Brandi Glanville

Brandi Lynn Glanville (formerly Cibrian, born November 16, 1972) is an American television personality and former model.

She is best known for appearing on the reality television series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (2011–2016, 2019–2020), seasons two and five of The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip (2022–2024), and her occasional acting roles.

She also hosts a podcast called Brandi Glanville Unfiltered and has appeared on television shows Celebrity Apprentice, both the British and American version of Celebrity Big Brother, Famously Single, and My Kitchen Rules.

In 2011, Glanville appeared on the second season of the Bravo reality series The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (RHOBH).

She made several memorable appearances throughout the season as a "friend of the housewives", and appeared on their reunion episode.

She revealed to radio host Howard Stern that she made $18k as a part-time cast member during her first season on the show.

The following year, she and Yolanda Hadid (mother of Bella and Gigi Hadid) joined the cast of RHOBH as official housewives for the show’s third season, Glanville becoming the first friend of the show to be cast as a full-time housewife.

In December 2012, she launched a clothing line called "Brand B", which was sold exclusively on Amazon.

Glanville has released two books, Drinking and Tweeting: And Other Brandi Blunders (2013) and Drinking and Dating (2014), which became New York Times Best Sellers.

Glanville was born in Salinas, California and raised in Sacramento, California as the middle child of Judith (née Swinehart) and Guy Glanville.

She has stated that her father grew marijuana, which she would sell as she got older; on Celebrity Big Brother UK, she admitted that she (along with her siblings, older sister Tricia and younger brother Michael) had previously blackmailed her father in order to obtain money.

Glanville’s father actually worked three main jobs to support the family, including at a grocery store and a gas station.

Her mother worked as a housekeeper.

Glanville attended Willow Rancho Baptist School and Gloria Dei Lutheran School and graduated from John F. Kennedy High School, Sacramento.

At the age of 16, Glanville moved to Paris, France to begin modeling, after being signed to Elite Model Management.

In addition to Paris, she worked in cities such as Hamburg, London, Los Angeles, Munich, New York and Tokyo.

By the time she turned 18, she was walking in shows for Paris Fashion Week, among others.

Glanville has appeared in several magazines, including Glamour, Cosmopolitan, NW and Beverly Hills Lifestyle Magazine.

In 2013, she co-hosted an episode of CNN anchorman Anderson Cooper's talk show Anderson.

In February 2013, she worked as a fashion correspondent and hosted the Academy Awards for ABC's On the Red Carpet.

In 2013, she also appeared as herself on The CW's teen drama series 90210, in the episode titled "Dude, Where's My Husband?".

She portrayed Erica in Lifetime's television film Missing at 17 (2013), Housewife Veronica in comedy film The Hungover Games (2014) and Tech Whitley in Syfy's disaster television film Sharknado: The 4th Awakens (2016).

She appeared on the magazine cover of UK's The Times in January 2014.

Glanville has worked for well-known fashion brands and designers, including Valentino, Versace, Chanel, Giorgio Armani, and Gucci.

She has also appeared in a commercial for Coors Light beer.

Glanville's T-shirt line was launched in her official online store in 2014.

The tops feature slogans such as "Medicated" and "It's Not Fun To Be Sober" and are priced between $25 and $30.

She was fired from the series after its fifth season in 2015

Glanville made random appearances in the future and appeared under “guest” capacities for the show's sixth, ninth and tenth seasons.

In 2015, Glanville competed on the seventh season of Celebrity Apprentice, where she was fired two weeks before the finale.

She also appeared on the E! reality series Famously Single in 2016.

In 2017, Glanville competed with Dean Sheremet on the FOX reality cooking series My Kitchen Rules, where they finished in third place.

Later in 2017, she participated as a housemate on season 20 of Celebrity Big Brother UK, where she was the fourth housemate to be evicted from the show, on Day 18.

In 2018, Glanville appeared as a houseguest on the American version of Celebrity Big Brother, on the series’ premiere season, where she was the fifth person to be evicted, on Day 24.

She also appeared on the second season of Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars Family Edition with her father, Guy Glanville.

In 2022, Glanville (along with a mixture of housewives from different franchises) appeared on the second season of The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip; the season was filmed in late 2021 at Dorinda Medley's Blue Stone Manor in The Berkshires, New England.

In 2022, Glanville was, reportedly, being considered for a return to the RHOBH (as part of a cast 'shake-up' for its thirteenth season), after the departures of veteran housewife Lisa Rinna and newcomer Sanela Diana Jenkins.

In 2023, Glanville appeared as a contestant on Peacock's reality TV series The Traitors.

However, she was absent from The Traitors reunion.

Additionally, Bravo and Peacock confirmed that Glanville would be returning for the fifth season of The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip, with other returning cast members Phaedra Parks, Vicki Gunvalson, and Eva Marcille, set to premiere in 2024.