{"id":345393,"date":"2026-03-24T13:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/345393\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T13:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:39:09","slug":"is-the-secret-lives-of-mormon-wives-real-heres-what-zac-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/345393\/","title":{"rendered":"Is The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Real? Here&#8217;s What Zac Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/_assets\/design-tokens\/fre\/static\/icons\/caret-right-regular.a6ec664.svg\" alt=\"Caret Right\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>Jen and Zac Affleck are moving to Orange County for a Secret Lives of Mormon Wives spinoff!Zac confirmed that parts of Mormon Wives were filmed for \u201cstoryline\u201d and \u201cnot even close\u201d to his reality.Production on the original Mormon Wives is currently paused.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"0\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Jen Affleck and her husband Zac Affleck are reportedly leaving The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives for a fancy new spin-off. While Hulu hasn\u2019t officially announced the news, <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/mormon-wives-spinoff-in-the-works-with-new-cast-members-exclusive-source-11931129\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/people.com\/mormon-wives-spinoff-in-the-works-with-new-cast-members-exclusive-source-11931129\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"People\" data-node-id=\"0.3\" class=\"body-link css-ohbdae emevuu60\">People<\/a> reports that the couple will join nine fresh faces for Mormon Wives, Orange County. In fact, it looks like Zac and Jen have already moved to California based off the below post\u2026and Zac is busy spilling tea the comments.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"2\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">In response to one follower who noted he was \u201cpretty adamant\u201d about not wanting to move to California in Mormon Wives Season 4, Zac said \u201cThat\u2019s for storyline. Contrary to what you might have seen I loved DWTS experience and California has been my dream place to live my entire life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img draggable=\"true\" alt=\"User comments in a social media thread discussing living in California.\" title=\"User comments in a social media thread discussing living in California.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"828\" height=\"909\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:auto;\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/16c839eb-0ffd-44ca-b439-9000c36f2727.jpeg\" class=\"css-0 e1g79fud0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Instagram<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"4\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">He then responded to a fan asking about how much dialogue was \u201ccontrolled\u201d by the show in each episode, and said \u201cI\u2019m not going to complain because we have a lot of what we have because of the show. But is it our reality? Not even close.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img draggable=\"true\" alt=\"Comment thread discussing dialogue control in a show.\" title=\"Comment thread discussing dialogue control in a show.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"828\" height=\"692\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:auto;\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/8335f092-1b36-493f-b117-ac3cff92be6b.jpeg\" class=\"css-0 e1g79fud0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Instagram<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"7\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">As a reminder, this spin-off comes amid a production pause on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives due to an open &#8220;domestic assault investigation&#8221; between Taylor Frankie Paul and Dakota Mortensen.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"8\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">An insider <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/mormon-wives-cast-refusing-to-work-with-taylor-frankie-paul-after-new-domestic-violence-incident-exclusive-11927363\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/people.com\/mormon-wives-cast-refusing-to-work-with-taylor-frankie-paul-after-new-domestic-violence-incident-exclusive-11927363\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"told People\" data-node-id=\"8.1\" class=\"body-link css-ohbdae emevuu60\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told People<\/a> that \u201cThe girls are very overwhelmed. They all banded together and they don\u2019t want to come back right now. They were just getting tired of Taylor, honestly. [&#8230;] They kind of all decided, as a unit, that they&#8217;re taking the production pause, that they don&#8217;t want to film right now. I don\u2019t think they care about her really right now. They&#8217;re just kind of like, \u2018We&#8217;re done for right now.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Related Story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jen and Zac Affleck are moving to Orange County for a Secret Lives of Mormon Wives spinoff!Zac confirmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,184036,2115,184035,2117,156,2462,111,139,69,166271,184034,158515],"class_list":["post-345393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-collection-the-secret-lives-of-mormon-wives","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-65011bf8-da39-40af-b69c-bf4c90f9f585","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-locale-us","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-read_time-2","tag-shorttitle-zac-is-absolutely-spilling-on-mormon-wives","tag-subsection-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}