The Email Proof: 'Real Housewives Of Orange County' Producer Caught Trying To FAKE Scene With Tamra Barney’s Ex-Husband

Dec. 13 2013, Published 11:52 a.m. ET
It’s the smoking gun that proves once and for all that scenes on the Real Housewives are staged.
In an explosive email dated November 1, 2011, a producer for The Real Housewives of Orange County wrote to the ex-husband of star Tamra Barney to enquire about whether he was prepared to participate in a STAGED scene after the pair’s bitter divorce.
“Let me know if you’ve changed your mind about filming the scene we spoke about — going to get ice crew with the kids and then handing them over to Tamra,” producer Sally-Anne King shamelessly asked Simon Barney — a scene he refused to shoot.
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