They Sent Real Housewives Sonja Morgan and Luann de Lesseps to the Boonies—and They Survived

After 15 and 13 years, respectively, as cast members of Real Housewives of New York City, Luann de Lesseps and Sonja Morgan are experts at packing for lavish trips. They know how to cram into suitcases all the trappings to accommodate their quirky, pampered personalities while traveling together to the Hamptons, Mexico, Morocco, and, most famously, Scary Island—er, I mean St. Barts.

Cameras, of course, are always there to capture each wacky, can’t-make-this-up moment, be it an inebriated tumble into a rose bush, impromptu skinny dip, or insistence that a fellow Housewife “be cool, don’t be all, like, uncool” while being served home-cooked eggs à la Francaise. Sunday night, the duo—a Laverne and Shirley of reality TV, if Laverne was a Countess and Shirley shared a hairbrush with her dog—is back on our screens again, returning to Bravo after the original RHONY veterans were replaced with a new cast of fresh faces.

When we first see them, they are once again getting ready for a trip. De Lesseps is fretting over all the choices she has to make, “because this is white and this is off-white,” she says, holding up two identical-looking belts—the Countess’ own Devil Wears Prada moment. At her infamous townhouse, Morgan is debating the best way to store the pads she needs to bring to sop up leaks from her recent liposuction procedure.

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