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Katie Ginella is talking out towards Jennifer Pedranti and Gretchen Rossi after her Actual Housewives of Orange County castmates created a clip of themselves seemingly mocking Asians.
After Jennifer, 48, posted the brief video on her Instagram web page, sparking outrage from social media customers throughout a number of platforms, who labeled her and Gretchen, 46, “disrespectful” and “problematic,” Katie, 41, admitted the since-deleted clip was extremely “inappropriate” as she skilled emotions of being “singled out” on account of her heritage.
“There’s a really inappropriate video going round the place two ladies are pretending to battle, squinting their eyes and making Asian faces to Asian sounds. And it’s very hurtful and inappropriate. It’s 2025, and I believe we must always learn the room,” Katie mentioned on Web page Six’s Digital Reali-Tea, through Bye Wig Whats up Drama on Instagram.
Based on Katie, the video was “rapidly taken down” after being accessible for “a couple of hours.”
Confirming she didn’t attain out to the women, regardless of receiving a few textual content messages, Katie mentioned their conduct “introduced [her] again to feeling like [she] felt rising up.”
“I’m the one. Proper? I’m the very first Asian American on [RHOC]. I’m the very first Korean adoptee. So, being singled out from this solid, it’s all too acquainted — all the emotions,” she defined.
Whereas the clip was faraway from Jennifer’s web page, Emily Rose Schaefer on TikTok reshared it on her account as she labeled the video as “very disrespectful” and “very distasteful.”
“I’m again on housewives,” Gretchen begins as Asian music performs within the background.
“And we’re able to defend ourselves,” Jennifer replies.
The women then start to karate chop a punching bag as Gretchen seemingly mocks Katie’s heritage even additional by imitating Asians.
@emilyroseschaefer Mamma Mia right here we go once more…and never within the enjoyable approach 😩🙄 There have been not less than 6 reveals on Bravo this 12 months the place the particular person of coloration has been painted because the antagonist or the villain by their casts, manufacturing, or the community: #RHOBH (Garcelle), #SummerHouse (Imrul), #RHOA (how Kenya being threatened was dealt with), #nextgen (Riley), #RHOM (Guerdy), and #RHOC (Katie). I’ve gotten feedback of this occurring on #SouthernCharm and #belowdeck too. This video could be very disrespectful to the Asian lady on the solid who’s ALREADY this season’s goal. Placing what Katie has performed this season apart, this isn’t acceptable. There’s no punchline or humor in it. It’s wildly ignorant for 2 ladies approaching 50 to movie not to mention publish. PERIOD DONE. I do know plenty of us watch these reveals as a type of escapism…however whether or not you wish to acknowledge this to your self or not, politics and social points contact all the things. NOT having to deal with any of it’s a privilege in itself. This shouldn’t go unaddressed; the entire folks of coloration which might be a part of the Bravo/NBC “household”, whether or not they’re solid, workers, or a part of the viewers, deserve SIGNIFICANTLY higher than this. Let me know what you’re pondering and feeling y’all! I do know speaking about these things doesn’t all the time look like sufficient, however the louder we get the more durable it’s to disregard! #realitytv #bravotv#bravotvainmentnews #fyp #celebritynews ♬ authentic sound – Emily Rose
Following the sharing of the clip, Instagram‘s Jenny Blaze labeled the antics as “problematic” and “racially charged conduct.”
When Web page Six reached out to Jennifer and Gretchen, Jennifer had no remark, however Gretchen provided a press release.
“The video we made was not directed at Katie and was not meant to be hateful,” she insisted. “As soon as it was addressed to us that it might be taken offensively, we took it down instantly.”
The Actual Housewives of Orange County season 19 airs Thursdays at 9/8c on Bravo.
