NeNe Leakes appears wanting to return to Bravo for an additional season of “The Actual Housewives of Atlanta.” Nonetheless, it appears to be like like producers aren’t able to take that danger.

Days after stories started surfacing that NeNe Leakes was returning to the collection for its seventeenth season, the enduring actuality star responded to the claims and shared a pointed message.

Earlier this week, @RealityBlurb on Instagram sparked a bunch of pleasure throughout the Bravoverse after they alleged that Leakes, together with different heavy hitters, Shereé Whitfield and Kim Zolciak, had been set to return to “RHOA” for the seventeenth season.

Shortly after the submit started going viral, nonetheless, Leakes fired again and denied the claims, writing, “They’ve NEVER provided me to return.” The legendary actuality star went on, “Good luck to season 17 forged. We can be watching.”

Based on a report from Us Weekly, @RealityBlurb cited the favored YouTuber, Michelle “ATLien” Brown, as their supply for the tea concerning the upcoming season.

“It ain’t taking place. Not season 17,” Brown stated in a latest video about Leakes’ return earlier than claiming she knew that different OGs had been in talks to spin the block.

“Shereé Whitfield has signed her contract, and she or he can be on as a peach-holding Housewife. She is certainly coming again,” Brown alleged.

She additionally spoke about Zolciak, who’s at present within the midst of a contentious divorce from her husband, former NFL participant Kroy Biermann, and her potential spot on the present.

“So far as I do know, she gained’t be a peach holder. I’m pondering that KKKKim can be again in a buddy capability,” Brown stated.

The allegations about Leakes’ grand return to the collection come months after the “Chicago” star started soft-launching her working relationship with NBC Common in September 2024.

“Again to enterprise,” she captioned an Instagram submit, later informing her followers that she’d reconnected with the TV firm to host the after-party crimson carpet for the Emmys. “Glad to be again with my NBC Uni household,” she concluded.

Leakes initially sued Bravo in April 2022, alleging the community fostered a racist and hostile atmosphere. The lawsuit was dismissed in August 2022. Since then, Leakes hasn’t appeared on any Bravo reveals, however her work on the crimson carpet with one other NBC community had followers feeling hopeful.

Whitfield, however, has been on and off with Bravo since 2008. After becoming a member of the collection in season 1, she left after season 4, however returned for seasons 8-10. She made one other return in 2022 earlier than exiting in 2023.

Zolciak, in the meantime, left the present after season 5 in 2013 earlier than returning as a buddy in season 10. In the course of the years she was off the present, Zolciak filmed one other collection along with her household, “Do not Be Tardy.”

In 2023, Leakes appeared on Carlos King’s podcast, “Actuality With the King,” the place she mentioned all issues Bravo and filming the enduring actuality present from 2008 to 2020.

Not solely did the quote-worthy actuality star discuss Zolciak’s scandalous relationship along with her ex-boyfriend, Huge Poppa, however Leakes additionally opened up about Kenya Moore’s presence on the present.

Based on Leakes, when Moore joined the forged in season 5, issues modified as a result of the previous Miss USA introduced loads of “foolery” to the desk.

Later, within the episode, Leakes, who starred within the present when it was pulling in round “5 million viewers,” threw slightly shade on the present forged’s viewer depend, which has skilled a big dip over time.