Ten minutes into my call with Ramona Singer, she wants to hop on FaceTime. "Want me to show you my refrigerator?" she asks in complete sincerity after I ask what she, her daughter Avery, and ex-husband Mario are snacking on while self-isolating in Florida.
But fans of shouldn't be surprised by Singer's openness here—she's been putting it all out there since 2008, when the Bravo show began and catapulted her to reality TV stardom.
That's since morphed into full-fledged stardom—"reality" caveat not necessary—because people consume the Housewives and HBO prestige dramas with equal, unapologetic fervor.RHONY has endured as long as it has because the show is more than just a Pinot Grigio-soaked romp of Manhattan's matriarchal glitterati.