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Andy Cohen to host Miss USA 2011

I could have sat down for a 5 hour brainstorming session and not have come up with a more perfect host for Miss USA 2011 than Watch What Happens Live’s Andy Cohen. There is no one alive with more diva managing TV cred than the bff of all The Real Housewives. Read on for the specifics, a tweet of excitement from Andy and some hopes I have for the big night!

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When Worlds collide: Jill Zarin and Drita D’Avanzo together at Kelly Bensimon’s amNew York party

Can you say “The Real Mob Wives of New York City?”

We cover a lot of reality series on this blog and sometimes I forget that these multiple “realities” can overlap! Such was the case in New York City last night when break out Mob Wives star Drita D’Avanzo showed up for the amNew York party celebrating the addition of RHONYC‘s Kelly Killoren Bensimon and photographer Patrick McMullan to their staff. See pictures of Drita and Jill Zarin together on the red carpet and find out which of Kelly’s cast mates turned out (and didn’t turn out!) to show their support!

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PHOTOS Who is LuAnn de Lesseps new boyfriend Jacques Azoulay?

Everything’s comin’ up roses for LuAnn de Lesseps! She’s been dating a hot French wine distributor for over a year, and she also has a budding acting career! Despite her recent divorce, Real Housewives of New York star Countess LuAnn de Lesseps found herself off the market again — just as soon as she was…

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Real Housewives of New York City gets official premiere date, powerhouse preview

YES! The Real Housewives of New York City have an official new release date and it is very soon! Even better than that Bravo has pieced together a preview that DESTROYS the rumors that the show was initially pushed back due to any lack of drama. How about Sonja showing her backside literally and figuratively, Zarin on the warpath, Alex informing Kelly that her perspective is skewed, full on sprawled out bed tears and Ramona insulting an entire country in under 5 seconds!?!

Read on for the premiere date, see the explosive season 4 preview video and then catch a quote and pic of Sonja in a vamped up Victorian outfit that would make a sailor blush. The apples of our eye are back from the Big Apple!

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Countess LuAnn de Lesseps gets naked for Law & Order SVU cameo

It seems money can’t buy you class or clothes! The Real Housewives of New York City star Countess LuAnn de Lesseps got network television nude in her cameo for a recent episode of Law & Order SVU! Nudity is lurrrrrrrned, my friend!

Check out a still and watch a video clip of LuAnn’s appearance as she plays muse to an artist’s fancy!

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PHOTOS Real Housewives of New York City invade New York Fashion Week

So what are the ladies of The Real Housewives of New York City to do since their premiere was pushed back and replaced with a new batch of Housewives from South Beach? Well they hit the streets of the NYC and made themselves very public during New York Fashion Week Fall 2011 of course! Check out some great photos of our big apple bites looking glam and hitting the fashion scene including Jill Zarin taking her turn on the catwalk for designer Zang Toi!

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RHNY Countess LuAnn de Lesseps is an actress now!

Countess LuAnn de Lesseps from Real Housewives of New York is a real deal actress now! She’s got a big part on an upcoming episode of Law & Order: SVU, when she plays herself “a flamboyant art collector who is gung-ho on posing seminude for an artist that’s putting together a show. She has a…

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A Real Housewives product pushing photo gallery

All of our favorite reality wives have one common bond it seems. The Real Housewives can really sell some product! If you spend part of your day checking out photo galleries of the reality queens like I do it becomes apparent that the whole franchise was created to get these shillers out to the masses and sell, sell, sell.

Check out this gallery of the product pushing ladies doing their part to help America recover from the current financial crisis.

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VIDEO: Countess LuAnn de Lesseps ‘Money Can’t Buy You Class’ LIVE!

The Countess and her angelic voice descended upon the City of Angels leaving Los Angeles and the Golden State in ruins. KTLA out of L.A. had the guts to let Real Housewives of New York City star LuAnn de Lessepes step on their morning news studio stage and belt out “Money Can’t Buy You Class.” “Rick roll’d” move over, it is now officially time to begin getting “de Lesseps duped.”

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Keeping Bravo in the family: Countess Luann de Lesseps’ niece Nicole Nadeau on Work of Art

Recording artist Countess Luann isn’t the only one in her family being creative or heating up the Bravo screens this summer, her niece Nicole Nadaeu will compete on Bravo’s latest competition show Work of Art: The Next Great Artist. Keep reading to find out more about the Countess’ niece and the type of artwork she creates!

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INTERVIEW Countess LuAnn’s “Money Can’t Buy You Class” video was leaked!

Fans of The Real Housewives of New York City were taken by surprise Friday when the much-anticipated debut music video for “Money Can’t Buy You Class” by the Countess LuAnn de Lesseps surfaced online with no notice or fanfare. As it turns out, LuAnn and her record label Ultra Records were also surprised by the unannounced release, which occurred as they were still making plans for both private and public premiere events! That’s right, the video was leaked!

Read our exclusive interview with the video’s creative director James “Jersey” Murray who talks with us about the leak and what it was like working with The Countess!

RHONYC Countess LuAnn de Lesseps date Cort Coerte Felske
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Who is Countess Luann’s author boyfriend Cort? Cord? Coerte Felske?

In episodes 10 and 11 of The Real Housewives of New York City the Countess LuAnn finally seems to be moving on after her recent divorce from Count Alexandre de Lesseps! She’s been dating an author known only as “Cort” on the show.

That got my curiosity peaked, as I’m sure it did yours as well, so I cranked up the ol interwebs sleuth-a-matic and dug up not only Cort’s actual first and last name, but a list of his books as well! Are you ready? His full name is…

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Listen to Countess Luann De Lesseps new single “Money Can’t Buy You Class”

Real Housewives of New York’s resident Playgirl Countess LuAnn De Lesseps’ wobbly dance (Auto)tune “Money Can’t Buy You Class”  is finally out! A couple of weeks ago on Watch What Happens Live Andy Cohen cheekily stated that the best $.99 of his life will be spent downloading this sucker. He probably washed that statement down…

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Any truth to Countess Luann de Lesseps cheating rumors?

This third season of Real Housewives of New York has been breaking ratings records, and breaking the fragile skin of all the housewives. Sure, these fights and blow-ups are staged, but the non-stop barbs and assaults must surely slice their delicate socialite skins on occasion. One must suffer dearly for two things: beauty, and fame….

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Real Housewives of NYC’s LuAnn De Lesseps was on the cover of Playgirl!

During tonight’s episode of The Real Housewives of New York City Kelly Bensimon had an awkward moment when she had to tell Jill Zarin and LuAnn DeLesseps she would be gracing the cover of the 40th Anniversary Issue of Playboy, but the tensions were lessened dramatically when “The Countess” LuAnn De Lesseps announced she was on the cover of Playgirl when she was a model, at which point she ran off to grab one to show Kelly! Click to check out a 24-year-old LuAnn and some hunky dude from Texas on the May 1990 “Men of Texas” issue of Playgirl!