Real Housewives icon Countess LuAnn on visiting Manchester with new show and whether she'd ever take part in The Traitors
manchestereveningnews.co.ukThe last time that American TV personality Countess Luann de Lesseps was in the UK, she was ditching the chauffeur-driven limos for buses and public transport. “Even the Countess gets the tube if it’s quicker,” she laughs as she speaks to the Manchester Evening News from her New York apartment.
When it’s mentioned that she would have to get the Metrolink instead of the Tube to get around here in Manchester, she seems prepared to give it a go - asking her assistant to make a note of its name. “Well, I never thought I’d go skydiving again so you never know,” she says as she unawarely compares the two very-different things to one another. “I like to run towards fear.
If you’re not scared half the time, you’re not living." Known for her glitz and glamour, Luann, 59, is most-known to people around the world for her appearance on the first 13 seasons of the Real Housewives of New York between 2008 and 2021.
Her stint on the show saw her, amongst many things, ordering pizza in true diva style, calling her co-stars out for 'being uncool' and reminding and another co-star that ‘even Louis Vuitton makes mistakes’.
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