The door is open. <\/p>\n
\u201cReal Housewives of Atlanta\u201d alum NeNe Leakes is negotiating a return to Bravo, Page Six can confirm.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re told Leakes, 58, is \u201cin talks\u201d with the network about appearing in \u201cThe Real Housewives: Ultimate Road Trip,\u201d which is set to film in January 2026.<\/p>\n
Andy Cohen announced the new installment of the \u201cReal Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip\u201d series last month during BravoCon 2025, and earlier this week, \u201cReal Housewives of Orange County\u201d star Vicki Gunvalson claimed she\u2019ll be a part of the cast<\/a>. <\/p>\n \u201cReal Housewives of Atlanta\u201d alum NeNe Leakes is negotiating a return to Bravo, Page Six can confirm. NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images<\/p>\n We\u2019re told Leakes is \u201cin talks\u201d with the network about appearing in \u201cThe Real Housewives: Ultimate Road Trip,\u201d which is set to film in January 2026. WireImage<\/p>\n Cameras will follow beloved \u201cHousewives\u201d from various cities and years as they make their way across the country, stopping at some of the most memorable locations in Bravo history.<\/p>\n We\u2019re told Leakes may be among its stars.<\/p>\n Notably, Cohen, 57, also revealed at the fan convention that he and Leakes actually \u201ctexted a few months ago.\u201d<\/p>\n Andy Cohen announced the new installment of the \u201cReal Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip\u201d series last month during BravoCon 2025. Gabe Ginsberg\/Bravo via Getty Images<\/p>\n Notably, Cohen also revealed at the fan convention that he and Leakes actually \u201ctexted a few months ago.\u201d Nicole Weingart\/Bravo via Getty Images<\/p>\n Her return to the network would be significant.<\/p>\n As fans remember, Leakes quit \u201cRHOA\u201d<\/a> \u2014 despite her OG status \u2014 in September 2020.<\/p>\n \u201cI have been on an extremely, extremely long, exhausting, tiring, emotional negotiation,\u201d she announced at the time, explaining that \u201cthere\u2019s been a lot of emotion flying from both sides.\u201d<\/p>\n Her return to the network would be significant. Getty Images for Urban One Honors<\/p>\n As fans remember, Leakes quit \u201cRHOA\u201d \u2014 despite her OG status \u2014 in September 2020. NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tStay one step ahead with all the exclusive tea on your favorite reality TV stars!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for Virtual Reali-Tea with Danny and Evan, our must-read newsletter!\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThank for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n She ultimately made the \u201cvery hard and very difficult decision\u201d to exit the show ahead of Season 13.<\/p>\n In April 2022, she filed a bombshell lawsuit<\/a> against Bravo, NBCUniversal, production companies True Entertainment and Truly Original, executives from the companies and Cohen.<\/p>\n She accused them of \u201cfoster[ing] a corporate and workplace culture in which racially insensitive and inappropriate behavior is tolerated \u2014 if not, encouraged.\u201d<\/p>\n In April 2022, she filed a bombshell lawsuit against Bravo and Cohen, alleging they \u201cfoster a corporate and workplace culture in which racially insensitive and inappropriate behavior is tolerated \u2014 if not, encouraged.\u201d Chelsea Lauren\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n After four months of \u201cnegotiating\u201d between the parties, Leakes filed to dismiss the case \u201cwithout prejudice,\u201d giving her the ability to reopen it at a later time. Getty Images for BET<\/p>\n Leakes alleged that her complaints of racism led in part to her being \u201cforced\u201d out of the \u201chouse she built.\u201d<\/p>\n After four months of \u201cnegotiating\u201d between the parties<\/a>, Leakes filed to dismiss the case<\/a> \u201cwithout prejudice,\u201d giving her the ability to reopen it at a later time.<\/p>\n Reps for Leakes and Bravo did not immediately respond to Page Six\u2019s requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The door is open. \u201cReal Housewives of Atlanta\u201d alum NeNe Leakes is negotiating a return to Bravo, Page…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[8205,603,147669,8679,91,88,186,121819,879,117384,5658,604,92],"class_list":["post-354988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-andy-cohen","tag-bravo","tag-bravocon","tag-celebrity-lawsuits","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-exclusive","tag-nene-leakes","tag-real-housewives","tag-real-housewives-of-atlanta","tag-reality-stars","tag-reality-tv","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}