Kenya Beats NeNe! Moore’s Return Crushes Leakes' First Time Back On 'RHOA'
Nov. 20 2019, Updated 5:04 p.m. ET
Moore vs. Leakes!
NeNe Leakes’ first appearance on the new season of The Real Housewives of Atlanta brought in huge ratings, but they were crushed by Kenya Moore’s return.
Kenya was fired from RHOA after she refused to share details about her secret marriage, but she returned in Season 12 as a full-time housewife, with a hefty pay cut.
Viewers tuned in to seen Kenya’s comeback and delivered a whopping 1.91 million in the ratings for the season premiere.
The ratings plummeted the second week down to 1.85 million but rebounded when NeNe made her season debut.
She was absent for the first two episodes of the season but returned with a vengeance on Sunday, Nov. 17.
According to Showbuzzdaily.com, the RHOA episode had 1.860 million viewers and crushed the previous week with the desired 18-49 demographic viewers.
“Viewers still tune in to see NeNe, and that is going to make Kenya really mad,” a show insider snitched to RadarOnline.com.
“NeNe doesn’t care about Kenya’s trash talking,” the source told RadarOnline.com.
Scroll through the gallery for the shocking details of NeNe and Kenya’s ongoing feud.
Trash Talk
“Hey ladies, I was here for all the shade! Now when I give it back, don’t be too sensitive and have amnesia! You know how y’all like to play victim,” NeNe wrote on her Instagram page the night her episode aired.
Breaking The Bank
Kenya returned to the show making on $500,000 for the season, a whopping $1million pay cut as RadarOnline.com previously reported.
Top Show
RHOA was Bravo's highest rated show with the drama that the ladies from Atlanta delivered.
Money Talks
Kenya tried to downplay NeNe’s salary, telling Wendy Williams that Kandi Burruss made the most money, but an insider confirmed to RadarOnline.com that Kandi’s show salary was less than NeNe’s $2.85 million.
Cat Fight
The rivalry between NeNe and Porsha Williams was also fierce, with the two ladies were trash talking each other as the season took off with a bang.
Winning
NeNe mocked the first two episodes of the show, writing on her Instagram. : “They tried real hard on the pre-show hunni but it didn’t work!”
Drama Pays
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RHOA drama brought in ratings that made it the highest rated show on Bravo and NeNe was the highest paid housewife of them all.
Filming Fights
NeNe and Kenya had two explosive blowouts on camera, as RadarOnline.com previously reported.
