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July 17, 2025 17 mins

A shocking amount of debauchery on a trip for a tennis tournament! PLUS: More celeb couples Bethenny loves.

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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Okay, I went to Wimbledon. So the word Wimbledon, which
I didn't realize only is four years older than the
US Open. I think it's in the eighteen hundreds it started,
and the US Open is only four years later. I
would have bet a lot of money against that. But
it's the oldest tennis event. It's certainly the most prestigious.
It's like the Kentucky Derby is the Kentucky Derby. The

(00:32):
Breeders Cup could have more money, but Churchill Downs is
the most authentic racetrack besides Saratoga. And it's the status,
it's the prestige. So Wimbledon has a brand name to
it that just seems so regal and so elite and
just something you hear about since your kid.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
So I went.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
I was invited by Emirates and I went, and it's
not that different from the US Open, Like, it doesn't
feel much older and more British, except for that they
have strawberries and cream like. It feels like a new
stadium and it feels US Open like. The one thing
I'll say that's better about the US Open is that
when you sit in some of the suites, you can

(01:12):
watch the tennis so if like a brand has invited you,
which isn't relatable, but this is what happens with me.
If a brand or even a business has invited you,
they have often a box and you can eat there,
et cetera. Sometimes you can do that for concerts. You're
sitting and you're eating and you're watching. And it's weird
for a concert because Taylor Swift's performing me, but you're
high up in the sky and you're eating food and

(01:33):
you're watching, and there are places to watch the concert
from your box, but it's still far away. But by
the same token, I love it because you have the
security of feeling like you have a bathroom and you're inside
a suite, and I love that life. I don't need
to be touching Taylor Swift like it's okay. So with tennis,
it's the same thing. In the US Open, you are
watching the tennis from your suite. At Wimbledon, Emirates had

(01:57):
the most stunning sweet ever.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
You're going there. It was like a pet.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
It was gorgeous and like they're serving lunch and you're
having drinks and all of this, but you can't watch
the tennis from there. So it reminds me a little
bit more of the race track growing up in Saratoga
or Bellmont or Aqueduct, where yes, there are places you
can watch the race from obviously like suites, but in
the racetrack you're like up in they used to call

(02:22):
it the trustees room, eating or somewhere. And then for
each race you go and you do the trek down
to the paddock, watch the horses get saddled. You might
go out to your box for another minute, then you
go down to watch the race.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Like there's movement.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
So in Wimbledon, you're up in the suite and then
you go down there to watch the tennis. You can
come back at any time, and at the US Open
you're kind of in your suite watching the tennis. Or
at the Mets you're in the suite watching the baseball,
and then you're not really going anywhere. You could go
down to get a closer look at the game or
the sporting event, but it just was a little different,
but it was just a great thing to go. I

(02:55):
love London. I think the Brits really are so nice.
They're very big on small talk. Brits are very big
on small talk and I'm not, but like it's just kind,
you know, when you see someone that you're like, hi,
how are you and the like I woke up, I'm good,
I'm healthy, Like you know, that's sort of very British.

(03:16):
Like you're there, They're like, oh really, how you going?
How you going? Like and where are you from? And
like it really is not that far on a plane,
not much, you know, longer a trip than LA, but
like such a different culture, like they will be insulted
if you call a chip a French fry, which I
made the mistake of doing on social media. It is
a different land. But I love the Brits. They're all
so funny and irreverent. They don't take themselves seriously. So

(03:39):
while people talk about stiff and dry humor.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
The Brits really are not easily offended. You could say
and do inappropriate things. They find me extremely humorous and
like the clownness of it all. They don't mind the
chaos of me being there. And I had seventy two
blisters and I was sweating like a hornge church and
like making jokes and like they're great. So that's part

(04:04):
of an experience, and that was part of going to Wimbledon.
Stayed at a hotel called Soho Hotel. It's in Soho,
which is like the East Village, meaning there are a
lot of cute, little viral e type places, your machi place,
your coffee place, your que chops. It's not the fancy
area like a clarage is, by any means. The hotel
is great and it's Firmdale Hotels, which is like Covent

(04:27):
Garden Hotel, Crosby and New York.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
That's my style.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
I like a hotel that has the design of where
we are. I also like a boutiqui hotel. I also
like a hotel with good service that is not overly transactional.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
It's a hard balance.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
I don't like a hotel where the room is tiny,
the lobby's big. It's a lot of poping circumstance. But
every ten minutes they're sending you a macaroon, a bottle champagne,
knocking on your door. Fucking I hate that. Leave me alone,
be there when I need you if I need to
call you, but I probably won't. I don't need all
the bells and whistles. I like privacy, I like intimate,
I like small, and I like it to be in

(05:04):
the area that it is, but it's not like the
clarages I guess where it's like being at the Ritz
in Paris or like Eloise at the Plaza, But I'm
not really that. I like an intimate hotel experience for
the most part. I usually don't like the thing that area,
you know, is gritty, but I liked it because it
was like there's something to do. I was early for
my room, so I went to like a cheap massage

(05:26):
place next door and just got a massage immediately. It
wasn't like the Peninsula Hotel where it six hours to
make an appointment and wait and like it just was easy.
The hotel was easy that people were so nice. I
didn't eat a thing at the hotel, but I loved it.

(05:54):
I brought Chris Appleton, the hair stylist to the Stars,
who is British.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
He was my date.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
And I have to tell you, going on a date
with someone, one date, one dinner can be dreadful. Like
you could go out with someone for drinks and it
could be dreadful. You could turn that into a dinner
and it could be more dreadful. You could, like someone
agree to go away with them for the weekend and
it could be a horrific You could do that with
a friend. You could travel with a friend or someone
you work with and want to go crazy in laws,

(06:26):
et cetera.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Okay, think about that. And I've done this before.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
I had a date last summer that turned into a
relationship that was the longest first date I've ever had
and we later said, were we crazy? Like it was
very risky, but it ended up great. So that's what
this was. Like I forgot that, Like Chris and I
know each other and we've spent time together, not a ton,
and he's been to my place in Miami and we've

(06:51):
had dinner and he came once to my house in Grantwich.
He's never done my hair professionally. He did it playing
around in the house one time. Like for some reason,
my gut said to invite Chris to Wimbledon and I
didn't even think it through. We were there for I
think it was supposed to be four nights, so we

(07:12):
were glued to each other's sides. Like I had no
b plan, I had no other anything. I had an
online date which Chris ended up coming with me too. Okay,
we had the best time of my life, Like there
are best friends that I have that I don't love
traveling with, and there are others that I love traveling with,
But like I don't like staying at people's houses, I

(07:33):
don't like traveling with everybody. I'm a very persnickety, particular person.
We were glued to each other's sides. We had the
best time. We did not stop laughing, like peeing in
your pants, stomach, hurt, back of your ears. Everything was
stupidity at its finest.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
He looks polished.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
He's a fucking disaster, not as bad as I am,
but like we were a fucking mess. We get to England,
we go out, we go on a field trip, we
go shopping. He buys me a cute little dress in
a bag. We go eating, we go shopping. I meet
this guy that belongs to this very exclusive club. I've
heard it's very exclusive, but it's not upscale. I'm thinking

(08:15):
we're going to Versailles or like Downton Abbey or Bridgerton,
and Chris comes with me, and it's effectively like a
British hoe down. It's like four weddings in a funeral,
And as Chris later describes it, it was the most
British thing he's ever done. So we get in a
taxi to go forty five minutes out of London proper,
and we're at this field that has a ferris wheel

(08:36):
and all this kind of like chips and barbecue and
all this weird like add non aligned food in different
food trucks, and some people born gowns and sequins and tuxedos.
It's the summer garden party. And then other people are
in like bathing suits in their underwear, eating weird charcouterie

(08:56):
popcorn and like pigs and blankets and their own like
moonshine cocktails. People were blackout wasted. It was insane, Like
you can't bring someone like that, who's bougie and like
in the entertainment industry, who's traveled around the world with
the Kardashians and Jalo to a thing like this. But
guess what you can. He grew up in a poor
town called Lester in the UK, and like he was

(09:18):
fun and fine and he's like, we had the best
time at this weird thing. And then the guy who
invited me invited us to the most posh, most private
club the people who owned Annabel's, which was the most
posh private club that sold. The Sun has this club
called five Hartford Street. It's a giant townhouse. Every inch
is designed within an inch of its life. There are

(09:40):
multiple restaurants, no to the same cuisine. Every bit is stunning.
It made me feel so British, so rich, so elite,
so exclusive. The restaurant was great, like that was our
first night. We got there in the morning and it
was like the biggest day of my life. We didn't
stop with the shopping, with the four weddings, at a funeral,
with the I have a club.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Then we go home, we go to bed.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
The next day we wake up, Oh, the next day's Wimbledon,
and then it's like, look amazing, bring it on, have
the outfits look good, go to Wimbledon, make a meal
out of the whole day. I had so many blisters,
My feet were gonna fucking fall off. Chris's glasses broke.
He had tufts of hair getting stuck in his glasses.

(10:23):
We started off so hot physically, and it was like
ninety degrees and we were sweating like pigs. We were
just a goddamn mess. We couldn't pull it together. We
had like seven drinks. We just laughed all day and
then he insisted we go to the Box. Many of
you have heard of the Box. It's debauchery. There are

(10:45):
sex shows. It's just no filming. It's like vaudeville. It's
like bordello. It's like the Box is debauchery. And it
started in London and it's smaller in London and is like,
let's go to the Box. And I was trying to
be a team player, but like I get anxiety when
it's gonna be late and it's gonna be too many drinks.

(11:07):
It was so expensive. I'll never admit to you how
much it costs to go get a table. It was
thousands of dollars. And I was happy to pay it
because I live for Chris and wanted to like do
this thing for us and him. He wanted to go there,
and we had the best time ever with the best

(11:35):
time ever.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
This show. This woman's Stephanie Nicole. Look her up.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
She's like the MC to this like shit show where
people are like naked. And I saw a woman's vagina,
Like I've never really seen a woman's vagina up close
and personal. Well there I did, and so did Chris.
He's like, that's someone's vagina. I'm like Oh my god.
Stephanie Nicole was the EMC. She screams my name out.
She was a big fan. She was hysterical, shout out
to DJ mister Ll. First time in my life. I've

(12:04):
liked house music, so that was a great start. And
then there's a basement room that has all hip hop
and a stripper pole. Chris knew that fucking stripper pole
all too well, but I tried to get on the
stripper pole. We were dancing hip hop. We were having
the best time ever, and I want to shout out
Jlo because they were playing some Jlo's songs from like back,

(12:24):
you know, vintage j Loo, And I was like, I
hate that she gets such heat now for being exactly
who she's always been. She's always liked looking hot, She's
always wanted to bring it. She's always liked the light.
She's always liked the attention. She's always wanted to be relevant.
She's always worked her fucking ass off, dance the dance,
done the thing.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
So she's got a show. I guess.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
She wrote a new song and people were fucking trolling
her and like she was just not made for TikTok,
Like they just.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Are on her ass.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
And when I was listening to these songs and dancing
to them, I was.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Like, you know what, her songs were great.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
I don't give two shits who sang the backtrack, the
French Ship.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
I don't care.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
I care that I'm dancing and that Jlo is an icon.
I don't care. Like I was, like I said to Chris,
I'm like, what the fuck? Go oh?

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Actually, Chris does Jlo is here too?

Speaker 1 (13:12):
So anyway, I don't know why I thought of Jlo
when I was at the box, don't ask me why,
but I was just like they were played a couple
of her songs, and I wanted to remind myself to say, like,
leave someone alone for being exactly who they always were,
Like you've just changed her opinion or because she's older,
you don't want the same thing from her.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Like this is what she does. She entertains, she dances,
she sings, she's so creating.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
She's allowed to be that, she's allowed to be that
Mariah's Mariah, Oprah's Oprah, Beyonce's Beyonce. Like they're all just
being who they are.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
What do you want?

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Like, there who they've always been. They gave you what
you wanted and now you want it different. I don't
know anyway. That just reminded me of that, but we
had the best time. Princess Kate was there when we
were there, which is a sighting, and it made me
think of how she has had such a glow up
and also like a public law up. The public always
loved her and she's always been poised. After the Queen died,

(14:09):
she became more regal and like has really just like
not only stepped into this role, embodied this role.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
She is a princess.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
Like, she's so incredibly poised and regal and elegant and
so incredibly royal.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
And it is a job. I mean, she is.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
There, she is taking the pictures, smiling the smiles, giving
the trophies. Like it's a lot of pressure. I have
to say, it's a fish bowl. It's endless scrutiny. I
just I thought she was very poised, and I just
really respect her from what I know, obviously I don't

(14:47):
know anything.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
I really respect her.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
Other things that happened, Kim Kardashian walked into Balenciaga fashion show,
and she's working with Balenciaga for years. I can't imagine
what they're paying her and people it were critical of
her walk, and I just want to say, walking seems easy,
but walking in a fashion show is not easy. So

(15:10):
I'm just saying to Kim, like she walked slow and
like dazed, and it was like not quite like vacant.
It was a little like abandoned. But last year I
was wearing shoes. I mean, you never know how heavy
her garment was. You never know what the pace of
what everyone else is doing is, Like, it's very hard.
She was on Dancing with the Stars years ago and
isn't a dancer, and it didn't go that well. But

(15:31):
I relate to that too, being on Skating with the Stars,
like you kind of freeze. It's not what you're normally
used to doing. It's easy for other people to sit
and say how easy it would be when they're.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Not doing it. Walking in a fashion show is just jarring.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
Like I did it with Loreel and I had the
biggest platform shoes you've ever seen, and I did not
practice with them at all. I never practiced with the shoes.
I never even thought about it. I just thought their
shoes and everybody was like, what the fuck? And it
was like giraffe like because they just said, do what
you want. I did what I wanted, But like I
would never have chosen those shoes if I knew what

(16:07):
that was gonna be. Like I didn't know, so I
don't know what she wore or didn't wear, how she
knows how to walk normally or walked for that I
saw it. It was a little off, but like, that's
not what she does, you know what I mean? She
can walk onto a carpet and pose when other people
aren't great at that. I'm not amazing at that, but
a walk down a runway is long longer than you

(16:29):
think in many cases, so it's daunting. Couples who I
love when I know nothing about them. Gigi Hadid and
Bradley Cooper love love, you know, I love George and
themal Princess. Kate and William love love and don't care Like, yes,

(16:52):
people have stories, they're married. They're humans with blood running
through their veins, but like love, buh. David Beckham and
Victoria Beckham love, Brooklyn Beckham and Pelts love
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