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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The Real Housewives of Orange County returns with a new addition

From Bravo:

On the highly anticipated fourth season premiere of Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” Tamra Barney, Vicki Gunvalson, Jeana Keough and Lauri Peterson welcome a new housewife to the block, 30-year-old blond bombshell Gretchen Rossi, who poses an immediate threat with her youth and golden good looks. The ladies continue to strive to live the good life, but in reality the seemingly perfect lives of contemporary women juggling family, friends and careers isn’t always what it seems. The fourth season of the hit docu-series “The Real Housewives of Orange County” premieres Tuesday, November 25 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Bravo.

This season the ladies are tackling greater challenges while coming to terms with past secrets and lingering issues. Vicki is building her insurance empire, sometimes to the detriment of her marriage to Donn; Tamra copes with her relationships with her estranged father and her taxing 21-year-old son, Ryan, while also keeping busy as a stay-at-home mom with three young kids; Jeana tries to figure out her next move following an emotional separation from her husband, Matt; while Lauri continues to enjoy life as a blissful newlywed, but issues with her son, Josh, may tarnish her fairytale.

There is competition in store for this complicated circle of friends. Gretchen is the newest housewife on the block, and a jaw-dropping Orange County bombshell. Gretchen’s fianc, Jeff, is an older man who spoils her rotten with diamonds and gifts. They enjoyed a whirlwind romance and engagement that came to an unexpected and heartbreaking turn when Jeff was diagnosed with a rare form of Leukemia. An outgoing party girl, it’s easy to peg Gretchen as a gold digger (and the other ladies have their doubts about her), but she cares for Jeff and stands by him through very serious hardships that test her character.

As usual, the men and kids are caught in the whirlwind and do their best to try and understand their complicated wives, mothers and daughters, but insight into these women proves once again to be anything but simple. This fourth season will explore the women on a deeper level, bringing their stories full circle to uncover the secrets that often lie behind closed doors. The gates, Botox injections and mansions can’t keep reality from intruding for too long. What will finally unfold when the gates are opened?