Garcelle Beauvais is leaving ‘Real Housewives of Beverly Hills': ‘It's been a wild ride'
Garcelle Beauvais is done with 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.'
'It's been a wild ride. I mean, some of the most amazing things have happened, and some hard things have also happened. But it's been a ride nevertheless,' she said in a video posted Tuesday on social media, adding later that she had 'the most exciting projects' lined up for the future. 'CHEERS TO THE NEXT CHAPTER,' she wrote in the caption.
The five-year show veteran was the first Black woman in the 'RHOBH' cast when she joined in 2020. She leaves behind full-time cast members Erika Girardi, Dorit Kemsley, Kyle Richards, Sutton Stracke and Bozoma Saint John and part-time friends of the show Kathy Hilton and Jennifer Tilly.
After transitioning from modeling to acting in the mid-1980s, starting with minor roles in 'Miami Vice' and 'The Cosby Show,' Beauvais, 58, put together a robust career. She had recurring roles on 'NYPD Blue,' 'Franklin & Bash' and 'The Jamie Foxx Show' plus parts in movies including 'Coming 2 America' and 'Spider-Man: Homecoming.' But when the 'Housewives' offer came, her manager told her to stay away from it, she told The Times in November.
Instead, the single mother of three sons — one of whom is grown — jumped in with both feet.
'The reach of this show is so different and across the board. I didn't realize the scope of it, of how the fans are invested. I remember my friend texted me [during my first season]. She's like 'You're trending.' For what? I've done so many things, I've worked with incredible people in the industry,' the Haitian actor-producer told The Times in November. 'But it wasn't until this show that everything blew up.'
That explosion has not been 100% unicorns and rainbows, of course. During the 2022 season, Jax, one of her twin teen sons, decided he was done with the spotlight and took a break. 'Middle-aged women spamming me with racist and crude comments about my family is not what I expected for my first week of high school,' he posted on his mother's Instagram account last August.
Still, Beauvais has managed to be herself on 'RHOBH,' executive producer Andy Cohen told The Times in November.
'But also I really relate, as a viewer and as a parent, to what she shares about raising the boys,' he said. 'And in terms of a group dynamic, she is someone who absolutely does not break a sweat when sharing her feelings and opinions, and that is the hallmark of a great Housewife.'
By the way, fans, Beauvais and Cohen appear to be parting ways on good terms.
'Andy says I can come back any time I want,' she said in Tuesday's video. 'The door will always be open.'
Times staff writer Yvonne Villarreal contributed to this report.
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Artists, writers and community leaders have gone the center to be inspired, root their work in a deep understanding of the vastness of the African diaspora, and spread word of the global accomplishments of Black people. It's also the kind of place that, in an era of backlash against race-conscious education and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, exists as a free and accessible branch of the New York Public Library system. It's open to the public during regular business hours, but its acclaimed research division requires an appointment. 'The longevity the Schomburg has invested in preserving the traditions of the Black literary arts is worth celebrating, especially in how it sits in the canon of all the great writers that came beforehand,' said Mahogany Brown, an author and poet-in-residence at the Lincoln Center, who will participate in Saturday's literary festival. For the centennial, the Schomburg's leaders have curated more than 100 items for an exhibition that tells the center's story through the objects, people, and the place — the historically Black neighborhood of Harlem — that shaped it. Those objects include a visitor register log from 1925-1940 featuring the signatures of Black literary icons and thought leaders, such as Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes; materials from the Fab 5 Freddy collection, documenting the earliest days of hip hop; and actor and director Ossie Davis's copy of the 'Purlie Victorious' stage play script. An audio guide to the exhibition has been narrated by actor and literacy advocate LeVar Burton, the former host of the long-running TV show 'Reading Rainbow.' 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Still, many people outside the Schomburg community remain unaware of the center's existence — a concerning reality at a time when the Harlem neighborhood continues to gentrify around it and when the Trump administration is actively working to restrict the kind of race-conscious education and initiatives embedded in the center's mission. 'We amplify scholars of color,' Ford said. 'It's about reawakening. It gives us the tools and the voice to push back by affirming the beauty, complexity, and presence of Black identity.' Founder's donation seeds center's legacy The Schomburg Center has 11 million items in one of the oldest and largest collections of materials documenting the history and culture of people of African descent. That's a credit to founder Arturo Schomburg, an Afro-Latino historian born to a German father and African mother in Santurce, Puerto Rico. He was inspired to collect materials on Afro-Latin Americans and African American culture after a teacher told him that Black people lacked major figures and a noteworthy history. Schomburg moved to New York in 1891 and, during the height of the Harlem Renaissance in 1926, sold his collection of approximately 4,000 books and pamphlets to the New York Public Library. Selections from Schomburg's personal holdings, known as the seed library, are part of the centennial exhibition. Ernestine Rose, who was the head librarian at the 135th Street branch, and Catherine Latimer, the New York Public Library's first Black librarian, built on Schomburg's donation by documenting Black culture to reflect the neighborhoods around the library. Today, the library serves as a research archive of art, artifacts, manuscripts, rare books, photos, moving images, and recorded sound. Over the years, it has grown in size, from a reading room on the third floor to three buildings that include a small theater and an auditorium for public programs, performances and movie screenings. Tammi Lawson, who has been visiting the Schomburg Center for over 40 years, recently noticed the absence of Black women artists in the center's permanent collection. Now, as the curator of the arts and artifacts division, she is focused on acquiring works by Black women artists from around the world, adding to an already impressive catalog at the center. 'Preserving Black art and artifacts affirms our creativity and our cultural contributions to the world,' Lawson said. 'What makes the Schomburg Center's arts and artifacts division so unique and rare is that we started collecting 50 years before anyone else thought to do it. Therefore, we have the most comprehensive collection of Black art in a public institution.' 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