It’s true: Jennifer Lawrence was the Bravo superfan who helped with the Summer House audio leak investigation.
On April 24, the community had launched a full investigation into how audio footage from the April 23 reunion particular taping made its technique to social media effectively earlier than it was set to air. The three-part reunion didn’t start airing till late Could — and concluded on Tuesday evening.
Solely days after the leak, on April 26, Bravo concluded their probe, and fired the person who was described as being “involved in the production of the reunion” for his or her function within the leak. Bravo government producer and reunion host Andy Cohen condemned the violation, and in addition shared at the time {that a} Bravo superfan “who you’re gonna hear more about cracked the case [and] delivered crucial information.”
On Cohen’s Watch What Happens Live! Tuesday evening after the conclusion of the reunion, he confirmed that Lawrence was certainly that individual. On the time, Cohen sounded very enthusiastic about this fan — and Bravo and Cocktails reported that it could possibly be Lawrence; however the community by no means confirmed.
“There’s been a lot of speculation about who that superfan was, including the wild theory that it was actress Jennifer Lawrence,” Cohen stated Tuesday evening. “I wanted to personally thank that superfan. Folks, that superfan was indeed Jennifer Lawrence. Her online sleuthing helped our team solve this mystery.”
The unauthorized recording that had leaked was footage of the castmembers on the middle of the present’s off-camera scandal — Amanda Batula, West Wilson and Ciara Miller — arguing forwards and backwards concerning the occasions that led to Batula and Wilson coming out with their secret relationship and defending it, regardless of Batula being married however estranged to castmember Kyle Cooke and Wilson being Batula’s buddy and Miller’s ex-boyfriend. Batula and West cited an alleged video of them collectively as prompting their assertion about their relationship.
That footage, nevertheless, by no means made it to the ultimate reduce. Josh Brown, vp of present manufacturing for Bravo, explained to The Hollywood Reporter throughout a collection of reunion interviews that the leaked audio was uncooked footage throughout the 10-hour taping “we’re never going to play the whole 10 hours. Choices need to be made. We didn’t really pay attention to what was in the leaked audio versus what we would normally do. We just made the episodes utilizing the normal creative process. I don’t feel like there was anything left out, and I’m not even talking about the leaked audio, but I don’t feel like there was anything big that the viewer missed.”
On the conclusion of the reunion on Tuesday, Bravo introduced a forthcoming bonus episode. Summer season Home: The Aftermath will air July 16 and can characteristic three conversations to cowl the persevering with unfolding scandal for the reason that reunion taping. The sitdowns had been filmed three weeks after the reunion: “Lindsay gives Amanda some tough love while Kyle seeks honesty from West. Ciara meets up with Meija in-person,” reads the logline.
In regards to the bonus episode, Brown informed THR that the castmembers within the sitdowns “definitely get to a new place” after what could possibly be seen as an unfinished reunion, given all of the questions nonetheless swirling across the West and Batula romance. “I think it’s too simplistic to say ‘closure,’” he stated of the bonus episode chats,
including, “These are issues that are going to take a lot of time to work through, if they ever get worked through. I don’t really know where it’s going to go in the future, but it definitely got to very interesting new levels of understanding where the other person is coming from. I think viewers will find it pretty fascinating.”
The season 11 solid, in the meantime, continues to be on monitor to be set by the top of June, with filming start early July. Although Brown admitted that “it’s going to be very tough to get the full cast back together” after all the things that’s occurred. Nonetheless, he stated they aren’t season 11 as a reboot. “We do not feel like this is a reboot situation at all. We feel like this is evolving,” he stated. “It really comes down to what the show is, which is obviously about a summer share in the Hamptons, and in real life, every summer, there might be a core group but the group does evolve in real life share houses. So these things evolve. We can’t say exactly how many people are returning or exactly how many new cast members are joining, but there’s always new people to freshen the dynamic and we were planning for that before any of this scandal hit.” Read his full interview here.
