She’s back! As rumors swirl about her ex-husband sleeping with another Real Housewives of Potomac cast member, Monique Samuels has returned to the scene. Bravo just dropped a sneak peek at RHOP Season 10 Episode 7, where the former full-time Housewife makes her long-awaited comeback. Get your binders ready, and check out the clip below.
Of course, we’ve known for months that Monique would be rejoining the RHOP cast after five years offline and a failed attempt at rebranding on the Oprah Winfrey Network. However, we had no idea that Monique’s return would coincide with rumors about Stacey Rusch hooking up with Chris Samuels, but here we are!
In the teaser, Monique makes her triumphant return courtesy of an invite from Ashley Darby. Surely the fact that Ashley is also the one spreading the Chris rumor is just a coincidence.
Upon Monique’s return, the editors dropped in some sound bites from some of her iconic moments. Threatening to choke Robyn Dixon with an umbrella? Check. T’Challa Samuels shoutout? Check.
A lot has changed with Monique since those early RHOP days, and she wasted no time filling us in on the gaps. She’s got new pets, a remodeled home, and thanks to her divorce, she’s “three hundred pounds lighter.”
As Monique gives Ashley a tour of her remodeled home, the two reflect on Monique’s Season 5 fight that derailed her status as a Housewife. At this point, she’s clearly paid her dues, and she’s ready to get back into the mix. But are the rest of the ladies ready for her?
He put a ring on it!
Madison LeCroy announced her engagement to boyfriend Brett on Thursday.
“I am engaged! And I’m so excited because I honestly had no clue at the time,” the “Southern Charm” star, 31, exclaimed on Amazon Live on Thursday. “It was a very special moment for my family. We traveled a good bit around the world, and I kinda thought it would possibly happen then, but I think it happens when you least expect it.”
She added, “He involved my son [Hudson, who] is a huge part of my life, and we’ve been crying for the last week because we’ve been overwhelmed with the excitement.”
LeCroy said she didn’t hesitate to accept when Brett popped the question over dinner on Oct. 8. She added that Brett had asked for Hudson’s permission, which the 8-year-old happily gave as long as he could be a part of the special moment.
LeCroy has kept her relationship with Brett fairly private, but she shared photos and videos from the big night. On Friday evening, she posted a dress that her now-fiancé bought for her to wear.
A few hours later, LeCroy took a video of herself in the gorgeous champagne-colored gown while sitting in a limo with Hudson. Her son wore a white button-down and slacks while holding two bottles of champagne for the couple.
“You guys, I am so shocked,” she said in an Instagram Story while showing off the dress. “They are up to something. I’m very excited.”
Brett then appeared in the next Story, also wearing a white button-down and tan pants. The couple toasted each other, and LeCroy captioned the video, “Surprise date with my two favorites.”
Her man then took the mother-son duo for a special date night on Kiawah Island in South Carolina.
The salon owner went Instagram-official with Brett in June. At the time, she kept his identity private but revealed that he was over 6 feet tall, 35 years old and lived in another state.
The two met in the spring while LeCroy was in Scottsdale, Ariz., for a friend’s party.
“I did not know him at this time, but I go into this bar and we immediately lock eyes from across the room,” LeCroy told Us Weekly in June. “It was, like, instant. And I mean you really can’t miss him. … He’s absolutely stunning.”
They went on their first date a few days later, and the two “fell in love instantly,” she said. “We had been together pretty much non-stop since then.”
“[It’s] going very, very well, and even my ex-husband [Josh Hughes] approves,” she told the mag. “My son’s father knows a lot about him through my son and my son saying that I seem happy and ‘He’s really nice to Mom’ and all these things.”
LeCroy made headlines earlier this year when she found herself at the center of Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez’s breakup. As Page Six exclusively reported, the former couple split because Lopez, 52, was “embarrassed” by the fact that the former baseball star, 46, allegedly cheated on her with LeCroy.
“The Madison LeCroy scandal was the reason they finally broke up,” a source told Page Six. “There were already problems, but Jennifer was really embarrassed by it.”
LeCroy, for her part, maintained that they only FaceTimed.
“He’s never physically cheated on his fiancée with me,” she told Page Six, adding, “I don’t want anything bad for his family, or for mine. We are definitely innocent in this.”
“Southern Charm” airs on Bravo and is currently filming for Season 8.