Bravo viewers met Heather Gay in 2020 as part of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. She was the only star without a significant other. At the time, Heather was close friends with Jen Shah but their friendship fell apart after Jen was sentenced to prison for fraud. With Jen out of the picture, Heather became front and center on the reality show. Bravo just announced that she will headline her own show that goes even deeper into her traumatic past with the Mormon Church.
RHOSLC Star Open About Leaving Religion
Bravo chose Salt Lake City, Utah, for a spinoff of the popular Real Housewives series partly because of the public’s interest in the Mormon religion. Most of the RHOSLC cast are current or former members of the faith. Heather Gay has been vocal about leaving the faith.
She was officially kicked out, but left on her own. The Bravo star felt pushed out of the religion and community after her divorce. Heather Gay detailed her decision in the 2023 memoir, Bad Mormon. She followed it up in 2024 with another book, Good Time Girl.
RHOSLC has featured Heather Gay’s traumatic past in the Mormon church, including estrangement from family and friends. Her co-star and cousin, Whitney Rose, also left the Mormon Church, which actually caused issues between them.
After leaving the church, Whitney Rose recalled past abuse, but felt her cousin was dismissive.
Heather Gay Confronts Her Mormon Past In New Show
Two books and six seasons of RHOSLC weren’t enough to cover how deep the wounds of the Mormon faith go for Heather. She stars in a new Bravo show, digging deeper into her past.
Surviving Mormonism with Heather Gay is a three-part series that features the RHOSLC star having tough conversations with survivors of the Mormon Church.
The trailer for the new show revealed that one of the conversations is with David Matheson. He was nicknamed the “godfather of gay conversion therapy.”
Now out as a gay man himself, he opens up to Heather Gay about his past. She also talks to former friends who were abused through the church and ignored.
Real stories of secrets and sins. The first episode of the 3-part limited series Surviving Mormonism with Heather Gay premieres November 11th on Bravo, with all episodes streaming November 12th on @peacock. pic.twitter.com/H7XiIuvzjY
— Bravo (@BravoTV) October 21, 2025
The first episode premieres on Bravo on November 11, 2025. All three episodes stream on Peacock the next day. The upcoming series received mixed reactions from Bravo fans. One fan wrote, “Y’all could’ve kept this, we don’t like Heather Gay she’s already annoying enough on SLC with that Mormon talk.”
A second Bravoholic added, “We could’ve just had a fun little spinoff at angie’s salon, not yall beating the dead horse of mormonism.”
But one Bravo fan defended the network. They wrote that the show isn’t about Heather Gay. “It’s about exposing the mormon church and the victims.”
The timing of the Bravo show comes amid ABC casting Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Taylor Frankie Paul as the next Bachelorette.
Are you interested in Heather Gay’s new show or do you think she’s spoken out about the Mormon Church enough?
Jennifer Havener grew up in a small town in Upstate New York. She earned her B.A in Writing & Literature from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. She always knew watching reality TV shows and soap operas, particularly ‘Days of Our Lives’, would come in handy someday. When she’s not writing, she’s playing with her dogs, Lola and Ruger
