The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City is returning with almost all of its cast in tact.
Heather Gay, Lisa Barlow, Angie Katsanevas, Meredith Marks and Whitney Rose will all be back when Bravo‘s Real Housewives franchise returns to Salt Lake City. Mary Cosby, who had been a “friend of the cast,” also rejoins as a full-time Housewife. The fifth season premieres Wednesday, Sept. 18 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Bravo, with episodes stream the next day on Peacock.
Notably (and expectedly, given how season four ended) missing from the cast is Monica Garcia, who deceived the rest of the cast and producers. That season finale revealed that Garcia was one of the people behind an Instagram account that had been trolling the show’s cast for years, a revelation that became the focus of the subsequent three-part reunion.
Following the explosive ending to the season, Bravo and Garcia were taking a break — a “cooling off period,” according to WWHL host and Housewives executive producer Andy Cohen at the time. Now, the parting of ways is official, and the cast drama is moving on — watch the trailer.
Three new women, meanwhile, are joining the cast, including new Housewife Bronwyn Newport, a longtime friend of Barlow’s who “makes a splash with the ladies with her outrageous, fabulous and confrontational style,” per Bravo. Two new “friends of the cast” are Utah native, practicing Mormon and real estate developer/actress/singer Britani Bateman; and Rose’s friend Meili Workman, a model and mom of four who was raised LDS and has since left the church.
“The first episode starts with such a bang,” Cohen recently teased, “and they do something that I don’t think has been done on a Housewives show before, which is the whole first episode is the first whole all-cast event.”
The season four finale threw RHOSLC into the zeitgeist, driving the reality series to an 18 percent jump in multi-platform viewership from the previous season, according to the network. The show’s first reunion episode brought in the highest audience in over two years for the series.
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City is produced by Shed Media, a division of Warner Bros. Unscripted Television, with Lisa Shannon, Dan Peirson, Lori Gordon and Tamara Blaich are executive producers.
