The second season of The Real Housewives of Nairobi premieres on Showmax on 10 May 2024, with new episodes every Friday.
The Real Housewives of Nairobi follows the lives of the most affluent, glamorous and influential women in Kenya as they navigate their relationships and careers.
The popular reality series is the biggest Showmax Original yet in Kenya, having broken streaming records when Season 1 launched in February 2023, and making it to the top 10 most-watched shows on Showmax in Kenya in 2023. Season 1 was just named Best TV Show at the 2024 Kalasha Awards, Kenya’s biggest prize.
Season 2 features returning cast members Dr Catherine Masitsa, Minne Kariuki and Vera Sidika, who will be joined by newcomers Farah Esmail, Reja Keji Ladu and Zena Nyambu.
Esmail is a 50-year-old professional bodybuilder, bikini athlete and owner of F45 training studio. She is also an impact entrepreneur, business consultant and corporate lawyer who mainly works in corporate governance.
Twenty-nine-year-old Ladu is a mother of two and the wife to the Minister of Cabinet Affairs of South Sudan. Born in Uganda, and raised in both Uganda and South Sudan, Reja resides in Nairobi with her children. She is the owner of a clothing brand called Jenm, headquartered in Juba and a catering company. She is also about to launch a spa in South Sudan and poultry farm in Nanyuki.
Nyambu is a 41-year-old mother of two and a beauty and aesthetics entrepreneur, who runs several businesses, including luxury skincare parlour Glamsquad Kenya and interior design company Art Infinity. She is also a partner at Zela Aesthetics, a medical aesthetics and wellness centre.
The Real Housewives of Nairobi is produced by Eugene Mbugua’s D&R Studios and is part of The Real Housewives franchise licensed globally by NBCUniversal Formats, which is part of Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group.
“We’re very excited for the return of The Real Housewives of Nairobi in May. Over the years, D&R Studios has cut a niche in quality production of unscripted shows in Kenya, and to be able to pull off a global format of this magnitude and have it renewed is something we’re very proud of as a company,” says executive producer Eugene Mbugua.
He added, “In this new season, we’ll see a return of some familiar faces and a few new additions. We’re very keen to bring out the opulence that Nairobi and Kenya has to offer while maintaining the excitement and intrigue that makes The Real Housewives what it is.”
Other Showmax Originals in the franchise include editions in Durban, currently the longest-running Real Housewives franchise in Africa at Season 4; Lagos, which wrapped Season 2 in January with a reunion that dropped in March; Abuja; and The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip – South Africa, which is premiering soon. Showmax is also the streaming home of the Cape Town, Gqeberha, Johannesburg, Pretoria and Wynlande franchises.
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