Series 1 (2015) Tanya Bardsley, Leanne Brown, Magali Gorré,
Ampika Pickston,
Lauren Simon, and
Dawn Ward are introduced as housewives.
Series 2 (2015) Chantelle Heskey served as a friend of the housewives in select episodes.
Series 3 (2016) Magali Gorré departed as a housewife. Seema Malhotra, Stacey Forsey and Missé Beqiri are introduced as housewives.
Series 4 (2016) Series 5 (2017) Missé Beqiri departed as a housewife, but served as a friend throughout the series. Ester Dohnalová is introduced as a housewife.
Series 6 (2017) Ampika Pickston departed as a housewife. Rachel Lugo and Nermina Pieters-Mekic are introduced as housewives. Katie Kane served as a friend of the housewives in select episodes.
Series 7 (2018) Leanne Brown departed as a housewife.
Christine McGuinness served as a friend of the housewives from episode 5.
Series 8 (2018) Stacey Forsey and Nermina Pieters-Mekic departed as housewives, but both served as friends in select episodes. Hanna Kinsella and Perla Navia are introduced as housewives.
Christine McGuinness served as a friend of the housewives throughout the series.
Series 9 (2019) Lauren Simon departed as a housewife.
Series 10 (2019) Leilani Dowding is introduced as a housewife. A 100th episode special was aired between episodes 3 and 4 and featured interview segments from previous housewives Magali Gorré, Lauren Simon, Leanne Brown, Stacey Forsey and Nermina Pieters-Mekic, along with current cast members. The special was narrated by
Brian Dowling.
Series 11 (2020) Perla Navia and Leilani Dowding departed as housewives.
Lauren Simon rejoined as a housewife. Nicole Sealey was introduced as a housewife.
Christine McGuinness served as a friend of the housewives throughout the series. This series was shortened to eight episodes due to the
COVID-19 pandemic.
Series 12 (2020) Ester Dohnalová departed as a housewife after episode 2. Lystra Adams was introduced as a housewife from episode 3.
Series 13 (2021) Dawn Ward departed as a housewife. Deborah Davies was introduced as a housewife. Ester Dohnalová served as a friend from episode 4.
Series 14 (2021) Sheena Lynch was introduced as a housewife. Due to health issues,
Tanya Bardsley only appeared in select episodes in the series, but was credited as a main housewife throughout the series. She did not attend the reunion due to this, but a pre-recorded short interview segment was shown instead.
Tanya Bardsley, Hanna Kinsella and Deborah Davies did not appear in the Menopause specials.
Series 15 (2022) Tanya Bardsley and Deborah Davies departed as housewives. Katie Alex was introduced as a housewife. Ashley Stobart and Karen Loderick-Peace served as friends of the housewives in select episodes.
Tanya Bardsley and Ester Dohnalová appeared as guests in the Christmas Cruising specials. Katie Alex did not appear in the Christmas Cruising specials.
Series 16 (2023–2024) Katie Alex departed as a housewife.
Natasha Hamilton was introduced as a housewife. Paige Chohan served as a friend of the housewives from episode 2.
Tanya Bardsley also served as a friend in select episodes.
Tanya Bardsley,
Ampika Pickston and Ester Dohnalová appeared as guests in the Pride specials. Hanna Kinsella and Seema Malhotra did not appear in the Pride specials, it is unknown why they did not appear. Sheena Lynch and
Natasha Hamilton only appeared in the Pride specials for one separate scene together and did not partake in the events of the special. This was due to Sheena's religious views and Natasha's recent birth of her daughter.
Series 17 (2024) Hanna Kinsella and
Natasha Hamilton departed as housewives. Paige Chohan was upgraded to a housewife after serving as a friend in series 16. Ellie Egar was introduced as a housewife from episode 2.
Tanya Bardsley and
Ampika Pickston served as friends from episodes 1 and 3 respectively.
Series 18 (2025) Nicole Sealey departed as a housewife but appeared in episodes 1 and 2 (credited as a guest). As this series celebrated the 10th anniversary of the show, several past cast members made guest appearances throughout.
Series 19 (2026) Following the closure of
ITVBe, it was announced that the show would move to
ITV2. The broadcast of the series was moved to Tuesdays, a change from Mondays which has been the standard since the start of the show. Lystra Adams and Ellie Egar departed as housewives.
Ampika Pickston rejoined as a housewife.
Tanya Bardsley and Nermina Pieters-Mekic served as friends throughout the series. Rather than broadcasting the 12 episodes in one series, from Series 19, the episodes were split into two batches of 6 episodes, broadcast as two series. ==Notes==