Out with Nene Leakes in with Amiyah Scott.
Bravo has cast transgender model Amiyah Scott in “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” for its upcoming eighth season.
The casting marks the first-ever transgender woman to be featured in the “Real Housewives” franchise.
Though Bravo declines to comment on any casting rumors surrounding the network’s programming, insiders tell Variety that Scott attended a Monday night event with the cast where she was filming scenes for season eight.
Scott, who has an avid social-media fanbase with just under 700,000 Instagram followers and 157,000 Twitter followers, describes herself as a “transformer” and “the unicorn with an invisible horn,” per her social-media accounts. According to TMZ, she began her transition 10 years ago at the age of 17 and was born with the name Arthur.
Scott on “RHOA” will join many transgender figures on reality television, following “Big Brother” casting its first-ever trans contestant this summer; ABC Family’s “Becoming Us” from exec producer Ryan Seacrest, which documents a teenage boy’s life after his father transitions; TLC’s summer series “I Am Jazz,” which follows 14-year-old trans teen Jazz Jennings; and E!’s Caitlyn Jenner docu-series “I Am Cait,” which is currently in the midst of its eight-episode run.
Original cast member NeNe Leakes will not return to season eight of “RHOA,” she announced earlier this year. The highest-rated of the long-running Bravo franchise, TMZ also reports “Facts of Life” alum Kim Fields has been added to the “Atlanta” cast.
Credit:Variety
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