Former Shopping Channel Hosts

Omg,I thought it was Steven Tyler from Aerosmith. :face_with_peeking_eye:That is so sad. I liked her but agree once she went blonde she got nutty and it became hard to watch her.

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Wow begging for financial health and now she wants cosmetic treatments? Having been thru chemo and radiation and not having ANY help paying the bills the last thing I think of is cosmetic treatments
 I’m just utterly grateful for my LIFE!

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I just took another look at AnCONella and see she hasn’t changed much. She was born a disgusting con artist who uses the “woe is me” pathetic tactic.

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I guess I should’ve posted this here in “Former Hosts,” but Stacey Rusch isn’t focusing on being a mom, she’s sharpening her shade to join Real Housewives of Potomac.

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So maybe she didn’t get canned?!

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It doesn’t sound like it. She has ties to the Washington DC area and is friendly with some of the RHOP cast. I don’t watch it, but I read that a housewife left the cast, so maybe Stacey saw the opportunity and jumped on it? I suppose it pays more than being a host at the Q, and she gets to live in the DC area as opposed to West Chester, PA.

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And I guess, technically, if she’s becoming a professional Housewife, she did leave to spend more time being a mom, lol. :woman_shrugging:

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I watch RHOP and two, possibly three, of the cast have left, so they’ll be wanting some fresh faces. Not seeing that Bravo has made an announcement yet ?

I’m having a hard time imagining Stacey on the show. Her personality never seemed to materialize on QVC so she was likable yet boring. Not good Real Housewife criteria. Maybe she’s totally different when she’s not selling clothing on clearance.

Editing to say I did think she got canned, mainly because she was gone immediately after she announced it.
It was strange and dumb, though, that less than a week before it happened she was on a Shawn show where they did a “get to know Stacey” bit.
If Stacey actually voluntarily quit with almost no notice –
Good.For.Her.

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https://tvdeets.com/exclusives/stacey-rusch-joins-rhop-season-9-as-a-full-time-housewife

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I was thinking about that Shawn show, too. Even QVC wouldn’t be nasty enough to give a young host that kind of showcase only to dump her almost immediately after? I agree, if Stacey left with zero notice, that does something her presentations failed to do: Makes me love her.

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“Beloved”?? By whom, exactly?!

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It’ll very interesting to see how this former “beloved” Q host spins the news.
Inquiring minds want to know.

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why would his wife go on a trash tv show while he has such a high level position
BTW nothing against trash TV,

I always felt that Stacey seemed out of place on QVC. Beautiful, fashionable, but uncomfortable at best selling generic garments and totally ill at ease with any other categories.

I think she entered with greater aspirations and hopefully this is it.

Please, please, please flip a table while dishing on QVC hosts!

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It’s not a good look for either of them. I watch a few of the Housewives shows and Stacey seemed too classy for them.

Within her last month at QVC, I was watching Stacey one day and she mentioned that her husband had taken their daughter (a little kid) on vacation for spring break that week, and Stacey was left behind. It was a warm, tropical location outside the US (can’t recall exactly where). For half a minute I could tell she wasn’t thrilled about it.

Maybe it was nothing but it struck me as unusual at best. :thinking:

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kinda like Davi and Jen, he is supposedly a CFO for some company and cavorting around in hot tubs?
not good optics,

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On RHOA (the few times I’ve watched), sometimes the housewives will bring on random side friends and sometimes the friends get a lil more airtime, so heres to hoping Stacey brings a random side friend from the Q- a host, OAP, model, somebody. I dont think she got close to anyone there though. One time I saw a pic of her, her daughter, and Rachel hanging out. It didnt look like CokoJane-level closeness. But it would be funny to see Rachel B. in a minor storyline- like Stacey trying to play matchmaker with her and a DC bachelor.

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I don’t think that a host under contract could do that without management approval.

I recall a host saying that she couldn’t do a talk radio show appearance until it was approved.

Qurate has tight control over the contract players. It’s like MGM in the old studio days.

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I wish they exerted tighter control over their hosts on live TV.

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