Speaker 1: This is the most dramatic podcast ever and iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Hey everybody, Chris Harrison coming to you from the home
Speaker 1: office in Austin, Texas. Very excited about the show today
Speaker 1: and about the guests I have coming up. Guests and
Speaker 1: plural Mary and Romayne Bonnet from Selling Sunset. Mary obviously
Speaker 1: one of the biggest characters, if you will, I say
Speaker 1: that loosely in quotes because she's real and it's reality TV,
Speaker 1: but has been one of the bigger characters throughout along
Speaker 1: with her husband Romaine, and we have so much to
Speaker 1: discuss as a very much anticipated season six is coming up.
Speaker 1: But I also want to talk about their relationship, their love,
Speaker 1: what it's like to work with your ex. So many
Speaker 1: things on the plate. And now from Selling Sunsets, Mary
Speaker 1: and Romayne, guys, thank you so much for taking a
Speaker 1: little time joining me on the show.
Speaker 2: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 3: Thank Yeah.
Speaker 1: I didn't say your full name because that's my first question.
Speaker 1: It is now Mary Fitzgerald Bonnet.
Speaker 2: It's actually just Mary Bonet.
Speaker 1: Oh it was Fitzgerald's gone, I got I'm.
Speaker 2: Right that I got rid of it. It was actually
Speaker 2: my ex husband's last name.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, good riddance.
Speaker 4: I know, I just never changed it because of business
Speaker 4: and it's so hard to switch over. But it sounds
Speaker 4: so much good.
Speaker 1: It does have a better ring to it. I agree with.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, So I just decided to suck it up
Speaker 4: and let's just do it.
Speaker 2: Heather change, Heather switched to her name.
Speaker 4: There's no issues with it, so I might as well
Speaker 4: just do it. We'll just do some press on it
Speaker 4: so people know. But for right now, sometimes they have
Speaker 4: to go by Mary Fitzgerald Bonet so people can see
Speaker 4: the transition and they recognize who it is.
Speaker 1: You guys got married in twenty nineteen. Was this core
Speaker 1: kind of like a test drive, like, let's let's make
Speaker 1: sure this car is going to work before I commit
Speaker 1: to the last name.
Speaker 2: I wish I could say that. No, it was just
Speaker 2: a very selfish reason on my part because I.
Speaker 4: Hate going to the DMV and for my I still
Speaker 4: have done on passport yet and just switching everything over
Speaker 4: all my account names and trying to do all of
Speaker 4: those things, I'm like such a hassle.
Speaker 2: On top of just.
Speaker 4: In business, people are having to recognized the new name.
Speaker 1: Well, in real estate, your name is a big deal.
Speaker 1: It's everywhere. So but wait, you don't have a passport.
Speaker 1: Your husband is French.
Speaker 4: See I have I have a passport, but it's just
Speaker 4: my old best name. So I still have my old
Speaker 4: driver's license too because I travel.
Speaker 2: All the time until I can have that. I know,
Speaker 2: that's what I'm saying, because I've got I've got Bonett.
Speaker 4: And Fitzgerald so that i can show proof like if needed,
Speaker 4: because I'm very slow at doing all this transitional stuff.
Speaker 1: Remain I know you obviously have been here a while,
Speaker 1: but you you are French, but I see you are adapting.
Speaker 1: You got your Dodgers hat on.
Speaker 3: You are an LA guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well too this with you.
Speaker 5: I mean I love wearing hats, and especially those one
Speaker 5: of the baseball hat, but actually not a big big
Speaker 5: fan of baseball. I just went one time with Jason
Speaker 5: and Brett and I tell you what was it?
Speaker 2: The World Series?
Speaker 5: So that was a really big game. Plus that was
Speaker 5: so slow.
Speaker 1: It's I know, people can plain about soccer or football, obviously,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you're a big football fan back in France.
Speaker 1: People can plain about that. I agree, baseball is ten
Speaker 1: times slower.
Speaker 5: It's so slow, yeah, because like during like like soccer
Speaker 5: and it is like actually like a constantly that baseball
Speaker 5: was so.
Speaker 2: Unless you hit the ball, there's no one that's moving.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, yeah, damn.
Speaker 1: I'm glad I had you guys on because just today
Speaker 1: my fiance Lawren Zima, and I were talking about older
Speaker 1: women dating and marrying younger men, and this interview just
Speaker 1: happened to fall into place. You guys, I think, are
Speaker 1: what twelve years apart thirteen thirteen thirteen, What are the
Speaker 1: pros and cons of this?
Speaker 5: I don't I don't know if this is like, you know,
Speaker 5: anything particular. I think it's small, but like the connection,
Speaker 5: you know, That's what I always said, Like I don't
Speaker 5: think edge really matter, especially you know, we are like
Speaker 5: kind of the proof of it. But I just think, like,
Speaker 5: you know, we just had like such a thing, yeah,
Speaker 5: a strong connection right away that I think, you know,
Speaker 5: that's what you know, clicked right away.
Speaker 2: So I think it's more but like the connection.
Speaker 5: So that's why I mean, could be because sometimes like
Speaker 5: I said, like you know, dating like younger women or
Speaker 5: stuff like that, like they sorry for that, but they're
Speaker 5: a little down, a little too crazy, right, But it's
Speaker 5: just like, yeah, it's more like about connections. So you know,
Speaker 5: it could have been older or younger.
Speaker 2: It's more yeah, but the connection, Yeah, it's he.
Speaker 4: Is very mature too, and so I think we just
Speaker 4: get along. I still like to go do somebout. We're
Speaker 4: both very hard working and we like to do the
Speaker 4: same thing. So I don't think it's ever really become
Speaker 4: an issue for us.
Speaker 5: I'm the same in my old life. I've always been like,
Speaker 5: you know, with like older people than me. It's like
Speaker 5: you since I can't even remember so.
Speaker 1: Well, Mary, you and I have a lot in common
Speaker 1: because we're both dating.
Speaker 3: Well, you're married now.
Speaker 1: I am engaged to a much younger woman and I
Speaker 1: had kids when I was entering into this relationship. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a very interesting dynamic for me of when,
Speaker 1: how when was I going to introduce him and what
Speaker 1: did that mean? What about your son? Did you have
Speaker 1: those discussions and what was that like for you?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: I didn't really my son was he's so much older.
Speaker 2: He's twenty six now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so yeah, he was already he was out of
Speaker 4: the house and he was was he in college then
Speaker 4: or was he just so he was still in college
Speaker 4: in a way, and so it wasn't like I had,
Speaker 4: I was bringing a new guy into the home where.
Speaker 2: He had to deal with him on a daily basis.
Speaker 4: But I was very just casual about it first, like
Speaker 4: I never tried to make to make myself feel like, oh,
Speaker 4: this is a father figure, like this is who you
Speaker 4: have to call him dad or something. It's just kind
Speaker 4: of like, hey, this is Romaine, right, and.
Speaker 1: Then you figure that relationship out and it figures itself
Speaker 1: out exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's if he were much younger, I think it
Speaker 4: would have been a different situation, but.
Speaker 2: We had it pretty easy.
Speaker 1: My kids were kind of younger teens and they were
Speaker 1: still at home, so it was a little bit more impressionable.
Speaker 1: But they're probably about that age now because my kids
Speaker 1: are in college, and it would be very different.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that changed it a lot. And then
Speaker 4: also if I just let if I just kind of
Speaker 4: stood back, just introduced and didn't make it a thing,
Speaker 4: then it was gonna go smoother.
Speaker 2: Just because of my son's personality.
Speaker 4: He's very laid back and he's just like a watcher,
Speaker 4: doesn't talk a lot, and so if he just kind
Speaker 4: of observed, then he was he was definitely gonna like him.
Speaker 2: And there's no one.
Speaker 4: I don't think that's that remained.
Speaker 2: A didn't like the didn't like him.
Speaker 4: Everyone's like, oh, I don't know, and then they fall
Speaker 4: in love with him once they meet him.
Speaker 2: So I just thought, I'm just gonna let it work itself.
Speaker 1: It's that million dollars smile he's got. Is there kids
Speaker 1: in the future for you guys? You're both very young,
Speaker 1: so more kids in the future hopefully, you know.
Speaker 2: I know, yeah, we we are.
Speaker 4: We we're kind of going through it right now. We
Speaker 4: did embryo freezing about a year ago.
Speaker 2: Something we're tried to it didn't work out. We didn't
Speaker 2: have any viable ones.
Speaker 4: Then we went to Bali and decided to start trying naturally.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're in Bali, I think everybody's trying
Speaker 1: to have a baby in a bie.
Speaker 2: Well it worked.
Speaker 4: He tried really hard. I did get pregnant, unfortunately, miscarried
Speaker 4: and and then.
Speaker 2: That was kind of a whole ordeal. We didn't try
Speaker 2: right away afterwards.
Speaker 4: I was only a couple of months ago, but I
Speaker 4: ended up having like a septic miscarriage, so it was
Speaker 4: kind of a traumatic kind of thing where I just
Speaker 4: needed to heal first. So now we're going to get
Speaker 4: ready to start start trying again. And then I mean
Speaker 4: it showed that I can get pregnant very quickly, which
Speaker 4: is great for my age, but we just need to
Speaker 4: make sure those.
Speaker 2: Eggs are good.
Speaker 1: Well, now you know where you need to go. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know you need to go to Bali, Fiji, Bora, Bora,
Speaker 1: I mean, any of those places I think is the magic.
Speaker 4: Any day, anytime, like I will, I will take everything
Speaker 4: off my calendar to get to one of those places.
Speaker 1: We got to get into selling Sunset season six coming up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: unbelieve probably anticipated to kind of set the stage as
Speaker 1: we all know. Uh, Jason Oppenheim, I know he's not
Speaker 1: technically your boss anymore. Y'all are kind of equals the
Speaker 1: way you have risen through the ranks. But he was
Speaker 1: your boss at the time when he is your also
Speaker 1: your ex you guys dated for a moment. Yeah, remain
Speaker 1: as you're entering into this situation, is that a bit
Speaker 1: of trepidation?
Speaker 3: Do you? Were?
Speaker 1: You comfortable? You don't care, You're the confident Frenchman. You're like,
Speaker 1: look at me, he'd.
Speaker 5: No, I think what makes what made it so easy?
Speaker 5: It's like right away as soon as we met, we
Speaker 5: clicked right away and we became like super close.
Speaker 2: Even Marie got like almost jealous.
Speaker 5: She was calling us and because we're to by going
Speaker 5: to the gym after Sonati's place and everything, and so
Speaker 5: he was getting mad.
Speaker 4: But yeah, we became we became so close that.
Speaker 5: I never he never bother me really and then neither
Speaker 5: of them like ever like made me feel like, you know,
Speaker 5: I like do anything to worry or whatsoever. And I
Speaker 5: also back in France, was like one of my best
Speaker 5: friends was like a girl that I used to date.
Speaker 5: So I'm like, it's not like I cannot like understand
Speaker 5: the things that you know, I'm still best waying with
Speaker 5: this girl or I used to date her, but you know,
Speaker 5: there's nothing so I understand. And the fact that we
Speaker 5: became so close with Jesson, like you know, never.
Speaker 2: He's just not like that.
Speaker 4: I think it's there's a trust kind of thing that
Speaker 4: we just met one of my other excess we were
Speaker 4: in Istanbul and I was like, hey, there's a there's
Speaker 4: when my ex is just a friend, like a good
Speaker 4: friend now, but he's in Tel Aviv, like we should
Speaker 4: just run over there and go hang out with him
Speaker 4: and I was like, he's super respectful.
Speaker 2: Don't worry, You'll love them. I know you will.
Speaker 4: And I just knew their personalities they would click these
Speaker 4: Shure did.
Speaker 2: Like we went he was like okay, cool.
Speaker 4: He's like, yeah, if he better be respectful and I
Speaker 4: was like, okay, and that one all he has to
Speaker 4: say about it, And we went over there and he was.
Speaker 2: They just rode out the whole time.
Speaker 4: They started texting each other after day one and like
Speaker 4: they're like, am.
Speaker 2: I really left out already? It's been a day.
Speaker 1: I was like, God, well, remain. He knows the valuable
Speaker 1: lesson keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer. Now
Speaker 1: have you met any of his exes?
Speaker 2: Well? Okay, is that the girls.
Speaker 5: Talking about it?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: No, just the one he's still really good.
Speaker 5: Friends with us.
Speaker 1: What's it like working with your ex and for your ex?
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys are still are there pros and
Speaker 1: cons to this? Is it a good thing? Do you
Speaker 1: still you feel like you have leverage over Jason?
Speaker 4: Not from an ex standpoint, because it's it's almost weird.
Speaker 4: I know everyone tries to focus on that, but we've
Speaker 4: it was still it was like.
Speaker 2: Ten years ago. Maybe it's been so long, and I
Speaker 2: just look at him like a brother.
Speaker 4: He's my best friend and brother, and so even the
Speaker 4: thought of like kissing.
Speaker 2: Him and I'm like, oh, that's wrong. I'm like, that's
Speaker 2: just like I don't know, I love them.
Speaker 4: But no, So I think if from a friendship standpoint,
Speaker 4: Jason is very very good to his friends, and he's
Speaker 4: very respectful to all of his friends. So I think
Speaker 4: I have not but he's friends with everybody. But I
Speaker 4: do have a bridge from from a standpoint of just
Speaker 4: being so close and he trusts me and and he
Speaker 4: sees like what I do every day all day and
Speaker 4: so so.
Speaker 2: He just believes in me.
Speaker 1: So Jason also dated your friend Chrischelle. Yes, season five
Speaker 1: ins with their big breakup. Before we talk about Chrischelle,
Speaker 1: first of all, with Jason, are we going to see
Speaker 1: a new love interest in season six? And if so,
Speaker 1: who should he be dating in the office now or
Speaker 1: has he fished off the company peer enough?
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's well, one of the new agents is that's
Speaker 4: on season six is also his ex girlfriend before me.
Speaker 2: She and I are very close, We are like really
Speaker 2: really good friends.
Speaker 1: Wait, who's this Nicole?
Speaker 4: Okay, so she's been at the broker. She was supposed
Speaker 4: to be on season one and she backed out. She
Speaker 4: got nervous and she's like, she didn't know what it
Speaker 4: was gonna be, and so she backed out. Uh so
Speaker 4: now now she's on for season six.
Speaker 1: So that's a total of three x's that'll be on
Speaker 1: the show for Jason so far. This season is young.
Speaker 1: I hadn't even started.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he does have a girlfriend.
Speaker 2: I can't remember.
Speaker 4: Is she on season six or is it just season seven?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: Season six?
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, so his new girlfriend will be on season six.
Speaker 2: But she's not in Yeah, okay, Mary Lou.
Speaker 4: She's very very she's gorgeous.
Speaker 2: She's younger though too. She's uh young.
Speaker 4: And but gorgeous and just an old soul, very quiet
Speaker 4: and and and sophisticated.
Speaker 2: I approve of her.
Speaker 1: It's not easy to keep up with Jason and his
Speaker 1: school count. We need a roster. So season five ends,
Speaker 1: Jason and Krishelle break up, and then we get the
Speaker 1: surprise of all surprises, and that is that Krishelle gets
Speaker 1: married to g Flip.
Speaker 4: Uh huh.
Speaker 1: Was this just a surprise to us? Did you guys know?
Speaker 1: Did she talk to you? Do you have any idea
Speaker 1: about this marriage.
Speaker 2: About getting married.
Speaker 1: No, I know either.
Speaker 4: I actually I saw the plus or something that said it,
Speaker 4: and I thought maybe she was doing it as a hoax,
Speaker 4: like because she likes to just mess around with people sometimes,
Speaker 4: and so I said, hey, is this just like a
Speaker 4: joke or are you messing with people?
Speaker 2: Or do I need to throw you a party? And
Speaker 2: she's like, no, it's real. We just wanted to go.
Speaker 4: It actually happened a little while ago, and we just
Speaker 4: wanted to come out.
Speaker 2: And I was like, like, what, how do you just
Speaker 2: like keep that in? That's insane? But yeah, I'm.
Speaker 4: Really happy for GE's amazing, absolutely amazing. They are this positive,
Speaker 4: happy energy. When you're in a room or around them,
Speaker 4: They're they're just like light up the room. You you
Speaker 4: become happy like being around them. It's it's crazy. Their
Speaker 4: energy is just like nothing I've ever seen. So I
Speaker 4: get it why she's.
Speaker 1: A pretty close friend of yours. Did you say, wait,
Speaker 1: this happened a while ago. So you guys have been
Speaker 1: together and you've gotten so serious that you're getting married,
Speaker 1: and you had no idea that is that's wild.
Speaker 4: Well I knew that they I knew that they've been
Speaker 4: together and she's super serious. I knew that, but I
Speaker 4: didn't know that they were that they got married.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they maybe came out, but I
Speaker 2: don't think anyone. Yeah, I think Ven's the only one
Speaker 2: that probably knew. But but she just.
Speaker 4: Said Hershell's like that though intelligence ready to do something,
Speaker 4: she she has a wall up until she's ready to
Speaker 4: talk about something.
Speaker 2: She make sure it is like locked in time.
Speaker 4: She knows what she's doing before anybody else knows. Uh.
Speaker 4: And so it looks like always very surprising like things
Speaker 4: with her because she's just very.
Speaker 1: That's that's one of the keys to success in business.
Speaker 1: Don't let people see what you're working on. Just let
Speaker 1: them see the results. So now that you guys know
Speaker 1: and obviously you're very much in favor of it, what
Speaker 1: what makes them work so well?
Speaker 5: I think they're like such a good connection. And I
Speaker 5: don't know, Yeah, it's like both of them, you.
Speaker 4: Know, there's just like this gentle love and admiration towards
Speaker 4: each other. Like every time I watched them and been
Speaker 4: around them, like it's just like this very gentle like
Speaker 4: like it's just this loving vibe. They both just really
Speaker 4: respect each other and it's it's really it's really.
Speaker 2: Nice to see it came. We weren't expecting it. And
Speaker 2: no girl knows how to make headlines though apparently.
Speaker 4: Yeah, every time I'm like Chrishnell, I mean, how do
Speaker 4: you continue to do yourself?
Speaker 2: You just know how to make headlines.
Speaker 1: We'll see where she goes from here. I know you
Speaker 1: do you guys like to double date with if you're
Speaker 1: choosing a couple from the show Chrishelle g Flip, Heather
Speaker 1: and taric.
Speaker 4: Oh, Heather and Tark, we hang out with a lot.
Speaker 4: We love them as a couple. They are another couple
Speaker 4: that's like madly in love.
Speaker 2: It's almost like cheesy.
Speaker 4: They're so they're just so like goga googole or Google
Speaker 4: goggle whatever it.
Speaker 2: Is, over each other.
Speaker 4: I just it's beautiful to see, especially in this industry.
Speaker 4: I think people get so torn apart and and things
Speaker 4: come between them, and and they were like that from
Speaker 4: day one, and like there's still like that.
Speaker 2: We were just with them in Scott's still doing a
Speaker 2: speaking thing and and.
Speaker 4: They are still just every time they can get they're like,
Speaker 4: I love you, baby, I love you baby. Like constantly
Speaker 4: You're like, okay, get.
Speaker 1: Her, I get the sense and correct me if I'm
Speaker 1: wrong that I'm feeling this distance growing between Heather and
Speaker 1: the show and the crew. Is that something we are
Speaker 1: going to see more of and come to fruition in
Speaker 1: season six or is that just my imagination.
Speaker 4: No, it's not, it's not your imagination. She's gonna be
Speaker 4: very She's very heavily shown on season six, season seven.
Speaker 2: No, there was something. I don't know how much I'm.
Speaker 4: Allowed to say on it, but there was something because
Speaker 4: she's got to show a taric like flipping on Moosa's
Speaker 4: I think, and she there was there was a confusion between.
Speaker 1: Networks and the conflict of interests.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and she thought she.
Speaker 4: Was doing everything like what what was allowed and there
Speaker 4: was a conflict on there. So she at the moment
Speaker 4: isn't getting any call times or anything.
Speaker 2: I don't think.
Speaker 4: I don't think she's technically fired, but she's not getting
Speaker 4: call times.
Speaker 2: That's interesting to get her back because we love Heather.
Speaker 1: So that's that's not causing tension with you guys, other
Speaker 1: than you are wanting her back on the show and
Speaker 1: you want her to be there exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we just love her and she's I think she's
Speaker 4: one that geez, they get like from season one and
Speaker 4: she's just an angel of a person and and it
Speaker 4: would be great to have her back. I think she
Speaker 4: brings a lot to the show, and especially in Jeason six,
Speaker 4: I mean, she's I think that was her best season.
Speaker 2: So it shocks me that that they couldn't work it out.
Speaker 1: Well, let me let you get us in a little something.
Speaker 1: Having been in this business for a while, the networks
Speaker 1: are going to want what they want and whether it's contractual, illegal,
Speaker 1: they just don't want the conflict of interest. But let
Speaker 1: me tell you who has all the leverage. You guys.
Speaker 1: You guys are the talent. If you guys all band together,
Speaker 1: the network can't do anything other than say.
Speaker 4: Yes, really, of course, we all just strike and say
Speaker 4: with Heather, no.
Speaker 1: You don't need to strike. You just all go in
Speaker 1: together and say if Heather goes, we all go, good
Speaker 1: luck with your show.
Speaker 4: That they're pretty they're pretty ruthless though they're like, okay,
Speaker 4: we'll get new cast. Like I mean, we love them though,
Speaker 4: we love them so good to them. But but yeah,
Speaker 4: they I'm want to try it. I was arguing with
Speaker 4: them when we had a zoom about it. I was
Speaker 4: arguing with them, trying to trying to work it out.
Speaker 4: But hopefully they will after this. Maybe they'll just give
Speaker 4: it like after the season or something. Maybe they'll bring
Speaker 4: her back. But I'm going to keep fighting for I'll
Speaker 4: tell the other cast members too.
Speaker 1: I'll help you guys out.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: What was it like to film without Christine this season?
Speaker 1: She was she was a good villain.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good, Yeah, you know.
Speaker 4: I think I think people are scared that it's not
Speaker 4: going to be the same without her. I there once
Speaker 4: people say it, there's no lack of drama, and in
Speaker 4: my opinion, and I think Jason why I talked to
Speaker 4: him the other day about it too, we feel the
Speaker 4: same way.
Speaker 2: It's it's actually.
Speaker 4: Better because it's not just the same the same thing.
Speaker 2: I was like, I.
Speaker 4: Felt like sick of it at one point where it
Speaker 4: was just Christine doing something messed up. Everyone's about it Christine.
Speaker 4: Christine doesn't but we can't talk about all the things
Speaker 4: she does behind the scenes, and so it just looks
Speaker 4: like everyone's ganging up on her. That's not the case,
Speaker 4: and so I so I I'm actually happy.
Speaker 2: Although this is probably the most dramatic season we've.
Speaker 1: Had, remain I was laughing because I saw your body
Speaker 1: language when I mentioned Christine and you're like, good ridden,
Speaker 1: So I'm glad she's gone.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well yeah, no, yeah, because at the end it
Speaker 5: was just like NonStop like acting like kind of nice
Speaker 5: and you know on the show. But then you know
Speaker 5: on the show was you know up all doing interview
Speaker 5: and everything, like he keeps going and going and doing.
Speaker 2: I'm like, you know, it was just enough.
Speaker 4: But now there's a lot of layers to the drama
Speaker 4: because you've got new people coming in and there's like
Speaker 4: there's a lot of layers and it's all happened organically
Speaker 4: where we were like blown away there.
Speaker 5: I first even mentioned, like, you know, anything that was happening,
Speaker 5: you know, outside of the show. So I was like,
Speaker 5: you know, it looks like we're all like you know,
Speaker 5: I mean, especially the girls, like all on her all
Speaker 5: like you know, there was like so much things that happened,
Speaker 5: you know, on interview and everything that she was doing,
Speaker 5: but you couldn't mention it. So I was like on
Speaker 5: the show when people were watching, it looked like, you know,
Speaker 5: they were just going off on her for no reason,
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 2: But it's good.
Speaker 4: It's good without her. I think, I say, the best
Speaker 4: her to deliver her best life. I just her place
Speaker 4: is just not a well.
Speaker 1: There are new people coming on the show, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: and one of them is is Bree TESSI one of
Speaker 1: Nick Cannon's baby mamas. And I say one of because
Speaker 1: I think there are twelve Nick Cannon kids.
Speaker 4: There's there's twelve kids, I believe, but I think there's
Speaker 4: five moms.
Speaker 6: Okay, apparently, what does what does Bree bring and what
Speaker 6: does she have to say about Nick and being a
Speaker 6: part of that entourage.
Speaker 5: I guess she's been pretty like you know, I mean,
Speaker 5: we haven't especially.
Speaker 2: Talked about you know, yeah I have well, yeah, she hasn't.
Speaker 5: Been talking like that meant for the words.
Speaker 4: Like she's no, she's she's very open about it and
Speaker 4: very comfortable with her life and and her situation. She
Speaker 4: knows it's not for everybody, but she's happy, her baby's happy,
Speaker 4: and and she gets a lot of hate for it.
Speaker 4: But I was nervous with her coming in because she
Speaker 4: I've heard that she's a very strong like kind of.
Speaker 2: I don't know the word, yeah kind of first and
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, coy, please.
Speaker 4: Don't beat another Christine and and but when she she
Speaker 4: made she's actually I did along with her great. I
Speaker 4: think she really does. Whatever, however you treat her, is.
Speaker 2: How she's going to treat you. If you treat her
Speaker 2: with respect, she's cool with you. If you start coming
Speaker 2: at her, then.
Speaker 4: She's she's like I can't imagine, like a pitbull.
Speaker 2: She's going to come back at you.
Speaker 4: She's she's kind of a tough one. So but I've
Speaker 4: had no issues with her. But she has had conflict
Speaker 4: with one of the girls on the show in season six.
Speaker 1: I'm curious on a professional front. Obviously, it's selling Sunset.
Speaker 1: You guys live, eat, and breathe Hollywood and selling California
Speaker 1: and now Los Angeles. Well, in the real world, that
Speaker 1: climate has changed a lot of people have left Beverly
Speaker 1: Hills in California and Sunset and they've gone elsewhere. Have
Speaker 1: you guys felt that, and is it something you're dealing
Speaker 1: with in season six and seven of the entire climate
Speaker 1: of buying and selling homes in Los Angeles has changed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and season seven we definitely hit on it. Season six,
Speaker 4: I don't think that it was it was as asbou
Speaker 4: at that point. I think we talked about the interest
Speaker 4: rates and stuff like that. But season seven, it definitely
Speaker 4: it definitely hit hard with the mansion tax and.
Speaker 2: Just interest rates and just everything.
Speaker 1: Going on in California. I mean, I'm talking to you
Speaker 1: guys from Austin, Texas, and I lived there for twenty
Speaker 1: two years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly it.
Speaker 4: Like, there's so many changes, and it's so frustrating because
Speaker 4: La could be such an amazing place and it is,
Speaker 4: and we're trying to sell this environment.
Speaker 2: We moved to the valley. We love it here.
Speaker 4: It's so safe, it's wonderful, but we're still dealing with
Speaker 4: all the taxism and everything else. I've even said, well,
Speaker 4: what about six months a year when we're not filming,
Speaker 4: I could go and have like a real estate and
Speaker 4: and I don't know either. And I even said, Austin
Speaker 4: or I'm not a big Miami person, is too kind
Speaker 4: of crazy for me. But like in Texas or.
Speaker 2: Arizona. My mom lives in Arizona.
Speaker 4: But we're part of the year where we can where
Speaker 4: we can just do that kind of get out of
Speaker 4: LA and then come back for filming.
Speaker 2: And but that would be too hard just.
Speaker 4: To try to manage my clients because it's such a
Speaker 4: full time job.
Speaker 1: It is, but I don't know. Selling Austin has a
Speaker 1: really good ring to it.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, maybe I'll have to head up a
Speaker 4: show and and and run the office there.
Speaker 1: But it was just interesting. I was thinking about just
Speaker 1: how that world has changed and obviously the reality of
Speaker 1: it is, you guys are gonna have to deal with that,
Speaker 1: and that's it's very interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very slow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And now speaking of of competition, there there is
Speaker 1: competition and that you know, look imitations the sinceres form
Speaker 1: of flattery, as they say, and having been a part
Speaker 1: of a relationship show for twenty years that was ripped
Speaker 1: off time and time again, there is competition in this
Speaker 1: real estate space. Mauricio Umanski's show is coming up. Is
Speaker 1: there a little beef between the two shows.
Speaker 4: I don't think so. We were just out of Netflix
Speaker 4: about I just saw him. We were talking and he's
Speaker 4: a great one. I like him, and yeah, I don't
Speaker 4: really worry about what other people are doing.
Speaker 2: I think we just continued to do us.
Speaker 4: It was successful for a reason, and we just keep
Speaker 4: doing our thing. I haven't even seen his show, but
Speaker 4: they would cite a Yeah, I haven't.
Speaker 2: Seen it, but I don't has it done well? Do
Speaker 2: you know?
Speaker 1: I don't it has it's just coming on and so
Speaker 1: but you know, I always felt the same thing as
Speaker 1: just keep doing what you're doing. You guys are insanely successful.
Speaker 1: I'm as you said, season six and seven.
Speaker 3: Are in the can.
Speaker 1: That is a it's a remarkable run for you guys.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's kind of surreal because I'm
Speaker 4: told that that's basically if we get season A, it will.
Speaker 2: Be the longest running yeah, so on Netflix.
Speaker 1: And so that's massive.
Speaker 2: That's insane to me. So I'd love to break that record.
Speaker 1: Something tells me you guys will with ease. You're gonna
Speaker 1: get to double digits. Obviously, you guys sell to a
Speaker 1: lot of big celebrities and and I won't ask you
Speaker 1: to tell me dirt and the most difficult celebrit But
Speaker 1: who's the biggest Like, who's the biggest star that you
Speaker 1: sold a house to that even you were like.
Speaker 3: Damn.
Speaker 2: Me personally or the or the brokerage.
Speaker 1: Well you or the brokerage me personally.
Speaker 2: To be French, Yeah, probably French Fontana sold his house.
Speaker 2: Yeah I can't. I'm still bud at the time, I'm like,
Speaker 2: was it two years ago? I don't know.
Speaker 4: Recently I sold French Pontiana's house and then I don't
Speaker 4: know who is at.
Speaker 1: Oscar great guy.
Speaker 4: Live.
Speaker 2: Been a lot of like celebrity clients.
Speaker 4: My my biggest one is I think my biggest one
Speaker 4: is French Fontana.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Romaine.
Speaker 1: I'm just curious because you you came over here as
Speaker 1: a pastry chef. Right, you're a French pastry chef.
Speaker 2: That's great.
Speaker 1: Can you still make a good croissant?
Speaker 4: That's right?
Speaker 1: Can you?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Were you a legit pastry chef for real?
Speaker 5: I was for ten years. That's a that's an travel
Speaker 5: around the world that you know. When I was a
Speaker 5: chef and then I was that's when I was in
Speaker 5: Australia before I came here, and then I was doing
Speaker 5: modeling also, So I came here as a pastry chef
Speaker 5: and I was also doing modeling and then until you know,
Speaker 5: I stopped because that didn't go well. All the company
Speaker 5: for who I was working just took advantage of the
Speaker 5: visa because you were starting. It's like either you do
Speaker 5: you do it or either you know you have to leave.
Speaker 5: But if you leave, you have to go back to
Speaker 5: friends because the visa stopped like think thirty or sixty
Speaker 5: days after, so you have no choice.
Speaker 4: And they know it's not the same thing here unless
Speaker 4: you're like a like a famous shop.
Speaker 2: It's not the same sommer.
Speaker 5: It's not like it sounds good when you come because
Speaker 5: it's way more than in France, but I mean way more,
Speaker 5: not like crazy, but like more so. But the lifestyle here,
Speaker 5: the cost of it is like just insane. So I'm
Speaker 5: like when I was getting in touch with Mary, actually
Speaker 5: like six months before I came to find the place,
Speaker 5: like at first she was sending me apartment because you know,
Speaker 5: she wasn't bring me a fun place.
Speaker 2: The first things that she was sending me, I was.
Speaker 5: Looking a picture.
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, damn, it looks amazing. I'm like, does
Speaker 2: she know how much I'm getting. I'm like, I can't
Speaker 2: even like pay, like.
Speaker 1: Help, but but you think she's hot, so you're acting
Speaker 1: cool like you can't afford it.
Speaker 2: I I'm like, he's very boy about it. He's like,
Speaker 2: I don't know how much you think I can afford.
Speaker 1: But it's not that And that is how you guys,
Speaker 1: met was showing. You know, you were showing Romaine houses
Speaker 1: or apartments. I guess if you guys ever sat back
Speaker 1: in thought of how unlikely it is that the two
Speaker 1: of you came from where you came from and met
Speaker 1: and fell in love and are married. Uh, the odds
Speaker 1: are very very slim that these two lifestyles cross each
Speaker 1: other and meet.
Speaker 2: I know, I know it's as we met, Like, it's
Speaker 2: amazing because.
Speaker 5: Now and because we met the day after I came.
Speaker 5: I came on Wednesday, and so I called her actually
Speaker 5: because it took me almost six months to have my visa,
Speaker 5: and so I came on a Wednesday night, called her
Speaker 5: and I said, you know, I'm friendly in La, you know,
Speaker 5: And she said, well, funny enough, I mean friends. I'm
Speaker 5: like what I'm like, you know, I'm coming back to
Speaker 5: most Thursday and we met on Friday.
Speaker 1: It is amazing and I appreciate you guys taking the time.
Speaker 1: Mary Bennet, is it is it catching?
Speaker 3: Are you?
Speaker 2: I'm I'm getting used to it.
Speaker 4: I still find myself but even when I signed something,
Speaker 4: I still like, start signing a Mery fix Gerald and
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh sorry.
Speaker 2: That's not my name, and people look at me like
Speaker 2: really weird. Sorry, But I'm getting used to it. I
Speaker 2: like the sound of it.
Speaker 1: Mary and Romaine Bonet, I love the sound of it too,
Speaker 1: And it was really good talking to you guys. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much, so much, y'all take care you too.
Speaker 1: My thanks to Marion Romayne Bonet as she goes by now.
Speaker 1: I always find it fascinating other reality TV shows how
Speaker 1: they do it, what it's like in their camp. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I knew my camp very well for two decades, so
Speaker 1: it's always good to kind of broaden your horizons and
Speaker 1: see how it's done. And they have done it very
Speaker 1: successful for well. Season six is coming up. In season
Speaker 1: seven they're already working on and most of that's already
Speaker 1: in the camp as well, so they have a very
Speaker 1: successful run ahead of themselves. So again, my thanks to
Speaker 1: Mary and Romaine, and my thanks to you for joining me.
Speaker 1: And I'll talk to you next time because we have
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