So much for The Real Housewives of Atlanta making any kind of progressive history.
As previously reported, the Bravo hit hired Amiyah Scott as a cast member this summer, making her the first transgender individual to ever be a series regular on this franchise.
But it doesn’t appear if Scott will actually appear on camera.
According to TMZ insiders, Scott has resigned from the show as a result of the way producers wanted her to portray herself on screen.
She was allegedly asked to overly sexualize herself, with executives prodding Scott to wear lingerie and act like a vixen.
But Scott was more interested in serving as a role model to the transgender community, not in luring in viewers with her skin and/or her attitude.
She bristled (hard!) at the demand by producers for her to be the bitch of the cast, the one often seen trashing other Housewives.
Following a month of filming in this uncomfortable manner, Scott simply walked off set.
She’s since landed a role on Lee Daniels’ next television project, as Amiyah is se to play a member of an all-girls singing group in what is being described as a prequel to Empire.
That’s great news for Scott, but bad news for this iteration of the Bravo franchise.
It would have been nice to watch The Real Housewives of Atlanta online and to see a transgender cast member simply acting like herself.
