All the juicy scandals the Mormon Wives: Orange County cast have been involved in
Who would expect anything less from devout Mormons...
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is heading to Southern California, and The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County cast already comes with plenty of history.
Hulu’s spin-off brings together influencers who have spent years living their lives online, including podcaster Bobbi Althoff, YouTuber Aspyn Ovard and original MomTok member Jen Affleck. Between them, there’s a pulled Drake interview, two divorce filings and a whole lot of internet speculation. Not all of it is as dramatic as the comment sections would have you believe, mind. Here’s what each cast member was known for before the cameras started rolling.
Bobbi Althoff
Bobbi first built a following with parenting content, before launching The Really Good Podcast in April 2023. Her signature move was painfully awkward interviews delivered completely deadpan, and that awkwardness quickly became the whole point.
Her biggest moment came in July 2023, when she sat down with Drake. The episode racked up more than nine million views on YouTube before it quietly disappeared from her channel. Viewers also spotted that the pair had unfollowed each other on Instagram.
The internet jumped straight to feud territory, but nobody has actually confirmed why the interview was taken down or why they stopped following each other.
Jen Affleck
Jen is the familiar face of the group. She’s moving over from the original series, which first aired in 2024, after she and her family relocated to Southern California.
Jen and Zac Affleck met on the Mormon dating app Mutual in 2018. Viewers of the first show watched their marriage go through some rocky patches on screen, including arguments over Zac’s gambling. Jen filed for divorce on 3 November after seven years of marriage, and she’s also pregnant with the couple’s fourth child.
The court documents don’t give a reason for the split, but Jen has now given her side herself. In episode four of the spin-off, she tells Bobbi that Zac had been acting strangely, so she checked their joint bank account and found that more than $100,000 had gone. She says Zac admitted he’d put the money into Bitcoin without telling her and lost it. He also told her he’d kept it quiet because he knew she would divorce him if she found out.
Jen claims it wasn’t the first time, alleging that Zac had lost their money before through online poker, sports betting and crypto. Zac didn’t film for the Orange County series, but he has since posted a public apology to Jen on TikTok.
Madison Bontempo
Madison has been in the family content game since 2016, when she and her husband Kyler launched the YouTube channel The FishFam.
The family later appeared in the documentary Born to be Viral: The Real Lives of Kidfluencers, where Kyler opened up about how lucrative family content can be, saying some days brought in enough to pay for an entire college education.
Away from YouTube, Madison also founded the children’s nutrition brand Wittles.
Salomé Andrea
Salomé’s marriage to Aaron Brimhall became a talking point in 2025, when he suddenly stopped appearing in her posts. Cue rumours that the pair had split.
Salomé later announced she was expecting their third child and confirmed that she and Aaron were back together.
There’s a link to the original series too. In the Orange County trailer, Aaron implies Salomé had a romantic encounter with Chase McWhorter while the couple were separated. Chase is Miranda McWhorter’s ex-husband and appeared in season two of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. For now, that’s Aaron’s suggestion in a trailer rather than a confirmed account of what happened.
Aspyn Ovard
Aspyn Ovard
Aspyn has been on YouTube since 2011, and her relationship with Parker Ferris was a big part of her channel for years. The pair married in 2015 and share three daughters.
On 1 April 2024, Aspyn announced the birth of their third child and filed for divorce that same day. For months she only hinted at the reason. She teased a “10-year secret” and suggested that people close to her had known about it but never told her.
She finally revealed it in the Orange County premiere. Aspyn says that when they got married, she believed she and Parker were on the same page about not drinking. She later discovered he’d been drinking behind her back for years. Her dad struggled with alcoholism, and she described finding out as “literally earth-shattering.”
Parker addressed it in his own confessional and admitted the secret “played a role in the divorce.” When producers asked why he drank knowing how Aspyn felt, he said: “Because it’s fun.”
She’s also moved on, confirming she’s now in a relationship with married couple Briana and Billy Davis.
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