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The Real Housewives of Atlanta season 16
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The sixteenth season of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, an American reality television series, was broadcast on Bravo. It premiered on March 9, 2025, and concluded on July 27, 2025.[1] It was primarily filmed in Atlanta, Georgia. The season's executive producers are Steven Weinstock, Glenda Hersh, Lauren Eskelin, Lorraine Haughton-Lawson, Glenda Cox, Shanae Humphrey, and Andy Cohen.
The Real Housewives of Atlanta focuses on the lives of Phaedra Parks, Porsha Williams, Drew Sidora, Brit Eady, Kelli Ferrell, Shamea Morton, and Angela Oakley, with Cynthia Bailey appearing as a friend of the housewives and Kenya Moore making guest appearances.
This season marked the only appearance of Brit Eady.
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The sixteenth season of the series features an almost entirely different cast from the show's previous season. Following the conclusion of the show's fifteenth season, cast members Kandi Burruss,[2] Marlo Hampton,[3] Sanya Richards-Ross,[4] and Shereé Whitfield[5] all departed the series. Kenya Moore and Drew Sidora were initially the only housewives from the fifteenth season slated to return.[6] Moore eventually departed the sixteenth season midway through filming and was demoted to a guest role.[7]
The sixteenth season of the series saw the return of Porsha Williams, who debuted in the fifth season alongside Moore and originally departed the show following the conclusion of the show's thirteenth season.[8] Former housewife Cynthia Bailey returned as a friend of the housewives.[6] After Moore's departure from the sixteenth season, it was announced that former cast member Phaedra Parks would also be returning to the series as a full-time housewife.[9] Bailey and Parks both joined the series in its third season and departed after the thirteenth and ninth seasons respectively.
Shamea Morton, who has appeared in several previous seasons of the series as both a friend of and guest, was upgraded to a full-time housewife for the first time. Additionally, three new cast members were added to the show: Brit Eady, Kelli Ferrell, and Angela Oakley.[10] Morton is a singer, dancer, and actress, Eady is an insurance agent, Ferrell is a chef and restaurant owner, and Oakley is an entrepreneur who works in real estate and tax preparation and the wife of retired NBA player Charles Oakley.
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Taglines
- Porsha: "I snatched my peach back, now I’m bringing the juice."
- Drew: “I’ll always be upper level. Everyone else is in the basement.”
- Shamea: "Plus one, honey, I’ve always been that one."
- Kelli: “I’m a mom of four girls, give me attitude and I’ll ground you too!”
- Angela: “If you want to find the shade, just look for the Oak.”
- Brit: “I’m pretty and paid, of course there’s haters trying to shade.”
- Phaedra: "I've returned from the dead, now let's bury the past for good."
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Production for the sixteenth season began in May 2024 and concluded in August 2024.[10] In mid-June 2024, Kenya Moore was suspended from filming pending the results of an investigation by the network into an incident where she displayed a sexually explicit photo allegedly of fellow cast member Brit Eady at the grand opening of her hair spa.[11] On June 25, 2024, it was announced that Moore was departing the series and would not resume filming for the remainder of the sixteenth season.[7] Moore's role in the season was reduced to guest appearances as a result of the incident. She was later replaced by former housewife Phaedra Parks.[9]
The sixteenth season's reunion was filmed on June 5, 2025, in Atlanta. Eady and Moore both did not attend the reunion taping, Eady didn't attend by choice while Moore wasn't invited by the network to participate following her suspension from show.[12] The following day, it was reported that Eady filed a $20 million lawsuit against Bravo, NBCUniversal, Truly Original, and Endemol Shine North America for defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, sexual harassment, and fostering a hostile work environment. In her lawsuit, Eady claims that Bravo denied her "repeated requests" to show her the sexually explicit photo that Moore displayed at her hair spa opening prior to footage of the event airing. Upon seeing the photo after the episode depicting the incident aired a year later, Eady says she discovered that the photo displayed at Moore's event was not actually a photo of her. Eady's lawsuit also alleges that the network "willfully, intentionally, recklessly, and/or with gross negligence produced, edited, and aired an episode" falsely portraying that the photo shown at Moore's event was of her.[13][14] On July 14, 2025, Eady officially announced her departure from the series.[15]
The Real Housewives of Atlanta is produced by Truly Original for Bravo. Steven Weinstock, Glenda Hersh, Lauren Eskelin, Lorraine Haughton-Lawson, Glenda Cox, Shanae Humphrey, and Andy Cohen are recognized as the series' executive producers. Kate Murphy and Saleda Bryant serve as co-executive producers.[16]
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