Vicki Gunvalson never imagined she’d receive her Real Housewives of Orange County orange again.

Vicki, 63, learned of her comeback in time for the show’s landmark season 20, during “The Bravos” award show held during BravoCon 2025 in Las Vegas.

“When I went out there, Andy [Cohen] wanted me to give Kandi Burruss the Wifetime Achievement Award, and he gave me a week’s notice,” Vicki exclusively told Us Weekly on Saturday, November 15. “I prepared a speech, and I went up on stage, and it wasn’t on the prompter.”

Instead of finding her notes about Kandi, 49, on the screen, it was Andy, 57, who flipped the script and asked her to return to her reality TV roots. (Vicki helped launch RHOC during its first season, promptly earning the nickname, “The OG of the OC.”)

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