In August 2024, McDonald also launched adult content under the username ThiccTrick1, and as his growing presence as an independent creator began to spread, the moonlighter alleges that his side hustle was the reason Bravo “blackballed” him out of his job over the course of the last year.

“I’m not an idiot. I knew there was a chance when I started making adult content it could jeopardize my work with Bravo,” McDonald said in the video. He says he stopped hearing from the teams on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and Real Housewives of Orange County after working with them. “But on the other hand, it’s 2025. There’s Real Housewives and other reality stars with fan sites. So if someone that’s a face of the network can create a fan site, certainly it shouldn’t be a problem for someone behind the scenes.”

In a bid to leave things better than he found them, McDonald also describes in the video how the cast and crew of such shows are routinely mistreated.

“My passion for the genre started to wane as a result [of] how poorly the cast and crew were treated at times,” he said. Among his claims were the overworking of producers and references to “egomaniacal showrunners.” He also called out a storyline that he says created a “moral dilemma” for him personally revolving around a cast member’s sexuality, labeling the production company’s internal dialogue about the issue as “insensitive, problematic, and quite frankly gross.”

“Producers encouraging other cast members to ask direct questions that would put this person’s sexuality on the spot just felt really invasive to me and crossed a line that I wasn’t really comfortable with,” he said, before going on to allege that an executive member used a homophobic slur in regards to someone, though McDonald did not clarify which show he was working on, or if this individual worked at the production company or Bravo. “The circumstances around that storyline were a major contributing factor to me realizing that it was time to make a change.”

Fan sites weren’t the first time McDonald made adult content: In 2017 after Fire Island, he filmed adult content under the name Ace Arborwood. Though that was short-lived, he returned to the industry last year, often filming with his boyfriend Logan Stevens for sites like OnlyFans and JustForFans.

And like he pointed out, McDonald is certainly not the only Bravo employee doing so. In the past eight years, OnlyFans has reportedly paid out more than $20 billion to creators; of that, Real Housewives of Miami star Larsa Pippen, former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast member Denise Richards, among others who have turned to the site for a side hustle.

“Sex work is real, legitimate work, and it has been since the dawn of humanity,” McDonald said in the video, emphasizing that he has no regrets. “While I am extremely proud of a lot of the work I’ve done with Bravo, I’m just as proud of the work I’m doing now,” he said.

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