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‘RHOA’ Cast News: NeNe Leakes Joins ‘Fashion Police’; Andy Cohen Defends Porsha Williams Firing? [GOSSIP NEWS]

Apparently no one is ever safe on the cast of Bravo's Real Housewives of Atlanta, except perhaps NeNe Leakes. While the Glee queen bee is putting out the word that she would love to replace Joan Rivers on the Fashion Police, Porsha Williams has virtually been fried from Season 7. Andy Cohen has defended the producers' decision to give the reunion recap pugilist's peach to Claudia Jordan in 2014. The Watch What Happens Live host claimed that Porsha got demoted at the last minute because it turns out she was too boring this go around--not because she KO'd Kenya Moore for questioning Kordell Stewarts sexuality.

NeNe Leakes has been crystal clear about her intentions to leave The Real Housewives of Atlanta just as soon as her contract is up at the end of Season 7.

Leakes might be retiring from the reality television racquet, but that doesn't mean she intends to retire form TV entirely.

During an interview with Extra, Leakes was very non-committal, but did admit that--truth be told--she really would like Joan Rivers' old seat on the panel:

"If the opportunity comes, it's a possibility I might, I might not...I'm a fashion designer, love fashion and I'll give you a good read every now and then so it may not be a bad place for me to be."

The Bravo producers presumably want NeNe Leakes to stay for as long as possible, but they just couldn't find a full-time spot of Porsha Williams on the show anymore.

Andy Cohen explained that despite what some people may think, Porsha was demoted to a mere "friend" of the show because she didn't have anything going on that they felt people would want to watch--not because Williams decided to attack Kenya Moore like an MMA fighter during last year's season reunion finale (via Perez Hilton):

"It had nothing to do with anything that happened at the reunion last season. Really, it was about the amount of story we got from Porsha this season.

"We went into it assuming she would be a full Housewife, holding a peach.

"We just haven't gotten enough to merit that. "

How many of you would be willing to take a demotion at work to punch Kenya Moore in the face on national television?

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