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To tease in a pod with Teddy Meloncat and camera Jedge.
So we are here exclusively our first time interviewing Andy Collen.
Wow exciting. You know what the issue is? So many
housewives have podcasts, as you may know that when I do,
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I understand there are some that stand out from the
top of the Anyway, when I do one, then I
really feel that I need to do all of them,
which is why I haven't done this show yet. It's
like very it's a slippery slope. It's like when you
follow the house you don't really how many housewives do act.
I don't. Well, that's a really good I don't follow
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any on Instagram. None, none, because then I have to
follow everybody. Yes, not one. If I follow one, yes,
you follow some of them. Do I have a fake No,
I don't. I have a fake account, but I don't
follow any. It's really for my Um it's to put
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pictures of my kids off my friend followers. Yeah, yeah,
it's just I can tell us the name. It's very boring,
but you could probably figure it out. Um. Well, my
dad actually called me the other day and he goes,
who's that boss of yours that you had and I'm like, um,
Alex Basket, I didn't know, and he's like, no, the
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one with the TV show. And I'm like Andy Cohen.
He goes, I think they asked me to do what
what happens live? I feel like you were doing it
with him that well, that's what he asked. He goes,
only if you're on with Yes, I thought that was
happening actually, But also, did you tell Tamara last night?
You go Teddy's here? Is she busting? And because yes,
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because you weren't on my list of talent? And yes,
I did a tamera with her mouth. She told me
not to tell you. Well, of course not, that's okay
and either of mine. Yes, no, I'm here, Yes, I
know she told me to be laughed at. Do you
realize who I'm on the Project Runway panel with who
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Chanelle on, even Marcel D. Kiley and then me clumping along?
There has to be a norm in the group. You're
the Marylyn Monster. Yeah, there's nothing word like being called
a normy or like my husband will say that I'm
wife material and like, what does that mean? I don't
think that's what I think. By the way, what I
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think one of your assets is and in a group
of people, is that you are a voice of reason.
I would characterize you as a voice of reason, and
so I don't think that's a bad thing. Now you're
on a panel with all these fashion show stoppers. I mean,
I think you can speak from a more um ground, exactly,
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Like you know, what's it like walking into a freaking
dinner party with Erica, Jane and Dore Like exactly. Yeah,
I'm already I'm having PTSD about it in advance because
I tried walking in the shoes and I was like, no,
I didn't crsh not looking sexy. Such a big mouth.
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Well she didn't really say. I mean, I like your
pink hair. Thank you. Anytime I'm in a crisis, I
do something with the hair. So my next question for you,
which the listeners want to know, is why do I
get fired? Um? Why did you get fired? That's the
question you're asking me right now. I think back, when
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did you get fired? Ask you this when you got fired?
Who came in the following season? Crystal? My friend Crystal
came in the season after you and Garcel, So it
was only I was with Oh, you were with Scar.
I feel like, you know what every I think one
of the successes of the Real Housewives franchise is that
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for sixteen years we have been taking people in and
out of the game. And it's like the mob. Sure,
you're never truly out here. You are here, we are,
and so I feel like, you know, and you turn
up occasionally. I just feel like sometimes you gotta take
a player out of the game and keep it fresh. Well,
speaking of pauses, you somebody in the Real Housewives of
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Beverly Hills reunion said, is that going to happen? That's
what everyone is? That what everyone wants to know. Um,
there's no Beverly Hills that we haven't we as you know,
we wait for the reunions to end and then you know,
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to air and we sit with it and so we'll see,
we'll see where we are. We'll see where we're at.
So non answering, non answer, only not answered. All right, Well,
we love watching her and recapping her because she's just
she's something to recap. Well, especially the social media and
I was just going to say, there's a big show
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going on off the show as well, disastrous. Well, that's
that's my question. Something that we continue to talk about
on the pod is when you bring in a housewife
like on Beverly Hills, but is so rich like a
Diana that then they're used to not showing up to
a work or whatever, like you don't get it, Like
I'm like, I was, it's office. No, it's interesting. So
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does it change the dynamic when they come in so
powerful like a Diana that well, so powerful or so
I think too much time? In her case, she very
she very proudly said she didn't watch the show before
she came on, And I just and I think that, Um,
I kind of do based on her relationship with the show,
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and I kind of do believe it because I know
that when it was first airing, she was not a
big fan of it and she was like, wait, this
is kind of ridiculous. And I said to Alex, has
she watched the show? And he said, no, she didn't,
And so I thought, well, I think it's always a
good idea to know what you're getting into. So did
she have COVID or she was sick? They said no?
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Um can I say? They said she had COVID? But
how do you have there? That's a really good question.
And then there's videos of her like without like the
people without masks no, but apparently she was. Everyone. Everyone
was saying, no, Andy, she is legit because I was like,
oh really, she's like and they were like no, no, no, no, no,
she is legitimately sick. So she certainly pulled it together.
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She looked like a million yeah, minus reading the que
cards right above that. I don't everyone saying that there
were que cards? Do you feel like so think about
when you watch houselights, do add I think about it
and I understand. But what you have to know is
I was throwing questions with her in a random order.
That would mean someone was like, get the Jeffrey Epstein, Like,
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I don't know, she's probably expecting a couple of yes. No,
I think she was probably I don't know. I mean way,
I don't think I have to go to the press line,
all right,
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