This week on Getting Real with the Housewives, Heather Gay reveals the status of her friendship with Real Housewives of Salt Lake City costar Lisa Barlow, NeNe Leakes is making her long-awaited return to Bravo and Ashley Iaconetti is spilling the tea on The Real Housewives of Rhode Island.
The second part of the RHOSLC season 6 reunion aired on Tuesday, January 20, revealing Heather’s relationship with Lisa is on thin ice.
“Lisa and I fight hard and we make up pretty easily.” Heather, 51, exclusively told Luxury Handbag Shopping while promoting her Atkins partnership. “We haven’t spoken yet, but I look forward to hashing it out with her more.”
While this season of RHOSLC is coming to a close, a new Housewives chapter is beginning in Rhode Island sometime in 2026. It was announced at BravoCon 2025 that The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Dolores Catania would appear in a “friend of” role, thanks to her connection to new Housewife Liz McGraw. Dolores, 55, previously teased that her time in Rhode Island reminded her of early RHONJ seasons, something that Ashley can agree with.
“I have really never watched a full season of the Housewives,” Ashley, 37, told Luxury Handbag Shopping exclusively while promoting her new campaign, One Step to Love, for Philosophy‘s Purity Made Simple One-Step Meltaway Cleansing Balm alongside fellow Bachelor alums Kaitlyn Bristowe and Becca Tilley. “But, I do feel, based on the couple episodes of Jersey that I’ve seen that yes, I vibe that.”
She added, “I do think that Rhode Island is very Jersey-like, as somebody who was born in Jersey. As soon as I moved to Rhode Island or started visiting with Jared [Haibon], I was like, ‘This place is just a small version of Jersey.’”
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