“The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: Roaring 20th” will premiere on Bravo on Sunday, Aug. 9, at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Bravo announced the date at NBCUniversal’s 2026 Upfronts presentation in New York City on May 11, a few months after first revealing the show at BravoCon 2025.
The season marks 20 years of the franchise. It starts in Orange County, where the series began, and ends with an East Coast grand finale. Each stop brings in fan favorites from different cities. Bravo promises “nostalgic reunions, heartfelt revelations, effortless humor, and the larger-than-life dynamics that only Housewives can deliver.”
The cast
Seven Housewives make up the core group: Lisa Barlow of Salt Lake City, Porsha Williams of Atlanta, Kyle Richards of Beverly Hills, Luann de Lesseps of New York City, Vicki Gunvalson of Orange County, Teresa Giudice of New Jersey and Gizelle Bryant of Potomac.
Dozens more will turn up along the way. Bravo has named Nene Leakes and Dorinda Medley, and says others have yet to be announced.
Leakes’ return is the headline. “This has been a really long, long journey, and gosh, I’m happy, overjoyed to say that I will be returning to Bravo,” she said on Instagram. Andy Cohen said on his Sirius XM show that celebrating 20 years without her “would be hard.”
What the cast is saying
Richards spoke on Watch What Happens Live in January while filming was under way. “This is the most exhausting thing, and I’m not even being dramatic,” she said. She described the shouting, the talking over each other and “so many different personalities all together,” and added: “Fans are gonna lose their marbles. It’s a fever dream.”
The finale lands at Bluestone Manor in the Berkshires. Medley, who owns the property, said in a video on Bravo’s Instagram account that the Housewives will be celebrating all over the house, and that “you never know who will show up.”
