Bravo’s fan convention BravoCon will not be held this year amid mounting lawsuits by former stars alleging workplace harassment and discrimination.
The cable TV network announced Wednesday that the annual gathering will return to Las Vegas in 2025.
Bigwig Andy Cohen — who, along with Bravo, is being sued by RHONY alum Leah McSweeney — revealed in a video shared to X (formerly Twitter) that it will be held from November 14 to November 16 at Caesars Forum.
The announcement promised that the 2025 convention is ‘going to be worth the wait!’
Instead of BravoCon, there will be other opportunities in 2024 ‘for Bravoholics to get up close and personal with their favorite Bravo stars and celebrate their passionate fandom.’
One event, titled ‘Watch Party by Bravo,’ is scheduled for spring and will be held in both Los Angeles and New York.
Bravo’s fan convention BravoCon will not be held this year amid mounting lawsuits by former stars alleging workplace harassment and discrimination
The cable TV network announced Wednesday that the annual gathering will return to Las Vegas in 2025
Though details are slim, Bravo said that the event will offer advance screenings and sneak peeks of the network’s upcoming shows.
BravoCon first kicked off in New York City in 2020.
The three-day event gives fans the opportunity to meet and hear from their favorite Bravo stars from shows like Vanderpump Rules and the Real Housewives franchise.
Countless panels and events put on by Bravo’s most popular programs are held during the convention, allowing fans to tailor their experience.
Bravo boasted that the 2023 convention saw 27,000 fans descend on the Caesars Forum at Las Vegas’ Caesars Palace resort along with 160 ‘Bravolebrities,’ including major players like Ariana Madix and Kyle Richards.
They also claim that a whopping 87% of convention attendees answered that they would be ‘excited to come back to Las Vegas for a future BravoCon.’
Based on past BravoCon, fans had the opton to purchase single day passes or treat themselves to a full weekend pass.
Wednesday’s BravoCon announcement comes amid mounting legal woes for Bravo, Cohen and several current and former Bravo stars.
Back in August, a bombshell letter revealed that 80 reality stars had teamed up to accuse the network of ‘covering up sexual violence, condoning revenge porn, exploiting minors and denying mental health treatment’.
Bethenny Frankel was believed to have led the charge, though the former RHONY star has since clarified that she is not one of the people who is officially taking legal action against Bravo or NBC.
RHONY alum Leah McSweeney is suing the network and Cohen for alleged discrimination and a hostile work environment, and claims a ‘rotted’ work culture pressured cast members to consume alcohol, causing her to relapse.
McSweeney appeared on two seasons of The Real Housewives of New York City in 2020-2021, and on a season of Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip, which aired last year.
Bigwig Andy Cohen — who, along with Bravo, is being sued by RHONY alum Leah McSweeney — revealed in a video shared to X (formerly Twitter ) that it will be held from November 14 to November 16 at Caesars Forum
The announcement promised that the 2025 convention is ‘going to be worth the wait!’
Instead of BravoCon, there will be other opportunities in 2024 ‘for Bravoholics to get up close and personal with their favorite Bravo stars and celebrate their passionate fandom’
She alleges cocaine use is rampant at the the network. She said in court docs reviewed by Page Six that Cohen ‘tends to provide the Housewives with whom he uses cocaine with more favorable treatment’ and strategic editing to make them look better.
A rep for Cohen told Dailymail.com that ‘the claims against Andy are completely false.’
In a legal letter obtained by TMZ last month, Cohen’s attorneys urged McSweeney to retract her ‘categorically false’ allegations or face a lawsuit. They also accuse McSweeney of making the explosive claim to ‘just to get headlines and a quick payday.’
RHONJ star Caroline Manzo is suing Bravo and claims production plied the cast of Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip with alcohol as they filmed the spin-off in Morocco in January 2023.
According to court documents obtained by Page Six earlier this year, Manzo claims co-star Brandi Glanville ‘forced her vagina against her back’ and ‘proceeded to mount Manzo on the couch holding Manzo down with her body, forcibly squeezed Manzo’s cheeks together and thrust her tongue in Manzo’s mouth, while humping her.’
The documents state: ‘Defendants, including Bravo, regularly ply the Real Housewives cast with alcohol, cause them to become severely intoxicated, and then direct, encourage and/or allow them to sexually harass other cast members because that is good for ratings.’
‘Caroline Manzo is a victim of those harmful actions,’ it added.
BravoCon first kicked off in New York City in 2020; Vanderpump Rules stars Katie Maloney and Ariana Madix pictured at 2023 convention
The three-day event gives fans the opportunity to meet and hear from their favorite Bravo stars from shows like Vanderpump Rules and the Real Housewives franchise; Summer House stars Carl Radke and Andrea Denver pictured at the 2023 convention
Bravo boasted that the 2023 convention saw 27,000 fans descend on the Caesars Forum at Las Vegas’ Caesars Palace resort along with 160 ‘Bravolebrities,’ including major players like Ariana Madix and Kyle Richards; (L-R) Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills stars Annemarie Wiley, Dorit Kemsley, Erika Jayne and Kyle Richards pictured at the 2023 convention
Wednesday’s BravoCon announcement comes amid the mounting legal woes against Bravo, Cohen and several current and former Bravo stars. Back in August, a bombshell letter revealed that 80 reality stars had teamed up to accuse the network of ‘covering up sexual violence, condoning revenge porn, exploiting minors and denying mental health treatment’
In her full statement in response to the suit at the time, a representative for Glanville told DailyMail.com: ‘Sadly, Brandi had to wake up to yet another lawsuit that includes defamatory, false accusations about her. While filming, Brandi followed what the producers asked of her, and there was no sexual assault.
‘She is innocent of these absurd accusations that have weighed on her mental and physical health for far too long without word of support from Peacock, Shed or Bravo.’
The statement concluded: ‘This painful storytelling seems endless and needs to stop. She is looking to move on and upward and get her life back.’
Glanville then went on to accuse Cohen of inviting her to watch him have sex with Kate Chastain in an explosive legal letter obtained by DailyMail.com in February threatening a sexual harassment lawsuit. Cohen issued an apology via Twitter.
Staying in the Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip universe, a butler named Marco Vega – who worked and appeared on season two of the show – filed a lawsuit for sexual assault and harassment last year.
In his lawsuit, Vega said he was ‘sexually harassed and abused’ while shooting the show at Dorinda Medley’s Blue Stone Manor claiming he was slapped on the buttocks by Phaedra Parks and that he was ‘forcibly stripped’ by Glanville, who ripped his shirt off.
Last week, former Vanderpump Rules star Faith Stowers filed a lawsuit against Bravo for ‘racism, sexual harassment and physical assault.’
According to court documents filed Friday, the reality TV personality, 35, is accusing the network of discrimination, retaliation and enabling an unsafe work environment on set.
RHONJ star Caroline Manzo is suing Bravo and claims production plied the cast of Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip with alcohol as they filmed the spin-off in Morocco in January 2023
According to court documents obtained by Page Six, Manzo claims co-star Brandi Glanville (pictured) ‘forced her vagina against her back’ and ‘proceeded to mount Manzo on the couch holding Manzo down with her body, forcibly squeezed Manzo’s cheeks together and thrust her tongue in Manzo’s mouth, while humping her.’ Glanville has repeatedly denied the allegations
Glanville then went on to accuse Cohen of inviting her to watch him have sex with Kate Chastain in an explosive legal letter obtained by DailyMail.com in February threatening a lawsuit. Cohen issued an apology via Twitter
In her filing, obtained by PEOPLE, Faith also named three of her former castmates — Lala Kent, 33, Stassi Schroeder, 35, and Kristen Doute, 41 — for harassment.
DailyMail.com reached out to reps for Bravo as well as Kent, Schroeder and Doute for comment but did not hear back.
In one instance, Stowers alleged Kent held a knife up to her neck and threatened to ‘cut a b***h’ when they were filming together at Lisa Vanderpump’s SUR restaurant in an unaired scene from season four — when she had just joined the cast.
Stowers’ suit also names Vanderpump as she claimed the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum threatened to have her fired from her namesake show if she refused to film with her alleged assailant.
Stowers also named the executive producer, claiming they discouraged her from filing a police report regarding the hostile encounter with Kent.
The former castmate claimed Schroeder and Doute had accused her of going AWOL from the United States Army and allegedly said she was a ‘serial criminal’ who drugged and robbed men in Los Angeles.
She claimed Schroeder and Doute also filed a ‘false’ police report in 2018 listing Stowers as the assailant when ‘the only similarities between Stowers and the assailant were their gender and skin color.’
Stowers alleged that she was regularly taunted with racially insensitive remarks and mocked for having ‘nappy hair.’
Back in June 2020, Schroeder and Doute — alongside Max Boyens and Brett Caprioni — were axed from VPR when Stowers went on Instagram Live and vocalized these alleged incidents.
She said her castmates’ behavior was a ‘brazen and defamatory campaign’ of ‘racial harassment’ with the intention to ‘harm’ her and her credibility, and when she spoke up, she was allegedly ‘warned’ to ‘keep quiet and play nice.’
Following the scandal and subsequent firing of her former co-stars, she claimed she was then demoted to an unpaid ‘volunteer’ for the show’s fifth season.
RHONY alum Leah McSweeney is suing the network and Cohen for alleged discrimination and a hostile work environment, and claims a ‘rotted’ work culture pressured cast members to consume alcohol, causing her to relapse
Former Vanderpump Rules star Rachel Leviss — who was at the heart of last year’s ‘Scandoval’ — filed a lawsuit against former castmates Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix for ‘revenge porn, eavesdropping and invasion of privacy’; (L-R) Sandoval, Madix and Leviss seen in 2022
Additionally, she noted that for the prior season she was only paid $5,000 — a noticeably smaller sum compared to her counterparts’ earnings.
Another former Vanderpump Rules star Rachel Leviss — who was at the heart of last year’s ‘Scandoval’ — filed a lawsuit in February against VPR stars Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix for ‘revenge porn, eavesdropping and invasion of privacy.’
Leviss engaged in a months-long affair with Sandoval that sparked the end of his nine-year relationship with Madix last year. The fallout was captured on camera and both Leviss and Sandoval were heavily shamed by viewers and castmates alike.
‘Scandoval’ captured the public’s attention in a massive way, went completely viral, and injected new life into Vanderpump Rules,’ Leviss’ complaint, obtained by DailyMail.com, reads. ‘It also caused mayhem in Leviss’s life, culminating in months-long in-patient treatment at a mental health facility and her departure from the show. Fomented by Bravo and Evolution in conjunction with the cast, Leviss was subjected to a public skewering with little precedent and became, without exaggeration, one of the most hated women in America.’
Last year, it was revealed that Leviss had an intimate FaceTime conversation with Sandoval that was allegedly recorded without her knowledge. During an interview with Bethenny Frankel in August, Leviss accused Sandoval of recording the video chat.
Bravo, NBCUniversal, Andy Cohen, and producers who work on Vanderpump Rules were not named in the lawsuit, however they are frequently mentioned.
