<p id=”par-1_18″>A new face is joining the cast of <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/rhoc-fans-say-1-housewife-go-season.html/”><em>The Real Housewives of Orange County</em></a><em> </em>for its 20th season. </p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-former-playboy-playmate-carmella-garcia-joins-rhoc”>Former Playboy Playmate Carmella Garcia joins ‘RHOC’</h2>
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<p id=”par-2_57″>Carmella Garcia is a former Playboy Playmate turned real estate broker/developer. Introduced to the group through Jennifer Pedranti, she’s a self-proclaimed “girls’ girl” who makes fast friends. But some of the other <em>RHOC </em>question the newbie’s choices and motives. Tension is particularly thick between her and <em>RHCO </em>OG Vicki Gunvalson, who returns to the show this season. </p>
<p id=”par-3_24″>“I started this franchise,” Vicki tells Carmella at a group dinner. (Earlier in the trailer she refers to the newest Housewives as “Carmella DeVille.”)</p>
<p id=”par-4_7″>“Everything has an expiration,” Carmella fires back. </p>
<p id=”par-5_24″>In an interview with Bravo’s <a href=”https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/who-is-carmella-garcia-kids-career-dating-rhoc-season-20-bio-photos” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>The Daily Dish</a>, Carmella confessed to “probably” being the source of most of the drama in <em>RHOC </em>Season 20. </p>
<p id=”par-6_56″>“Just because I’m the new person,” she said. “I think I just came in, and I just do me. And it was either gonna go one of two ways. It was either going to be accepted or not, and I was OK with either side of it, but I think we’re going strong at this point.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-carmella-appeared-on-the-girls-next-door-works-at-the-oppenheim-group”>Carmella appeared on ‘The Girls Next Door,’ works at The Oppenheim Group</h2>
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<p id=”par-7_48″>Carmella is no stranger to the spotlight. In 2004, she was Playboy’s Playmate of the Year. That led to her appearance on several episodes of <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/hugh-hefners-reality-show-originally-entirely-different-premise.html/”><em>The Girls Next Door</em></a><em>, </em>E!’s reality series about Hugh Hefner’s live-in girlfriends. She was also a finalist on <em>WWE Diva Search </em>in 2004. </p>
<p id=”par-8_26″>In 2007, Carmella married NFL quarterback Jeff Garcia. They had four children together before divorcing in 2020: Presley, 18; Jason, 17; Jax, 15; and Faith, 14. </p>
<p id=”par-9_45″>While she got her start as a model, Carmella eventually moved on to a new career in real estate. She is an agent with <a href=”https://ogroup.com/agents/carmella-garcia/” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>The Oppenheim Group</a> of <em>Selling Sunset </em>fame, where she specializes in luxury sales, working out of the Corona Del Mar office. </p>
<p id=”par-10_38″><em>RHOC </em>is also not Carmella’s first brush with the <em>Real Housewives </em>franchise. According to her <a href=”https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6439040/” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>IMDb</a>, she appeared in a 2014 pilot for <em>The Real Housewives of San Diego. </em>However, that show never became a full-fledged Bravo series. </p>
<p id=”par-11_23″><em>The Real Housewives of Orange County </em>Season 20 premieres Thursday, July 9 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Episodes stream the next day on Peacock. </p>
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