Porsha Williams Guobadia Will Return to The Real Housewives of Atlanta for Season 16

I invite everyone The The Real Housewives of Atlanta fans, Porsha Williams Guobadia is back!

Bravo announced Tuesday that the fan favorite, who previously left the show in 2021, is returning for Season 16. Williams Guobadia, 42, also signed a comprehensive talent deal with NBCUniversal to partner on “scripted project opportunities across the company’s broadcast and streaming properties.” .”

“I am incredibly grateful for the vision and faith that NBCUniversal has placed in me to be a bigger part of their family,” she said in a statement. “I am looking forward to my return The Real Housewives of Atlantaand show the world my new world!”

“Porsha Williams Guobadia is a multi-hyphenate, and we are thrilled to collaborate and leverage her creativity and passion through this partnership,” said Rachel Smith, executive vice president of unscripted content, lifestyle and documentaries, NBCUniversal Entertainment. “Our audiences have supported and admired Porsha for sharing her life so authentically, hilariously and vulnerably over the years, and we couldn’t be more excited to welcome her back to the NBCU family.”

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She made her announcement on Instagram on Tuesday.

“Who said that?” she asked, echoing a famous saying from her former colleague Kandi Burruss. “Porsha Williams is coming back The Real Housewives of Atlanta? That is false. But Porsha Guobadia is in the building. Haha, see you, mwah!”

Paras Griffin/Getty Porsha Williams needed a sword to cut her 10-tier wedding cake with husband Simona Guobadia

Departure of Williams Guobadia from RHO it came a few months after news broke that she was engaged to current husband Simon Guobadio, whom she met on the set of the franchise’s 13th season through his then-wife Falynn Pina, a regular guest on the show introduced to viewers as a “friend” of Williams Guobadia.

Guobadia and Pina were separated when he and Williams Guobadia started dating, though fans didn’t know that when the two went public with their romance shortly after season 13 ended. Rumors circulated and Williams’ announcement that he was leaving RHO leading some to question her reasons for leaving.

“I wasn’t running away,” the Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip the alum told PEOPLE in March 2023. “And I don’t think any of my followers who really knew me would believe that I would walk off the show because of that.”

Porsha Williams celebrates the release of her memoir, The Pursuit of Porsha, and the premiere of her TV show, Porsha Family Matters at the Empire State Building on November 29, 2021 in New York City. Roy Rochlin/Getty Porsha Williams celebrates her 42nd birthday in a tiny thong bikini: ‘So blessed’

RHO cameras captured Williams Guobadia through many ups and downs in her personal life. She was married to former football star Kordell Stewart when she first joined the show in Season 5 – but soon after found out via a social media post that he was divorcing her. Her engagement to ex-fiancé Dennis McKinley fell apart when he cheated on her, and although they had a child together – 4-year-old daughter Pilar Jhena McKinley – the birth led to a battle with postpartum depression.

“I faced a lot of rough stuff on the show,” Williams Guobadia told PEOPLE. “And I’ve been there at the beginning of every season to shoot, with the camera on. So no, this has nothing to do with that.”

At the time, Williams Guobadia said she had made the decision to leave RHO for the season 14 months earlier.

“I had already decided it was time to retire at least six months before I told any of the executives what I intended to do — and long before I even met my now-husband,” she says. “I was turning 40, I was coming up on my 10-year anniversary on the show, and I really just had to reevaluate where I was and what I wanted out of my life. And that’s where that decision came from.”

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