Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald - Traitors, Palm Beach Secrets and Hollywood Scandals
Episode Date: January 20, 2026I get into the latest with Hollywood toxic moms and why it may be your next binge worthy show. Actor Timothy Busfield is accused of SA, will he prevail. Traitors’ go at it. RHSLC Angie creatively tr...olls Lisa Barlow. Can anyone fire an assistant in Beverly Hills? Then I interviewed Ro-Mina from Netflix’s Member’s Only Palm Beach and she shares all the secrets. -Ready to give your liver the support it deserves? Head to dosedaily.co/JUICYSCOOP or enter JUICYSCOOP to get 35% off your first subscription. Your body does so much for you—let's do something for it. -Take proactive care of your health and head to OPositiv.com/JUICYSCOOP or enter JUICYSCOOP at checkout for 25% off your first purchase. -Refresh your wardrobe with Quince. Don't wait. Go to quince.com/juicy for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too. -For a limited time, Nutrafol is offering our listeners $10 off your first month’s subscription and free shipping when you go to nutrafol.com and enter the promo code JUICYSCOOP -Join Thrive Market with my link ThriveMarket.com/JUICYSCOOP for 30% off your first order plus a FREE $60 gift!! Subscribe to my new show Juicy Crimes!: https://bit.ly/juicycrimes Stand Up Tickets and info: https://heathermcdonald.net Subscribe to Juicy Scoop with Heather McDonald and get extra juice on Patreon: https://bit.ly/JuicyScoopPod https://www.patreon.com/juicyscoop Watch the Juicy Scoop On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JuicyScoop Shop Juicy Scoop Merch: https://juicyscoopshop.com/ Follow Me on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heathermcdonald TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@heathermcdonald YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HeatherMcDonaldOfficial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Hello and welcome to Juicy Scoop. As always, I have a great show for you. We have so many hot, juicy topics to get into, lots of updates, even a couple crimes. And then I have a great interview with another star from members only Palm Beach, which everyone's talking about. And she answers a lot of questions about my previous guest, Hillary. So stay tuned for that. That'll be great. It's Romina. So let's see.
Let's get into first everything I have to tell you before we get to that juicy interview.
The toxic mom story that we've been talking about, well, hopefully Ashley Tinsdale is making lemonade out of lemons.
Because the talk of the town is that several companies are looking to make a movie or a limited series out of the article that she wrote.
This is what's really important when you have a great idea, whether you're famous or not, that you have some,
type of intellectual property to sell, like a piece of real estate. That's a book. That's the
podcast series like Risa Tisa that told her whole horrible story about her former husband.
And now she's got a series that's being made and she's got other things happening.
This article that was written, I think it was for the cut, that's something that someone
could make something of. The movie Mean Girls that Tina Faye wrote, she,
woke up one day and read an article about Queen Bees in one of these magazines a long-form
article and sought out to get that intellectual property to make a movie about it
because she read it she saw how this could be perceived as a movie so if this
becomes a movie or a TV show it might not have stars it might just be rich women
it might be something that someone is working on right now that they don't
have to give Ashley Tisdale credit for because
because it's so relatable.
I mean, essentially, Real Housewives,
the whole franchise is basically about toxic moms.
It's about women becoming friends
because they have something in common.
Originally it was that they all lived in Cota
to cause an OC.
And then one gets ousted and what's the reason?
Of course, with this, it involves small children,
their friendships, who's doing what?
Are you cool enough?
Do you kind of bug?
We want you not to go to the experience and then add that other layer of social media of high-profile women where you open up your phone.
You think you're like, oh, I'm so glad I stayed in tonight on a Saturday night.
I'm feeling great.
Had a lovely dinner with my family and I didn't drink and isn't that nice and you roll into bed and you open your phone and you see all of your supposed best friends doing one of those toasting.
What do you call those things where it's like the bongo, like when like the drinks crash into each other,
it's like a certain kind, whatever.
And they're at a restaurant that's down the street from you and you easily could have attended had you been invited.
And then you're like, wow, those are some toxic bitches that didn't invite me.
I think I'll write an article about it.
Who knows?
But that is juicy.
Hopefully if something comes of it, I really hope that she gets some executive.
producer or that she's the one that's already shopping it, that she and her team had the
wherewithal to go, whoa, whoa, whoa, before anyone grabs this, you need to be the one that,
you know, executes this. So let's hope that for her. As we know, Keith Urban and Nicole
Kinman, their divorce is final. Very quick. From the moment they announced it to it becoming final,
I don't know if they had the greatest pre-dup, the greatest post-up, or they just hate each other
enough and they're rich enough to go, let's wrap this up really.
quick, we're both on the same page of wanting this to end. Because like I always say, rarely
are you on the same page? And one person usually drags her feet and gets joy out of making
it difficult for the other. Well, there was always rumors that he, part of the reason that they
broke up is that he was having a romantic relationship with a young woman in his band. So page
six reported that Keith Urban moves in with new girlfriend after Nicole Kidman divorce report.
this was just a couple days ago well now that girl her name's carly scott collins she has said no i'm
not romantic with keith irvin this is not true and no we've not moved in together so maybe that is
true maybe she does feel so she doesn't want that like homework or thing and she's like let's wait
like you know six months to a year see where this still goes if in fact they are romantic but she has
stated we are not romantic. This is an untrue article. Okay, now let me tell you about the very
disturbing story that we've talked a little bit about, especially on my new show, Juicy Crimes,
which, by the way, a new episode drops tomorrow Wednesday with my fabulous sister and
a criminal defense attorney, Shannon McDon Goldstein, and we cover several crimes. And it's a really
great one. So I hope you guys subscribe and listen to that, leave a review, and do all the things.
It's free on all platforms as well as YouTube.
You can watch our two cute faces together.
Okay.
So Melissa Gilbert from Little House in the Prairie,
also former SAG after president.
That's the president of the Actors Guild.
She has been married to Timothy Busfield,
who has been a writer, director, producer, all of that.
For many years, he's 68 years old.
He was accused and arrested for child.
essay of twin boys who played the role of one boy on the show, the cleaning lady, in which he was the director.
So they went to their parents. The parents went to authorities, doctors or psychiatrists, or we don't know all the facts,
interviewed them, took it to the Albuquerque police. I guess that's where this movie was filmed or where he was living. I'm not exactly sure.
and sought to get him arrested for this.
He is trying to get out on bail.
He has claimed this is not true that the parents of the twins, you know, have several shady things in their past.
This was which if you look it up, yes, there is one.
There's lawsuits.
They're professional people.
Both of the parents are professional people, but they've had lawsuits.
They've had accused of things.
They've been, you know, convicted of things.
I don't want to get into all the details, but like, yeah, they've had some white collar type of situations happen with the parents.
But they were also stage parents to these twins.
Now, as someone who grew up in L.A., we had an agent when we were little.
Her name was Iris Burton.
She was very New Yorkie.
And she would say, I need a good set of twins.
A set of twins can work double the time.
That's what I need.
Identical twins.
Identical twins are extremely valuable on a.
show because you need you that way if the child is little they can work twice as long you
switch one out for the other hence the Olson's twins you know that's what they did they
were both playing the one little girl so in this also you know it also really helps
for child actors if they look a lot younger than they are because they have the brain and the
vocabulary of a seven and eight year old but they're the size of a five-year-old
So in this show, the cleaning lady, I didn't know what it was about, so I looked it up.
And there is a character of a little boy, the lead son, who is very sick.
And she's doing all this stuff cleaning up for the mob, I don't even know, to get money
to help her kid.
The twins were playing that role for a couple years.
That is where they claim that they were groomed and, well, the people have said it must be
grooming. But that that's where inappropriate stuff was happening. There was touching, and these
are the accounts, these felony accounts that he's been accused of. Okay. So after the second season,
they were not asked to come back. In fact, it looks like they replaced that child's role with
just one child. And he feels that is why they have made up these lies.
about him and this is the retaliation, that the twins are no longer playing this role. Well, that makes
sense. Maybe now they look like they're 10 and the kids has to only be seven now. Maybe because there
aren't that many scenes with this kid, they could just hire one child and not the twins. It's Hollywood,
it's show business, it sucks. And yes, even little kids are too old to work sometimes, just like
women. So that's what he's claiming. They, of course, are saying not. What's bad is in his past.
There was a case where he settled for $150,000 with someone who brought complaints about him groping
them. There's another girl back from when he had his theater group, a theater, children's
theater in Sacramento, that she and her dad have come forward, that something traumatic happened
to her when she was auditioning with him when she was just 16, that would definitely be under
the jurisdiction of absolute, like, essaying, assault of a child, all of that. But the wife, Melissa
Gilbert, is sticking by him. She wants him out on bail. In doing that, he had to explain what
his sexual life was. He said, I have a very healthy sexual life with my wife, Melissa
Gilbert. Though since we're older, it's more cuddling than sex. I like to.
masturbate in the shower because it's quick and easy and neither of us like porn and we never have
and everyone's like oh my god do we all have to know this yeah we have to know it because he's a public
figure and this is all over the news so that's what he's saying about the accusers that's what the
accusers saying about him that they're traumatized the young boys are traumatized they have PTSD
they're telling the truth has nothing to do with them not being asked to be in the third season
So we don't know yet if he's going to get out early or wait till trial.
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but let's just get to the juiciest part. So Michael Rappaport is a actor.
who jumped on my jock and got into talking about Real Housewives.
I had him on years ago, and I did enjoy his take on Real Housewives.
I thought he was hilarious.
So he covers a lot of Real Housewives stuff, but he's like that New Yorkie,
like, I don't give a fuck, you know, and it's like,
get your fucking ass out of here.
And he'll just like scream with the camera, and it's like just very jarring after a while.
So anyway, he's perfect for the traders, right?
So he's on.
And the whole point of the traders, would you watch or not,
is that you have to convince everybody,
that you're not a traitor, that you're faithful. And if you are a traitor, you have to lie the whole way.
And if anyone thinks that you might be a traitor, they want to kick you out. And of course,
you want to stay till the end. So that's how you make your 250. And so then you have to be like,
what? I'm not a traitor. You know who's good at lying? Is this guy over here? Like, think about it.
He lied about this at breakfast. He said he liked milk. And then he, we found out he was lactose intolerant.
and like, that's a liar. Like, whatever you're going to try to do, right? So Colton Underwood is a very
cute guy. He was on the bachelor. He was the bachelor. He was the bachelor. He fell in love with a
girl named Cassie. A couple years later, she broke up with him. And it all came out that he was a
freaking nightmare that he was stalking her. She had to get a restraining order. He put a
tracker on her car. He was, she was getting all these horrible messages from strangers. So she
thought and then so was he. It turned out they were all from him. Like he was doing like that catfish
thing like that mom did where he was acting like a victim too. The story is very convoluted. It's
based on my memory as a comedic commentator. So don't hold me to everything I'm saying. But it was a lot.
And thank God Cassie got away. She's like married. Her sister's doing well. They're all,
they're all fine. But she's not really in the limel anymore. Then after all that happened,
and everyone was like, what a freak is Colton.
Then Colton was like, well, I need to tell you something.
I'm gay.
And then everybody said, oh, well, that's why you were such an awful person
because you weren't living your truth.
Oh, God, Cassie should forgive you for that.
She should get over that.
You were just a frustrated, cute guy
that couldn't be himself all those years.
You had to act like you liked women
and wanted to go to the prom so far that you went and dated 25 women
and said, I want to marry all of you.
And this whole time you had this secret.
that that is awful that you had to live that secret so then they're like let's film this secret
so they give colton coming out colton or whatever he has a series and it's all about him
going around and telling his friends he's gay and everybody being like we love you and the macho dad
being like of course i love you and you know whatever as they should then he meets then he meets
this other guy they get married they have i believe they have a child he's gotten another show where he is
was hosting virgins on an island with Caitlin Bristow.
And then, of course, he gets on traders.
And he's still very cute and likable.
So Michael Rappaport is trying to get, everyone wants to get rid of Michael Rappaport
because he's screaming in their ear with his New York accent like every fucking day.
And they're just like, oh my God.
And so he's like, don't get rid of a faith.
If you get rid of a faithful, then an extra trader is staying.
The whole goal is to get rid of the traders.
And they get like, they get like knighted in the very beginning.
So they like, you figure out who it is.
So he's like, I'm not a traitor, you know, and everything.
And who you should look at is this guy, Colton.
I mean, talk about keeping a lie.
He knows how to keep a lie.
Something to that effect.
Well, everyone was like, are you saying, are you being homophobic?
Are you?
And then Colton's like, oh, so you're saying because I kept my sexuality secret for 29 years.
Okay.
All right.
and now the world is debating.
Was Michael Rappaport just trying to get the heat off of him
and just pointing to anything?
And that didn't even occur to him
or he didn't even remember that story
because quite honestly, I forgot the story of Colton
until this cute girl, Demi Burnett,
reminded us all on her Instagram and it went viral.
I believe that she might have been a contestant on the Bachelor
and she was reminding us of the hell that he put Cassie through.
Now, I believe people can be forgiven. I believe he's probably a delight. He's probably a lot of fun to be in Scotland with. And they probably enjoy his company at breakfast way more than screaming Michael Rappaport. But that's what's going on at traders. So there you go. Well, I got this sent to me. Like I said, there's a lot of things you don't know that are totally true that are like on these news articles. But someone said, Heather, this is what you and Chris were talking about. I want to say it was really Chris who said it. I like to you.
credit, credits do, on my show, but we've talked about where he said there should be a show
called Cancel House, where everybody that was canceled from politicians to reality stars to
whomever all come together and talk about being canceled and see if they're still worthy of being
canceled. Well, according to the Ancler, Scoop, that's how they started. I'm like, could you
be copying me more? Just kidding. Scoop E, my old television station, along with Chris Rangeloa,
supposedly is developing a new show to bring back canceled stars so just to remind you it was chris
fangela and i piggybacked on the idea and um you're welcome so we'll see if that happens
also a former bachelor uh clayton who had a very juicy story after he was off the bachelor which
I've covered where this crazy girl that he showed a house to that he allowed to give him a BJ
tried to say that she was pregnant with his child. And then he found out that she'd done it to like
four other guys. And she was trotting around Scottsdale and Phoenix with fake sonograms,
torturing people and making them think that they were going to be dads when she was never
pregnant at all. And it was a very juicy story. And nobody wanted to touch it because no one wants
to say a woman is a crazy liar, but she was. Anyway, good for him. In the process of defending,
himself saying there's no way I could have impregnated this girl. I just wanted to sell her a house.
Again, realtors, it's so sad. The amount of grifters and liars that go to realtors and try to get
their hopes up that you're going to make, you know, $50,000 on a commission, oh my God,
you've got to check out these people, please. And if you're a woman, don't put any of them in your car.
Meet them at the house with somebody after you've run a credit report. Okay. Anyway, he,
likes to Pickleball and according to this,
Pickleball is going to have its first reality TV series and Clayton is going to be the host.
So good for him.
I, as someone who's entered the world of Pickleball life, I don't know that there's like
enough in it to like, I think more has to happen.
I think pickleball could be the backdrop.
But there's definitely a prototype of a type of woman that when you meet her, she seems
real fun to play with. And then when you start to get better and beat her like I have,
they don't like you as much. And then they start to say, oh, I had too many cups of coffee.
Oh my God, the sun. The sun is in my eyes. We need to switch sides. And I'm like, but I just
was on your side and I beat you and then we switch sides. No, we need to switch sides. Once we get
to at least seven, we'll switch. Okay. But we all have sunglasses and hats.
but all right let's do it you know oh the wind is at my back i know i just played that side
is this a reality show i don't know i'm just happy that i'm hitting the ballback at all so i'm
not like out to win but it could get sticky it could get fun the show i'm really excited about
is the ultimate girls trip this is the cast okay this they are going in an rv now i don't know
how this is going to work if they're really going to go across the country
or if they're going to have little stints in the RV in the afternoon and then stop at a hotel
and then their glam can meet them there and they can have a normal light sleep because if they're
really like in a van like a rock star I don't know how you're going to get your makeup done
I don't know how you're going to deal with the menopause air conditioning in a RV so I don't
know how they're going to do it but it's going to be fucking entertaining it's Vicki Galvinson
Lou Anne Teresa Kyle
Portia, and Giselle from Potomac, and Lisa Barlow. Oh my God, I love a very, very different life from all
these people, but we're all in an RV. I love that there is one girl from each of the top
franchises. I think this is genius. I can't believe they got them all to do it. I think it's going to be
fun. I love the crossover and all of that. So hopefully this will be a success. We will never see
the footage of Morocco. I have talked to numerous attorneys. No one wants to take on my class
action lawsuit to get the footage. I think we need to accept it. And I think we need to be
excited about other stuff. Speaking of the Real House, I was a Salt Lake City. They had their first
of three episodes, episode reunion. It's a lot of yelling, but it's so entertaining. We got into
Kankle accusations. We got into, again, the businesses.
husbands, you were awful to my husband, all of that.
The only thing I thought that was sort of compelling is when Heather Gay, they did like a
review of like the last 100 episodes and how funny and how successful the show is because
women are all entertaining.
And Heather Gay goes, I am just so happy that I took this opportunity because at the time,
physically I wasn't like at my best.
I knew I'd get criticized, which she was for her looks and her weight from the cast members,
from everybody that's watching it.
And since then, she has gotten fit.
She looks beautiful.
She's written two books.
She did a docu-series.
She's, you know, built her business, which was already there.
She used it for, like, she was the least, she's like the Lisa Vanderpump that has really
taken it and taken every opportunity.
And I got to give her that, you know.
and so good for her.
Good for her.
Okay, but this was fun.
So Lisa Barlow said to Angie,
yes, I have a very different life than any of you lead.
Yes, I do.
Because I'm doing events with Gwyneth Paltrow, she said Gwyneth and Ben Affleck.
That is right.
You've been to my events, Heather Gay.
You know that you've seen the stars.
They all love my Vita tequila.
I don't know why you're talking.
It's very upsetting to me.
Oh, really?
It's very, no, it's very.
upsetting because I know that yes I have not had a facelift I love threads it lifts my
face I feel good about myself whatever she's saying all that stuff so then Ben Affleck
and his best friend and life partner what the hell is this name Ben and you look at
Ben's best friend I can't think of his name no not Jen's not his best friend Jens or
his two ex-wives anyway they're promoting some movie
And what's this last name?
Affleck.
Aflack.
Whoever Ben's best friend is, okay?
They are doing some movie together.
And they, yes.
So Ben and Matt Damon, life partners,
they're sitting doing an interview.
And this female interviewer says,
I got to ask you, Ben, you may not know,
but have you heard of Lisa Barlow
from the Real House of Salt Lake City?
And he was so like taken aback.
And he's like, I don't even know what to say.
because I don't remember her.
I meet a lot of people,
but I don't want to say something
that would sound like I'm a snob
who's like, you know,
someone's feeling is being hurt.
But no, I don't remember meeting her.
She does have a photo with him
for many years ago.
And then Angie wrote,
Ben doesn't remember Lisa Barlow,
but he does remember my cat, Cecil, or something.
And that was like a triple troll
because she was referring to
when Mary Cosby farted
and blamed her cat.
So it was just like, wow, that's a lot to follow.
And I had to look it up.
I had to do some research to go, what?
What is this diss?
I don't get it.
Anyway, people fart.
People fart with gout.
People fart while they're making out with someone other than their wife.
And people suck dicks that have gouts too.
And then they also get divorced because Bronwyn is divorcing Todd,
which I think will be announced in the next episode.
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills was it's pretty,
it's pretty dull though I'm entertained. Nothing major is happening. They're in Sedona and that's
supposed to be, you know, Sutton's trip. And we've talked about Scamanda, Amanda. And she has these,
there's nothing wrong with it. You can sell courses. You can sell books. You can talk to people
about spending a weekend with you where you teach them how to go to Michaels and make a manifestation board.
And look, some of those things might come true.
So there's nothing wrong with doing it.
Manifest Mama, who is my new persona,
she has got things going on.
And I have some very exciting things to announce
because you've all asked for more of manifesting Mama.
And I am ready to meet with individuals about it.
How to get it going?
Anyway, she also is a one-upper.
And she likes to tell everybody,
oh, I'm ready to go on the hike with my Chanel backpack.
And Sutton's like,
I mean, I like Chanel when it's Couture.
I don't know if I like a backpack.
Like that's so basic.
And then she's just always like, oh, I've got so many.
I've got so many backpacks.
I have so many Louis Vuittons.
And she just doesn't fit in.
Like, I understand why they picked her because she is the only thing that we're talking
about and she is kind of poking the bear of their show by being fucking annoying
because the rest of them actually all get along pretty well.
So could she stay? Yeah, but we also know housewives have to at least make one really good friend in order for them to stay another season.
And it definitely seems like she's out on her island.
She's younger than everybody.
And she's not really clicking with anyone.
So then she shows up and it's like Sutton, I know about your old assistant.
Is this name Ari, Abadubi, Abadubi, Abilabadabadabi, Alvay.
his name's Alvey.
Yeah.
Why did, like, what happened with you and your assistant, Avi?
Is it Avi?
Yes, it's Avi.
We already went through this.
You already practiced it twice before you came and said it to Kyle,
and now you're saying it again.
There is no scoop, Amanda.
The guy who is busy being married with a wife and three kids.
Yes, Avi was.
He liked the limelight.
He liked being on the show.
But it didn't work out between the two.
of them and you don't owe someone a lifetime of employment because they popped on your TV
show or your podcast wants. It's really not the big of a deal. Can't Last driver. There's a lot of
other stars who are no longer with their original assistance from 10 years ago. It's not that juicy.
Like, let it go. But clearly, she's smart enough to know, I can't discuss this. I'm not going to
disparage him. I'm not going to keep him from getting hired because she's like, he says I should
him. And she's like, you should. He's great. Go, go hire him. She's like, well, I already have a
whole team. I have a whole team that I met with. And then they show her in the morning like opening up her
screen. And she's like, okay, let's, you could write the email about keeping the, keeping a great vibe
this morning. And I'm like, yeah, that's what she sells. She sells. You sign up and you get an email
every day, like keep the manifest vibe going.
Imagine money coming from the sky and you picking it up and like that's the way you're going to do it.
And if you don't manifest hard enough, guess what?
You're going to stay poor as F.
A.F.
Okay.
Anyway.
So that was about all that happened.
Also, I want to say, you know, with people going through divorce.
So Doret is going through divorce and, you know, she's saying that P.K.'s being awful.
And P.K.
tries to defend himself a little bit on social media.
and he's and and the thing is Kyle has a great relationship with Maricio.
They have a great post breakup relationship,
probably because she doesn't care that he's with other women
and he doesn't care that she's doing her thing
and their daughters work for him.
And it all makes sense that they're just,
they just have a really great post breakup relationship.
So he's like, well, you know that's not true.
You know P.K's a great father.
Okay.
But I really,
really think everybody needs to take note from this. You don't know what goes on in someone's
marriage. And Erica Jane is the voice of reason. And she's like, I would just tell, Kyle, I would
just tell Marisa. I don't want to hear any more about it. Don't tell me anything about it. I don't
want to get in the middle of it. And it's true. You don't know. You need to support your girlfriend
first before the guy. You also don't have to bag on the guy. But you could just be like,
wow, that's really unfortunate. I hope you guys can work it out. And like, that's what you need to do.
also speaking of which there is a study that it found that women that vent to each other they
will help lower their cortisol levels all i see stuff is about what's your cortisol level
what's your cortisol level you know when a man walks in the house the cortisol level goes up
when a man leaves it goes down yeah i so also let dorit bitch to you kyle about how annoying
pk was at one time and then just be like i'm just going to be here
to hear it on camera or off, but I'm not going to talk about it after, which is probably very
hard when your job is to be on camera talking about juicy shit. So there you go. Here's a photo of Whitney.
She got a new short haircut, however, it's blonde. And this was a viral tweet from a girl called
Skinny Girl. And she wrote a lesbian who would cross the Pacific to be with her girlfriend of two weeks.
I think it's very funny.
I hope Whitney enjoys a joke.
She has said she's made out with women.
So has Bronwyn.
I have put it out there.
Now, people said, Heather, you're wrong.
There have been lesbians on real housewives.
Look at Martina and Julia of Miami.
What I am manifesting, okay, as Manifest Mama,
is that two cast members from the same franchise,
came on as supposed straight married women.
Okay.
And then they fall in love and actually more than a one night crazy night of wearing lingerie
and having to film in front of gay producers.
No, I'm talking.
They hook up, do everything lesbians are supposed to do,
but actually become a couple for at least a few months.
That is what I'm putting.
out for 2026. That's what's on my bingo card. No, we're going to kill the bingo card.
Oh, we're also other things we want to kill for 2026 besides the bingo card. And it's giving
main character energy, core memories, um, with purpose. There's a couple more. Those all need to go.
Meanwhile, candy, brilliant candy from Atlanta, she is staying friends with her estranged husband,
Todd Tucker.
Very smart. She's the one who makes the money. The kids are little. He is an active dad.
Why wouldn't she stay friends with him? She knows how to do it. She is by far the most successful,
the richest of the most brilliant housewife we have. And in her post-deforce life,
she seems to be proving it to be true. All right, you guys, remember to join my Patreon,
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Hello and welcome to Juicy Scoop.
Well, I know you guys are obsessed with members only Palm Beach.
And I have yet another star from the show.
We spoke to Hillary earlier.
And now we have Romina.
Romina, welcome to Juicy Scoop.
Thank you so much.
I'm so excited to be here.
Well, the show is so great.
And I definitely think that you really resonated with the audience in a lot of
ways. You know, you're the younger girl in the group. You kind of come from interesting,
like, let's talk a little bit about your, your ethnic background and your parents. And
walk me through that because there was some funny moments where Gail, Gail, who's a character,
wasn't really understanding. And that's kind of the craziness of the show, is that they kind of
really feature this, these kind of women that are definitely not always self-aware and or aware
of anyone else's situation. And so why don't you kind of explain a little bit about your background?
Okay. So I was born in Uzbekistan, not Pakistan. And it was part of the USSR. So I speak
Russian. And that's kind of like our culture. We're Russian, but I'm also Jewish. And it's Buharyan,
Jewish, which is basically Persian Jews that migrated to Uzbekistan, like, I don't even know how many
years ago, thousands, I think. And there was a city in Uzbekistan called Bukhara, and that's where the name
Buharian Jews came from. We are Sephardic Jews. So we're like the blacks, the Jews were the
dark ones with the dark hair and the big eyebrows, and because we have Persian roots. So, so, you know,
my cultural background is important to me, because I feel like it, you know,
it is who I am.
And I always tell people where, you know, I'm a rare breed because there aren't many
Buharians in the world.
I think there's like 160,000 in the entire world, which is very small amount compared to,
you know, the actual population.
So, you know, I think a lot of people just don't know much about that country because it's,
first of all, it was part of the USSR.
So it didn't really have his own name, its own name for until 1991 when the USSR, when the
USSR broke up and nobody talks about those countries, you know, like the little, all the little
stands. Yeah, I mean, I really wasn't aware of it. I had obviously, I'd heard of Russian Jews and we
had Russian Jews and, and, you know, Persian Jews in the L.A. area when I was growing up, so I was aware
of that. But how old were you when you, when you came over to America? I was five. That's why
when Gail goes, oh, you speak such good English.
I grew up here.
Obviously, I speak good English.
It's more actually admirable that I speak such good Russian because a lot of people that come, you know, at that age, they lose their language.
But my parents, you know, really, really tried hard to keep that as a part of who we are, me and my brothers.
And I tried with my kids.
And fortunately, they don't speak Russian, but I'm trying still.
My husband's side of his family is his dad's Czechoslovakian.
and when they came over, it was interesting because the ones whose parents came over from there
really wanted their kids to learn it and speak it.
But one thing that my husband said that I thought was interesting, he's like, sometimes
they don't want to learn it because they don't want to seem different than the kids in school.
Yeah.
Like they want to assimilate so much to America.
And, you know, and then the parents want them to learn both.
but that's just, you know, sort of an interesting, you know, American immigrant kind of a story.
A lot of things are like that.
Yeah.
But I liked being different.
So I, that didn't really bother me.
I don't know.
No, I think that's so cool.
And did you do so, did you guys settle in the Florida area or did you come from a different area?
Yeah, we settled in Philadelphia.
So at first we were in Northeast Philadelphia.
And then when my parents made a little bit more money and were able to.
afford, you know, a nicer home. We moved to Bucks County, which is like the nicer, more suburban
area. And that was when I was 11 years old. And that's where I went to middle school and high
school and basically like lived the rest up until we moved to Florida, which was like three
and a half years ago. So I was in suburbs, in the suburbs of Philly for many years.
So when you were, so explain a little bit like how, what?
What was your relationship with reality TV?
Were you a fan of watching it?
Did you think that was something that you would thrive in?
So when the opportunity came, you kind of jumped on it?
Yes.
Yes.
The first time I watched the Kardashians, I was like, this is for me.
This can be my life, but also like Jersey Shore.
Like, I was actually a fan of Jersey Shore.
I never watched The Housewives, I'm going to be honest.
That wasn't something I was into.
Like, I tried, but it just wasn't my cup of tea.
but I loved Kardashians.
I watched like the real world.
And I always like really believed that it's something that I would be good at.
And me and my cousins always, you know, said we need like a keeping up with the Eustayevs.
Because our lives are so crazy.
Like just it's always this like tornado happening to us.
And I'm like, where are the cameras?
So when I finally had cameras, it was, you know, just the.
best feeling and that's you know how I actually met Rosalind and I had told her before many years ago
that I wanted to do a reality TV so when they were casting they they asked if she knows anyone and
she referred me and it was just the perfect fit because I was new and it was like that interesting
story of how do these people react to new people yeah I thought that was I mean you know
I thought it was fun that they took a react they took your real lives but they kind of
of made a storyline sort of if you watch palm raile about, you know, that was kind of your,
like your journey of like, can I fit in? And, and, you know, with it, you know, it was funny.
Like, there was funny stuff about it with the outfits and, and all of that in the shopping.
And how did you feel about being told that you were vocally loud in, like, conversation?
That's something I've been told my entire life.
It was nothing new to me.
I'm like, this is literally what, you know, like I, my, my friends, my family, anyone that knows me.
And if there was ever like a word to describe myself, I always use the word word loud.
Like, it's just who I am.
So it wasn't anything new.
And it was funny that it, that's what was like playing into this show.
And it's like, people are going to think this is all, you know, scripted.
But it wasn't.
Like, I mean, for me, I was like the real version of myself.
I have people reaching out to me from like 15 years ago that I haven't talked to.
And they're like, it's so nice to see like you being 100% authentically you.
Like, that's just who I am.
So it was nothing new.
But there was the one moment where you kind of really break down and you guys go to Rosalind's house with the etiquette girl.
And I mean, come on.
You must have known how to like which fork to use.
Oh, well, like I said, I.
know my etiquette from the Titanic.
It's like, start from the outside and work your way in.
I never had like a class.
And my family, like, you know, the barbarian style.
Like, that is how we are.
We don't eat with our hands.
We use a fork and we use a knife, but we never had, you know, like a full, you know,
the whole enchilada, which is like four forks, three knives.
Like, I don't even know how many it is.
But, um, but of course I, you know, just like the scene in, yeah, the scene in pretty
woman, you know, like, of where is everything? And then she's like, where's the salad? So, but you get
kind of upset at that moment because it just feels like, why was that so upsetting to you when you
get up from that table with Gail and Rosalyn and the etiquette girl? It was really frustrating
because Gail was trying to point out that I have bad etiquette and, you know, they even thought
that I needed a class, or maybe I was the one that brought it up, but, you know, they wanted me to have a class, you know, to learn good etiquette. And yet here is a person who obviously has bad etiquette because I told her the name of my country more than once. If you watched, you would know, I also told her at the store when we were shopping. And I'm sure there was parts where, you know, that were deleted scenes because this was like an ongoing thing. And it got to the point where I was just like,
like come on like at this point you're literally just like you know I don't know like it's just a joke
like are you serious I and I just got really frustrated and the other thing that really upset me is they
you know got so upset about the whole cash like asking for cash thing and it's like just to get just to
feel people in case they didn't watch it so you're having a birthday your birthday's coming up
at your 39th birthday and you sent out an invite and you said it and you said
no need for gifts, but if you do plan on bringing a gift, cash is preferred.
And they thought that was very tacky to put that on an invite.
So that was a good question.
You have to understand I'm being filmed.
So the whole world is going to see this.
And they're trying to put me in a negative light.
And I'm like, no, no, no.
This was not anything other than me telling my friends who are asking, like, a lot of my
friends were asking my cousins, what should we bring her?
What should we bring her?
And they're like, just bring cash.
But in Philly, all my friends were Russian, so we just know this.
It was never like something I had to add to an invitation.
I didn't even give out invitations.
We just call each other like, hey, I'm having a party, you know?
But here it was like more formal.
And I'm like, you know what?
Because I was filming.
I didn't have time.
You're so busy when you're filming.
I'm like, I'm just going to send out a message to all my friends to be like, hey, like, whatever.
Like, I don't be, like, I don't need anything.
But if you want to bring something, make it cash.
Because I didn't need plants and, you know, bottles and whatever they bring, you know, candles.
I don't know how to meet all that stuff right now.
I'm busy enough as it is.
And I really, really only sent that to my guests.
And my guests know me.
So it wasn't like, but they tried to make it seem like I'm money hungry or I'm like trying to have people pay for my party.
Like, that's not what it was.
You know, it was me talking to my friends like, hey, guys, you really don't have to bring anything.
But if you do want to bring me a gift, because obviously my friends want to bring something.
Just like, make it simple.
Make it cash.
Yeah.
and you know which is kind of kind of nice especially like with wedding gifts too now like when
a lot of younger brides they don't register the way like we used to and I love it when they're like
cash is great I'm great we'll just write a check I don't need to go on a website I don't need to do a
big thing yeah um so did you make out good in the end in that little box was there a lot in there
no actually I literally at the end of the night my husband thought we like lost half
of the envelopes because he's like, wait, this is it?
So let's talk a little bit about your family life.
What is this, explain the business that you had that you were lucky enough to sell for,
I've heard different things that you've sold it for 42 million.
Like, explain your business background.
So my brother had opened an adult daycare center taking care of seniors with Alzheimer's and
dementia.
And he really saw the need for home care, which is where you send AIDS to take care of seniors at home.
We provide non-medical services like light housekeeping, meal preparation, medication reminders, bathing, like things like that.
So he saw the need for this business and he opened it.
And that's when I had just finished college.
And my dad was like, you know, here's some money.
you can either put a down payment down on a house or into a business.
And my brother's like, you know what?
Why don't you give me the money?
He needed money at the time.
And he's like, and you can join me as a partner and you can do the marketing.
So I started doing the marketing.
And I put myself out there and we hustled like crazy.
And I had to put myself into some crazy situations because you work with very low income families.
And I had to go into really dangerous neighborhoods to try to get clients.
But I put myself out there.
And I was also a young, cute girl in a man's field.
Like, it was mostly men in that business at the time.
And it was, you know, these men with like, I don't want to be rude, but like cheap suits.
And they're like, you know, they would come in and try to get clients and, you know, with these agencies that were the ones that send us clients.
And then there was me.
He was like, hello.
I'm here.
You know, and I would give them free stuff, like umbrellas and pens and just like different merch.
from our company. It was called Sarah Care at the time. And they, you know, I think they really
resonated with me because they saw that I was real and they really liked that. And so they
started sending us clients. And we grew very quickly. And then, you know, we were offered a sale
price and we decided to sell. And I just think that it was my, really my dad's just upbringing
for us that really taught us how to like work hard.
Me and my brother really put a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of heart into the business.
And how long ago was that that you then were done with that side of your life?
So we sold in 2017, I think, and that's when I had met Roman and my husband's.
And he was in real estate.
And so when we sold, me and my husband invested a lot into my husband's real estate business,
business and he was already like in it but we helped him boosted up by investing because
where else you're going to really invest money other than real estate and then I started to do
staging and interior design because he would hire stagers and I was like what is this like I can do
such a better job and so I opened a staging business and then I started designing all of his properties
and and that's how I got into like the interior design side of things I'm just really like
I really just love being creative it's like what I'm passionate
about and that's what we do. And now he's building like big apartment buildings and he also does
the leasing. Like we, we, he has his own property management company and he does, he's literally a one-man
show. He's amazing. He's a great, great. So what did he think about it when the, when they
offered you to be on the show? Well, that was, it's funny because when we first met and throughout
our entire nine-year marriage, I always told him, I'm going to be on a
show one day. Like, I just knew it. I'm like a psychic sometimes, I guess. I don't know. I just felt
it in my heart that this is what I meant for and this is what's going to happen. So when the
process started happening, I actually was already talking to another casting director, like right
before this show happened. You mean, there was another, there was another Palm Beach-centric show.
It was in Palm Beach. It was, I was trying to sell my family, like keeping up with these rights. Oh, you're
trying to do your own show. Okay, got it. Yeah. Yeah. So I wanted to do my own show,
keeping up with these diets or something of that sort. And so, and then like, it was crazy
because that year, like, I was manifesting stuff and it was the first year I, like, wrote down
stuff and I wrote like, I'm going to have a reality TV show. And it happened. So my husband
was very excited. Yeah, he was very excited for me. Obviously, he was worried about, you know,
all the stress that comes along with it. Because.
as you saw, if you saw
on the show, I like broke out in hives one day.
Yes, yeah.
It was really painful.
And I think that's just me like, you know,
I'm a more of a person who like holds stuff in.
I don't really let stuff out.
And it came out through the rash.
And I didn't, I don't think I realized how bad I was stressing.
But it was just, it was a lot going on, you know.
There was a lot of pressure and people were telling me what to do and how to act and all of that.
So it was a lot.
And so, you know, right now it appears you're like, seem to be, when the show ends, you're good with all your castmates, it seems like.
You know, and but since the show has ended, there's been some drama between Rosalind and Hillary.
Hillary came on my show.
And in a nutshell, she basically said, well, you know, Rosalind accused me of excluding her from things.
and there's more to the story that I won't say,
but I also didn't like that she seemed to talk about me being married five times
and she presented herself as being married only once.
Well, in fact, she was married, you know, once before the current husband.
I didn't really think it was very juicy.
I didn't think it was a big deal.
But Rosalind took offense to her sharing that story.
And then Rosalind went on another show.
and shared how that came about, which, you know, is a sad childhood story of how she was
kind of sent off to Israel and married at 17 and had two kids and thank God left that guy
who didn't, she wasn't in love with.
And then came here with her two small children and then met her current husband at 21.
And then they went on to have three more kids together and her two kids only know him.
So it's a classic, you know, not a classic,
But it's a great story if it can work out that way for you.
And of course, I'm a stepmother and my daughter calls me mom.
And like, I totally respect the stepparent and how you treat your family as we're all the same.
But I kind of was like, oh, God, you know, I felt badly.
But where are you?
Because you're friends with both of them in this situation.
It's definitely a lot.
And I feel like I'm in the middle because I have.
actually hung out with Hillary last night, but I didn't know that all of this went down until after I
got home. And Hillary told me that she had this podcast with you and came out with this stuff.
I didn't know it was true until I watched Rosalind's podcast. So Rosalind did mention to me during
the time when we were filming that she was abused as a child and that she went through a lot,
but she's not here crying like some other people. Like she's, you know, she still stays strong.
and she you know everybody has a story everybody has been through things um but i had no idea about
the fact that her that she was married before but i understand why like she wanted that to stay as her
it's her personal you know business and not everybody needs to know everything but i think that
rosalind is really finding her voice and one thing that i you know told rosalind a lot is like
people love the real version of you like people are going to love you
if you're going to be honest.
And being honest, I think, is one of the most important things.
And I think she's starting to realize that.
And I told her, like, I'm going to be here for her no matter what.
I also really respect Hillary.
I think she's a boss bitch.
And I think that, you know, I love her, like, designs.
Like, she's really, really good at interior design.
That's...
Love it.
Yeah.
And I really love her style in that sense.
So I...
It's a little bit hard for me.
me because there is this like war between them and I feel like if I don't fix it I don't know who else
will and honestly I was the one that kind of mended their relationship it was off camera um after that
whole her not inviting like Hillary not inviting Rosalind to the event that we had and that she
had at her house I was the one that was like you know you shouldn't listen to other people's opinions
because Hillary didn't know Rosalind very well at the time she just took you know
what she heard about her.
And I said, you can't just take what you hear about people and,
and agree with that when you don't even give someone a chance.
And that's why Hillary actually gave Rosalind a chance.
And now I feel like I'm like back at ground zero.
I hope I'm going to see the season two.
Right.
We'll kind of figure this all out.
But, you know, listen, you want people to watch the show.
The producers want the people to watch the show and have a strong.
reaction to it. And in someone who that has covered reality TV for, you know, more than 15 years
going almost 20 years, you know, when people go, oh my God, they're, you know, it's Maga Barbies and
this and that. And I'm like, yeah, but did you watch the whole thing through? Yes. And are they
really? No, do they live there? But oh my God, they said, you know, these words this many times.
And I'm like, yeah, it's also edited to almost like rage bait. And wrong. And wrong.
As a look, her blonde hair, her boobs and her voice, her little, like, you know, very distinct voice.
It is, you know, of course, that's what they want.
Look at the girl who's going to Mar-a-Laga.
This is what she looks like.
But now that we're getting to like hear a little bit about more about her post the taping of the show, yeah, I'm like, yeah, I'd love to see more of that.
That's super interesting.
You know, I think sometimes when people go on reality TV, they don't, they have to know that
everything will come out, whether they say it themselves, a cast member, or, you know, some
content creator that's very intrigued and is very good on the computer.
So it's not even like, but the thing is, I understand why she wanted to keep it private,
but of course to all of us, we're like, well, that's not a story you needed to keep private.
That's like really super admirable.
and there's like a beautiful love story around it and like yeah you had a tragic childhood but like
unfortunately probably one third of all america has had some type of weird drama you know everyone
has a story to tell so i hope that you know it doesn't i hope it doesn't get to a place where it seemed
like it was vicious because honestly as she told me Hillary i don't i it didn't feel vicious
it felt like she was a little bit like look because i'd asked Hillary about all four
five of her husbands. And we went through each one. The bad vibe she calls. And so she's, and to me,
that was very interesting. And she's like, I did say this on the show. But look, there's only so
many hours of the show, you know? So, you know, but I, I didn't even catch that during the show that
that Rosalind was at all negative towards the fact that she'd been married multiple times. Like,
as a viewer, I missed it, you know? So it's like, I was like, wait, why, why are you? Why are
are they mad at each other? Like as you're watching it, it's so much, but of course they're living it.
I don't think Hillary should be mad about that. We all talked about it. We all joked about it.
You know, Taja did too. And so did I. When I introduced him to my husband. I'm like, this is Hillary's fifth husband.
This is my second husband. You know, like we all touched upon it. It is, you know, it is something that's kind of funny, but nobody judges her for that.
I mean, it makes it a reality TV, but I always think, like, I always, I actually had a joke in my stand-up act like years ago.
Like, I don't know why anyone would make it negative, like when someone's like, my mom's been married four times.
I'm like, that means that, you know, that many men felt that in love with your mom that they were like, you're it.
Like, yeah.
I can't believe I even got one person to ask me to marry.
That's why I'm sticking with it.
But I was saying, like, it says something, you know what I mean?
It's like, wow, I don't know that, like, if I'm.
was to break up that I would find
another person that wants to marry me.
Exactly. And I don't think that she's a hot.
You know, five times. You have five
soulmates. And she's, and
Hillary was so honest. Like, she's like,
you know, two of them appeared to have been
cheaters and, you know, got rid of them. And then the
other one was boring and the one before that just
was too young. And now that she's got the perfect dude.
And she doesn't, and she doesn't
make up, what was interesting is like, Jill's
there. And's like, I love Luke for her. And
because they're,
like, yeah, this is, Luke was the dormant at the fancy hotel. We're not now saying, oh, he's a real estate
developer too, you know, like he's helping her. He's helping her so much, you know, and that's great.
Like, why not? But I'm saying like the origin, they're honest about the origin, which I think is cool.
Yeah, I'm glad that she told the story about him being a dormant because I didn't know whether she,
I knew about it from other people, but I didn't know whether she would talk about it. And I'm glad
she did because that that shows that she's you know an honest person and i called rosalind today and i told
her i'm so proud of her for going on to the podcast and and talking about her truth because i feel like
that will make so many more people like resonate with her and appreciate her and understand her
when otherwise maybe they didn't you know so i mean honestly she should probably um have some kind of like
thankfulness that this whole thing came about because it's probably a big relief now just to get it out
like for whatever reason if she didn't want to share it or she thought she's going to get away
with not sharing it like now it's out there now it's you know not a big deal she said on the
podcast i feel like i have a weight lifted off of me yeah you know so but i i understand you know
why she would say that all five kids are jonathan's my friend was a i mean when when i met roman
or when we started dating, my son was seven years old.
And even though he was older, he wasn't even two, he was seven.
He's a, you know, my son considers him a father, you know, because he was present and he's there.
And he's with him every single day.
So when I say, you know, I'm married, I say we have three kids, you know, it's like, it's just how to it.
It's so hard.
Like with my situation, you know, my daughter, who is my stepdaughter technically was our first child.
together and and when I say I've got three kids or my daughter, then there's people that then
will go, that's disrespectful to the biological mother that I said my daughter, you know.
And then if you say my, and then if I say my stepdaughter, they're like, that's so mean.
You could tell she doesn't, you know, really care about or whatever.
And of course, my kids are fine and they're, you know, adults and everything.
And they, there's no, I've no insecurity about my relationship with my daughter that I raised.
And so I totally get the sensitivity around the language used and why it's like you can't win.
You can't win.
No matter what you do, people are going to judge you and people are going to have opinions about you.
So I really believe in just like not paying attention to the people and just like living your life the way you want, saying things the way you want and just being truthful, you know, in your own life and true to who you are.
If for Rosalind, the truth is that Jonathan is the father of all of her five children,
then she has that right.
I mean, he has been raising them since they were babies.
So I don't say anything wrong with that.
I do think that Hillary did that in a malicious manner.
And I, you know, think that's a little bit messed up.
I haven't told her about this yet.
But I would like to talk to her and be like, you know, that's not cool.
Like we are all in the same group.
You know, we are all friends and it's not cool to like have these big feuds.
Yeah.
And how did you, did you know Mary the DJ before?
Maria.
Sorry, Maria.
Do you know Maria before?
I actually invited her to be a DJ at one of my birthday parties because I wanted a female
DJ and I had a fashion show that year.
I've been doing a fashion show every year.
They just cut that out of my, of my birthday scene, but I had a beautiful fashion show with my
collection from Romy Runway, which this is one of my designs, but I have a lot of different
stuff.
And so Maria was the DJ for me.
And that's how we became friends, because she's also such a dreamer and, you know, she wants to
reach all these goals and she wants to DJ, you know, at big festivals.
and I obviously want to perform and sing at these big festivals.
So we just have a lot in common in that sense
and that we're both like super unfiltered and just like speak our truth.
She's a little bit worse than me, but she also has like a few years on me.
And so how did the singing come about and how do you come up with your songs and your music
and everything?
Because we see you sing at your birthday party.
And let's hear about that.
Okay.
So I've wanted to be a singer since I was like a little girl.
I was named after an Italian singer and my parents would always watch concerts and I would see like, you know, these beautiful women dressed in beautiful outfits.
And I joined the choir like when I was a kid.
I didn't speak English, but I came to school and music was one of the lessons and I had to learn a song.
And my teacher was like, wow, you have such a good voice.
And, you know, it started from there.
I recorded and released the song actually when I was 15 and it was played in like these big clubs.
It was wild.
But then I got distracted with boys in life and this and that.
And then I got married.
And then I got divorced.
And when I got divorced, I met my producer and some portal opened and I was able to write songs.
And my first song that I wrote was on Billboard Club Dance Charts.
And it made it into number 13.
And it was top 25 for over five weeks.
And Queen of the Night, which is the song that I sang, one of the songs that I sang on the show,
that was the second song I ever wrote.
And now I have like over 30 songs, some of them are Russian too.
I worked with a big label in Russia.
And I don't know.
It's just like it's just what I love to do.
I like to be center of attention.
It's not something that I hide and I love to be on stage.
So now that you're in this world and even though your show is called members only and not the real housewives of Palm Beach,
obviously it's a lot of comparisons to the real housewives.
it's kind of filmed the same way and with confessionals and focusing on women in their lives and
their families, have you investigated the housewives at all to kind of see what their past?
Because, you know, Luann sings and Erica Jane has original songs from Beverly Hills.
Luana's New York, Eric Jane did a, had a whole like pop thing going even before with original
songs and performing Melissa Gorga, who you kind of remind me of.
Have you heard anyone say that?
Oh, I have had like at least five comments that I read that I saw that people saying
that.
My friend Coco is good friends with her.
So we met them right after we.
Oh, Coco was on the show.
She is.
The socialite, the blonde girl.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
She would be a good.
Ponair family.
Yeah, she'd be good.
Would she want to join the cast?
It's a possibility.
She hasn't made a decision, but they talk about it.
But she's friends with Melissa and we met her.
I think it was actually during filming and her and my husband is the one that watched Housewives with his mom.
I never watched.
So he knows about like the singers and all that stuff.
I don't know much about it.
But he loved Melissa and Joe Gorga and always was like, oh, like if we ever have a show, I want to be like them.
Because they obviously are I think the only ones that stayed together.
And he just always like, you know,
kind of liked their relationship.
So to meet them was really cool.
And they were so nice.
And Joe was giving, you know, advice to Roman.
And, yeah, I think it's cool that people are, you know, comparing us.
I don't know that we look alike, but she's gorgeous, so I don't mind.
You kind of look alike, but you also kind of talk alike, maybe because you're from the
East Coast or something.
But, no, they are lovely.
Like, I know them well and have for years.
And they really are, like, really nice people and funny.
people. So what's been like, what's been a negative thing about having the show come out and,
and suddenly maybe people being, knowing who you are online or in person? So I actually am not
getting too many negative things. And if I am, I just don't see them or don't care to see them.
But there is one thing that I guess people are commenting on that I've seen, which is like my
COVID comment about like COVID is a blessing or was a blessing.
I just want to like clarify that.
I meant like there were positives to COVID because people got to stay home and spend time with their family unlike any other time.
Like there's, you know, nobody has ever in the amount of time that we know had time to just put life on pause and like be with your family.
You know, so I think that was really special.
And me and my two cousins, the ones that I would have liked to do a show with,
They lived in the same neighborhood as me.
So we spent time together, like, all the time.
And our kids are best friends.
So we're like sisters.
And I got to spend so much time with them.
And it was just so nice.
And then we all ended up moving to the same neighborhood in Florida.
So we ended up buying at the same time.
You know, my one cousin was like, we have to go to Florida.
It's just a better life.
And we ended up buying during COVID in 2020.
And our houses have doubled in price since.
So there have been blessing.
I'm just, obviously I know that it was a really sad time and a lot of people died and a lot of, you know, and you know, a lot of people went through a lot of hard things, but I'm just the kind of person that tries to see the bright side of everything. And it was also kind of like, look how short life can be. Let's live our best life while we can because like this, you can get a cold and die, you know? So when I said it was a blessing, I'm.
meant there were good things.
Yeah, and you're not the first person that has said that, you know.
And I feel like sometimes people, the online warriors, are just looking for someone to slip
up and be like, gotcha.
Yeah, look at that, you know.
And so that's interesting.
Yeah.
So good.
You know, that's the thing.
The other thing is, you know, they are, you're supposed to be, it's not supposed to be
scripted.
You are living your life.
You are having luncheons and conversations.
And so it's like, yeah.
And then it's edited.
So there's going to be things that, you know, can be put together where you're like,
well, if it was up to me, I would have cut out that part.
But it's not.
You don't have to say in what gets kept or whatever.
And, but, you know, I understood where it was coming because there's a lot of people that
were like, I liked that time, you know, of my life for what, for the, for these positive
reasons.
These are the things I didn't like, you know.
Yeah.
It brought me to Florida.
You know, it brought me to Florida.
and that to me was a huge blessing because I love it here.
I love the warm weather.
I hated winter.
I was always like in pain in the winter.
Like my bones hurt.
And now I'm just like, this is December.
This is January.
You know, it's 80 degrees.
I love it.
Good.
Good.
I'm glad that you're so happy.
Well, tell everybody where they can start following you so they can keep up with.
So is your fashion just an online store or what is that?
Yes. So my fashion line is Romi Runway. It's Romey Runway.com. And it's an online store for now. Hopefully one day I'll, you know, open an actual store. But for now it's just online. And it's mostly women's clothing and it's stuff that you can wear going out. It's more Miami than Palm Beach. But I'm working on a Palm Beach line. So we'll see. You should. You should. With like some like with the bright colors and all that stuff. I love that look. More colors. And more like that. And more like that. And more like.
like little 60s inspired.
You could do like the A-line.
I love like an A-line dress.
So you could still show the,
show the knees without showing the boobs.
Just kidding.
I'm putting the Romina Flair on to.
Right, of course.
So.
Wait, before I go,
one more question I have.
Were you there when Gail slipped off the lounge chair and the wig fell?
Oh my God.
That was after when I got the rash.
I got the rash.
to that because remember i mean i don't want to be rude but i worked with old people and i know that like
they fall and god forbid can break a hip so my like right away my heart like drop to the floor i'm like
oh my god this poor old woman is going to break her so i freaked out and and then like yeah i told her
that she needed a better a better wig i they cut that part out but i actually told her that night
i was like gail you really need a better wig and that's why that whole thing became such a big deal
because I said it to her maybe not at the best moment.
But I'm just honest.
Like, if you're going to be my friend, you're going to hear.
She was very grateful.
She was nice the next day.
She's like, it really meant a lot to me, but you guys were all helpful.
But I think once you see it on TV, yeah, it's embarrassing to fall and it's embarrassing
to have a wig come off your head, you know, which was so funny is like the weekend that
your show premiered, I was out there.
went to Rachel, you could tell his wedding. And I sat like on my friend's chair, but like,
I didn't put enough on my ass on the chair with her. And I fell. I didn't hit my head or
anything. And I wasn't wearing a wig. But then my friend, then afterwards, like, I was like,
oh my God, I pulled a gale. Like I totally like, I need to own it. Like the universe is just like,
you need to cover the show. You need to watch this show. You talk about the show because you are.
but I I've thoroughly enjoyed all the Gail stuff.
I thought it was like really funny and interesting and it was a little repetitive as far
as like I'm passing the baton and this and that.
But like her stories, you know, were entertaining.
Like that's the whole thing.
I think they wanted to see that.
So I thought it was a good mix.
Yeah, I think if Gail wasn't on, I think if she wasn't on the show, it wouldn't have been the same
show, you know, like I feel like she made this. We all collectively made the show the way that it is,
but we needed her, I think, you know, and I think she did, I think she did great. Yeah, then Taj is
very interesting and her parents are like a hoot. Like everyone has like their fun stuff. Are you good
with Taj or no? You kind of gave a look. Oh, I don't know. I am, I am skeptical about her
sometimes. So now what's the deal? She has a partner or a husband or she has been.
she doesn't. She's single or what?
I actually have no idea.
They say that,
you know, that she's with David Cohn, but then
she also says that she's kind of like a single mother.
So I don't know
the deep
down and dirty about her.
Okay.
No comment.
No comment. We'll have to watch next season.
You'll have to watch. So everybody,
it's on Netflix. It's
members only Palm Beach. And I told Hillary
this too. I'm like, I really think it could be really fun if they do other cities, just like
Housewives. Like, members only L.A., members only Scottsdale, members only whatever. Like, it could be a
whole big thing. And then you'd be like, I'm the OG. Yeah, yeah. And I think, I mean, I don't know
because they never told us, but that's what my thought process was of what they, from a business
standpoint, were thinking to do. That's why they put Palm Beach into the name so that it could be,
other cities, but I don't know if it's that or not.
But we'll see, I guess.
Depends on how successful the show gets.
Yeah, people are definitely talking,
which is what is all you really want is people talking.
So anyway, it was so great to find you.
Your Instagram again is...
Roe.mina.orgia.
Dot official.
Love it.
Thank you so much, Romina.
It was really nice talking to you and getting all the school.
Thank you so much.
And also, if you want to be one...
If you want to hear any of my music, you have to just search bro dash me now.
So the dash is in my name.
And it's anywhere, Apple music, Spotify, wherever there's music.
You can hear it.
Awesome.
I love it.
Keep doing all the things you're doing.
Very fun.
Thank you so much.
Thank you for having me.
I appreciate this.
Thank you.
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