While some have compared filming The Real Housewives to playing a game of social chess, Heather Dubrow says, if you play the show like a game, you lose. "When you come into a friend group, you should try to make friends," the Real Housewives of Orange County star muses to ET. "Not try to dig stuff up on people, months before you meet them, or look to have problems with people.
It's just all inauthentic. It doesn't work." That commentary is a direct hit at season 18 newcomer Katie Ginella , whom Heather dubs "Noella 1.
5," a reference to season 16's one-hit-wonder Housewife, Noella Bergener . She and Heather famously did not get along, with Heather routinely claiming Noella invented stories to cause drama on the show. Heather says Katie pulled out the same playbook, pointing to a heated moment teased in the season 18 trailer, during which Katie calls Heather a liar.
Heather compares going up against Katie to "fighting shadows." "When someone comes into our friend group and wants to make a big splash, when someone thinks they're smarter than the show, you've lost," she says. "This is an authentic friend group.
I have a history with all these women, and it would have been nice to have Katie come in and just get to know me. And I'm actually-- I'm sad that she didn't, because maybe we would have been friends." It's safe to say, RHOC fans won't see Heather and Katie mend fences in season 18 ("She just gave an interview and said she hated me," Heather notes),but Heather has strengthe.
