Aspyn Ovard Reveals Why She Agreed to “Mormon Wives” Spinoff After Previously Saying She'd 'Never Do Reality TV'

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Aspyn Ovard is spilling the tea on the upcoming Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County spinoff

After Hulu announced the official cast list for the series, including Ovard, the content creator took to her TikTok to break down her thoughts, in advance of filming beginning on the show

"When I got approached to do the Orange County version, I was so excited. I was also very hesitant," she said in her video

The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is heading to the O.C. with a new spinoff.After PEOPLE confirmed the spinoff was in the works in March, Hulu announced the official cast list for the new series, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County, on April 22.The show will star podcast host Bobbi Althoff, FishFam YouTuber Madison Bontempo and social media stars Aspyn Ovard, Avery Woods and Salomé Andrea, per a press release from the streaming service.Following the announcement of the show's cast, Ovard, who rose to popularity online as a YouTuber, took to her TikTok to share her feelings in advance of the show's filming.

New cast members from the 'Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County' pose together at Hulu's Get Real House on April 22, 2026.Credit: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty

"I am the biggest fan of the Utah show," Ovard said as she sat down to chat with followers in front of her camera in an April 23 video. "When I got approached to do the Orange County version, I was so excited. I was also very hesitant."Going on, Ovard opened up about the millions of different thoughts that went through her mind after being asked to be a part of the show."There's probably multiple Q&A's on my YouTube channel over the years of me saying that I would never do reality TV, but here we are," she added. Ovard also touched on her career on YouTube, saying that, while she had been making content online and doing YouTube for nearly 15 years, she was "not familiar with the behind-the-scenes of reality TV."Ovard also said that the new show felt like a "good opportunity" to share different parts of her life. "Even though it's reality TV, and it's produced, it's feeling a little bit easier for me to be natural about sharing my life versus me setting up my phone and having to figure it all out on my own, versus letting people in to film things."

Ovard — who is mother to three children with her ex-husband Parker Ferris, whom she divorced in 2024 — also opened up about whether she would share her daughters in the show.

"I'm not," she said. She later added in a separate TikTok that she would "blur them out if they're in my shot, or post the back of their heads," but that she wanted to protect their identities for the most part."I've said many times it's been very, very, very hard for me to share my life the last few years. I just honestly have not known how with everything that has happened," she added. "I also think that it feels like I've been living ... kind of been hiding or something for the last few years."

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She added that she believes the show will be "healing" for her to finally open up about what she has been going through the past few years following her divorce.Ovard also touched on the reality of her life as a single mom, and how the show would factor into that. "I've always been the breadwinner, still am. So at the end of the day, we gotta figure out how to keep it moving, how to keep it going."After cast members for the show were announced, chatter online surrounded the fact that many of the women cast on the spinoff were not, in fact, Mormon.

"I have spoken many, many times about how Utah culture has been very prevalent in my life. Growing up in the Mormon bubble, that entire state, like, there's something about it that changes your brain chemistry," Ovard said."Even being in California now, so many things in my life, as I've said, have just been so heavily influenced by Mormon culture. Being married at 19, having babies young. Not even just that, but I swear there are just so many things. Like, the culture that you grow up in really does just shape you in so many ways, whether you want it to or not."

In March 2025, the mother of three shared on Girlscamp Podcast that her dad grew up Mormon, but her mom did not. She was largely surrounded by religion during her childhood, and although she wasn't Mormon herself, Ovard was baptized in a Mormon church.Of the eight new women confirmed to be on the show, only three have been confirmed to be actively Mormon.

"A new group of dynamic young mothers in Orange County collide in a community where beliefs are not just their religion; they are their identity," Hulu's press release teases. "While some defend their way of life, fighting against modernity, others embrace change, becoming a platform to disrupt the status quo. Scandals and secrets will be revealed, facades will crumble, and families and friendships will change forever on both sides of the battlefield as this group of strong, game-changing influencers comes together to build their answer to #MomTok."The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County is expected to land on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ for bundle subscribers this year.

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