According To Reports, Fantasia Set To Join Real Housewives of Atlanta

Now that Nene Leakes and a few others are no longer part of the Real Housewives of Atlanta cast, many are wondering who will be next to join the show. According to rumors online, Fantasia could be one of the newest housewives. The source also says that Sheree will be returning…which is great news because I heard that Chateau Sheree has finally been completed! 

Via LALate News

Are Sheree Whitfield and Fantasia Barrino set to replace NeNe Leakes on RHOA? For nearly half a decade, false RHOA cast hirings, firings, and peach twists have heated up social media. The most hilarious false report to date was one that claimed that the entire RHOA 2013 cast was being fired to build a new franchise around Phaedra Parks. Of course that never happened. But as news spread this week that Sheree Whitfield is about to open her doors to a completed (yes completed) Chateau Sheree, and still steaming allegations about a Mister Chocolate scandal striking Phaedra Parks, are Sheree Whitfield and Fantasia joining RHOA’s 2015-2016 cast?

Fans want Sheree Whitfield and Fantasia to join RHOA. But fans are very luckwarm to a Kim Fields addition. Yet LALATE can report that as of June 2015, only Kandi Burruss and Kenya Moore are signed, contracted, and getting a peach next season. The rest of the cast is still uncertain and still in negations.

And how long could those negotiation continue? LALATE believes that BravoTV will follow a route employed during filming for RHOA 2013. At the time, a cast of female characters filmed with the wives, in hope of getting peaches. Their footage aired, but they never got a peach contract, let alone a credit.

This season, BravoTV is expected to do the same. Starting this month, multiple test-wives will film with RHOA personalities again, consenting to film, with the understanding that peach contracts won’t be passed out until fall 2015. Who could gain, loose, or earn a peach? It just depends on how well or how poorly the test wives film this fall.

And what about Sheree Whitfield and Fantasia? First, LALATE can report that BravoTV RHOA salary reports over the years have been hideously false. A source close to talent tells LALATE that NeNe Leakes made between $1 million and $1.5 million last season, that rookie talent made low six figures, and that three year or longer returning talent made around a half million to $650,000 for RHOA7. With Leakes gone, BravoTV has upwards of $1.5 million in salary able to disperse to new talent.

As a result, BravoTV could with the departure of Leakes have $700K to pay Fantasia and $600K to pay Sheree, if they are interested. Sheeree’s ordinal departure, and replacement with Kenya Moore, came as Whitfield’s then salary demands for RHOA5 were declined. But LALATE believes that Sheree Whitfield will return if the salary offer is lucrative.

Fantasia wouldn’t be too far fetched. She’s friends with Phaedra and Kandi. It would interesting to see Sheree return. For now this is all rumors and speculation, though.