Andy Cohen Celebrates RHOC's 18th Anniversary with an Epic Throwback Photo

Although no one knew it at the time, March 21, 2006, ushered in a new era of reality TV. It was a day that marked the series premiere ofema href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-orange-county"The Real Housewives of Orange County/a,/emthe first-ever installment of Bravo’s long-running emReal Housewives/em franchise./p pIn celebration of the show’s 18supth/supanniversary, executive producera href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/andy-cohen"Andy Cohen/atook a walk down memory lane and reflected on the series' indelible mark on Bravo as well as the general pop culture landscape. He posted a throwback photo of him posing beside the series’ original cast members:a href="http://www.bravotv.com/people/vicki-gunvalson" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Vicki Gunvalson/a,a href="http://www.bravotv.com/people/jo-de-la-rosa" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Jo De La Rosa/a,a href="http://www.bravotv.com/people/lauri-waring-peterson" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Lauri Peterson/a, anda href="http://www.bravotv.com/people/jeana-keough" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Jeana Keough/a. (Fellow OGa href="http://www.bravotv.com/people/kimberly-bryant" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Kimberly Bryant/awas not pictured.)/p h2Andy Cohen wishes emRHOC/em a "Happy 18th Birthday"/h2 p“‘The Real Housewives of Orange County’ premiered on Bravo EIGHTEEN years ago today!!!” Andy captioned the a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.instagram.com/p/C4x7z7_OHlM/__;!!PIZeeW5wscynRQ!tnvPaEYJcVEbxNO5eRReNGVNXp39YadQa8fOrbWeK6FTZIMc-d8ag0v609PUpZCz8nOCQTENL05nH6QxilsXpb0$" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"March 21/a Instagram.“I didn’t know then how that show- and over a hundred incredible women over ten-plus spinoffs – would change pop culture and my life! THANK YOU TO THE HOUSEWIVES for all you give us, and to the incredible production teams at Evolution, Shed Media, Truly Original, Sirens Media, Purveyors of POP. 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text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C4x7z7_OHlM/?utm_source=ig_embedutm_campaign=loading" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank"A post shared by Andy Cohen (@bravoandy)/a/p/divscript async src="https://www.bravotv.com/themes/custom/lifestyle/js/instagram.min.js" class="optanon-category-13" type="text/plain"/script/blockquote /div pstrongHere's What You May Have Missed on Bravo:/strong/p pstronga href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/andy-cohen-reacts-to-kathy-hilton-husband-mauricio-umansky-feud"Andy Cohen Defends Mauricio Over Drama with Kathy Hilton’s Husband: “His Story to Tell”/a/strong/p pstronga href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/andy-cohens-throwback-photo-proves-his-son-ben-is-his-twin"Andy Cohen Shares a Throwback Photo That Proves Ben Is His Twin/a/strong/p pstronga href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/vicki-gunvalson-dishes-on-tamra-judge-tres-amigas-drama"Vicki Gunvalson Says "We'll See What Happens" In Her Friendship with Tamra Judge/a/strong/p pSeveral emRHOC/emalumni took to the comments section to celebrate the anniversary and express a few regrets about their past style choices./p p"I can’t believe it’s been 18 years!" Jo wrote. "Also, not my caramel hair and added curls to make it even worse!"/p p"Time flies when you’re having fun," Vicki added. "What the heck was I wearing????"/p div data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="23d3b756-22b2-477f-8bf4-8eb5ffdb83c4" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:353px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.bravotv.com/sites/bravo/files/styles/scale_600/public/2024/03/andy-cohen-rhoc-18th-anniversary-1.jpg?itok=dMnbJdl6" width="353" height="600" alt="Andy Cohen onstage receiving a cake for The Real Housewives of Orange County's 18th Anniversary." typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" Andy celebrates The Real Housewives of Orange County's 18th Anniversary posted to Instagram Stories. /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Andy Cohen/Instagram /span /div /div /div /div pThe celebration continued during theL’OréalBeautyverse event in New York City, whereL’Oréal’sTangela Woodley presented Andy with an epic anniversary cake. The dessert was decorated with white and orange frosting along with theem RHOC/em logo and a scrumptious-looking orange and cake beads on top./p div data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="2a4f87f4-9087-4b6b-b011-3ef508c1b611" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:362px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.bravotv.com/sites/bravo/files/styles/scale_600/public/2024/03/andy-cohen-rhoc-18th-anniversary-2.jpg?itok=kK8nsTj8" width="362" height="600" alt="The Real Housewives of Orange County's 18th Anniversary cake." typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" Andy celebrates The Real Housewives of Orange County's 18th Anniversary posted to Instagram Stories. /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Andy Cohen/Instagram /span /div /div /div /div p“Happy 18supth/supBirthday, OC!” Andy captioned a Story of the cake design./p h2Andy Cohen reflects on emRHOC/em's legacy/h2 div data-embed-button="related_content" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:node.embed" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="b752ce65-e90f-43cf-94f8-b2bc5d185bd6" data-langcode="en" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" class="embedded-entity"h2 class="headline" a class="embed-in-feed" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/see-the-real-housewives-of-orange-county-season-1-cast-then-and-now" See the Real Housewives of Orange County Season 1 Cast... Then and Now /a /h2 /div pTheema href="https://www.bravotv.com/watch-what-happens-live"Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen/a/emhost helped launch the series as an executive producer, alongsideAdam Karpel, Alex Baskin, Douglas Ross, Gregory Stewart, Scott Dunlop, and Stephanie Boyriven./p pemRHOC/em Season 1 was primarily set inCoto de Caza, an affluent gated community in southeast Orange County. The show quickly became a pop cultural phenomenon thatledto various U.S. and international spinoffs, includingema href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/show/the-real-housewives-of-new-york-city" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"The Real Housewives of New York City/a, a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/show/the-real-housewives-of-atlanta" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"The Real Housewives of Atlanta/a, a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/show/the-real-housewives-of-new-jersey" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"The Real Housewives of New Jersey/a, a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/show/the-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills/a, a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/show/the-real-housewives-of-miami" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"The Real Housewives of Miami/a, a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/show/the-real-housewives-of-potomac"The Real Housewives of Potomac/a, /emanda href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/show/the-real-housewives-of-salt-lake-city"emThe Real Housewives of Salt Lake City/em/a./p h2Andy Cohen explains "the secret sauce" of the Housewives franchise/h2 div data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="e7e4bfab-c417-433c-8d76-f871d69ecc31" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:862px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.bravotv.com/sites/bravo/files/styles/scale_862/public/2024/03/rhoc-season-1-andy-cohen.jpg?itok=zSpvJ3fX" width="862" height="575" alt="Andy Cohen poses with The Real Housewives of Orange County Season 1 cast." typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" Andy, Tammy, Vicki, Jeana, Jo, Quinn, Tamra, and Lauri at an event together on January 12, 2008. /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Kelsey McNeal/NBCUniversal /span /div /div /div /div pAndy opened up about the franchise in a 2022interview with ema href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/finance.yahoo.com/news/andy-cohen-reveals-the-secret-sauce-to-the-real-housewives-success-110002301.html__;!!PIZeeW5wscynRQ!tnvPaEYJcVEbxNO5eRReNGVNXp39YadQa8fOrbWeK6FTZIMc-d8ag0v609PUpZCz8nOCQTENL05nH6QxLWskWhs$" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Yahoo! Finance/a/em, explaining how the Housewives haveremained so relevant after nearly two decades./p div data-embed-button="related_content" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:node.embed" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="ace1a8f6-a21f-4423-9798-d08917695394" data-langcode="en" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" class="embedded-entity"h2 class="headline" a class="embed-in-feed" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/11-things-we-forgot-about-the-real-housewives-of" 11 Things We Forgot About the Real Housewives of Orange County's First Episode /a /h2 /div p“The secret sauce of ‘The Housewives’ is all in the casting,”he told the outlet. “I think we’ve done a lot of great work — finding the right women and then figuring out how to keep the energy going and taking people out of the mix and putting people back in and putting new people in. There’s not a science to it, but [it’s] a process that we all care very much about.”/p pHe continued: “Bravo is a vibe that people love… and emThe Housewives/emare a brand that people care about. It’s all about creating the brand and sticking to it.”/p