Bobbi Althoff is a podcaster and content creator who built her name on awkward celebrity interviews, and she is now stepping into reality TV. She joins the cast of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County, which premieres Thursday, November 12, 2026, on Hulu with 8 episodes dropping at once. Hulu’s original announcement said 10; the current listing says 8.
Her show, The Really Good Podcast, turned her from a mom content creator on TikTok into a celebrity interviewer in a matter of months. The Drake interview in July 2023 did most of that work, and the fallout and reunion that followed kept her in the news for two years after.
Bobbi Althoff at a Glance
| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Born | July 31, 1997, in California (birthplace city unverified) |
| Age | 29 |
| Known for | Host of The Really Good Podcast |
| New show | The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County, premiering November 12, 2026 |
| Children | Two daughters, Luca and Isla |
| Relationship | Tyler Hawkins (dated from Nov 2024; Oct 30, 2026 breakup announcement reported, conflicts with Nov 2026 profiles, independently unverified) |
| Mormon? | No, she has said so herself |
The Podcaster Joining Mormon Wives: Orange County
Hulu announced the Orange County spinoff on April 22, 2026, at its Get Real House event, and Bobbi was on the cast list from the start. The show follows nine women in Orange County, and Jen Affleck is the only crossover from the Utah cast. The other eight, Bobbi included, are new to the franchise.
The rest of the cast is Aspyn Ovard, Avery Woods, McCall DaPron, Madison Bontempo, Salomé Andrea, Ashleigh Pease, and Jordan McClanahan. Bobbi arrived with a national profile built outside MomTok. Her podcast audience knew her years before the show was announced.
Viewers in the United States watch on Hulu, with the show also available through Hulu on Disney+ for bundle subscribers. Disney+ carries it internationally.
How the Really Good Podcast Made Her Famous
Bobbi says she first posted on TikTok around November 2020 and built her following in 2021, with frank, funny videos about motherhood and married life. She grew up in Perris, California, as one of six siblings, and her early content leaned on that plain, dry way of talking about family life. It worked, and her audience grew fast.
She launched The Really Good Podcast in April 2023. The format was the opposite of a warm celebrity chat. Bobbi asked flat, awkward questions in a deadpan tone, barely reacted to the answers, and let the silence sit. Guests never quite knew if she was serious, and that tension became the whole appeal.
The show took off in July 2023 when Drake sat down with her for an interview filmed in bed. Clips from the conversation spread across TikTok and Instagram within days, and Bobbi went from a TikTok mom creator to a mainstream name almost overnight. The interview itself was pulled about a month later, and the two unfollowed each other on social media around the same time.
The guest list after Drake stayed big. Lil Yachty, Offset, Mark Cuban, Shaquille O’Neal, Rick Glassman, Funny Marco, Bobby Lee, and Sukihana all sat down with her. The show won Best Emerging Podcast at the 2024 iHeart Podcast Awards, which put a formal stamp on a rise that had taken less than two years.
Bobbi Althoff and Drake: What Actually Happened
They filmed the interview in July 2023, it went viral, and about a month later it was gone. Bobbi and Drake unfollowed each other, and neither said much about it in public for a long time.
They finally talked about it on camera in September 2025, when Drake appeared as the first guest on her new show, Not This Again. Bobbi opened by asking him why he hated her, and he said he never did. The fight, as they both told it, started with a text exchange before one of his 2023 shows.
Bobbi said Drake blocked her on text and Instagram within 20 minutes, and the interview had to come down. Drake said her message made him feel like she blamed the interview for her life going badly, so he removed it.
They discussed the fallout on camera and left it in a good place. The reunion episode was filmed in Switzerland after Drake flew Bobbi through Manchester and Belgium to get there. It closed a two-year gap that had fueled two years of public questions about what happened, and it gave the new show its biggest launch moment.
The Podcast She Ended, Then Brought Back
Bobbi ended The Really Good Podcast on July 31, 2025, her 28th birthday, with a final episode she framed as a small funeral for the show. She had been open about feeling worn down by it, and the farewell episode walked through how the podcast had changed her life.
A month later she launched its replacement, Not This Again, on September 2, 2025, with Drake as the first guest. The new show kept the awkward interview style, and its first episode was filmed on location in Switzerland. Its first run also included Kevin Durant on October 30, 2025, Kevin Gates on November 18, 2025, Trevor Wallace on November 26, 2025, and Teddy Swims on December 10, 2025.
She also built a second show with Sukihana, her most frequent collaborator. That’s BS with Bobbi Althoff and Sukihana ran episodes through early 2026, including a conversation about what makes someone worth respecting that posted on April 6, 2026. The two had already taken the act on stage together, with a live comedy show at the Wiltern in Los Angeles on October 10, 2024.
The original show did not stay gone. Deadline reported in September 2026 that The Really Good Podcast would return for a new season premiering September 30, 2026. No episode dated after September 30, 2026 was found in the podcast feed as of November 8, 2026.
Her 2026 episodes under the show’s feed included Shakur Stevenson in February, Bert Kreischer in March, Sexyy Red in April, Josh Peck and Juicy J in May, and John Stamos and Oliver Tree in June. The revival puts the name that made her famous back at the center of her work, weeks before her reality TV debut.
Is Bobbi Althoff Mormon?
No. Bobbi has said so herself, in plain words. When a follower asked her on Instagram after the casting news, she wrote, “I am not Mormon, but I do have a Mormon brother, and I grew up going to Mormon church, like, twice.”
She has talked about faith more than once. In a December 2024 appearance on Rainn Wilson’s Soul Bloom podcast, she described her upbringing as very Christian. She said she stopped being religious during her marriage, then went back to church after her divorce to find something. That is her own account, and it is the fullest public answer she has given.
Her casting still makes sense for the show. The Orange County cast is a mix of women with different ties to the church, and the series has always been about young mothers living inside and around that world, including women who are not practicing members. Bobbi fits the group as a young mom with a huge online audience and a direct line to the Mormon community through her brother, even though she is not a member herself.
From Mom TikTok to the Wiltern Stage and a Film Role
Bobbi’s path from TikTok to a Hulu cast did not run through the usual reality TV pipeline. She had no prior reality show, no pageant past, and no Utah MomTok history. She built an audience by being funny about ordinary married life, then used that audience to land guests most interviewers spend years chasing.
The Wiltern show in October 2024 was a big step off the podcast set and onto a stage, with Sukihana beside her and a surprise musical guest on the bill. Two months later, in December 2024, she was cast in Love Language, a romantic comedy from Joey Power and the Oscar-winning company Caviar, alongside Chloë Grace Moretz, Anthony Ramos, Chloe Fineman, and Morgan Jay. The film was shooting in Chicago when the casting was announced. It went on to premiere at SXSW on March 16, 2026, and opened in the United States on October 23, 2026, with Bobbi playing Genji.
That acting credit is easy to miss next to the podcast and the Hulu show, but it matters for what comes next. Bobbi is a creator moving across podcasting, live performance, and film at the same time, and the Orange County show is the most public step in that run.
In December 2025 she fronted an Adore Me Valentine’s Day collection, which launched December 30, 2025. She told People in January 2026 that she was nervous about the lingerie shoot and had never seen herself doing one.
Family, Divorce, and Life in 2026
Bobbi met Cory Althoff, a software engineer, on Bumble, and they got engaged in October 2019. They married on January 31, 2020. They have two daughters, Luca and Isla, who were 5 and 3 in April 2026.
Cory filed for divorce in February 2024, with July 4, 2023 listed as the separation date, and the divorce was finalized in August 2024. The former couple share joint legal custody, and Bobbi has said they co-parent well.
She keeps most of her private life off her feeds now, and she has said the online reaction to her divorce is part of the reason why. In a March 2026 interview, she pushed back on the constant criticism of her family life and said she keeps her relationship mostly private on purpose.
That relationship was with basketball player Tyler Hawkins. The two dated from November 2024, and Bobbi first confirmed she was seeing someone new on Nick Cannon’s podcast in August 2025. She told People in January 2026 that the relationship began in November 2024, and by March 2026 she described it as going well after nearly a year and a half together.
An October 30, 2026 breakup announcement was reported on social media, saying they had broken up a couple of months earlier because they were not compatible. That report conflicts with November 2026 profiles that still list Hawkins as her boyfriend, and the underlying video could not be independently verified here, so the split is unconfirmed. Hawkins has played in the NBA G League and professionally in Puerto Rico.
Bobbi Althoff on Mormon Wives OC: The Interviewer Becomes the Cast Member
Bobbi walks into the show with a large outside audience and the least history with the rest of the cast. That is the tension to watch. She has no shared MomTok past with the other women, no Utah roots, and no church membership tying her to the group. What she has is a camera-ready interview style, a habit of saying the awkward thing out loud, and two years of practice handling a public fallout without hiding from it.
The show premieres November 12, 2026. Her podcast revival lands just weeks earlier, so her audience will have fresh episodes to watch alongside the show. For readers coming from the podcast, the Orange County season is the first time they will see Bobbi as a cast member, with other people asking her the questions for once. The complete guide to the original series covers how the spinoff connects to the Utah show.
Frequently Asked Questions About Bobbi Althoff
How old is Bobbi Althoff?
Bobbi Althoff was born on July 31, 1997, in California, which makes her 29 years old in November 2026. She grew up in nearby Perris, California, as one of six siblings. Some bio sites list Moreno Valley, Riverside County, or Los Angeles as her birthplace, but none of those cities is verified by a primary source or established news report, so the draft states California only. The birth date comes from biographical databases, not a birth record.
Is Bobbi Althoff Mormon?
No. Bobbi said on Instagram that she is not Mormon, though she has a Mormon brother and went to Mormon church twice growing up. She has described her upbringing as very Christian, and she talked about stepping away from religion and later returning to church on Rainn Wilson’s Soul Bloom podcast in December 2024.
Who was Bobbi Althoff dating?
Bobbi Althoff dated basketball player Tyler Hawkins from November 2024. She first confirmed the relationship publicly in August 2025, and in March 2026 she said it was going well. An October 30, 2026 breakup announcement was reported on social media, saying they had broken up a couple of months earlier because they were not compatible. TV Insider still listed Hawkins as her boyfriend in a November 7, 2026 article published after that announcement, but its relationship reporting rests on interviews from January and March 2026 and does not address the October report. The split is unconfirmed from inspectable evidence.
What happened between Bobbi Althoff and Drake?
Drake appeared on The Really Good Podcast in July 2023 for an interview filmed in bed, and the episode went viral before being deleted about a month later. The two unfollowed each other after a text argument before one of Drake’s shows. They reconciled on camera in September 2025, when Drake was the first guest on her new show, Not This Again, and they discussed the fallout and left it in a good place.
What is The Really Good Podcast?
The Really Good Podcast is Bobbi Althoff’s celebrity interview show, launched in April 2023. She interviews guests in a deadpan, deliberately awkward style, asking flat questions and letting long silences sit. Guests have included Drake, Lil Yachty, Offset, Mark Cuban, Shaquille O’Neal, and John Stamos.
She ended the show in July 2025 and replaced it with Not This Again. Deadline reported in September 2026 that it would return for a new season premiering September 30, 2026, and no episode dated after that date was found in the podcast feed as of November 8, 2026.
When does The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County premiere?
The series premieres Thursday, November 12, 2026, on Hulu in the United States, with 8 episodes available at once. Hulu’s original announcement said 10; the current listing says 8. Disney+ carries it internationally.
