the take
the new RHONY cast showed up to the 20th anniversary Ultimate Girls Trip and didn't get the bubble costume or the jelly beans, and frankly we're offended on Dorinda's behalf. we get wanting to make the show your own, but you're part of this world now and the homework is right there. our proposal is mandatory enrollment at housewives university, ancient texts included. to be fair, the average viewer might be blinking at the jelly beans too. but if you're the new installment, you've got a legacy to uphold, and it's one of the better franchises.
this is the hosts' commentary and speculation for entertainment, not a statement of fact about anyone in it.
the backstory
The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: Roaring 20th celebrates 20 years of the Real Housewives by sending the cast to different cities to recreate iconic moments. In New York, Luann de Lesseps threw a Halloween party, and Dorinda Medley showed up in the Lady Gaga bubble costume she'd worn to a Halloween party on RHONY season 10.
Jessel Taank, from the current RHONY cast, questioned Dorinda for repeating an outfit. At the same party, Kelly Bensimon handed Jessel, Sai De Silva and Erin Lichy little bags of jelly beans. It was a callback to RHONY season 3's "Scary Island" trip, when Kelly started eating jelly beans in the middle of an argument and asked if anyone wanted one. Jessel apologized after Chanel Ayan told her she'd been rude. Dorinda later said on a SiriusXM show that it "would behoove" the new cast to do some research.
In the clip, we make the case for Housewives homework.
where it's from
transcript
auto-transcribed from the clip audio. speakers aren't labeled and there may be small errors.
- 0:00One of the things that the Real Housewives of New York, the new cast is actually getting
- 0:05criticized for right now is they do not appreciate like the ancient housewives texts. So this whole
- 0:12ultimate girls trip, it's the 20th anniversary of housewives. So when they go to each city,
- 0:18they're doing like the callbacks to like the parties that they had or like kind of the
- 0:23iconic moments. And what is happening right now in New York is the New York cast, the new cast is
- 0:30there, but they're not getting the references. Oh, I hate that. Like they didn't know why Dorinda
- 0:37was like dressed up in that like bubble costume. They didn't get why jelly beans were being served.
- 0:42And like look, for the average person, like you're just blinking, you're probably like,
- 0:46I don't get that either. But if you literally are the new installment of housewives,
- 0:51like you should have done your homework. And like, I get if you don't want to watch it all,
- 0:57because you don't want to kind of become a character of the show. Like I get if you kind of want to
- 1:01make it your own. But just those there being like, why are you wearing an outfit that you've already
- 1:06worn before? And it's like, no, this is a pretty iconic outfit that Dorinda wore.
- 1:11Right. And some of the seasons might be kind of like old by now, like feel a little dated,
- 1:16but they should they need to bring people through housewives university takes them through
- 1:20the ancient texts. This is your job. You're part of this world now. You're part of the house first.
- 1:25No, it's true. And like, you actually have a legacy to uphold because it aims one of the better
- 1:29franchises. Right.
faq
- Why did Dorinda wear the bubble costume on Ultimate Girls Trip?
- At Luann de Lesseps's Halloween party on RHUGT: Roaring 20th, Dorinda Medley re-wore her Lady Gaga bubble costume from a RHONY season 10 Halloween party, as a callback for the franchise's 20th anniversary.
- What's the jelly bean reference on RHONY?
- It goes back to the season 3 "Scary Island" trip, when Kelly Bensimon ate jelly beans in the middle of an argument and asked if anyone wanted one. On Roaring 20th, she handed jelly beans to the new RHONY cast as a callback.
