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Andy Cohen has revealed Jen Shah‘s future with Bravo.
During an audience Q&A ahead of a January 2025 taping of Watch What Happens Live, a fan from the studio audience asked Cohen whether there was any chance of Monica Garcia or Shah returning to The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.
“Jen Shah…I never want to see again,” Cohen told the audience member, who captured his response in a video and only recently posted it to TikTok.
The former reality star’s team responded to Cohen’s comment with a statement posted to Shah’s Instagram Story. They wrote, “A respectful conversation has already been had with Bravo behind the scenes and there are no hard feelings.”
Shah starred in the first three seasons of RHOSLC before she was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison for her role in a telemarketing scheme. With her release date continuously moving up (it’s now scheduled for October 2026), fans have been wondering whether she would be coming back to the show. Even late-night host John Oliver called on Cohen, an executive producer on Real Housewives, to bring her back.
“If she does not get to go back on the show when she comes out, Andy Cohen is not the super producer that I think he is,” Oliver said during a recent appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, per The Wrap. “I think she walks straight back onto that show saying, ‘I’ve had a more interesting life than you. Sit down ladies, your tequila sales can come later. Jen’s got some stories.’”
Shah and Cohen previously traded blows in the media after she responded to Heather Gay‘s claim in the RHOSLC Season 4 finale that she was the one who gave her a black eye in Season 3.
“BRAVO, if I punched Heather in her eye, you guys would have footage to prove it. It’s clear the show can’t live without me since I was brought up at the beginning, middle and end of season 4,” she wrote in a January 2024 Instagram post. “Andy [Cohen] is still butthurt that I turned down his 1:1 interview. Why would you sit down with someone who ‘gave’ another cast member a black eye? Next story.”
Cohen later explained why their sitdown never happened in an episode of Radio Andy’s Andy Cohen Live.
“Her stipulations were insane. She wanted, in exchange for this, I’m trying to remember the specifics. I know she wanted us to do a docuseries of her days leading up to jail,” he claimed, per People. “She wanted a lot of money and she was still professing her innocence, so it would’ve been another interview of her sitting across from me lying to my face, which we got at two reunions from her, so that’s that. That’s my response to that.”
Watch What Happens Live airs Sunday through Thursday at 10 p.m. ET on Bravo. New episodes are available to stream the next day on Peacock.
