{"id":646630,"date":"2026-05-04T06:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T06:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/646630\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T06:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T06:26:09","slug":"whitney-leavitt-leaving-the-secret-lives-of-mormon-wives-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/646630\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitney Leavitt Leaving ‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWhitney Leavitt<\/a> is saying goodbye to The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe reality star turned Broadway darling announced that she is departing the Hulu<\/a> series during her final performance in Chicago on Sunday. The Hollywood Reporter further confirmed that she is exiting the show\u2019s cast.<\/p>\n

\n\tLeavitt has been a full-time cast member on the Emmy-nominated<\/a> reality series since its debut in September 2024. After an impressive<\/a> turn on Dancing With the Stars\u2018 34th season, she joined Chicago to star as Roxie Hart and is set to make her feature debut in a holiday rom-com for Ninth House Productions that she\u2019s also executive producing later this year.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring her starring turn in Chicago, the musical earned its highest recorded total<\/a>. After extending<\/a> her Broadway stay, her DWTS professional partner Mark Ballas also joined her for a number of shows; her final performance was on Sunday. <\/p>\n

\n\tLeavitt\u2019s departure arrives amid a hectic time for Mormon Wives. On April 21, THR confirmed that production on the series would resume<\/a> after\u00a0a pause<\/a>\u00a0initiated by an internal investigation surrounding\u00a0Taylor Frankie Paul\u00a0and Dakota Mortensen. <\/p>\n

\n\tReports that the Hulu series halted filming on its forthcoming fifth season broke in mid-March, amid an alleged domestic incident\u00a0involving\u00a0The Bachelorette\u00a0star and her ex. THR\u00a0confirmed that\u00a0Mormon Wives\u00a0production launched their own investigation into the conflicting claims, alongside investigations from Utah police. <\/p>\n

\n\tAfter the alleged February incident between Paul and Mortensen that resulted in the production pause was made public, a\u00a0video of the events<\/a>\u00a0leading up to Paul\u2019s prior 2023 arrest was leaked, showing the reality star throwing barstools at Mortensen while her daughter was present. Hours later, ABC decided to\u00a0pull season 22 of\u00a0The Bachelorette<\/a>, three days before its scheduled March 22 premiere.<\/p>\n

\n\tCameras had already captured content for the fifth season of Mormon Wives before the pause, with the cast notably visiting Leavitt for one of her February performances in Chicago. It is unclear if Leavitt will be considered a full-time castmember for season five, or if she will pop up as a guest. <\/p>\n

\n\tTHR has reached out to Hulu for comment, but did not hear back by the time of publication. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe former Mormon Wives star teased her potential exit<\/a> from the show in a March profile with THR. She explained that she was focused on pursuing more acting projects, and that she was in the midst of figuring out what her future with the unscripted series would look like.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m figuring it out in real time,\u201d Leavitt said in March. \u201cWe\u2019re figuring it out together, but it feels like that\u2019s the trajectory of where it\u2019s going. But again, I wouldn\u2019t be where I am without it, but it feels like it\u2019s time to challenge myself in other ways and fulfill these dreams and passions that I\u2019ve been trying to get even before the show.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere for Leavitt, she is slated to attend the first-ever Dancing With the Stars Con<\/a> fan convention in Palm Springs from July 31 through Aug. 2. She also was recently named chief creative and brand officer of Cool Sips, the New York-based dirty soda brand. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whitney Leavitt is saying goodbye to The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. The reality star turned Broadway darling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,4700,14983,72744,97461],"class_list":["post-646630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-hulu","tag-reality-tv","tag-the-secret-lives-of-mormon-wives","tag-whitney-leavitt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}