Hello, hello, welcome to the naughty but nice show. I'm your host, Rob Shooter, and it is Wednesday, which means our dear friend, Donnie Meacham joins us. Hey, Donnie there Hello Wednesday I almost fell out of my chair I almost fell backwards I had to go I had to save myself I literally was sitting here and I was like boop I almost fell In your face you went I went I was a little startled And then I was like Should I just carry on speaking While? Well, he, while he grabs himself up from the floor, while you pull yourself up from your, with your bootstraps. I was like, Donnie's on the floor. We've only just been in the show for less than a minute. You're crazy, Donnie. How's life in L.A.? I never ask you. Are you happy there? I never ask you about yourself. How are you doing?

No, I, you know, life is life. And this is the thing about people don't understand. There was like, oh, you live in these fabulous places, fabulous. Life is life. Like, it's more fun here because I'm allowed to be gay, allowed to be myself, and, you know, I have fabulous friends and stuff like that. I was like, but if I had the same friends,

you know,

in Georgia,

I still love it.

So it's not like the place that makes it amazing.

It's the people.

Yeah,

it's the people.

That's really smart.

Would you ever think of coming back to New York?

You were pretty gay here.

Sweetie,

I've actually gotten straighter since I've been here.

But no, I don't, I can't do the colds, I only got one good hip I only got one good hip, I can't break the other Right, you had your hip free place Yeah, a lot of older people do leave to go to Florida for the weather I'm not in Florida Let's jump into the show Let's jump into the show What time is it my friends, it Tea time, big story at the top of the show. Now, you know I love some real housewives. I get it. It can be a little annoying, but let me walk you through this a little slowly. And the reason I love this one is a throwback to the old Walder Housewives, the original Housewives. The ladies that I actually really was sort of maybe not invested in,

but at least I knew who they were. I don't know any of the new ones. So Kelly Bensamon, who was on

the Real Housewives of New York, she was a fashion model in New York. She was married to Gilles,

Binsamon, who was the artistic creator, director of Elle magazine. So L magazine, Vogue, L, these are Harper's Bazaar,

W, these are the high-end glossy fashion magazines. Kelly was married to Gilles, and that gave her

access to really the world of fashion and celebrities. I remember I was working with Alicia Keys,

and she was on the cover of Elle, and I went to the photo shoot. She never looked better better. Gilles the best in the business. Kelly was there. Kelly was at the photo shoot. So she's always been around. She's very connected. She went on to the housewives and everybody thought it would be a bad fit. And I think it was because she came up against Bethany Frankel. Now, Bethany was on the housewives since day one. I've known her for 20 years.

A New York sort of hustler, really in it to win it. Always got another idea. When I knew her before

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