UPDATE 2/8 at 11:49 a.m. ET — An official trailer for the film dropped on Thursday, February 8.
“This complete factor was a setup,” Denise Richards says as the ladies notice that their plan crash was no accident.
Melyssa Ford replies: “Your husband wired a whole forest to seize his spouse’s survival of a airplane crash?”
Elsewhere within the teaser, Richards admits, “Perhaps there’s some issues I haven’t instructed you about my marriage.”
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Denise Richards and NeNe Leakes can use their previous experiences as Actual Housewives as inspiration for his or her newest movie roles.
TV community Lifetime introduced on Thursday, February 1, that Richards, 52, and Leakes, 56, will group up for a made-for-TV film known as Searching Housewives.
In response to a logline, the movie follows 4 housewives as they “discover themselves stranded within the wilderness” after a airplane crash.
“They need to use their wits and dedication in the event that they ever hope to make it again house to their households,” the synopsis reads, per Individuals.
Dancing With the Stars alum Kym Johnson-Herjavic and Melyssa Ford spherical out the Searching Housewives squad. Within the flick, the 4 associates try and take a “much-needed spa retreat” away from their households earlier than their airplane to the getaway crashes.
“With no information of primary survival, the housewives should use their wits and no matter is of their designer baggage to attempt to survive within the rugged wilds,” the abstract provides. “Once they notice they don’t seem to be alone, even frenemies should align to outwit their hunters.”
Denise Richards. John Lamparski/Getty Photos
Lifetime additionally dropped a “first look” on the movie, which premieres subsequent month, through Instagram. In a single pic, Richards appears glam in her sequin robe whereas having a dialog. A second picture reveals the buddies huddled beneath a silver emergency blanket in the course of a forest.
In fact, Searching Housewives isn’t Richards or Leakes’ first expertise with the “housewives” label. Richards, for her half, starred on The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills throughout seasons 9 and 10. Whereas she opted to go away the franchise in 2020, she returned for a cameo throughout a season 12 episode in late 2023.
“I didn’t have a nasty expertise,” Denise recalled of attending Kyle Richards’ weed dinner throughout a January 2024 episode of Melissa Gorga’s “On Show” podcast. “At a sure level in your life, it’s no matter. I’ve had every little thing beneath the solar written and stated about me. I’m like, ‘OK, so there’s an evening the place I’m at a weed celebration and I’m barely sideways.’ Of all locations to be sideways, I’d fairly be sideways at a weed celebration.”
Leakes, in the meantime, was a staple on The Actual Housewives of Atlanta on and off between seasons 1 to 11. She left RHOA after 2019’s season 12.
“It wasn’t a simple choice for me. It was laborious,” Leakes stated in a September 2020 YouTube video. “I’m simply so blissful that I can say that I used to be part of a style that opened up doorways for Black ensemble actuality reveals. I need to thank everyone [who] has seemed as much as me over time. … I need to thank Bravo for all of the reminiscences. Thanks to the forged for all the reminiscences.”
Two years later, Leakes sued Bravo and government producer Andy Cohen, who by no means addressed the claims, for allegedly fostering a hostile and racist working surroundings. The lawsuit was finally dismissed in August 2022.
Searching Housewives premieres on Lifetime on Saturday, March 9.
