It’s a ‘bummer’ to Bravo productions when cast members get sober, former ‘Housewives’ producer claims

An Emmy-winning shaper connected a drawstring of Bravo hits has claimed that “it’s a bummer to [the network’s producers] erstwhile [a formed member] gets sober.”

Beloved shaper Patrick McDonald, who precocious stepped backmost from his activity connected reality TV to motorboat an OnlyFans career, appeared connected Bethenny Frankel’s “Just B” podcast connected Friday, wherever nan brace besides suggested that nan shows rewards drunkenness and punishes “boring sobriety.”

The claims travel arsenic Bravo prepares to take sides itself successful a suit revenge by erstwhile “Real Housewives of New York City” prima Leah McSweeney, who alleges that Bravo coerced and manipulated her into abandoning her sobriety because producers believed it would make for amended TV if she was drinking.

“The addiction and constituent maltreatment storylines ever made maine a small uneasy,” McDonald, who is sober aft battling a meth addiction, said connected nan podcast.

“Anytime we were talking astir someone’s alcoholism aliases supplier addiction — immoderate of that — it’s so, truthful fragile. It’s not thing to beryllium taken light, and yet it gets amplified by these shows,” he said.

“I can’t ideate trying to… enactment aliases get sober while being connected 1 of these shows… It’s a bummer to accumulation erstwhile personification gets sober,” McDonald claimed.

The erstwhile “Real Housewives of New York City” prima Frankel and McDonald said they felt that stars get amended curen if they’re creating boozy drama.They besides pointed to stars like, Scheana Shay of “Vanderpump Rules” being demoted to “friend of” connected various seasons because her communicative lines weren’t acheronian enough.

A Bravo insider told us, “there is nary truth to immoderate of this.”

A judge successful nan McSweeney lawsuit recently ruled that Bravo and its accumulation companies person a First Amendment correct to require their formed members to drink. But he said that nan web will person to reply McSweeney’s claims that they “harassed” and “coerced” her successful an effort to get her to autumn disconnected nan wagon. (Attorneys for Bravo and its accumulation companies person based on successful tribunal that nan measurement they handled McSweeney some on- and off-set are protected by nan First Amendment).

Vanity Fair besides precocious published a profoundly reported portion that claimed, among different things, that “Real Housewives” cameras rushed to movie drunk and incapacitated women successful humiliating situations, alternatively than to thief them to recover.

McDonald made headlines past week erstwhile he said that a “toxic” activity civilization astatine immoderate of nan accumulation companies that make shows for Bravo — which, he claimed, included moving 12-plus hr days, six days a week, on pinch breaking up convulsive fights connected group — yet pushed him to subordinate big contented sites for illustration OnlyFans.

McDonald besides said he believes accumulation bosses yet caught upwind of his NSFW gig and iced him retired of reality tv gigs aft years of moving connected Bravo shows for illustration “Vanderpump Rules,” “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” and “The Real Housewives of Potomac.”

“Things went power silent pinch executive teams,” he said successful erstwhile video he posted. “It wounded my feelings – for nan past 5 years, [I’ve] fixed truthful overmuch of myself to these shows.”

He told Page Six, “All I’m doing present is advocating for adjacent and humane curen successful nan workplace.”

A rep for Bravo did not comment.