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Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Tabatha Coffey — Tabatha Takes Over, Shear Genius, Reddit

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

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Jess is joined by TABATHA COFFEY, Australian hairstylist, salon owner and star of TABATHA TAKES OVER & SHEAR GENIUS. Topics: Losing Shear Genius yet scoring her own spin-off, living in New Jersey, Reddit threads, wanting a reboot, Jackie Warner & her reputation of being a “b*tch.” Plus — Tabatha’s upbringing in Australia where she was thrown into the gay & trans scene via nightclubs owned by her parents & more!


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0:00.0

Welcome back to Hot Takes and Deep Dives and I am here with the star of Tabitha Takes

0:20.0

Over and Sheer Genius. She's the OG everyone is talking about this week.

0:25.0

Hi Tabitha coffee!

0:27.0

Hi Jess, how are you? I love that. The OG.

0:30.0

Well, I mean, people are currently binging Tabith

0:33.2

takes over because Peacock just added a bunch of classic Bravo

0:37.9

shows on streaming.

0:39.9

Yes.

0:40.9

But before we get into all of that, I think people would be very surprised to hear that you actually live in New Jersey.

0:48.0

How did you wind up in Jersey? You're laughing. How did you wind up in Jersey because everyone is so

0:54.6

surprised that I live in Jersey and the joke is that I'm such a Jersey girl with this

0:59.2

accent of mine I was going to say I got trapped here and that is really unfair to New Jersey because I clearly like

1:06.5

her otherwise I would have moved. So when I moved to America my mother lived in New Jersey.

1:12.0

What part of Jersey?

1:13.6

In Bergen County, so she lived in Ridgewood.

1:16.6

And that was my, honestly, my first introduction to America

1:21.9

was New Jersey. It was Newark Airport flying in and

1:26.7

Ridgewood, New Jersey and I obviously stayed. That wasn't my ultimate plan I thought I would do a road trip across the US very

1:37.8

Thelma and Louise of me I'd meet friends at a bar with road trip but it ends up in California and I'd probably fly home actually.

1:47.0

And I had a really hard time because of where I lived, making friends my age, people that were like me.

1:57.6

So I started working as a social way to meet people and Manhattan was my playground Jersey was where I slept

2:06.6

and lived and then it became my home and where I built my business and yeah here I am yeah just like

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