Real Housewives' Ramona Singer booted from BravoCon after texted slur

Apparently, we’ve finally reached the point where enough is enough with Ramona Singer. Viewers of Real Housewives Of New York already knew Singer had problematic tendencies, so the revelations about her in a recent Vanity Fair investigation likely didn’t come as a surprise. It’s also likely not all that surprising that Andy Cohen and Bravo continued to associate with her despite apparent inappropriate behavior in front of the cameras and behind the scenes. But at a certain point, even the most shameless reality television network around has to draw a line on racism, and Singer’s response to the VF article is apparently that line.

Her response, specifically, was to a Page Six reporter, who screenshotted a text exchange with Singer wherein the reality star wrote an abbreviated slur. “This is also upsetting,” Singer texted the reporter, “And the word I used was ‘NWord’ not n*g….” Hours after the story was published, Singer was removed from the lineup for the three-day BravoCon event in Las Vegas, according to Variety.

The text exchange is all part of an ugly vortex that began in 2021, when Singer was investigated for remarks made on the 13th season of RHONY, which featured the series’ first Black Housewife, Eboni K. Williams. According to the Vanity Fair investigation, after a tense exchange with Williams on-camera, Singer vented to the show’s only Black producer Darian Edmondson. She allegedly told Edmondson that being called a “shiksa” is “literally like somebody calling you a n****r.”

Singer continues to deny having used the full slur. Williams, who was not present at the time the word was said, told Vanity Fair that in a meeting with NBCUniversal executives and an outside lawyer, the lawyer (who was not representing NBCU) tried to downplay the issue by pointing out that Singer didn’t call Edmondson the N-word, she’d just said it. NBCU’s chief diversity officer responded to this by saying, “No, what we’re not gonna do is sit here and litigate the capacity in which the N-word was used in the presence of a Black woman.”

To make a long story short: network executives were aware that Singer had used the slur, and were seemingly cognizant that it was inappropriate in that context. Yet Singer remained part of the Bravo stable, moved from RHONY to Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: RHONY Legacy. Apparently, though, Singer’s propensity for spouting off a slur (to a reporter, no less!) was the final straw that made Bravo realize she’s more of a liability than an asset. So bye-bye, BravoCon; you’ve likely seen the last of Ramona Singer.