The Real Housewives of Atlanta stars Phaedra Parks and Cynthia Bailey are sending a message to their fellow Housewives at BravoCon 2025.
“We are coming for all of them,” Bailey, 58, exclusively told Us Weekly on Saturday, November 15, while Parks, 52, added, “Move over everybody. We are back. We are back, honey.”
Parks teased that the upcoming season 17 of The Real Housewives of Atlanta will feature “some new peaches,” a.k.a new women, since Georgia is known as the Peach State.
“They are very interesting,” she noted. “They’re very different, honey. Very, very different. Not the same. So I think that that adds a little spice to the gumbo. But also, we got the OGs and so that keeps it where it’s supposed to be. … It’s a wonderful mix.”
Bailey, meanwhile, hinted that the season has “the glory days” but also “mixed with a splash of new.”
“I think one of the other things that made it such a fun season, we always do a domestic trip and an international trip, and you are looking at the hostess of the trips,” Bailey shared. “I won’t tell you who did what. We had a great time. … The trips are very important.”
Parks added, “The trips were amazing. We did our big one.”
Bravo has yet to announce The Real Housewives of Atlanta season 17 premiere date.
In 2017, Parks exited The Real Housewives of Atlanta after six seasons. Eight years later, she returned to the series for season 16. Ahead of her return, Bailey noted that her pal “showed out.”
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“It’s been a long time coming. No. 1, she’s been away from the show for a while now, and I have to say she literally came in within, like, two and a half weeks left of filming and did something that’s never been done before the history of Housewives,” Bailey told Us in 2024.
She continued, “[Phaedra] is a full peach holder with only two and a half weeks work, child, but I will say she showed up and she showed out. She definitely showed up.”
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Bailey, meanwhile, appeared in the series as a friend of the official cast after leaving the franchise in 2021 following 11 years on the series. (Bailey starred on The Real Housewives of Atlanta for seasons 3 to 13. The show made its Bravo debut in 2008.)
“I returned as an official friend, and you guys saw me kind of pop in a little bit last season, but as an official friend, I actually go on the trips and I’m actually with the ladies a lot more,” Bailey told Us in 2024.
She continued, “I’m a little more in the mix this time. And for me, it’s the perfect situation for me because I miss the girls. I still am connected to so many of the ladies on the show, but my focus still is my acting career, which is going great by the way, but it’s so much fun to stay connected to the show and to the fans.”