Kyle Richards and Mauricio Umansky’s separation will be included in Season 13 of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.”
Although filming wrapped months ago, sources tell Pvnew that cameras have picked back up to capture the aftermath of the longtime reality TV couple’s shocking split.
“This development has rocked the Bravo world,” one insider exclusively shares.
“Producers know fans want a glimpse into how Kyle and Mauricio came to this decision.”
During Monday’s SiriusXM “Radio Andy” broadcast, Bravo honcho Andy Cohen teased that Richards and Umansky’s current relationship — or lack thereof — would be addressed in the next “RHOBH” installment.
“Um, what am I gonna say to this?” he began, responding to a listener’s question.
“What I will say is that, I think that, what I think that, that you will … oh God, I’m trying to be so kind of, well, no, I don’t wanna say …”
Despite Cohen’s loss for words, he assured fans, “I wanna say that this will be included next season of ‘Beverly Hills’ in some way shape or form. That’s all I’ll say.”
News broke last Monday that Richards, 54, and Umansky, 53, had decided to press pause on their 27-year marriage.
Pvnew confirmed the breakup hours before the duo released a joint statement via social media, admitting to a “rough” year together.
“The most challenging one of our marriage,” the statement read in part. “But we both love and respect each other tremendously.”
Richards and Umansky insisted that “there has been no wrongdoing on anyone’s part” and asked fans to “not create false stories to fit a further salacious narrative” — an apparent response to gossip that the Bravolebrity is in a romantic relationship with country singer Morgan Wade, which Richards has denied.
“We are very good friends,” she told a paparazzo Friday during a girls’ night out with BFF and former “Beverly Hills” castmate Teddi Mellencamp.
When Richards was asked whether a romance with Wade, 28, was “just a rumor,” she replied bluntly with a “yes.”
The pap then continued to press the “Halloween” actress, who was focused on driving her car, about her matching tattoos with the “Wilder Days” singer.
“We have matching tattoos, too,” Richards responded, pointing to Mellencamp, 42, who was in the passenger seat.
“[Wade’s] not the only one I have a matching tattoo with,” she said before driving off.
While she is not dating Wade, Richards recently told a photographer that she was “not single” in the wake of her separation from Umansky — though she could have been referring to her legal status and previous assertion that “any claims regarding us divorcing [were] untrue.”
Last week, a source told People that the estranged couple — who wed in 1996 and are parents to three daughters: Alexia, 27, Sophia, 23, and Portia, 15 — are “amicable” but had “been separated for a while now [while] living under the same roof.”
Notably, they have continued wearing their wedding rings.
This isn’t the first time Bravo has resumed production to tie up loose ends on an earth-shattering story.
Days after Tom Sandoval and Raquel Leviss’ cheating scandal — widely referred to as Scandoval — made headlines in March, a camera crew assembled to document the fallout for “Vanderpump Rules,” ultimately reshaping the Season 10 narrative.
A premiere date for “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” Season 13 — starring Richards, Dorit Kemsley, Erika Jayne, Garcelle Beauvais, Sutton Stracke, Crystal Kung Minkoff and newbie Annemarie Wiley — has yet to be announced.
TMZ was first to report the news of the show resuming filming.
