Bravo Star Exits Reality Show After ‘Horrible Experience’

Bravo star Will Kulp has announced his exit from Southern Hospitality, a spin-off of the network’s successful reality show Southern Charm.

He was a series regular from season one to season three, but was a no-show at the latest reunion this March, leaving his potential return up in the air.

Now, he has fired up his Insta Stories to post a statement confirming he will not be joining Southern Hospitality for its upcoming fourth season.

However he implied that his fiancée and co-star Emmy Sharrett, whom he announced his engagement to in May, would remain on the program.

Over the past two seasons Will, 31, found himself dogged by rumors that he was unfaithful to Emmy, which he has strenuously denied.

In his statement announcing his departure from Bravo, he slammed reality TV as a ‘horrible experience,’ said he was unlikely ever to return to the genre and suggested that the show had included a ‘defamatory storyline’ about him.

DailyMail.com has reached out to representatives for Bravo’s parent company NBCUniversal for comment.

Bravo star Will Kulp has announced his exit from Southern Hospitality, a spin-off of the network’s successful reality show Southern Charm

‘The new season has started filming and unsurprisingly I will not be a part of it this year,’ Will wrote in his statement. ‘I will likely never film a second of reality TV ever again. It has been a horrible experience and a life lesson.’

However he shared his gratitude to ‘some cast, some production, Andy Cohen and ALL of the crew for the seasons past. You know who you are. Your kindness and professionalism are rare occurrences in the industry.’

Will continued: ‘Best of luck to the new season. I hope it can be entertaining without a defamatory storyline or the unwanted use of my name, image, and likeness.’

He added: ‘When it is appropriate, I will talk more about experiences with production and the network which led to this decision.’

Suggesting his fiancée will stay on the show, he concluded that he was ‘happy to be moving on and I will be cheering Emmy on from the sidelines with the rest of you.’

Southern Hospitality revolves around the staff of a Charleston, South Carolina nightclub, where Will worked as a bartender and Emmy as a hostess.

Will, now in law school, has spent over a year battling rumors that he has been cheating on Emmy, who stood by him as he repudiated the allegations.

During the second season of the show, their co-star Oisin O’Neill alleged that Will entered a bathroom with another woman and kissed her.

However he implied that his fiancée and co-star Emmy Sharrett, whom he announced his engagement to in May, would remain on the program

In his statement announcing his departure, he slammed reality TV as a ‘horrible experience’ and said he was unlikely ever to return to the genre

Will dismissed the claim as ‘bulls***,’ saying the woman in question was in fact ‘romantically involved’ with a friend of his.

‘First of all, everyone was f***ed up in that apartment,’ said Will. ‘I was consoling this girl. We were both crying. I’m sure that if you looked at it from a certain angle, you might be like: “They kissed.” But I didn’t kiss this girl.’

Emmy accepted Will’s version of events then, but this January, a season three trailer dropped in which he was accused of sleeping with ‘multiple people’ at law school.

In response to the furor around the sneak peek, Emmy insisted that ‘Will has 110 percent been faithful to me,’ rubbishing the ‘narrative’ that she was ‘so dead set on being a lawyer’s wife that I don’t care if Will cheats on me.’

She maintained that she ‘would dump Will in two seconds if he cheated on me, gone goodbye. I will not be disrespected,’ she told Us Weekly.

Meanwhile, also on season three, his castmates TJ Dinch and Bradley Carter accused Will of ‘talking s***’ about Emmy behind her back.

In a confessional, they claimed Will had called Emmy unambitious, slated her for caring only ‘about herself’ and questioned the future of the relationship.

When confronted on the subject, Will defended making disparaging remarks about Emmy, arguing that he was ‘just venting’ and that ‘it was more like I was feeling self-conscious that I wasn’t being the boyfriend that I needed to be.’

Will, Grace Lily, Emmy, Lake Rucker, Joe Bradley, Michols Pena, Leva Bonaparte, Maddi Reese, Bradley Carter, TJ Dinch, Austin Stephan, Molly Moore and Mia Alario pictured for the show

He and Emmy then closed ranks, blaming TJ for having ‘humiliated’ them by bringing up their private tensions in front of reality show cameras.

‘I don’t know why any of this is all my fault,’ TJ retorted in a confessional. ‘Will said these horrible things about his girlfriend, not me.’ 

After being raked over the coals on social media through season three, Will declined to appear onscreen during the reunion this March.

Host Andy Cohen revealed that Will had in fact arrived to the set of the reunion with Emmy, but decided at the ‘last minute’ that he would not himself go on air.

‘I think right now for Will, you know,’ Emmy explained slowly: ‘he’s here to support me, he loves me, but I just don’t think that he can continue to entertain and engage with this group any longer to this capacity.’

When Andy asked outright if he was ‘quitting the show,’ she replied: ‘He actually hasn’t said that, funny enough, but he just has said that he can’t do this reunion.’ 

Two months later, Emmy and Will joyously announced that they had gotten engaged after he proposed to her in the South of France.