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're doing well and had a wonderful week.

As I'm recording this intro to the

episode with Sophie Ross. It is a Saturday afternoon and the late afternoon. And I believe that at this

exact moment, LvP, Ariana, and Lala are walking the red carpet at the White House Correspondence

dinner. So I used to go to the

correspondence, not the dinner, but the cocktail parties that are before the dinner. So in the

hotel, each sort of ballroom hosts a cocktail party by different media outlets. So they'll be

like a Wall Street Journal party,

a Vanity Fair party,

a CNN slash Time Warner party.

And you kind of go between the rooms

and the various cocktail parties.

And it was just such a fun thing to do back in the Obama days.

And it was back when celebrities like wanted to come to D.C.

And it was fun to see them and

schmooze and get dressed up and all of that. So I'm so happy that Ariana is getting her

flowers, that everyone is showing her so much love. And I was listening to Lala's podcast

earlier today. And she mentioned that Ariana actually hasn't had anxiety since

breaking up from Tom. It was like all of the issues may have been potentially related to the

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