Amanda Cronin Lands First Seat at 'Real Housewives of London' Reunion for the Second Year in a Row
BC NEWS
The seat next to the host is the seat everybody watches. Hayu has released the seating chart for The Real Housewives of London Season 2 reunion, and Amanda Cronin is in that seat — first seat, right beside host Katherine Ryan. She sat in the same seat at last year's reunion. Two seasons. Two reunions. Same seat. She is the only woman on this cast who can say that.
The Other First Seat Is the Problem
Across the host's chair, the other first seat belongs to Panthea Parker. That pairing is the story inside the story, because Amanda and Panthea are not speaking. In an OK! interview published August 30, Amanda named Panthea and Karen Loderick-Peace as the two women she is “definitely not speaking” to, and said there was a point this season when “no one was speaking to me.” Panthea, in the same interview, said the voice note she sent Amanda after the premiere got “zero response.”
Hayu's own Season 2 notes say why the friendship cracked: Panthea's lip treatments — done at Amanda's clinic, The Secret Door, in Belgravia — became, in Hayu's words, “the season's biggest source of tension,” pushing the friendship “to the brink.” Fans have a shorter name for it: #Lipgate. So the reunion opens with the two women in the middle of the season's biggest fight sitting in the two seats closest to the host. Katherine Ryan has her work cut out for her.
The Full Chart
Here is how the couches line up. On Amanda's side: Amanda first, then Juliet Mayhew, then Juliet Angus at the far end. On Panthea's side: Panthea first, then Karen Loderick-Peace, then Nessie Welschinger at the far end. Katherine Ryan hosts from the middle — the same job she did last season.
Who Moved, Who Fell
Put this year's chart next to last year's and the moves tell the season's story. Panthea climbed from second seat to first. Karen climbed off the far end and up to second. Nessie sits at a far end for the second year in a row — in the season Hayu says the group pushed her to stop sitting on the fence.
And the biggest fall belongs to Juliet Angus: first seat last year, far end this year. The twist is whose couch she landed on. Juliet Angus and Amanda spent Season 1 at war. This season, they made up. Now she sits on Amanda's side of the room, at the end of Amanda's couch. Season coverage says that make-up is part of what left Karen feeling pushed out — and Karen now sits on the other couch, second from the host, next to Panthea.
What Is Not on the Record
Two things, stated plainly. First: Hayu has not announced a date for the Season 2 reunion. The season is still airing — it premiered September 7, and the finale is scheduled for November 8 — and BC News is not going to guess a reunion date. The chart is the news, and the chart is out.
Second: the “second year in a row” half of Amanda's story rests on last year's seating chart, which is kept by the Real Housewives Wiki. No outlet wrote last year's seat order down at the time, and BC News found nothing anywhere that contradicts that chart. It is linked in the sources below so you can check it yourself.
So here is where it lands. The chart is out. Amanda holds the seat. Panthea holds the other one. The season is not even finished, and the reunion already has its main event. Now the Family answers the only question left: whose side are you on?
Questions About the London Reunion Seating
Who has the first seats at the Real Housewives of London Season 2 reunion?
Amanda Cronin and Panthea Parker hold the two seats next to host Katherine Ryan, according to Hayu's official Season 2 reunion seating chart.
Was Amanda Cronin in a first seat at last year's reunion?
Yes. The Season 1 reunion seating chart — kept by the Real Housewives Wiki, the only source BC News found that lays out last year's order — shows Amanda Cronin next to the host then, too.
When is the Real Housewives of London Season 2 reunion?
Hayu has not announced a date. Season 2 premiered on September 7, 2026, and is still airing; the finale is scheduled for November 8, 2026.
Why are Amanda Cronin and Panthea Parker not speaking?
In an OK! interview published August 30, 2026, Amanda named Panthea as one of two castmates she is “definitely not speaking” to. Hayu's own Season 2 notes call Panthea's lip treatments — done at Amanda's Belgravia clinic — the season's biggest source of tension.
Sources & Verification
The chart: Hayu, official Real Housewives of London Season 2 reunion seating graphic, pictured above — Amanda Cronin and Panthea Parker in the first seats, host Katherine Ryan at the top. Hayu's Season 2 announcement (July 13, 2026) confirms Ryan returns as reunion host and that the season premiered September 7, 2026, on Hayu. No reunion air date has been announced, and this article does not state one. Coverage of the announcement: Advanced Television.
Not speaking: OK!, August 30, 2026 — Amanda named Panthea Parker and Karen Loderick-Peace as the two she is “definitely not speaking” to; Panthea said her post-premiere voice note to Amanda got “zero response.” The lip-treatments framing (“the season's biggest source of tension”) is Hayu's own, from its Season 2 cast notes, reported by TV Blackbox. BC News presents both as attributed claims, in the speakers' own words.
Last year's seats: Real Housewives Wiki, Season 1 page — its reunion seating table and chart image show Season 1 as: Amanda (first) → Panthea → Nessie on one side; Juliet Angus (first) → Juliet Mayhew → Karen on the other. Stated plainly: this is the only source BC News found that lays out last year's order, no trade outlet spelled it out, and nothing found contradicts it. The Season 1 reunion aired in two parts on October 27 and November 3, 2025.
Season 2 movement and storylines: Reality Tea, July 13, 2026 (Amanda–Juliet Angus reconciliation, Karen feeling pushed out, Nessie's “sitting on the fence” arc) and the Wikipedia series page (season dates, episode schedule, November 8 finale). Amanda Cronin is the founder of Amanda Caroline Beauty and runs The Secret Door clinic in Belgravia.
First-mover check: BC News searched for an existing write-up of this Season 2 seating chart on October 15, 2026, and found none — the Amanda back-to-back first seat, the Amanda–Panthea first seats, and the Juliet Angus drop do not appear in any outlet's coverage we could find.
Cover image: BC News cover art created for this story: Amanda Cronin in front of the London skyline, with the cast arranged in their reunion seating-chart circles and Amanda's circle crowned in the first seat. The official Hayu seating chart itself is pictured above.