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The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is heading west. On Wednesday, Hulu announced that the reality show is getting a California-based spinoff series, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County. Among the new faces joining the cast is podcaster Bobbi Althoff. She’ll be joined by influencers Madison Bontempo, Aspyn Ovard, Avery Woods, Salomé Andrea, Chandler Higginson, and Ashleigh Pease. McCall DaPron, whose sister Mayci Neeley is a cast member on the original series, has also been cast.
If you read that and thought, Wait, Bobbi Althoff is Mormon?, you would not be alone. As far as she’s shared publicly, Althoff is not Mormon — she’s described her upbringing as “very Christian.” Generally, it seems like SLOMW: OC is more interested in Mormon-ish social circles than actual Mormon women — only about half of the cast members who’ve been announced so far identify explicitly as LDS. Ovard has said she’s “very familiar” with the religion because her dad was Mormon but that she’s never considered herself a part of the church. Also not Mormon but seemingly LDS-adjacent is Woods, who in 2022 said she was “non-Mormon” but lived in a heavily Mormon part of Arizona. Andrea, meanwhile, has said she grew up Mormon but isn’t part of the church anymore.
Althoff, like plenty of her SLOMW cohorts, is also not a wife at the moment — she finalized her divorce last year and is currently dating basketball player Tyler Hawkins. (Ovard is also, famously, divorced.) Maybe they could call it The Secret Lives of Divorced Podcasters? Or The Secret Lives of Influencers With Complicated Relationships to Religion. I’d watch that.
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