Los Angeles\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Lisa Rinna said she would return to the \u201cReal Housewives\u201d franchise, but to get her husband Harry Hamlin on board, it would have to involve some big numbers. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou guys are gonna laugh and think I\u2019m ridiculous, but I was like, \u2018I might do it for $5 million,\u2019\u201d Rinna explained. \u201cHe\u2019s like, \u2018No, 10. $10 million, you can go back.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The \u201cReal Housewives of Beverly Hills\u201d alum wasn\u2019t afraid to throw shade on a sunny Saturday morning during her panel at The Times\u2019 Festival of Books. <\/p>\n
The \u201cYou Better Believe I\u2019m Gonna Talk About It\u201d author sat down with Times senior television writer Yvonne Villarreal to talk about Rinna\u2019s journey from soap star to her rise on the \u201cReal Housewives of Beverly Hills\u201d and her recent \u201cThe Traitors\u201d fame. <\/p>\n
As a \u201cReal Housewife,\u201d Rinna was known for her snappy comebacks and for sharing her candid emotions. Her memoir explores Rinna\u2019s experience during Season 12, which was filmed shortly after the death of her mother, Lois Rinna. Rinna explained that her grief manifested into feelings of \u201crage.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRage was the first emotion that came. I didn\u2019t expect that. You know, you think you\u2019re going to be in shock, and then you think you\u2019re going to be really sad? Well, I went immediately into rage, and that\u2019s not really very cute,\u201d Rinna said. \u201cBut I think my being in grief triggered the housewives, and it triggered the audience.\u201d<\/p>\n
After Rinna\u2019s time on \u201cRHOBH,\u201d she joined the cast of Season 4 of \u201cThe Traitors.\u201d The show \u2014 loosely based on the game Mafia \u2014 selects celebrities to be faithfuls and traitors, and the faithful must attempt to discover the traitors. Wearing outfits like her viral cheetah-print ensemble, Rinna skyrocketed to fan-favorite status during her tenure as a traitor. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo when I decided to do \u2018Traitors,\u2019 I was like, \u2018Self, listen. You\u2019re gonna go in there and just be you. No Housewives s\u2014, no, none of that reactionary stuff, no, you\u2019re gonna just be you,\u2019\u201d Rinna said. <\/p>\n
She also joked that being a traitor was the \u201chighlight\u201d of her year: \u201cI could kill people, I could lie, I could deceive, I could backstab. Heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rinna compared the objectives of \u201cRHOBH\u201d to \u201cThe Traitors\u201d and the different strategies she had to employ on the franchises. <\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018Housewives\u2019 is not a game. \u2018Traitors\u2019 is a game,\u201d Rinna explained. \u201c\u2018Housewives,\u2019 you just tried to literally protect yourself from the drama and the toxicity. And it\u2019s even though it\u2019s a television show, it\u2019s real. I mean, no one is writing a script for you. You\u2019re dealing with interpersonal relationships and conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Lisa Rinna said she would return to the \u201cReal Housewives\u201d franchise, but to get her husband Harry…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,52207,134,249,10967,299069,6084,94440,164036,299067,23395,299066,161,2349,299070,213460,299068,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-616267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-beverly-hills","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-experience","13":"tag-franchise","14":"tag-game-mafia","15":"tag-grief","16":"tag-lisa-rinna","17":"tag-rage","18":"tag-real-housewife","19":"tag-real-housewives","20":"tag-rhobh","21":"tag-season","22":"tag-show","23":"tag-soap-star","24":"tag-traitor","25":"tag-traitors","26":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}