Kathryn Edwards from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills offered more insight into how the series is produced.
Edwards returned to Behind the Velvet Rope with David Yontef podcast to dish a little more about what really goes on behind the scenes. “It happens, it happens,” she said about overly produced storylines.
“Everyone knows it happens,” she added. “The show is highly produced. It’s not scripted. So they don’t tell you what to say, But they’re making a storyline and as things happen, like I said earlier, they have to fill in blank spots. So the editors will say, ‘Oh, we need a scene to make this more cohesive.’ And they’ll, they’ll do a scene. And they literally like will say like, ‘We need you to kind of talk about this.’”
Kathryn Edwards describes how production works
Edwards described how a producer might approach a storyline with a cast member. “‘This is what happened the other night,’” she said. “‘How do you feel about that?’ It’s leading and it’s producing and sorry people at home, that’s the truth. That’s the truth.”
“So you can get mad all you want and hate everybody,” she added. “But there’s a lot of people doing their jobs to make a story. Now they don’t force you to say things. For Brandi [Glanville] they didn’t force her to slap [Lisa] Vanderpump. But it happens because I think the women want the camera time.”
She said the cast has the goal of delivering for the show. “They want to be great,” Edwards said. “And it is really like the little, you know, puppy, if you do something that’s kind of crazy, you know that, ‘Oh, that was great. You get that.’ It’s so you get a little slap on the back and an attaboy for maybe being a little bit of a fool.”
Edwards says being on the show makes good business sense
She pointed out that several cast members’ businesses have benefitted from being on the show. “You know, Kyle and Mauricio that are in the real estate business, it’s a perfect fit,” she said. “You know, they have these phenomenal homes to have these great parties in and you know, it’s great. It’s marketing for the agency and it’s a great fit for everybody.”
“And for Vanderpump, she’s got restaurants to promote,” Edwards added. “So, you know, party at the restaurant, there’s all of these kinds of trade-offs and gives and takes.”
However, Edwards isn’t sure why actor Denise Richards did the show, considering she had fame already. “But for someone who in Denise’s case, I don’t know why she did it,” she said. “Where you’ve already like I said, had a storied past and you have children who I think you’re trying to bring up in a, you know, a kind of normal, somewhat sheltered environment from the real-life of who their parents are and what the history is. I don’t know why she’d do it.”
