Lala Takes BravoCon 2025 (Michelle Saniei)

Michelle is ready to take on her first BravoCon! Find out how she is ready to take on this weekend…

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, gorgeous. It's Lala Kent.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Welcome to Untraditionally, Lala.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hello, gorgeous. It is Laala Kent. Welcome back to Untraditionally Lala.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
I have a cast member of the Valley, but also
one of my.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Dearest friends on the planet.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
I have Michelle say your last name, Michelle sonny E
sonny E. I love the way she says it. It's
so hot. Okay, so we're here at Bravocon. It's your
first ever Bravocon. What are you thinking?

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Oh my god, I think it's going to be madness,
But I don't know what to expect. I always go
into it just like go with the flow, see what
it's like. There's a lot of people I don't know,
So I'm excited to like make new friends.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, like become part of the Bravo family, where like
you see people and it's like they know you even
though you've never met, and you know them because you
guys watch each other's shows and it's like, yeah, come
to dinner and you're like okay, and it's.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
Kind of cool.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
I just already like met a few people in the
elevator and it's nice.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
I love that. I have to tell you guys.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Michelle has been sending outfits the past forty eight hours
and it hasn't ended.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
It hasn't ended.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Janet and I are on the plane here, yeah, and
Michelle sends a text and she's like, what about this?
Janet and I were dying. We were like, it's done, babe,
we're here.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
We're here.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
But I figured out my outfits. I think it's very
important to look good and I don't know what to
wear for what?

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Have we worked it out? Though?

Speaker 4 (01:22):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:22):
The lace look for the panel? Okay, I think I
changed my mind because that you want to be fun
for Okay, the black blazer another time? Are you nervous
for the panel?

Speaker 4 (01:32):
Not at all?

Speaker 3 (01:33):
No, I just really I feel like we've just finished
season three filming Season three, we've done a reunion.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
I'm like, how hard can a panel be? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
I love this mindset right there's I don't know exactly
how many people are in the room. I want to
give maybe like a three to five hundred maybe more.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
Really really eat a five hundred people?

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yes, Okay, what is it like for you being on TV?

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Do you enjoy it? Was it a shock?

Speaker 4 (02:03):
Thank you?

Speaker 3 (02:04):
I enjoy it It's funny watching yourself back. You learn
little quirky things about yourself. I didn't realize what an
accent I had. I thought this is just how people talk.
And then when I hear people say I talk different
or have an accent or whatever, now I see it.
I'm like, oh, how did no one ever notice? How
did I not notice that? And how did no one

(02:25):
ever tell me?

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Because that's normal when you're talking to someone. It wouldn't
be normal for them to be like you, you talk
differently than I do. Yeah, But when you open yourself
up to the audience, they no longer look at you
as like a real person. You're someone that they watch
on TV that they feel like they can critique and
pick at. And it's strange, Like, what is one of
the words that you didn't realize you were saying in

(02:47):
a weird way?

Speaker 4 (02:50):
Disaster and threatened?

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Threatened?

Speaker 2 (02:53):
That's the one she says, threatened instead of threatened.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Right, it is hard threatened?

Speaker 1 (02:59):
I get it? Can I tell you?

Speaker 2 (03:00):
When I introduced myself, is Lauren? Like I can't even
say my own name anymore? I'm like, Lauren does sound
It does roll off the tongue a little bit.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Easier.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah. I didn't realize that I had a k Whenever
there's a G like, I say, thinking, see I just
did it.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
Oh you did Yeah, okay, and.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Feel like you know that that's really bad and you
should fix that. I'm like, yeah, my dad told me
that years ago, but I never did. Who gives a shit?

Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Do you enjoy it? Are you enjoying it? Are you
enjoying not saying words wrong?

Speaker 3 (03:29):
I'm enjoying it more. I was very uncomfortable my first season.
I never wanted to be an actress. I'd never been
in front of a camera, so it was like very
awkward and you could see that I didn't know what
to say or do. And now it just feels like
it's part of life and it's just following us.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
So you feel like season three you were able to
be more of yourself.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
Definitely, Yes.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
And the cameras you were just there.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
I completely for yeah, I zoned it out, completely forgot
they're there. And all I could think about season one
is like, oh my god, there's a couple cameras and
staring at me.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Right. Yeah, So you are overthinking the first couple of
seasons for sure. What has been the hardest thing about
filming a reality TV show.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
The hardest part is having certain conversations that I don't
want to have, or hanging out with certain people on
certain days that I don't want to. I wouldn't typically
hang out with my ex husband all the time at
every party, and we have to do that.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Do you think that it's been good for your co
parenting relationship.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
He's better at dividing it than I departmentalize better.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
Yes. I take things very personal.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
If he treats me a certain way off camera or
on camera, like I think it's all one and he
doesn't agree with that. Okay, Yeah, I'm like, always be nice,
don't be nice just off camera or on camera, Like,
however you want to be, that's how you should be.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Okay, that makes sense to me.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
I feel like as you start going, because I didn't
venture into reality television until season four of vander Pump Rules,
so they were a very well oiled machine. They were
also very young, so the chaos was like nothing because
we were all chaotic at that point in time. Right,
So it is interesting because again I'm.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
New to the valley.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah, it is very different than filming vander Pump Rules
because you guys are very new to doing this, but
I have to say I had such a wonderful time
filming a television show with you.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
I did too.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
I honestly can't even imagine season three without you.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
You and I feel like you've come into your own
so much. I'm so excited for people to see it.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
Thanks. I'm looking forward to it too.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
I know. Yeah, No, you're like a new person, Michelle.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
We had a lot of good times we did.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, And I always say, like, I remember saying this
on the but it's always on a fucking butt the
bus on Vanner Pump Rules. I think it was season six.
I was like, you, guys, I want us to like,
even though we're beefing with each other, I want us
to enjoy this moment because there's gonna be a day
that we blink and we're no longer on this show,
and like, this is fucking cool. And I had moments

(06:18):
like that with you guys. Yeah, already my first season
in being like, wow, I'm like really enjoying this and
I'm gonna lean into it because even though it is
you have to have the hard conversations.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
It's so fucking fun. It should be fun and cool.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
It is, and I appreciated you saying that because I
took a step back and like close my eyes. I'm like,
this is a beautiful moment that we get to experience together.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
It is. Yeah, I'm very excited to like be with
you on this journey for real.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
You're a wonderful person. I love that you and I
have gotten so close. I'm thrilled that you did my
podcast of course anytime, and now I'm gonna send you for.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
You and get to Vegas and do a podcast immediately.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
I'm gonna send you off into the Vegas night, but
you have to do a bonus first. Thank you guys
for listening to another episode of Untraditionally La.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
I was gonna say Lalie.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
I was thinking, oh fuck, I have to sign Michelle
off and I forgot her last name again, so I
said Lalie Untraditionally La La with Michelle sonny.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
E, sonny E. We'll catch you on the bonus.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
Bye.