‘The Real Housewives’ third season to debut November 6

Missing from the third season will be Jo De La Rosa, a 26-year-old unmarried original The Real Housewives “housewife.” Earlier this year, De La Rosa and Slade Smiley, De La Rosa’s on-again/off-again boyfriend and former fiance, were at the center of the public disclosure of behind-the-scenes squabbles between the cast and Bravo.

According to Smiley, while The Real Housewives’ cast members had been getting compensated for their participation in the show, Bravo’s restrictions had been hampering the cast’s ability to exploit their newfound television fame for additional financial gain. “All of us made it happen,” Smiley told The Times. “I won’t let my success be handled by someone else.”

The release of De La Rosa’s debut album “Just Jo” — which immergent Records had originally intended to coincide with The Real Housewives’ third-season fall premiere — has since been pushed back to early 2008, according to an early September post on her MySpace blog.

Tamra Barney, a 39-year-old wife and mother of four who is trying to launch her career as a real-estate agent, will replace De La Rosa and join the cast of housewives for the show’s third edition.

The Real Housewives’ third season apparently won’t be short on drama, as Waring is preparing to wed her fiance George Peterson (much to the dismay of her son Josh); Knickerbocker and her children are struggling with the April death of Louis Knickerbocker, her ex-husband and their father; while Gunvalson attempts to maintain control over her kids through the use of money.

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