Regarding placing one of the women in the center position, well, there's a process for that, too.

"Those [individual] shots are done in the middle of the season, in the early part of the season, so we don't know who really deserves to be in the center until towards the end of the year. It's a highly political decision, of course, because everybody gets offended if they're not," Ross explained. "But we work closely with the network at that point to figure out who was really sort of the center of the group interaction and then that person, generally, is the person who's put in the center."

Of course, as in life and on the show, not all Housewives play by the rules during the production process. "I can't name names, but I can tell you that there is one cast member that we work with who absolutely, positively refuses to hold her thing anywhere but the center," Ross revealed. "And I'm the person who directs the opening title shoot and I had to trick that cast member into holding her thing in various positions so that we actually had the option to put her not in the center. [Laughs.] I'm sure you could imagine who it is, but I will never tell you."

Any guesses on who it might be? Leave 'em in the comments below!

The Real Housewives of Orange County airs Mondays at 9 p.m. on Bravo, while The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is filming its new season now.

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