Inside Gretchen Rossi’s Exit And More News For ‘RHOC’ Season 20

Because the milestone twentieth season of the inaugural “Housewives” metropolis is about to start out filming quickly, the solid has now been confirmed, and Rossi’s quest to reclaim her orange is over.

When it was initially introduced that Rossi would return to the present, many followers had been excited and hopeful that she would take down long-time nemesis Tamara Choose.

Nevertheless, regardless of beginning off sturdy in her new “pal of” function on the present, she in the end ended her season in a swirl of controversy that seemingly closed the door on her return.

In accordance with Variety, Rossi, who initially appeared on “RHOC” throughout season 4-8, is not going to be a part of the solid for the upcoming season. Her exit is the second affirmation for the solid of the brand new season, as Katie Ginella beforehand introduced that she had not been requested to return as a full-time solid member earlier this month.

Throughout the finish of the season, Rossi was blindsided when her past social media activity revealed a sequence of controversial likes whereas the solid was on the last dinner in Amsterdam.

Solid member Gina Kirschenheiter confirmed screenshots of a stunning Twitter thread from 2023 of Rossi liking a sequence of transphobic, anti-abortion, and anti-vaccine posts. Clearly caught off guard within the second, Rossi didn’t persuade the women that she didn’t just like the tweets and that she was being arrange.

Her response resulted in these within the solid who supported her wanting nothing to do together with her, and she or he left on the outs with everybody. Rossi’s followers had been ready for the reunion to see if she might present concrete proof that she was harmless, nevertheless it by no means actually occurred regardless of her finest efforts.

Whereas showing on the Bravo Aftershow, Rossi spoke out concerning the second her likes had been revealed and the fallout. “I used to be legitimately in shock and confused. After which it simply acquired weirder and weirder and weirder,” she mentioned in October 2025.

Rossi continued, posing the query:

“You are gonna inform me that this stuff have been out on the web and I have been out liking all these things… and nothing has ever been picked up by the media?”

“What am I imagined to say to this? I do know basically in my coronary heart what I really feel and the way I consider, so… Nevertheless it’s like, how are you imagined to defend that in that second?” she continued.

Along with Choose and Kirschenheiter, returning “Housewives” will even embody sequence mainstays Shannon Beador, Emily Simpson, Heather Dubrow, and Jennifer Pedranti. Nevertheless, one main former solid member’s return will certainly shake up the OC.

Late final yr, in November 2025, it was introduced that Vicki Gunvalson, an unique solid member of the present, would make her grand return as a full-time solid member simply in time for the twentieth season.

The announcement was made by Andy Cohen at BravoCon, in keeping with Deadline. ”Vicki, would you be a part of us as a housewife for Season 20?” Cohen requested Gunvalson whereas on stage on the occasion as followers loudly applauded.

Per Selection, Gunvalson’s return is the rationale that Choose was provided one other season on the present. “She’s been saved due to the storyline potential that comes from reuniting the now-splintered ‘tres amigas,’ which consisted of Gunvalson, Choose, and Beador,” in keeping with the outlet.