Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah dishes on the newest Bravo franchise

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City is the 10th series in the hit Bravo franchise and it’s set to make quite a splash on Wednesday.

Star Jen Shah, a sassy successful marketing CEO, sat down for an exclusive chat with DailyMailTV and says viewers should expect the unexpected.

For the debut season, Jen will be joined by the newest crop of Housewives: Lisa Barlow, Mary Cosby, Heather Gay, Meredith Marks and Whitney Rose.

‘We’re gonna bring something that viewers have never seen,’ Jen dished.

The Salt Lake City locale serves as a unique twist to the Housewives universe as the capital of Utah is known to be the global headquarters of the Mormon church.

‘The religion here, the dominant religion, which is Mormonism, is very ingrained into the actual culture,’ Shah explained. ‘Everybody needs to look their best and be their best.’

While Mormonism is the predominant religion in SLC, the cast will offer up more diverse backgrounds with Islamic, Jewish and Pentecostal religions represented.

‘It’s going to show the thread of religion – how it has influenced all of our lives in whichever way – and the direction we’ve all taken living here in Salt Lake City,’ Jen revealed.

As for her own journey, the 46-year-old converted from Mormonism to Islam after learning of the historical mistreatment of black people in the Mormon religion.

Meanwhile, Jen is busier than ever as the CEO of three marketing companies and mom to two boys whom she shares with her husband Sharrieff.

This season Jen will find herself in quite a tangled web, clashing with one of her fellow cast-mates, Mary Cosby.

Mary has a complicated marriage – her husband was once married to her grandmother. There is no blood relation but, for a time, he was her step-grandfather.

Before the show began, Jen said that Mary had approached her in an attempt to explain the unconventional relationship.

‘She’s like, “Well, I married my grandfather, but it was because my grandmother put it in her will,”‘ Jen recollected. ‘When she told me that, I honestly was kind of like, okay, whatever. I didn’t know if it was like a religious thing, you know? And so at that point, I thought, well, okay, if you’re cool, then I’m cool with you.’

Needless to say the co-stars won’t stay ‘cool’ in season one and the subject of Mary’s husband becomes ‘the elephant in the room’.

‘Why are we not talking about this? This is weird,’ the reality star mused. She added that her fellow Housewives seem to gloss over Mary’s love life.

‘Why don’t we address it?’ Jen questioned. ‘If the ladies are kind of like, “no, no, no, Mary’s…no she’s so great. She has a lot of Chanel [bags].” Okay, and she married her grandfather. Like, you just skipped right on over that.’

This season Jen and Mary’s friendship hits a rough patch but Jen insists that their beef has nothing to do with Mary’s husband.

Without getting into specifics, the working mom hinted that there will be issues that arise between the two which she found both ‘offensive’ and ‘disrespectful.’

Shah, who is of Tongan and Hawaiian decent, also makes history this season as the first Polynesian Housewife – a role she calls an ‘honor.’

‘I’ve had so many people reaching out from Tonga and Polynesia and New Zealand, Australia,’ she gushed. ‘There’s a lot of people rooting for me. And it just it’s an honor to be the first Polynesian housewife.’

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City series premiere is Wednesday, November 11 at 10pm ET/PT on Bravo.