Where’s London? ‘Eat Slay Love’ Stars Nivea, Eva Marcille, and Tammy Rivera Hit the Spotlight, But London Hughes Is MIA
A new Peacock original series has caught the eyes of reality TV fans. Eat Slay Love follows four women you’ll likely recognize as they spread their wings and explores an exotic international destination. Learn more about these fiery celebs and why London Hughes was absent from the press tour.
‘Eat Slay Love’ takes New York — minus London Hughes
Eat Slay Love has all of the ingredients for good reality TV. The dramatic women have a complex history with one another and an exotic setting to explore in Vietnam. As Nivea explains in the Peacock trailer, they’ve got the funny one, London Hughes, and the fashionista, Tammy Rivera. They’ve got the emotional one, Eva Marcille, and the crazy one, herself. The group hopes to get out of their comfort zone by flying across the world to Vietnam. There, they’ll experience spiritual awakenings and a lot of drama.
On November 7, 2024, three of the cast members, including Marcille, Rivera, and Nivea, appeared on Good Day New York to promote Eat Slay Love. But Hughes was not among the women. Between this absence and the drama revealed in the Peacock trailer, fans wonder if the comedian had a falling out with the group.
Viewers took to Reddit to express their distate for Hughes. One commented, “I don’t like her. Seems fake,” and another wrote, “Hearing London say that shit about the US really rubbed me the wrong way. Like you are a guest on a trip with American women…maybe don’t continue to insult their home?” As Hughes seems to struggle with her Eat Slay Love costars, viewers want to know more about the polarizing British comedian.
Meet the cast of ‘Eat Slay Love’
In 2020, Hughes experienced a breakout moment in her career when her stand-up special, London Hughes: To Catch a D*ck, premiered on Netflix. Before then, she’d written and acted in several TV series and shorts. One Redditor expressed her desire for the comedian to stay on the show, writing, “She’s the odd man out in several different ways (never married, no kids, different home culture, etc.), so I feel a little bit sad for her not being able to get her point across. I hope she stays though!”
Although Hughes was not present on Good Day New York, her three co-stars enjoyed themselves while promoting their reality show. As Marcille expressed in the trailer, “I flew across the world to escape all of what my heart is going through.”
In 2023, the model and actress went through a difficult divorce from her husband of five years, Michael Sterling. Marcille shares two sons with Sterling as well as a daughter from a previous relationship. With plenty of reality TV experience on America’s Next Top Model and The Real Housewives of Atlanta, the 40-year-old likely delivers the drama on Eat Slay Love.
Nivea experienced a “spiritual awakening” during the ladies’ trip to Vietnam. Before Eat Slay Love, 42-year-old appeared on the dating show Queens Court after a successful R&B music career in the 2000s. You may recognize her Grammy-nominated song “Don’t Mess with My Man,” “Laundromat” featuring R. Kelly, and her collab with YoungbloodZ and Lil’ Jon” titled “Okay.”
Tammy Rivera wed rapper Wacka Flocka Flame in 2014. The Virginia native joined the cast of Love & Hip Hop around the same time, appearing on several seasons with her husband as she developed her swimwear line, T-Rivera, and music career. The 38-year-old mother of one announced her separation from the “No Hands” rapper in 2022 after eight years of marriage. During Rivera’s trip to Vietnam on Eat Slay Love, she pulls back the curtain on her life after a lot of major changes.
You can catch Eat Slay Love on Peacock, streaming now.
