Rachel Zoe is returning to Bravo — this time with a diamond in hand.
The style designer introduced Friday that she is becoming a member of the solid of The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills for its upcoming fifteenth season.
“It’s official, I’m coming again to Bravo!” Zoe mentioned in an Instagram video. “I’m becoming a member of the solid of The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills.”
Zoe starred within the community’s The Rachel Zoe Venture for 5 years. After making her TV breakout in 2008 on the truth present, the sequence ran for 5 seasons and chronicled the previous movie star stylist’s skilled and private life till 2013. Her addition to RHOBH will mark her return to Bravo for the primary time in roughly 12 years.
“It’s been some time and also you’ve been asking me to come back again to tv and I mentioned when the celebs align or it is sensible or I’ve sufficient to say to share with all of you and now’s the time,” she added within the Instagram video. “Actually excited to be with all of you once more and I hope you might be too, so let’s have some enjoyable!”
Zoe’s addition to the solid of RHOBH comes on the heels of Garcelle Beauvais’ exit from the present. Earlier than the Beverly Hills-based Actual Housewives sequence aired its season 14 finale earlier this 12 months, the actress introduced her departure in an Instagram video.
Alongside Beauvais, the season 14 solid starred Kyle Richards, Dorit Kemsley, Erika Jayne, Sutton Stracke, Bozoma Saint John and recurring stars Kathy Hilton and Jennifer Tilly. Other than Zoe confirming her casting, it’s unclear which housewives will return for season 15.
The style designer not too long ago mirrored on her rise to fame following The Rachel Zoe Venture in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. She admitted that she “by no means needed to be well-known” and “turned by chance well-known, honestly.”
“From the day I graduated school, my dad’s like, ‘You’re on the flawed aspect of the digicam. It is advisable be in entrance,’” she recalled. “And I’d say, ‘Dad, I’m the person who declines the lead within the play,’ which I’ve completed … I used to be all the time extra comfy behind. I actually was.”
Zoe added, “Somebody would possibly say, properly, however you probably did a actuality present (The Rachel Zoe Venture). The reply to that’s the intention of that present was to not be about me. It was really to be concerning the designers. Really, I used to be attempting to be Elsa Klensch for CNN Type.”