Taylor Armstrong teased the ups-and-downs of switching franchises on 'The Actual Housewives' on this EXCLUSIVE interview from BravoCon!
Taylor Armstrong, 51, is within the midst of filming season 17 of The Actual Housewives of Orange County, after making the bounce from The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills and solidifying herself as the primary ‘Actual Housewife’ to swap franchises. And when Taylor flew throughout the nation for BravoCon 2022 in NYC, HollywoodLife chatted with Taylor about her expertise thus far filming with a unique group of girls on RHOC.
“It was simply thrilling that Bravo has given me the chance to indicate the brand new facet of my life versus all that I used to be going by way of once I was on Beverly Hills was so traumatic,” Taylor advised us EXCLUSIVELY on Oct. 15. “And now I simply get to be precisely who I'm,” she added. “And simply benefit from the expertise and never be afraid to say one thing fallacious or do one thing fallacious. And so that you’re gonna get pleasure from it.”
Taylor went by way of main life struggles whereas she was on RHOBH. She was being abused by her husband Russell Armstrong, the daddy of her daughter Kennedy. Russell died by suicide after season 2 wrapped filming. Taylor left the present after season 3 and bought married to her legal professional John Bluher in 2014 and so they now dwell in Orange County.
In her chat with HL, Taylor talked about how totally different it’s been filming RHOC effectively into the franchise’s run, after being there for the start of RHOBH with Lisa Vanderpump, Kyle Richards, Camille Grammer, Adrienne Maloof, and Kim Richards.
“ what the attention-grabbing factor concerning the OC is? As a result of I used to be an OG for Beverly Hills, going onto a forged that has historical past has been attention-grabbing. I’m sort of catching up on the information,” she defined. “As a result of they've years of stuff that they’re nonetheless sort of hashing out, and so I’m simply making an attempt to determine like, who’s in the proper, who’s within the fallacious, and everyone has their very own facet. So I feel that’s been the attention-grabbing factor about switching. So that you’re gonna see some historical past with these girls popping out this season.”
Taylor secured her return to ‘Actual Housewives’ after starring on season 2 of Final Ladies Journey with a number of ex-Housewives together with Tamra Decide, who can be again for season 17 of RHOC. Taylor advised us that whereas she’s friends with Tamra and likewise knew Heather Dubrow, she’s been most pleasantly shocked by Emily Simpson.
Had a lot enjoyable becoming a member of the #RHOC panel with these superior girls and may’t wait so that you can see Season 17. 💋 #BravoConpic.twitter.com/B15JSaIKcL
— Taylor Armstrong (@TaylorArmstrong) October 17, 2022
“The largest shock for me has been attending to know Emily. She’s actually enjoyable,” Taylor advised us. “And she or he speaks her thoughts. She’s very simple. the place you stand together with her. And we simply had a whole lot of enjoyable collectively.”
Taylor additionally teased that the RHOC season 17 forged has skilled “emotional moments collectively” as far as they proceed filming. “I really feel like as a forged we’re actually bonding. They usually’ve been very welcoming for me coming into their flock of girls,” she stated. “So I feel you’re gonna see some emotion.”