Hi everyone, welcome to a special edition of Mini Scroll
where instead of bringing you guys the biggest stories on the
Internet for today, I am bringing you an interview in
real life that I did last week with Real Housewives of Salt
Lake City stars Heather Gay and Whitney Rose.
Heather and Whitney were here in Sydney during South by Southwest
Sydney with Hey You to promote the new season.
Thank you so much to Hey You for entrusting me with this
interview. I had the best time and I hope
you guys enjoy it. It's on the set, I feel like I
popped put in my teeth but my Botox has kicked in and so I
can't really lick my teeth. You how you're good.
I am so excited to be sitting here today with two of my
favorite Real Housewives from one of my favorite franchises,
Heather Gay and Whitney Rose from The Real Housewives of Salt
Lake City. Welcome.
Thank. You for having us.
Thank you guys so much for joining me.
How are you enjoying Sydney? Obsessed literally want to move
here. This is the coolest place I've.
Ever like I. Did that, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, no, I'm I might send for
the husband and children. I just Sydney is so amazing, so
many like we've had the best time.
I feel like a kinship with this country, like they see me, I see
them. I like feel at home.
I feel accepted. So nice.
Yeah, everyone is so sweet. I moved from Canada 8 years ago
and I obviously never left. So you get.
I didn't. Even hear that you don't have an
accent. Yeah.
Solidarity. Exactly.
As a viewer and a big fan of Housewives, I am curious to hear
about your experience being on the show more generally, how it
influences your real life. Relationships, I think the best
way do you want to. Go first.
I was going to say what it's done is make the only
relationship that we have are the relationships on the show
because no one else can tolerate us.
So it is like made these relationships become like even
more primal in our lives, you know?
Yeah, I was going to say the circle of friends has definitely
gotten smaller. And you truly learn who's in
your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
And it's hard that I think the more the show has gained
popularity, you really have to trust or like learn people's
intentions. But Tether's point, like we have
like if I didn't have Heather through this experience, like I
can't even explain our dynamic. It's just beautiful.
So pretty much I got stuck with her but now we're best friends.
Well, it's changed over the years, right?
So yeah, I mean, it changes a lot, but like our external
relationships, like going on the show and writing the book, I
don't have a relationship with my family or my community.
So like the greater community has become like people that
watch the show and my friends that are on the show and like it
doesn't, it feels like a complete change, you know, from
who was like integral in my life before.
Yeah, and speaking to the fandom and the wider Bravo community,
I'm so interested to hear how having such like, a chronically
online fandom impacts you guys, how you guys deal with that.
I feel like Bravo is so unique in the sense that fan
interaction and the culture of the fandom is so integral to its
success. Like, watch what happens live,
you know, people calling in reunions, people asking you guys
questions, like fan interaction is so important to the network.
How do you guys deal with that? I mean, it's like 90% like
absolute support and joy and love and like that feeds your
soul in a way that like is terrifying.
But the negative, you know, you just have to be able to recuse
yourself of it and just like put your phone down, not read it,
not buy into it, and just like enjoy the fruits of the good and
just ignore the bad. Yeah, we have a saying in my
house with my kids. It's we don't have time to hear
why the haters love us today. So.
Oh, my gosh, that's great. Yeah, that's our slogan.
And did you make that up? I did.
And what the the biggest thing, like the craziest thing that I
learned actually from a Bravo exec the other day was that 3%
of our audience is on social media, people.
Yes, I'm actually surprised. So so when you actually just
focus on the people who are viewing in from their homes and
giving us massive love, like when we come here and like we're
just doing our thing or Laverne and Shirley thing here and
people recognize us, it's that's the love and the support that we
live for. And yeah, Bravo Con's amazing.
Watch what happens live is amazing.
But truly, it's about the people who, because honestly, who do
you know that watches a show and gets online and tweets about?
It no, that is so true. Yes, that's so true.
That's so true. So I think that learning that
lesson, it took five years. Really, because you feel
everything to heart and you want to be loved.
You want everyone to enjoy the show.
And so it can hurt, but like when you realize that I've never
gone on a show's page and, like said something horrible to
another person, and I watch every show on every network.
So you just have to like take it with the greatest.
Can you imagine if I got on your Instagram and like Heather,
don't ever wear those pants again?
Yeah, like stop losing weight. Specifically us.
I think we love the fans. We wouldn't be here without
them. Of course.
OK. So I wanted to talk about the
current season airing. How was shooting the season for
you guys? Obviously I know you guys had a
bit of like a bumpy Rd. the last couple of years in your
friendship, how did you kind of reconcile and where are you?
I mean, obviously you guys are good now, but how do we see that
develop over the season? Well, like everything broke for
us in San Diego in the lingerie you lost me fight.
I've never fought with Whitney like this ever.
We have had big disagreements, but she's never looked at me and
called me a liar. You just lost me forever.
You lost me forever, and that was the biggest mistake in your
life. And so we've been like kind of
trying to rebuild from there. And we've had like ups and
downs. But truly the big pivot was in
Bermuda on that beach. Monica is not who she says she
is, OK? She's not our friend.
She's someone that has schemed and worked to infiltrate our
friend group and the name that you all know her as the woman
who's birthday we celebrated, who we have been trying to
champion and support and defend is Reality.
Von Tees. Like we put our weapons down and
like, I think recognized and remembered like why we were a
safe space for each other and why we loved each other and why
it was important that we like got back to bad weather.
Yeah, and and what solidified it even more for me, I can't share
yet, but just to tease, it was our finale of Season 5.
Walking away from that dinner, the finale.
That's when I knew Heather, like I will.
I will do anything to save this relationship.
What did I do at the finale? No, we you slept in my bed that
night. Oh, oops, I teased that.
Reveal. So can you tell me about the new
Housewives? Obviously have joined you guys
this season. How do you think they're fitting
into the cast? More nuts for the trail mix.
Brittany was my friend and I think she's like an incredible
asset because she's just messed up and funny and like
transparent and earnest and charming.
And so it was really fun to film with her.
Bronwyn was new and did some things that made me question her
motives. And I'm very protective of my
relationships with these women. So I was a little bit got off on
the wrong foot. But stay tuned, you'll
understand why. And I will be right.
And then maybe not, but I think I will be right.
I think that we both have a lot to learn still.
Like we're learning. Yeah.
It's we're still learning, yeah. It takes a long time to grow an
old friend and we have layers like we've all been together for
five years, but for years before that too.
Let's just say Britt, I love Brittany because her energy's
chaotic and it's amazing. And then Bronwyn, I think was a
real test of our friendship and we passed the test like we no
one's going to come between us. Good point.
You are so hot, like you're going to be like a huge star.
Like we should like get as much for this as we can.
Yeah, have you considered joining the Sydney Housewives?
I actually interviewed them on the red carpet and I interviewed
Andy Cohen as well when he came to Sydney.
Love you. It was a red carpet interview,
so it was like really quick. But if Heather and I can get
there, you can get there. Trust me, you're way ahead of
us. I'll be.
Dream big, baby, dream big. Heather can get there.
I said Heather and I get. There.
I sit with. Heather and I, I know.
When you met me, I had like a a Pixie cut and a.
Shaved head and she didn't want to be pretty.
Go figure. That is shocking to me.
You're such a glam girl now. I've always been a glam girl,
but I did ditch it for a year to prove a point.
The most sexy I've ever felt in my entire life, and yet.
You have hair now, so you. Want to get the Clippers?
I'm going to shave Whitney's head.
Oh my God, if we get invited back.
Fingers crossed, bravo. OK, what is your favorite thing
about filming Housewives? It's a full adrenaline rush.
Like, there is no universe that anyone could create where a
woman my age with, like, my history could go on TV with
like, crazy women, be, you know, fly around the world, be able to
just give all of my rage, all of my ambition, all of my humor
too. And they can just take it.
I mean, it's an incredible experience.
Something that Heather and I say all the time, like we pinch each
other. Like we literally just get to
dress up and go to dinners and just say whatever we want.
It's. Amazing and like give.
Yourself. Permission to say whatever you.
Think. Yeah.
But the truth, these moments is what makes it worth it to me.
Like we're sitting in Sydney, Australia, looking at the most
amazing view, meeting all the beautiful people that we've met
and I'm with my bestie and it's like.
That's so cool. Yeah, Yeah, it's.
Amazing pinch. Yeah, and she pinches really
hard and she occasionally bites me.
I have a bite mark from the first from.
When? It's a love by Just like the
Penguins at the Penguin encounter, we encourage everyone
to. Think that's what we were
interpret I think we were doing a reenactment yes we've.
Really embraced everything Sydney has to offer, including
Penguin behavior. OK, what is the hardest thing
about filming Housewives? The way it affects our kids
because, well, I don't think it's true for all housewives,
but in our community, it's just not.
It has no value and no one acknowledges it and everyone
just like talks around it so I think the kids feel it more than
anything. Yeah, Well, especially in
Heather and I's case where we've left the predominant culture of
the Mormon church. So our kids have taken the
direct hit of that. That's the hardest part and.
The best part's the money and fame.
Classic, yeah. It is hard to like sit there and
so the rounds, I know Heather keeps saying like the fighting
is fun, but sometimes it's really hard like it.
Hard like running the marathon is hard or hard like lifting?
I don't know. I've never run a marathon and I
don't lift weights. But I imagine it's hard but has
its own benefits. Yeah, Yeah.
Do I lift weights? Yeah, yeah, I have a gym in the
house. I wondered, OK, I'm not just.
I gave you I've I've literally gifted.
You gifted me a ball and like the hand weights but I was
thinking do you like do like big like power weights?
Yeah, come to my house. Let's do it.
Welcome to Fitness with Whitney Rose.
I will do anything to move to Australia and be on TV here.
Who's you're going to be your Heather counterpart?
Instead, there is no one that replaces Heather Stay.
In Salt Lake City. It's Whitney and Heather down
under. Duh, duh.
Thank you guys so much this has been insane.
Cut direct act scene. All right, you guys, I hope you
enjoyed that interview. Thank you again to Heather and
Whitney for being so candid with me, having the best time with me
during that interview. Thank you again to Hey you and
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