When Andy Cohen asked Gizelle Bryant if he were to cut his off Juan Dixon joke at The Bravos, the Real Housewives of Potomac star made it clear that she didn’t approve of any jokes about the cheating rumors.
“I didn’t like that,” Gizelle, 53, said exclusively We weekly during BravoCon on Saturday, November 4. “Full disclosure: I saw him before he saw [Robyn Dixon], and he asked me: should he make the joke or should he stop? And I said, ‘Stop it.’ And he says, ‘Yes, absolutely, brilliant. Stop it! We’re going to cut it off.’
During The Bravos — which was filmed on Friday, Nov. 3 and aired on Sunday, Nov. 5 — Andy, 55, joked about Bravo paying for hotel rooms so Juan, 45, didn’t have to. The prank raised eyebrows after Juan found himself at the center of cheating rumors when he paid for a woman’s hotel room.
However, Andy got a chance to talk to Robyn before the show. “And then he sees her and she says, ‘Put it in!'” Gizelle revealed with a laugh.
“I can laugh at myself. I can laugh at situations,” Robyn, 44, said Us. “I know how ridiculous the situation sounds and I can laugh about it and acknowledge it. And so yes, when [Andy] was like, ‘There’s a joke I wanted to put in there’… I was like, ‘Well, tell me.’ And he told me. I was like, ‘Oh yeah, put it in.’”
Robyn has insisted that she believes Juan was not having a full-fledged affair. He claimed the woman lost her wallet and needed Juan to pay for a hotel room for her, and Robyn claims she believes his explanation. So she had no trouble laughing at Andy’s joke.
“I think that’s how I was raised. My father always said to me: you have to be able to laugh at yourself. And that’s a situation that literally makes me sit at home and laugh,” Robyn added. “It’s the most absurd thing there is. And I don’t care what people think about the situation. I don’t care what they believe, so I won’t shy away from that.”
Robyn and Juan weren’t the only ones Andy called out during the Bravos. The host couldn’t resist making a joke about it The Real Housewives of Orange County star Jennifer Pedranti‘s boyfriend Ryan Boyajian‘sd-k pic controversy. (In July, RHOC‘S Tamra Judge accused Ryan of texting her boyfriend Heather Amin a phallic photo. Jenn claimed that her boyfriend accidentally sent the photo to four people, including Heather and his adult sons.)
“I was right next to it Taylor [Armstrong] and the cameras start moving around and Andy is there talking and we thought so [going to be about]Everyone we were sitting with, and then Andy made the joke and I was in a mood [the camera zoomed in on me] and it’s funny,” Jenn, 46, told us on the BravoCon red carpet. “I mean, honestly, if I can’t laugh about it right now, what the hell am I supposed to do? It is funny.”
Jenn and Ryan, in turn, laugh all the way to the couch. They launched #DckPic merchandise in the wake of the scandal.
Reporting by Christina Garibaldi