Just one day after a bombshell report alleging Ramona Singer used “racial animus” and used the N-word during a conversation with a Black crew member on Real Housewives of New York, the reality star has been quietly removed from BravoCon.
The 66-year-old reality star — who starred in the first thirteen seasons of Real Housewives of New York City from 2008 to 2021 before the show received a soft reboot — was accused of using the N-word with a Black crew member.
She was also accused of claiming that most black people did not have “current fathers,” which the black crew member refuted.
Singer was originally scheduled to promote the fourth season of Bravo’s The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip at BravoCon, which takes place November 3-5 in Las Vegas.
However, Page six revealed that shortly after the report was published, Singer’s name was removed from the lineup.
Removed: Just one day after a bombshell report alleging Ramona Singer used “racial animosity” and used the N-word while speaking to a Black crew member on Real Housewives of New York, the reality star has been quietly removed from BravoCon
Accused: She was also accused of claiming that most black people didn’t have ‘current fathers’, which the black crew member refuted
Debunked: However, Page Six revealed that shortly after the report was published, Singer’s name was removed from the lineup
Singer was scheduled to promote the new Ultimate Girls Trip season at the convention with Luann de Lesseps, Dorinda Medley, Sonja Morgan, Kelly Bensimon and Kristen Taekman, but now she won’t be part of the event.
She previously appeared on the first season of Ultimate Girls Trip in 2021 with de Lesseps, RHOA’s Cynthia Bailey and Kenya Moore, RHONJ’s Teresa Giudice and Melissa Gorga, and RHOBH’s Kyle Richards.
This new season will reunite her with many of her former cast members, although notably absent are the most recent RHONY Housewives before the reboot – Leah McSweeney and Eboni K. Williams – the first Black Housewife in RHONY’s 13 seasons.
The original bombshell report from Vanity fair claimed that when Williams joined the cast ahead of season 13, the rest of the cast underwent a “virtual education session” that explored what kinds of things you could say on camera.
Singer and Williams were in attendance, along with Leah McSweeney, Sonja Morgan and Luann de Lesseps, along with a communications manager from NBCUniversal, a Bravo publicist and two representatives from a racial justice organization.
Williams – who claimed the meeting was a “cover your a** move” – said the meeting addressed issues that cast members should avoid saying, such as “the racist trope of black fathers not being there for their children.” ‘
‘What if they don’t have a father? Why can’t I say that?'” Singer said during the meeting, according to Williams. “Most of them don’t.”
The Bravo publicist — who is black — told Singer that she did indeed have a father, although Singer went on to say that she had read a study claiming that most black children do not.
Eboni: This new season will reunite her with many of her former cast members, although notably absent are the most recent RHONY Housewives before the reboot – Leah McSweeney and Eboni K. Williams – the first Black Housewife in RHONY’s 13 seasons
Cast: Singer and Williams were in attendance, along with Leah McSweeney, Sonja Morgan and Luann de Lesseps, along with a communications manager from NBCUniversal, a Bravo publicist and two representatives from a racial justice organization
Trope: Williams – who claimed the meeting was a “cover your a** move” – said the meeting addressed issues that cast members should avoid saying, such as “the racist trope of black fathers not being present for their children’
McSweeney, 41, had corroborated Williams’ account of the alleged events in the Vanity Fair report.
Singer responded to the Vanity Fair report by saying, “The training included ‘open dialogue.’ In that spirit, I asked a question about a statistic I had read about single-parent households, where children in single-parent households were statistically less likely to succeed than two-parent households.”
The report also sheds light on a scene in which De Lesseps called Williams an “angry woman,” which Williams interpreted as an “angry black woman.”
As Williams left the set, Singer stayed behind and reportedly “slammed her hands on the table” and said, “This is why we didn’t need black people on the show… This is going to ruin our show.”
Singer told Vanity Fair that “absolutely” didn’t happen, adding, “In fact, I supported adding several cast members long before Eboni was added.”
Williams left the show after the 13th season, with Bravo even canceling the typical end-of-season reunion special.
Just months later, in March 2022, Bravo announced a complete reboot of the series, with an entirely new cast, marking the first time the network decided to completely replace an entire cast.