When Reality Hits with Jax and Brittany - BravoCon: The Chaos, The Tea, The Truth with Janet Caperna

Episode Date: November 22, 2025

Brittany and Janet reunite to recap all the chaos, excitement, and behind-the-scenes moments from BravoCon. From fan love and first-time panel nerves to surprise Bravo-leb encounters, fashion twinning, and even a little drama squashed, the girls spill everything. Brittany opens up about reconnecting with Lisa Vanderpump, while Janet shares the unexpected moments that boosted her confidence. It’s fun, heartfelt, and full of Bravo-level tea.Please support the show by checking out our sponsors!Rula: Rula patients typically pay $15 per session when using insurance. Connect with quality therapists and mental health experts who specialize in you at www.rula.com/RealityhitsTempo: For a limited time, Tempo is offering my listeners 60% off your first box! Go to TempoMeals.com/REALITYHITSHiya Health: Receive 50% off your first order when you go to hiyahealth.com/REALITYHITSProgressive: Quote your car insurance at Progressive.com to join the over 28 million drivers who trust ProgressiveSee 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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This is going to be fun. We're going to talk all things, BravoCon. I am just getting rested up after. It's been, it was so crazy. I mean, it is so crazy, so fun, so amazing. Before we get into BravoCon really fast, how is parenthood going? How is little Cameron doing? Cam's doing good.

Jason just had knee surgery a few weeks ago. So we, it's been mostly me parenting. No shade to Jason. He's healing and recovering. Can't walk in. Yes, he's finally actually just now starting, maybe you saw some stuff at BravoCon, walking with a cane instead of crutches and a walker. so we're improving but um cam's good he like it's it's been tough for him because he keeps like

going up to jason he's like up and like you know he wants to like roughhouse with jason and he doesn't quite understand why he can't right now um but we're you know busy and and and happy and all the things and cam is such a cute little boy a lot of people because we went trick or trading together yeah a lot of people were like is jason really hurt and i was like he has a knee injury not a head injury you know because he had the thing wrapped around his head to if you guys didn't see or if you didn't listen to that podcast where I talked about it a little bit we went trick-or-treating together and Janet was a nurse Cameron was a doctor and Jason was the patient because he can't walk good so he's in a wheelchair and a lot of people

were asking like is he actually hurt is he actually hurt so I just said like a quick little thing like yes he actually did hurt his knee because I knew you guys had talked about it before but he's doing so much better it was funny because Jason and I were in recovery I was in recovery from my mommy makeover and he was in recovery from his knee surgery at the same time i was planning on helping take care of you yeah running food over and stuff i was not planning on jason surprise you know yeah injury that then i had to take care of him too but it kind of worked out because i every time i was making like him a big meal i was like i'll just double it and bring half over here oh yeah janet brought me food all the time that she made which i love it was great but yeah so we're we're chugging along

cameron's second birthday is coming up next month which i literally just like i know everybody says like time flies it does stuff with kids but i just like cannot believe like his second birthday i can't believe that either i literally feel like it was we were just getting ready for cruz's first birthday and taking pictures for his first birthday invitation like that feels like it was a year ago maybe oh my gosh and the fact that like i don't know cruise is practically a teenager yep and then cameron's like getting there like he's so big and i don't know they just grow up so fast yeah but we got some really handsome little boys yeah we do yeah we do for his second birthday we copied you and got pretty much the exact same swing set that I feel like

Cruz has been on he's obsessed oh obsessed yes we get our money's worth and are used out of this yeah Cameron's second birthday we got him pretty much the exact same he's good he's going to love it I can't wait he is going to love it I'm excited okay now that we checked in with the fam even though I know how they're doing but I just wanted you guys to know how they're doing let's get into a barobocon oh my gosh all right jana that was your first time at bravo con ever Ever. Not, I didn't even go as a fan. So how, like, what, okay, before you got to Bravo Conn, what were you expecting?

I was nervous, honestly, going into it. You know, even when you film the show, when the show's airing, we're never in front of a live audience. Yeah. Like, we don't ever have to, you know, perform for people. Yeah. I'm not a performer. I've, anything with, like, public speaking and stuff makes me, like, really nervous. I too.

So the idea of being on, like, these panels and, like, just talking at all, even to smaller crowds. big crowds yeah that makes me nervous and that's not what we normally do no even watch what happens live the audience is very small yeah it feels like you're kind of just in a room and like yeah half of them are friends and people you bring exactly so it's yeah it's i haven't been like in front of a crowd on stage i don't know ever or like i can't even think of a time like and it just so that part of it was so nervous for and that ended up being like one of the best parts yeah i was a little nervous I was going to get booed or like you know you see so much hate online yes is this what it's going to be like there and I say I didn't get any sort of negativity at all yeah all positive

all love and walking out on the stage and then seeing the big crowd and having them be so excited for like watching our crazy lives yeah and just like the joy and entertainment that everybody gets out of it like that was the best part for me is like interacting with the fans and then being like just like giddy and excited about our show I was like this is crazy it's a amazing meeting all the fans like that definitely is one of the very best parts of it because everyone is just so nice and so supportive like I had so many people coming up to me saying like like like amazing things like that I help them in a toxic relationship or that you know thank you for speaking out on autism and different things like that and people being like you're a good mom and like that's like

the best compliment that I could get you know um it just feels so amazing and everybody's so nice and you were talking about like a lot of hate because i know that you have had it pretty rough which i don't get that people like chill out um but nobody would say that to your facts and that's something that over time and maybe now that you've done bravo con because i know you've gotten better at handling yeah the the comments i put a lot of restrictions on stuff i don't see as much of it anymore i don't go reading the reddit thread i know like that got asked in our panel and i was like i still look at reddit but i now i read like boring stuff that puts me to sleep like science articles and stuff like you're not touching the valley no no I actually

have all the most of the bravo stuff I have blocked yeah every once in a while like a summer house article or something that's not a housewives thing will come through yeah I try to block all of it now because I'm like I have no business seeing this and I just feel like bravo con honestly gave me a little boost of confidence yeah just that I'm like you know when you do get a lot of hate online you think that's 100% it and then meeting people in real life and like putting faces to you know names and all of that. It just made me feel like a lot better about the whole, I don't know, the whole situation. Yeah. And like I said, I'm sure everyone was so nice to you. Everyone was so nice to me. And getting to meet you in person and like seeing your at your real personality and how

nice you are and stuff. Like I'm sure that opened a lot of people's eyes there as well. Yeah. What was your favorite thing that you got to do? If you had to pick one thing, your top thing, we can talk about everything. But what was your favorite thing, like your favorite panel your favorite interactive event or you know the last day we went to the outdoor deck that's like outside yeah and it was like it was a little rainy so it was like a smaller audience which i felt more comfortable around the last day's always smaller too because a lot of people start heading back on because the last day was on a sunday right yeah yeah a lot of people start traveling back and um but we it was sort of like watch what happens live games and they

had me read um they had me and jessey on stage with a couple fans and we got like we put wigs on And they had me read as Durinda the clip, clip, clip, and, like, just reading, like, the words of it, I was, like, cracking up so hard because it's just, like, the most ridiculous scene ever. And actually, that I felt, like, made me feel like, this is all so funny and, like, hilarious and it's not that serious. Yeah. And, like, you know, it just made me, like, realize, like, just to have fun with it a little bit more. Yeah, because we take a lot of things serious or, like, overthink, like, what did I say? Why did I say that?

People are going to be so mad that I said that. But then, like, down the road, like, me saying Rottenhill. was one of the most vulnerable moments of my life and now it is like a huge thing that I'm known for it's so funny because you I don't know if people notice this but you like very rarely swear yeah very rarely and especially like anything like like a gosh darn but the bad version oh I would never say that like anything like I feel like so I feel like a rotten hell for you is like a big deal yeah to say something like that I've said that a lot because I've been like listen to tell somebody to rot in hell coming from a

religious family is like the worst thing you can tell somebody yeah because rotting in hell would be the worst thing anyone could do ever yes you know so like for me that was like a thing and now now energy drinks yeah yeah everybody check out go to rotin hell dot com get your energy drink it's so good i'll give you one before you leave janet so you can taste it yeah um but yeah and i like i have overthought i have overthunk overthought over thought you're not in a dr seuss book Dr. Stamberts. I'm out here overthunken. So many things that I've done. But yeah, you're right. It's not that serious. It always starts as something serious in real life. But then I think once time passes, it's like, you know, Durinda was really mad at that time in this clip that I'm like doing. Yeah. All that now it's like this funny thing. And like rotten hell becomes this funny thing. So it kind of was a reminder to me that like even though in the moment you're like, this is my real life. So like I'm mad. I'm, you know, I'm happy. I'm all this stuff. Later you can kind of like take. it with a grain of salt and laugh at it. True. Yeah. So you're talking about it was it called

Bravo Palooza. That was, I liked that one too. That was like the cocktail hour thing. This was like a little stage outside. Yes. Okay. It was like a hundred fans. Yes. Or no, that was Bravo Ploos. But I did the Bravo deck with Tom Schwartz. Oh, fine. There's just so many different things that I can't remember everything, all the names. But me and Schwartz are hilarious together. Yeah, you guys are. We kind of like are both a little ditsy and both a little like. You're both gigglers. Yeah. And we're on stage. and we had to pay trivia with people right so we threw these balls into the crowd and they would get whoever caught the ball got to come on stage with us and be our partners right so before we go

on they're like try to let you know the fans answer before so that we're just not like the one sprouting out all the answers shouting out all the answers so I like did that for a little bit but then Tom started like answering before the fans so then my competitive side started kicking and I was like I am not losing this like my competitive nature came about big top if you don't know brittany at game night like you get this is why i like you're one of my favorite game night people because you get really into it and so do i and it's like we don't uh like i like i feel like we don't care about like when sports are on like yeah some i feel like you getting to like kentucky basketball yeah few things but it's like couldn't care less

about like competitiveness and most other things in life but game night yes games is on and then um we did another game where me and schwartz world had to be like back to back and it was like because it was an Olympian that was doing the, what's her name, Danny? Her name's Danny Paralympian. She was the host. Oh, cool. So there was another game we played where Schwartz and I stood back to back and it was like gold, silver, bronze, and you would like have to rank it. And then there was people in the audience that got to come on stage and they were back to back and they did the same thing. And whoever won. And me and Tom got every single one, right? We like matched up, exactly.

You're like bringing fans on stage just to smash them. Come on up, play some trivia with us. And then you just like, it's like 50 to zero. I did not be for it to go like that at all. Brittany's sweet to the fans until you're playing a game with her. See, the first game, though, I won with a person that came on stage. The second one was like me and shorts against them. Yeah.

But it was just like gold, silver, bronze. I mean, it was just fun and easy. But that was crazy because it was raining. the third day whenever I did the outdoor deck was the day that it was raining and stuff and that was the first thing I did for the day Oh wow And then after that it was like that photo shoot moment

Oh yeah And then it was my big panel with Denise Richards Countess Louangette and Ken Zolziat Which was insane I had to give you a pep talk before this You came up to me and you're like How am I going to go on stage with all these iconic housewives of women And I was like Britney say it with me

I'm iconic too You wouldn't do it you're like no no I'm not I was like, yes, you are, go. I actually said that to Countess Luann backstage. We did a shot together before we came out. Love that. Shot of tequila. And I was like, I'm just, I was like, I was like, I was kind of, I was more nervous for that panel than I was any other panel I did.

And, um, I was like, I'm just so nervous. Like, you guys are such, like, I coins and, you know, like Denise Richards, hello. Like, it was just like crazy. And Countess Loua and Kim Zolziak. I mean, they are OGs of, not only Bravo, but Denise for like, so. many things and everybody for so many things but i told her that too and we go on stage and louan was like saying like brittany's just so sweet and she was like she said to me back stage that she didn't know how she was going to be on stage with us and i was just like thank you so much

she's so sweet denise richards is so gorgeous oh yeah still so gorgeous michel and i had this secret kind of thing going on all weekend where i was like i was like i have a crush on denise richard and then michelle was like making friends with her but i was like i'm jealous you're talking to Denise. I was like, don't steal Denise for me. Oh my gosh. Yeah, well, you know, Denise, Denise did special forces too before me. So we like bonded over special forces. And she was like, my boob and plant popped on special forces. I was like, I know. I remember that. And my brother came to town, my older brother West and my sister, Long Bolisha. They came to Vegas and came to Bromicon. And my brother was so excited to meet Denise. And she was so nice and took so many photos

with him and everything else. Jason says that Wild Things was the most important movie he ever watched as a man he's like it made me realize things oh my gosh it was just it was a crazy experience i think countess lewain might be my favorite person that i like got to know she's so iconic yes hilarious and like i want to go see one of her cabaret shows i do too we should go i follow her now she's commenting on my photos now i'm like this is my girl i love her a countess in the in the Rolodex. I know. There has been many times over the last couple of years going through everything that I've gone through where I really could use a great therapist. But it is so hard. Finding a therapist is hard enough, but finding one who actually takes your insurance, that's where

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Like he's just so funny. There were just so many nice people. I mean, all of the Orange County Housewives, I feel like I talk to more. Yeah. I feel like I've met them the most because they're kind of at the L.A. or California events. Yes. Like influencer events stuff.

But I really loved, I also loved Shannon Bador was super nice. Yeah. I loved her daughter was there, and they were super sweet. Tamara, I love, Tamara's, like, said a couple little shady things about me on her podcast, but, like, stuff I can take where she's like, Janet's definitely stirring the pot here. And I'm like, I'm like, so we've like, we've met like briefly, but, um, the third day I went up to where we were wearing the exact same outfit. Uh-uh. Exact same outfit. So I saw her and look, Tamara.

Like same brand and everything. Yes. Oh my gosh. Red, these like maroon leather pants. Oh, yeah. I remember that outfit on you. And then they had like basically like three different tops that matched the pants. So we were wearing different tops with the exact same color.

Right. And hers was like lace and mine was like a sweater or more. And so I saw her from across the room and I was like, oh my God. But I knew she would have a good sense of humor about it. I feel like there's some people who maybe wouldn't. Yeah. And she's like, oh my God. We have to take a picture.

And then she's like collab with me. So we like did a collab post where she wrote like two villains walk into bravo. Oh my gosh. I got it. I love it. that was fun like i feel like tamera's like one of those ones who like just gets it like she has fun with it she's been on forever she doesn't take it too seriously um i met vicky from ocey and she was so funny all the orange county housewives i feel like we're super nice teresa jude ice one of the nicest human

oh girl yes she was like my mom on special forces i like i love her you just i guess i always assume that the people who have been around forever are not going to be like superly out of their way friendly like i thought she would just be like hi nice to meet you like whatever and she was like oh you're so sweet this and this she like would like hold my hand as i talked to her yeah and then louis was talking to jason and they were like making friends louis was like so texted hit louis texted jason after we got back from bravo con and was like it was so nice to meet you guys when you're in watch what happens live uh or anytime you're in new york stay an extra day in jersey with us we'll make you um pizza on our homemade pizza oven oh i was like i will die if i end up eating pizza at teresa juda

i know like it just she is so nice she was like out of her way sweet yeah she was like Like I said, she, on Special Forces, I was the closest with her, even though it wasn't there very long. But she was just so nice. She was, like, fixing my hair, washing the mud off my face, doing everything. So it was great to see her again. She seems so sweet. And she is. Speaking of the same outfit, because, like, I wouldn't, like, be upset if someone I was wearing the same outfit, but, like, I would not want that.

You know what I mean? And there was, one, the pink dress. That three people wore. Gia, Jude Ice, Portia, and one other person, I can't think. I think of Miami Housewife, but I forget who. Yeah, a blonde girl. Yeah, I forget who it was. But they all three wore the exact same dress.

I will say they all looked really good. They did. They all looked great. The last thing you want is to wear the same outfit as somebody and be like, oh, like, I look horrible. Yeah. She looks amazing. Somebody said, like, they were like trying to rank who wore it best, of course, which that's another thing I'd be scared of.

Yeah. They were trying to rank who wore it best. And they were like, and I hate that I cannot think of the blonde girl's name. I'm sure if as soon as I saw it, like, I'm going to be like, oh, my God, I know exactly that is so I'm sorry that I can't think of the name there were so many people there but somebody said and like I thought this was good they were like the coloring looks the best on the blonde girl um Porsche has the best curves for the dress but Gia had the best hair and makeup so like they said so yeah I like that instead of pitting us against each other I'm doing like

percentages of who wore it better exactly so that oh also Doret was another one that I was like obsessed I didn't get to meet Doree let me tell you Jared and I both agree. I introduced myself to Doreet, and then I brought Jason over. Her eyes lit up when she saw Jason. She had her hand on his bicep and chest so quickly. Oh, my gosh. And now who are you?

And was like, and I both were like, oh, my God, is Doreet flirting with my husband? And look, I was not jealous at all. I was literally like, I was like immediately like, Jason, hook up with her. I was like, what he? It's Doreet. If you have a chance of Doreet, you better take it. Oh, my God. And then we saw her at one of the after parties.

and she was like talking to someone in conversation as Jason walked by she like turned around and said hello to him again and I was I was loving it maybe she doesn't have a crush on my husband but in my brain she does what was Jason saying he's so funny Jason was like so modest but he's oh she was just being friendly and I don't think she was flirting with me or I don't think she was you know whatever and Jared and I were like she was definitely checking you out oh my gosh but jason did I he was like no I think she was just probably being kind I was like no she she was into it that is she married or um there's a lady she married um there's separated. Okay. I don't think she might have been feeling frisky. Her ex has been like seen dating. So I think

that they are. I don't know if she is, but I think that that's acceptable in their world. I love that she at the bravo. She lit the cigarette on stage. Perfect acceptance speech. Just a lit cigarette and thank you. Yes. That was iconic. She's really funny. She's another one who's just like doesn't take it too seriously. Like I could see a lot of Bravo people like you would think that if you light up a cigarette, they normally don't show tobacco products if you don't see people like even if you do know somebody smokes off camera yeah i think you can't show it or yeah there's weird laws about showing tobacco on camera but obviously they showed treat i could see a lot of housewives being like oh my god how dare you show me smoking a cigarette the way she owned it and just let it be iconic i like

i love that about her i loved it too seriously like her doing that and accepting it like that was just so funny like that was the best possible thing that she could have done i think the bravo's awards were another fun night because it was just like we had a I like that it was tables it was kind of more golden globe style yeah like audience seats I like that too and like we could like drink and you know hang out and I don't know just also all the awards that are going off I'm like this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of what do you mean they're getting an award for this yeah that was fun it was really cool that all of us were in the same room at that time as well you know I got seated next to sand a ball though which was actually technically I did Lala a solid

and she was technically next to Sandoval. And I was like, we can play a little musical chairs. Yes. Yeah, we switched you guys around a little bit. Yeah. But that was still fun to be able to, like, sit with our friends. But that was, yeah, gosh, the bravos were crazy.

I don't know if I've told you this yet, but I finally ran into Lisa Vanderpump in person. Yes. How was that? I saw a quote that you talked about her on the red carpet. Like she's just never reached out to me. Yes. So I wanted to talk about that because a lot of people were commenting

okay so let me backtrack a little bit before i saw lisa because she wasn't there the first day so she wasn't even at the bravos or anything so she said that she had to work so she wasn't there the first day so um i got asked on the carpet the first day if i was going to go to like the sur the um her panel if i was going to go to her panel or something like that and i was like and i just kind of said lisa hasn't really you know talked to me or invited me to anything um she hasn't checked on me after my divorce or after my son's autism diagnosis or anything like i haven't talked to her in a long time and i don't even think that that was mean you know i don't think that was mean i was just like stating what happened i was like you know

and i wish you know i wish she would would have talked to me more and stuff like that because i was very close to lisa obviously um but i then i said but i've always you know admired her and thought so highly of her and she does great things and i wish them nothing but the best so i they clip it down then to just you saying like she hasn't reached out to me right but a lot of people commented it underneath of it and we're like why should she ever have to reach out to you you wouldn't have anything if it wasn't for her and like got a lot of backlash and i was like hold on i did not say anything mean yeah i just felt like i was close to her and she meant a lot to me so it kind of like is sad that i haven't heard from her so long because whenever she got her accident with the horse i

texted her and make sure that she was okay and she like responded and everything and but that's the last time I heard from her. So throughout like my divorce and everything else, which is whenever I thought for sure would be a time that we talked just because she was very close to me and very close to Jacks. You know, I looked up to her kind of as like a mother in L.A. Like we all did on the show. Because we were together every day. It's not like I was being like, I can't stand her. I've never said anything negative about Lisa. I've always said I looked up to her and thought she was an amazing person and I love what she does with like all of her charity work and everything like that. But I can't, I can say it hurts my feelings that after i got off the show i didn't hear from her anymore that's all that i that's all

that i'm saying right so i see her backstage we had for those of you who don't know there's like this whole long corridor in caesar's backstage where like there's dishes and plates and that's where all the people walk to get to each different room for different stuff backstage area yeah backstage area and i walked past her and i was like lisa how are you and we like give each other a hug and stuff and she was like oh she's like I was just asked like if I saw anybody from vener pump rules if I would give them a hug and she's like I told them I would actually give you a hug I'm like I'm like actually but but we just like laughed about that and I was like how are you doing it's been so long and you know she was so nice and everything was good and

she was you know she was just like um she told me that I was a warrior and stuff and that made me feel good because I was like I was like okay so it was good it wasn't weird it wasn't anything awkward like that and you know it made me happy but she obviously is aware of what's going on in my life you know but she was like you're a warrior I'm proud of you I'm proud of what you're doing and stuff like that so that was a good interaction and then Ken was right there with the dog and he was so nice too and they were just like wishing me the best and then she had like hurry off and go to something and I had to go to something as well I'm glad that was a positive but that was my first time seeing her years yeah in so, so, so long.

I met her again for the 40th time this weekend. Did she recognize you? Hell no. I actually made a joke about it because she is an executive producer on the Valley. But she obviously has never seen it. And that's something I feel like maybe people don't understand, but it does happen. If you are responsible basically for casting a show, if the Valley has a spin-off, like I could see them giving like you or Jacks or you should get it.

Like it proves your net credit. But it's basically like, oh, I helped, like, make these people. It's because it was me, Jack's Kristen. Yes. Yeah. So I think she gets, it's kind of like a courtesy credit. Yeah. I don't think it's like money or anything.

Well, she's not like working 10 hours a show or anything like that. Yeah. Producers are kind of, it's kind of like a credit. Exactly. A kind of thank you sort of thing. But so I, knowing that, when I saw, we actually had to ride in an elevator together, a freight elevator. And it was Jason and I and Ken and Lisa and then both of our crew of people.

And so I went up to her, I was like, oh, Lisa, hi, I'm sure you know me because you're an executive producer on my show. And she kind of, well, she was like, oh, and she almost had to think. And she's like, oh, were you on the valley? And I was like, yeah, and I was like, I'm Janet. I was like, you also hosted me at your home for Sheena's bridal shower, like just kind of reminding her, like, we've met like 60 times. Yeah. I don't expect her to remember me. Like, she's Lisa Vanderpompson's plain jeans like me all the time.

But we had like a little giggle. She, like, made some sort of snarky joke about, like, yeah, like the show and, like, oh, with all of my favorite, like, whatever. Because I know, like, she and Kristen have her thing. Yeah, yeah. They're never going to like each other. They're a little battle. But she made some sort of, like, little snarky comment like that. And I just, it was fun. It was a two second interaction. Yeah. I was like, well, I was like, I'm sure you'll hear a lot about our show when you're working on it, you know, the upcoming season. And she, like, laughed. And we actually got in, like, two golf carts. Like my, Jason and I and I and our people and then she got in a separate golf cart. And I was like, all right, let's race. and our guy got really into it and we were like weaving through this parking garage and we like cut them off at one point and I was like ha ha Lisa it was like kind of a fun little thing I think Jared has a video of us like racing golf carts with Lisa Vanderpong that is so cute um I'll make sure to reintroduce myself next time I meet her yeah but it was great though because it was good to know that she you know she does know she acted like she cared and she, you know, said I was a warrior because I am.

You are. I've been through it and I am coming out the other side, better than ever. So just so everybody knows, there is no hate there. I still admire her. I'm still so grateful and thankful for her. I also think you're kind of clearing up, like, a lot of people think, like, because of the show and how she was kind of like a fairy godmother to all of you guys, that like, oh, you guys, like, talk all the time.

Like, of course you're going to her panel today. Like, she's your best friend. Yeah. That's not like how it's been. so yeah of course i feel like it was right for you to like clear that up and just like no like i've seen her heard from her right and like that was the first time in a very long time that i had seen her yeah so but it was it was nice to see her and it felt like old times and she still looks exactly like the last time i saw her yeah she looks great and kin i mean it was just it just took

me back to my vanderpump rules days it was kind of cool was there anybody you were like did you have beef with any bravo people that you were like oh i hope i don't see this person or has there ever been anybody that's been rude to you that you like so remember when the Gigi stuff Oh yeah Got popular So how do you say her last name? Gonzal

Good No idea It's hard So Gigi She's gonna be on the Valley Spinoff Parisian style But she used to be on

Shaw's of Sunset And we've talked about this before She like commented Something about my body Underneath a photo Like kind of insinuating I was pregnant and stuff And then Kristen saw it

And went in on her And then Zach said something And I think even you said something I was like You know I don't normally agree with Kristen, but yep. Yeah. And Kristen and Gigi kind of got into it. Well, you know, that turned into a whole thing. And I, you know, I talked about it on a podcast and I was like, I hope she just learns from that because women should always lift each other up, especially if we're in the same

world and she's literally doing a spinoff off of bodies. Yeah, yeah. And she's literally doing a spin off of our show. So I'm like, I just didn't get it. Well, she did write an email to Alex Baskin to send to me, like an apology email. Wow. So I wasn't. that nervous about seeing her but she's literally i've never had beef with anybody on anything and me and her never got into it or anything but it was about me yeah and then um she stopped me at bravo con and she like apologized to me in person and i was like thank you for doing that so me and her are good that's good so that would be like the only quote-unquote drama that could have like really happened with me but she you know she was very nice and she was like i'm so sorry i shouldn't have done that

blah blah blah and we were like it's good and i was like i'm the most forgiving person ever and like honestly like just don't you know just always try to lift other women up is all i could say and you know i was like we've only met one time before all that stuff happened so you know but she was really nice to me and now it's just water under the bridge you know people make mistakes i'm glad that she like realized and actually apologized and she apologized more than once like that and that means something like she didn't just write the email to alex baskin she stopped me in person because if it was just email to Alex Baskin, I would kind of be like, okay, she doesn't want Alex because he's all of our bosses to be angry with her, you know what I mean? Or be like, upset with her. But she stopped

me on her own. That's good. In person. And we talked in person and she apologized again. So I'm like, okay, she actually means it. We're good. I don't care anymore. And I hope that their show's great because I fucking love Rizza. They should have had this on Squash the Beef. I wanted, I want to be able to replay this. Well, you know what? Not only that. They should have had her and Kristen on that. Oh, they shouldn't have. Because it never got that bad with me. Yeah. But even like the way that Gigi was talking to Kristen and their fights and stuff back and forth, like that would have been even bigger than that's true than me. Because Kristen will not back down. Like for me, I've just be like, it's okay, you know, but Kristen would be like, rah. That would have been a good one on

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larsa pippin oh i didn't get to see her at all i think it might have been like i don't i don't think it was intentional like it was so mild like it wasn't her being rude i think she might have like literally not seen me or like it just was like a brain fart moment but that was the only moment where i was like oh okay like she shook jason's hand and i'm sitting there like about to put my hand out and i was like oh never mind like i like did like the swan like oh never mind forget it but um that was the only like even slightly weird interaction other than that everybody was so nice and positive yeah and it's funny like when people come up to us like like housewives that were like oh my god love your show and like you watch camille uh she came

she came up to me and we were like checking in backstage and stuff and she came and she came up to me and was like hi brittany and i don't know if i've ever met her in person but i knew who she was immediately and she said to me she said congratulations on your show she She said, it is such a hit. And I was like, are you kidding me? Like, people like that saying that to, like, that's insane. I wish I would have introduced myself to her. I saw her backstage a couple times.

She was on, which I feel like they need to like, I don't know if you did this, but like for anybody, any of the Bravo Labs who either have questions about like the logistics of BravoCon before, the week before there's like a Zoom call that you can log in. There's a couple different times. So like I log into Zoom call because I've never been before. So I just want to like see everything that they're going to say. And it's like 50 other Bravo Leberties on the call. And, like, Cynthia Bailey was on mine.

She has her camera on. She's just, like, looking fabulous in her, like, home office. Camille Grammer. Heather, Heather Gaze on it. Whitney from South Lake City is on a treadmill running as she's, like, on the thing. And they hold their cameras on. I'm like, mute camera off. Yeah.

Scared. And Camille was like, oh, I'm so, she was like so bubbly on the call. And she was talking about how she like, she or someone in her family invested in a weed business. And she's like, so if anybody needs anything, you know, in Las Vegas. I'm like, is Camille Grammer offering me pot? I'm like, this is amazing. I'm like, this is iconic already.

And that was like the first peek at like just being at BravoCon and like turning a corner in the hallway and like a housewife's right there. And you're just like, oh my gosh, yeah. You know who else was very, very, very nice and talked to me? It was before I did a photo op with La La La. I mean, La La La, we're going to go do a photo op. Alexia from Real Housewives of Miami. She was so nice to me.

and just like talk to me about so much like she knew like everything about my personal life on the show and she was telling me about hers and like we were connecting over so much stuff and it was just it was I've really liked her she's separated or they're back together now I think she filed for divorce but then they're back together she just was going through a lot and stuff and so she was just kind of like you know kind of connecting with a lot of my story and stuff and we were just sitting backstage for a little bit And it was just, she was just so nice. She was iconic. She's best friends with Marisol, who I saw backstage at one point.

Marisol was back there with us too. Marisol was talking to La La and I was talking to her. Like, we were all at a table together. Marisle always has her giant sparkly tumbler cups. They're like bedazzled and they normally have her name on them. And then she calls cocktails cockies. So she's always like, give me a cocky in her cup. And so I saw, we were like running both backstage like at the same time to something.

And I was like, Marisol. I was like, you got your cup and you're cocky. And she literally turns around and her handler. is holding a giant sparkly cup and I'm holding a coffee cup full of mimosa's at this point and she goes are you having coffee and I go no it's a cocky and I just like that was like the five second interaction

I had with her and I just was like this is wild yeah this is like a fever dream Disneyland of Bravo oh gosh I'm like am I really like cheers and cockies with Marisol like this is insane it was and it is such a cool experience um me and Kristen and Schwartz got to do number one guys and girls

from the group with like a bunch of it was it was the valley summer house southern hospitality southern charm um it was i love all those casts yeah and it was just like a couple from each cast and and he did this thing where he would spin the wheel and it would land on a name and you would have to shag marry kill and it of course he calls me and they spend the wheel and mine was Shag Mary Kill, Jesse Lally, Brock Davies, and Danny Bucco. Did you kill them all? I was like, oh, my God, what do I do? I didn't know that you had the option to, like, kill them all or do whatever like that.

So, of course, me, I'm like, I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. So then I, I know, it is a tough one. But also, it's tough because two of them are married to my friends. So I said Shag, Jesse. He's the only one. Yeah. You could probably hear crows in the background.

But I said, Shagg Jesse, he's the only one. And then I was like, man, which one do I kill? Which one do I marry? I don't want to kill anybody, obviously. The crowd was going. I can easily kill one of those. I know. But the crowd was like, Danny, Danny.

So I married Danny and killed Brock. But I didn't want to kill Brock. You know, it's just like something I had to choose. That'll be a long life you'll be living. It was just nothing I had to choose. But I was like, really? I was hoping they would have like put, because obviously I would never be date or do anything. with those guys they're married to my friends or divorce from my friends like that was a hard one

i wish i would have put like hot people on there like jesse solomon captain jason you know like said that like that so i could have um had fun with it but i was like i don't know what to do i was put on the spot and i was like they should have given you three single bravo men exactly that's what i was wanting uh which ones you would go on a date with yeah because i'm like really you're going to pick my close friends either husbands or ex-husband like that was not a good easy choice. I was like, crap. I don't know what to do with this. Oh, what do I do with this? That's so funny. Is there anything that you would do differently for your next Bravo con? You know, I would, there was one night where I got hammered, so I would drink less because that

that 5 a.m. glam call hungover is not fun. And to be honest, on our panel, I just was so nervous to the crowd. I wish I would have spoken up a little bit more. Like, it just was scary. I can't explain it. It was so amazing, but it just, like, I was like, I thought you did good talking yeah but there was a couple little things that I feel like if there wasn't such a big audience I would have like chimed in a couple little shady comments yeah something I when jesse made a comment about like oh his performance with his tight underwear I wanted to be like you could never perform say something shady and I thought it at the time and but yeah I just was a little bit nervous so I think I would have maybe had two less drinks

my first night and had two more drinks before the valley panel yes I love the valley panel um I was blown away by the support I got yeah like the applause for you know everything through jacks and just like the people um asking me questions about cruz's autism like i was just blown away i mean it made me feel really good i got a cried whenever i got that applause yeah when they were talking about what i was going through with jacks like that was like so beautiful and i really appreciated it and the fans have been there yeah they've seen it even before i was seeing it you know like like been been through it if i had to change something i would definitely not open a brand new pair of Christian Lupiton Hills the day that I'm going to wear

them you guys I could not it was the most pain in my feet I have ever felt in my entire life I kept I was like what are you thinking I mean well I talked on my podcast before how Dolly chewed through my favorite pair of black lupitons so I had to buy another pair for bravo con because they were completely demolished and I could not feel my feet wait do you know Britney that someone on TikTok, I got tagged in a video, made fun of us because we had a photo opportunity thing. And this is the day Brittany decides to break in her lubotons. So the photo opportunity is kind of towards the end of the day. I think it was the last thing on my schedule.

And Brittany's like, my feet are killing me. And she was like, I have to take off my shoes. Well, if you don't know, how tall are you? I'm five, maybe like almost five six, five, really. Okay, I'm five nine. Yeah, you're way taller than me. I was wearing four inch heels this day. Yes.

So when Brittany takes off her heels, she is literally up to my. arm page. Yeah. And I begged, Janet. I said, Janet, I said, Janet, please. Like, can we please just do this photo off without our shoes on? And the photographers won't go to our feet. And not thinking there's a million people in line that they're probably going to take videos of us. But you guys, there we were in our hotel slippers. So that in the photos, I wouldn't be nine feet tall. And Britney's like a shrimp. And so there we were taking home. And look, all the photos that the photographer took, our feet are not in that. Yeah. job yeah but then all the fans like why the fuck are they wearing slippers well this is why guys because

i had just opened those shoes and i had been there since uh i had been at bravocon i started glam at five a m i had been there since seven a m that day so 12 hours so i wore those shoes and i could barely walk in them and everything all day long and i tried we we wore heels for like the first half and then had to take them off because i was like janet i i can't i'm mortified so i mean I felt awful doing that but you guys know what it's like women know what it's like come on I don't think anybody even questioned it no person was like your feet hurt we were like yeah yeah I was like I even would say I'm sorry I'm not wearing my heels my feet are just killing me like I would never that would be something I would definitely change I would never ever ever wear oh and I would also

make sure you can't see my nipples through my dress when a flash goes off there was one picture where someone was like you can see britt's nipples sounds like well they look good yeah I mean I did not know until I had done the end of the day I had done panels I had done carpets I had done everything and no one said it was when we got to the fan photo off the photographer was like um by the way when my flash goes off we see your nips so let's bring your hair in front yeah and that was the end of that was the last thing I did the entire day so if you've been there since 7 a.m. and we got a fan photo with me and brittie just know you got an extra little treat in there I saw like jasmine posted one I was like it's not that bad like it's not like Sydney

Sweeney like that dress that she wore recently where she looked so hot by the way it's not that that bad and you can't see it in every photo it's only whenever the flash hits you like right on so I would make sure that that didn't happen and I would make sure that I did not open brand new heels yes nips and shoes nips and shoes oh my gosh this has been so fun talking about bravo con I know I'm glad you had the best time it was my third bravo con and it just gets better every year honestly yeah it'll be back in 2027 right they're taking a break next year are they yeah you know jana knows everything like she has to like plan things for me and stuff she's like the responsible one all i do is check my email yeah if i have a question i'll ask her even if i like need a photo from a day like to post on

instagram i'm like do you remember what um date or month that we did this she'll have to like send me the date i love when i'll be like well this is this date and whatever and like our photo shoot for this is this and like they didn't tell me that how do you know and i go open your email they did tell me yeah jana's the one i ask for all my details okay before i let you go there's two questions i've ever guessed first one is if you could be on any other reality tv show what would it be and why um what was that okay it doesn't exist anymore but if it did do you remember unwrapped on the food network with mark summers unwrapped no it was like how they showed you how you make different like candies and treats and stuff I would want to be on that yeah that seems like

if I'd be on another bravo show I feel like I like the idea of summer house like that you're all in one like our group trips are so fun and wild and not fun at times yeah I feel like the group trips are really fun and I feel like it's just a constant group trip show yeah so I think and I like the idea of the hamptons it seems like a fun place yeah I love a lot of the summer house casting Lizzie Hubbard is hilarious. I talked to her a bunch this weekend and she was really fun.

They are all great. I'm excited for their spin-off. They're doing a series of spin-off. But they filmed back to back, which I was like, Ari, how did you do that? I know. But yeah, I think

those would be my two, I think. Okay. And then who, if you had to name one favorite reality TV star, who would that be? That's really tough. I want to say

Lauren Conrad because she's what got me into reality. Like Laguna Beach and then the Hills was like the first reality TV stuff I watched and then it kind of led me into Housewives and everything else. I always liked Lauren Conrad too, but I was a Kristen girl. Yeah. I feel like I was Team LC at the time. I would have to like rewatch it now.

But I feel like that's what led me down my reality TV journey. That's like definitely one of the first reality TV shows I actually watch. Yeah. And then we had a lot of the same like in Vayner Pump and stuff. We had the same production company and stuff. And it was like insane. And I was like, how is this my life? I can't believe it.

Yeah. All right, Janet. Well, tell everybody where to find you and about your podcast. My podcast is called This Side of the Hill, and it comes out every Wednesday with Jared and Jason. And my Instagram is at Janet. Awesome. All right. I love you, girl.

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