After six months as a co-host on The Real, Amanda Seales is leaving the show.
The 38-year-old actress announced her departure during an Instagram Live on Tuesday explaining that she wasn’t able to fully use her ‘voice’ and found the talk show lacking black voices ‘at the top.’
Amanda later stressed that her decision to leave had nothing to do with her co-hosts, Loni Love, Tamera Mowry-Housley, Jeannie Mai and Adrienne Houghton.
Moving on: After six months as a co-host on The Real, Amanda Seales announced she is leaving the show during an Instagram Live, explaining that she wasn’t able to fully use her ‘voice’ and found the talk show lacking black voices ‘at the top’
‘My contract is up at The Real, and I didn’t renew it,’ Amanda simply stated in the Instagram Live with actor Brandon Dixon.
‘It doesn’t feel good to my soul to be at a place where I can not speak to my people the way they need to be spoken to,’ she continued. ‘And where the people that are speaking to me in despairing ways are not being handled.’
Amanda didn’t expand on specifics about the ‘despairing’ things that were said but did go on to suggest that there was a lack of black executives.
‘I’m not at a space where, as a full black woman, I can have my voice and my co-workers also have their voices,’ she said. ‘And where the people at the top are not respecting the necessity for black voices to be at the top, too.’
‘My contract is up at The Real, and I didn’t renew it,’ Amanda simply stated in the Instagram Live with actor Brandon Dixon.
‘It doesn’t feel good to my soul to be at a place where I can not speak to my people the way they need to be spoken to,’ she continued. ‘And where the people that are speaking to me in despairing ways are not being handled.’
The multi-talented star had guest hosted several times before officially joining the CBS talk show back in January. She replaced Tamar Braxton on The Real who had been fired in 2016.
Amanda’s new gig was thrown for a loop due to the coronavirus pandemic shuttering production in Hollywood and forcing shows, The Real among them, to pivot to a stay-at-home model.
After her announcement, rumors swirled that the Insecure actress quit over tension with her co-hosts, particularly Loni Love.
However, on Wednesday, Amanda was quick to nip the rumor in the bud.
Her choice: After her announcement, Amanda shut down rumors that she left due to issues with her co-hosts and told people not to ‘create some kind of conflict that doesn’t exist’.
‘Do not try to create some false dissention between me and the co-hosts of The Real. Y’all so f**king corny,’ she said.
‘There is a whole pandemic and an uprising going on, and you still can’t find s**t else to do but try and create some kind of conflict that doesn’t exist? I did not unfollow Loni Love. I haven’t unfollowed anybody.
‘What ya’ll don’t understand is grown women do grown women business. That’s what y’all don’t understand, and what I gotta do with my business ain’t got nothing to do with them sisters,’ Amanda concluded.
During her Instagram Live on Wednesday, Amanda was unexpectedly joined by Snoop Dogg who supported her move to leave the show.
‘When you said what you said about The Real, I understood what you were saying,’ Snoop told her. ‘You couldn’t say what you wanted to say but I understood what you were saying because I understand the dynamics of Hollywood and I know that they’re not going just let your blackness shine.’
Amanda doesn’t appear to be dwelling in her decision to leave and is already busy using her platform to create change and open the discussions around racist tensions plaguing the country.
On Wednesday she hosted a forum via her Small Doses podcast and YouTube channel Smart Funny & Black on the side effects of uprising following a string of protests across the US over the killing of George Floyd by a police officer.
The comedian, who holds a master’s degree in African American studies from Columbia University, is also a series regular as Tiffany on HBO’s hit show Insecure.
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