RHOC cast member Tamra Judge has *officially* reunited with Vicki Gunvalson after their major fallout.
Tamra Judge and Vicki Gunvalson have officially reunited and are “leaving the toxic behind.” The Real Housewives of Orange County cast member and RHOC alum had fallen out in their friendship in January 2024 (more on that down below), but have since reconciled with one another and are looking forward to their future as friends.
Tamra took to her Instagram account on Nov. 7, where she posted a video of her and Vicki to her feed. “Reunited…and leaving the toxic behind,” she wrote in the caption of the post. The next day, on Nov. 8, she took to Instagram where she posted three photos of herself and Vicki, standing in the kitchen, hugging each other.
“My friend, my soulmate, my sister,” she wrote in the caption of the post.
Vicki also took to her Instagram Story over the weekend, where she reposted the photos of her and Tamra. She also re-posted a photo of her and Tamra standing next to her podcast co-host, Christian Gray Snow.
Tamra Judge opens up about her “love-hate relationship” with Vicki Gunvalson
Tamra spoke with Us Weekly on Nov. 5, ahead of their reunion, where she confirmed that they have put their drama behind them and are now friends again. “We’ve had a lot of ups and downs in our 20 years. I always say, we’re like sisters,” Tamra said.
“It’s that love-hate relationship all the time,” she added. “I’m talking sisterly love. Like, you have little arguments. And then being on a show together, there’s always ups and downs — especially the type of show that we were on together.”
Vicki Gunvalson opens up about reunion with Tamra Judge after falling out
Vicki took to her podcast on Nov. 7, where she opened up about what led to her fallout with Tamra, and how that impacted their reunion. “Tamra and I never got in an issue or a fight,” she admitted, noting that she “hasn’t texted Tamra” in two years. “I just don’t like who she’s become.”
“And I don’t know if it’s the real Tamra, I don’t know if it’s the TV Tamra, when we say there’s two Tamras,” she continued. “I get very insecure and very jealous when she’s treating other people nice. So I said that very fast…we hugged it out.”
But, this doesn’t necessarily mean that the Tres Amigas — which was the friend group comprised of Tamra, Vicki, and RHOC’s Shannon Storms Beador — will be getting back together. “I really don’t know what it means,” she admitted.
“I do know if I see her in a store, or we see each other at HomeGoods, because she shops at HomeGoods, I want to be able to say hi to her,” she noted.
Tamra Judge and Vicki Gunvalson admit they “don’t care” what people think of their reunion
Both Tamra and Vicki told Us Weekly that they are unafraid of reactions to their reunion. “I’ve known Vicki longer than anybody, and I don’t think anybody should dictate who you can be friends with and can’t be friends with,” Tamra told the publication. “I think Vicki’s the same.”
“That’s why we met, because we don’t care what other people think,” Vicki added.
Why did Tamra Judge and Vicki Gunvalson stop being friends?
Tamra and Vicki became friends with Tamra joined the cast of RHOC in Season 3. But, over the years, they have experienced their fair share of friendship breakups and make ups.
Most recently, Vicki and Tamra stopped being friends after Tamra took to X (formerly Twitter) on Jan. 6, 2024, where she posted a solo photo of herself and captioned it “Uno.” She also re-posted an Instagram Story of Shannon and Vicki going on tour without her that same day to X with the words “My friend, my soulmate, my sister, my ass” in the caption.
Tamra then accused Vicki and Shannon of not being loyal to their friendship. “There are some things they had said about me behind my back that got to me, and it didn’t sit well with me,” she told Entertainment Tonight later that month. “In 2024, I’m not going to be around toxic people that are, you know — if you’re my friend, be my friend. If I’m doing something or saying something you don’t like, come to me and tell me.”
But, she also didn’t rule out reuniting with them, either. “Listen, I never say never,” she concluded at the time.
Quick on the heels of famously sassy, phrase-turning R&B singer and reality TV star Tamar Braxton’s announcement her recently released album, “Bluebird of Happiness,” will be her last — at least for a while — and news that her husband, music executive husband Vincent Herbert, founder of Streamline Records, was legally ordered to pay Sony more than $3.7 million to settle a lawsuit over a 2013 advance, the couple hoisted their grandly proportioned and glamorously appointed Mediterranean mansion in Calabasas, Calif., up for sale at $15 million.
The Herbert-Braxtons, married in late 2007 after about five years together, purchased the 13,716-square-foot mansion inside the double-gated Estates at The Oaks enclave in April 2013 for $10.5 million and public records show since then there have been several notices of default filed and subsequently canceled against the two-acre spread that provides a total of seven bedrooms and nine full and two half bathrooms between the main house and poolside guesthouse.
Wrought iron and glass front doors open to an entry vestibule and foyer with black and white floral-patterned inlaid floor and a floating, wrought iron railed staircase that curves up to the bedrooms on the second floor. The main living and entertaining space makes a great sweep across the rear of the residence with gleaming wide-plank hardwood floors laid in a classy chevron pattern.
A central gallery with glossy grand piano is flanked to one side by a lounge with semi-circular sofa in front of an ornate fireplace and to the other by a “champagne bar” modeled after The Dorchester Hotel in London with tufted velvet sofas and a stately wood-paneled ceiling.
Arched French doors open the vast space to an immense, stone-paved loggia with retractable canvas shade awnings and a bowling alley-length dining table that easily seats at least two-dozen al fresco diners. With elaborately carved cabinetry, granite countertops and a super-sized commercial-style range under a hand-hammered copper hood, the kitchen is open to a spacious informal dining area that, in turn, opens to a family room with fireplace and French doors to the backyard.
The three-story mansion’s creature comfort also include a home theater, a game room, an office, a wine cellar with tasting room and, unsurprisingly, a recording studio along with an elevator, an camera-equipped security system, a gentlemen’s lounge with authentic barber chair, a mirror-walled gym and a subterranean parking garage that will accommodate over a dozen cars. The mansion makes a U-shaped embrace around a broad and grassy courtyard with swimming pool and spa beyond which a soccer pitch-sized lawn gives way to a panoramic view over rugged ravines and undeveloped mountaintops.
Some of the other, equally sized and similarly luxurious estates in The Estates sections of The Oaks are owned by reality television’s Kourtney and Khloé Kardashian, Michael Jackson’s mother Katherine Jackson, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and Jay McGraw, elder son of extraordinarily well-compensated TV therapist Dr. Phil McGraw, and his Playboy model wife Erica Dahm.