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 Sleutzer. Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone. I hope you had an okay week. I know it's been really overwhelming with so many

horrible things happening in the news, but we got some good news from the Bravo world.

Kristen Doty and Luke Broderick had their baby. They named her Kyle Lilly, which is such a

beautiful name. And I totally missed it, but Nia and Danny also had a

baby, I think maybe a week prior to Kristen and Luke, and their baby girl is named Adelaide.

And, you know, we can always use a new baby for something to celebrate, because things have been dire lately.

Some other exciting news is that Rachel Zoe is joining the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

And I know that the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills has such a following, but I just never feel like it is hitting on all cylinders the way that the

Real Housewives of Miami or the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City hit. I just feel like

the women aren't willing to show all parts of themselves. They're trying to curate an image

a lot more than they are just living. And I don't, I don't know. I just don't enjoy it as much as I

enjoy, you know, Miami and so forth. And so I don't know if Rachel Zoe is going to like bring it up.

I don't think Denise Richards like really brought up, you know, Beverly Hills in the way that maybe

we thought she would, although her first year was fantastic.

You know, so I'm just, I don't know, I'm not very positive about the real housewives of Beverly Hills.

I feel like as long as we have people like Kyle Richards on the show and Andy confirmed that she's coming back,

she's not someone who really bears it all.

And I feel like we're just going to get these like half stories. And I cannot,

for the life of me, figure out why people watch that franchise more than so many other franchises.

Because guys, if you have not been paying attention, please get on the Miami train. It is so

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