Kenya Moore, the newest?”housewife” on the block, Lawrence Washington and a friend were photographed hanging out at a local bar last week.

I exclusively broke the news two weeks ago that Kenya Moore was the newest addition to The Real Housewives of Atlanta and these photos further confirm my previous report.

While it’s a well-known fact that Lawrence and ex-housewife Sheree Whitfield parted ways after Whitfield blamed him for her hair loss, the former Miss USA has no fear and reportedly “Miss Lawrence” will her hairstylist of choice this season.

That’s Moore’s Atlanta connection #1. I don’t think anyone wants me to mention Connection #2, which is Moore’s on again/off again relationship with former Atlanta Falcons “Dirty Bird” Jamal Anderson.

[Sidebar: I heard Kenya’s been jetting into Atlanta for several weeks now dining with Jamal and house hunting (but you ain’t heard that from me.]

And speaking of “JET,” Kenya and R&B crooner Q. Parker (formerly of 112) played judge alongside Cynthia Bailey as The Bailey Agency hosted JET Magazine’s beauty of the week model search last week.

Stripper ReDickulous recently let it slip that Bailey & Moore bumped heads during the shoot.

Details + photos below…

According to several “irresponsible” sources of the “rumor,” Kenya was less than impressed with the quality of models who showed up at The Bailey Agency’s model search.

Reportedly when Cynthia?s friends overheard Kenya’s comments, things got a little catty.

The majority of the drama is said to have happened between Kenya and one or more of Cynthia?s assistants, Carlton Morton, who took the beef to the tweets.

Most of the tweets have since been deleted and as you can see at the end, they all made up.

It kinda leads me to believe the “twitter beef” was all orchestrated. But whatEV… I guess they all got the attention they wanted.

It appears Kenya’s going to be Marlo Hampton‘s replacement (for the drama factor) since I heard Hampton’s definitely not returning.

This should be interesting… Kenya is yet another “housewife” without a husband but maybe, just maybe, she’ll be able to add some class to the cast.

THOUGHTS…?

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