Phaedra Parks Returning To Bravo’s ‘The Real Housewives Of Atlanta’ Season 16 After 6-Season Break & ‘The Traitors USA’ Fame
Phaedra Parks is getting her peach back and returning to The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 16 following a six-season break and newfound fame after The Traitors USA Season 2.
Parks is returning to RHOA and joining the cast amid a major shakeup, that saw Kenya Moore exit after the start of production of Season 16.
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“You called. I answered,” Parks shared on Instagram, adding a peach emoji to her caption.
Parks also posted a photo of herself holding a peach as she exited a private jet with multiple pieces of luggage surrounding her.
Parks will be pulling double duty at Bravo as she is also a main cast member on Married to Medicine. She just wrapped filming Season 11, her second season on the reality series.
The television personality joined RHOA in Season 3 and quickly became one of the most-recognized stars due to her quick wits and fiery comebacks. Parks left the show after Season 9 and, after a six-season break, made her return for Season 16.
Earlier this year, Parks became one of the most talked-about cast members of The Traitors USA Season 2. Many of the game players underestimated her in the competition due to her being on a reality show like The Real Housewives, which she ultimately used to her advantage to advance in the game. Her cutting reads of fellow contestants coming after her and her Bravo co-stars instantly became memes.
RHOA is in the middle of production on Season 16, which is supposed to be a reboot. However, shortly after filming started, Kenya Moore was involved in an incident where she allegedly printed sexually explicit photos of her co-star. Moore was suspended from filming pending an investigation, resulting in the entrepreneur exiting the long-running show.
Parks became one of the names RHOA fans put out there to “save” the season, and their wish was ultimately granted. Returning RHOA star Porsha Williams championed Parks’s return despite also being the main cast member on Bravo’s Married to Medicine.
“I need yall to go and write Bravo and let them know that we want Phaedra to come and play,” Williams said in an Instagram Live recently. “I tend to believe there’s enough of Phaedra to go around. She’s a Traitors star. She’s rocking Married to Medicine. Why not come and get this bag over here, sis? Right?”
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