'Real Housewives of Atlanta' Season 7 Cast News, Rumors: NeNe Leakes Offered Raise to Stay on RHOA?

NeNe Leakes, star of Real Housewives of Atlanta, is apparently getting a huge raise to stay on the show for another season. Apparently, Leakes had a miserable season on the show and wants nothing to do with it anymore.

However, Radar Online reports that Bravo has agreed to give her a spinoff show as well as a large pay raise to stay on the Real Housewives of Atlanta. Leakes' new reality show will be called NeNe and Kim: The Road to Riches, starring herself and Kim Zolciak. She announced the show last week.

According to Radar Online, a source revealed the truth about the negotiations: "NeNe absolutely hated Housewives this season. She hated almost all of the other women and wanted off the show entirely. But she is the most valuable person in the entire franchise and Bravo was going to do whatever she wanted to keep her. So they offered her the spin-off, which she gladly took."

Despite the fact that Leakes did almost nothing to support or promote Real Housewives of Atlanta this season, the executives at Bravo want to keep her very badly.

She already makes more money than any of the other women on the show and now Bravo is giving her even more money per episode, with bigger bonuses.

Leakes already makes $1.5 million, and used her unhappiness on the show to make any upcoming shows worth her while.

Sources say that she will even be making more money than her costar Kim Zolciak, on the new spin off series.

With Season 7 of the show having just come to a close, fans cannot wait to see what the next season will have in store for the housewives.