Amanda Seales is Leaving "The Real": "It Doesn’t Feel Good To My Soul"
by Denise Petski, Nellie Andreeva
June 4, 2020


Amanda Seales is saying farewell to daytime talk show "The Real".

“My contract is up … and I didn’t renew it because it doesn’t feel good to my soul to be at a place where I cannot speak to my people the way they need to be spoken to,” Seales said during an Instagram Live earlier this week. “And where the people who are speaking to me in disparaging ways are not being handled,” she added.




Sources tell Deadline she was offered a new deal, but declined to stay.

“I’m not in a space where I can, as a full black woman, have my voice and my co-workers also have their voices and where the people at the top are not respecting the necessity for black voices to be at the top too,” Seales said.




She later posted a follow-up statement that her decision to exit the show had nothing to do with her co-hosts.

“Do not try to create some false dissension between me and the co-hosts of The Real. Y’all so f***ing corny,” she said. “There is a whole pandemic and an uprising going on, and you still can’t find s*** else to do but try and create some kind of conflict that doesn’t exist? … What I gotta do with my business ain’t got nothing to do with them sisters.”

https://deadline.com/2020/06/amanda-seales-leaving-the-real-1202951067/

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It was not a voluntary exit for this daytime host, no matter how much they would like to portray it as such. Amanda Seales (https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/amanda-seales-talks-leaving-the-real-complains-about-staff-and-work-enivorment.3574631/)/"The Real" (https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/104052-the-real/page/2/#comments) (Amanda Seales Is Leaving ‘The Real’: ‘It Doesn’t Feel Good To My Soul" (https://deadline.com/2020/06/amanda-seales-leaving-the-real-1202951067/))

Tamera Mowry Exits as "The Real" after 7 Years
by Dave Nemetz
July 13, 2020


Tamera Mowry is done talking: The host of "The Real" is leaving the daytime talk show after seven years, TVLine has confirmed.

“For seven years, my home and heart has been at The Real,” Mowry said in a statement posted to Instagram on Monday. “The friendships that I’ve made there will last a lifetime, and the people that I’ve had the blessing to interview have changed my life for the better. I’m so proud of what all the ladies and I have accomplished there, including two well-deserved NAACP Image Awards and a Daytime Emmy.”




“However, all good things must come to an end,” she continued, “and it’s with a bittersweet smile that I announce that I am moving on from The Real. To my fellow hosts, I love you, I will miss you, and I will always be there for you. Thank you for teaching me, supporting me, and loving all of me. Sisters forever. I’ll be rooting for you, as I look forward to spending more time with my family, pursuing amazing new opportunities, and embarking on the next chapter of my life.”

(A source confirms to TVLine that Mowry is leaving the show to spend more time with her family.)

https://tvline.com/2020/07/13/the-real-tamera-mowry-leaving-host-quits/

Maybe the show can get her twin, Tia Mowry? :)

‘The Real’ Adds Garcelle Beauvais as Newest Co-Host (EXCLUSIVE) (https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/garcelle-beauvais-the-real-host-season-7-1234746964/)

Garcelle Beauvais has been named the newest co-host of “The Real,” Variety has learned exclusively.

Beauvais is joining the syndicated talk show, following the departure of Tamera Mowry-Housley, who announced earlier this summer that she had decided to exit the show after six seasons.

The seventh season of “The Real” kicks off on Sept. 21. The panel will feature Beauvais, Loni Love, Jeannie Mai and Adrienne Houghton.

“I am thrilled to be joining the dynamic, bold and diverse women on the award-winning talk show ‘The Real,'” Beauvais said. “My love for pop culture and news, blended with my natural gift of gab, has always made me gravitate towards a talk show environment. It’s also exciting that it’s happening right after my amazing time joining ‘The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.'”

Beauvais became the first Black cast member on “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” when she joined the Bravo show in 2020. The actress and model is perhaps best known for her stints on “The Jamie Foxx Show” and “NYPD Blue.” Recently, she was in “Spider-Man: Homecoming” and the CBS All Access series “Tell Me a Story.” She will appear in the upcoming sequel “Coming 2 America,” after appearing in the original 1988 film with Eddie Murphy.

“The Real” launched in 2013 with the lineup of Mowry-Housley, Love, Mai, Houghton and Tamar Braxton, who left the daytime show in 2016. Actress and comedian Amanda Seales was a co-host briefly, joining the show earlier this year in January, before departing this past June.

“The Real” is a rare success story for the syndicated market, which has not seen many new hits emerge over the past decade. The daytime series — which showcases a panel of women representing diverse perspectives on hot topics, hot-button issues, beauty, fashion, relationships and the co-hosts’ personal lives — started with a test run on the Fox stations in the summer of 2013, before launching into national syndication in fall 2014.

Beauvais has previously worked with the Fox stations, co-hosting the syndicated entertainment show “Hollywood Today Live” in 2016. She is not the first “Housewives” star to pull double duty on the Bravo franchise and a syndicated series on the Fox stations, as “Real Housewives of Atlanta’s” Porsha Williams is part of “Dish Nation.”

Like all other daytime talk shows that were impacted by the industry-wide production shutdown, “The Real” began to film remote shows during the coronavirus pandemic, and the upcoming season will continue in the same virtual format when the show returns.

“We are so thrilled to have Garcelle joining our ‘virtual’ Girl Chat Table,” says executive producer Rachel Miskowiec. “Her extensive career in front of and behind the camera, and her willingness to share her life and her points of view on important topics with us make her the perfect addition. We can’t wait for Season 7 to begin.”

“The Real,” which is produced by Telepictures Productions and distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, has won two NAACP Image Awards and the Daytime Emmy in 2018 for outstanding entertainment talk show hosts. The series has been renewed through Season 8.