Danny Booko and Nia Sanchez Booko are leaving “The Valley” after three seasons with the Bravo reality show.

“We wanted to share a quick update that we will not be returning to ‘The Valley,’” the couple wrote in a joint statement posted to Instagram. “We’re incredibly grateful for this experience, but our priority is protecting our peace and our family.”

Season 4 of “The Valley” will begin filming soon, and it wasn’t clear whether the Bookos would continue with the show. Season 3 made Danny’s drinking habits central to the storyline. On-screen conflict among the cast about Danny’s behavior continued throughout the show’s third season, splitting the group and casting a pall over “The Valley.” During Season 3, Nia referred to their fellow castmates as “terrible people” whom they shouldn’t be friends with, and now it seems she will get her wish.

In the statement, they added: “We are fully committed to each other and our beautiful children. We want to thank everyone for all the love and support you’ve shown us. Thank you to Bravo and the team for everything. We are looking forward to what the next chapter brings.”

When “The Valley” first premiered in 2024, the Bookos, who were new to Bravo viewers, were among its most popular cast members. The church-going couple — he’s a voice actor, and she, a former Miss USA, is a pageant coach — had, at the time, three young children (they’ve since had another daughter, born in June 2025). But beginning in Season 2 of “The Valley,” Danny’s drinking — specifically how his personality changes and whether he turns into “Darkside Danny” when overserved — became major plot points. An inciting incident happened off-camera between the first and second seasons between Danny and his “Valley” castmate Jasmine Goode and her then-girlfriend (now wife) Melissa Carelli. At a party, Danny touched Jasmine’s thigh, and said, “Get daddy a drink,” after which he then grabbed Melissa’s ass. (Danny apologized on camera to Jasmine for “inappropriate behavior.”)

In Season 3, Danny, by his own admission, was drunk on camera across multiple episodes — during a cast trip to San Diego, while on another trip to Mexico and in the finale at a party. He also would try to hide his drinking, which made things even worse. Lala Kent, who joined “The Valley” in the third season after being a veteran cast member of “Vanderpump Rules,” is sober and had several heated confrontations with Danny about his behavior while drinking, as Nia appeared to watch and worry about what he might do or say. In San Diego, Lala intervened when Danny was berating Nia as they prepared for a fake beauty pageant competition among the men, which further incited Danny, who angrily named Lala “Miss Triggered.” Later, during the Mexico trip, Nia physically placed herself between Lala and Danny, appearing to try to block her from getting too close. “Drink all you want, just don’t be weird,” Janet said about Danny while in Mexico.

Things came to a boiling point in the finale at a Halloween party thrown by Brittany Cartwright at her house. Janet threw a drink and her Solo cup at Danny, who then said, “They just threw drinks in my face,” and left the party. The show’s three-part reunion episodes resolved nothing, but Danny did reveal he has been in therapy for his drinking, but, for some reason, seemingly won’t consider stopping. His therapy hadn’t prevented him from drinking at Jasmine and Melissa’s wedding the week before the reunion was taped, which resulted in behavior the cast alluded to obliquely during the reunion’s third episode without making it clear what actually happened.

More revealingly, in the series’ “After Show” that streams on Peacock, Janet said, “I could sit here and lie, and say I shouldn’t have done that and whatever — I regret that I wasn’t drinking red wine.” When Danny was asked whether he could ever reconcile with Janet, he said: “It would have to start with a grovel — a genuine apology, of actually realizing and seeing and begging profusely to even get anything going.”

As the “After Show” discussion among the cast members continued, the possibility of getting through this impasse between the Capernas and the Bookos — specifically between Janet and Danny — seemed more and more impossible. Janet said, “My patience and tolerance for this man has disappeared.” Kristen’s fiance Luke Broderick, who’s close with the Bookos, said: “I’m all out of fucks to give. I know Kristen is — I think you probably are too. Why would we include them in something when we want Danny and Nia there? And why would we want them somewhere over Danny and Nia? None of that stuff’s ever gonna happen. They put themselves on an island, and they can live there, if that’s where they want to be.”

As it turns out, Santa Clarita — the faraway Los Angeles suburb where the Bookos moved after Season 2, with Nia as a reluctant new resident, and Danny an enthusiastic one — is the island from which they will not return.

The Bookos are the second (and third) high-profile exit from “The Valley” after Jax Taylor left the show in summer 2025. Taylor stepped away from “The Valley” after revealing addiction problems and having violent off-camera outbursts.