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 Slutsger. Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone. I hope you're having a good week and happy Super Bowl Sunday and Rihanna

Concert with Football to all who celebrate. We've had a wild week with Bravo, a couple of

premieres, a Potomac finale. I am here for what this kind of late winter is bringing us on Bravo and really excited for Summer

House, which premieres this coming week. But back to Vanderpump Rules. Guys, I think they're back.

It felt like an older season of Vanderpump Rules. A lot of them are single. There's messiness

happening. There's actual real-life drama,

and we've stopped pretending that all of them work at Sir. It's exactly what I think a lot of us have

been asking for. We want to see their actual lives. And we get to do that. It starts out with

finding out about Tom and Katie's divorce. You know, it's

interesting to watch them. It will be kind of going through this because I think they were a bit

naive in the beginning that they could stay close friends, but also go through divorce. And I know

they have to be on good terms because

they share custody of their two dogs and they share many friends in common and they are

co-workers, right, on Vanderpump rules. But I think they were a bit naive about, you know,

that everything would go completely smoothly because divorces are messy, right? And I

personally am really proud of Katie. I think it's a very brave thing to do to be in a situation

where, you know, it's all you've basically known your adult life is to be with this man.

And everyone assumes you'll kind of stay together in your friend group, maybe in your

families and stuff like that. But you know you're unhappy. And you decide to actually take

action to try and address that, saying, you know what, I don't deserve whatever this is.

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