The cast of The Real Housewives of Cheshire returned to filming this week and as per, the drama has already peaked thanks to the teasers the ladies have been putting out on their individual social media accounts.
The beginning of series 17 filming has also predictably brought the show sleuths out of their long hibernation. FYI, they're those unique RHOCheshire fans determined to answer the following pre-new series questions via the ladies' socials before ITV confirms anything concrete:
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Which Housewives will be returning for the new series?
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Who is beefing with who?
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Where are they filming?
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What teasers have been craftily littered by our glam girls in their captions?
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Are there any new Housewives?
By the by, here at Closer online, we are THE self-appointed head show sleuth for The Real Housewives of Cheshire – think Hercule Poirot, if he got paid to religiously watch reality TV – and we've stumbled across a few things this week, namely that Hanna Kinsella appears to be notably absent from the first week of filming, which has us feeling concerned based on other clues.
Our fellow sleuths will already know that the likes of Rachel Lugo, Lystra Adams, Nicole Sealey, Lauren Simon, Seema Malhotra, Sheena Lynch, and Tanya Bardsley have all been whisked away on some sort of opulent staycation/glam girls sleepover somewhere in the UK (Tanya is either back for good or just loves a RHOCheshire holiday). According to social media, all the girls are present and accounted for, apart from Natasha Hamilton (who, to be fair, just had a baby) and Hanna.
Naturally, Hanna's unexplained absence has not gone undetected amongst the sleuth community and the comments have been commenting with rumours about Hanna's involvement in series 17 – or lack thereof – flying.
One fan commented, "I don't think Hanna is [on the new series] but I could be wrong. If you go on her page Hanna has removed that she is a Cheshire housewife. Can't fault her really after the last season 😢."
Another added, "What happened to Hanna?"
We have to say, all signs are pointing to Hanna stepping away from the series in a full-time capacity...
Not only is the mum of two seemingly not filming with the rest of the cast this week, but she has removed the show's handle from her Instagram bio (which, in our experience, is always a telltale sign). The reality star and dentist also did not take part in the recent Pride special and has been busy working on her own dental practice and her business Icy Bear Dental. She's also been starring in her own reality series about dentists here and there. Iconic.
Oh, and did we mention, this isn't actually the first time that rumours about Hanna's future on the series have done the rounds? Hanna actually spoke about her future on the show in an Instagram Q&A late last year.
To summarise: she's a busy queen, so there's every chance this diva dentist has moved on...
A ray of light is that she did join the other ladies on the red carpet at the ITV Palooza party in November 2023, so there's that. But that's the kind of party with free food and booze, so we'd still show if we'd quit, too, to be honest.
Anyway, fingers crossed we're actually no Poirot because we love us some Hanna.
Hanna was last seen on our screens during the reunion for series 16 of RHOCheshire where she was butting serious heads with frenemy Seema and new girl Paige Chohan.