Actress Clara is returning to Korean television after nearly nine years, with Star News reporting on Thursday that she has confirmed a spot on SBS Plus and E Channel’s observational reality series ‘Solo Because 2.’
The outlet reported the casting as an exclusive on November 12, saying Clara will join the show’s second season, which premieres on December 7. Broadcasters Shin Dong-yup and Jo Yoon-hee will host the new season.
It will be Clara’s first Korean variety appearance since 2017, when she last appeared on a JTBC2 variety program. In the years since, she has focused her career on China, appearing in a number of dramas and films there.
Clara married a Korean-American businessman two years her senior in 2019. News of the couple’s divorce surfaced last year, six years into the marriage, and she will now appear on the show as a divorcee sharing her everyday life with viewers.
‘Solo Because’ follows single celebrities living life on their own terms, capturing the candid routines, worries and small joys of life alone. The series first aired in October 2024 as an eight-episode run, became a regular series the following March and wrapped its first season in May. The first season featured actresses including Myung Se-bin, Chae Rim and Yoon Se-a sharing their daily lives.
The show returns about a year and a half later with a refreshed lineup. Jo Yoon-hee joins as a new host alongside Shin Dong-yup, and will also appear as a cast member, sharing her own life as a single mother raising her daughter.
The production team said the new season will show “diverse solo lives — lonely because solo, but happy because solo,” adding that it will capture “the freedom and joy that only being alone can bring, along with the worries and honest feelings within it.”
‘Solo Because 2’ premieres on December 7 on SBS Plus and E Channel.
