Aspyn Ovard, Avery Woods, Bobbi Althoff, Salomé Andrea, Mccall Dapron, Ashleigh Pease, Madison Bontempo, Chandler Higginson Brooks of Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Orange County Disney/Maya Dehlin Logo text The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County cast was unveiled on Wednesday, leaving the internet with two burning questions about the women: Are any of them Mormon, and do they even live in Orange County?
Hulu confirmed the first spinoff of the Emmy-nominated series at their second Get Real House event, where eight women were introduced to the world as official members of the SoCal-based #MomTok. News of the extension to the Mormon Wives franchise was not surprising to most as People previously reported that the series was in the works on March 23, with many of the names of the now-confirmed cast expected to join the show’s slate.
Aspyn Ovard, Avery Woods, Salomé Andrea, McCall DaPron, Chandler Higginson, Ashleigh Pease and Madison Bontempo were listed as the main cast of SLOMW: OC in a release sent to press, though podcaster Bobbi Althoff was notably also present at Hulu’s Wednesday night event.
Most of the women are influencers; some have more limited showings on social media, whereas others have been revolving the digital landscape for years. But a key piece of the show’s name (specifically the “Mormon” and “Orange County” descriptors in Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County) has left the internet with questions for the cast.
“Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County except none of them are Mormon and half of them don’t even live in Orange County,” an Instagram user commented on the series made after the cast debuted on Wednesday. (The Hollywood Reporter confirmed with Hulu The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County is not a working title.)
“But they aren’t Mormon??? Someone explain, I don’t understand,” another user commented. A separate user added, “I feel like none of these people are actually Mormon?!”
“I just don’t understand this?? Not Mormon, don’t live in OC. And most of them aren’t friends,” one fan wrote. “The reason SLOMW worked is because they were friends BEFORE the show filmed… this is just scrambling a bunch of influencers together.”
So who are The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County? And more importantly (to the internet, at least), are they actually Mormons that live in Orange County?
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Aspyn Ovard
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//platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.jsAspyn Ovard is an influencer who first rose to acclaim on YouTube. She began regularly posting on the platform in 2012, where she eventually amassed a following for her family content. Ovard was previously married to Parker Ferris, whom she shares three children with, though she filed for divorce in 2024.
She grew up in Utah and explained on the Girls Camp podcast in 2025 that her father grew up Mormon, and that her family “went to church for the first little bit of my life.” However, she explained that it “doesn’t feel like it was a huge core piece of my upbringing.” Ovard has since moved to California, and does live in Orange County, per content from her socials.
In recent years, Ovard has popped up on episodes of the Utah-based Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, and has also been open about her unconventional relationship dynamic. Ovard is dating a woman, Bri Davis, who is married to her husband, Billy.
Ovard was asked to discuss the “structure of [her] relationship” in March TikTok video, where she explained that the “structure of it is as ‘normal’ of a dynamic you can get, considering the fact that it is three people instead of two.”
“I don’t know any other lifestyle influencers that are in a type of relationship like this,” she added.
Ovard currently has two million followers on Instagram, 3.28 million subscribers on her now inactive YouTube channel and almost two million subscribers on her active YouTube page.
