‘The Real Housewives of Potomac’s’ Gizelle Bryant Talks ‘Beyond the Gates’ Guest Spot, Reality vs. Soaps, and Returning to Spice Up Vernon Dupree’s Love Life (Exclusive)
On today’s Monday, December 1 episode of Beyond the Gates; two very familiar faces of Bravo ‘Real Housewives’ fans are in the house and at Fairmont Crest!
The Real Housewives of Potomac’sGizelle Bryant and Dr Wendy Osefo play two country club members for the well-to-do and mix it up in scenes with none other than Lauren Buglioli (Vanessa McBride) and Karla Mosley (Dani Dupree). In the story, Vanessa’s business decisions are called into question and all the ladies have something to say about it.
Gizelle Bryant is taking on the role of Gloria Darwel and Michael Fairman TV spoke to the reality star who hopes to have a bright future in soaps. Currently, Bryant and Osefo can be seen in the 10th season of RHOP which dropped back in October.
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Speaking on on her experience of taping ‘Real Housewives’ as opposed to Beyond the Gates, Bryant noted which is more challenging! “Well, clearly ‘Potomac,’ because it’s not scripted, and so you don’t ever know what’s going to happen, you don’t know what these ladies are going to say and how they’re going to act. Beyond the Gates and Fairmont Crest was like a walk in the park, in comparison to dealing with these ladies in ‘Potomac.'”
Bryant shared scenes with soap opera veteran Karla Mosley and Lauren Buglioli and she has nothing but high praise for her co-stars. “I had never met those ladies, and they were fantastic, by the way,” expressed Gizelle. “They really knew that these ‘reality people, don’t really know what they’re doing, and we’re going to help them. We’re going to hold their hand and walk them through this.’ It’s such a fast-paced today. It was like ‘Wow!’ They shoot 20-30 scenes in a day.”
Both Gizelle and Wendy had each other as companions for the trip to Atlanta to tape scenes on Beyond the Gates. “We had a great day together, because we flew in on the tape day. We knocked out our scene, and then we flew home together, recalled Gizelle. “So, yes, we had fun, but both of us were like, ‘We think we’re doing a lot over here on the reality side to pull together a season,’ but if you spend a day on a soap opera, you see that they are really working non-stop.”
On Beyond the Gates, Bryant’s character, Gloria Darvell is craving to go back to Fairmont Crest to start some drama and some foolishness. As Gizelle explained, “So in our scenes, we go into the country club. They’re trying to get us to call this 1-800 number, which is her new business which we call, and it ends up being a sex situation, and we’re like, ‘absolutely not. We are high society. We do not engage in sex workers.'” I do need to have Gloria come back, to go shopping with the other ladies, get drunk, we need to do all kinds of things. Being a villainess on a soap opera, that’s a dream, that’s goals!”
This season on The Real Housewives of the Potomac, Gizelle’s courtroom drama has been front and center stage involving contesting her late father’s will, with whom the reality star believes was tampered with by his wife. She states that the fraudulent will leaves her and her children with nothing, and has been intent on getting what she believes her father intended for them to have. But, how did she feel when the reality series producers and cameras were going to follow her to court?
“When they told me that they were coming with me, I said ‘no,’ so there was a little pushback from them,” recalled Bryant. “Finally I said, ‘fine.’ It is obviously a sensitive subject, and it doesn’t just involve me. I have siblings. It involves them as well, and they did not sign up to be on reality television, or have their business on reality television. I was being cautious from that perspective, but it’s a huge story in my life, so it was only fair to show it.”
“Beyond the Gates is scripted, so that’s a sweet spot,” said Gizelle. “I can be on TV and not talk about my life! On reality TV, you kind of go in blind. You don’t really know how it’s going to be edited. You know what happened in that moment, but you don’t know how it’s going to be put together. But, that’s what you sign up for. The trick is to make sure that you don’t do anything that you regret.”
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Is Gizelle now a fan of the Dupree and the Richardson family drama? “Well, I’m going to watch now. My mother is a huge fan of Beyond the Gates. She’s been watching since the first episode. She was so excited when I got this role, because she thinks that now I’ve made it! In her mind, now I’m a success. I’ve been on television for over a decade, but that didn’t matter. (Laughs)”
Beyond the Gates has been nailing it in the hair, make-up and wardrobe departments since premiering on-screen. The way they represent Black excellence and more is not lost on Bryant. “They have an A+ glam team at Beyond the Gates, and the lighting is right. You know, a lot of times, people don’t know how to light for Black performers,” shared Gizelle. “But on this show, the lighting is beautiful, glam is beautiful, wardrobe, everything was amazing. And to see great representations of Black families is fantastic, 100%. Shows like ‘Real Housewives of Potomac,’ Married to Medicine, those shows are the only ones that are showing Black women in a positive way, right? So, we’ve got to have some other shows, too. So, I’m super happy that the network, during the day, on daytime television, is showing affluent Black families. It’s fantastic.”
Recently, Bryant, who is currently single, also appeared on the summer reality-dating series, Bravo’s Love Hotel where single people are looking for their partners. She shared how that experience was for her as well. “It was odd, absolutely, but I was with my girlfriend Ashley Darby, and she is my ride or die, so it was fun doing it with her,” admitted Gizelle. “I just felt like there were no guys that were really there for me, but it was a great science experiment.”
Before she leaves her guest stint behind, Gizelle has an idea for the writers of Beyond the Gates, “I think coming back, my character, Gloria, should be Vernon Dupree’s (Clifton Davis) mistress! What?! That would be epic! I’m thinking that would be great TV, just sayin’.”
Take a look at Gizelle and Dr. Wendy Osefo in a scene and moment from their guest spots on Monday’s, December 1 episode of Beyond the Gates below.
Then let us know, would you like to see Bryant’s Gloria return to spice up the love life of Vernon Dupree? Do you watch ‘Real Housewives of the Potomac?” Do you like having guest appearances and crossovers from other TV series on Beyond the Gates? Share your thoughts via the comment section below.
No! There will be no affair for Vernon! I was happy to see Gizelle, however, she was a tad over the top with the hair swinging, LOL! Other than that, let her be a villain match for Leslie….she can get with Ted and make Nicole jealous, heck, she looks like his type!
On the Friday, May 8 episode of Beyond the Gates, the CBS daytime drama served up another fantasy sequence between married couple Andre Richardson (Sean Freeman) and Dani Dupree (Karla Mosley). The moment happened after Dani overheard a suspicious conversation and teasingly asks her hubby if he is spy?
This launches into story time by Dani, when she dreams up a scenario straight out of the look of the Blaxploitation films of the early to mid 70s. We are talking Pam Grier in Foxy Brown, Richard Roundtree in Shaft, and Sweet Sweet Badassses Song from Melvin Van Peoples and others.
In Dani’s story, both she and Andre are spies at Orphey Gene’s. Andre reveals he wears an eye patch. In the fantasy, Andre is also deemed to be a men’s underwear photographer from Iowa. The two seems to be double agents.
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After the scenes aired, the official Beyond the Gates Instagram account and Karla Mosley shared it on social, and many of the BTG cast jumped in the comment thread, as the series always brings it in the hair and make-up and wardrobe department and they had this down.
Sean Freeman said, “Sooo much fun shooting this one 🔥,” while Karla Mosley added, “The way I have been waiting for this episode to drop!” BTG Writer, Danielle Paige shared, “One of my fave days to write!!!”
While some fans loved it, others were not so in love with it. Check out the satire below featuring Dani and Andre’s 70s Foxy Brown-esque fantasy.
Then let us know, did you enjoy the repartee and think it was clever, plus the wardrobe, make-up and hair throwing it back to decades ago in the cinema … or do you think it was a waste of time on an episode and would prefer not to see fantasy sequences? Share your thoughts in the comment section.
Who would have thought that more uptight of the Beyond the Gates Dupree sisters, Dr. Nicole Dupree Richardson (Daphnee Duplaix), would be the one cavorting around with a few different suitors at one time and living it up! Such as the case of the psychiatrist at Garland Memorial Medical Center.
In story, after her decades-long marriage went bust with Dr. Ted Richardson (thanks to the bombshell by Leslie that Ted and her had an affair the result of which was her having his daughter, Eva), Nicole divorced the renowned plastic surgeon and since that time has two men actively vying her attention, newcomer in town, Dr. Kial Robbins (Greg Vaughan) and Ted’s plastic surgeon partner, Dr. Carlton Fitzgerald (Michael Christopher Riley).
What’s refreshing for daytime is, this is a woman taking control of her personal life, and not making excuses that she is not being mutually-exclusive, She has even explained to both Kial and Carlton that after the stormy ending and the betrayal of her marriage to Ted (Keith D. Robinson), she’s not rushing into anything with any sort of short or long term commitment. So, everyone knows what they are getting themselves into.
For Nicole, let the fun begin and this week on all new episodes of Beyond the Gates come the Friday, May 8 episode while with Carlton, Nicole runs into Food Network Chef, Sunny Anderson who is also a regular contributor and official “Drew Crew” member on The Drew Barrymore Show. Meanwhile, Ted is thinking about another woman who Shanice thinks is Leslie, but doesn’t he just love Nicole and wants her back, try as he might to move on with anyone that isn’t her? Stay tuned.
This week, in the latest promo for Beyond the Gates, things are getting hot and heavy in the bedroom between Nicole and Carlton, while previous she had quite the time with Kial.
Check out the latest video teaser for episodes airing May 4-8 below.
So, who do you think will be the ultimate love match for Nicole? Will she wind up back with Ted, choose to be exclusive with Kial or Carlton, or will no one get Nicole, and she will just continue to be single and happy for the rest of her life? Let us know your picks via the comment section.
Your favorite soaps operas on CBS, have a scheduling shift over the next few days for the network’s fifth annual broadcast for the UEFA Champions League Soccer games in Europe.
This will effect the Tuesday, April 28 and Wednesday, April 29; and next week’s Tuesday, May 5 and Wednesday, May 6 line-up of Beyond the Gates, The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless.
First, and the most affected is all-new episodes of Beyond the Gates which will not air today or tomorrow. As well, game show Let’s Make a Deal will also be preempted. The two shows will also be fully preempted on May 5 and May 6.
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However, The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful will air as normal for East Coast viewers, but those on the West Coast in Mountain and Pacific Time Zones will have a full preemption. Only, the top-rated The Price is Right will air coast-to-coast with no interruptions because of its time slot of 11am ET/10am PT.
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SCHEDULE
The UEFA, the Union of European Football Associations, semi-final matches begin airing today on April 28 when Paris Saint Germain PSG plays a home game in France and goes up against Bayern Munich, and on April 29, viewers can look for Atlético de Madrid plays at home vs. Arsenal FC.
Next week, on Tuesday, May 5, Arsenal FC plays at home in England vs. Atletico Madrid, while Bayern Munich faces Paris Saint-Germain, on Wednesday May 6, in Munich, Germany.
CBS will air a one-hour UEFA Champions League Today before each of the matches at 2pm ET as the matches begin each day of the tournament at 3pm ET.
BEYOND THE GATES PREVIEW
When Beyond the Gates returns this Thursday, April 3o it will be the pick-up of the Monday, April 27 cliffhanger which found the Dr. Lia Whitmore (Cecelia Specht) threatening Grayson (Jordi Vilasuso) and Ashley (Jen Jacob) and Dani (Karla Mosley) becoming even more suspicious of Hayley (Marquita Goings) and her plans for Bill (Timon Kyle Durrett).
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In addition look for, Leslie (Tricia Mann-Grant) to be confronted by Anita (Tamara Tunie), while exes, Ted (Keith D. Robinson) and Nicole (Daphnee Duplaix) share a close moment witnessed by Shanice.
For those wanting to catch all episodes of The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful if you are in the West Coast time zones and usually watch them during the day. you can catch the action via CBS.com, CBS app or Paramount+
As Beyond the Gates heats up with who’s behind and involved in the black market blood plasma snatching story, don’t forget to check out the Michael Fairman Channel’s recent interview with Cecelia Specht on all things Dr. Lia Whitmore below.
So, what do you think of the preemption schedule and how it may affect your viewing this week and next of Beyond the Gates, The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless? Weigh-in via the comment section.
