Anthony Scaramucci's Wife Says She'd "Love" Be on 'Real Housewives of New York'
Anthony Scaramucci's wife Deidre Ball could be the newest member of the Real Housewives of New York cast. Earlier this week, Page Six reported that she was being "courted" for the popular Bravo show. Now, both Ball and Scaramucci have responded to the rumors on their podcast, "Mooch and the Mrs."
"I can’t really get into too much detail, but I’d love to do the show if they really wanted me to do the show," Ball said, according to People. "Right now, I’m sitting here waiting, and I’ll let you guys know."
Scaramucci also weighed in on the prospect.
"Whatever you want to do," Scaramucci said. "I think you’d have a lot of fun."
At this point, Bravo has yet to comment, but in the meantime, here's what else we know about the wife of the Mooch.
Deidre, who is 38, graduated from the University of Buffalo in 2001.
She has an MA in communications, according to the New York Post.
She met Anthony Scaramucci while working at his Manhattan hedge fund, SkyBridge Capital.
She began working there as an assistant, in 2007, and was promoted to a vice president role in investor relations.
She was married to Anthony Portelli until 2011, when the two filed for divorce.
That same year, Scaramucci and his first wife, Lisa Miranda, separated after 23 years of marriage. They have three children together.
Deidre and Anthony's first child, Nicholas, was born in early 2014 and they reportedly married on June 11, 2014.
The beach wedding on Long Island took place after Anthony's divorce from his first wife was finalized.
Ball was nine months pregnant when she filed for divorce from Anthony on June 6, but the divorce was called off in November.
Anthony Scaramucci was fired as White House communications director in 2017, after only 10 days on the job. It was a position he accepted without telling his wife, Deidre Ball, who was nine months pregnant.
Appearing on Dr. Phil in a clip obtained by the Daily Mail, Ball said of the White House post:
"No, we actually never really talked about it. So, obviously, he was campaigning with him. And then one thing led to another, kind of like spiraled out of control and the next thing we knew, Donald Trump was the president. And, Anthony was, you know, signed up to be with him."
Scaramucci and Ball have since reconciled. The former White House official said he "thought she’d be okay with it because I flipped it around ... I was like, okay, this is going to be good for my family and it wasn’t ... it maybe wasn’t even good for me, frankly, but it was a drive that I had." They're still together today.
She gave birth to her second child with Anthony, a son named James, on July 24.
Anthony, who was at the Boy Scouts Jamboree in West Virginia with President Trump reportedly sent Deidre (pictured here with her late father, also named James) a text saying, "Congratulations, I’ll pray for our child." James was reportedly born two weeks before his due date of August 8, and on Thursday was admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit.
She has registered as a Democrat and supported Trump's opponents in the past.
Ball "donated $5,400 to the congressional campaign of anti-Trump Democrat Kathleen Rice in 2015," according to the Post. "She also donated $10,800 to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s presidential campaign and $2,700 to Jeb Bush’s campaign the same year." She listed her party affiliation as "Democrat" in a May 2009 voter registration but did not declare a specific affiliation in a subsequent registration.
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