Shaunie O'Neal's Basketball Wives franchise is branching out to California but Shaunie thinks some of the new cast members are trashy...
From Ebony
As the show moves to a new city with a new cast of characters, Shaunie O'Neal says she has to keep it even more real with us: she’s not alltogether happy with the forthcoming season.
Though grateful to be working with Shed Media (the powerhouse reality show producers behind Bravo's hit, The Real Housewives of New York City) O’Neal says the experience has been a bit harrowing.
“Honestly, they’ve distorted it a little bit. I really came in with the concept of having a group of women that come together and are associated by the game of basketball, whether it be their husbands, fiancés -- there’s some long-term relationship with a man in basketball and the game of basketball -- and that’s how we formed this sisterhood and friendship,” she says. “The L.A. cast -- there are some wives and fiancés, which I’m fine with. But there’s a little bit of trash kind of sprinkled into that cast that I’m totally against. I was really very hands off with that cast.”
