Peter Thomas: Positive Couples are Vital on ROHA
Cynthia Bailey’s Jamaican stud, Peter Thomas talks the importance of Real Housewives Of Atlanta to the black community.
According to Peter Thomas, he is more than just a pretty face, he reveals his savvy business persona, his long-standing hustle as an industry player, and featuring a positive black relationships on television is so vital to the black community.
Compared to other fellow Atlanta shows, Peter feels that Real Housewives of Atlanta shows his relationship with Cynthia Bailey as a natural positive relationship which is needed for reality TV since there are so many negative shows.
CelebNMusic247.com has caught wind of a new interview with Peter Thomas who opened up about the Real Housewives of Atlanta and his new business partner to Uptown Magazine:
A confident Peter explains:
“Peter Thomas was Peter Thomas before the Real Housewives of Atlanta. Reality TV didn’t make Cynthia Bailey or Peter Thomas like some of the other people on our show. We were doing big shit before this.”
He adds that he worked behind the scenes in the music and entertainment industry with several big-name players:
“I am certainly not new to the entertainment industry and people in the industry knew me well before my wife became a Real Housewife.”
First and foremost, Peter identifies himself as a business man, and then a reality TV player, but he is happy to merge the two. Though, he detours from the bad rap he landed that he’s bankrupt and the rumors that BarOne is in foreclosure. Peter clarifies that none of that is true and NO, he is NOT sponging off his more famous wife. As for BarOne, it’s thriving and is expanding to South Carolina which we previous reported that he’s building a spinoff about his experiences as an entrepreneur.
Peter says in his own defense:
“When Cynthia and I joined the show, viewers all watched me lose Uptown. People acted like I lost it because I am somehow a bad businessman. Uptown (Lounge) closed due to the recession. I wasn’t immune from that shit. No one was.”
Peter feels his business fallout helped to build him as an interesting character on RHOA – and now he readily admits that the husbands are essential to growing the RHOA brand.
Thomas insists:
“This last season of the show, the husbands were very vocal and very visible, and there is no doubt we helped to contribute to the enormous success of this season ok?”
“We were as important to the show as our wives this season.”
When it comes to NeNe Leakes calling Cynthia’s husband a overly-involved bitch, Peter is dismissive:
“What sense does it make for me to be on the show and simply be quiet? It makes no sense for any of the men to just sit back and not open our mouths. If the women on the show don’t want me to say shit, they shouldn’t have the conversations in my presence.”
Peter concedes:
“Yes, this show is called the Real Housewives of Atlanta.”
“But they can’t be wives and their reality wouldn’t be real without their husbands.”
Peter is enthusiastic about how he feels RHOA has changed American’s perceptions of African American males and marriages. He points out the rarity of a primetime show that features happily married, successful black couples dealing with real issues and criticizes shows like Love & Hip Hop.
The Jamaican native states this is NOT a vanity project to stroke his own ego, he is adamant that it is important for him to make this platform count, saying:
“If people want to call me a bitch for creating this opportunity and giving America the chance to see four black men talking about our marriages, how to make them work and supporting each other through our own shit, then they really don’t get the big picture.”
“Being black men on reality TV isn’t an easy task to manage. But I feel like our responsibility as black men on this show is to project a more positive image for young black men. We aren’t perfect, but for the most part we certainly are not being as foolish as some of the other black men on reality TV.”
Peter continues:
“We are not Love and Hip Hop, ok? We are not on that bullshit. Good for them. I’m really cool with some of those guys. But I take my responsibility much more seriously and it’s not to project that foolishness that they have going on.”
He also feels that his persona really resonated with RHOA viewers, adding:
“The Real Housewives of Atlanta is the number one show on Bravo, not just in the Housewives franchise.”
“I need people to understand what that means. No other show on the network does our numbers. Not one. This ensemble cast of black people is number one on a very popular network, but not one of our wives’ faces are on a billboard advertising the show.”
Peter is now eagerly looking behind Bravo to continue to grow his brand and vision. He reveals that he is partnering with Kordell Stewart to open a new upscale sports bar (SportsOne) in North Carolina, which Peter previously revealed will be filmed for a reality show. No word on whether or not Bravo is behind this so-called spinoff.
Peter is looking beyond their reality TV careers and what next in building he and Cynthia’s businesses and brands. He is thinking before they expire on reality TV which is very smart.
He reveals:
“Ninety-nine percent of the people who have been on a reality show have absolutely nothing once the show is over or their no longer on it.”
“Peter Thomas and Cynthia Bailey are doing exactly what we were doing before this reality show and will be doing the same thing after, only bigger because we have bigger numbers and bigger ambitions.”
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