Jennie Nguyen removed from ‘Real Housewives’ cast for offensive posts

Bravo has eliminated Jennie Nguyen from the forged of “Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis” after her offensive social media posts resurfaced.

The community introduced the removing Tuesday on social media.

“Bravo has ceased filming with Jennie Nguyen and she’s going to now not be a forged member of ‘The Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis,’” Bravo mentioned within the announcement. “We acknowledge we did not take applicable motion as soon as her offensive social media posts had been dropped at our consideration. Shifting ahead, we’ll work to enhance our processes to make sure we make higher knowledgeable and extra considerate casting choices.”

Nguyen didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. NBCUniversal is the mum or dad firm of each Bravo and NBC Information.

Nguyen, who’s Vietnamese American, was alleged to have shared pictures and textual content posts describing protesters as “BLM Thugs” and “violent gangs” all through the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. She additionally reposted memes in help of “White Lives Matter,” in addition to anti-vaccination content material.

In a single cartoon she reposted, an aged white lady exhibits a middle-age white man the stick determine decals on her automobile.

“No, that’s not my household, that’s what number of rioters I’ve hit!” the lady says within the picture.

After the posts resurfaced final week, Nguyen apologized on Instagram.

“I need to acknowledge and apologize for my deleted Fb posts from 2020 that resurfaced in the present day. On the time, I believed I used to be talking out towards violence, however I’ve since discovered how offensive and hurtful my phrases had been,” she wrote. “It’s why I deactivated that account greater than a 12 months in the past and why I proceed to attempt to find out about views completely different from my very own. I remorse these posts and am sincerely sorry for the ache they triggered.”

After she apologized, she continued to movie with the forged of “Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis” regardless of calls to fireplace her.

Different forged members denounced Nguyen. In an Instagram submit, Jen Shah mentioned she was “dissatisfied” by the “disingenuous apology” Nguyen shared. Shah mentioned she was compelled to “get up” on behalf of her husband and her youngsters, who’re Black.

“I’m deeply offended by the racially insensitive posts and feedback. It was infuriating to see her like and repost feedback that made a mockery of and confirmed full apathy towards these killed marching to convey consciousness to the deep-seeded social justice points that plague our nation. I’m equally dissatisfied by the disingenuous apology that was issued,” Shah mentioned.

Solid member Meredith Marks alluded to a gag order on the forged in her assertion responding to the posts however promised “repercussions.”

“Because it was not completely clear in my earlier tweet and I can now converse out in additional depth, I’m sickened by my co-worker’s racist and prejudicial posts that not too long ago surfaced,” Marks mentioned on Twitter. “I don’t stand behind or help these posts in any approach, form, or type. I stand with and help the communities affected and focused by this. I’m deeply disturbed and outraged by her actions. Black Lives Matter.”