graces of Bravo and Andy Cohen. And I also
Speaker 1: hope that you know, whatever Nini was feeling, because I
Speaker 1: obviously she went through some sort of trouble and she
Speaker 1: is upset over something. I hope that those concerns were
Speaker 1: addressed and that they validated whatever issues she did experience
Speaker 1: on the Real Housewives of Atlanta and throughout her time
Speaker 1: on Bravo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, that's the thing. A lot of people have
Speaker 2: made the assumption that was their settlement, and from what
Speaker 2: you said and from what I read, I mean, listen,
Speaker 2: I'm not a lawyer. I work with one by the
Speaker 2: name of Phaedra Parks, so I'll try to figure out,
Speaker 2: you know, exactly what the legal language is the situation.
Speaker 2: But according to the dismissal, apparently it means that because
Speaker 2: she has the right to fall again. Then it goes
Speaker 2: to show you that more than likely a settlement would
Speaker 2: not have been reached, because if you're going to reach
Speaker 2: a settlement, then more than likely, from the legal terms
Speaker 2: and the legal ease that I have learned, they would
Speaker 2: have never paid Nini off and allow her to fill again.
Speaker 2: And that's the reason why I agree with you in
Speaker 2: the sense of Look, the question still remains if we
Speaker 2: believe that Nini Leaks can ever return to Bravo. That
Speaker 2: remains the question now that this lawsuit has been dropped
Speaker 2: and or dismissed. So my question to you, Evan, as
Speaker 2: a Housewives connoisseur, as a lover of all things housewives,
Speaker 2: and a journalist, do you think Niemi Lee's future on
Speaker 2: Bravo is forever? Did?
Speaker 1: I would like to think that the way that this
Speaker 1: case or this lawsuit has been dismissed leaves hope for
Speaker 1: her future on Bravo. But I do think that she
Speaker 1: has muddied the waters a little bit. So if she
Speaker 1: ever does return, we're gonna have to jump through this hurdle.
Speaker 1: She's gonna have to address this and all of her
Speaker 1: interviews about coming back. There's gonna have to be some
Speaker 1: sort of like communications pr strategy put in place. It
Speaker 1: would be like a lot of work, I think on
Speaker 1: both ends for her to read. I think that she
Speaker 1: needs to make peace with the feelings that she has
Speaker 1: about her initial run on Housewise, I think that Bravo
Speaker 1: has to take into consideration all the things that she
Speaker 1: has said on Twitter, in court documents and figure out
Speaker 1: how do we make this make sense, like we are
Speaker 1: welcoming back Nini to the Bravo verse after she has
Speaker 1: very heartily trashed the network. I think it would be
Speaker 1: a lot of work, but I think it could happen.
Speaker 1: And I think that Nini is such a powerhouse and
Speaker 1: has that incredible star power that is obviously a value,
Speaker 1: and I think that Bravo would put in the work
Speaker 1: to have her come back.
Speaker 3: Maybe I was a wishful thinking, I don't know.
Speaker 2: This is my dream.
Speaker 3: This is my dream.
Speaker 1: My dream is that Nini does come back, and that
Speaker 1: Bravo figures out how to tell the story of her
Speaker 1: coming back and rejoining this group of women. Because as
Speaker 1: much as I'm loving Atlanta this season, and I have
Speaker 1: loved all the seasons without Nini, I love it better
Speaker 1: when she's part of it.
Speaker 2: No listen, I love Mimi, and again, Nini and I
Speaker 2: are still cool. I did invite Nini on my late
Speaker 2: night show, The Nightcap, and just to talk about that
Speaker 2: a little bit, and then I'll answer the question as
Speaker 2: well in terms of what I think about her future
Speaker 2: on Bravo. But when I reached out to Nini to
Speaker 2: appear on The Nightcap, I never told any of those
Speaker 2: original housewives that I was going to invite the other
Speaker 2: on the show. I wanted it to be a surprise
Speaker 2: to all of them because at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: I am a producer, so of course I have to
Speaker 2: produce this iconic moment of getting my ogs back together
Speaker 2: that I work with season one of the Atlanta Housewives show.
Speaker 2: So when I reached out to Nimi, she kindly declined
Speaker 2: and said that based on what she's going through, she
Speaker 2: wasn't at the right place to do interviews. And I
Speaker 2: respected that because she followed the lawsuit in April and
Speaker 2: we taped that episode of my late night show in May,
Speaker 2: so it was still fresh and she didn't want to
Speaker 2: deal with it, and I respected that. So that was
Speaker 2: the only reason why she did not show up. And
Speaker 2: know she did not show up because she knew the
Speaker 2: other women were going to be there. None of them
Speaker 2: knew that the other was going to be there. I
Speaker 2: wanted it to be a surprise, so I wanted to
Speaker 2: address that first because I just want people to know
Speaker 2: that she and I are in a good place. Now,
Speaker 2: let's talk about her fate on the network. If you
Speaker 2: look at historically, when an employee files a lawsuit against
Speaker 2: a former employer, right and makes claims of a hostile environment.
Speaker 2: So let's say in this case, Sally Ann decided to
Speaker 2: sue Walmart because she felt that Walmart was a hostile
Speaker 2: work environment. Right. The question that I have, because I
Speaker 2: want to be realistic and fair and honest, do you
Speaker 2: think Walmart will hire Sally Ann, asked back after she
Speaker 2: made these accusations.
Speaker 1: Right, Well, now that you put it that way, Carlos, Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: Walmart's not gonna take her back. Probably ninety nine percent
Speaker 1: chance she's not coming back to Walmart. And so yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe Nini won't come back to Bravo. But you know,
Speaker 1: you make that comparison of Sally Ann and Walmart. But
Speaker 1: you you've also you've worked on these shows for so long,
Speaker 1: you know how the network works, you know how the
Speaker 1: production companies work.
Speaker 3: Like if you had to guess, like taking that.
Speaker 1: Into consideration, what is the percentage that you think Nini
Speaker 1: would come back?
Speaker 2: Well, this is the other side to my question that
Speaker 2: I'm going to answer too. If Sally Ann, by the way,
Speaker 2: Sally Ann is forty six, she lives in Idaho, and
Speaker 2: she binges Indian matchmaker. So that's who Sally Ann is. Okay,
Speaker 2: I got to pay the picture for my audience.
Speaker 3: Okay, So she's not a star like Nini.
Speaker 2: No, she's Sally you know, she's at home.
Speaker 3: The difference, there's a difference.
Speaker 2: There is a difference. Okay. So if Sally n is
Speaker 2: making these accusations, why would Sally Ann want to go
Speaker 2: back to the institution that she felt was a househole
Speaker 2: work environment? So it kind of goes hand in hand.
Speaker 2: Would you want to hire back the employee that made
Speaker 2: these accusations and that's the employee? Do you want to
Speaker 2: go back to the job where you said it was toxic?
Speaker 2: So that's why I like to look at things from
Speaker 2: a realistic standpoint and from the standpoint of something to
Speaker 2: where my large audience of listeners are able to understand
Speaker 2: and now that I said that, this is how I feel.
Speaker 2: I adore Nini. I want Niini to win in every
Speaker 2: single place in her life, and I mean that wholeheartedly.
Speaker 2: I made her the number one greatest housewife of all time,
Speaker 2: not because of our friendship, but because she deserved the crown,
Speaker 2: and she, to me, is the best that's ever done it.
Speaker 2: Now that this situation has been dismissed, I'm not sure
Speaker 2: what the future holds for Nini on the network because
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, I haven't spoken to
Speaker 2: her about what she wanted to get out of it.
Speaker 2: I don't know, and it's not my place to ask her.
Speaker 2: But as someone who is in this business and as
Speaker 2: someone who knows our parties involved, I was very sad
Speaker 2: that it got to that because one thing I've always
Speaker 2: said is there was this amazing, loving relationship that Nini
Speaker 2: and Andy had that I've seen with these eyeballs, like
Speaker 2: he was enamored by her and vice versa. She would
Speaker 2: call him her buttercup, and they just had like this
Speaker 2: great rapport and I would see that whenever Andy would
Speaker 2: come to Atlanti to take reunions and during commercial breaks,
Speaker 2: they had a good old key key so it was
Speaker 2: sad to see that it got to that. And listen,
Speaker 2: one thing that I said to Nini is, at the
Speaker 2: end of the day, I don't know what it's like
Speaker 2: to walk in your shoes, so I'm not here to
Speaker 2: ever say what your experience is like in life in general.
Speaker 2: I'm not you. But the only thing I can say
Speaker 2: to you is that I just want you to be
Speaker 2: happy and I want you to win. And does that
Speaker 2: mean that her being happy and going back to the
Speaker 2: show makes her win? I'm not sure. I think, in
Speaker 2: my opinion, the best thing for Nimi is to take
Speaker 2: the next couple of weeks to really figure things out,
Speaker 2: because she is such a formidable talent that I think
Speaker 2: the world has yet to see what she's capable of doing,
Speaker 2: and I really want her to get back to being
Speaker 2: this funny, whimsical personality that we fell in love with
Speaker 2: back in two thousand and eight.
Speaker 3: Yes to all of that, I agree.
Speaker 1: And that's an interesting point that you bring up, Like,
Speaker 1: of course you don't need you to win, but is
Speaker 1: it on Bravo?
Speaker 3: Like maybe not?
Speaker 1: Like maybe the next chapter for her is bigger than Bravo,
Speaker 1: Like maybe coming back to Bravo would feel like a
Speaker 1: step back for her. The one thing that I find
Speaker 1: interesting about this whole situation is that I remember, several
Speaker 1: months before she filed the lawsuits, she went on I
Speaker 1: believe it was the Real and she said that she
Speaker 1: would like to come back to the Real Housewives of
Speaker 1: Atlanta because she felt like she had some unfinished business
Speaker 1: with the women. So that was also really interesting to
Speaker 1: me that after she said that, she filed this lawsuit,
Speaker 1: and it just makes me wonder what her strategy was
Speaker 1: or is.
Speaker 2: And what have you been hearing from your sources in
Speaker 2: terms of the making of this whole situation, Like have
Speaker 2: you heard that there was a strategy in place or
Speaker 2: that everybody feels like this came out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: Everyone feels like it came out of nowhere. No one
Speaker 1: can really pinpoint if she had a strategy. It's it
Speaker 1: just kind of like leaves the question open, like was
Speaker 1: there a strategy? Like what were you hoping to get
Speaker 1: out of this other than like the obvious that like,
Speaker 1: you know, clearly she felt she was mistreated and she
Speaker 1: wanted justice for that. It just was an interesting lawsuit
Speaker 1: to file after, you know, the comments were made about
Speaker 1: coming back to the franchise and possibly sitting down with
Speaker 1: Andy Cohen to discuss that, you know, and that was
Speaker 1: after she had said a bunch of stuff on social
Speaker 1: media already. So yeah, it just it really feels like
Speaker 1: it came out of nowhere. And then also the dismissal
Speaker 1: kind of feels like it came out of nowhere, Like
Speaker 1: we came in real hot and fiery, and then it
Speaker 1: just kind of quietly washed away.
Speaker 2: I hate to interrupt, but stay tuned for more of
Speaker 2: my conversation with Evan'll be right back after this quick break.
Speaker 2: This is Reality with the King, and I'm Carlos King.
Speaker 2: Let's get back into my chat with Evan Rail about
Speaker 2: Nini Leaks. So listen. My biggest thing is because I
Speaker 2: know the fans have been asking me this Evan for
Speaker 2: the longest time. Carlos, you brought Monique Samuels back on television.
Speaker 1: I was about to ask, because you have the power
Speaker 1: and the resources, Carlos King, if anyone, yeah, okay, Carlos,
Speaker 1: let's talk to you about this. Like, if anyone can
Speaker 1: make a Nini Leak's return to reality TV happen, it's you.
Speaker 3: So what's the plan? Have we texted Nini about that.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Evan, I mean.
Speaker 3: A journalist needs to know are we dropping some news?
Speaker 2: So I know the biggest question is, Carlos King, you
Speaker 2: have a production company, Nini leaks, is you know number
Speaker 2: one on your lists of the greatest Housewives of all time?
Speaker 2: You reached out to Monique Samuel's after her stint on
Speaker 2: Potomac and you got her to be a part of
Speaker 2: your Love and Marriage franchise, which is Love and Marriage DC.
Speaker 2: So could there be a Love and Marriage Atlanta starring
Speaker 2: Niini Leagus. I will say this, I will be honored
Speaker 2: to work with Nini in any capacity. Nimi is very expensive.
Speaker 3: That part, that part, but worth it worth it?
Speaker 2: Oh no, listen, Nini is worth every single penny. Yes,
Speaker 2: I did you know gimmo Nique to be on Love
Speaker 2: and Marriage DC. I obviously had Claudia Jordan on the
Speaker 2: next fifteen. I had Shamar de Vot, although I have
Speaker 2: Shamari first. I had Shamar Devote on my show BT Presents.
Speaker 2: They encore. So y'all know me. I love to you.
Speaker 2: Don't reach out to my girls who I love and
Speaker 2: find them a bag. So Memi leaks, I will say
Speaker 2: this if Nimi Leaks is ready to return to television.
Speaker 2: Let me know from you guys, what show would you
Speaker 2: like to see Nimi Leaks in? And make sure you
Speaker 2: hashtag reality with the King and tweet me your answer. So, Evan,
Speaker 2: now that I have you face to face and ear
Speaker 2: to ear, honey, let me know what show would you
Speaker 2: like to see Nimi Leaks?
Speaker 1: I mean, I would love Love and Marriage Atlanta. I
Speaker 1: think she'd be the perfect girl to lead it. I
Speaker 1: mean I know that she is dating again after Greg's
Speaker 1: unfortunately pass away, and I think that would be a
Speaker 1: really interesting story to see, like Nini getting back into
Speaker 1: the dating pool, reviving her love life, maybe getting married again.
Speaker 1: Like I want to see Nini win in that way.
Speaker 1: So I think, yeah, there's so many incredible women in
Speaker 1: Atlanta who will be able to round out the cast
Speaker 1: with like and Nini would just be that perfect central force,
Speaker 1: kind of like Monique was the perfect center point for DC.
Speaker 1: So that's what I would love to see. I think
Speaker 1: that's a great idea. Or I also I also think
Speaker 1: that Nini, you know, she could carry her own show,
Speaker 1: Like what do you think about Nini just doing kind
Speaker 1: of like her own docuseries?
Speaker 2: Oh no, listen. There's something magnificent about Nini's mannerisms and
Speaker 2: how she is just as a personality, Like Nini doesn't
Speaker 2: try hard to be funny. So like Nimi's greatest memes
Speaker 2: and gifts of all time are things she's naturally doing,
Speaker 2: like talking about Kenya's white refrigerator, or telling Kenya I
Speaker 2: said what I said, or walking into a situation saying
Speaker 2: what is this, honey, like Nimi is a walking sound bite.
Speaker 2: So I do believe that there is a world where
Speaker 2: Nimi is able to just do what's show on her own.
Speaker 2: I would love to see what's happening with her lounge, Thelenithia.
Speaker 2: I would love to see this new relationship she has
Speaker 2: with Naomi, her boyfriend, and I want to see what's
Speaker 2: going on with her children, her grandchild, and how she's
Speaker 2: navigating through life post Greg Leeks. So I'll say this much,
Speaker 2: I know Nini and we still talk, so perhaps I'll
Speaker 2: get Nini to talk about it herself.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I literally have full body shells you
Speaker 1: just saying that, like, I need to hear a conversation
Speaker 1: between you and need to go down. You don't even
Speaker 1: have to talk about reality TV. What you got planned.
Speaker 1: Could you could legitimately just say the ABCS together and
Speaker 1: I would be entertained, like I can't wait for that.
Speaker 2: Now, that'll be good, that that'll be good. But before
Speaker 2: I let you go, I know how to off the
Speaker 2: press is there's some breaking news going on on Vander
Speaker 2: pump Rules. Evan.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, apparently at Sheena's wedding, her her second wedding to Brock,
Speaker 1: which was a beautiful by the way, the photos were stunning.
Speaker 1: She redeemed herself from the crap top wedding dress. We
Speaker 1: got this gorgeous lace gown with this long avail she liked,
Speaker 1: absolutely stunning. But while she was out here looking stunning,
Speaker 1: apparently Tom Schwartz, who just is in the middle of
Speaker 1: his divorce from Katie Maloney, hooked up with Raquel, who
Speaker 1: was dating James, and they did this at the wedding.
Speaker 1: Apparently they went into a room together, there were some
Speaker 1: smooches and now I cannot wait for the next season
Speaker 1: of vander Pumper Roles. Just when you kind of thought
Speaker 1: like vander Pumperoles and may have been on its last leg,
Speaker 1: the kids are bringing the jama They know what to
Speaker 1: do to get me at the ropes right back into it.
Speaker 3: I cannot wait. I live for the mess.
Speaker 2: So can you confirm though, that this wedding was filmed
Speaker 2: for the show.
Speaker 1: Yes, the wedding was filmed for the show, so we
Speaker 1: will play We'll see this.
Speaker 3: Play out on the show. Definitely the wedding.
Speaker 1: I don't know if there were cameras and a micro
Speaker 1: around for this a secret makeout between Tom and Raquel,
Speaker 1: but I'm living for it because they've kind of been
Speaker 1: hinting at this. Like Tom was on Sheena's podcast recently
Speaker 1: and was like, yeah, like Raquel's kind of cute.
Speaker 3: I'm kind of feeling her. So I am. I'm not
Speaker 3: mad at it.
Speaker 1: I know that Katie is probably not very happy. They
Speaker 1: were spotted filming a few weeks back. Tom and Katie
Speaker 1: in a very intense argument, and apparently it was about
Speaker 1: him kind of flirting with other girls. So even though
Speaker 1: they're getting divorced, she's like, you're still my baby, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a minute before I'm gonna let you
Speaker 1: hook up with other girls. I mean, unfortunately that's not
Speaker 1: her choice now that she filed for divorce from him.
Speaker 3: So I'm glad.
Speaker 1: I'm glad that Tom seems to be able to move
Speaker 1: on because I was actually worried about him. I felt
Speaker 1: like he would be like stuck being single forever because
Speaker 1: I felt like he was so comfortable in his marriage
Speaker 1: with Tom Sports. And he's told me this as much
Speaker 1: like he was like, I do not feel ready to date.
Speaker 1: This was like back in April, he was like, I
Speaker 1: can't date. It's I can't even like take my wedding
Speaker 1: ring off. So he is making strides and Katie has
Speaker 1: been on a few dates since calling it quits with Schwartz,
Speaker 1: So like, if you're gonna spread your wings in fly,
Speaker 1: you gotta let him leave the nest to Katie.
Speaker 2: So Lisa banned upon present.
Speaker 1: Do you know that Actually, now that you say that,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't remember seeing her in any
Speaker 1: of the pictures. I actually need to look into that
Speaker 1: because I feel like I've been seeing all these she
Speaker 1: Anda wedding photos and I'm like, where did Maybe I
Speaker 1: was so focused on the fact that Sina wasn't wearing
Speaker 1: a crop top wedding dress that I just like totally
Speaker 1: forgot that Lisa was there. But uh, yeah, thanks for
Speaker 1: bringing that up, Carlos, because now I'm like what she there.
Speaker 1: I feel like she would have been she wouldn't have
Speaker 1: missed that. But I don't know if she would have
Speaker 1: flown to Mexico because she's got a lot going on.
Speaker 3: Do you know what.
Speaker 1: Actually, I don't think she was there because my friend
Speaker 1: was just in Vegas at her restaurant in Vegas and
Speaker 1: she texted me She's like, oh my god, Lisa and
Speaker 1: kenn are here and they're taking pictures with fans. So
Speaker 1: I don't think she could have been in Vegas and
Speaker 1: Mexico at the same time.
Speaker 3: So I don't know. I'm looking into this. I'm on it.
Speaker 2: You're on the job. See what happens on reality but
Speaker 2: the king when you get the exclusive, when you don't
Speaker 2: know that you're about this bill and exclusive. That's the
Speaker 2: purpose of this podcast, guy. So Evan, I adore you,
Speaker 2: I love you, and I'm sure my listeners want to
Speaker 2: follow you and just continue to get the tea from you.
Speaker 2: So let us know where we can follow you and
Speaker 2: where they can find you.
Speaker 1: So you can find me at Evan Reil on Instagram.
Speaker 1: I post a lot of my interviews there and also
Speaker 1: on page six dot com. You can check out what's
Speaker 1: going on there and then also I just launched my
Speaker 1: podcast with Page six. It's called Virtual Reality, and we've
Speaker 1: covered reality TV of course, lots of housewives. We've had
Speaker 1: some fun guests. Recently Drew Sidora from Atlanta is the
Speaker 1: most recent guest. Her and Ralph Pittman came onto the
Speaker 1: show and that was a lot of fun. So I
Speaker 1: co host that with Danny Murphy at Page six and
Speaker 1: you can check that out on Spotify and wherever you
Speaker 1: get your podcasts, Apple, like wherever you want to listen,
Speaker 1: you can, so yeah, check me out, guys.
Speaker 2: I love that. But congratulations on the podcast. You know,
Speaker 2: I adore you. We will be following and subscribing and
Speaker 2: continue to support you. So make sure the next tea
Speaker 2: you get, honey, you come back on Reality with the
Speaker 2: King and you give it to my fans.
Speaker 3: Oh you know, I'm always here for you.
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, but thank you Evan.
Speaker 3: All right, thanks Carlos.
Speaker 2: This was fun. Hey, rain drops. See, I really hope
Speaker 2: that you guys had a lot of insight based on
Speaker 2: the conversation between Eva and I. As you can see,
Speaker 2: even Evan Child wants me to do a Love and
Speaker 2: Marriage Atlanta starring Ninni leaks. Hey, Look, I'll say this once,
Speaker 2: I'll say it again. I'll say it over and over
Speaker 2: and over and over. I love me some Nini. I
Speaker 2: adore her, and if there's ever an opportunity for her
Speaker 2: and I to work together, trust me, I will jump
Speaker 2: at the chance. And that's all I will say. Okay,
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