The Real Housewives of Cheshire are back with more drama, more glamour and new catfights! This week, the season seven premiere date was revealed of the ITVBe hit reality series which will premiere on Monday, March 26 at 10:00pm, according to
Cheshire Chronicle.
Returning to the show are Dawn Ward, Lauren Simon and Tanya Bardsley, who are the only remaining original cast members left on the show.
Joining them are Ester Dee, Stacey Forsey, Seema Malhotra, along with last year's newcomers Rachel Lugo and Nermina Pieters-Mekic, who are returning along with this year's newbie Christine McGuinness, who will appear as a "Friend of the Housewives" this season.
"The new series will be returning to ITVBe in March. Friends and familiar faces will be popping up along the way," a spokeswoman for ITVBe said in a statement.
As previously reported, original cast member Leanne Brown confirmed that she was leaving the ITVBe reality show, claiming that part of her decision was to focus more on her family and charity work.
“It was really difficult making the decision to leave, I loved my time on the show, and I never say never about going back, but with things as they are I won’t be going back, it’s just too difficult, It was affecting me and my family," she told
Manchester Evening News.
“At the end of the last series it got too hard, it wasn’t fun for me anymore. Stuff outside of the show wasn’t being shown which was frustrating.”
She continued: “Outside of the show I can distance myself to an extent, it’s still going back and forth between lawyers, it’s heartbreaking.”
Leanne also admitted that another part of her decision to quit RHOCheshire was to avoid Ward due to their ongoing legal drama.
“I just couldn’t be in her space, or talk about what she’s saying any more in the show,” she explained. “I had to stand back and I realised the full truth would never get put out there.”
If you may recall, Leanne Brown and former bestie Dawn Ward allegedly have been feuding for the past two seasons due to an unpaid load. As previously reported, Ward and Brown have been feuding over an unpaid £500,000 loan, which played out during Season 5 and 6.
The feud began when Leanne and her ex-Man United hubby Wes lent t£500,000 to interior designer Dawn four years ago. But they were said to be furious that nothing has been repaid and feel she taken advantage of their kindness and has no intention of giving it back, reports
The Sun.The publication claimed that the couple hit Dawn with a legal letter threatening legal action.
“Filming has been really hard because they don’t want to be near each other,” a source close to production told the publication at that time. “They’re even avoiding going to the same events in case they bump into one another. Leanne feels deeply hurt and betrayed, while Dawn is reeling that their rift was splashed all over the national press.”
Despite the drama, Leanne reveals she has no regrets about being part of the show.
“It has given me a platform, and the space to find myself, it wasn’t all bad. But looking back, I can see that doing that show, it’s been such a journey for me from start to finish, moving away from Dawn has allowed me to become who I am and stand on my own two feet. And just be my own person and do my own thing. It has been quite inspiring to me to find how strong I can really be.”
“When I was filming I was becoming a different person - I was getting upset talking about it, and the frustration that the truth was never 100 per cent out there, that’s down to legal reasons and I can’t get away from that.”
As previously reported, The Real Housewives of Cheshire was officially renewed for Season 7. It was announced during the reunion special for Season 6 that the network will bring back the sassy reality show for a seventh season in 2018.
The renewal came in no surprise after the series won the award for "Best Entertainment Programme" at the Royal Television Society Awards over the weekend.
Leanne, an original cast member joined the series when the show debuted on ITVBe in 2015, and was part of the series for three years, and a total of six seasons. The show airs two seasons per year.
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