BEHIND THE VELVET ROPE

Updated: 21 Dec 2025 • 2139 episodes

Come step ‘Behind The Velvet Rope’ with all your favorite TV stars and pop culture icons with host David Yontef as he asks his guests all the pressing questions YOU want answered!    David’s relaxed, friendly interview style has welcomed a wide variety of guests -- from Real Housewives, musicians, comedians, actors, reality stars, designers, Bravolebrities and more!    Behind the Velvet Rope has been mentioned in publications and media like Vanity Fair, The Today Show, Variety, The Wall Street Journal People, TMZ, Page Six, OK! Magazine, Us Weekly, Entertainment Tonight, ExtraTV, Billboard Magazine, Telemundo, Marie Claire, the Wendy Williams Show, Life & Style, Access Hollywood, Perez Hilton, The Daily Mail, Radar Online, Bravo Daily Dish, E!, The Sun, Just Jared, InStyle, Watch What Happens Live, Architectural Digest, Fox News, Hollywood Life, Too Fab, Rolling Stone, USA Today, MSN, The Drew Barrymore Show, Yahoo Online, The Mirror, Women's Health and more!    Ranked #1 Real Housewives / Reality TV Podcast by BuzzFeed! FOR ADVERTISING OPPORTUNITIES - PLEASE CONTACT david@advertising-execs.com   Subscribe to Behind the Velvet Rope on Patreon for special bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/behindthevelvetrope  

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Teddi and Tamra come for Dorit, Garcelle and anyone and everyone who is not team Kyle.  Speaking of Kyle, she reveals her worst part of RHOBH. Teresa and Melissa move forward with their plan which, actually, may work. RHOA takes sense center stage with footage of Kandi and Todd’s prenup called into question.  Megan Kin

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Brenda K. Starr steps Behind The Rope. Brenda chats with us about what it was like to find success and hit it big in the late 1980’s with her most well known song “I Still Believe”. We chat about some of her contemporaries at the time, Madonna, Whitney Houston, Cyndi Lauper, Paula Abdul, Tina Turner and Debbie Gibson. 

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Another week, another stellar episode of the show Vanity Fair calls one of the best of 2025, The Real Housewives of Salt Late City. We break down this episode as the ladies are still in Santorini and it is Mother’s Day. What can go wrong? In other news, Jen Shah if officially a free woman, has to check into a halfway h

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Kyle Richards and Dorit Kemsley are still not on speaking terms. Kyle blames PK for everything, Dorit blames PK for certain things and Sutton’s Mom thinks PK is unattractive. For a man not earning a paycheck for RHOBH, he certainly seems to have a central role this season. Speaking of Sutton, she is happy as can be the

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Jeff Lewis has been issued a serious warning, shut the fu*k up!! Mr. Lewis seems to have ruffled a few feathers as of late and this time it comes with a stern message. Sutton slams Garcelle as fake and her cast mates weigh in with a few thoughts of their own. This season of RHOBH moves on and newbie Amanda Frances has

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Teresa and Melissa and Luis and Joey G and Luis Junior and Gia and all her sisters are headed to Franklin Lakes to celebrate Xmas eve at Melissa and Joe’s house, sprinkle cookies and all. Mauricio is out in these streets talking a big game about a lotta things but Kyle shoots him down, shares divorce updates, has a new

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