The season focuses on the lives of Sai De Silva, Ubah Hassan, Erin Lichy, Jenna Lyons, Jessel Taank and Brynn Whitfield.

On October 16, 2022, executive producer Andy Cohen revealed the reboot's cast by announcing that Sai De Silva, Ubah Hassan, Erin Lichy, Jenna Lyons, Lizzy Savetsky, Jessel Taank and Brynn Whitfield would be starring in the show's fourteenth season.

De Silva is a creative director and content creator, Hassan is a model, philanthropist, and owner of a hot sauce company, Lichy is a real estate agent and owner of a home renovation and design firm, Lyons is the former president and creative director of J.Crew and the co-founder and CEO of LoveSeen, Taank is a fashion publicist and brand consultant, and Whitfield is a brand marketing professional.

[4][5] After a low-rated[6] and poorly received[7] thirteenth season of the series that sparked significant backlash due to controversial and offensive remarks made by former Housewives Ramona Singer[8][9][10] and Luann de Lesseps[11] that many viewers perceived as being bigoted and racist, along with multiple human resources investigations into other racist comments allegedly made by Singer off camera,[12][13] Bravo canceled the thirteenth season's reunion special in September 2021.

[14] Eboni K. Williams, the series' first Black cast member,[15] later claimed that following the controversies her former co-stars Singer, de Lesseps, and Leah McSweeney told the network they would refuse to work with her if she returned to the show for another season.

[1] Bravo dubbed the reboot a "new era" for the series,[20] and said that it would "follow an all-new group of six dynamic women who run in the same social circles, thriving in one of the most diverse and electric cities in the world.