Reality TV was at its peak in 2024, too Us he has just one request heading into the new year: more Mormons, please.
Hulu Secret Lives of Mormon Wives started with a bang in September, joined Dancing with the Stars again The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City in representing Utah on the small screen. Viewers were quickly drawn to the MomTok influencers featured on it Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, including Taylor Frankie Paulwho previously sparked interest with her soft-spokenness before cameras started rolling on the Hulu series.
“We’re not all surfers,” costar Whitney Levitt you are only told Us Weekly in September, joking that he “just took power” from Taylor’s scandal despite not being directly involved.
Our MomTok personality Maycie Neely doubled down on swing denial but noted that there is more to Mormon culture than meets the eye. “You can be a Mormon and wear a crop top and leggings too,” she said. “You don’t have to be perfect. You don’t have to be the normal Mormon that people think we all should be.”
Secret Lives of Mormon Wives certainly showed a different side of women in Salt Lake City — but it’s not the only reality show that puts the LDS lifestyle front and center. Scroll down to see how Mormons stole the TV spotlight in 2024:
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City
Cast of ‘The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’: Angie Katsanevas, Mary Cosby, Lisa Barlow, Heather Gay, Meredith Marks, Bronwyn Newport, and Whitney Rose.
Koury Angelo/BravoRHOSLC brought its A-game from the start, but something changed at the end of season 4. The bombshell finale aired in January and featured what may go down in history as the Housewives dinner to end all dinners. Heather Gay he designed his own Bermuda Triangle as the women ended their hot vacation with a dramatic encounter. “Receipts, testimonials, timelines, screenshots. F-ing everything” was brought to the table, it revealed Monica Garcia was one of the masterminds behind the social media account Reality Von Tease.
The drama went on to be a three-part special – including even The girls said-inspired by Burn Book – and saved Us on the edge of our seats before the show returns for season 5 in September. Monica isn’t back with her fellow Housewives, but a few new faces have joined the ranks: Bronwyn Newport again Brittany Bateman.
The stakes have been higher than ever throughout season 5 – and even the husbands are involved in the spousal wars. Heather offered Us special insight into how the season ends, teasing in December that the ending was “better than Bermuda.” Sign up Us up.
Secret Lives of Mormon Wives
Hulu presents Us to MomTok in September, and our lives have never been the same. This show has it all – TikTok dances, gentle swings, a devout Mormon who threatens to divorce his wife if she goes to a Chippendales game. One Mormon activist is considering taking a vibrator sponsorship deal, while another admits to trying ketamine therapy. And yes, “Utah curls” are basically a character in themselves.
The series was quickly renewed for a second season and attracted the attention of some famous Mormons. “If you’re wondering what a green coat is [from the opening credits] he’s in the Mormon Church, it really has nothing to do with it,” Lindsay Arnolda DWTS pro from Utah, joked in a September TikTok video sharing his reaction to the reality show.
Over 30 seasons into Dancing With the Stars, there’s still one question we need answered: Why are there so many Mormon ballroom dancers? When the reality competition premiered in 2005, viewers across the US were introduced to the beauty of traditional ballroom and Latin dance styles from the Viennese waltz to the Argentine tango. […]
Sister Wives star Janelle Brownwho was also born into a Mormon family, he told Us in October when he did a “deep dive” on the Hulu series. “The Mormons I know are very conservative,” he explained Us. “They are the salt of the earth, very traditional. These ladies are not traditional.”
Dancing with the Stars
Mormons have always been a prominent presence on ABC’s ballroom dance competition, but the Utah connection was especially strong during season 33, which began in September. Two months later, there were still eight dancers representing Utah at both the pro and team levels. “Utah gang in the ballroom❤️🔥,” a member of the group Stephanie Sosa he wrote a video for TikTok in November alongside his brother Ezra Sosa and more DWTS benefits, including Jenna Johnson, Rylee Arnold again Brandon Armstrong.
Us before they dig why there are so many DWTS advantages with Mormon backgrounds, and for Armstrong, the answer is simple. “There’s nothing else we can do,” he joked during an October podcast interview. “What else are you doing? You talk about our big cities, like Salt Lake, there’s nothing there. … You play sports, you go to school, you date very young — these guys get married when they’re 19, 20 years old — and you dance.”
Sold with SLC
‘Sold on SLC’ cast: Tyna Edwards, Malaysia Fua, Jennifer Yeo, Sarah Martindale, Kenny Sperry, and Matt Jones.
Bravo MediaI Selling Sunset-esque reality show is new to Bravo’s rotation, having just premiered in December, but it’s already a hit. The first episode alone had a cameo appearance RHOSLC star Lisa Barlow (complete with a joke about skaters) and fights between coworkers about who respects or doesn’t respect Mormons enough. While the world of real estate is losing steam in Salt Lake City, the tension is resolved by images of agents reading text with their children and programming in the common language of networking. One way or another, Sold with SLC could even qualify as an educational program – who knew Mormon clients wouldn’t show their homes to potential buyers on Sundays?
How Sold with SLC stacking up against some Mormon-inspired power hitters remains to be seen, but there’s enough drama to be had. Us tuning.