'Real Housewives Of Orange County' Star Emily Simpson's Husband Shane Fails Bar Exam For The 4th Time

During BravoCon's RHOC panel on November 17 in New York, Emily, 43, addressed Shane's test and revealed he hadn't looked at his results just yet. “He should have gotten them but he won’t look,” she said. “I can’t figure out if he’s waiting for me to come home. He had a rough time the last time [he took the test], so I don’t know if he’s avoiding looking or he knows he messed up.”

Shane, 44, previously failed the test in February 2019 and the event played out through the latest season of the Real Housewives of Orange County.

Viewers saw the tensions rising between Emily and Shane on the show when he was prepping for the exam. The couple went through some marriage troubles while he was studying.

One episode revealed that Shane temporarily moved out and went to a hotel so he could study and concentrate better. Emily shared her hurt feelings with Shane once the test was over and he returned home.

“I feel very upset and resentful towards you,” Emily said on camera. “And I know you feel upset and resentful towards me.”  In October 2019, She opened up to Bravo's The Daily Dish about Shane's failures. “It was a huge thing in our family that was like everybody sacrificing so Shane could take the bar exam. So it’s like, I’m taking care of the kids, his parents are helping, his sister’s helping, it was like the whole Simpson family was all running around doing all these things so he could take the bar exam. And then for him not to pass, it was pretty devastating.”

Emily continued, “I mean, it was devastating to not pass. I took the bar exam in 2005, and then I passed the first time, so I don’t even know what that must have felt like for him...I’ve said before, I feel badly, but I give him a lot of credit for doing what he did, and he did it with millions of people watching.”

Shane is currently unable to practice law in California, however he previously worked as a practicing lawyer in Utah before moving to Orange County. The father of five cannot retake the test for the fifth time until February 2020.

His name is also missing from the State Bar of California website that lists the names of those who were admitted to the bar in that state. Emily’s name is listed and it shows that she was admitted in 2005.

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