Andy Cohen Talks Jenna Lyons’ Decision To Join ‘RHONY’: ‘I’ve Always Been A Fan’ (Exclusive)

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Everybody was amazed when Jenna Lyons was announced arsenic 1 of the six formed members joining The Real Housewives of New York City for season 14. Jenna, 55, is celebrated for being the erstwhile enforcement originative manager and president of J.Crew, truthful cipher expected her to ever articulation the Bravo universe. But was Jenna’s caller boss, Andy Cohen, shocked by her decision, arsenic well?

“Yes and no,” the dad-of-two told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY astatine the RHONY season 14 reddish carpet premiere connected July 12.

Andy Cohen; Jenna Lyons (Photo: Shutterstock)

Andy revealed to HL that helium knew Jenna from earlier she said yes to joining the RHONY reboot. “I met her years ago. She utilized to travel to my Christmas parties. I’ve ever been a fan,” the Watch What Happens Live host said.

RHONY is returning with six divers women — Jenna, Sai De Silva, Brynn Whitfield, Ubah Hassan, Erin Dana Lichy, and Jessel Taank — who are caller to the franchise and have a lot to offer. And cipher is much excited for this caller epoch of RHONY than Andy himself!

“It feels acquainted but it’s a full caller radical of friends,” Andy said to HL to tease the caller season, which premieres Sunday, July 16.

Jenna Lyons connected play 14 of ‘RHONY’ (Photo: Bravo)

Andy and Jenna discussed however the erstwhile manner enforcement ended up connected RHONY, during their interview with TODAY‘s Hoda Kotb the time aft the reddish carpet premiere. “We had a fewer agelong conversations. Come to Jesus conversations arsenic they were. And Jenna went successful for the spot autumn and I’m truthful gladsome she did due to the fact that she is simply a superb Real Housewife,” Andy said. Jenna explained that she agreed to do the show due to the fact that it was entering antithetic territory with a caller cast.

“This was not astir doing what they’ve done before. It felt similar it was a full alteration up,” Jenna said. “The formed is precise divers successful age, ethnicity, look, feel, style, and personality. And that to maine was a large game-changer successful presumption of the show.”

The Real Housewives of New York City premieres Sunday, July 16 astatine 9pm ET/PT connected Bravo and streaming adjacent time connected Peacock.

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