Here's what we know about The Real Housewives of Cheshire series 17 (so far)...
We know the girls filmed the opening episodes on some boozy staycation/girls trip (unlikely to be Holiday Inn) in January. We know that Rachel Lugo, Lystra Adams, Nicole Sealey, Seema Malhotra, Sheena Lynch, Lauren Simon are all back for good. We know that both Ampika Pickston and Tanya Bardsley are returning. We're pretty sure Lystra and Nicole still aren't talking. We know that Natasha Hamilton and Paige Chohan probably aren't filming this series due to babies and babies on the way. We also know (suspect) that Lauren is going on Celebrity Big Brother now that filming is wrapping up.
Sadly, the one thing we still don't know is whether diva dentist Hanna Kinsella is returning.
So, once again, we've compiled the evidence, and unfortunately, it's just not looking good - in fact, this latest piece of evidence is pretty much a resignation letter in our book.
On top of missing the Pride special last summer, she has been leaving suggestive clues that she is done with the series on Instagram Q&As, she has removed any trace of the series from her Instagram bio, her co-stars have remained uncharacteristically tight-lipped about her and now Hanna has gone and got herself a new job – at Harrods in London no less. Boujie.
Okay, it's not exactly a new job, but it's a HUGE milestone for the dentist and entrepreneur.
This week, she took to Instagram to confirm that she had joined forces with the world's most famous department store to get her product, Icy Bear – Hanna's award-winning luxury dental whitening range – on their shelves.
Sharing snaps of herself looking drop dead gorgeous in a white suit and bouncy blow dry (you can take the girl out of Cheshire...), Hanna wrote, "I can’t believe I’m writing this but Icy Bear is now stocked in HARRODS 🤍."
If you ask us, this is huge; and while a massive win for Hanna (one that was congratulated by virtually the entire current RHOCheshire cast, by the way), it's a potentially massive loss to RHOCheshire fans.
While neither ITV or Hannah have made any official statement regarding her Housewife status, this silence is deafening. Not to mention the fact that last year she had a horrific time locking horns with guest Housewife Paige Chohan in the last ten minutes of virtually every episode. We have to say, we were done for her.
Nevertheless, we're manifesting guest Housewife status for Hanna – because at this stage, that's all us fans can do.
Oh, and one more piece of evidence – apologies, even we thought we were done – all the Housewives got glammed up earlier this week to film their promos/press shots for series 17, while Hanna was busy bossing Harrods and celebrating her son Max's third birthday.
Yeah, we're not holding our breath.