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The Real Housewives of Cheshire series 1

season of television series

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Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ30597840 ↗
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The first series of The Real Housewives of Cheshire, a British reality television series, was broadcast on ITVBe. It aired from 12 January 2015 until 16 March 2015, and was primarily filmed in Cheshire and Greater Manchester, England. Its executive producers are Daran Little, Sean Murphy, Sarah Dillistone and David Granger.

The Real Housewives of Cheshire focuses on the lives of Ampika Pickston, Dawn Ward, Lauren Simon, Leanne Brown, Magali Gorré and Tanya Bardsley. It consisted of ten episodes.

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The Real Housewives of Cheshire was announced on 22 September 2014. ITV had planned to profile the glamorous denizens of London's Knightsbridge in the series, but ITV bosses said "their homes weren't quite big enough..", and so Cheshire was chosen. The show was announced by ITVBe as Britain's first Real Housewives instalment. "From "The Real Housewives" franchise comes the first British spin-off, featuring wealthy residents of Cheshire, including Dawn Ward, Lauren Simon, Leanne Brown, Magali Gorré, Tanya Bardsley and Ampika Pickston."

The series premiered with "Welcome to Cheshire" on 12 January 2015, while the tenth episode "Who's Coming To Dinner...?" served as the season finale, and was aired on 16 March 2015. Daran Little, Sean Murphy, Sarah Dillistone and David Granger are the series' executive producers; it is produced and distributed by Monkey Kingdom, one of Britain's leading independent production companies.

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