Shaunie O’Neal has approached Karrine Steffans about joining the show. Steffans is Shaq’s ex-girlfriend. Does this qualify her to be on a show about housewives? (Maybe it does, most of the cast members are not wives.) Steffans met Shaquille at her home in Santa Clarita, Calif., on a blind date set up by mutual friend, John Salley, in 2001.