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Amanda Frances offers insight into her unusual matcha beverage request.
Appearing alongside Rachel Zoe, 54, in a memorable segment of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, the 41-year-old newcomer elaborates on her seemingly intricate order. She also unveils her true name, addresses her past mug shot, and discusses her role in “carrying the show,” among other topics.
“The order is an iced matcha latte with easy ice, half almond and half oat milk, and a hint of honey. If it’s not ceremonial grade, the honey can’t mask the bitterness. The ceremonial grade is naturally sweeter. So, when I said, ‘I don’t think it’s ceremonial grade, what are we even working with here? Start over,’ it was because the second order was an iced latte with half almond, half oat milk, easy ice,” Amanda explained to Entertainment Tonight.
She further noted that the scene might have seemed more intense than it was, as producers edited out her request to change to a latte.
“I think that’s part of what people need to know, is what do we do if it’s not ceremonial grade. I’m a wealth of information,” she reasoned.
As for her real name, Amanda confirmed “Frances” is actually her middle name.
“Amanda Frances McKinney’s my full name. Amanda, I had AmandaFMcKinney.com, and it just wasn’t as vibey as AmandaFrances.com. It was an early business decision that stuck,” she revealed.
Moving on to her mug shot, which recently resurfaced, Amanda admitted that it circulates on the internet about every three years.
“That’s the annoying thing,” she stated, mentioning that she had previously explained the situation to Erika Jayne, 54, after someone sent her castmate the photo.
“So I’m living in Tulsa, this is 2016, I was out with a girlfriend. I parked in this gated parking lot, had a full night out. By the end of the night, I’m like, ‘I can’t drive home. I should get my car out of this thing and call an Uber.’ So I try to get my car out, and I’m blocked in. I can’t get anywhere,” Amanda recalled. “This guy had been kind of hitting on me all night, giving me a hard time, was like, ‘You can’t drive. You can’t drive.’ I’m like, ‘I’m not gonna drive, I’m just going to get my car to that spot, and my Uber’s on the way.’ Anyway, I was ignoring him, not paying attention to him. He jumped in front of a cop car, flagged down a cop … the cop came and tapped me on the shoulder, I was reaching for the door of the Uber … [and] the police officer said, ‘This man says you’re drinking and driving.’ I said, ‘Well, I tried to move my car, but I’m stuck.’ But I said, ‘I tried to move my car,’ cuz I wasn’t trying to lie about anything.”
“Anyway, the reason people can’t find the police report is it was dismissed and expunged,” she added.
Because she’s been involved in much of the drama throughout the first half of the RHOBH season, some have said that Amanda is carrying the show. And while Amanda suggested she wasn’t sure what that meant, she hoped it was a compliment.
“I’m like, ‘I don’t really know what that means, but I think it’s a compliment.’ It means I’m keeping it interesting, right?” she asked. “But I wasn’t trying to do that, I gotta tell ya.”
Also during the interview, Amanda admitted that she’s long had dreams of being a reality star.
“I have felt that I was going to be on TV, on reality TV, forever,” she shared. “It was like this thing I always wanted, this thing I always believed I would always do, and then there it was sitting in front of me.”
“When I bought [Kyle Richards]’s house, I wondered, I had this like, inkling, of could this be my way into reality TV, but you can’t know. At all. And it was so many years later from when I bought it that all of this happened. And I never thought a show like Housewives would be the show that I would do,” she added.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 15 airs Thursdays at 8/7c on Bravo.