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Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Countess Luann de Lesseps & Assistant Roger Dawley

Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Jess Rothschild

Rhony, Tv & Film, Andycohen, Rhobh, Realhousewives, Bravotv, Vpr, Rhoc, Bravo, Popculture, Rhop, Pumprules, Bethennyfrankel, Lgbtculture, Rhod, Realhousewivesofnyc, Rhoa, Vanderpumprules

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Jess is joined by COUNTESS LUANN and her right-hand man, Roger Dawley! Topics: Spending 2 nights on Fire Island over Labor Day Weekend, her summer run-in with Bethenny, tales from Luann’s time as a geriatric nurse, loving cigarettes, brief thoughts on RHONY reboot, latest with Sonja Morgan, prepping to film the Housewives Bachelor show and her plan for cabaret world domination.


IG: @jessxnyc | @countessluann | @rogerdawley


Jess' docu-series on the history, mystique & lore of Fire Island: Finding Fire Island

Tix avail: countessluann.com



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0:00.0

Welcome back to Hot Takes and Deep Dives and First of all I'm here with Countess La

0:18.8

La Suuand de la Sups. Hello. How are you? I'm great darling. How are you? I'm great. And we're also joined by my friend Roger Dolly who is the man behind the woman.

0:31.4

Behind the social media at least.

0:34.0

And everything else.

0:36.0

And everything else.

0:37.0

Let's not get crazy because you're my twink.

0:41.0

Roger, you have been called out completely revitalizing

0:44.8

Luann's social media presence who is that

0:48.3

influencer who is like I see you girl with no job and then what's his name Gibson

0:53.2

something Gibson Johns it was surprising to me though because I feel like I took

0:58.2

this and I was like okay I'll never be front facing again like no one ever

1:01.3

needs to know that there's anyone else involved in

1:03.4

this. Right but you kind of loving it. Well listen I don't know I'll take what I

1:07.6

can get. Now there's one man who unites the three of us and that is the one and only my

1:16.3

great friend Ben Rimmelauer yes who was the first director of your cabaret show and how did you first meet

1:25.0

Ben.

1:26.0

Ben and I met in like 2015 or 16, I was like 18 or 2015 or whatever.

1:28.0

I just moved to the city and I would do backup vocals at 54 below like three times a week I was doing it a lot and he was hosting a Christopher guest concert

1:39.9

We were just doing backups on something and that was how I met him and then he invited me to patty issues and then maybe two years later or something that you were down a set of hands

1:48.9

Why started cabaret in 2018. Yeah, so but then not that long after that you were down a set of hands or something and he just called me or texted me one day and was like what are you doing in an hour or what are you doing later today and I was like but I was not that familiar with you in all honesty. I knew peripherally who you were just like in gay culture honestly

2:06.9

But I was not boys

2:08.8

Yeah, my boys a housewise fan really not at all not at all I had never seen an episode of the show we

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