Long before receiving her The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills diamond, Leah Remini was open to returning to reality TV.
“I would do it again,” Remini, 56, exclusively told Us in her June 2025 cover story. “I would only do it again with my family, and if they let my family be my family.”
The King of Queens alum competed on Dancing With the Stars season 17 in 2013, later returning to the ballroom as guest cohost and judge. Remini and now-ex-husband Angelo Pagán also had their own TLC reality show, It’s All Relative, with daughter Sofia, now 22, and their extended family. Their docuseries, which Remini created and produced, aired from 2014 to 2015.
The actress also hosted and executive produced A&E’s Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath docuseries from 2016 to 2019. (Remini, a former member of the Church of Scientology, has since become one of the controversial organization’s most vocal critics.)
Earlier this week, Bravo confirmed that Remini will appear on RHOBH season 16, which is currently filming. (The full cast has not been announced but is set to include Million Dollar Listing’s Tracy Tutor in her own Housewives debut.)
Despite being open-minded about a reality TV return, Remini explained to Us last year that she did have some hesitations.
“I haven’t pursued it [again] only because my family’s so great that I would hate to look like I’m selling my family,” she told Us. “But, you know, I have some projects in the works that I want to produce that I want my family in.”
According to Remini, fans frequently told her that they yearned for more episodes of It’s All Relative.
“There’s not one time I tweet something [about] my family show, like, of my mom, that people are [not] like, ‘Why are we not still on the air?’ My family’s so unique,” Remini said. “They’re like every family, and I think that’s what makes them unique. That’s why people love them because they see themselves. They’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, her mom’s just like my mom’ or ‘I have a crazy aunt like her mom.’ We were being our authentic selves, which you don’t see today at all in reality television.”
It’s not known how much of Remini’s personal life will be featured on RHOBH, though Housewives typically film scenes with their significant others, children, parents and siblings.
For Remini, she is very clear about signing on to projects that she wants.
“My career opportunities are basically my own. I don’t say what I want. I say what I don’t want. I don’t want to work just to work. I want to be on sets that are joyful, that you can make jokes and not have to talk to HR,” she stated in her cover story. “I want to talk to normal people. I want to be around people who are happy to be working on projects that are important but also funny. I want to do it all. When I was younger, I thought I had forever, and now I’m realizing that we’re not promised anything. And so I just kind of want to live my best life in the way that that is for Leah.”
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season 16 does not yet have a premiere date.
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