It’s the franchise that has introduced us epic catfights, consuming, and drama, courtesy of names together with Bethenny Frankel, Luann de Lesseps, Lisa Vanderpump, Teresa Giudice, Dorit Kemsley and so many extra.

However “Actual Housewives” followers are lacking out on much more star energy, The Publish can reveal: A number of large names have turned down the chance to bear their Botox, Birkins, and Bentleys on Bravo’s juggernaut franchise.

Bravo’s “Holy Grail” of “Actual Housewives ” — aka Andy Cohen’s want checklist — consists of Vanessa Bryant, Chrissy Teigen, Julia Fox, Jana Kramer, and Ayda Discipline Williams.

As far again in 2012, Bryant — the widow of Lakers star Kobe Bryant — was rumored to be becoming a member of the “Actual Housewives” franchise, with the hypothesis operating scorching once more in 2014.

Alas, Bryant, now 40, repeatedly instructed the producers to level their cameras elsewhere.

Casting director Jennifer Redinger confirmed Bravo’s obsession with Bryant in Dave Quinn’s e-book, “Not All Diamonds and Rosé, The Inside Story of the Actual Housewives from the Individuals Who Lived It,” saying, “Kobe Bryant’s spouse, Vanessa Bryant? We pursued her yearly, and she or he was a no. She handed.”

A rep for Bryant instructed The Publish, “Vanessa has by no means been requested nor does she have curiosity in being on the present.”

Subsequent on the checklist are Ayda Discipline Williams, the spouse of British pop star Robbie Williams, and Chrissy Teigen, the mannequin and TV character married to John Legend.

Each names have been bandied about as replacements for Lisa Rinna, who dramatically stop the RHOBH franchise after eight seasons.

Teigen, 37, is Kyle Richard’s best choice to succeed Rinna.

And whereas Teigen is a self-professed tremendous fan of the present, she reportedly desires to maintain her involvement on the viewer degree, telling ET On-line final 12 months, “Lots of people assume that I, like, love battle or I’d be so good on, like, ‘Actual Housewives’ or one thing…I’m at all times like, ‘No, no.’”

Though Teigen has seemingly taken herself out of the operating, a manufacturing supply mentioned she has “by no means been in casting consideration,” leaving the door open to her altering her thoughts.

Discipline, 48, checks lots of bins: She’s fashionable, entrepreneurial, and is already good pals with forged member Crystal Kung Minkoff.

And he or she and Williams, 49, moved their three youngsters to Los Angeles from Switzerland this 12 months, presenting a brand new plotline for the present.

However The Publish can disclose that for now, she is past Cohen’s grasp — and her causes provide perception into why not each superstar desires to be a Housewife, regardless of the celebrity, diamond, and $150,000 paycheck.

“Ayda didn’t assume it was the appropriate time to begin filming the ‘Actual Housewives’ this 12 months as a result of it will have gone very deep into the household’s personal life,” a manufacturing supply instructed The Publish.

“There would have been filming of the ins and outs of their household life. Cameras would have been within the dwelling nearly each single day. Individuals don’t actually notice however the forged movie for six-eight months stable for every season. Every housewife has a cameraman with them nearly day-after-day.

“Each Robbie and Ayda didn’t assume letting the cameras in as they have been simply settling into their new life was the appropriate time.”

For viewers, the enchantment is clear, however Housewife stardom is a double-edged sword, the supply mentioned.

“When Housewives enroll they need to agree to point out all of their life — marriage ups and down, the arguments, the fights, the youngsters’s lives, all of it. Ayda and Robbie simply didn’t wish to give that out,” the supply mentioned.

“Robbie is definitely a fan of the Housewives franchise himself however had second ideas about changing into the focus himself. He sees his dwelling as his sanctuary.”

There may be, nevertheless, an opportunity of an look from Discipline sooner or later.

“Ayda may contemplate becoming a member of the following season, however due to all the pieces that she has to conform to, the quantity of entry the cameras want, I can’t see her changing into a foremost Housewife,” the supply mentioned.

“She may conform to changing into a ‘good friend’ to Crystal. That will imply much less dedication however she nonetheless secures an excessive amount of display screen time.”

One other starlet who was within the combine for RHOBH, in 2020, was nation singer and actress Jana Kramer, 39.

The One Tree Hill star was interviewed to be a “good friend” of Teddi Mellencamp nevertheless it didn’t go any additional when Mellencamp was axed from the sequence.

A manufacturing supply confirmed Kramer had not obtained a suggestion.

On the East Coast, actress Julia Fox joked “by no means say by no means” to Cohen on “Watch What Occurs Dwell” this previous January concerning becoming a member of the rebooted “Actual Housewives of New York.”

In truth, throughout her good good friend Leah McSweeney’s tenure on RHONY, Fox claims she was approached to be on the present.

“A producer did name me,” she mentioned on WWHL, “however I had quite a bit occurring in that second, so it simply wasn’t the appropriate time.”

Fox’s rep had no remark about whether or not Kanye West’s one-time-girlfriend would ever actually be a part of the forged, and a supply near Bravo mentioned she was by no means in casting consideration. 

Which begs the query: How far into the Bravo casting course of does one need to be thought-about a part of the “casting consideration?” Does being contacted by a casting agent or producer depend? Happening an audition? Receiving a suggestion?

Most of the big-game names on this article didn’t obtain auditions or affords, however they’re positively personalities who may slide proper into the RH universe. 

Throughout the George Washington Bridge, Gia Casey, spouse of DJ Envy (aka RaaShaun Casey), vocally declined the bravo-tunity to seem on RHONJ.

The facility couple and highschool sweethearts appear supreme for the present; they reside in New Jersey and are pals with one of many stars, Teresa Giudice.

However a manufacturing supply confirmed the couple’s message had been heard, saying Gia, like Fox, was “by no means in casting consideration.”

DJ Envy instructed Web page Six in April, “Now we have been requested a few instances about becoming a member of the ‘Actual Housewives,’ however I don’t assume that’s for us. I don’t know the way we might match into all of that. I shall be trustworthy, I don’t see myself hanging out with [the cast] a lot. Once they exit and do sure issues, it’s simply not my vibe.”

A supply at Bravo cautions that many rumored names are simply that, rumors.

“There are lots of people who put their names on the market that we’ve by no means talked to,” the supply mentioned.

Kate Casey, the podcaster behind the hit “Actuality Life with Kate Casey,” concurs that some individuals are shamelessly self-promoting.

“Among the ladies and their groups purposely drop the names of potential forged members to the media with the hope they are going to be thought-about,” Casey mentioned.

“This really does the alternative. Should you hear about somebody being thought-about as a housewife, it’s a surefire option to be eradicated from consideration.

“Bravo does an excellent job of retaining their identities quiet earlier than they’re revealed simply earlier than the season airs.”

Such was the case with actress Kristy Swanson, in keeping with the e-book, “Not All Diamonds and Rosé.”

Daybreak Stroupe, a casting director with Evolution, revealed that the unique “Buffy the Vampire” star tweeted that she had been contacted to do season 12 of the “Actual Housewives of Orange County.”

This was an enormous breach of protocol, and the tweet was frantically deleted.

Nonetheless, it was Swanson’s style fake pas that in the end did her in.

In Stroupe’s recollection, the Playboy centerfold wore a puffy vest, sweater, and denims for a gathering, which was removed from the high-glamor look the producers require for the Housewives.

However why do a number of the ladies who’re Housewives materials say no to Bravo?

“Spouses are a giant issue,” Casey mentioned. “If the husband is unwilling to take part it just about ends the dialog with manufacturing. Additionally, not everyone seems to be prepared to open up their lives for the world to select aside, particularly if they’ve secrets and techniques they wish to maintain hidden. Lastly, placing your private home and way of life on show may make you a goal.”

Others want to form and monetize their picture themselves, with out the vodka-soaked lens of Bravo.

Take the Skalla sisters — Rachel Parcell, Amy Skalla, Megan Hunsaker, and Emily Jackson — 4 very photogenic entrepreneurs and influencers in Salt Lake Metropolis.

Nicknamed the “Mormon Kardashians,” they’ve reportedly been on the radar for the “Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis” for some time however earn more money by their numerous enterprise and social ventures than they might on the present, in keeping with Casey.

A manufacturing supply mentioned they too have been by no means in “casting consideration.” 

“Influencers can rigorously curate their picture on social media,” Casey mentioned. “Taking part on a actuality present places you on the mercy of modifying.”

Further reporting by Nicole Lampert