Eden Sassoon Talks Leaving "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills"

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Eden Sassoon Says She’s Not Returning to ‘RHOBH’: ‘I Feel Free’

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There’s room for another housewife in 90210. Eden Sassoon confirmed via Facebook on Wednesday, May 4, that she won’t be returning to The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. A source previously told Us Weekly, in the new issue on newsstands now, that Sassoon would “likely not be returning.”

"I want to BE the one to share with everyone this news. I WILL NOT BE RETURNING TO #RHOBH NEXT SEASON," the Pilates guru wrote. "In receiving this #news I feel free & ALIVE to BE the REAL ME that was not shown to the #bravo world of viewers. I truly am #grateful for the experience & huge life lessons I was up against."

Sassoon made her Bravo debut during season 7 of RHOBH and clashed with nearly all of her costars, particularly Kim and Kyle Richards. 

As fans of the show will remember, Sassoon got into hot water after she questioned Kim Richards’ sobriety and repeated that Lisa Rinna said that Kim was near death.  

The hair salon owner, who is the daughter of Vidal Sassoon, teased that her reality TV days might not be over though. 

"Remember an END is just a NEW BEGINNING...I will be in full force with #love #hugs #truth and #compassion which are all things that make me shine," she wrote on Facebook. “Another chapter in #EdenLoveStory thank you @evolutionusa you know I truly Luv to LOVE YOU! @bravorhobh may u continue to create fun #drama always.”

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Kyle Richards Blocks Eden Sassoon on Twitter

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Since Season 7 of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills finished filming, the 'Wives have had some time away from one another, so when asked who she's kept in touch with and who she hasn't, Kyle Richards revealed she had to take a social media timeout from one of the ladies.

While getting her hair and makeup done for the Season 7 Reunion, Kyle said, "I had to block Eden [Sassoon]. It’s not that I don’t want her to see my tweets, it’s that I couldn’t hear what she was saying anymore. I can take a lot, but the last, final straw was when she said something mean about my sister, and then did #Grandma, making fun of her, like that’s a bad thing. And I just thought, 'You know what? I just lost every little bit of respect I have for you.'"

Kyle admitted she didn't make a big public show of blocking her and isn't even sure if Eden knows.

"I don’t even know if she’s noticed. We’ll find out today I guess."

Kyle teases that she's only ever blocked one other person from RHOBH "who shall remain nameless." Hmmm...our guess is Brandi Glanville.

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Lisa Vanderpump Rates Dorit Kemsley and Eden Sassoon's Rookie RHOBH Seasons

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Lisa Vanderpump has spent seven seasons in the thick of all the drama on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, so she knows a thing or two about how best to navigate all the murky territory that comes along with it. This season, the 90210 crew welcomed two new pals to the group, Eden Sassoon and Dorit Kemsley, and, well, Lisa has some thoughts about their rookie seasons.

First up, Lisa offered up her performance review of Eden's role in the never-ending Lisa Rinna-Kim Richards drama, in which the soap star denied and then later owned up to comments she made about Kim's sobriety to Eden. "Well Eden was very much on the periphery really as a friend of the Housewives, and then suddenly she became immersed right in the middle of a kind of firestorm so to speak," Lisa said. "I don't think Rinna really thought that Eden would repeat it, so therefore it wouldn't have come to light until the reunion. And the fact that Eden repeated it then kicked everything off."

As for her longtime pal, Dorit, Lisa admits that perhaps the transition has been slightly more difficult. Still, she couldn't help but include a little sassy message for the newbies. "Well I think it might be overwhelming right at the beginning," she said. "But I also think it's accumulative. I don't think you have that huge following until you've been on a show quite a few years, so I think you can adapt to it slowly. But you know I think everybody they should be thankful to join a reality show that's a hit reality show is a luxury... it's a luxury, really, for some of these new girls to come in and the show's a hit show."

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53-Year-Old Lisa Rinna Posts A Nude Selfie

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Television personality Lisa Rinna stripped down for a nude selfie Sunday.

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star and two-time Playboy cover model shared a naked photo on Instagram following news the magazine will again feature nudity.

"It's back. I got scared then I said I'm 53 -- zero [expletive] given! Cheers to @playboy for going back to nudes," Rinna captioned the snapshot.

"The female body is so beautiful, every size and every age. Be proud! #thefemalebodyisbeautiful #allshapesandsizes #loveyourself #loveyourbody," she added.

Rinna first posed for Playboy in 1998 while six months pregnant with her daughter Delilah. She later appeared on the magazine's May 2009 cover after competing on the ABC series Dancing with the Stars.

"While I'm definitely a product of this mindset, I don't get all the fuss our society has over people's weight," the star told People in 2009.

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Eden Sassoon Stands by Her Decision to Insert Herself in Kyle & Kim Richards' Drama

People.com:

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Eden Sassoon has no regrets about getting involved in the Richards sisters‘s ongoing drama.

Sassoon tells PEOPLE that she stands by her decision to reveal to Lisa Vanderpump that Lisa Rinna had accused Kyle Richards of enabling her sister Kim, who has battled substance abuse for years.

“It came from a place of complete compassion and caring,” Sassoon tells PEOPLE. “And yet everyone sort of came at me in a different way like I’m meddling in their business.”

Sassoon faced backlash for sharing the information, but the reality star says it’s just her nature to lend a helping hand.

“I am that way in life. I want to help. I want to make a difference,” she explains. “I want to, sort of, ‘If you need me, I’m here.’ ”

Sassoon, a recovering alcoholic herself, has been sober now for four years and is motivated by helping others with addiction issues.

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Kyle Richards Defends Relationship with Sister Kim Amid Addiction ‘Enabler’ Gossip from Eden Sassoon

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Eden Sassoon is a dog with a bone! She just can’t leave Kim and Kyle Richards alone but the sisters set her straight during this week’s episode.

Kyle already had her back up because Eden approached her at Lisa Rinna’s barbeque about how she thinks Kim isn’t in a good place with her sobriety.

The daughter of hair icon Vidal Sassoon, had only brief encounters with the sisters but claimed Kim was “closed off” and “abrasive” towards her.

“I think maybe you’re reading into things with a magnifying glass or something,” Kyle told Eden. “I don’t really know what to do with that to be honest. I think it’s just injecting yourself into something you don’t know anything about.”

But later on at Kyle’s over-the-top Great Gatsby-themed bash at an incredible oceanfront estate in Malibu, the three women finally came face-to-face-to-face.

“What I’m hearing is that you’re judging me,” Kim explained to Eden. “You were looking for trouble and I didn’t want to be around that. I just needed to back away from you a little bit.

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Eden Sassoon Says Her Late Sister’s Addiction to Drugs Began with Robert Downey, Jr. and Kim Richards

People.com:

Eden Sassoon made her debut on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Tuesday, opening up about how her late sister became addicted to drugs while partying in the ’80s with Robert Downey, Jr. and original RHOBH star Kim Richards.

The daughter of legendary beauty icon Vidal Sassoon, Catya Sassoon died of an overdose in 2002. She was just 34.

“For a long time I was numb, very numb to it,” Eden, 43, explained to Housewives Lisa Rinna and Erika Girardi on Tuesday. “And completely shut off.”

Catya was an actress whose first movie was 1985’s Tuff Turf. Her costars in the film were James Spader, Downey, Jr. and Richards.

“This was way way back in the day, when my dad bought Frank Stallone’s house in Bel-Air,” Eden said. “Kim would come over with Robert Downey — and Robert would play the piano like crazy. I was like ‘Who are all these, like, insane [people]’ ”

Eden remembered Catya as being “alive” and “vibrant” at the time. But things quickly took a turn.

“Sure enough they all sort of had their stuff,” Eden said. “I think on this set was the beginning of everybody’s drug and alcohol abuse, if you really look at it. It was kind of pre-f—ed up days.”

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'Friend of the Housewives' Eden Sassoon Talks Joining 'RHOBH'

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Eden Sassoon was more than ready to jump into the action on the seventh season of Bravo's "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills." As one of the two new cast members this season, Sassoon will have the spotlight on her as she enters the show in January, as all new "Real Housewives" do," but she's more than up for the challenge.

Sassoon owns multiple businesses herself in Los Angeles, including a full service salon called EDEN by Eden Sassoon and two pilates studios called EDEN by Eden Sassoon Pilates, and she is the daughter of the late beauty icon, Vidal Sassoon. In addition, the single mother of two recently celebrated four years of sobriety.

Regardless of all that she has going on in her life, Sassoon maintains that she is -- and always will be -- an open book both off camera and on. I recently caught up with the newest "Real Housewives" star to talk about why she decided to join the show, whether or not she had any anxiety about it and what we can expect from the show's seventh season, which is being dubbed a "new chapter."

Congrats on the new gig as a "Real Housewife!" What was the process like of joining the show?
[Lisa] Rinna and I were kind of friends via two degrees of separation, and it was a very natural progression. She had come into [my] studio for pilates, and we had mutual doctors and things, and it was just, like, "Hey! Do you want to come hang out and do this?" At this point in my life, I'm open to anything that comes my way, because I think there's a lesson to learn in everything. So, I said yes, and here we are!

Were you a "Real Housewives" fan before you signed on? How much of the show had you seen?
To be honest, no. My kids are 10 and 11, my father passed four years ago, I've been sober for four years, I have three businesses and a non-profit and I'm single! You can imagine the amount of time that is spent in life versus getting in and watching six or seven other women's lives. I really had to focus on my life.

Of course, being in Beverly Hills you hear what's going on, and I have watched a couple of episodes in the past, but last year for me, to be honest, was hurtful. There were things that went on that had me going, "What goes on here?! This is really disturbing and upsetting!" That was kind of my past feeling about the show.

Considering that you had only really heard negative things about the franchise, did you have any anxiety about joining the cast?
No, I'm one to live in each moment and bring myself [to the situation] and be present, so I just thought, "Let's do this completely." And If I stay true to who I am, then I feel that the energy can shift. Whatever it is that I'm up against, if I am me, then no matter what the energy can shift. That's just how life is. So, I was willing and ready to take on whatever I was going to be faced with.

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Kyle Richards Talks New 'RHOBH' Cast Members Dorit Kemsley & Eden Sassoon

People.com:

Kyle Richards‘ tagline on this season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is that she knows how to “spot a fake” — so we put her to the test.

PEOPLE Now recently caught up with the Bravo star, and she dished on the tagline and the two new Housewives that joined the cast this season.

“Well, you know, it’s kind of a funny story — a fan that I’ve actually never met came up with that tagline!” revealed Richards, 47. “She met a friend of mine in Oklahoma. So she came up with it, and I was like: ‘You know what? That’s perfect.’ I love it, and there are a lot of fakes in Beverly Hills and I am really good at spotting them, so I went with it.”

As for new additions to the cast, Richards said she grew particularly close to Dorit Kemsley.

“She entertains me — she makes me laugh, because things just fly out of her mouth,” said Richards. “She’s kind of like, a really good audience because everything I say, she dies laughing. Once we got to know each other, we really had a lot of fun together.”

Kemsley is definitely “very real,” added Richards. “I think there are times people are going to say: ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe she said that,’ but she’s not lying. She’s very honest, so I appreciate that in someone.”

Up next? Eden Sassoon, whom Richards cautiously calls an “interesting character.”

“I got the sense that she had seen the show because sort of zoned in on me and my relationship with my sister Kim, and I was sort of like: ‘Oh my God, no. Give me a minute. Let me get to know you,’ ” said Richards. “But she’s a good person. All in all, our entire cast are smart women and they’re good people. They sometimes say things they shouldn’t and make kind of bad choices — and I’m one of them! I’m not saying I’m excluded from that.”

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The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Officially Adds Dorit Kemsley as Newest Housewife in Season 7

People.com:

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is welcoming a new Housewife into the mix when it returns for season 7!'

PEOPLE can exclusively reveal that Dorit Kemsley will join fellow Housewives Erika Girardi, Lisa Vanderpump, Kyle Richards, Lisa Rinna and Eileen Davidson for the latest season of the Bravo franchise.

Kemsley, 40, started her own business in the fashion industry (Dorit) in the state of New York, where she met her husband Paul “PK” Kemsley at a restaurant. In 2015, the couple switched coasts and moved with their two children — son Jagger and daughter Phoenix — to Beverly Hills. In the upcoming season, viewers will see inside the fashionista’s 10,000-sq.-ft. mansion that is filled with working staff, her husband and kids and PK’s live-in client and ’80s pop icon, Boy George.

Audiences will also learn that the full-time working mom, who is close friends with Vanderpump, is fluent in four languages and also works alongside her husband in overseeing their management agency, Nixxi Entertainment.

“I’m excited to share my life, share my beautiful babies and share the privileged lifestyle I’m fortunate to have, and never take for granted. I also hope the fans will see that I have always been super open and honest, which is the only way I know how to be,” Kemsley exclusively told PEOPLE.

In addition to Kemsley, RHOBH fans will get to know the newest friend of the franchise, Eden Sassoon. The daughter of legendary beauty icon Vidal Sassoon, Eden is the owner of both a full service salon — EDEN by Eden Sassoon — and two luxury Pilates studios in L.A. The 43-year-old divorced mother of two has been sober for four years, lives her life in a continual ongoing cleanse and believes in kissing — a lot!

In the upcoming seventh season, viewers will watch Vanderpump navigate her way through challenging friendships, Girardi travel to Greece with her alter ego Erika Jayne, Richards take on the role of TV producer and Davidson deal with the loss of her mother. But what would a new season be without a little drama thrown in and a trip abroad (can you say Mexico and Hong Kong!)?

And she may be new, but that won’t keep Kemsley from feuding with Girardi and Rinna. “For me the season was super dramatic a lot of situations transpired that I have never found myself in before. I believe I stood my ground and whilst I don’t thrive on drama, I also won’t shy away from it,” Kemsley tells PEOPLE. “I will always stand up for myself and my family. I’ll try wherever possible to take the kind route and have a good sense of humor but I’m not the type to sit there and be attacked without responding.”

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills returns for season 7 on Dec. 6 at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo.

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