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Sister Wives' Janelle Brown Goes Public With New Boyfriend 4 Years After Kody Brown Split
Sister Wives is entering a new era.
The trailer for season 21 of the TLC reality show revealed that Kody Brown and his remaining wife Robyn Brown have left the show and won't appear on the upcoming season, marking the first installment they're missing since Sister Wives premiered in 2010. Instead, the series will focus on his ex-wives Christine Brown Woolley, Janelle Brown and Meri Brown.
"After 16 years of filming Sister Wives," text on screen at the beginning of the Sept. 14 trailer read, "Kody & Robyn will not be returning to the show."
Kody's ex-wives were then shown reacting to the shocking news that he and Robyn have exited the show.
"I don’t know what it means," Christine said. "I have no idea."
Meanwhile, Janelle said that she was "flabbergasted" by the news, Meri echoing those same sentiments with, "I was actually surprised when I was told that Kody and Robyn weren’t coming back to the show.”
Though the trailer doesn’t reveal any additional information as to why Robyn and Kody are taking a step back from the series, it does hint at the ways his former wives navigate the news—which includes a reunion between all three women.
“This is going to be awkward,” Christine says ahead of her meeting with Meri and Jenelle, with Meri adding, “It’s not like I’m going to walk in and go for a hug.”
And with Kody even more out of the picture, the trailer promises new developments in the love lives of Meri and Jenelle, as well as new roadblocks to navigate for Christine and her husband David Woolley.
Kody and Robyn's bombshell Sister Wives exits come after a tumultuous several years for the Brown family, starting with Christine ending her spiritual marriage to Kody in 2021 after 25 years together. Janelle and Meri also split from Kody shortly thereafter.
And that period of change—going from a plural marriage to monogamy—hadn't been easy on Kody's last remaining marriage to Robyn, either.
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"Robyn and I are fighting for our marriage and our life together," he shared a January episode of Sister Wives. "We have been going through four years or more of breakup with the family."
"I guess what I'm saying is Robyn and I have a great relationship when I'm being me," Kody added at the time, "when I'm being brave and kind."
Robyn concurred with Kody's perspective on their marital woes.
"We go through these periods where he is back to himself and we are like who we usually are in our relationship and it's really beautiful and we're just, we're having a great time," she explained on the show. "And then something will happen and he's kind of back to, he reverts back to the angry divorced guy."
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While Kody and Robyn's marriage won't be featured on season 21 of Sister Wives, Christine, Janelle and Meri's latest romances will be. Keep reading for the latest on their love lives below...
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Kody Brown & Robyn Brown
"She looked like a soccer mom," Kody Brown once joked on Sister Wives of meeting then-single mom Robyn in 2009. "She had a van, three kids and was divorced. I thought, 'I didn't need a van, a divorced woman, and three kids in my life—that's just trouble.'"
More than a decade and a half on, though, they're still kicking it, with the pair adding son Solomon and daughter Ariella to the squad.
As for bringing on other teammates, it's not in the game plan. "I really, really struggle with it because it feels, like, 'Oh, well. Those didn't work. So, on to [someone] new,'" Robyn said on the December 2024 Sister Wives: One on One special of Meri Brown, Janelle Brown and Christine Brown leaving the fold. "That's hard for me. That's really, really hard for me. It feels disrespectful."
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Meri Brown
In January 2024, a year after she and Kody announced their breakup, Meri revealed on Instagram that she had begun dating Amos Andrews the previous October. But in February 2024, Meri confirmed on Instagram that they had called it quits.
In 2026, Meri confirmed she was seeing a man named Ron who she met at a speed-dating event.
"I am happy," she said on the TLC series' One-on-One special. "Ron is a really cool guy, very comfortable. I'm very comfortable hanging out with him."
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Janelle Brown
Living proof that once you stop looking for love it finds you, Janelle hard launched her relationship with a suitor she referred to only as Pete through an August 2026 Instagram post.
"I wasn’t looking," insisted the mom of six, who'd frequently questioned if she'd ever date again. "I certainly wasn’t expecting you. And somehow, you turned out to be exactly what I didn’t know I needed."
Summed up the North Carolinian: "It has been pretty wonderful. Everyone please meet Pete."
Christine Brown Woolley
She got the man and the family. Going official with her and David Woolley's romance on Valentine's Day 2023, Christine shared, "I finally found the love of my life, David. The first time he held me close, it felt like my soul took its first breath. He's wonderful and kind, incredible with my children and an adorable grandpa. I never dreamed I could find a love like this."
Two months later he added to the fantasy with a spring proposal. "David treats me like a queen and tells me I'm beautiful everyday," Christine told People. "I've never been in love like this before and the world seems like a brighter place with him in it."
Tying the knot in Utah on Oct. 7, 2023, she wrote, "I'm so blessed! I've married my best friend."
Madison Brown Brush
The first of the 18 Brown children to walk down the aisle, Janelle's eldest daughter wed Caleb Brush at a 2016 outdoor wedding in Montana captured by TLC's cameras. A decade later, the two have fully multiplied their love with Emilia joining older siblings Axel, Evie and Josephine in March 2025.
“Our sweet girl took her time, keeping us all in suspense, but when she decided it was time—she didn’t waste a second," North Carolina-based Maddie wrote on Instagram. "Born on 3/14, she arrived absolutely perfect.”
Leon Brown
Four years after their engagement aired on the TLC reality show, Meri's only child settled in Denver with Audrey Kriss.
"My sweetest symphony," Leon raved of their partner in 2022. "Life with you truly is so sweet." Echoed Audrey, "Being your partner and watching your growth and coming into yourself over the years has been an honor and joy."
Logan Brown
Eldest Brown kid Logan got the gang back together when he married longtime girlfriend Michelle Petty in Arizona in 2022. "It was a beautiful day and this mama's heart was mush the whole time," Janelle shared on Instagram of her son's wedding. "You always have such a sense of peace when your children find amazing life partners."
Mykelti Brown
More than six years after her 2016 wedding to Antonio "Tony" Padron, Mykelti joked that they'd already tested the limits of their marriage vows by welcoming twins Archer and Ace into the fold in November 2022.
"We have 3 kids and 4 moves under our belt," North Carolina-based Mykelti, who is also mom to eldest daughter Avalon, wrote on Instagram at the time. "A whole lot of good times and some hard times #surprisetwins But here we are still doing this whole marriage thing."
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Aspyn Brown
Since their 2018 wedding, Christine's oldest daughter and husband Mitch Thompson have traveled everywhere from Paris to Alaska. But in December 2022, they put down roots, with Mitch sharing on Instagram, "We bought our first home! Just in time for Christmas."
Aspyn announced her pregnancy with the couple's first baby in April 2025.
Gwendlyn Brown
Before hitting their one-year anniversary, Christine's third oldest daughter and love Beatriz Queiroz went to the happiest place on earth and marked six months together with chocolate fondue. Then came the really sweet part, with Gwendlyn sharing a glimpse at the candlelit, rose-filled proposal on Instagram in November 2022, writing simply, "i'm engaged!!"
The couple wed in July 2023, captioning a photo from the ceremony: "Say hello to mrs (x2) queiroz."
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