Sonja Morgan Shares Her Advice for ‘RHONY’ Reboot Cast

Sonja Morgan gained’t be on the brand new season of The Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis, however she’s prepared to supply some suggestions for the present’s incoming solid members.

“My recommendation to them is simply hold it actual and present your actual friendships,” the fact star, 59, solely advised Us Weekly whereas selling Luann & Sonja: Welcome to Crappie Lake. “The viewers will know in case you’re not being your self — it doesn’t work.”

Sonja went on to say that she “liked” how shut she and her RHONY costars had been when the cameras weren’t rolling. “We actually had been associates, and there’s a belief stage there,” she defined. “For those who don’t have a belief stage, it’s very laborious in case you don’t know folks. I believe all of them are associates, so they need to do OK.”

The upcoming 14th season of RHONY — premiering on Bravo Sunday, July 16 — stars a completely new solid of Housewives: Sai De Silva, Ubah Hassan, Erin Lichy, Jenna Lyons, Jessel Taank and Brynn Whitfield.

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Sonja and a few of the earlier RHONY solid, in the meantime, will seem in season 5 of Final Women Journey. Along with Sonja and her Crappie Lake costar, Luann de Lesseps, the New York season of UGT stars Ramona Singer, Dorinda Medley, Kelly Killoren Bensimon and Kristen Taekman.

“It’s like Scary Island Half 2,” Luann, 58, quipped to Us, referring to the group’s notorious journey to St. John in season 3 of RHONY that gave us “fall asleep” and “turtle time,” amongst different issues. This time, nonetheless, the squad is headed to St. Bart’s.

“It was an excellent journey,” Luann recalled. “When you could have that many ladies collectively, there’s all the time gonna be one thing. And I adore it as a result of the fourth wall comes down so much. We’re speaking about our perspective of what occurred years in the past. I like that for the followers, as a result of they wish to know what we thought of that years in the past.”

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Brynn Whitfield, Erin Lichy, Sai De Silva, Jenna Lyons, Jessel Taank, Ubah Hassan.
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UGT season 5 doesn’t but have a launch date, however within the meantime, RHONY followers have Crappie Lake to tide them over. The brand new sequence follows Luann and Sonja as they head to Benton, Illinois, to spruce up a city with a inhabitants of simply 7,000 folks.

“[The townspeople] suppose we’re all fancy. We’re coming from New York and we don’t know the right way to get our arms soiled,” Luann advised Us. “Properly, let me inform you, we modified their minds about who we’re. As a result of we do come from small cities and we all know the right way to get in and … get it completed.”

Sonja, for her half, stated one of many excessive factors was attending to do some gardening, which she already liked doing. “My favourite factor was getting the playground collectively, and also you see Luann go up within the bucket to begin whacking a few of the traces,” she advised Us. “And I get right into a tractor and begin pushing brush apart. Like Lu stated, we’re small city women. I’m used to driving a tractor or a lawnmower or shoveling s–t. They did ask us to shovel s–t!”

Luann & Sonja: Welcome to Crappie Lake premieres on Bravo Sunday, July 9, at 9 p.m. ET.

With reporting by Christina Garibaldi