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Monique Samuels (born October 6, 1983) is an American television personality. She is known as a cast member on the reality television series The Real Housewives of Potomac and Love & Marriage: DC.

Life and career

Samuels was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey. She grew up in Pleasantville, New Jersey, graduated from Pleasantville High School and briefly attended Duquesne University before dropping out to pursue a music career in Washington, D.C. Samuels married former football player Chris Samuels in 2012. The couple have three children together. They lived in Potomac, Maryland.

Samuels began appearing as a main cast member on the reality television series The Real Housewives of Potomac during its second season in 2017. Samuels and former RHOP co-star, Candiace Dillard-Basset were both charged with second-degree assault of each other from the District Court of Montgomery County in Maryland after an alleged incident between Bassett and Samuels on October 16, 2019.[13] The incident was featured on the show's fifth season. Samuels departed following its fifth in 2020. She returned to reality television in 2022, starring alongside her husband in the series Love & Marriage: DC. It premiered in May 2022.

In April 2023, Samuels filed for divorce from her husband after 11 years of marriage, with the divorce being finalized on September 25, 2023.

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