Gizelle brings the gossip to the group, and urges whomever the topic of discussion is to confirm or dispel rumors. As entertaining as the drama between housewives is, Gizelle hardly has anything of substance to highlight, besides brief clips of her home life with her daughters. Her storyline with her ex-husband Jamal Bryant dried up, which left fans wondering what's next for the beauty.
On Twitter, RHOP fans were not too thrilled that Gizelle set her sights on Candiace Dillard-Bassett's husband, Chris Dillard-Bassett, for the sake of a storyline. This season, Gizelle accused Chris of making her uncomfortable, while they were speaking in her hotel room at the reunion last year. Gizelle clarified that the door was open, and said that Chris did not make any advances towards her. However, she felt that the setting was inappropriate. Once Gizelle brought her experience with Chris to Candiace, it caused Candiace to break the fourth wall. She confronted production for allowing Gizelle to make the trivial encounter into a storyline. Candiace countered Gizelle's claim, stating that she recently saw Chris (and gave him a hug) at Karen Huger's event. Fans on Twitter found themselves agreeing with Candiace, and accused Gizelle of going too far to stir up drama on the series.
Fans Want To See More Of Gizelle’s Personal Life
Many fans online definitely took issue with the fact that Gizelle uses her screen time to scrutinize the lives of other housewives, rather than putting equal focus on her personal life. Twitter CWT posted, "Gizelle doesn’t realize how she would actually be interesting if we saw her date or spend time with her daughters and parents. She has an interesting home life, but she chooses to hyper focus on everyone else’s lives. A loser at her core. #rhop.” Some of Gizelle's best moments on the show are the scenes where she is interacting with her daughters. Her daughters tend to offer Gizelle comical, yet loving advice, which makes her appear more vulnerable than she is in other scenes, when she is interacting with her fellow housewives.
Fans Are Over Gizelle's Storyline
Although most fans love Gizelle’s antics, some fans are calling her out for having double standards when it comes to Chris and her behavior towards Ashley Darby’s husband, Michael Darby. Twitter @Trehugger19 shared, “Gizelle felt uncomfortable to be around Chris but filmed multiple times around Michael after he grabbed everyone and their mothers *sses? Yeah this is a failed attempt at a storyline #RHOP.” That person went on to write, “Don’t get me wrong, I love me some Gizelle but I’m gonna need her to do something other than attack a cast marriage every season.” Other fans of the show replied to @Trehugger19, agreeing with them, and professing their love for Gizelle, while expressing their disappointment.
The Real Housewives of Potomac fans like Gizelle, but they are exhausted by her lackluster storyline. It doesn't help that Ashley and Mia Thornton's claims against Chris were debunked, after they shared their stories about Chris' allegedly inappropriate behavior. Recently, Mia walked back her claims that Chris was staring at her during Karen's event on Twitter, when the show replayed clips of Chris not even looking in her direction at the same event. It is still too early in the season to decipher whether Gizelle will have another storyline to follow, but fans hope that she will have more scenes that explore her family and dating life in season 7.
The Real Housewives of Potomac airs Sundays at 8 p.m. EST on Bravo.
Sources: @CWT/Twitter, @Trehugger19/Twitter