Whitney Leavitt left The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives in May, walked off a Broadway stage in character as Roxie Hart, and told the world she was done with MomTok. Six months later, Hulu has handed her the one thing her exit always hinted at: her own show. Deadline reported on Wednesday, November 4, that Hulu has greenlit an untitled reality series starring Whitney, 33, and the news has split the Mormon Wives fan base straight down the middle.
The new series will follow Whitney and her family as they navigate her growing fame and career ambitions while keeping family at the center, according to Deadline. Whitney and her husband Conner Leavitt will star in and executive-produce the show through their own company, Leavitt Media House, alongside Jeff Jenkins Productions and 3BMG — the same team behind The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. Her children Sedona, 7, Liam, 4, and Billy, 2, are expected to feature. There is no title and no premiere date yet, but the greenlight is official.
The “See You Soon” Tease That Gave It Away
Whitney teased the announcement herself on Wednesday, November 4, posting a video with the caption “See you soon” in collaboration with Hulu’s @GetRealHulu account. The clip showed fans speculating about her next move — and within hours, Deadline confirmed the speculation was right. It was a classic Whitney rollout: a wink, a caption, and then the headline.
The timing is no accident. Whitney’s exit from Mormon Wives was the biggest casting story of the franchise this year, and Hulu has spent the months since building out the universe around her absence. The original show was renewed for 20 more episodes across Seasons 6 and 7, which are already filming without her, and the Orange County spinoff premieres Thursday, November 12. Whitney’s solo series is the third leg of that expansion — and the one that puts the franchise’s most polarizing star front and center.
Why Some Fans Are Not Cheering
Not everyone is thrilled. The fan reaction has been mixed, with plenty of viewers questioning whether the breakout villain of Mormon Wives deserves a show built entirely around her. Whitney co-founded MomTok and helped turn it into a phenomenon, but she was also the cast member fans loved to argue about — the 2022 “soft swinging” scandal, the fights with the other women, the sense that she always played by her own rules.
What nobody disputes is the momentum. Since leaving the show, Whitney has competed on Dancing With the Stars, played Roxie Hart on Broadway, and taken a feature-film role — the kind of run that makes a streamer bet on a name. Hulu clearly agrees: the same producers, the same world, but this time the camera never leaves Whitney. As one report put it, her exit now looks less like an ending than a pivot.
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What the Show Will — and Won’t — Be
Expect a family show, not a MomTok show. The premise centers on Whitney, Conner, and their kids as her fame grows, which means the Utah group dynamics that defined Mormon Wives stay behind. What is confirmed is the team: Jeff Jenkins Productions and 3BMG bring the franchise playbook, and Leavitt Media House gives Whitney creative control over her own story.
That control is the real story here. Whitney spent five seasons as part of an ensemble where she was often the villain of the edit. Now she gets to executive-produce the version of her life that audiences see. Whether that version wins over the skeptics will decide if this becomes a franchise of its own — or a one-season experiment. Either way, the woman who helped launch MomTok is not leaving reality TV. She is just getting a bigger stage, on her own terms, while the Orange County spinoff she chose not to join premieres this week.
So where do you stand: does Whitney deserve her own Hulu show after everything that happened on Mormon Wives — or should Hulu have built the next spinoff around someone the fans actually trust?
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