Real Housewives in Hong Kong? The city’s return to reality TV, as Ultimate Girls Trip season 4 is rumoured to start filming in January – RHOBH cast members Garcelle Beauvais and Sutton Stracke included

Nov 11 , 2022

Real Housewives including Garcelle Beauvais, Sutton Stracke and Ashley Darby are rumoured to be heading to Hong Kong to film an upcoming season of Ultimate Girls Trip. Photos: @suttonstracke, @garcelle/Instagram; Bravo TV, Reuters

Despite Hong Kong’s currently stringent Covid-19 measures, an insider has claimed that the Real Housewives will come to film Ultimate Girls Trip S4 in January 2023

The franchise has filmed in the city before, with RHOBH’s Lisa Rinna, Erika Jayne, Kyle Richards and Lisa Vanderpump visiting the Big Buddha and other tourist hotspots in 2017

Since the early days of showbiz, Hong Kong has set the scene and been the backdrop to a vast array of international films and television shows – but that all came to an abrupt end in 2020 as the pandemic wreaked havoc in the entertainment industry and the city enforced some of the world’s most stringent restrictions.

Now, only weeks after Hong Kong flung open its borders to international quarantine-free travel, buzz on the reality TV circuit is that Bravo’s popular Real Housewives franchise will be filming an upcoming season in the city.

Here’s everything you need to know …

Real Housewives in Hong Kong?

Rumour has it that The Real Housewives will be making a trip to Hong Kong to film its next series. Photo: Bravo

The network’s go-to gossip blog Bravo and Cocktails reported that Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip’s season four will take place in Hong Kong, with filming set to commence in January 2023 for one week.

An insider told the blog: “I work for the product [team] on Ultimate Girls Trip, and the fourth season has been cast and will film this coming January in Hong Kong,” noting the new season will have a “Dynamic Duos” theme, unlike previous seasons.

The cast of Real Housewives season three in Thailand. Photo: @melissagorga/Instagram

The concept of the show is somewhat of a “greatest hits” special of the Real Housewives franchise, with various famous Housewives from different cities’ series embarking on an international “girls trip” together for a week. The third season, which was filmed this year in Phuket, Thailand, is expected to start airing early next year.

Who is in it?

Garcelle Beauvais and Sutton Stracke from RHOBH. Photos: AP, @suttonstracke/Instagram

The rumoured cast for the yet-to-be-filmed fourth season are duos Garcelle Beauvais and Sutton Stracke of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Dolores Catania and Margaret Josephs of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Gina Kirschenheiter and Emily Simpson of The Real Housewives of Orange County, and Ashley Darby and Robyn Dixon of The Real Housewives of Potomac.