Alexis Bellino.
(Photo by Amanda Edwards/Getty Images)Alexis Bellino will not return for the 19th season of The Real Housewives of Orange County.
The reality star confirmed her departure during an appearance on the Friday, December 20 episode of “I’m going rogue” podcast on which she was a guest.
“I wasn’t asked to come back next season,” Bellino, 47, revealed.
Nice, who especially clashed with castmate Shannon Storms Beador60, said she wasn’t too surprised to learn she couldn’t return.
“I can’t say it came as a shock, it didn’t come as a shock,” Bellino said on the podcast. “It was a tough conversation. … I guess I wasn’t really prepared (because) I didn’t think contracts were going to come out — like, I thought we had more time. … (So) it was a shock when the call came, but I was never shocked by that information.”
Bellino had returned to hosts franchise as “friend” after a ten-year absence. (Bellino began his first stint in 2008’s Season 4 before leaving in Season 8.)
On the podcast, Bellino said that having previously faced leaving the show meant she was able to take the news in stride.
“It was a little bit of a relief,” Bellino said. “I mean, nobody wants rejection and nobody wants (to hear) you’re not wanted back. But it already happened to me. It happened to me in Season 8. Been there, done that!”
Alexis Bellino.
(Photo by Getty)Storms Beader and Bellino clash in Season 18. Part of their feud stems from Bellino choosing to date Storms Beader’s ex-boyfriend John Jansen, with whom she broke up in 2022. Bellino and Jansen, 64, became part in 2023. and announced in August that they were engaged.
Speaking of Us Weekly in November, Storms Beader confirmed that she did not like filming with Bellino.
Shannon Beador wants nothing to do with Alexis Bellino or John Jansen. “There were other reasons, John, aside, why I don’t want to be friends with (Alexis),” Beador, 60, exclusively told Us Weekly earlier this month while discussing the new season of The Real Housewives of Orange County . “There is the clip where she goes, (…)
“I was on Nick Viall’s podcast and he said, ‘What are you going to do if Alexis comes back on the show?’ And my response was, ‘I’m never filming with Alexis again,'” she recalled. “If they decide to bring Alexis back on the show, enjoy, but I won’t be filming with you.”
She added: “I never said I wasn’t coming back. I might have done it in my third or fourth year and I’ve never done it since.
Storms Bidder said she would like to return for season 19, but added, “But if Alexis Bellino comes back, I’m sorry, I won’t be around (her).”
