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09-20-2016, 09:01 AM
A racial slur taints 'Real Housewives' and the explanation is pretty nuts
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Lost count of the amount of Real Housewives franchises around the world? So have we.
Yet the Auckland-based version of the franchise in New Zealand is in a tonne of hot water, due to one of its stars being filmed using an awful racial slur, which producers have chosen to include in Tuesday night's episode — albeit bleeped out.
SEE ALSO: Indige**us people respond to dummies who got stuck on Uluru (http://mashable.com/2016/09/19/uluru-rescue-climbing/)
One of the show's stars, Julia Sloane was recorded off-camera using the n-word in reference to a**ther housewife, Michelle Blanchard in episode six of the ******. Blanchard is British and of Caribbean descent. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/20/nword-real-housewives-auckland/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Lost count of the amount of Real Housewives franchises around the world? So have we.
Yet the Auckland-based version of the franchise in New Zealand is in a tonne of hot water, due to one of its stars being filmed using an awful racial slur, which producers have chosen to include in Tuesday night's episode — albeit bleeped out.
SEE ALSO: Indige**us people respond to dummies who got stuck on Uluru (http://mashable.com/2016/09/19/uluru-rescue-climbing/)
One of the show's stars, Julia Sloane was recorded off-camera using the n-word in reference to a**ther housewife, Michelle Blanchard in episode six of the ******. Blanchard is British and of Caribbean descent. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/20/nword-real-housewives-auckland/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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