The Real Housewives of Sydney could return for a second season, despite claims the show had been permanently axed for being 'too nasty'.

According to cast member Matty Samaei, producers have been in talks to renew the Foxtel reality program and filming could begin as early as this year.

'With Melbourne Housewives, we know that it's coming back and normally once the franchise is starting to produce one city there's no reason they will not do Sydney,' Matty, 45, told The Daily Telegraph on Thursday.

'We will be back!' Real Housewives of Sydney's Matty Samaei has claimed the show is returning in 2021 - despite reports it was axed for being 'too nasty'

'So my intuition and from some of the things I've been hearing, we will be back but I don't know when it will be,' said the Double Bay cosmetician.

Matty added that RHOS would most likely return to screens in 2021.

Meanwhile, fans of the Housewives franchise are gearing up for the fifth season of Real Housewives of Melbourne, which is set to air later this year.

Hopeful: Matty (pictured) said there is 'no reason' why producers won't film a new season of RHOS, given that production of the Melbourne version is already underway

Pictured: Real Housewives of Sydney stars (left to right) Nicole O'Neil, Lisa Oldfield, Athena X Levendi, Melissa Tkautz, Krissy Marsh, Matty Samaei and Victoria Rees

RHOS premiered in 2017, and followed the lives of socialites Athena X Levendi, Krissy Marsh, Lisa Oldfield, Nicole O'Neil, Matty Samaei, Victoria Rees and Melissa Tkautz.

But Foxtel's executive director of television, Brian Walsh, told TV Tonight last year that the show wouldn't be returning for a second season.

'Sydney won't happen again. Once bitten twice shy,' he said.

Too mean for screens? Foxtel's executive director of television, Brian Walsh, told TV Tonight last year that RHOS wouldn't be returning for a second season. Pictured: Lisa Oldfield

Walsh also told The Daily Telegraph around this time that he believed RHOS had simply gone 'too far' in terms of its content.

'A lot of the women in this show were nasty for nasty's sake and have no redeeming features,' he said.

American network Bravo, which has aired several seasons of RHOM, also reportedly refused to pick up the Sydney version because of its 'extreme' nature.