Welcome to Is This Real Life, a Bravo podcast that relates our favorite shows to our own lives in the world around us.

I'm your host, Mandy Slutszer. Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone. I hope you had a great week. We got so much from Bravo this week. They announced Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip season forecast. It's going to be shot in Marrakesh, Morocco. We've got a number of people from Ultimate Girls Trip season two returning and a few new people joining in, including

Alex McCord, who I thought would never, ever return to housewives. I don't know if there's

anything I'm more excited for than just seeing what I believe is a pretty quote unquote normal regular woman

who's left the Bravo world, left the United States of America, living in Australia,

working, I believe, as a psychologist.

I can't wait to see her in the mix with Brandy Glanville and Vicki Gunvelson.

I think it'll be great TV.

We also got the trailers for both Vanderpump Rules and Summerhouse this week.

Vanderpump Rules looks like it's finally got its act back together.

And I'm not sure if previous season trailers looked good and then the seasons were a dud,

or if, I don't know, it's like the last three to four years, we've all kind of been watching,

wondering if the magic was just completely gone.

And I feel like it comes back this season.

Seeing Katie and Schwartz's divorce play out, he ends up making out with Raquel, who also

goes out on a date with Garcel's son, Garcel Beauvais, makes an appearance in the Vanderpump Rules trailer. I mean, Ariana's comment,

what is it like out there? Is it a cornucopia of delicious dick? It's just like a line for the

ages. I mean, all the problems with opening Schwartz and Sandys. I've always kind of wondered if there

was ever, I don't know,

trouble in the Tom's relationships just because I feel like Tom Sandoval actually moves the two of

them along and Schwartz kind of just goes along with it but doesn't play as large of a role.

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