Lala Takes BravoCon 2025 (Michelle Saniei)

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Speaker 1: Hello, gorgeous. It's Lala Kent.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Untraditionally, Lala.

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Speaker 1: Hello, gorgeous. It is Laala Kent. Welcome back to Untraditionally Lala.

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Speaker 2: I have a cast member of the Valley, but also one of my.

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Speaker 1: Dearest friends on the planet.

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Speaker 2: I have Michelle say your last name, Michelle sonny E sonny E. I love the way she says it. It's so hot. Okay, so we're here at Bravocon. It's your first ever Bravocon. What are you thinking?

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, I think it's going to be madness, But I don't know what to expect. I always go into it just like go with the flow, see what it's like. There's a lot of people I don't know, So I'm excited to like make new friends.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like become part of the Bravo family, where like you see people and it's like they know you even though you've never met, and you know them because you guys watch each other's shows and it's like, yeah, come to dinner and you're like okay, and it's.

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Speaker 4: Kind of cool.

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Speaker 3: I just already like met a few people in the elevator and it's nice.

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Speaker 1: I love that. I have to tell you guys.

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Speaker 2: Michelle has been sending outfits the past forty eight hours and it hasn't ended.

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Speaker 1: It hasn't ended.

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Speaker 2: Janet and I are on the plane here, yeah, and Michelle sends a text and she's like, what about this? Janet and I were dying. We were like, it's done, babe, we're here.

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Speaker 4: We're here.

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Speaker 3: But I figured out my outfits. I think it's very important to look good and I don't know what to wear for what?

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Speaker 1: Have we worked it out? Though?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 2: The lace look for the panel? Okay, I think I changed my mind because that you want to be fun for Okay, the black blazer another time? Are you nervous for the panel?

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Speaker 4: Not at all?

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Speaker 3: No, I just really I feel like we've just finished season three filming Season three, we've done a reunion.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, how hard can a panel be? I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I love this mindset right there's I don't know exactly how many people are in the room. I want to give maybe like a three to five hundred maybe more.

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Speaker 4: Really really eat a five hundred people?

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Speaker 2: Yes, Okay, what is it like for you being on TV?

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Speaker 1: Do you enjoy it? Was it a shock?

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Speaker 4: Thank you?

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Speaker 3: I enjoy it It's funny watching yourself back. You learn little quirky things about yourself. I didn't realize what an accent I had. I thought this is just how people talk. And then when I hear people say I talk different or have an accent or whatever, now I see it. I'm like, oh, how did no one ever notice? How did I not notice that? And how did no one ever tell me?

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Speaker 2: Because that's normal when you're talking to someone. It wouldn't be normal for them to be like you, you talk differently than I do. Yeah, But when you open yourself up to the audience, they no longer look at you as like a real person. You're someone that they watch on TV that they feel like they can critique and pick at. And it's strange, Like, what is one of the words that you didn't realize you were saying in a weird way?

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Speaker 4: Disaster and threatened?

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Speaker 1: Threatened?

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Speaker 2: That's the one she says, threatened instead of threatened.

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Speaker 4: Right, it is hard threatened?

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Speaker 1: I get it? Can I tell you?

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Speaker 2: When I introduced myself, is Lauren? Like I can't even say my own name anymore? I'm like, Lauren does sound It does roll off the tongue a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Easier.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I didn't realize that I had a k Whenever there's a G like, I say, thinking, see I just did it.

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Speaker 4: Oh you did Yeah, okay, and.

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Speaker 2: Feel like you know that that's really bad and you should fix that. I'm like, yeah, my dad told me that years ago, but I never did. Who gives a shit?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Do you enjoy it? Are you enjoying it? Are you enjoying not saying words wrong?

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Speaker 3: I'm enjoying it more. I was very uncomfortable my first season. I never wanted to be an actress. I'd never been in front of a camera, so it was like very awkward and you could see that I didn't know what to say or do. And now it just feels like it's part of life and it's just following us.

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Speaker 1: So you feel like season three you were able to be more of yourself.

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Speaker 4: Definitely, Yes.

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Speaker 1: And the cameras you were just there.

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Speaker 3: I completely for yeah, I zoned it out, completely forgot they're there. And all I could think about season one is like, oh my god, there's a couple cameras and staring at me.

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Speaker 2: Right. Yeah, So you are overthinking the first couple of seasons for sure. What has been the hardest thing about filming a reality TV show.

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Speaker 3: The hardest part is having certain conversations that I don't want to have, or hanging out with certain people on certain days that I don't want to. I wouldn't typically hang out with my ex husband all the time at every party, and we have to do that.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that it's been good for your co parenting relationship.

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Speaker 3: He's better at dividing it than I departmentalize better.

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Speaker 4: Yes. I take things very personal.

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Speaker 3: If he treats me a certain way off camera or on camera, like I think it's all one and he doesn't agree with that. Okay, Yeah, I'm like, always be nice, don't be nice just off camera or on camera, Like, however you want to be, that's how you should be.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that makes sense to me.

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Speaker 2: I feel like as you start going, because I didn't venture into reality television until season four of vander Pump Rules, so they were a very well oiled machine. They were also very young, so the chaos was like nothing because we were all chaotic at that point in time. Right, So it is interesting because again I'm.

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Speaker 1: New to the valley.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is very different than filming vander Pump Rules because you guys are very new to doing this, but I have to say I had such a wonderful time filming a television show with you.

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Speaker 4: I did too.

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Speaker 3: I honestly can't even imagine season three without you.

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Speaker 2: You and I feel like you've come into your own so much. I'm so excited for people to see it.

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Speaker 4: Thanks. I'm looking forward to it too.

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Speaker 1: I know. Yeah, No, you're like a new person, Michelle.

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Speaker 4: We had a lot of good times we did.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I always say, like, I remember saying this on the but it's always on a fucking butt the bus on Vanner Pump Rules. I think it was season six. I was like, you, guys, I want us to like, even though we're beefing with each other, I want us to enjoy this moment because there's gonna be a day that we blink and we're no longer on this show, and like, this is fucking cool. And I had moments like that with you guys. Yeah, already my first season in being like, wow, I'm like really enjoying this and I'm gonna lean into it because even though it is you have to have the hard conversations.

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Speaker 1: It's so fucking fun. It should be fun and cool.

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Speaker 3: It is, and I appreciated you saying that because I took a step back and like close my eyes. I'm like, this is a beautiful moment that we get to experience together.

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Speaker 1: It is. Yeah, I'm very excited to like be with you on this journey for real.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: You're a wonderful person. I love that you and I have gotten so close. I'm thrilled that you did my podcast of course anytime, and now I'm gonna send you for.

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Speaker 3: You and get to Vegas and do a podcast immediately.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna send you off into the Vegas night, but you have to do a bonus first. Thank you guys for listening to another episode of Untraditionally La.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say Lalie.

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Speaker 2: I was thinking, oh fuck, I have to sign Michelle off and I forgot her last name again, so I said Lalie Untraditionally La La with Michelle sonny.

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Speaker 1: E, sonny E. We'll catch you on the bonus.

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Speaker 4: Bye.