Speaker 1: Miss Spelling with Tory Spelling, an iHeartRadio podcast. Hi guys,
Speaker 1: my guest today is Oh such I'm girling out because
Speaker 1: I'm such a fan. She was one of the OG
Speaker 1: Real Housewives of New York City and she has been
Speaker 1: performing hit cabaret shows since twenty eighteen. She's currently touring.
Speaker 1: The latest cabaret show is called mary s Kill. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go see it in San Diego this summer. Welcome
Speaker 1: Countess lou Anne.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Hi, how are you?
Speaker 1: I'm great? How are you? I feel like I've seen
Speaker 1: him in so long. Well in person, I see you
Speaker 1: right there for it.
Speaker 2: But it's been a long time.
Speaker 1: It has been a long time.
Speaker 2: How are you doing.
Speaker 1: Uh, that's a load of question. How long do we
Speaker 1: get right?
Speaker 2: How long you got right? Ring a cocktail for that one?
Speaker 1: Yeah, talked to you about that off the podcast, but
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, you were crushing it. I am so
Speaker 1: happy for you. I mean, you were the OG New
Speaker 1: York housewife. I feel like growing up in Beverly Hills,
Speaker 1: that was like my jam that I watched The Real
Speaker 1: HOUSEWIVESID Beverly Hills. But then being a Beverly Hills girl,
Speaker 1: New York just enticed me because well, you guys were amazing.
Speaker 1: You like drew me right in and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's what it would be like to be living in
Speaker 1: New York because I'm fifty one and the only times
Speaker 1: in my life I've ever been to New York still
Speaker 1: to this day, is when I work, so I don't
Speaker 1: know the other side.
Speaker 2: Of it, right, fun, so fun to be a tourist
Speaker 2: in New York. I was just sending Beverly Hills. I
Speaker 2: did my show. I kicked off like at the Wiltern.
Speaker 1: That is so amazing. Mary f Kill. When are the
Speaker 1: next dates? What are the dates in total?
Speaker 2: Well, I've got a lot of dates. You can check
Speaker 2: out go to countslanda dot com for dates because I'm
Speaker 2: going to Pennsylvania next. I just came back from London.
Speaker 2: I did six sold out shows in London, which was amazing,
Speaker 2: incredible experience. I till this Winton came to my show,
Speaker 2: like what was yes, I was.
Speaker 1: You know beforehand she was coming.
Speaker 2: You know, I heard that she might be coming, but
Speaker 2: I didn't know if she would come or not. And
Speaker 2: she came to me after the show and she said, Donie,
Speaker 2: I love what you do. It's you. You. You can
Speaker 2: see you because you so much joy and just spreading
Speaker 2: joy to everyone around you. It's a beautiful thing to watch.
Speaker 2: It was amazing. Anyway, she was incredible and it was a.
Speaker 1: Great practice of all trades. I think you have voiceover
Speaker 1: work in your future as well. You do a great accent.
Speaker 2: People tell me that all the time. You know, Mary
Speaker 2: f Kill's song just came out a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2: You know, I you know my show because you haven't
Speaker 2: seen it is it's cabaret meets pop culture meets comedy
Speaker 2: meets the fashion show because you can bet there's a
Speaker 2: lot of your body dress is happening, and you know.
Speaker 2: And how I came up with the show as I
Speaker 2: was doing my shows and I've been doing cabaret since
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen, and every single show I get asked, all right,
Speaker 2: couwn does Mary f Kill? So every single show, So
Speaker 2: that was my inspiration. Really, it's from the fans who
Speaker 2: would ask me because we've never played Mary f Kill
Speaker 2: like on the show. I didn't even really know what
Speaker 2: that game was, and so that was my inspiration. So
Speaker 2: I wrote the song and decided that was the tour, etc.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's so much fun. I just I love
Speaker 2: the creative process of the show. And you know, I
Speaker 2: start basically with the songs that I love, and then
Speaker 2: I work backwards into like, what is the story that's
Speaker 2: going to bring me to that song? Because Cabaret's really
Speaker 2: about storytelling, you know, and it's about my journey. All
Speaker 2: the music I pick is because I know my fans
Speaker 2: are going to know that song, so it's like a
Speaker 2: big sing along.
Speaker 1: And wait, I have a question. Do you think you'll
Speaker 1: ever do a song surrounding bushes?
Speaker 2: Well, and I haven't thought about that.
Speaker 1: I I love that replay of you falling in the bushes?
Speaker 1: Where were you guys? What vacation?
Speaker 2: Oh my god? Well we've been drinking tequila all day long.
Speaker 1: And you know, I was so happy the backstory. I
Speaker 1: think I wonder I.
Speaker 2: Was falling down again. So I was like, leave me
Speaker 2: in the bush. I'm so happy, you know. Yeah that
Speaker 2: was Yeah, that was That was a moment for me.
Speaker 2: And but you see, I play all these kind of
Speaker 2: moments because I do video packages and you know, I
Speaker 2: have music videos for my song. So a lot of
Speaker 2: exciting stuff going on, a lot of TV show projects
Speaker 2: coming up, so you know, TV life isn't over for me.
Speaker 2: For those of who think that, you know, Ronnie's over,
Speaker 2: that's that's not the case.
Speaker 1: So I feel like you should do a song about
Speaker 1: falling into the bushes that was iconic on the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I You're probably right, I should. That was a
Speaker 2: moment that is frozen in time.
Speaker 1: Literally they would freeze on it and replay it and
Speaker 1: replay it.
Speaker 2: So many memes from that and be cool. Don't be
Speaker 2: like all uncle, I mean that's you know.
Speaker 1: You're so graceful.
Speaker 2: Well you know, my daughter said, mom, at least you
Speaker 2: felt very gracefully. Yes.
Speaker 1: Oh well, I think you should do a song about that.
Speaker 1: And since I so, I brought it up here as inspiration,
Speaker 1: I feel like maybe I could be your muse and like,
Speaker 1: or I could play like a bush on stage or something.
Speaker 1: I'd be like, why just something anything, I just want
Speaker 1: to work with you.
Speaker 2: Oh that's that's so sweet. That would be Do you
Speaker 2: like to sing?
Speaker 1: I do?
Speaker 2: Oh good? What's your go to?
Speaker 1: Oh? My gosh, I'm an eighties girl. I mean I'm
Speaker 1: not literally an eighties girl, but I like eighties songs.
Speaker 1: So anything bangles or like totally clips of the Heart
Speaker 1: or Betty Davis eyes or like but I love like.
Speaker 2: These and Dave sas Yes, God.
Speaker 1: Be still my beauty heart. Am I supposed to call
Speaker 1: you countess? Am I supposed to call you lu An?
Speaker 1: Am I supposed to call you a hot goddess?
Speaker 2: Well listen, you know people know me as countess, right,
Speaker 2: But you know people love using my title more than
Speaker 2: I use my title. So I leave it up to you, darling,
Speaker 2: and call me Lou. You can call me countess, you
Speaker 2: can call me Luan. That seems to be the That
Speaker 2: seems to be like the kind of order. A lot
Speaker 2: of people call me Lou, you know, because they feel
Speaker 2: like they're my friend, so they call me Lou. It's
Speaker 2: it's really cute. Actually, I mean, London was off the hook.
Speaker 2: I had thirty thousand or forty thousand people in front
Speaker 2: of me. It was just an incredible feeling. And everyone
Speaker 2: in them sitting a money camp by your classs. You know,
Speaker 2: it's like, oh my god, this is insane. You know.
Speaker 2: I saw on Vogue Amanda Lapour came and did her shot.
Speaker 2: You've never seen her perform. She was great. I love
Speaker 2: her thonging. I love my pussy I'm dying. I had
Speaker 2: the Pussycat Dolls come to say it was it was really,
Speaker 2: it was really amazing. And you know, now I'm back
Speaker 2: in the US. I just realized I'm gonna be out
Speaker 2: in California, but I'm doing San Diego.
Speaker 1: Do you think I can give VIP tickets?
Speaker 2: Definitely come everybody else, Girls Trip Road Tripped.
Speaker 1: Really.
Speaker 2: Oh, you're gonna love the show.
Speaker 1: It's you know, it's Girls Summer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it's a fun show. People just you know,
Speaker 2: they come in their sequence, in their statement necklaces. You know,
Speaker 2: they show up for me. And it's so great. It's
Speaker 2: like a big sing along. It's immersive, and you know,
Speaker 2: if if you go there alone, you don't leave alone
Speaker 2: because people are connected through the Housewives universe. It's pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: It's true. But even if you're not a fan of Housewives,
Speaker 1: like I have friends that have never seen Housewives that
Speaker 1: want to see your show and fell in love with you, Like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's right. I have so many friends that have seen
Speaker 1: your show, and I was bummed when I didn't get
Speaker 1: to see it in La near your past show not
Speaker 1: Mary f killed the new one on tour, I'm so excited. Wait,
Speaker 1: you can see the question money Can't Buy Your Class?
Speaker 1: When you sang that song, were you thinking like this
Speaker 1: is a good way to integrate it into the show,
Speaker 1: because the show totally was a platform for other businesses
Speaker 1: that anyone wanted to do. Or how did that come about?
Speaker 2: Well, so I wrote a book on managers and etiquete
Speaker 2: because you know, I lived in Europe for many years
Speaker 2: and you know, married a Frenchman, I lived in the
Speaker 2: Swiss helps and you know I was around you know,
Speaker 2: royals the whole time. You know, the King of Greece
Speaker 2: is my friend, and and so you know, I had
Speaker 2: to learn to be elegant, you know. And that's that's
Speaker 2: what money Can't Buy Your Classes all about. It's like,
Speaker 2: it's not about the money. It's about how you treat
Speaker 2: people and respect for others. And the aristocrats are really
Speaker 2: good at that because they have to greet a lot
Speaker 2: of people and so so, so the book came about
Speaker 2: and then I thought I wanted to do me write
Speaker 2: music and wanted to make a song. And I went
Speaker 2: to see a producer is a gold at the time,
Speaker 2: and he said, what do you want to sing about it?
Speaker 2: And he goes well, I don't know. I just wrote
Speaker 2: this book on manners and etiquette. So I have like
Speaker 2: takeaway lines from class with the Countess, and they were
Speaker 2: elegance has learned. Money can't buy you class. You know,
Speaker 2: being interested is what makes you self. Well there, you know,
Speaker 2: all these things came out of really the book, and
Speaker 2: that's how I wrote the song.
Speaker 1: Did you know you would go on to go on
Speaker 1: tour and have a cabaret show? Like wow, talk about manifesting.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I'm a manifesto. I believe totally in that.
Speaker 2: We you know, we write our stories because life is
Speaker 2: a cabaret, no matter what Bethany says. And a really
Speaker 2: good friend of mine, old friend, says to me, Luke,
Speaker 2: you love to entertain, you love to be a hostess,
Speaker 2: you love to sing for your friends, and you love
Speaker 2: to tell jokes, which is all true, and he goes,
Speaker 2: you should be doing cabaret. And that's really where I
Speaker 2: had the idea. And then I didn't do it. You know,
Speaker 2: I got married, I got divorced in between. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: a lot of things got in the way. And then
Speaker 2: finally I started with the cabaret and I didn't realize
Speaker 2: I was like filling a void for something that is
Speaker 2: really it doesn't really exist that much anymore, or cabaret.
Speaker 2: You know Eliza Cheetah, you know, Bette Midler, all the greats.
Speaker 2: You know, they're not doing it anymore. And then so
Speaker 2: somehow I felt this void I didn't even know I
Speaker 2: was filling. And because it started as Countess and France,
Speaker 2: it wasn't count as cabaret. I had, you know, guests,
Speaker 2: I've had, Lance Bass has been in my show. You know,
Speaker 2: I had a lot of people when I used to
Speaker 2: have guests. And then I realized having guests, they would
Speaker 2: go to the bathroom, go get a drink. The minute
Speaker 2: I left the stage, they would start moving around. So
Speaker 2: we realized that it was it was Countess Cabaret is
Speaker 2: what it became. And you know I've been doing since
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen. You know, I love the show. I love
Speaker 2: the creative part of it. So yeah, I'm looking forward
Speaker 2: for you to see the show.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see it. Okay, I'm going to
Speaker 1: go back to my idea of the bush song. So
Speaker 1: it's like the bush in the bush. Do you believe
Speaker 1: the bush is back?
Speaker 2: You know what, It wouldn't surprise me.
Speaker 1: Remember when it came back for a bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny because you know, we spend our lives
Speaker 2: trying to get rid of hair, right and then and
Speaker 2: then it's like then it's like now we were trying
Speaker 2: to keep it, so you know. So yeah, it doesn't
Speaker 2: surprise me that the bush is back.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, just for the sake of the song, I
Speaker 1: feel like we should explore the bush being back and
Speaker 1: you in a bush and I can pop out of
Speaker 1: the bush and be like a murking or something. I
Speaker 1: don't know. You play around that. I love you want it,
Speaker 1: and I just before we go, I want to ask you,
Speaker 1: I am going through a divorce. I'm in my fifty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sorry to hear that, darling.
Speaker 1: Easy no, never easy it. Thank you for saying sorry.
Speaker 1: I don't take compliments. Well that's not a compliment. That
Speaker 1: was an apology, but you know what I mean. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's all works out the way it's supposed to work
Speaker 1: out and when it is supposed to work out. So
Speaker 1: where's my time? And I've seen nothing for me?
Speaker 2: Best decade, best decade of my life.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's what I wanted to hear. I mean, I
Speaker 1: feel just from watching on TV for so many years,
Speaker 1: You've never looked better. I mean, you are really crushing
Speaker 1: it out there, and I hope to follow suits.
Speaker 2: Well you will, darling, because guess what you will it
Speaker 2: to happen. You manifested it. And you know, people don't
Speaker 2: talk positively to themselves, you know, and what you put
Speaker 2: out in the universe and what you say about about
Speaker 2: yourself matters, you know. So you know that's I talk
Speaker 2: about that in my book too, and I talk about
Speaker 2: that in my music. You know, Passion is the key
Speaker 2: fine live the life you want to live. There's no sympathy.
Speaker 2: Don't forget to see the best life can be so soft.
Speaker 2: The little things can take you down. So it's best
Speaker 2: brush of all. So hair done, Jewelriiano Meir on the wall.
Speaker 2: Who's the fairest in the land. I guess it's not
Speaker 2: their call. You know. Beauty, class and aliens lie within
Speaker 2: the soul. Money, power and romance are waiting for us.
Speaker 2: All she say LEVI say boom, say boom. That's my lyrics,
Speaker 2: that's my philosophy, you know. And I think that's why
Speaker 2: people relate to my music, because it's very inspirational. Because
Speaker 2: you know, if you don't think you're great. Nobody else
Speaker 2: is going to think you're great. And that's true.
Speaker 1: My gosh, can we talk about dating and sex in
Speaker 1: your fifties?
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean that. Why do you think Mary f kill?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: It's all about that, you know, It's all about we
Speaker 2: all marry, we all fuck, and we want to get
Speaker 2: rid of people, you know, so you know, because we're
Speaker 2: not killing anybody, but we want to get rid of
Speaker 2: people in our lives, you know. And my mentor would
Speaker 2: always say, get rid of the negative people so you
Speaker 2: can make room for the good ones, you know. And
Speaker 2: so anyway, I I talk about my you know, dating apps,
Speaker 2: I talk about you know, marriages, I talk about you know,
Speaker 2: I play house ise moments where they're going. Life is
Speaker 2: not a cabaret, Oh yes it is. It is for me.
Speaker 2: Maybe not for you, but it is for me. And
Speaker 2: really what that means is it's my story and I
Speaker 2: can tell tell it and write it the way I
Speaker 2: want to, right, And that's what I love about the
Speaker 2: freedom of cabaret because I can say anything I want
Speaker 2: and I can see anything I want, and I don't
Speaker 2: have to deal with TV rights.
Speaker 1: Or adding perfect So you do dabble with dating younger men. Correct, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: Listen, the thirty forty somethings are all up into my stuff.
Speaker 2: The fifty year olds are like, shit, I'm fifty. I
Speaker 2: need a twenty year old. And the sixty year olds
Speaker 2: have a little problem in the lower level, as Ramona
Speaker 2: would call it. Let's call it the basement. That's what
Speaker 2: it is. So, yeah, I dabble because I'm dating right now.
Speaker 2: I'm having so much fun. You know, I'm not dating anybody,
Speaker 2: you know, on a regular basis. I'm just dating having fun. Sure,
Speaker 2: I have some guys that I like to see, et cetera.
Speaker 2: But you know, and Mary f kill you know, I say,
Speaker 2: three times the charm, So catch me if you can,
Speaker 2: you know. So it's about there's men that I would marry.
Speaker 2: They give me such a thrill. There's men that I
Speaker 2: would f and men that I would kill, you know.
Speaker 2: So my show's all about that. It's all about dating
Speaker 2: and about you know, the love affair with life.
Speaker 1: Do you think you'll get married a third time?
Speaker 2: Who knows? You know, who knows? But I'm a hopeless romantic,
Speaker 2: let's put it that way. And I love men and
Speaker 2: I love sex. So there you go. R eight.
Speaker 1: Sorry, may I ask how old you are?
Speaker 2: Fifty nine? I just turned fifty nine. I know. I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, I can't deal with the six in front.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 1: I know so that I'm having a conversation with a
Speaker 1: forty nine year old yesterday and she was like, I
Speaker 1: just feel like I'm going to embrace fifty in the number.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, you'll see when you get there.
Speaker 1: I just turned fifty one, and I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm ready, but the six and I know,
Speaker 1: and everyone says, it's all numbers. You don't feel that way,
Speaker 1: you don't look that way. What does it matter what?
Speaker 1: It's the number that we're conditioned to be like, oof,
Speaker 1: that number is getting up there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know condition is the right word, because
Speaker 2: you know, when we were twenty, a sixty year old
Speaker 2: was like oh right, yeah, like to say, oh, six
Speaker 2: year old, right, six year old women are fabulous. I
Speaker 2: mean it's like it's sixties new fifty and fifties new forty,
Speaker 2: and you know what I mean. I think, you know,
Speaker 2: it's just a it's what we've been kind of conditioned
Speaker 2: to think. But as we get closer to the age
Speaker 2: that we realized. You know, this ain's so bad. I
Speaker 2: kind of I'm in I'm loving this decade. I love fifties.
Speaker 1: Same so far.
Speaker 2: I feel great. I feel free, you know, and you know,
Speaker 2: there's no clicking uh sorry, there's no ticking clock and
Speaker 2: I sing that also in Mary Fkill. You know, my
Speaker 2: ticking clock has stopped. And now I'm feeling free, you know.
Speaker 2: So there's no like, oh shit, I got to have
Speaker 2: baby from you know, forty, or there's no you know,
Speaker 2: am I going to get married? You know? Will I
Speaker 2: get the house I always wanted? Will I have children
Speaker 2: that I've always wanted? You know, I feel like at
Speaker 2: this point I got really everything that I've wanted. And
Speaker 2: you know, so that's very helpful and making you feel comfortable,
Speaker 2: you know, in this age. You know, I've met not
Speaker 2: too long ago, a twenty eight year old charming, handsome,
Speaker 2: well mannered, like very mature.
Speaker 1: For his age.
Speaker 2: Now I don't dip into the twenty year old pond
Speaker 2: because I have a boy who's twenty seven. My kids are,
Speaker 2: you know, almost thirty, for God's sake.
Speaker 1: So thirty one is fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like, you know, I like to be age appropriate,
Speaker 2: a little younger. That's that's cool. You know, the older
Speaker 2: I get, the younger I want. When I was when
Speaker 2: I was younger, I wanted older guys. Now when I'm
Speaker 2: getting older, I want younger guys. So, but you know,
Speaker 2: I recently met at fifty nine year old, same age
Speaker 2: as me. Heid No he's not. He's actually, no, he's
Speaker 2: a good fifty nine. Because I feel like a lot
Speaker 2: of guys aren't kept as well as us ladies at
Speaker 2: the fifties.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, yes, that's the problem.
Speaker 2: Men are These men are like, eh, you know, I
Speaker 2: look the way I look at whatever. Yeah, women are
Speaker 2: you know, keeping up with the time, with the click,
Speaker 2: the ticking clock of time, you know, and gravity, you know,
Speaker 2: you have to fight gravity, darly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know. I told him so. My
Speaker 1: daughter just turned sixteen, and the other night we had
Speaker 1: an experience. We were talking to this young man and
Speaker 1: he had the dreamiest now I sound old, dreamiest blue
Speaker 1: eyes and all her friends are like, he's so hot.
Speaker 1: And we walked away and I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: he's so hot, and she goes, ew, Mom, you can't
Speaker 1: say that, and I know why, I go I'm fifty.
Speaker 1: But I'm not dead. I can acknowledge someone that's good looking.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to date him, all right, right, but
Speaker 1: I can't look at someone and be like, oh, that's
Speaker 1: a fine looking guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, right, right right, yeah, you know it's darling.
Speaker 2: It's a teenage thing. It will pass. Don't worry.
Speaker 1: It's a teenage I've been there, I've been there. I'm sure.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I adore you. I could literally talk
Speaker 1: to you all day and in San Diego. Maybe we'll
Speaker 1: have a girl's night when it comes.
Speaker 2: Oh that would be amazing. That would be so great.
Speaker 2: You should come.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm coming.
Speaker 2: Yeah really? Oh good road trip. Yes, we'll have fun
Speaker 2: after the show.
Speaker 1: Okay, perfect. Thank you for being here today.
Speaker 2: Thanks story, it's great to see you. And you know,
Speaker 2: good luck with everything. It'll you know, life takes you
Speaker 2: and I talked about this also my show. You know,
Speaker 2: Heartbreak and and Change leads you to the next place,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Like I would moved to
Speaker 2: Europe unless I got a heartbroken at the age of
Speaker 2: twenty five and that sent me to Europe. Really, I
Speaker 2: moved to Europe to model, but really because I was
Speaker 2: heartbroken and so these big changes in our life kind
Speaker 2: of makes a shift, and and then you'll be onto
Speaker 2: the next phase, which is going to be fabulous.
Speaker 1: Thank you. It will be well, you just manifested it
Speaker 1: for me, so thank you. There you I'm going to
Speaker 1: manifest it. You told me to do it myself, right.
Speaker 1: This next phase of my life, not will be is fabulous,
Speaker 1: is the best one yet amazing.
Speaker 2: Say Levis, say bo, say boon.
Speaker 1: Love you