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Gayes, Netflix has officially unveiled the trailer for the upcoming season of its hit series The Upshaws. Part 6 of the sitcom will premiere on January 9, 2025.
This season, fans of the hit sitcom can expect more laughs from the Upshaw crew and special guest stars, including Real Housewives of Atlanta alums Nene Leakes and Cynthia Bailey.
The half-hour sitcom follows Bennie Upshaw (Mike Epps), a blue-collar mechanic in the midwest, and his unconventional family, which includes his wise-cracking sister-in-law Lucretia (Wanda Sykes) no-nonsense wife Regina (Kim Fields), their eldest son Bernard (Jermelle Simon), younger daughters Aaliyah and Maya (Khali Spraggins and Journey Christine), and teenage son Kelvin (Diamond Lyons), from his baby mama Tasha (Gabrielle Dennis).
Throughout the show's run it has received praise for its gay storylines involving Jermelle Simon’s character Bernard Upshaw Jr. Back in 2021 during the show's first season a scene from the show’s season finale went viral sparking conversations from fans online.
The trailer comes on the heels of Simon coming out as a gay earlier this year for National Coming Out Day. In a video posted to his Instagram with the caption: “You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all. “ ~ James Baldwin #nationalcomingoutday"
“Happy National Coming Out Day to everyone,” Simon said in the video. “To the ones who feel like now is the time, to the ones who feel like maybe later, to the ones who may never come out.” he wrote.
“And to myself,” he added. “I want to say to myself, Happy National Coming Out Day. I have decided to embrace myself fully, all the parts of me. I’ve decided to love myself unconditionally. I’ve decided that the one thing that I thought was the biggest curse in my life is actually the biggest blessing I could ever receive.”
He continued saying “I have decided that I am enough, and I want to thank everyone who has helped me to get to that place where I feel seen, where I feel like I belong, where I feel loved… Thank you for providing a space where I can come on the internet and say, I am a Black gay man.”
Before his official coming-out announcement, Simon advised people on their coming-out journey, telling them "to embrace being themselves."
"It wasn't until I really became who I was, that things started opening up for me, you know, it wasn't until I accepted just all the things about myself and that's when the doors really opened,” Simon began.
Earlier this year, Netflix announced that 'The Upshaws‘ would conclude with its sixth season, with the series upcoming Part 7 being its last installment.
The Upshaws is the brainchild of Wanda Sykes and Regina Hicks who also serve as series showrunners. Mike Epps, Page Hurwitz, and Niles Kirchner join Hicks and Sykes also executive producers.
Watch the trailer for The Upshaws: Part 6 below: