Gretchen Rossi SetsReal Housewives of Orange CountyReturn for Season 19
Mar. 15, 2025Gretchen Rossi attends Harper’s Bazaar Vietnam cover release party for Manna Kadar at Hotel Laguna on August 09, 2022.Photo:Phillip Faraone/Getty
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Gretchen Rossiis ready to visit some old friends.
Rossi, 46, will be making a return toThe Real Housewives of Orange Countyfor season 19, PEOPLE can confirm.
According toVariety, which was the first to report the news, Rossi will join the cast in a part-time role as a “friend.”
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The outlet reported that filming for the show began this week withHeather Dubrow,Tamra Judge,Shannon Storms Beador,Emily Simpson,Jennifer Pedranti,Katie GinellaandGina Kirschenheiterall making a return.
Alexis Bellino, whoappeared as a friend of the group in season 18, announced her exit from the franchise while guest-hosting theGoing Roguepodcast last month.She expressed that she was not asked to return.
After the news was made public, Bravoshouted out Rossi on X, writing, “She’s back and ready to make fetch happen. Gretchen Rossi joins#RHOCfor Season 19!”
Gretchen Christine Rossi confirms she is returning to ‘The Real Housewives of Orange County’.Gretchen Christine Rossi/Instagram
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Rossi also hinted at her return, writing on her Instagram Stories, “Here we go!! #rhoc”
A year later, she would begin datingSlade Smiley, who waspreviously engaged to original cast member Jo De La Rosa.
Gretchen Rossi, Lauri Waring Peterson on ‘Real Housewives of Orange County’.Vivian Zink/Bravo/NBCUniversal via Getty
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Rossi proposed to Smiley in 2013andthe engagement aired season 8of the show.
Although the reality star exited the reality series after season 8, she appeared as a guest during season 12, perVariety.
Whileshe and Smiley have yet to walk down the aisle, Rossi would share with PEOPLE in 2016 thatthe two already “feel married.”
Gretchen Rossi and Heather Dubrow on “The Real Housewives of Orange County”.Evans Vestal Ward/Bravo/NBCUniversal via Getty
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“The truth is that Slade and I already feel married and we’re in a very committed relationship as if we were married, and so it’s not something that we feel like we have to have a marriage certificate to qualify our love for each other," she told PEOPLE at the time.
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The couple welcomed daughterSkylar Gray Smileytogether inJuly 2019, and previouslyco-hosted theKnot Too Taboopodcast.
source: people.com
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