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Kyle Richards Reacts to Rumors That Sister Kathy Hilton Is Joining Season 11 of ‘The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’
The more, the merrier! Kyle Richards has no qualms about sister Kathy Hilton potentially filming season 11 of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
“Well, God knows. I did that for a long time on the show,” Richards, 51, exclusively told Us Weekly on Thursday, October 22, of mixing work and family while promoting Annual Mammogram Day. “I think it would be interesting and fun. I feel like it’d be an adventure, and people know from watching the show that we’ve gone through some rough times together but we’re great. We talk every day, many times a day, and we laugh. And so, I think it’d be fun.”
The Bravo star would not go so far as to confirm reports that Hilton, 61, will be a part of the next season. “I don’t know. I cannot … I don’t know. I don’t know,” she said. “We’ll see.”
Hilton has in the past denied that she was joining the reality show, but she played coy in September. “@KyleRichards18 drum roll @kathyhilton next season,” a fan commented on Instagram at the time, to which the socialite replied, “Your [sic] very kind. I am thinking?????”
A source also told Us that Hilton is in talks for a part-time role for season 11.
The Bravo series has had its fair share of cast shake-ups after a tumultuous season 10. Denise Richards and Teddi Mellencamp will not return, while Kyle, Lisa Rinna, Garcelle Beauvais, Dorit Kemsley and Erika Jayne are expected to come back.
During her downtime from filming, Kyle is encouraging others to participate in Annual Mammogram Day at the Bedford Breast Center on Saturday, October 24. Women in need of a free mammogram who were nominated by Dr. Susan Love Foundation will receive an appointment at the facility with the option for genetic testing for the BRCA gene for those who qualify.
The TV personality has partnered with Dr. Heather Richardson, her longtime breast surgeon, to bring attention to the importance of early detection during Breast Cancer Awareness Month in honor of her late mother, Kathy Richards. “I lost my mom to breast cancer 18 years ago,” she told Us. “So it’s really important to me to use my platform and my voice and get out there and remind women to get their mammograms and do a self-exam every single month because you really can save your life.”
Kyle Richards Reveals How She and Husband Mauricio Umansky Really Felt About Those Split Rumors
Sharing her two cents. Kyle Richards revealed how she and her husband, Mauricio Umansky, felt about a recent rumor about them pumping the brakes on their marriage.
“It used to get me so upset when lies were out there about me,” Richards, 51, told Us Weekly exclusively on Thursday, October 22, while championing Annual Mammogram Day at the Bedford Breast Center. “I’m gonna get myself so worked up and so emotional. And now, I really just like — oh, my God. I can’t believe it. But this [new] one threw us for a loop. This last one, because we didn’t know [about it], I don’t have a Google alert or anything either.”
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star continued, “We posted a picture in Aspen together and somebody wrote in the comments, ‘I’m so glad to see all the rumors aren’t true.’ And [Mauricio] looked at me and he said, ‘What are they talking [about in] this comment?’ And I was like, ‘I don’t know. Let’s Google.’ We were like, ‘What?’ And then, like, a week later, people were texting me [and saying], ‘I hope everything’s OK. I was like, ‘Oh, my God.’”
The California native discovered that the social media rumor claimed that a West Coast-based Housewife recently split from her husband and was having an “extended ‘hot girl summer.’” Richards, however, insisted to Us that the person being described “wasn’t me.”
Richards has been married to Umansky since 1996. She was previously married to Guraish Aldjufrie, with whom she shares 31-year-old daughter Farrah, from 1988 to 1992. In addition to Farrah, Richards shares daughters Alexia, 24, Sophia, 20, and Portia, 12, with Umansky.
Richards spilled on how the longtime couple have been holding up during the coronavirus pandemic. “There have been a couple of moments where I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, he talks so loud.’ He’s always on the phone,” she told Us on Thursday. “But for the most part, we were just saying the other night, like, ‘You know, going through something like this, you really realize the people that you really miss and the people that you really don’t.’”
The reality star continued, “And I was like, ‘I’m really, like, OK, like, not, like, seeing as many people.’ And I’m like, ‘How was it that we’re married 25 years?’ And we’re still hanging out together. [It] really is amazing to me. It was a shock, but we still like hanging out together.”
Instead of focusing on baseless rumors about her marriage, Richards is setting her attention on Annual Mammogram Day at the Bedford Breast Center on Saturday, October 24. During Breast Cancer Awareness month, the Bravolebrity is partnering with her longtime breast surgeon, Dr. Heather Richardson, to raise awareness to early detection of the disease. Deserving women nominated by the Dr. Susan Love Foundation will receive a free mammogram at Bedford Breast Center.
Richards got involved in the cause because of her late mother, Kathleen Richards, who died from the illness in 2002.
“I lost my mom to breast cancer 18 years ago. So, it’s really important to me to use my platform and my voice and get out there and remind women to get their mammograms and do a self-exam every single month, because you really can save your life,” she explained to Us. “When I think about the fact that my mom did not have a mammogram for five years because she was afraid, it tortures me, you know? So, I don’t want other women to suffer like that or their loved ones to suffer too.”
Kyle Richards Reveals She’s Been in Touch With Denise Richards After ‘Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ Exit
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills viewers won’t see Kyle Richards and Denise Richards make up on season 11, but according to the OG, the two women buried the hatchet behind-the-scenes.
“I never like leaving things hanging and having, you know, loose ends like that. And I’ve texted with her since then and we’re good,” the 51-year-old Bravo star exclusively told Us Weekly about her post-reunion relationship with Denise, 49. “We’re in a good place, but I would have loved to come back and work through all that, but you know, it didn’t end up that way but we can work it out off camera.”
Kyle, who joined Us to chat about Annual Mammogram Day, added that her biggest regret of the season was calling Denise a “ragamuffin” during a fight about glam.
“I said it in a not nice tone, that’s what I regret,” she explained. “But the word, honestly, my mom used to always, you know, call me a little ragamuffin. … It wasn’t like a horrible word, you know what I mean? It was just that night that I was, like, having a meltdown and I just didn’t like the tone. It didn’t feel like myself.”
Denise announced she wasn’t returning for season 11 of RHOBH after season 10 focused on allegations she had an affair with Brandi Glanville, which she repeatedly denied. Kyle, who sided with Brandi, 47, told Us that season 10 of RHOBH was her least favorite to film.
“I mean, we had our highest ratings. Our ratings were off the charts, but it was really one of my least favorite seasons, to be honest, just for me personally,” she admitted. “When there’s crazy stuff going on, [the audience loves it], but it creates a lot of anxiety for me. And I was really exhausted because I was filming Halloween movie at the same time and filming the Housewives and launching my clothing line, Kyle and Shahida.”
The former child actress added that she didn’t think she “handled” everything well as she tried to balance it all.
“I felt exhausted. I looked exhausted, and I hated everything that was going on with the drama with women,” she said. “It was just too much. So, I’m happy to, like, start fresh.”
While Kyle played coy about the cameras rolling again, she told Us that her costars will join her at the Bedford Breast Center on Saturday, October 24, for an event bringing attention to the importance of early detection during Breast Cancer Awareness Month in honor of her late mother, Kathleen Richards.
“We nominated women [for free mammograms] that we felt, you know, were very deserving of and were in the position to go and get a mammogram,” she explained. “So, it’s nice. And Lisa Rinna is going to be there with me because we both go to the Bedford Breast Center, so she’ll be there and one or two of my sisters.”