Five new full-time Housewives join The Real Housewives of New Jersey in Season 15: Malvina Blloshmi, Xio Cammarota, Juliette Collazo, Deeba Patel, and Natia Rufolo. Vanessa Barerra joins as a friend of the cast, not as a full-time Housewife. Three women return: Teresa Giudice, Melissa Gorga, and Dolores Catania. Nine women make up the Season 15 cast in total.
Season 15 premieres in December 2026 on Bravo, with episodes streaming the next day on Peacock. No exact premiere date has been announced, and no trailer has been released. The cast was announced on October 21, 2026. Filming began in spring 2026, after the show’s return was announced in March 2026, and filming wrapped by August 4, 2026.
This page introduces each of the five new Housewives in her own section, with the facts as they have been reported: family, work, how she joined the show, and what she brings to the season. Where the reporting disagrees, this page says so instead of picking one side. Vanessa gets her own section too, since she is the sixth new face even though she is not a full-time Housewife.
Malvina Blloshmi
Malvina Blloshmi lives in Allendale, New Jersey. She was born in Albania and moved to the United States with her family as a teenager. She co-owns Dirty Pelican, a cocktail mixer company, with her fiance Bryan Tiedemann. The company makes mixers for cosmopolitans, margaritas, and martinis, and the mixers work for mocktails too. Malvina and Bryan have one child, a son named Leonardo, called Leo, who is 3. No age has been published for Malvina, so this page gives none.
Malvina came into the group through Natia Rufolo. The two had been friends for a while, and Malvina met the rest of the cast during filming. Before filming, the veterans told her to be herself and have a good time. Dolores told her to give it time. Dirty Pelican is at a crossroads this season, so plans to grow the family may have to wait.
Malvina describes herself as reserved, but she has said people should not assume that means she will not stand up for herself. Her no-nonsense way of handling conflict could cause friction in the group, which is the tease for her season.
Xio Cammarota
Xio Cammarota, whose full first name is Xiomara, was born in Puerto Rico and lives in New Jersey. The town has not been published. She is launching her own marketing firm this season, after quitting working alongside her sister at the Artist Makeup Academy. The name of the firm has not been published. Natia Rufolo is one of her firm’s clients, which makes Natia both a friend and a customer.
Xio has been married to her husband Jerry for 12 years. The two are high-school sweethearts and have been dating since they were 16. They have one child, a son named Gianluca, who is 9. Xio says she is 47 years old this season, in her own words to the show’s own profile of her. One October report called her 46. No date of birth has been published, so this page reports both figures and treats the question as unconfirmed. We will update this page as soon as our research team has the latest data.
Xio calls herself the observer of the group, and she says that is a superpower. She likes to watch before she speaks, and she has said it is never too late to start over, that it was time to bank on herself. Her season is about the firm launch and about rebuilding a strained relationship with her twin sister, Juliette. The two were once close, and the show has said Xio is finding her voice with her sister and learning to stand her ground in the new group.
Juliette Collazo
Juliette Collazo is reported to be 39 years old. That figure comes from a single reporting chain, and no date of birth has been published. She is the chief executive and founder of the Artist Makeup Academy, a New Jersey makeup academy that trains people to become professional makeup artists. She did Melissa Gorga’s makeup for ten years before filming, and she knew Teresa Giudice and Melissa for a decade. She says she is closest now to Dolores Catania.
Juliette is married to her husband Juan, whose surname has not been published. They have two children together, a son named Carter, 8, and a daughter named Camila, 7, born 15 months apart. Juliette also has a stepson, whose name and age have not been published. The household includes eight chickens, and she wakes at 4:30 a.m. to work out. She describes the household as insanely strict, and she jokes that she has ten kids basically.
Juliette calls herself the storm to Xio’s calm. Her own words are that she is the chaos in everyone’s life, that her sister is the calm and she is the storm. She is used to boss mode at work, and her season is about learning that she cannot always run friendships and family like a business, especially with a once-close relationship with her sister to repair. Her take-charge way of doing things may complicate that repair.
The ages do not line up. Xio says she is 47 this season and Juliette is reported to be 39, yet the two are twin sisters. At least one of those figures is wrong, and no date of birth has been published for either sister. This page reports both figures and treats the question as unconfirmed, and it will be updated as soon as our research team has the latest data.
Deeba Patel
Deeba Patel was born and raised in Mumbai, India, and moved to the United States in her 20s. She lives in Alpine, New Jersey. She used to teach dance and choreograph for Bollywood stars. Now she invests in and runs businesses with her husband Majid: gas stations, convenience stores, laundromats, and commercial real estate.
Deeba and Majid are high-school sweethearts and have been together for 26 years. They have two children, a daughter who is 9 and a son who is 7. The children’s names have not been published. One outlet suggested a name for the daughter, but the suggestion could not be verified and this page does not use it. Deeba describes herself as a little bit of Mumbai, a little bit of Jersey, and a lot of spice.
Deeba’s age is unsettled. One report calls her 41 and two others call her 42. No date of birth has been published, so this page gives both figures and treats the question as unconfirmed. We will update this page as soon as our research team has the latest data.
Deeba knew Melissa Gorga and Dolores Catania before filming, through a common friend. The three veterans each gave her advice before she started: Dolores said be yourself, Teresa said get to know people from your own experience, and Melissa said stay away from the bloggers. Deeba had never watched the show before joining, and she did her homework once filming started. The show describes her as an open book, but one with layers underneath that will not come out easily. She is not afraid to speak her mind, and that is the tease for her season.
Natia Rufolo
Natia Rufolo was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, and moved to the United States at age 5. She is a board-certified nurse practitioner and the owner, founder, and chief executive of INJX by Nat Aesthetics, a New Jersey med spa business. She is known as the “PDO Threading Queen” for her work with PDO threading, a non-surgical procedure that lifts and tightens skin with dissolvable threads. INJX opened in Cranford in 2021 and added a Morristown location in 2023. She is buying a third location now, and the town has not been named.
Natia built the business from the ground up. She has said she started with $200,000 in student debt, opened the company, and began in a small room ordering Botox. The business went viral within three to five months, by her own account, and she has said she made a couple of million dollars in that first year. That figure is her own claim and has not been independently verified, so this page gives it as her account of the business, not as a confirmed number. She has also been named among the Top 100 Best Aesthetic Providers in America.
Natia is married to Tommy, who is the director of operations for her med spa business. The two met at a restaurant bar in South Orange, and she became pregnant a few months into dating. He proposed two or three years later. The year they met is reported as 2016 in one account and 2017 in another, so this page does not settle it. The couple has two children, Tommy Jr, 8, and Natalie, 3. Natalie is named after Natia’s grandmother, not after Natia.
Natia’s season centers on her mother, Tamara. The two are working to repair a complicated relationship, and nothing more about the rift has been published. Natia has been friends with Xio Cammarota and Juliette Collazo for six years, and she is the one who brought Malvina Blloshmi into the group. She knew Teresa Giudice and Dolores Catania socially before filming, and she calls Dolores her support system and Teresa her bestie. She has said the two of them FaceTime six times a day.
Vanessa Barerra
Vanessa Barerra is a friend of the cast, not a full-time Housewife. She lives in Alpine, New Jersey, and calls herself the Social Mayor of Alpine. She is the president of her children’s school parent association, described as PTA President in one account and president of her daughters’ school HSA in her publisher’s bio. Those may be the same role under different names, or different roles, and this page reports both wordings and does not merge them. She is the author of a children’s book, The Adventures of Valiant Valentina: The First Day of School.
Vanessa has been married to her husband Leo for 23 years. The reporting on her children disagrees. One account says she and Leo share a daughter. Her publisher names living daughters Valerie and Sofia, and a late first daughter, Valentina, whose short life inspired the book. This page gives both versions and treats the question as unconfirmed. We will update this page as soon as our research team has the latest data. No age has been published for Vanessa, so this page gives none.
The spelling of her surname is also unsettled. This page uses Barerra, the spelling on the cast announcement heading, but her publisher and many outlets spell it Barrera. The show’s own pages use both spellings. This page notes the variant instead of silently picking one.
Vanessa is a writer, artist, singer, entrepreneur, and marketer, and she is the volunteer chair of Alpine’s Recreation Committee. She is a close friend of Deeba Patel, and she called Teresa Giudice a girl’s girl. She says she loves fiercely and will bring a grounded perspective with a little comedic twist. She ran for the Alpine Board of Education in the November 2026 election and said on her own Instagram that she won. Unofficial local results support that, but no certified result has been found, so this page gives the win as her own account, not as a certified result.
How the New Cast Changes the Show
Season 15 returns after more than two years off air. Season 14 ended without a reunion in August 2024, and six of the nine women in Season 15 are new to the show. The newcomers mostly knew each other before filming started. Natia, Xio, and Juliette have been friends for six years. Malvina came in through Natia. Deeba and Vanessa were friends before the show, and Deeba knew Melissa and Dolores through a common friend. Juliette knew Teresa and Melissa for a decade. The new group arrives with its own friendships and loyalties already set.
The three returning women come in reconciled. Teresa Giudice and Melissa Gorga made up after a years-long break, with private meetings in September 2025 and a public reunion at BravoCon in November 2025. Dolores Catania is the group’s mediator, but she has said she is no longer playing Switzerland. Melissa has said her marriage will be targeted again this season, in her own words: “You’ll see. I always get a little something thrown at me.”
The tone of the season is different too. Andy Cohen has said Teresa might be having fun filming her show for the first time in its history. The season pairs a calmer Teresa with a mostly new group, and the returning women are watching how the newcomers fit around a reconciliation the whole season is built on.
What to Watch in Season 15
The twin repair is the storyline to watch first. Xio and Juliette were once close, and the season follows whether the two sisters can rebuild that relationship while Xio launches her firm and Juliette runs the academy. Natia’s repair with her mother Tamara is the second family storyline, and the show has said nothing about what made that relationship complicated.
The business storylines run alongside the family ones. Malvina’s Dirty Pelican is at a crossroads, Deeba’s family businesses put her in the middle of the group’s money talk, and Natia’s med spa chain keeps growing. Vanessa’s grounded voice is the counterweight, and Dolores is the one trying to keep the peace without playing Switzerland. The season will show whether Melissa’s marriage storyline stays in bounds after the sisters agreed before filming that no new woman would come between them.
FAQs
Who are the five new Housewives in RHONJ Season 15?
The five new full-time Housewives are Malvina Blloshmi, Xio Cammarota, Juliette Collazo, Deeba Patel, and Natia Rufolo. Vanessa Barerra joins as a friend of the cast, not as a full-time Housewife. Teresa Giudice, Melissa Gorga, and Dolores Catania return. Nine women make up the cast in total.
Is Vanessa Barerra a full-time Housewife?
No. Vanessa Barerra is a friend of the cast in Season 15. She lives in Alpine, New Jersey, calls herself the Social Mayor of Alpine, and is the author of a children’s book, The Adventures of Valiant Valentina: The First Day of School.
Are Xio Cammarota and Juliette Collazo really twins?
Yes, the show describes Xio and Juliette as twin sisters. The reported ages do not line up, though. Xio says she is 47 this season and one October report called her 46, while Juliette is reported to be 39. Twins cannot be years apart in age, so at least one of those figures is wrong. No date of birth has been published for either sister, so this page reports both figures and treats the question as unconfirmed.
How old is Deeba Patel?
Deeba Patel’s age is unsettled. One report calls her 41 and two others call her 42. No date of birth has been published. This page gives both figures and will be updated as soon as our research team has the latest data.
How old is Malvina Blloshmi?
No age has been published for Malvina Blloshmi. This page gives none, and it will be updated as soon as our research team has the latest data.
When does RHONJ Season 15 premiere?
Season 15 premieres in December 2026 on Bravo, with episodes streaming the next day on Peacock. No exact premiere date has been announced, and no trailer has been released. No episode count has been announced either. An insider report has pointed to December 3, but that date has not been confirmed, so treat that date as unconfirmed.
Who left RHONJ before Season 15?
Six women from Season 14 are not in the Season 15 cast: Margaret Josephs, Jennifer Aydin, Rachel Fuda, Danielle Cabral, Jackie Goldschneider, and Jennifer Fessler. Margaret announced her departure in March 2026, the same month the show’s return was announced.
