Monique Samuels returning to “Real Housewives of Potomac” for season 10 (exclusive)

Monique Samuels is ready for her second act Bravo!

The first Real Housewives of Potomac Star – Who left the successful reality series in 2020 – officially returns for season 10, people can reveal exclusively.

The production of the show is currently underway in Maryland, the stars of last season, Gizelle Bryant, Ashley Darby, Dr. Wendy Osefo, Keiarna Stewart and Stacey Rusch, all filming again. Samuels will join the casting cast.

Her return to the series which made her a favorite of fans (and then sparked one of the most spoken departures in Housewives History) arrives at a pivotal moment in the life of Samuels.

The owner of Mila Eve Essential, 41, finalized his divorce from the former offensive striker of the NFL Chris Samuels, 48 ​​years old, in September 2023. She and Chris were married for 11 years, and are parents of the girl Milani, 9, and the sons Christopher, 12, and Chase, 6 years old.

“Monique is in a completely different place now, and the fans will see this,” said a source to people. “She is delighted to show who she is now – not as a wife, not like a mother, but as a woman who starts and taking her life in her own.”

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Bravo viewers met Monique for the first time when she joined Rop In season 2 in 2017. It did not take long to the entrepreneur to make his mark in the show, with his rapid spirit, his luxury lifestyle and his attitude without frills.

But by season 5, the tensions among the actors (especially with the former candida Costar Dillat Bassett) made an explosive altercation at the camera which dominated the big titles and the divided fans.

After the broadcast of the season, Monique announced that she would not come back. “I’m done,” she said at the time, quoting how the incident – and the way he was represented – wreaked havoc on his family and mental health.

“It was a crazy walk. It’s not easy to make reality TV,” wrote Monique on Instagram. “I appreciate everything people have done for me, everyone who was the Monique team – I love you all, thank you – but when you cross certain lines, there is no return. And for me, my family is that line.”

“The opinion of my family and children and what they think of everything I do is more precious than anyone’s opinion,” she added.

Since he moved away, Monique has moved to her children and businesses.

She made a brief return to reality TV in 2022 on Love and marriage: DC Alongside her husband of the time – although their romance took place shortly after, Monique depositing the divorce in April 2023.

“I just got to the point where I was in a place where I was so miserable,” she then shared. “I am no longer the person I was when I went down this alley 11 years ago. … If we continue to go down this road and we are bickering and we are unable to communicate – sometimes not to talk to us – so how will it affect our children? Because I thought, like most people,” okay, we are going to stay together for children. But it never works because staying together for children means you give them a terrible example of what a relationship should be. “”

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Season 10 of Rop should be broadcast later this year.

Two housewives of season 9 will not come back: Mia Thornton and Karen Huger. Thornton announced his departure from the series in April, in the middle of a move to Atlanta. Huger, meanwhile, is behind bars after being sentenced to two years in prison, with a year suspended, for his fourth condemnation of the one.

True Potomac housewives can be broadcast on peacock.