It’s good that Phaedra Parks is returning to RHOA, but…

What a difference an intensive network check makes.

In the caption of an Instagram post announcing her long-awaited (a minimum of by some fans) return to The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Phaedra Parks wrote:You called, I picked up.”

Parks, nevertheless, had little interest in returning to the show that brought her fame two years ago.

When asked about it then, she said: customs ET: “No, I don’t want to pick peaches. If I wanted a peach, I’d have a peach pie, but that’s not… no, as I’ve made clear, that’s not what I want to do. No. I’m going to sail. Let them keep sailing on the Titanic, OK?”

The show needed all the assistance it could get back then, but I imagine the value tag for a reality show rescue mission is even higher now.

It’s no wonder Phaedra wants to lead the boat for the reason that series’ upcoming reboot is affected by the lack of Kenya Moore, who caused a stir on RHOA last month by allegedly leaking racy photos of latest forged member Brittany Eady on the grand opening of her recent salon, Kenya Moore Hair Spa.

From what I see on the internetPhaedra is already at work and has joined the forged on their international tour.

Phaedra’s humorousness, a cross between Southern Belle and Morticia Addams, could also be a matter of taste, but I believe she’s good television and, out of the choices available, probably the greatest people to turn to for this young series.

I miss NeNe too, but she’s gone now, my dears.

It looks like Kenya Moore Hair Spa has gone together with her.

They can call Sheree, because they at all times can, but for the record, they shouldn’t call Kim Zolciak. Let her stay within the chaos she caused in 2016.

Phaedra is the precise decision for the show and for her, as she has been wasted on other shows since leaving RHOA.

When Phaedra first appeared after RHOA, it was on the show “Marriage Boot Camp: Hip Hop Edition” in 2020.

Phaedra was not married to rapper and actor Medina Islam when He joined series, and the connection seemed to be based more on contractual obligations than the rest.

The same goes for Phaedra’s recent role on Married to Medicine , where we never see any of the doctors she’s been dating, which makes it a bit harder to buy her in. She’s okay on the show, and it’s good that she’s getting two paychecks from a Bravo show on this economy, but after the upcoming season of M2M , it’s time to pull the peaches out of the medical mess.

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While Phaedra’s return to RHOA at all times seemed inevitable, for years it seemed unattainable.

Phaedra left the show after admitting in the course of the ninth season that she began a rumor that Kandi and her husband, Todd Tucker, allegedly planned to drug Porsha Williams and Shamea Morton Mwangiin so as to sexually assault them.

Kandi voluntarily left the show and has been released plans returning so Phaedra won’t have to face her.

That’s probably for the perfect, but does that mean that when she returns she should ignore the rationale she left?

I hope not.

Phaedra has addressed this topic lately.

In June 2022, she appeared on Peacock’s Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip Ex-Wives Club. Fellow forged member Vicki Gunvalson tried to get her to revisit the incident, but Phaedra said she “doesn’t do that,” so all we heard was her calling her departure from the show “BS” and stating that “there are two sides to every story.”

However, in the identical June 2022 interview with ET, Phaedra stated that more information had been revealed.

“Well, we actually talked about it before, so they decided not to air it,” Phaedra explained. “But that was — and honestly — that was, what now, five and a half, six years ago? And there are two sides to the story. You only heard one side, and they obviously decided not to play the other side. And it is what it is, but I live in the present. And I think people realize — people who know, know, and most people knew and still know.”

She added, “I’ll say this: It is what it is, I mean, people are going to like you and believe what they want to believe. And I think my record speaks for itself and it’s not going to be one day that’s going to be my obvious legacy. And it was a little BS, like I said at the time, and it’s still a little BS and obviously I came back to the Bravo family, so that speaks for itself, let’s say. If there was this whole problem with me and they didn’t want to care about me, you wouldn’t see me showing up at every event. Because I didn’t invite myself, honey.”

No, she didn’t invite herself to Bravo. Yes, the incident happened a number of years ago.

Still, while I feel like Phaedra will breathe recent life into the show, I hope she considers reconsidering her reasons for leaving. If not to shut some fans up, then a minimum of to explain how Kenya was kicked out for one reason, and Phaedra was brought back despite her past.

Many of us have been clamoring for Phaedra’s return for our own amusement, but that doesn’t suggest we suffer from amnesia.