Reality Redemption - Season 7

(Left to Right) Janice Lynn, Graves, de la Wary, Gunvalson and Fallon Lynn

**Season 7** is the seventh season of Reality Redemption that first aired on December 9, 2024, and lasted until February 11, 2025. It consists of ten episodes and is notable as the first season of the whole show, not to introduce a new series regular.

## Plot

Only five stars but don’t be fooled by the number as the drama is ramped up to the maximum. Friendships are tested when a fallout over money and another fallout over racism become newspaper headlines as a trip to Dubai becomes one never too be forgotten.

## Taglines

**Madison:** “This is my trip, no one is picking a fight with this blonde beauty”.

**Fallon:** “Seventh time round - I got this”.

**Joyce:** “I don’t tolerate lack of basic morals, even if it means breaking everything that I got”.

**Mary:** “You’ll either hate me or love me - there is no in between”.

**Janice:** “I am not labelled anything by nobody or I’ll bring out the big guns”.

## Cast and Production

Another season of the show was ordered immediately after the Season 6 finale. Talks began with Madison Graves whether she could potentially host the getaway, which she happily accepted and suggested her owned villa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Due to the success of ratings and limited availability, she advised production happened in November and ran into December, given the Thanksgiving period was fairly low-key in Dubai and the villa had “barely been booked up”. Producers accepted and began their casting for the new series. Both Fallon Lynn and Janice Lynn were contracted for another season and producers contemplated getting rid of Joyce Gunvalson but soon retracted when they feared a complete cast overhaul after Olivia Grayson came to the network and said she wouldn’t be returning for a seventh season. When discussing with producers her future on the show, she said she felt that she had “lost enjoyment” with it, now that the series had adapted, referencing the comments she made after signing the Season 6 contract that the cast had completely changed. While she said she had left the door open for a potential future return, she said holidaying with the friendship group, with cameras, was “too tiring” to do twice a year. She does make a guest appearance in the season though. Panic unleashed at LinkMe with Olivia Grayson gone and producers fearing that she had been the saving grace of the show following Sarah de la Cruz’s infamous departure following Season 5. They feared losing both the “biggest stars” left the show vulnerable to even further plummeting ratings. Producers considered axing the show altogether to not “ruin the face of the show”, while other producers were in favour of delaying the series until they found a more “suitable cast” Production companies gave them an ultimatum that they had to film as promised in November, otherwise they would foot the full fee. Feeling that they would be better off pursuing the seventh season, they signed Mary De La Wary on for another season but decided to get rid of Petra Mutragold. They believe she had lost her “wow factor” and felt viewers were more “Team Sarah”. Having made up with Sarah de la Cruz, they decided to invite her back for her to make up the sixth position on the cast line-up. They hoped it might make Olivia Grayson reconsider a return to the show too, which would make for seven cast members but agreed amongst themselves that having six could also make fans reminisce on the “good old days” of the show, when the show started with six. However, producers were mistaken as Sarah de la Cruz declined to return to the show, saying that she had “closed that chapter”. With all the money paid, the show went ahead with just five cast members and made history as the first season of the show not to add someone new to the casting line-up. Jackie Lynn also returns to the show this season but in a guest form, in a bid to restore her relationship with her mother and sister. Thankfully, the family mend a years-long feud. Production took place throughout November and December 2024. Taglines and trailers were released at the end of November and episodes were rolled out from December 9, 2024, into the new year on a weekly basis (filling the usual Monday 9/8 slot) and finished on February 11, 2025. No episode aired on Monday January 27, 2025, as LinkMe dedicated the week to Chinese New Year and removed all programmes that involved swearing and content that isn’t “family-friendly”, from that week’s schedule. While this caused some controversy, some people appreciated the move and ratings improved for the network.

## Trivia

* Fans speculated that Janice Lynn missed this season’s Reunion special due to no longer having interest with the series. While she did say that she skipped it due to a prior commitment, her daughter, Fallon Lynn’s statement said otherwise when she openly admitted that she considered skipping the Reunion special too and knew that it would be her last season on the show.
* Mary De La Wary’s weight gain on this series was commented on by many fans, with many attributing it to the beginning of the money dispute, later turned legal battle, with Madison Graves.