Andy Cohen insinuates Jen Shah is leaving ‘RHOSLC’ after guilty plea
“The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” may be down a snowflake come Season 4.
Andy Cohen insinuated at BravoCon 2022 on Sunday that Shah will no longer be on the Bravo reality show after pleading guilty to fraud in July.
When a fan asked the producer, 54, why the embattled “Housewife,” 49, was absent from the series’ panel on Saturday, he answered carefully — and cryptically.
“Once we wrapped [Season 3 and] she pled guilty, I think that was kind of, unfortunately, the end of, you know, the engagement there,” he said. “But I hope to sit down with her and talk to her at some point on camera because I have a lot of questions for her.”
Shah was arrested in March 2021 for allegedly running a nationwide telemarketing scheme that targeted hundreds of people, predominantly the elderly.
The dramatic moment that federal agents tracked down and handcuffed Shah aired during Season 2 of “RHOSLC.”
Originally, she pleaded not guilty and vociferously denied the charges.
“I’m fighting this. I am innocent,” Shah told Cohen and her castmates at the Season 2 reunion. “And I will fight for every person out there that can’t fight for themselves because they don’t have the resources or the means, so they don’t fight.”
However, Shah changed her plea to guilty during a surprise hearing in July.
Her plea deal calls for up to 14 years in prison and restitution of up to $9.5 million.
The reality star was scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 28, but she will now learn her fate on Dec. 15. The delay was due to a “scheduling conflict on the part of several members of the government team.”
In an interview for the first season of the show, Shah bragged about her ability to make money.
“What I’ve done for the last 20 years is direct response marketing. I make millions,” she boasted in a confessional filmed on Dec. 9, 2019.
“Hey, you’ve gotta do what you’ve gotta do for money. I’m like the Wizard of Oz.”