Much like her good friend Kyle Richards, Morgan Wade is gearing up for a major career change.
The country music artist shared the update in a November 6 Instagram post, in which she expressed gratitude for all the love and support she’s received over the last few years.
“Hey, y’all. I just want to take a minute to talk about a couple of things,” she began. “One, thank you. It’s been about almost 500 shows in the last, I guess, technically, three and a half years. Amazing… I have been to a lot of places that this small-town girl never thought she would get to go to. I’ve done a lot of things, met a lot of people, and I couldn’t have done literally any of that without you guys buying tickets, listening to my songs. I’m forever grateful for that, so I just really wanna say thank you.”
Morgan, who made her Bravo debut in The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Season 13, told fans that 2026 would mark a big shift in her career, as she planned “to take a little break from touring and work on some new things.”
“There’s a lot of things that I’m working on outside the music world,” she continued. “There’s a lot of things that I haven’t had time to do, and I’m gonna go do that, and take a bit of a vacation, and just experience some life.”
Morgan didn’t provide any more details about her non-music-related projects, only that she anticipated 2026 to look “a little different” than the past few years. And while she was seemingly eager for the change, Morgan emphasized that nothing was set in stone.
“I say that now, and then who knows,” she said. “I appreciate each and every one of you. I’m gonna do a few more shows. See you there.”
The caption featured Morgan’s Home for the Holiday tour schedule, which includes stops in Lynchburg, Virginia; Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and Bristol, Tennessee. You can learn more about the shows at the singer-songwriter’s website.
Morgan shared the career update about three months after releasing her fifth studio album, The Party is Over (Recovered). Kyle gushed over the record in her August 7 Amazon Live stream, revealing that “Hardwood Floor” was her favorite track.
“It’s so beautiful,” Kyle said about the piano-driven cut. “I mean, the album is so great. There’s like, a song for every mood… I was listening to it running the other day, and it was ‘Candy from Strangers’ and ‘Party Is Over.’ Those are fun. I love singing along to those. And [they] made me want to run faster.”
Kyle befriended Morgan several years ago after she first heard her music during a road trip. She shared their first face-to-face encounter in a February 2022 Instagram, in which she joked about stalking the singer before they finally met up for lunch.
Kyle opened up about the “unlikely” friendship in RHOBH Season 13, Episode 8, explaining how Morgan was different from her other besties.
“Morgan is 100 percent herself — no excuses, no apologies,” she said. “And there was something very freeing about that to me. I’m someone who is always so worried about everything being so together and perfect that I honestly was just really taken by that.”
Kyle pointed out that she and Morgan were also on sobriety journeys, which added another dimension to their bond.
“It is nice to have friends that you have things in common with,” she continued. “We like to work out, we don’t like to drink. It’s nice to surround yourself with like-minded people.”
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Tom Schwartz welcomed his new girlfriend, model
As he promoted the latest episode of Detox Retox, the 43-year-old Vanderpump Rules alum, who split from ex-wife Katie Maloney, 38, in 2022, shared a soft launch with Kiana, 27, as the two of them were heard discussing their modeling careers and the Bravo reality show.
“Ever wonder what it’s really like to make a living as a model?” Tom asked in the caption of his November 12 post on Instagram. “At some point, you’ve probably thought damn, I’d like to get paid to look pretty. But it’s more than a just being a pretty face & competition is FIERCE.”
“It’s not for the faint of heart. Job insecurity lurks after every casting and for every breakout star, there are a troves of stunning faces barely booking. I did my share of print work back in my early LA days. Fed off the scraps from the the big models but even then always felt lucky to book a gig,” he continued.
Tom then said he had interviewed Kiana, whom he described as “one of [his] favorite humans in the world,” in New York City, applauding her as charismatic, funny, and beautiful.
“With Cold beer in hand, we riff on the current state of the modeling biz from her chic high-rise apartment. Here’s your peek behind the curtain into the glamorous, gritty, and unpredictable world of professional modeling [PodcastOne],” he teased.
On the November 11 episode of Detox Retox, Kiana revealed she was discovered by a scouting agent in Orlando, where she was attending college, sharing that he connected her to an agent who linked her with a large agency in New York City. Meanwhile, Tom joked about his own modeling past, admitting that he was “never a real model.”
“I was a ‘mactor,’” he explained. “When I first started, Tom Sandoval gave me his old book from his Miami modeling days and I had like four pictures in there and I was always almost embarrassed to hand it over to prospective clients.”
Moving on to Bravo, Kiana said she was a fan of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City and compared it to Pump Rules.
“You couldn’t have scripted a better show … it’s so perfect. Some people probably say that about
“It was a once-in-a-lifetime, lightning in a bottle scenario,” Tom agreed.