Jeff Lewis Threatens to Leave SiriusXM Radio Andy as Contract Deadline Looms: ‘I’m Taking Listeners’

Jeff Lewis is putting a deadline on his future at SiriusXM.

The “Still Flipping Out” star revealed on a recent episode of “Jeff Lewis Live” that he plans to leave SiriusXM’s Radio Andy if the two sides cannot reach a new contract agreement before October 18. Jeff has been on Andy Cohen’s SiriusXM channel for nine years, but he made it clear he isn’t interested in a temporary extension of his current deal.

Jeff said SiriusXM “kept bring[ing] up” the possibility of an “extension,” but he turned the idea down.

“I said, ‘There will be no extensions. So I will not be here on the 19th,’” Jeff recalled. “And then on the way out, I’m like, ‘I just want to remind you I will not be here on the 19th. … [But] I’m here all week. We can put this deal together. … [SiriusXM] is my first choice.’”

If an agreement doesn’t happen, Jeff suggested he won’t necessarily be leaving alone.

“I’m also gonna take a lot of (expletive) listeners,” he said. “I’m gonna take employees, too.”

Jeff Lewis Is Back on Bravo With ‘Still Flipping Out’

The potential SiriusXM shakeup comes as Jeff returns to Bravo with “Still Flipping Out,” as Bravo and Cocktails previously reported, a spinoff of his former series “Flipping Out.”

During an appearance on “Page Six Radio,” Jeff said he initially viewed the Bravo series as another way to draw an audience to his radio show.

“I had a plan. My plan was to just do the [Bravo] show because it was a platform to bring people to radio,” he explained. “But I really kind of enjoyed it.”

The return to reality television also earned Jeff a funny comparison from his chief of staff, Shane Douglas.

Shane calls his boss “the male Vicki Gunvalson” because of how Jeff behaved while juggling filming and his regular job.

“We love Vicki, but watching ‘Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip’ is triggering for me because the entire time that we’re filming, Jeff was like, ‘I have a job! I can’t film right now. I’m going to my actual work. I’m not just doing this for TV. I’m not doing all this for fun. I have a job,’” Shane recalled.

Jeff couldn’t argue with the comparison.

“It’s so true,” he admitted. “I was Vicki.”

“Still Flipping Out” airs Mondays on Bravo, while “Jeff Lewis Live” currently airs weekdays on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy.

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