Netflix renews ‘Élite’ for season 8 & reveals a beloved cast member is returning to heat things up
Elite.Netflix has renewed its longest-running Spanish series for an eighth season with production set to begin in August, according to Variety.The welcome news comes just months before the queer-inclusive teen telenovela is set to premiere its seventh season in the fall.Adding to the excitement, the streamer also announced one of the show’s original cast members will once again be gracing the halls of fictional private school Las Encinas after exiting the series years ago.A post shared by Élite (@elitenetflix)Premiering in 2018, Elite launched with a gorgeous cast that included: Omar Ayuso, Itzan Escamilla, Miguel Herran, Mina El Hammani, Alvaro Rico, Aron Piper, Ester Exposito, Danna Paola, and Miguel Bernardeau.Subsequent seasons saw the arrival of hotties such as: Manu Ríos, Andre Lamoglia, Diego Martin, Claudia Salas, Isadora Artiñán, and Carloto Cotta.While fans would undoubtedly love to see all of their favorites return, Mina El Hammani, who played the sister of Omar Ayuso’s character, Nadia, is reprising her role for the show’s eighth season.A post shared by Élite (@elitenetflix)The Spanish actor has been the low-cut neckline king the world has been waiting for.
All hail!A main cast member for the first three seasons, Nadia was last seen leaving for New York in the finale of the show’s third season.
Plot details have not been revealed, so it’s unclear what the circumstances of her return will entail.Another beloved original cast member is set to make a triumphant return to the series much sooner.
As previously reported, out actor Ayuso will reprise his role of queer hunk Omar Sanaa on the show’s upcoming seventh season.
