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The Real Housewives of Miami

American reality television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ7759593
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The Real Housewives of Miami, abbreviated RHOM, is an American reality television series broadcast on Bravo. The Miami series is the seventh installment of The Real Housewives franchise, and it follows the personal and professional lives of women who live in or near Miami, Florida. It has aired seven seasons in total; with the first season having premiered on February 22, 2011, and the most recent season, seventh season, premiered on June 11, 2025.

The first season consisted of original cast members: Lea Black, Adriana de Moura, Alexia Nepola, Marysol Patton, Larsa Pippen and Cristy Rice. The shows current cast includes Guerdy Abraira, Lisa Hochstein, Julia Lemigova, Nepola, Pippen and Stephanie Shojaee, with Kiki Barth, de Moura and Patton appearing as friends of the housewives. Previous housewives who have left the show include Black, Joanna Krupa, Rice, Ana Quincoces, Karent Sierra, and Nicole Martin.

Bravo broadcast the first three seasons, after which the show was effectively cancelled. It was revived in 2021 by Peacock, which aired seasons 4 and 5 before Bravo rebroadcast it for season six. Commercially, season one had the highest average viewership of 1.09 million, while season five had the lowest at 0.25 million, despite being aired several months prior on Peacock.

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2010–2013: Original run

On March 10, 2010, Bravo announced a new series called Miami Social Club, which was a restructure of the 2009 series Miami Social.

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This entry incorporates text from The Real Housewives of Miami” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.