Just three days after Cynthia Bailey said she’s departing “The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” Porsha Williams is joining her.
Williams, whose pending departure has been floating around gossip sites for weeks, made the announcement to her 6.6 million followers on Instagram. She was on the popular Bravo reality show for nine seasons. “This was a difficult decision to not only make, but also come to terms with,” she wrote. “It’s one I have put a lot of thought into and because of that, I know it’s the right one.”
She began the show in 2012 married to former NFL player Kordell Stewart but they divorced soon after she joined the show. She dated a few other men and had a daughter in 2019 with entrepreneur Dennis McKinley. She and McKinley did not get married.
She got engaged to businessman Simon Guobadia earlier this year. That relationship will likely be part of a recently taped Bravo spin-off show focused just on her and her family.
While Williams came off as a bit of a ditz in the early years of “Real Housewives,” she blossomed into a social justice activist, getting arrested twice last year during the Black Lives Matter protests, channeling the energy of her late grandfather and Atlanta civil rights legend Hosea Williams.
She also recently stepped down as a host of syndicated gossip show “Dish Nation” after eight years.
In her Instagram post, she also promoted a memoir coming out November ‘The Pursuit of Porsha.”
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BOUNCE TV
BOUNCE TV
Atlanta-based Bounce TV, the popular broadcast network targeting African Americans, has renewed its dramedy “Johnson” ahead of the show’s season 1 finale.
The show, which debuted in early August, is set and shot in Atlanta, focused on four childhood male friends who share the same last name Johnson and are now in their 30s. D.L. Hughley, in a recurring role, plays an elder statesman and radio host.
The debut of the show in August drew more than two million viewers. The season finale airs Sunday, Oct. 3, at 8 p.m.
The show is also available on Bounce’s streaming service Brown Sugar.
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Starz quickly renewed its drama “BMF” for a second season just a few days after its debut this past Sunday.
The scripted show, shot in Atlanta, focuses on the Black Mafia Family, an illegal drug trafficking and distribution organization that had national reach in the 1990s and early 2000s. Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is an executive producer of the series.
BMF based its East Coast drug operations in Atlanta and created an entertainment arm in the early 2000s that became infamous for its over-the-top parties before the Drug Enforcement Agency arrested the key players and sent them to prison.
The first season focuses on the origin story surrounding the two Flenory brothers in Detroit in the late 1980s. The older son Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory is played by his son Demetrius Flenory Jr.
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