Amanda Seales is a multitalented comedian and an actress. Last year, she became the new host on The Real with Loni Love, Jeannie Mai, Adrienne Houghton, and Tamera Mowry-Housley. However, in a recent Instagram Live video this week, she revealed that she would be leaving the daytime television show after only six months.
What We Know:
- Seales revealed the news in an interview with actor Brandon Victor Dixon in an hour long conversation where he brings up why she decided to leave the Emmy Award-winning show. Seales was offered a new deal but declined to stay.
“I didn’t renew it, because it doesn’t feel good to my soul to be at a place where I cannot speak to my people the way they need to be spoken to. And where the people who are speaking to me in disparaging ways are not being handled.”
- Seales said that one of her motivations was due to the lack of diversity among senior-level executives that were making decisions she did not agree with. “I’m not at a space where as a full Black woman,” she continued, “I can have my voice and my co-workers also have their voices and where the people at the top are not respecting the necessity for Black voices to be at the top too.”
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- Seales also went on Instagram in another video to clarify that her exit had nothing to do with any of her co-hosts. Loni Love reposted her video thanking her for her statement. Seales joined the cast as the fifth co-host in January 2020, replacing Tamar Braxton who was fired from the show.
- Fans tweeted their support for the comedian’s departure and some saw it coming because Seales is “vocal and passionate about Black community racial issues”.
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Can’t say we didn’t see this coming. Amanda Seales is real in REAL LIFE whereas as everyone else affiliated with the show is only real on The Real. #NoShade!
