Judging solely from the commercials and clips I occasionally see on E! News, I think Brandi Glanville is having a tough season on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. She used to be seen as the fun one, then she was the drama queen, then the drunk, and now it just seems like everyone is raging at her and she’s raging back. I’ll come back to this in a moment, but let’s just say, for argument’s sake, that Brandi isn’t super-happy on RHOBH these days. Would she really leave a paying gig? Apparently, she would. Brandi told In Touch Weekly that she’s starting to wonder if she will stay with the show much longer.

Brandi Glanville is over The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

“I’m not sure how much longer I have on that show,” Brandi tells the new issue of ‘In Touch.’ “Maybe it’s not for me anymore.”

Brandi, who joined the cast in 2011, hasn’t made a decision yet — but if she does quit, she has a surprising replacement in mind: LeAnn Rimes!

“She could be good at it,” Brandi says of the 32-year-old who married her ex-hubby, Eddie Cibrian. “Maybe it’ll be her next thing.”

[From In Touch Weekly]

That’s funny, suggesting LeAnn for the show. Brandi is so Machiavellian sometimes. Putting LeAnn on a show like Real Housewives would be such a catastrophe of epic proportions – everyone would see what an unhinged stalker LeAnn is. Which is just what Brandi wants. Now, as for Brandi… I wonder if this is more of an angle to get more money. Is her contract being renegotiated or something? Because while I don’t watch RHOBH, Brandi is the only one on that show with her own loyal gossip-following. People care about Lisa Vanderpump and Kyle Richards, but Brandi has crafted her own gossip-brand and gossip-persona much more than any other Real Housewife.

As for all the drama this season, apparently Yolanda Foster asked Brandi point-blank if she (Brandi) was an alcoholic. Brandi says she is not. Brandi also wrote a lengthy Bravo post about addiction and whether calling someone an addict should be a “negative label” or an “insult.” She writes in part:

Addiction is not a negative label, and it’s not an insult. It’s being used by some people to label others in a negative light, which I find distasteful and shameful. It’s wrong and discriminatory to view an addict as a bad or somehow a lesser person. Addiction is serious and shouldn’t be tossed around lightly to diminish others or as a slur or to create dramatic effect or bring attention to the speaker.

[From Bravo]

It’s possible to agree with Brandi and say that we shouldn’t throw the word “addict” as a go-to pejorative. It’s also possible to believe that Brandi does have some alcohol abuse problems, you know? Does Brandi want to quit RHOBH just because people think she’s an alcoholic?

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