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Jen Shah is no longer behind bars. 

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City alum was released from a federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, early in the morning of December 10, ABC News reports. She had served 33 months of her 6½-year sentence for wire fraud. 

Jen Shah has been transferred to community confinement

While Shah is not locked up, she is not exactly a free woman. She has been transferred from prison to community confinement, a representative for the Federal Bureau of Prisons told ABC.  That means she is either in a halfway house or home confinement. The BOP will not release Shah’s actual location “for privacy, safety, and security reasons.”

Shah was originally scheduled for release on August 30, 2026, after having her sentence reduced multiple times for good behavior. It’s not clear how long she’ll remain in community confinement, but the “length of placement could be up to 12 months,” according to the BOP. 

The reality TV personality was doing time after pleading guilty to running a nationwide telemarketing scheme that bilked vulnerable people out of millions of dollars. 

Andy Cohen addresses Jen Shah’s future on ‘RHOSLC’ 

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While Shah’s exact whereabouts aren’t public knowledge, one thing is clear: She’s not coming back to Bravo or RHOSLC. 

“I just want to say once again, for anyone who is asking, I think I’ve said this before, she’s not coming back to The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. She’s not,” Cohen said of Shah on the December 2 episode of his SiriusXM radio show Andy Cohen Live.

“I wish her all the best in her next life,” the Real Housewives executive producer added. “I would assume she’ll wind up on a reality show of some kind, but it won’t be anything that I’m working on. I don’t know that I can see Bravo working with her again, so there you go. Can we put a period on the end of that sentence?”

Serving time in prison doesn’t automatically disqualify someone from being on Bravo. (Just ask Teresa Giudice.) But Shah’s crimes, which involved taking advantage of the elderly, are in a different category, Cohen suggested. 

“There has to be a line…,” he said. “There has to be a line.”

In addition, RHOSLC has evolved since Shah left the show, and there’s no reason to bring back a divisive and problematic former cast member. 

“And kudos to The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City who have not only survived but thrived in the years following her incarceration,” Cohen said. “So you know, the show is well on its, you know, feet.”

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