{"id":10170,"date":"2025-01-10T03:47:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T08:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realitytidbit.com\/?p=369558"},"modified":"2025-01-10T03:47:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T08:47:46","slug":"wait-what-rhoas-marlo-hampton-would-prefer-not-to-have-a-peach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/01\/10\/wait-what-rhoas-marlo-hampton-would-prefer-not-to-have-a-peach\/","title":{"rendered":"Wait, what?! RHOA&#8217;s Marlo Hampton would prefer not to have a peach?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Marlo Hampton is an icon in her own right. But, her real claim to fame came when she joined RHOA over a decade ago. Since then, she&#8217;s become a &#8216;Munty&#8217; to her two nephews, and now runs a fashion showroom, Le&#8217;Archive. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marlo is all about couture, but <a href=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/tag\/the-real-housewives-of-atlanta\">The Real Housewives of Atlanta<\/a> alum explains how she wasn&#8217;t always living a glam life filled with designer labels and extravagant parties. Her childhood involved &#8220;living in five different foster homes,&#8221; and &#8220;living on the streets.&#8221; She says how &#8220;tough&#8221; it was appearing on the Across Generations podcast this January.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Realities Behind Reality TV with Marlo Hampton\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d2QAqoBxxHQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-marlo-hampton-reveals-whether-she-d-return-to-rhoa\">Marlo Hampton reveals whether she&#8217;d return to RHOA<\/h2>\n<p>Speaking on the Across Generations podcast this January, Marlo explains how she was already thriving as a &#8220;fabulous&#8221; boutique owner before being asked to join RHOA as a &#8216;friend&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>She hopped aboard the cast for season 4 in 2011 and finally got a peach on the show in season 14 &#8211; 12 years later.<\/p>\n<p>Marlo isn&#8217;t set to appear in season 16 which airs in 2025. But, she addresses what capacity she would come back in if she did in the future.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"inline-links\">\n<li><svg width=\"20\" height=\"20\"><use href=\"#list-arrow-svg\"><\/use><\/svg><strong>OMG:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/news\/rhoas-best-duo-is-back-together-and-people-cant-contain-their-excitement\">RHOA\u2019s \u2018best duo\u2019 is back together and people can\u2019t contain their excitement<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>She tells host Tiffany Cross how her &#8220;larger than life Aquarius personality&#8221; had people saying &#8220;hey, we&#8217;ve gotta keep this girl around&#8221; as she appeared on the show initially as Nene Leakes&#8217; friend.<\/p>\n<p>Marlo explained how she pretty much appeared on the show in a full Housewife capacity but &#8220;didn&#8217;t have the title&#8221; and &#8220;didn&#8217;t get the pay&#8221; of a Real Housewife.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/tag\/reality-tv\">reality TV<\/a> star explains that she appeared on the show at first &#8220;for free&#8221; but adds: &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t free for me because I got a lot of perks, a lot of gigs, appearances, at the time I wasn&#8217;t worried about the money, I was dating a billionaire at that time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more-wrapper lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"embed_369558_1\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more twitter\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Marlo shares that she\u2019d prefer to come back to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RHOA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RHOA<\/a> as an official friend instead of a peach holder.<\/p>\n<p>via: Across Generations Podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Fi1Z9uG1zm\">pic.twitter.com\/Fi1Z9uG1zm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The RHOA Talk (@TheRhoaTalk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRhoaTalk\/status\/1877190541101687181?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"see-more-overlay\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"see-more-label\"><label for=\"embed_369558_1\">View Tweet<\/label><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-marlo-doesn-t-really-care-for-a-peach\">Marlo doesn&#8217;t really care for a peach<\/h2>\n<p>Telling her story on Across Generations, Marlo explains how two years ago, she finally got her peach status.<\/p>\n<p>She said &#8220;the world was happy about me getting a peach,&#8221; adding: &#8220;For true fans&#8230; it was a big deal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But, she explains how she wasn&#8217;t actually &#8220;happy about it&#8221; herself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love being a friend, I felt the show was in a bad place and don&#8217;t think I can just come and save the show. I came on with the originals, it was a different type of show, it was a different day and age and I feel the show just got dark all of a sudden.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She explains how &#8220;a lot of the girls never respected her&#8221; and that the cast &#8220;went below the belt,&#8221; &#8220;including her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But, she doesn&#8217;t rule out returning to RHOA. Marlo says she would appear on the show again in a &#8216;friend&#8217; capacity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want a soft life, now,&#8221; she explains, before adding: &#8220;I would want the money, but I&#8217;m not big on a title&#8230; I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s because of my upbringing. I&#8217;m big on getting a job done and doing the best at my job and getting paid. The title could be a janitor, as long as I&#8217;m getting paid the money that I want and that I need.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"inline-links\">\n<li><svg width=\"20\" height=\"20\"><use href=\"#list-arrow-svg\"><\/use><\/svg><strong>NO WAY:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/news\/omg-people-are-locked-in-for-nene-leakes-and-cynthia-bailey-reuniting-on-messy-sitcom\">OMG people are \u2018locked in\u2019 for Nene Leakes and Cynthia Bailey reuniting<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wait, what?! 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