Adding politics to the wine guzzling, fights and one-liners of its top franchise, Bravo elected The Real Housewives of D.C. on Aug. 5, 2010 - and infamously, it became the only installment to get just one season. The short stint can be placed at the feet of the cast's Michaele Salahi and then-husband Tareq, who crashed a White House state dinner in 2009 and made headlines before a single episode had aired. "There was no way [the show] could go forward with Michaele, because she was such a liability, or without her, because how do you replace that?" costar Mary Amons tells Us.