Those Real Housewives of Cheshire queens are a pretty talented bunch, no question. Their top-tier skills include giving glam 24/7, building empires, serving drama, tagline writing (especially tagline writing), spinning around in ball gowns and influencing. But one thing one or two of them are not so talented at is keeping spoilers under wraps.
Time after time, Closer online has soaked up some piping hot RHOCheshire tea – tea ITV and production company Monkey Kingdom weren't quite ready for us to be totally privy to – due to an accidental spillage on a Housewife's Instagram story or TikTok video.
Obviously, this is a wonderfully beneficial to us and the fans, but we can only imagine show producers are constantly biting their nails knowing that the all-knowing cast have access to hundreds of thousands of fans at the tap of an iPhone.
We're sorry not sorry to report it's happened again, and this time it's a major spoiler about the cast of the hotly-anticipated ten-year anniversary series (coming to ITVBe in March). And the culprit? Series OG, Lauren Simon. Generally, it's either Lauren, Rachel Lugo or Lystra Adams, let's be honest. Queens, all of them.
A huge veil of secrecy and rumour has shrouded the upcoming ten-year-anniversary series – marking a decade since the Housewives first spun around on our screens in 2015 – and while we've picked up one or two tidbits from the cast in recent months, generally, the big secrets have been kept hidden from us.
Back in September 2024, Closer caught up with Lauren and series one OG turned guest Housewife Tanya Bardsley at The National Television Awards and they exclusively revealed that fans can look forward to 'some new faces' in the milestone series, but they neglected to comment on the old faces, as we now know that another series one OG is set to return to the show for the anniversary series.
On Sunday 26 January, Lauren posted a behind-the-scenes snap of herself, Rachel, Seema Malhotra and Sheena Lynch filming scenes for series 18 alongside a familiar looking blonde – OG of OGs, Leanne Brown.
The telling post was deleted moments later (no doubt due to Leanne being pictured), but not before Closer online managed to take a peek.
The grid post read, 'Here come the girls @officialrhoch 🥂 The countdown is on until we're back on your screens in March and I still can't believe it's our TEN year anniversary of the show – Who's excited for us to be back? 🎥❤️.'
It is worth noting that ITV haven't officially announced Leanne's return to the series, and it's not yet known in what capacity Leanne is returning to the show (full-time, a guest like returning OGs Tanya and Ampika Pickston, a one-off etc.), but we have to say, it's glorious to see her sipping champers with the ladies again after all these years.
Leanne rose to fame as one of the original Real Housewives of Cheshire stars back in 2015 and starred in the first six series of the ITVBe show before announcing she was quitting after three years. During her time on the show, Leanne was involved in a number of explosive storylines and feuded with fellow OG Dawn Ward, who left the show in 2020.
Despite insisting she’d never return to the show, she returned to the Cheshire scene during the fourteenth series of RHOCheshire, but has sadly not been seen on the series since – well, until she momentarily popped up on Lauren's grid that is.