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The good people at W Magazine recently conducted an interview with Countess LuAnn de Lesseps from The Real Housewives of New York City, and in the piece, the beleaguered taco night detractor attempted some nimble damage control with a dash of self-promotion thrown in for good measure (insert haughty Countess laugh here, as well as a hand placed gently on your shoulder and perhaps an optional utterance of “No, no, no, my love”). Yes, Lu-Lu answered all sorts of questions, happily plugging her book, Class with the Countess, and noting that one of the primary reasons she penned it was because “it’s every girl’s dream to be a countess.” I do hope she was being tongue-in-cheek as I tend to think the stereotype is that most girls want to be princesses, not stuck somewhere on the nobleman spectrum, just above viscount but below marquess.
Aspirations of peerage be damned, LuAnn also assures us that many of her more snobby moments on the TV show are merely the result of editing. Ain’t that always the case? Of course, no interaction with The Countess would be complete without an unspoken sign of WASPy indignation (covered up, naturally with the HCL — Haughty Countess Laugh), and that moment came courtesy of a question about Kelly Killoren Bensimone’s presence on the show. LuAnn’s response? “[Laughs again. Loudly.] Poor thing, did you see the papers today?”
(And yes, that was a thinly veiled reference to the pugilistic allegations about Kelly that surfaced earlier this week.)
Anyway, I still like LuAnn quite a bit, despite her tendency to be a bit evil this season. To read more of the interview, check out the Editor’s Blog at W Magazine.
• REAL HOUSEWIFE LUANN ON ETIQUETTE, HER “FAN BASE,” AND THAT BETHENNY[W Magzine]