Bravo and the involved production company are gearing up to film “The Real Housewives: Ultimate Road Trip.” Now, ahead of filming, Andy Cohen has confirmed a recent report that NeNe Leakes will appear on the upcoming series.
The “Watch What Happens Live” host recently took to his SiriusXM show “Radio Andy Live.” During the episode, he answered his co-host’s question about whether reports that Leakes was returning for “The Real Housewives: Ultimate Road Trip” were true.
Cohen said, “She’s gonna be making an appearance. When we go to Atlanta, she ‘gon be there. People are happy about it. We are going to be celebrating 20 years of Housewives, and it would be hard without her. I’m happy about it.”
Andy Cohen Shared More Details About ‘Ultimate Road Trip’
GettyCohen continued on his radio show about “The Real Housewives: Ultimate Road Trip.” His cohost first asked when the Bravo series would air. He declined to give an answer, saying, “I don’t think that I can say.”
Cohen then began to reveal when the show’s main cast will be unveiled before moving on to a different topic. He said, “I will be revealing the principal cast of ‘Real Housewives: Ultimate Road Trip.”
“A group of seven or eight gals will be going from town to town. In total, I think you may wind up by the end of the series, seeing 60 of your Housewives friends. There’s gonna be a lot… It’s going to be amazing. I’m really excited about this.”
Cohen then said that they were “going back to the very beginning.” As he began to say but didn’t finish, he will reveal the main cast of the show on the January 14 episode of “Watch What Happens Live.”
Bravo announced the news on its official social media channels.
Vicki Gunvalson Recently Confirmed When the Show Would Film
Currently, not much is known about “The Real Housewives: Ultimate Road Trip” beyond Leakes being cast as Cohen, and the Bravo crew has been quiet. However, in December 2025, Vicki Gunvalson was interviewed on The Viall Files and confirmed she would be on the show.
She first confirmed when season 20 of “The Real Housewives of Orange County” would film. Gunvalson said, “I think it’s mid-February. We don’t have an exact date yet, but it’ll be mid-February. And then I’m gonna do the girls’ trip like four days before that. And a little caveat, so I’m going on the girls’ trip January 18th through the end of January, and then I head to Mexico from New York.”
