LadyGang - RHOC's Shannon Storms Beador

Episode Date: April 22, 2025

LadyGang is joined by the one and only Shannon Storms Beador, and things get real—Housewives style. The RHOC icon spills the tea on her juicy new show Love Hotel, what fans can expect from the new season of Real Housewives of Orange County, and how it feels to be back in front of the Bravo cameras (spoiler alert: it’s spicy). Plus, Shannon doesn’t hold back when it comes to dating red flags, and which Housewives she’d actually want to be stranded on a yacht with. We’ve also got a Good week/Bad week with Becca’s bad news Cameo hack and true adoration of Keltie’s snort laugh! This episode is hilarious, heartfelt, and filled with just the right amount of delusion. Enjoy!We have deals for YOU!!Strong Cell: Reclaim your energy. Go to StrongCell.com and use code LadyGang for 20% off!Nutrafol: Got thinning hair? Use code LADYGANGGIFT for $10 off and free shipping when you subscribe at Nutrafol.comLadyGang is sponsored by BetterHelp! Visit BetterHelp.com/ladygang for 10% off your first month!CoverGirl: Superboost your lashes with NEW Lash Blast Supercloud Mascara! Only from Easy, Breezy, Beautiful COVERGIRL. http://bit.ly/3Ez5HC9Progressive: Wanna save on car insurance? Visit Progressive.com to see how much you can save!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Kelty Knight, Becca Tobin, and Jack Vanek. Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to Lady Gang. I am Becca Tobin here with Jack Vanek and Kelty Knight. Hello. Hi, girlies. What's up? Did you find a glass, Kelty? No, this is still the original bad ones. I have not been back to the store. I'm in a downward spiral and I just, I'm like, I'm not going to need glasses because I'm going to run and live in a cave, a dark cave.

and so like i don't need to see i don't seeing we're in cave mode i understand i'm in run to an island mode oh my god yes but i i am gonna think about it again i actually lost the dior ones that were the better pair i can't find them anywhere so now i'm back to my original big old goochs yeah my overpriced very jeffrey dahmer you know what i just get uglier as the days go on i actually thought of you i got an email the other day about this new glass brand it's like a sustainable glasses brand it's called t-i-j-n and they had some very cute frames becca if you could just wear progressives and then i'll just copy whatever you get yeah like i just i don't want to make the decision for me you just tell me what to get and i'll just get it i know these are cute though

aren't they cute yeah um yeah my friend has been representing like doing their pr and stuff so i'll connect you and maybe they can hook you up with some great glasses please baby i love they have these very like y2k um no optical glasses i know people are doing that now and it makes me feel old but you know what like the little like the same glasses i had when i had fake glasses in high school if i had known i was gonna have to wear real glasses for my life i wouldn't spend all those years covering these butthole eyes with a fake glass y2k style they make a night driving glass i need that because i have started to struggle at night driving i know it's crazy by the way everything hurts becca is wearing a striped shirt with our little lady gang

hat so cute it's so adorable yeah you look guys also i was wearing our lady gang sweatsuit the blue one with the cropped i think it might be the comfiest thing i've ever put on my body the inside is insane like butter i think we need to make another one for lady world or something i think we should do like a bright like a neon one for for lady world they make like a bright pink one oh maybe i can put my pants in it again like i did on tour my last pink sweatsuit okay well let's dive in because i'm very excited about our guest today yeah it's time for good week yes it is. I'll kick us off. I thought I heard of the craziest, most amazing thing to do when you have bad news to share with someone. There's a guy on TikTok who gets cameos for his family members

to tell the person bad news. So his dad is obsessed with Sonia Morgan from Housewives of New York City. So he bought a cameo from Sonia and gave her the script of what she needed to tell his dad. And it was basically like, Hey, Bob, we just wanted to let you know, you will be moving into this really chic assisted living facility. And I cannot wait till the next time I have to give either of you bad news because it is going to be coming from someone fantastic. I haven't decided who but get ready this is amazing I'm down TikTok now I'm team Ariana all the way but Tom Sandoval is doing the lord's work with his cameos I don't know if you guys have seen them on TikTok he plays this song and he slides and he's like hey Jim and then he like he mixed a

whole drink for someone for a birth announcement he's like you're in love it's Tom Sandoval like he like goes full Tom Sandoval it's it's actually very charming oh my god that would be fun to use him for like a gender reveal yeah that's what they did he was like i'm gonna make you a cocktail here we go and he shoots it and he's like and i added a color what do you think it's blue like it was so cute i love the idea of using uh the cameos for for a reason you know for a message you don't you guys remember how much money i've spent on constantine morialis's cameos i probably bought like 10 of them for my friend courtney and they never disappoint no he is insane If you want a really good one, if you are somehow a fan of Constantine from American

Idol, we did star in Rock of Ages together on Broadway and by star, I mean, he was a star and I was an understudy, but it doesn't matter. Well, and he also mentions that in every cameo. He's like, it's Constantine from a Rock of Ages on Broadway. Becca, should I start doing that? Is it SAG-AFTRA? I think you get your health insurance back. That's true.

I wish cameo was SAG-AFTRA. I'd sign right up. Right. Okay. So my bad week is this. I, I just learned this. I don't know if you guys know this, but recently Zach used a bathroom with a friend of his and they came back to the table and the friend was like, do you know that your husband never uses a urinal? He always goes into the stall. And I, and he was like, does he have

a tiny peepee? Is that why he's hiding it? And I said, no, I can honestly say it's not tiny at all. If anything, he should be standing at that urinal proud. And Zach said, because do you understand when you pee in a urinal, there is always splashback. Yeah. You knew this? Well, I would assume. I don't pee in the urinal. They should be illegal. Illegal? To have to, a urinal? Because the splashback isn't even always your own urine. That's particles from someone else's. So men are just walking around, peeing in urinals, getting splashback from other men's pee-pee? I mean, i feel like they don't care that is that is such a zach thing to care about though oh yeah it makes sense very on brand no sir i just thought that he'd want the privacy i could

see him doing it for the privacy yeah yeah same i just feel like could we redesign like is there not another option pretty disgusting they're disgusting disgusting all right well that was really unfortunate for me to find out so wash those jeans girl wash those jeans I'll go next my good week is Jared and I are officially DIYers we have DIYed a kitchen nook for our kitchen

it's very cute I'm very impressed with Jared I've always known he was handy but like seeing him do all these like minute measurements and like cut wood with the wood cutter and like use a drill I'm like this is hot it is

is this the nook that's going to have a striped bench yes it's really cute your inspiration thank you well i'm taking a risk we painted it bright blue so i'm going for a color and then we're going to get like yellow striped i'm trying to make it like a european cafe sort of a vibe yeah um but i'm really excited about it we made it out of ikea cabinets how'd you get the idea on pinterest or something on tiktok because do you know how much a breakfast nook costs no so expensive like four thousand dollars from west elm like that's like a mid T it was insane. So, and I also didn't realize how much cushions costs. Cause now

I have to buy those separately. I'm like, you're talking $700 for a cushion. It's nuts, but I'm proud of us. You know, Jack, one of your friends sews, not me Kelty. Well, yeah. I mean, not well enough. A cover is so easy. My mom made my outdoor covers. We're sewers over here in the family, but you could have picked fabric and made it. I mean, you're going to want the like ribbing honestly i don't want to do a project for you because i'd have to do it 500 times but if you ever need like a shitty version because your child poops on it and you need a cheap replacement i'm in oh my god thank you so much um okay so my bad week is so larry david doesn't have an instagram but i follow this instagram called curb your larry david and it's like it's basically like

the closest thing that you can get to larry david have you seen what has been happening recently on that instagram there's like girls doing gross things right yes so it's somehow i understand what's happening oh they got hacked they got hacked and now all of the posts are like i don't even know how they're allowed on instagram because it is naked women and it's like it's all like girls that are like standing up in clothes and then they like drop down and then their boobs and their butt like flap all around but then when they drop they're naked and so he's posting all of these videos or the accounts posting all the videos and then they're commenting in it being like i'm trying to get my account back i'm trying i'm trying guys just please don't unfollow me

because they're losing all of these followers um but i think it's so funny because i'm like this would happen to a larry david account only larry david i thought when i kept seeing i saw like two or three and i was like oh maybe this guy has like a very weird sense of humor and this is like part of the comedy he's with but i guess not no and it's like a it's like a push and pull it's like I feel like they're both still in the account and the new person posts and he deletes it and he's like, no, no. And I just love it. It's, it's so on brand for Larry David. I love this so much because I also have an internet story about me though. Of course it is. All right. So, you know, I'm always looking for fame, um, and always looking to, you know, get my profile out

there in a new and exciting way. And, you know, I took Reddit off my phone, um, because I was spending too much time on snark pages, snark pages on Reddit are where if you hate someone or you hate something, you can just put like the lady gang snark. I mean, people don't hate us honestly at a level enough to even have a snark page. I would be honored. Um, but I would go on of people that I hate and that I would go on the snark and then I'd read, like there was a collective, this is like a depression talking, but like it's, there's a collective happiness in reading other people hate the thing that you hate. And I know that's the problem with our society and the internet, but I really understand it deeply in my soul, the kind of, the kind of

comfort it can give you at night. Um, and, but then I realized this is gut, this is not on my brain diet of positivity. And this is just, I'm, I'm continuing to become a worse and worse person. So I need to get it off. So I got Reddit off, but before I said goodbye to Reddit on my phone, I did one last Reddit search of myself, like a goodbye, a farewell. What does the internet think of me? Nothing is good on Reddit. No, actually that's a lie. Something is good. I have made it to an incredible Reddit thread. I am a star on the Girls Who Snort Laugh Reddit. Oh.

There was a big alert. There was a big alert with my video. Someone had taken all the videos from our YouTube and done a collaboration video of me snorting on Lady Gang. And the alert was heavy snorter alert. And then the comment was, I could listen to her snort all day. Is it a kink? I know I think you should start selling snorting videos that's your cameo

yes um so anyway it's like snort finder like feet finder yeah snort finder people love a snort so you're welcome I love a snort not in a sexual way but I love when people snort when they laugh I think it's so cute it's the best thank you so much okay um so that's my good week my bad week is that I was recently in Houston for work and I did the thing. I made a promise to myself that when I'm out of town, I would only take Uber blacks because it's like, I'm alone. I'm in full glam and as short skirt, like I need to up my game. But then the wait for an Uber block was like 20 minutes after I finished work. And I'd worked for like, you know, a bunch of hours and I was tired. And so I just, I took the Uber X in a weird city. We got onto a highway, Houston lady

gang needs to tell me something. Is there a highway you can't get off? Or was this like my own version of hell? I get on the highway. I'm 10 minutes from the hotel and we're driving, driving. And I'm like, you know, I'm looking, I'm like, God, this is kind of taking a long time. I've been in this car for a long time. We, it took me 45 minutes to go my 10 minute drive because somehow my Uber driver got on a highway that was high above the city that had no exits. it was like is this an expressway so that you can just zoom through i houston i need to know what the fuck's happening so then i'm he's like i'm really sorry i wish i didn't have to charge you for this ride i was like well you are charging me bitch and then he was like i'm not from around

here can we make a rule do not drive uber in a city that you're not from if you don't know jim how to take the get off the highway this is not the place for you he's like oh i got a ride i got a ride here that was here and now i decided to stay in the city and do some rides i was like we're on a no man's land to hell. And it was so crazy because Tanya Rad was also working in Houston. And so we had made plans after our work day to like go meet for French fries and diet Cokes at the bar. And I was like, I'll be there in 10 minutes. I just got in the Uber. And she's like, are you coming? And I was like, I think I'm being taken. And the thing about Tanya is like, she loves hard. Like she's like an empath. You know what I mean? So she was like, share. She

was like, I was kind of joking. I was kind of joking. Like you guys would be like, let us know when you die but she was like share your location right now what's around you what do you see she went like crazy then this was so nice by the time i got there my fries were cold and she's like well the fries are cold i'm ordering you new fries tell me when you're pulling up and so when she pulled up she had ordered another fry and thank you to the hilton they didn't charge me for that second fry because tanya explained that i got lost in an uber x wow that is my biggest complaint one of my biggest complaints about Texas is the highways are horrific. They're so terrifying to drive on and they're so confusing. The signage sucks. There's something wrong. Something is

wrong with whoever did this, the roads in Texas. We got to redo them. You got to redo it. It was kind of crazy because I was also like, I got so scared that I was like on my maps, you know, and I was like looking for like, maybe this guy's just a terrible driver. And like, I'll help you get off. We could not get off. And the worst part about it is that, you know, you know, you go to a shoot in Hollywood, you go to shoot and you like wear a sweatsuit and then you change into your cute outfit. I was trying to be super professional and just ready to go. So I went in my little outfit. So I was like in a mini dress and a heel for 45 minutes in a, in a Prius, which I love. Cause I used to drive a Prius, but I'm just saying with a cotton seat, no ma'am. Right. Yeah.

i'm basically i'm zach at the toilet getting splashback from the other uber riders yeah yeah i know i i know i'm this is this is the universe telling you you need to follow your own rule and you need to stop doing uber x in weird places and yeah i know sorry about your time okay well i'm so excited about our next guest me too when we come back shannon storms bador now back to the lady gang buckle up babes because the orange county tea is about to be served piping hot our guest today has survived public breakups group trips from hell more dirt dinner party drama than we could even stir up and she's got opinions organic everything and a moon chart to back it all up she's one of your favorite housewives in history who's about to add dating

into the chaos on Bravo's newest show Love Hotel. She shows up, the truth comes out, and the realness does not disappoint. Please welcome the one and only Shannon Storms Bedore. To the lady gang! Wow, thank you. Hi, Queen. Okay, just to let you know

this is a safe space of people who love colonics. Okay, well that's good to know. We're just starting there. One time, Becca had to give herself a colonic. Not a colonic. An enema. I had to do an enema. It was a little DIY.

In my bathroom. Yeah. It was tough. I've had to do them myself, and I've done them for a few cast members as well. Oh. You know what? I actually think that Jack gave me the best advice ever. I had never had to do an enema.

And do you have to advise your patients this advice? So before I had Jack in my life, I was doing the thing, squirting the water up, and it was like dribbling out and nothing else was coming out. And Jack gave me the advice that you actually suck it in to your butthole. Like you literally have to think, suck in the water. Hold on for dear life. Hold on and hold it in and let it do its thing. And then you release. So I just need, we, we give good advice here and that's probably some of the best that I've received. So I just needed everyone to know that. It's a very difficult couple of minutes there.

It is. But that's why you look the way that you do and that you're such a hot bod. You just celebrated your 61st birthday. Congratulations and happy birthday, you hot little thing. Oh, you're very kind. Thank you. You parted in New York and then you did OC. How was it? It was great. I have two of my three daughters living in New York City right now. So the opportunity to work on Love Hotel and see them so often, it's been really fun. Would you say the 61st birthday beat the London 60th? Oh, well, that was a flipping disaster. That was a disaster.

I mean, I flew home early. I couldn't do it anymore. Your own birthday trip. I know. Like it was literally 100% attack every single time I was in front of a camera. So, yeah, it was something else. Shannon is the Kelty of the group because Shannon brings everybody, whatever the theme is, we're doing the thing, we're wearing the hat, we're wearing the sash,

like you really do bring the festivity to the everyday mundane things. And that is our Kelty and it's very appreciated. Are you like that in your life or do you amp it up for the show? No, I am like that in real life, but I have to say this is my 11th year now on the show and I'm I'm, I'm a little bit costumed out. So while I do enjoy a theme, I might not go overboard all the time, but there are a few moments where we have a couple of weeks left to film the current season of Burge County. And there are some costume moments. Oh yeah. Okay. So when I, when we heard about this show, we were like, do we need this show? Like, it just seems like we could just do girl ultimate girls trip like do we need you know and the fact that it is fantastic like how did

they get you to sign up for this yeah it's kind of what we need it's like a mix between bachelor golden bachelor but the powers in the women's hands like it's just it's right yeah i mean it's a very unique show and i i don't i think i was a last minute ad it was i was in new york doing uh press for the premiere of orange county last year and they andy called me and he said would we'd love for you to join the show. And I was really excited because Orange County was airing at the time. So to have the opportunity to go to Cabo San Lucas and be there for basically a month and have that distraction instead of watching all the drama and relive everything that happened last season, it was, it was so much fun. That's so fun. Okay. Tell me about the men. First of all,

there's the Pearl, the Pearl. Like, were you really in it to fall in love or were you just like, this is great. It's a show. It'll be fun. I'm with Luann, like whatever. Well, in my recent past, I was in a relationship with someone that clearly wanted to be in the public eye. And so I'm very wary of that right now. So I, you know, what is someone's intention when they're coming on a dating show on television? So I went in with the mindset of, I am going to go and have fun. That's what I'm going to do. And if something were to come along, well, then that's like an added bonus. So did something come along? Like I, I don't get nervous, but in this show, there was just this awkwardness to me because I'm

kind of shy in the dating area. I'm very traditional and old school. And I like the man to take charge. And I've never dated more than one person at the same time. So that thought in itself is so uncomfortable to me. So, um, it was kind of fun to feel uncomfortable and nervous a little bit. And I did, I did meet, um, a couple of men I did. And, uh, and in fact, I can say that I am close to most of the men that were on the show today. We see each other all the time and we talk. It was a really nice group of people. That's great. Was it hard? Was it hard keeping them all in track like did you miss up things between the different men no no we um you know they came in waves so and they it wasn't the largest group like the uh i think it's the

golden bachelor i think they have over 20 men like we just had eight to start with and there were four girls so it was pretty easy to keep them in in order so in the show you were like I just went and I was just going to experience this and whatever. And then we see you crying and we're like, we've had enough of Shannon being upset. I'm just going to be honest with you. That was the last flipping thing that I thought was ever going to happen. And it was a real bummer for me because, um, but I, you know, I, I get, I do get mad when I cry, but I wear my heart on my sleeve. So that's one of the things that happens, but yeah, there are some dramatic moments, uh, in the love hotel that involve me and, and tears.

And I hated that, but it's what happened. So you'll have to see, but yeah, it's a lot, a lot. Okay. Are you like, were you happy with the men that Andy picked for you? Because it wasn't just, they weren't just picked for you. They were picked for all four women. And then some of you were like, Oh, this is the guy. And you were fighting, you know, you had to have a little infighting. there was a couple like stallions and there's a couple of people that nobody wanted like typical reality TV, but were you happy with Andy's picking? Like how, how did Andy Cohen doing in the matchmaking? Well, I don't know. I don't know if he, I see the one that did the final approval. I don't even know that, but, um, overall pretty good. But the thing is, is, you know,

Ashley's in her thirties, so they had to bring in a broad range and I might be wearing a leopard suit right now, but I am not a cougar and I'm the oldest in the group. So I'm 61 and I, I'm not going to date someone even really in the fifties low. So, you know, some of the men were automatic nose for me. So, you know, it would have been nicer to have more men my age, but I, you know, they were really nice guys. Were they rich enough for you? Cause like we need, I don't want a dinghy boat in the marina i want a yacht in france okay shady you know what i mean i know i'm so shady like we're done with it we're done with the paddle boats like we need a yacht in the south of france so did were we rich enough for i don't need you having to make the charcuterie for the dinghy boat

okay i want someone the staff below deck comes out and they make your charcuterie and someone is fanning you at all times this is the level that we are asking for for stormzy here see that I mean, look, I, my mantra is I can contribute, but I can't take on any more bodies. So, you know, wealth is, is a great added bonus, but I'm more attracted in, in my marriage and in people I'm attracted to ambition and motivation. If someone is trying, then, you know, that's the attraction to me. So that is a very uncomfortable subject for me. um, to ask someone, you know, how well they do. I, so I didn't, I didn't do that. Okay. Well, this is a lesson to all the lady gang and Shannon is we're going to get rid of

that behavior. The ambition girl, we're 61. Ambition is over. That is when you're 25, you can be like, but he's so ambitious. We're not dating potential, Shannon. I get it. I'm just saying like in it, like wealth has never been an important thing. going to, I know, but it is now. Oh, okay. Well, it would be nice, but it's not necessary. It's not necessary, but it would be nice. And you know what I mean? So then we'll just put that in. A yacht in the South of France would be amazing. Perfect. You look amazing at a caftan girl. Like what are we doing? I have a question for you. It's a little, a little off topic, but I noticed in this past season of Housewives, they really did a lot of flashbacks of you in the very

beginning in your first marriage. What does it feel like to watch yourself in such a different chapter of your life in a different marriage? Because I get emotional. It's nostalgic for viewers who have watched you and have known you or think we've known you for all these years. you know it's interesting because since my divorce i have zero contact with my ex-husband due to his choice so when they do flash back it's i and i was married to him for 17 years we were together for about 20 i look at it and i was like i don't even know him i i can't believe that i spent that period of time and i say all the time was so grateful for my daughters so yeah it's all great. And I'm glad that, that, um, you know, we were married, but it's like, it didn't, it's like,

it's a whole part of my life that didn't exist. It's crazy. It's crazy. Yeah. So weird that it's on film. Speaking of your daughters, I love that Sheena Shea, um, stood in for you for Stella at your birthday party. I know she's so sweet. I love her to death. She's having such a moment. Lady Gaga's checking on Sheena Shea. Seth Rogen is checking on Sheena Shea. She just wants to be checked in on, you know, like what is your relationship with her like, and do you think she's now getting her Bravo flowers the way she was meant to, you know, I met Sheena, I think at the end of my first season. So, um, so we got to know each other over time and I've done her podcast and we see each other here and there, and we just have kept in touch. And I remember I was

at the Vanderpump dog gala and everyone went to Tom Tom afterwards and she was there. And that's right when she had been demoted to a friend and she had just met her current husband. And so I met him for the first time and she, you know, she was really bummed about it. And I don't know, I just think she has such a presence about her. And I said, it's all going to work out. You go there and you'd be the friend. They're going to bring you right back on full time. And I love that she's a part of the Valley now too. So I'm excited for her. Yeah, it's great. We're checking on her and she's doing good. Okay. So I want to do a little game. Um, and it's based on, it's called close the door, open the door. And it's based on there's the door, Shannon Bedore.

And these are red flags, green flags for dating. And I want all of us to weigh in. And so if we want Shannon to close the door, this is a red flag. Absolutely not. Or we want our ladies. It's a close the door. If we love it and it's a green flag, we open the door. Okay. In honor of Shannon. Okay. He doesn't like pets. Close the door. Becca. Archie. He's too important. We're closing the damn door. Yeah. Close the damn door. Okay. Shannon, obviously this is too easy. I'm just starting you easy. Is that a deal breaker for you? I mean, I guess it is because you know, I love Archie. Everyone loves Archie. He's like the cutest boy ever. So if you don't like my dog, you gotta love animals you do yeah agreed okay here okay here's the real ones wants to cook you

a homemade dinner instead of taking you out oh i like to go out to dinner that's where i can go and i can take a breath yeah and just relax so i like to go out yeah agreed agreed but what i don't know if i'd close the door on that because there's you can also look at that and say there's a thoughtfulness to someone taking the time and effort to go to the store and prepare the food and, you know, make a nice, quiet, romantic evening. I think it also depends though. That's what I was going to say. I feel like it depends. Definitely not a first date. Cause that's a cop out. And then it's like, how nice is this dinner? There are a lot of variables. One time I had a guy on a second date say like, well, I didn't realize that he did not have a

yacht in the south of france i thought he was he was very ambitious okay and he was like no come over to my apartment i'll make you dinner and he made me like a stuffed squash and i was like this is not the person for me a stuffed squash well you're a vegetarian it's very hard to make like i don't know i was like a squash it was like a seven night anyway okay um all right checks his wanted pasta i don't know what i wanted but it wasn't a squash squash i don't know it just good and what it wasn't never mind okay um he wanted he made me a stuffed squash and we watch conan together that's not a great second date that's not that's like a that's an eight years in kind of situation okay shannon badore checks his phone during dinner like a date no no see

the thing that the red flags that I have just kind of passed over in the past is I am going to be a priority in my next relationship. And so you need to care and pay attention and be present with me at all times. I love that. Amen. Talks about traveling together, but never makes a plan. Been there, done that in the last relationship. close the door yeah okay talks about how many women are interested in him oh that's a big close no you know what that and you know what that shows complete insecurity I need to be with someone who's secure in themselves yeah yeah it's so gross yeah but you know it's like yeah it is gross but you know how sometimes like people want to just be like yeah I'm dating a lot and like

they want to kind of make themselves more exciting. I would rather, that's a lie that I'm okay with. I'm okay with you telling me I'm the only one when I'm not. Ooh, am I? God, I don't know. I don't want to know that you're dating other people, but I also. Well, there's a difference between honesty and like being transparent and then just lying. Right. I mean, I just, I'll give an example. In my last relationship, there was one night there were a group of people out and I was told, Oh, this girl's really into me. And I just, I heard it one, two, eight times. I just went outside, took an Uber home. Yeah. I don't need to hear it. Wow. That is really like, you don't need to know anything more about the man that does that. No, it's true. And we talk about this

a lot on Lady Gang. Like when our husbands walk through the airport, like I've been, I traveled with my husband and I saw some people checking him out in the airport. Now he's six, six. So people look at him and they're like, that's weird. How'd that get on? Like there's like a level of like weirdness there. But when, you know, when I can see girls checking him out, like that's the only thing I want to see every once in a while that happens. And I was like, Ooh, he still got it. He's hot. I'm lucky. But like, I don't want you to tell me, I want us to be out in the world than me to notice. Exactly. And I think though, if I'd been, if I were married and for a long time and my husband said, Oh, that girl, you know, I would have said, Oh yeah, go for it. You got this

here. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Texts, but never calls open the door, close the door. I'm a talker and to some, like I'll sometimes too much. So I, I, I don't really like the texting. It takes a long time. It takes much shorter to just put the talk in the words. Agreed. I bet you're a big voice texter. Aren't you Shannon? No, I don't know how to really do it in it. Uh, I've tried it and then it stops and it's too difficult. So no, I just, I just like to call. Yeah. People don't really answer though. I'm still a caller too, because I actually feel like sometimes texting will take more of my time. Like you're saying, I don't, I'm an efficiency girl. And I think that it's really weird when people avoid the phone to such an extent. It's weird. Weird. I agree.

Okay. Has a favorite housewife or franchise, but it's not you. wait like what did you meet any of the guys on love hotel and they're like oh my god i love the housewives but i only watch salt lake oh my god uh and i don't know if i'm allowed to say this but none of them knew that we were housewives and they none of them watched the housewives so they didn't know that's great that's good i didn't know who we were when they signed up for the show did they just think it was like a dating show interesting whoa so they met you and they're like your name is and you're like i'm shannon storms bedore bitch no but i think still like i i can't imagine a lot of men like my husband can't pick a he doesn't know how much you're married

it's a very female you know demo girls and gays yeah you'd be surprised how many times i get a football game or sporting event in the airport that men say i watch it with my wife can you take a picture so I can show her. So I do that a lot. Yeah. Then my husband better step it up because I'm going to watch it. No, Chris watches with me and he'll be excited. He's like, no housewives tonight? I'm like, oh, we're out of season, honey. That's so funny. Yeah. So I think that it's nice when you meet people and they have this preconceived notion of who you are. So it was very nice to be able to meet all of the men just as Shannon. Yeah, I guess that's my question. Like if you've been on, you've been on TV for so long and so much of the great things about you and your wonderful personality, but a lot of the trauma of your life and the really hard things you've been through, they're on TV too. And like, isn't it so weird if you met someone and then they can literally go back and watch your whole life on film? Like how do you explain that to someone?

And you're like, Google me when I'm at the love hotel and it says DUI. I mean, I'm sure that's the first thing that it says when people Google me right now. So, yeah, it's, you know, all I say is that when I am in the right relationship, you know, I'm not going to have to explain it. And it's, I am the same person on the show that I am in real life. And over time, you know, it just takes time to get to know someone and then they'll see who you really are. But it's hard. I've never been on a dating app. I can't go on one. It could be some wacko, you know, I don't know.

Yeah. I just have to meet people. You can go on Raya. That's like the famous people dating app now. I don't know. You know, the thing is too, I'm 61 now. and I what I love is that I took a year off from dating right after my DUI I did not go on one date until I started the love hotel so it was me like the first time opening up you know becoming

vulnerable to it but um I what I realized during that time because I'm always been in a relationship is that I am okay on my own and I'm actually can be happy on my own so if I don't find that partner I will be okay for the rest of my life, but I do want to have the partner. And, you know, it'll, if I go on a dating app and I know zero about somebody, it takes a good two years to get to know someone. I would prefer to be introduced or I can pick up the phone and say, okay, is this normal? Or, you know, learn more about the person. Yeah.

In a perfect world. you're listening to the lady gang so in our first book act like a lady we had this thing called a man manifest and at the time when we wrote the book jack were you single oh no this is yes this is something i made jack jack had a very she had a bad boyfriend and she was single and she was dating and we're like we need to manifest your man and so we made her basically write down this person, who they were, what they felt. And it goes on, there's a whole chart in our book, but we're going to do a mini man manifest with you. Okay. So the first question is when I'm around him, he makes me feel let's manifest. What are we feeling when you're around him?

Special. Yeah. That's good. Are you trying to think of something Kelty? You have a man. No, no, I'm special. Let's have higher hopes. Extraordinary. What else? Safe. No, I think special, I think special is perfect because that sums up a lot, a lot of dynamic. You know what I mean? It's just, it's good. Well, that's a, that's a problem that so many people have in a relationship is they don't, they feel second tier. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like in your life, Shannon, you've been not a priority. You've been a, you're lucky to come along on my ride. And now you're in a part where you're like, no, no, no. You're lucky to come on my ride. hell yeah in kind of yes no but that's a big that's a big thing especially with our girls too

like we see so many of our our women who are just like i'm in this relationship i don't want to leave it or i'm not really happy or there was one today in the facebook group that the girl was like i'm sick and i asked my husband to make me a bagel sorry i say bagel weird i'm sick and i asked my husband to make a bagel and he made a big thing about like well if you needed breakfast you need to tell me beforehand, cause I need to get up 20 minutes early. And she's like, it's a bagel. It takes two minutes. So she was like, am I wrong? And we're like, the baseline of how we're allowing ourselves to be treated is very low. And we want to elevate that. Right. But, but you always have to know that there is no such thing as the perfect relationship. There are always going to be things

that, that, you know, that you'll have to compromise in. There's no, no, I'll look at my husband's ugly ass toes. If he makes me a bagel, you'll accept his feet. That honestly is my biggest concern for you. Shannon is a 60 year old man's foot. Like you want to be on the beach with this man in a flip flop, but like a 60 year old man's foot is worship. I'm sure he gets regular pedicures. Yeah. Oh, he's so rich. Right. Yeah. You're right. Polished toes. You can fix the toe. Okay. Um, I want to ask the difference, like the biggest difference for you between filming love hotel and housewives. Well, first of all, I like to have fun even on the housewives. Like that, that to me is, is why I like to be on the show. It's not necessarily for

the drama but what was so nice about it is that we all just had fun and we all supported each other the the four of us women we have a bond a special bond that we'll have forever uh to be able to spend that amount of time every day with each other and we had we supported each other and you know it's some of all of us are known for being involved in a lot of drama so i think it was a nice change for all of us to have fun together and support each other yeah did you learn anything about confidence from Luann oh well I did say to these girls because it's not that I'm not confident I'm I'm humble like I don't I wish I had a bigger ego right and so I and I'm not saying oh I'm perfect humble I'm not saying that but I I do wish that I I had a bigger ego so I would comment that

all the time saying oh I wish you know I was as strong and vocal about what I want or what I need or what um what I bring to the table yeah but yeah Luann is Luann is confident she's a kick in the pants that girl we had a really fun time together I feel like there's like a duet that needs to happen between the two of you like you can do the costuming and Luann will do the musical arrangement and there's something there um we try to make jack dance at the lady gang shows we did once she did a step touch and she just never wanted to do it again but no you know it's it's that's the fun stuff okay would you ever do a show like traitors i mean possibly i'm just not a bug eater and i'm afraid of heights and i don't want to be buried alive oh the challenges aren't

for you but you would look so cute in a little tartan mini i don't know the outfits well that is true it has a good theme i don't know i i haven't been asked so i don't know okay would you be a good liar would you be a good traitor that i don't i i don't think i would be a good liar no but me i i yeah because i really don't lie that's why that's why it's so easy to film for me? Cause I don't need to keep track of the lies. I just say what happened. Yeah. Honestly, that is amazing. Um, I know you guys are mid, like you're mid, uh, finishing up how much drama is this season? Like if you could give us one word to describe the season, is it dramatic? Is it heartfelt? Is it, you know, fresh? I would say, well, I mean, I I'd say surprising.

and the reason why I say that is because while you do have your drama which by the way a lot of it is so unexpected and like where did that come from you also have a lot of silly like I I am so excited that I've spent a lot of time laughing this season and I'm excited for people to see those fun times because it's a lot it's it's really fun do we know if if your ex is back on this season or do we he's not he's not right why not alexis is not on okay she chose love like an idiot well she's gonna really regret this instead of fame dumbass they're perfect for each other and i wish them well okay um tamra what what do we know about gretchen coming tamra going like do we get that cleaned up this season we'll all be answered that's that's a tbd

my prediction is probably not but i i really like gretchen a lot she's uh she's really sweet and she and slay they've been nothing but kind that's great were you guys on the you were onto the show i'm a late joiner you were never on the show together oh lexus and gretchen ended in season eight and i started in season nine wow so i didn't film either of them okay you're stranded on a desert island on your yacht with your new rich man and you can only have one housewife with you who is the housewife you choose any show any gosh okay well there's oh gosh okay you have four okay your yacht is so big you have four cabins who are you inviting in your four cabins inviting heather debro because she's going to make everything beautiful

yeah i'm going to invite i was going to say sonia but now i'm going to say luann for the crazy fun part i'm going to who's the chef we need someone to cook shannon your new life is really fabulous you have a chef you don't need someone who's the scrappiest who's the scrappiest like if you guys get jumped up on by a shark yeah she's gonna be a pirate yeah i'll take delores oh yeah delores shit up and then and then i think i would take heather gay because there's just so many fun things about her i really like her a lot she's great it's kind of cool do you have like a housewife chat with other housewives like from other, like, is there one big mega WhatsApp group that's like every housewife that's ever been?

If there is, I'm not a member, but BravoCon has been nice because it's an opportunity. There's just, you can meet someone on a Bravo show one time, but you get that instant connection with them and you can maintain a friendship just off of that because very few people, even your own family and whatnot can relate to what we sign up for and what we go through. the good and the bad. So, um, it's always fun. I, I, uh, have met, I think probably most of the people now, and I've enjoyed meeting every single person. They're so kind and so much fun. If you could give one piece of advice for a woman starting Housewives for the first, her first season, what would you tell, what would you tell her?

Uh, tell the truth and be authentic and don't come in guns a blazing. Thank you. they can you gotta you know tear everything up a lot of people do that and then after the first season then they're gone and that's just such a bummer it's a hard balance because you have people who do that and it's like get them out of here but you're like katie you don't need to ruin someone's life on episode one calm down just come to the dinner but sometimes you get somebody that's like a little bit too meek for the crowd. So it's like the balance is a really hard thing. Like I think Bose is doing a beautiful job

on Beverly Hills of having the strength, but also like kind of staying in her lane as far as like not having been on the show as long. That's hard. But she has opinions and that's important. I mean, when you put five to seven opinionated women together in a room, something's going to happen. You know, you can't just sit there and coast along.

It's going to be a short ride if you do. Was there ever a time after some of the hard stuff that you've been through where you were like, I'm not going to be a public person anymore. I don't want everyone to be able to comment on my decisions, my choices, my bests, my worsts. And you were just like, bye, I'm deleting my Instagram. You'll never hear from me again. Um, you know, maybe sometimes, you know, it's always you.

when you're filming, you're like tired, you know, you're tired and like, Oh, when I get a break and then you get the break, it's like, okay, now, now what do I do? You know? Yeah. So, but, but I will say I had a conversation with Andy, like in my third year, cause they all of a sudden people were coming at me after Ireland thinking I was trying to be a bully. And I said, how long does it take to not have these comments, you know, sink in and depress you? And he said, it took him, I think you said about eight years. And today, if you're writing something mean about me, I don't care. I know who I am and the people close to me know who I am. And I'm sure they would probably take my place if I said you want to switch lives. And, you know, I can't let it

affect me. So I guess for that reason, I would say, no, I'm okay doing this. And I have fun and I'm so grateful uh that I have this job yeah because I've grown so much like I I will say that last year um after my DUI I thought that I was in a hole that I couldn't take myself out of I mean I I thought there's no like I'm I'm done it was everywhere and and and the comments and and everything and um to to know and I continue to work on myself and I see a therapist and to know that I got through last year and last season, which was like, you couldn't even script stuff like that, that happened. Um, I know that I'm a stronger person for it. And I can honestly say that I've never been happier than I have right now. So I know now that all of it happened

to get me here. So I'm grateful for that. I love you saying that. And we can take this out if we need to, but I will say the Shannon, when I was in high school, I lost one of my friends to a drunk driver. And I've always been someone that was very black and white about it. And I was like, you choose to do this. You're cut off. Like I, I will never forgive you. And I was really mad at you. I was like, Shannon, come on. Like, Oh, it actually has been quite, um, educational and not calming, but like to watch you do the work has been very wonderful. Like, I think that we can be so fast to judge people at their worst moment. And we're like, Oh, well, they're horrible. So by you, the way that you've taken responsibility for what happened, um, and shown that someone can

change their life, change their mindset, do the work. It brought a lot of comfort to me as someone who had like experienced the other side of that. Um, and I want to say thank you for that because there is a chance that you, this happened and you were like, I'm never talking about again, this happens all the time on reality TV, where you do something bad, then you're like, it didn't happen. Don't bring it up. Your people are like, don't bring it up, but don't bring it up. And you don't talk about it. The fact that you talked about it and you were so real about, I made this mistake. Here's how I'm going to fix it. I think it was a great example to a lot of celebrities and people who are going through these things and making these mistakes. If take that for what it's

worth, but I really appreciate that. You're very kind in saying that. And what's so, uh, what makes me so angry at myself is that I was the same way. I mean, my Uber bills were crazy. If I thought I would have one sip of alcohol, I would never get behind the wheel. And my emotions got the best of me. And there's not a day that goes by where I don't wake up and I am so thankful that I didn't hurt anybody because I don't know how I could have recovered from that. And I am incredibly grateful for that. And I do want to take accountability. I never want to hide from anything. In fact, BravoCon was one month after the DUI. It was tough. And there was question whether I should go, but it was so important for me to not hide at home. I wanted to face the music

and I wanted people to see that I was going to take responsibility and I'm going to continue to do that. So I'm grateful that they let me go to Bravo. Yeah. So no, it was, it was really huge. And this is a reminder to all people that are in bad relationships or relationships that are not suiting you because the wrong man will actually make you crazy. It's, you know what I mean? Like they will. Well, I did, I mean, I did it. I stayed in a relationship that I knew wasn't healthy and I made the choices. Nobody put a gun to my head and said, I did it. So, Um, and I, uh, I'll, I'll own it over and over again. Well, we're very proud of you and excited about love hotel.

I'm excited to see you making out hopefully with lots of different guys and partying with Luann and in your sexy little outfits, it's going to be amazing. Bravo's love hotel premieres Sunday, April 27th. It's the perfect time slot Sunday nights. The way to avoid your Sunday scary is 9. p.m eastern on bravo episodes are going to stream on peacock um shannon we're so excited for you we're excited for new housewives of oc and um and i can't wait for your your yacht and save a room for the lady gang because we'll be there we'll even make your charcuterie for you one day okay

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