Kandi Burruss says it is the top of an period for her relating to The Real Housewives of Atlanta.
Speaking with ET’s Nischelle Turner on the crimson carpet on the 2024 GRAMMY Awards, the beloved RHOA solid member, 47, stated she is taking a step again from the franchise after 14 seasons with the present to deal with different tasks in addition to her household.
“I have been going backwards and forwards and I believe as a result of they gave us such a protracted break, I had a variety of time to do different issues and I’ve acquired some massive bulletins to make coming quickly, so yeah,” Kandi informed ET. “I imply, I like the ladies, they’re my associates, I am nonetheless gonna see them and hang around with them. And Bravo is my household, I like them as properly, however you understand.”
Kandi has had the longest run within the present’s 15-season historical past, showing in each season excluding season 1. She can also be the longest-running Housewife in the entire numerous exhibits aired by Bravo.
“Any person requested me just lately, they had been like, ‘Properly, why do you retain doing it?’ and I used to be like, ‘To be trustworthy with you, I believe as a result of I have been doing it 14 years.’ And so now, I really feel prefer it’s — I do it as a result of I am used to doing it. However with all the opposite issues I acquired occurring,” she stated, giving a motive as to why she is leaving.
Season 15 of RHOA wrapped in January 2023 and aired from Might to September. Kandi and the opposite solid members have since had a 12 months off from filming, which allowed them to pursue different avenues.
“I believe after they determined, they had been like, ‘OK, we’re taking this break, you understand, rearrange the solid and all this different sort of stuff,’ after which it is like, it gave me time, you understand, I by no means have time — I by no means had time.”
For Kandi, that meant focusing her vitality on her quite a few enterprise ventures and household. The Housewife and her husband, Todd Tucker, are producing extraordinaires and recently created Kandi Burruss and Todd Tucker’s The Pass, which aired on Peacock.
“I am doing Broadway and I — you understand we’ve got The Wiz that is coming,” she stated, referencing her function as a producer on the revival that’s at the moment touring the US. “I am excited for that after which I acquired some extra issues to announce in that lane, as properly. You already know, an excessive amount of, I do not wanna discuss an excessive amount of forward of time.”
Kandi informed ET that whereas she virtually can’t consider a world by which she would not return to The Actual Housewives of Atlanta for season 16, she is happy by what the longer term holds and the potential that lies forward for her and the present.
“I believe as a result of whenever you do one thing for 14 years persistently, it is sort of arduous to assume [of] to not do it, however then it is simply sort of like, you understand, what am I tripping? I am busy,” she stated.
It is unclear when the sixteenth season of The Actual Housewives of Atlanta will start filming and which solid members are set to return.
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