OWN is launching a spin-off of Belle Collective, set in Birmingham, Alabama.
The original Belle Collective cast from Mississippi will return for season 7.
New Birmingham cast includes successful entrepreneurs, models and influencers navigating social and business scenes.
IN Love and Marriage Huntsville alumna brings her (Canvas) beauty back to OWN! Steele, who previously left Carlos King's #LAMHs, stars in the newly announced Belle Collective: Birmingham.
The spinoff effectively expandsBelle Collective into a franchise, with the original featuring six Mississippi stunners returning to OWN on February 13 for seven seasons.
Source: Courtesy of Stormi Steele/OWN
An OWN press release reports that Steele, the CEO of the wildly successful Canvas Beauty, will be joined in Birmingham by fellow Alabama socialites who are “driven, successful Southern Belles in the emerging cultural scene, determined to transform the city into a thriving destination for beauty and influence.
Source: Courtesy of Stormi Steele/OWN
“Stormi must navigate Birmingham's deeply connected social and business scenes to forge alliances with other forces, including her savvy CFO Amber Jonesentrepreneur Tiffany Jones, marketing strategist Funmi Ford, model and marketer Synetta Hawkins and talent manager K'La Inman.”
Talking about it Belle Collective's continued success, network president Tina Perry hailed the reality franchise as a cornerstone of the brand's programming.
“Since its debut, Belle Collective has become a defining series for OWN, retelling audiences with authentic stories and celebrating the strength, ambition and brilliance of Black women in the South,” Perry said in a statement. “We are proud to expand this powerful franchise and introduce compelling new stories and dynamic personalities from Birmingham.
Belle Collective Season 7 Premiere in February
As for the original Belle CollectiveAll six women are back after a highly successful season that was the most-watched original series on cable among African-American women ages 25-54.
OWN reports that Kerri Paul, Lateshia Pearson, Latrice Rogers, Marie Hamilton-Abston, Selena Johnson, and Tambra Cheri will return to once again showcase the “strength, ambition and pride of black female entrepreneurship, redefining what it means to be a modern Southern Belle unapologetically carving her own path.”
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A newly released trailer teases what's to come.
When the season starts, the women of Belle Collective are thrust into moments of reckoning that test their resilience, relationships and resolve.
Lateshia reaches a breaking point in her marriage to Glen, who was at the center of a cheating scandal last season, and makes the brave choice to put herself first…
“I want to be celibate,” Lateshia tells her husband in the trailer amid their strained marriage. “You sound mad as hell,” Glen says.
Meanwhile, Marie is blindsided by betrayal after learning of Cedric's infidelity. Latrice and Cliff enjoy a professional high as their restaurant, Taste, becomes Jackson's buzz bite, until a serious health scare threatens Latrice's hard-earned success.
Selena's long-awaited walk down the aisle is nearing, but stalled plans and a tense house hunt complicated by Mike's attachment to his bachelor pad turn celebration into stress.
As for Kerri, she's facing financial friction as the third location of her Brick and Spoon franchise struggles to gain steam.
Eventually, all roads lead to Selena's 50th birthday soirée, where a simmering feud between Lateshia and Latrice erupts into a dramatic showdown that sends shockwaves through the Collective.
“There's nothing between me and Lateshia,” Latrice says defiantly.
Belle Collective and Belle Collective: Birmingham are produced by Carlos King's Kingdom Reign Entertainment.
Belle Collective season 7 premieres February 13 on OWN!
