Gloria Govan, the fiance of Orlando Magic forward Matt Barnes, will not appear on the second season of VH1’s Basketball Wives said Shaunie O’Neal.
From the VH1info’s twitter account: “Shaunie was interviewed by @angelayeegloria will not be in season 2 @shaunie_0”
This comes as little surprise considering Gloria Govan and her fiance Matt Barnes have each individually expressed their discontent with the show, which includes former Orlando Magic and Miami Heat dancer Royce Reed, Evelyn Lozado, Jennifer Williams and Suzie Ketcham.
Matt Barnes told the Jim Rome show in April he became “disgusted” with Basketball Wives after watching the first show. The following month, Gloria Govan told BET.com she and Matt Barnes were misled by Shaunie O’Neal about the original focus of the show, creating a positive image of women and families in the NBA.
“When we were approached by Shaunie in the very beginning she told us both that it was going to be about positive women trying to step outside the shadows of their significant others and really try to bring a positive light to the basketball wives, because a majority of us are stereotyped as being uneducated nutcases spending all of our time shopping with thousands of nannies and very chaotic so we were excited,” Govan says, explaining the couple’s initial interest in her joining the cast. “Matt and I were both excited to show people that this is not how it is so I think when we saw the finished product we were like, ‘Wait a minute.’ We were trying to buy coffee and someone sold us tea. This is the complete opposite of what we were told the show was going to be about.”
Something tells me Gloria Govan won’t miss her former castmates.
