Luann de Lesseps is letting “pure pleasure” dictate her life lately.
“My group cracked me up, they’re like, ‘It is the Lu-naissance,'” Luann quips to ET, talking over video chat.
Practically three years after signing off The Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis (although, as soon as a Housewife, at all times a Housewife, thanks partially to the Final Women Journey spinoff), the 59-year-old is leaning into her pop-star fantasy full-time. What started as a pastime (or possibly, a storyline) on RHONY is now a full-fledged profession, with Lu promoting out venues throughout the globe with what appears to be a endless cabaret tour. The most recent iteration, Marry F Kill, simply made its UK debut, together with a first-ever pageant efficiency for Luann at Mighty Hoopla earlier this month.
“It was like a sea of individuals,” Luann recollects. “It was, like, 30,000 individuals! I’ve by no means performed to do crowd that large. … It was like Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Manufacturing unit.”
Whereas she desires to get again to actuality TV (and has some potential initiatives within the works), Luann is proving that there is endurance within the type of fame that comes from the Bravo universe, for those who work it. A brand new “right-hand man,” Roger Dawley, helps her “be cool” to attach with youthful followers, reinvigorating her social media with hit after hit.
Her TikTok presence is kind of completely different from that of her former castmate Bethenny Frankel, who’s spent a lot of the previous month flooding her followers’ feeds with movies lambasting luxurious model Chanel for not permitting her in a retailer, when the shop was internet hosting a non-public occasion. Bethenny’s seemingly shared greater than 100 movies on the subject.
“I do not observe Bethenny, and so, no, I’ve not been following, however I’ve heard,” Luann purrs. She and Bethenny didn’t finish their time on TV collectively on the most effective phrases, issues solely getting worse as Bethenny started criticizing RHONY within the years after she exited the present.
“I’ve heard, as I’m doing British Vogue, she is getting kicked out of Chanel. So, there you go,” Luann jabs. “Success is the most effective revenge.”
As for what Luann’s subsequent viral video may be, she’s all the way down to group up with Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan on an official remix of the actress’ invented the “Housewives … pop music solely for homosexual males” she improvised throughout an interview selling the Netflix hit (the lyrics of that are merely, “Footwear and personal yachts, caviar, extra sneakers” repeated over a membership beat, a riff on Luann’s “Stylish C’est La Vie”), or strive her hand at the “Man in Finance” development, laying out three must-haves for her subsequent love match.
“I’m on the lookout for tall, a person with hair — I’ve PTSD from the final one,” she laughs, a dig at her second husband Tom D’Agostino, “and an enormous PP — non-public airplane!”
Whereas tabloids join Luann with everybody from Mary Kate Olsen’s ex Olivier Sarkozy to Southern Hospitality star Joe Bradley, she cautions to not imagine all the things that is obtainable to learn. She is relationship, however there is no one particular in her life. Spending most of her time on the highway, she’s surrounded by the straight girls and homosexual males who attend her reveals.
“I’m having fun with simply being single,” she shares. “I’m having fun with having a great time, you understand? ‘Trigger I’m busy, however like I say within the new music, ‘Marry F Kill,’ 3 times the attraction, so catch me for those who can!”
Luann launched the music video — that includes cameos from The Actual Housewives of New Jersey‘s Margaret Josephs and Intercourse and the Metropolis scribe Candace Bushnell — for her newest single on Thursday.
“I’m a hopeless romantic, what can I say?” she says. “I like love. I like males, and so 3 times the attraction, they are saying, so I’m not in an enormous hurry. I’m having a good time, however that is my 12 months of manifestation and love. I’ve manifested Marry F Kill, and this 12 months, by the top of the 12 months, there can be a person in my life.”
She’s additionally manifesting a possible tour doc, alongside the strains of the one The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills star Erika Jayne shot for her Las Vegas residency and loves the fan-suggested thought of doing a “Girl Marmalade” cowl by forming a brilliant group of types from the Bravo universe. She would possibly discover some girls keen to participate in simply that ought to she land a spot on season 4 of Peacock’s The Traitors, one other dream on her manifestation want listing. Her pal, Dorinda Medley, is at the moment filming the third season, alongside a gaggle of different Housewives, together with New Jersey‘s Dolores Catania, Dubai‘s Chanel Ayan and Potomac‘s Robyn Dixon.
“I’m positive she is doing an amazing job,” Luann muses. “I do not understand how good her poker face is. I’m not an amazing liar, personally, however I like the present.”
And who is aware of, a keep within the Scottish fort the place they movie might encourage a brand new music… and her subsequent tour!
“That may be wonderful,” she smiles.
Tickets for Luann’s Marry F Kill tour can be found now at CountessLuann.com; she hits Pennsylvania and New York subsequent weekend.
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