You’ll by no means put her in a field, as a result of she’s the entire darn package deal… and now Monique Samuels is coming again to The Actual Housewives of Potomac.
Samuels will seem within the Bravo actuality present’s tenth season in a supporting capability, Folks studies, marking a comeback to the franchise that made her a family identify.
RHOP viewers final noticed Samuels in Season 5 in 2020, when she clashed with Candiace Dillard Bassett in an onscreen altercation.
After her exit, Samuels starred within the first season of the OWN actuality present Love & Marriage: D.C. alongside then-husband Chris Samuels. And in 2023, Monique and Chris — who share daughter Milani, 9, and sons Christopher, 12, and Chase, 6 — divorced after 11 years of marriage.
“Monique’s in a completely totally different place now, and followers will see that,” a supply instructed Folks forward of Monique’s RHOP return. “She’s excited to point out who she is now — not as a spouse, not as only a mother, however as a girl beginning over and taking over life on her personal phrases.”
Monique, proprietor of the important oil firm Mila Eve Necessities, joined RHOP in 2017, turning into a major forged member for the present’s second season. However she left after Season 5 and a bodily struggle with Dillard that resulted in assault costs for each girls. (These costs have been dropped in 2019, per Us Weekly, and Dillard departed RHOP after Season 8.)
“I’m over it,” Monique wrote on Instagram on the time of her RHOP exit. “I admire all the things that individuals have accomplished for me, everyone that’s been Group Monique — I really like y’all, I thank y’all — however if you cross sure traces, there’s no going again. And for me, my household is that line.”
Monique filed for divorce from Chris in April 2023, and he or she finalized her break up from the previous NFL athlete that September. “I simply bought to the purpose the place I used to be in a spot the place I used to be so depressing,” she defined in an Instagram Dwell video that summer season. “I used to be considering, like most individuals, ‘OK, we’re going to remain collectively for the youngsters.’ However that by no means works as a result of staying collectively for the youngsters implies that you’re giving them a horrible instance of what a relationship needs to be like.”
RHOP stars Gizelle Bryant, Ashley Darby, Dr. Wendy Osefo, Keiarna Stewart, and Stacey Rusch will all return for Season 10, which is anticipated to air this 12 months, in line with Folks, however the brand new episodes gained’t embody Mia Thornton, who has moved to Atlanta, or Karen Huger, who’s serving jail time for DUI.
The Actual Housewives of Potomac, Season 10, TBD, Bravo