Reality TV queen NeNe Leakes is keeping things hotter than ever on season 6 of The Real Housewives of Atlanta.
Just last week the Bravo series shattered ratings records scoring a Real Housewives franchise high with over 4.5 million total viewers.
NeNe says the jump in ratings is simply because The Real Housewives of Atlanta is better than all the other Housewives series.
“Our show is definitely better than the other Housewives shows. No shade to the other girls… they are blonde we are brown, so there is a difference,” NeNe told theGrio’s Chris Witherspoon. “We’re more relatable, our issues are real, and we have the least amount of plastic surgery, while some of these other girls are nipped and tucked. We’re just very real.”
During a 2012 interview with theGrio, NeNe revealed that her ultimate goal is to host her own hour-long talk show.
The Glee actress still plans to one day host a talk show and has repeatedly been approached to do so, but says she won’t be drawing any inspiration from former Housewife-turned-talk show host Bethenny Frankel.
“I wouldn’t say I am inspired by Bethenny. Bethenny is a vanilla girl. I am a brown girl and there are different doors that we have to walk through. Bethenny wouldn’t walk the same path as I would walk.”
NeNe echoed comments that Omarosa made during a confrontational appearance on Bethenny just months ago.
“It’s different for you and I,” Omarosa told Bethenny. “I am an African-American woman. You get to walk around and be mediocre and you still get rewarded with things. We have to be exceptional to get anything in this business.”
Lastly, NeNe weighed in the growing list of Housewives-turned-singers and also discussed RHOA star Porsha Williams and her plans to soon release a single, followed-up by a 5-track EP.
“I definitely can sing. I think that [the Housewives] have made a mockery out of it… A lot of these girls comin’ out singing who really can’t sing. It’s like a mockery. I don’t want to be a part of that whole circle.”
“I think Porsha is talented…I think she can sing, I just think that it’s not taken seriously enough,” NeNe says. “Hopefully it will work for Porsha.”
Watch Porsha Williams reveal plans for an upcoming music EP below:
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