Jen Shah is threatening to sue Heather Homosexual, Andy Cohen and Bravo for defamation and slander if she is immediately accused of giving her former co-star and buddy a black eye all the way through the “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” reunion.
A rep for the Bravolebrity instructed Web page Six Thursday that Shah, who is lately in jail for fraud, “caught wind” of the reunion preview and “is most likely going to seek legal action” in accordance with the “wording” used.
“If in the final cut of the three-part ‘RHOSLC’ reunion, Heather makes any direct reference to Jen Shah giving her the black eye, legal action will be taken by the Shah family against Andy Cohen, NBC Universal, Bravo, Shed Media, and Heather for slander and defamation,” they instructed us.
The preview for the extremely expected reunion dropped Wednesday night time, and, in it, Cohen immediately asks Homosexual if “Jen gave [her] the black eye?”
“Yeah,” the Attractiveness Lab + Laser proprietor replies, main the Bravo head honcho to invite her to provide an explanation for “how it happened.”
Homosexual showed that Shah, 50, gave her the hefty shiner — regardless of in the past pronouncing she didn’t know the way it came about — all the way through the Season 4 finale aired Tuesday.
Within the bombshell episode, the “Bad Mormon” writer instructed newcomer-turned-villain Monica Garcia she felt like she “had to lie to protect” Shah amid her fraud trial.
“I did whatever it took,” Homosexual, 49, yelled. “I went on book tour and defended her and took s—t for the fact that she gave me a black eye.”
On the other hand, when making the obvious confession, Homosexual particularly didn’t use Shah’s title. She additionally didn’t specify how she were given the black eye.
“Heather makes reference to ‘she’ giving her a black eye, but does not mention Jen Shah’s name,” the rep identified, noting that they're going to most probably take felony motion if Homosexual does immediately accuse Shah.
Shah’s rep additionally claimed that the community used “an ‘out of context’ clip to suggest that Shah was the culprit behind her black eye.”
Following the large divulge, the episode lower to a clip from Season 3 the place Homosexual first published her black eye to Shah and Meredith Marks. She additionally had a chain of scratches on her hands that she allegedly couldn’t give an explanation for.
Surprised, Marks requested Homosexual “when” it came about as they'd all been in combination up till a couple of hours prior to.
“That’s what we don’t know,” Shah spoke back with an aspect look at Homosexual. “We are walking through everything.”
Reps for Cohen, Homosexual and Bravo didn't in an instant reply to Web page Six’s request for remark. In the meantime, reps for NBC Common had no remark.
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Following Homosexual’s confession, Shah took to her Instagram Tale to battle the declare, arguing that if she had “punched Heather in her eye” then Bravo “would have footage to prove it.”
Her rep additionally instructed us that the community “conducted a full investigation after Heather was injured” however temporarily closed it after they “found no record of any wrongdoing on behalf of the ladies, or Shah.”
But the previous fact TV celebrity believes she is being blamed for the harm as a result of Cohen, 55, remains to be “butt hurt” that she became down his be offering to do a one-on-one interview following her conviction — which he disregarded on his morning radio display Wednesday.
“I had forgotten about the one-on-one with Jen,” he instructed listeners. “She is right. I did want to do a one-on-one with her [but] I don’t care about it anymore. I’m over it.”
Cohen claimed the rationale they didn’t do the interview was once because of Shah’s “insane” calls for, equivalent to a hefty payout and a docuseries about her ultimate days of freedom.
He additionally answered to Shah’s statement that Bravo was once hiding pictures that confirmed how Homosexual in truth were given the black eye.
“I don’t want to be Captain Obvious here, but if we had footage, don’t you think we would have aired it?” he requested paradoxically.
“Don’t you think we would have [shown] Heather saying, ‘I don’t know how I got the black eye’ and then don’t you think we would have cut to the footage with a Chiron that said, ‘Four hours earlier?’”
Cohen then identified that simply because there isn’t pictures of the alleged altercation doesn’t imply it didn’t occur.
Section some of the “RHOSLC” reunion airs on Jan. 9 on Bravo.