Kenya Moore Exits ‘RHOA’ After Suspension for Express Photographs Scandal

Kenya Moore is leaving The Actual Housewives of Atlanta.

PEOPLE can affirm that Moore will not be returning to the collection. Solid members have been instructed the information on Tuesday, June 25.

It’s a choice that sources near manufacturing inform PEOPLE got here from the community — although TMZ, who was first to report the information, stated Moore mutually agreed to take a break from the collection. The outlet’s insiders additionally declare that Moore is exploring her authorized choices “as a result of she’s not proud of how this complete mess unfolded.”

A rep for Moore and a rep for Bravo didn’t instantly reply to PEOPLE’s request for remark, however the former Miss USA appeared to handle the information on X (previously referred to as Twitter).

“#TEAMTWIRLFOREVER You’re the greatest followers anybody may ever ask for. and I really like you all so very a lot,” she wrote. “At all times and perpetually.”

Information of the truth star’s unceremonious exit from RHOA comes after she was suspended indefinitely from filming for allegedly unveiling specific footage of new solid member Brittany Eady.

The photographs — which sources beforehand instructed PEOPLE that have been proven whereas the Bravo cameras have been rolling on Thursday, June 6 on the grand opening of her new Kenya Moore Hair Spa — confirmed Eady performing oral intercourse on an unnamed male. Eady was not in attendance on the spa when the snapshots have been revealed.

On the time, an insider instructed PEOPLE that Moore was retaliating after Eady allegedly threatened her costar utilizing the phrase “gun.” Nonetheless, a second supply near manufacturing disputed that, saying, “At no time was Kenya ever threatened with a weapon, nor was there ever a weapon current in the course of the course of manufacturing.”

An investigation was launched by Bravo to look into the incident. The outcomes, sources say, are what led to Moore’s exit.

However an insider insists to PEOPLE on Tuesday, June 25 that the menace was actual. “Kenya was involved for her security, that’s the fact,” the supply says. “By no means for one second did Kenya really feel like she was being taken significantly for her fears. It is unfair.”

Moore joined RHOA in its fifth season. She was a mainstay Housewife on the present apart from season 11, when she was pregnant together with her 5-year-old daughter, Brooklyn.

She exits RHOA because the franchise’s longest-running peach-holder. The present has not too long ago confronted an extended manufacturing hole and main casting shakeup noticed the exits of different mainstay solid members together with Kandi Burruss,  Shereé Whitfield, Marlo Hampton and Sanya Richards-Ross.

Porsha Williams, considered one of Moore’s longtime frienemies, returned to the collection this yr. Followers have been wanting ahead to see the place the 2 landed with each other.

Except for Eady, the remainder of the solid was crammed out with restaurateur and Meals Community alum Kelli Ferrell, and Angela Oakley, spouse of NBA nice Charles Oakley. Shamea Morton Mwangi, who has appeared on the present in a visitor and good friend function courting again to season 5, has been upgraded to a full-time Housewife.

In a Good friend function can be a well-recognized face to the franchise: supermodel Cynthia Bailey, who was a Housewife from season 3-13, and led the preliminary solid of Actual Housewives Final Women Journey.

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Moore had but to handle her exit however in an Instagram Stay on June 14, she instructed her followers, “You can be seeing me. I’m not going anyplace regardless of all these things.”

She additionally defended herself from claims that what she did allegedly did to Eady was “revenge porn,” wiring on X (previously referred to as Twitter) on June 8: “I might by no means have interaction in revenge porn, I’ve by no means distributed non-public photos or footage of anybody, nor solicited photos owned by others to make use of to threaten or blackmail.”

The Actual Housewives of Atlanta could be streamed on Peacock.