Real Housewives’ Gretchen Rossi dropped as teen pageant host

Gretchen Rossi of The Real Housewives of Orange County was recently dropped as the host of the Miss Newport Beach and Miss Newport Beach Teen pageants after an advertisement for the event lead to a deluge of protest emails and phone calls.

According to The Daily Pilot, which also ran the ad featuring Rossi’s picture, pageant organizer Caren Lacona received 100 emails and phone calls which protested the choice of the reality star as host because of the way she is portrayed on the hit show.  Lacona says that some of the pageant’s previous sponsors have backed out as well, which she also feels is related to her choice of host.

Lacona, who offered the job to Gretchen Rossi after they met at a social event, is currently looking for someone else to emcee the April 24th event, but says that the Rossi she knows is not the person portrayed on television.

“I actually really like her, but she’s coming off on the TV show as something she’s not,” Lancona said. “The TV show has really dragged her through the mud.”

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