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Woohoo.

Woohoo! Woohoo! It's been a week since BravoCon started, but I still have not recovered.

While it's overwhelming and Go Go Go and action-packed and exhausting, it's also honestly

one of my favorite weekends of the entire year. It activates the fan in me, but it's also a work event for me. It's rewarding and affirming and fun to see everybody, not just who I watch on TV, but also obviously who I interview, the people who set up those interviews, and the people who interview them for other outlets, also the faces behind so many incredible Bravo fan accounts. Everywhere you turn, you're reuniting with someone, putting the face to a name of someone you've only conversed with online, or meeting somebody in person for the first time that you've been dying to talk to. So for this week's Friday episode, I wanted to do a BravoCon recap of sorts with someone else who was there. So later in this episode, I'll be chatting with Rachel Lindsay, who I hung out with a bit at BravoCon and who hosted three panels throughout the weekend. She hosts the ringer's great bravo podcast called Morley Corrupt, alongside some other really great women, who I was with a lot of the weekend in the press room, Chelsea Stark Jones and Jody Walker. We had a great combo about the weekend, but I also wanted to give you an overview and touch on the few things we didn't get to discuss before you play you that chat.

This was the third bravocon, my third time going, but the first one in Vegas, the first two in New York, and it was certainly the smoothest run yet.

The incredible team behind the event found ways to streamline it, add breathing room to the schedule, and shoren or honestly allout eliminate a lot of the lines. And the space this year at Caesar's Forum was really perfect for it. There are only two panel rooms this year as opposed to three, which honestly, it minimized a lot of the rush to catch as many events as possible. So like last year at Javits, there was kind of like this frenzy at all times to like hit as many things as possible and get in line, yada, yada, yada. But for the most part, both rooms were more than big enough to accommodate everybody who wanted to attend any of a panel. So as opposed to last year, where you had to line up for a chance to even get into certain panels and people were literally sitting on the ground in front of the stage because there were no more VIP seats left. None of that happened this year. The only time I heard that people had to wait in line for a panel was for the new Roney panel, which was one of the few real house-wise panels held in the smaller of the two rooms. Dubai was also in that room, but it overlapped with a lot of the Southern Charm panel in the big room, and it was pretty empty in there.

Like, I went for the last 20 minutes or so, and it was very sparsely attended. Where you were more likely to wait in line, and where it was worth it to wait in line was at the Bravo Bazaar, which is honestly the biggest pro tip I shared with anybody who asks. So if you want to go next year, definitely file this way. hanging out in the bravo Bazaar is your single best chance to get up close and personal with multiple Bravo Librities every day if you're not in VIP. So while there are a lot of official photo ops you have to sign up for, many of the bravo liberties also have booths for their products and brands in the Bravo Bazaar that they'll stop by at least once a day to meet fans, sell product, take selfies, yada, yada, yada, and you can wait in line to meet them. Though they will cut off the lines at some point, but like if you get in line, it moves pretty quickly and like you are probably going to meet that person. And yeah, some of the lines were long. So like the Trace Amigas and Craig and Erica and Chena, like their lines were very long and they got probably cut off pretty quickly. But none of them were too bad, honestly. And especially when you compare that to the fact that like 500 people were waiting in line to take a photo with Kathy Houghton last year. I don't know how many of them ended up actually getting a photo with her, but it was pretty untenable last year. So I'm glad they changed that. Yeah, so like this year, you had to actually sign up for the official photo ops ahead of time, which I heard some people complaining about, but ultimately at the event, I didn't really hear any complaints about that process. Those were also held in a slightly different space that I never went to because I didn't sign up for any of them, but I honestly, again, I didn't hear anything negative about that experience. If you were in VIP, the best place to post up was in the VIP lounge, though, which a lot of the Bravo stars were just like constantly going in and out of to mingle and take photos with fans in. Most of my friends who run fan accounts and had VIP bracelets were in there for a lot of the time, do panels and had a lot of success hanging out and taking pictures with the favorite people. If you were in VIP, you also got a bonus bravo paloosa experience, which it's basically just like a more curated VIP lounge, which you get given a specific time to go and they drop in a random assort of the Bravo Levitis for you to mingle with, have cocktails with, and take photos in front of a step or repeat with. Personally, I was going back and forth between the panel rooms and the press room,

which had a very, very, very long red carpet in it that pretty much everybody on Bravo

walked down at some point during the first two days.

And like the schedule for the press room, you guys, holds some of the most telling

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