Aug. 15, 2026

A Real Housewife is Officially Dating A Younger Man, And An Ex-Wife Accused Of Being Shady To A Kardashian!

A Real Housewife is Officially Dating A Younger Man, And An Ex-Wife Accused Of Being Shady To A Kardashian!

RHONY favorites Kelly Bensimon and Sonja Morgan are digging into the latest chapter two celebrity headlines!

A former housewife is opening a cafe - will our NY ladies be checking it out?

Did a rocker’s ex-wife shade a Kardashian? We get into the comment that made us do a double-take!

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Speaker 1: Hey, I Do Part two. It's your celebrity mentor Kelly ben Simon, and I'm so excited to share the mic today with one of my long time friends and a fellow housewife. We're starting on the new upcoming show The Golden Life Aunt E The One, the Only Sonia Morgan Ellen. Welcome to I Dober two. We've got so much to talk to talk about today. First of all, we're in the middle of filming. We're having the best time, we're actually living together. What do you think are three words to describe our show?

00:00:56
Speaker 2: Well, three words you the right girl, I would say evolved, there you go. I would say tender and adjuta.

00:01:16
Speaker 3: So there's tender moments.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's tender moments when we're together and we care for each other very much, but sometimes, you know, someone just shows up in a mood and it gives me adjita because I really don't like drama very much, but I love living with you.

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Speaker 3: It's been such what do you we call this our love bubble?

00:01:35
Speaker 4: We're in the love bubble.

00:01:36
Speaker 1: We're having the best time. We're having so much fun. Okay, so we've got some celebrity headlines. So this is what happens, Sonia, is that you and I go through the headlines and we've kind of talked through like what the situation is. So the first headline is Teddy Mellencamp, who we both love very much, and she reveals her identity of her new Valley guy. She's Instagram official, so she's putting and she's putting a name to the man she's been calling.

00:02:01
Speaker 4: The Valley Guy.

00:02:03
Speaker 1: The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills along forty five made her relationship with pe j Conley Instagram official on Tuesday, August eleven, sharing photos from a family field night at her father, John Mellencamp's concert. The evening also marked at first Connolly's. That's the first night that they actually met. Connlelly met Teddy's family, including her dad and the children, and her exchange her and her exchanged husband.

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Speaker 4: What are your thoughts?

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, I love love and I know Miss Mellencamp has been having health issues, so for me to know she found someone who she feels comfortable with while she's going through this is just wonderful. And the fact that he's also now a part of the family, you know, dynamic is promising.

00:02:56
Speaker 3: So it's a good that's a very good thing.

00:02:59
Speaker 1: It's like once you meet the family, I feel like you're like, oh okay, like it's actually real.

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Speaker 4: Do you think he's cute?

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: You know, I don't watch a lot of TV. I do know miss Mellencamp from a while ago. And also we sat together for Josh Flagg's wedding in Beverly Hills. Oh you did sense divorced, But she'll remember me leaving with everybody's caviar and before dessert and nobody was touching their caveard. It was only kids, and I wasn't going to leave without it. I know you and I have like tens of caviar here, but I don't normally, so.

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Speaker 3: I was like, I'm leaving with the caviar.

00:03:33
Speaker 1: Wait, so he's younger. What do you think about? What do you think about younger guys? Sonya, do you think it's cool todat a younger guy?

00:03:39
Speaker 3: How much younger is he? Like he's twenty years younger.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I wouldn't say twenty years, but he definitely is.

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Speaker 4: He's younger.

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Speaker 1: He's in his thirties. She's forty five. I have the ten year old.

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Speaker 3: I don't consider anyone too young or too old. That's just me.

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Speaker 2: I fly the way I fly, But I do cut it off at twenty seven years old. I won't guys older than twenty seven.

00:04:02
Speaker 4: Twenty seven.

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Speaker 3: That's Sea's age, I know.

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Speaker 2: But they should have a life by then, you know, they should not be trying to date Sony Morgan by twenty seven twenty eight. You're not reinventing yourself alongside me, you know, at twenty seven and you should be pretty solid thinking about being.

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Speaker 3: Married and having kids.

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Speaker 2: Now, if you're divorced forty four and older and you have kids and you believe in a higher being than yourself, right, that's somebody I'm interested again.

00:04:32
Speaker 3: So twenty seven to forty four is out. How low will I go?

00:04:37
Speaker 2: I think twenty two is too young for me these days.

00:04:41
Speaker 3: I did die. I dated a.

00:04:43
Speaker 2: Guy from twenty two to twenty six, and like I said, I had to throw him from the nest.

00:04:47
Speaker 3: I said, young man, go on, go forward with your life.

00:04:51
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I love that. I love that. Let's hop over to Reba McIntyre.

00:04:56
Speaker 1: She explains why her wedding to fiance Rexcellent is still on hold. So Riba and Excellent's wedding is still on hold. The Happy Place co stars got engaged at Tennessee on their ranch on Christmas Eve twenty twenty four. They confirm their engagement in September twenty twenty five. While chatting with E News at NBC's Universal's Backlot Pass event on Monday, August tenth, McEntire explained the delay in her wedding plans. We're just waiting until we have an open spot to have the wedding.

00:05:30
Speaker 3: That's always the problem. It's always the problem the location.

00:05:35
Speaker 2: As soon as you get engaged or even my daughter, she's talking about possibly becoming engaged, she's already looking for places.

00:05:42
Speaker 3: You have to book these two years three years in advance, right, and.

00:05:46
Speaker 1: This will also be her third wedding, and she also works, so she's.

00:05:50
Speaker 4: Kind of like, I have to figure out when I can get married.

00:05:56
Speaker 1: But the third marriage is it like life is baseball off your third You're like, you're out, So I told you now.

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Speaker 2: They say the third times of charm. The first one you marry is the first one you marry for uh, I guess it's love and family, right, And the second one you marry for money, and the third one, you marry whoever you want because you got money from the.

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Speaker 4: Second marriage, still can do whatever you want.

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Speaker 2: So if she wants to date someone, That's why I was thinking the guy from the Valley. Going back to Mellencamp, I'm wondering, does that mean, like, oh, as New Yorkers, if we date a guy would say, oh, he's from downtown, pretty much means it could be an artist, he could be an entrepreneur or some other.

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Speaker 3: I'm from downtown.

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Speaker 4: I'm a downtown girl.

00:06:46
Speaker 2: Well you're uptown now for a while. I know, true story because you rented your place out.

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Speaker 4: Yeah I know.

00:06:52
Speaker 2: Okay, So yeah, I'm happy about Reba taking her time she does have. I watched her documentary and I sent it to Luenn Doulla Substance.

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Speaker 3: I said, you have to watch this.

00:07:01
Speaker 2: Very inspirational, not only as you know, she has real relationships, real people she can count on, and really works hard.

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Speaker 3: She built her brand.

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Speaker 2: I think she's done fashion and TV and music, like just anything her heart's, her heart desires.

00:07:19
Speaker 3: She does it kind of like.

00:07:20
Speaker 2: You, Kelly, anything you like to do, you just set your mind to it and you do it.

00:07:26
Speaker 1: My dad always told me, do what you love and the money will come. And that's why I just do what I love and if I like it, then people are just it's infectious. I'm like, I am so obsessed and people want to be a part of it because of that.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's the other thing we have that in common, where we both like to work with people that we like, we're not we're not.

00:07:44
Speaker 3: We don't grab for the cash. It's not about that.

00:07:48
Speaker 2: It's about real relationships, really enjoying the collab, really believing in the brand you're promoting together.

00:07:55
Speaker 3: Being truthful to your followers.

00:07:57
Speaker 2: And to people who buy what you suggest is more important to you and I than just a cash crop.

00:08:04
Speaker 4: Agreed.

00:08:05
Speaker 1: So next up we have our co star Bethany Frankel. She revels that she was retiring before her career reinvention. She has had many things that she's been doing outside of Skinny Girl, and now she has opened a supermodel cafe in East quag She says, I don't have this kind of experience in business and media and content and influence and brands and venture capital, you know, and people and marketing. She continued, like this is a vortex. I was retiring, I was on my way out. Well, it seems like she's on her way in to the Supermodel Cafe and bringing all sorts of new optics to Quag which is so great.

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Speaker 2: Any thoughts, you know, personally, I can't even keep up with Bethany, and I didn't. There's not many people that have more energy than me. She has a lot of energy. She does do a lot of different projects. Like you, when she falls in love with something, she gets very focused. She has a huge team. I personally don't want to have a team, but I did learn a lot from my co stars, including Bethany. We're all pretty different, but there's always something to learn from each other. And this Supermodel Cafe seems to be you know, I don't watch these things, but I saw a clip come up.

00:09:27
Speaker 3: Even a guy I was dating her, clips would come up on his feet. He's like, why is this woman on my feet? I said, she's everywhere.

00:09:34
Speaker 2: So super madel Cafe for her sounds like her passion at the moment, because she's in love with a guy who lives in Quag so she's based there at the moment. So why not have a pop up where you live?

00:09:46
Speaker 4: All right?

00:09:46
Speaker 1: And why not bring great optics to the area where she love so supermodel, what do you think of the name.

00:09:54
Speaker 2: Well, you are a bona fide supermodel IT girl, and you know you have been the original.

00:10:03
Speaker 3: So I do know.

00:10:05
Speaker 2: There's a few hashtags that are very very they're just popular now, hashtag supermodel, hashtags, old money, and vintage. I send my daughter all my like designer creations because when you're in your twenties, you care.

00:10:18
Speaker 3: When you're my age, I don't really have to prove anything, you know.

00:10:22
Speaker 2: So she has a Roberto Cavali set.

00:10:25
Speaker 3: I gave her. It's worth fifteen thousand dollars. Vintage. You know more about this stuff than me, I know.

00:10:32
Speaker 1: But to your point, there are a lot of buzzwords, and supermodel definitely is a buzzword because everybody wants to be beautiful. For me, the supermodel diet was just about being healthy. I have two girls, and you know, my wellness journey is not just something that I started today. It's something I've been working on for a long time since I had this very toxic relationship with food when I was younger, and so I just am happy that she's celebrating good food.

00:11:01
Speaker 4: You know, go for it.

00:11:03
Speaker 2: I tell you, I'm just you know, I love love. I've already said this about your last two subjects. Two subjects, but when I see someone so in love, I always worry because I know how it feels, you know, after the honeymoon stage. I was just with the guy, as you know, and many people don't know for five months, and it's just so painful when you decide to separate, because the first three months is heaven. Everything's you know, new and exciting, and you're making plans together and you think you're being transparent with each other, and then boom, real life starts setting in around five months. Then they say again nine months. Once you get past nine months, I mean, your podcast is about love. Once you get past that nine months, then you're pretty sure you know you need to go a year and then you can get engaged.

00:11:57
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, won't be able to head over there because you and I are on the cree busiest film schedule, But we wish her the best and best of luck, and thank you for bringing so much new light to Quad.

00:12:05
Speaker 4: We love that.

00:12:07
Speaker 1: Next up, Courtney Kardashian. So Shana Mochler seemingly shades Courtney Kardashian in now deleted comment after Travis Barker event.

00:12:20
Speaker 4: So what happened was Travis went.

00:12:23
Speaker 1: On a red carpet with Shana's kids, and but Courtney did not bring her for kids, and so Shana sensed shade and is like, oh, you can stand with my kids, but you didn't bring your own.

00:12:37
Speaker 4: We're your kids.

00:12:38
Speaker 3: Oh no, that's weird to me. I never shared.

00:12:41
Speaker 2: Mothers you know about their relationships with their children.

00:12:45
Speaker 3: And I don't shade other people's business. You know, the way they the way they make a living to support their children.

00:12:52
Speaker 1: And by the way, you and I have really made concerted efforts of keeping our children away from the fray off camera. If my kids want to do it now they're older, they're welcome to do whatever they want. But when they were younger, we made pancakes and that was it. What are your thoughts about bringing children and promoting your children.

00:13:12
Speaker 2: Well, it depends on the family dynamic, your culture, your beliefs, your religion, all of it.

00:13:18
Speaker 3: It's just so big.

00:13:19
Speaker 2: It's a lot which we do know a lot of people have gone down the path of reality TV and not survived it because they really didn't think ahead, you know, what could happen. So I didn't want my daughter on because I was in the middle of a divorce and also, my daughter's temperament is similar to your daughter. She's not about being famous or being on camera.

00:13:42
Speaker 3: She's just my kid. I'm just a mom who's funny.

00:13:46
Speaker 2: She's like, mom, you're not a supermodel, you know, you are just a mom that is hilarious. And so that's my brand and she's always, you know, good about that.

00:13:56
Speaker 3: But she doesn't want to be on screen, not really.

00:13:59
Speaker 4: I think that, I think think that.

00:14:00
Speaker 1: I think what we're seeing in this article is that Shanea's kids are older, they're adults, and Courtney's children are you know, they're younger. And so I agree with Courtney that she should keep her children as safe and secure away from the media as long as as possible until they decide that they want to do whatever that they want to do. So I don't know Shaneon, like I understand as the first mother, I get that, okay, But I mean, and they are, yes, we know where they know.

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Speaker 4: They are on the Kardashians.

00:14:35
Speaker 1: There are a TV show, But being on the Kardashians and being out with Travis and his ex wife and oh yeah, different, that's a different dynamic.

00:14:45
Speaker 2: And they have control over the edits on the show, they don't have control over what goes out in the public.

00:14:50
Speaker 1: Well, this is like, this is not the parture Tamla, do you know what I mean? Like they're not like they're not having this big family with Shanea's kids too, I mean they're Yeah, anyway, that's my point.

00:15:00
Speaker 2: Well, I do make it a point not to make any comments about people's parenting abilities. I don't know if that's that comment even means that. I don't know if you're saying, like, where are your children? It's ten o'clock, are they in bed? I don't know what the comment meant.

00:15:14
Speaker 1: So I think that she because she's like, your kids are on television and my kids are here.

00:15:20
Speaker 4: Where are your kids? I mean?

00:15:22
Speaker 1: And as the first mother, I understand what she's trying to do. But when you're talking about whatever the Kardashian family wants to do with their brand, that's a totally different thing than when you're on the red carpet with an next one exactly. That's I mean, those are those two are not the same.

00:15:39
Speaker 3: That's true.

00:15:50
Speaker 1: Next stop Nicole Kid and she makes rare comments about her completely natural marriage to Tom Cruise. So she's looking back on her marriage to Tom Crue as completely normal.

00:16:02
Speaker 4: Part of her life.

00:16:04
Speaker 1: I didn't know this, but she was so young when she married Tom Cruise, and she was warned against the union at the time, and she said, I remember people saying to me, Okay, well this is going to really affect your career, she recalled. But she goes, I'm like, I don't care. I'm in love and I want to be married, and that is I think that's so so sweet. I think we see her relationship because we never really got like intel on the relationship.

00:16:33
Speaker 4: I always thought of it was.

00:16:34
Speaker 1: Like fake, But this is she's saying that she was really in love with him and didn't care if it was going to hurt her career.

00:16:40
Speaker 2: You know, there's always rumors that swirl around. First, I hearing this that she was so in love with him that she didn't care how young she was or what other people thought she was going to marry him. So I know I love love and I'm happy to hear that. But I don't think the whole world knew that before.

00:16:57
Speaker 1: I'm saying, and I agree with you and I and you and I are very similar because we do embrace and want love for our friends, for our family, and for ourselves, and we're positive like that. I just think, first of all, I didn't realize that she was so young. I mean, she was twenty two years old, okay.

00:17:17
Speaker 2: And you know Kelly Michaelis was what his first wife after top Gun, and she was what eighteen or nineteen?

00:17:23
Speaker 3: They were very young.

00:17:23
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I mean so young.

00:17:26
Speaker 1: I mean I love Nicole Kidman, and I really appreciate her talking so beautifully about their love story. I mean it makes I mean, as a as an outsider, I just think it's I think it's beautiful to hear I do.

00:17:38
Speaker 2: I used to see them around town because I think I told you this. I bought thirty five acres and tell you ride from the Ford family and the neighbor was Tom Cruise, And it's a very discreete place because you know, thirty five acres up above the airport, you're really isolated and you just want to be with your family and friends who mean anything to you. And then my husband brought another thirty five acres. We put it together and put a house together, so we all shared the same ice skating pond and stuff like that.

00:18:16
Speaker 1: I have the hugest crush on Tom Chris, and you know I love him so much.

00:18:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do.

00:18:24
Speaker 3: Well, you love him more now that you heard that she was madly in love with him.

00:18:27
Speaker 1: Now I love him no, one hundred percent. I mean you literally could not have said it better. I love him more that they had that beautiful bond and that's how she remembers that relationship.

00:18:37
Speaker 4: That's sowarming.

00:18:38
Speaker 1: But I love him because when you watch his movies, he does all.

00:18:43
Speaker 4: Of the stunts, all of the suns.

00:18:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, so he's a great actor. He dances, he he's all the stunts.

00:18:50
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:18:50
Speaker 2: I saw him doing some dance. That's something that was fun. He seems like a fun guy. But I can tell he's very private because I can tell you where we live up above the airport is just there's this like nobody up there.

00:19:01
Speaker 3: You can't get it's gated. You.

00:19:03
Speaker 1: You're not gonna you're not gonna help me go on to tate with him.

00:19:06
Speaker 2: The only people I know, because everybody's three degrees of separation, that's no mystery. So you know, there's a lot of people running around saying I know this one, I know that, Okay. The only people that I know that know them well, would have been Oliver.

00:19:21
Speaker 3: Stone and his mother Jackie.

00:19:24
Speaker 2: They know Tom like to pick up the phone and say, Hi, I have a beautiful golf of you to me.

00:19:31
Speaker 4: You can't be like yo, you're my neighbor.

00:19:33
Speaker 2: I no, I don't have a direct contact with with that man. And I did not have sex with that hot that hot man. I agree he's hot. There's just not just because he's he has good features. There's something hot about him that makes him seem very clever and smart, reserve, kind of quiet and silent inside, but then he breaks out into something.

00:19:58
Speaker 3: You know, remember when he did that dance. Yeah, oh you love him?

00:20:02
Speaker 4: Hello, I love him? Guyano white shirt.

00:20:04
Speaker 2: And you know he doesn't mind tall girls because she him in is how tall?

00:20:08
Speaker 4: I mean she's six one. I'm five to ten, so I'm shorter.

00:20:11
Speaker 3: You're probably too short for him, Actually I have too sure.

00:20:15
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00:20:22
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Speaker 4: We're Falling in Love is the main objective