Kate Aurthur After its well-received, highly rated 18th season on Bravo, which concluded in November, “The Real Housewives of Orange County” will once again add Gretchen Rossi to its ranks — she will appear as a “friend” of the cast.
Production on the show’s 19th season began this week, with the entire cast returning, except for former “friend” Alexis Bellino.
Rossi joined the cast of “The Real Housewives of Orange County” — the OG series that kicked of Bravo’s “Real Housewives” franchise — in Season 4, which premiered in November 2008.
At the time of filming her first season, Rossi was engaged to Jeff Beitzel, an older man of means, and there were those in the cast who painted her as a golddigger (who “went to Bass Lake!”).
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