As I wait patiently for the new season of the Real Housewives of Atlanta (which will be drama-filled and epic, of course), I’m making do with the Real Housewives of New York. They’re not as wonderful as the Atlanta girls, and they’re not as “mob-wife-y” as the New Jersey ones, but the New York girls have their sleazy charm. I was startled when my mother told me her favorite was Bethenny – ugh. My favorite has always been Countess LuAnn. I think she’s very pretty, and I like how she is with her kids. I also think she’s the one with the most natural “class”. She doesn’t do catfights.
Anyway, the Countess got dumped by her Count husband last year, but she’s already hooked herself another European boyfriend. The dude’s name is Jacques Azoulay, and when I first saw these photos of them together (from last month, my bad), I thought, “Why is the countess all up on David Schwimmer’s grill?” I mean, look at him. He’s the French Schwimmer. It’s spooky. The countess discussed her new boyfriend with E!:
Things are getting serious between Real Housewives of New York City star Countess LuAnn de Lesseps and her French wine distributor boyfriend Jacques Azoulay.
“My love life is real good,” de Lesseps gushed to me earlier this week. “You’ll see me dating on this season, but now I have somebody I really like. It’s not easy finding quality people, you know.”
So how did they meet?
“He found me,” de Lesseps said. “We were at a party in New York, and he took me by the hand and asked me to dance.”
They went on a couple of dates before she jetted off for a trip to Europe, “but we’ve been tight ever since,” she said. The countess and her husband Count Alexandre de Lesseps split after he revealed he had been cheating on her.
But whatever, de Lesseps also has a music career to look after these days. Remember when we told you all about the single she recorded, “Money Can’t Buy You Class?” She still refuses to get catty about fellow singing Housewife, Kim “Tardy for the Party” Zolciak of Atlanta. “I’m not going to say,” she laughed when I asked who had the better-sounding pipes. “Kim has her talents, and I have mine. It’s apples and oranges…I mean, apples and peaches.”
[From E News]
Who would love to see a catfight between Kim and LuAnn? Right? It would be epic. But I’m sure Countess LuAnn is too busy meeting Jacque at Central Perk, right after Monica makes them breakfast. I wonder if Phoebe has a new song?
he must be loaded like that ex husband of hers…anway discountess is not classy not all
Ross – Russ . Russ – Ross .
lol, I was thinking the same thing Lem.
LOL Lem!
He makes me think of my favorite Ross moment – PIVOT!!!
Kaiser, are we watching the same show?
I think LuAnn is revealing herself to be a classic mean girl with a poisonous tongue. She’s an expert verbal assassin quite capable of administering deft little cuts, perfectly aimed and smiling all the while.
She’s rediculously invested in keeping Jill and Bethanny apart. What’s up with that. So high school.
One other thing, she sort of outed the Count as an anti-semite when she laughingly told Jill that he’d have a heart attack or something like that if he knew she was seeing a Jew.
She’s awful. Remember the episode where she went to the inner city school to talk to the girls about careers? She was so condescending and even laughed at one of the kidss. And the way she flaunts her title is disgusting.
That first picture is creeping me out big time and I don’t know why. I think it’s “Ross’s” expression.
@ bite me – watch out because Luanne is going to come for you over calling her “discountless” like she when her costar’s hubby said something similar.
This dude looks so much like Ross, it’s scary. With a dash of Justin Long.
i really DO NOT like Luann. She is a “snake” as Bethany called her. She is out for herself and gives out advice on class when she is definitely classless. I love Bethanny and wish her the best of luck in life. Bethanny is real and shows her emotions in each episode — good and bad.
I couldnt agree with Tess more and Kaiser less. Luanne is the worst most hypocritical insidious oblivious creature on the show. she is the most two faced twat. completely intolerable. completely. and she deserves this random droopy face.
ha kaiser! what is wrong with you? luann is THE WORST!
you think she’s classy? maybe last season she was somewhat classy but this season she has been nothing but a classless bitch. her self-entitlement and narcissism is unbearable.
Natural Class? Puleeze. We must not be watching the same show. Dahling, she’s awful, rude and condescending.
Yikes! Okay, okay, I take it back. It’s not one of my regular shows, so I just watch 10 minutes here and there in reruns. From the parts I’ve seen, LuAnn does seem nice. I saw one where she and her daughter were talking about the girl’s career plans, and she sounded like a really nice, involved mother.
I could totally be wrong!
I saw the season premier and I thought it was funny all the woman were upset at Luann because apparently her and the count blatantly cheated on each other for years.
I think he finally left her because he was just sick of her and now she’s crying foul.
They look like low-rent versions of Diane Lane and David Schwimmer….
LuAnn????
This woman has no class at all! Have you seen all the witchy remarks she made about Bethany this season? She was so afraid of Jill and Bethany making up that she was like a dog marking her territory!
Team BETHANY all the way!
Jill and LuAnn act like they’re in high school.
EDITED to say: Kaiser, I saw your retraction 🙂 Funny how the villains have been switched up so quickly this season. Last season the dislike for LuAnn was nowhere near this level, and Jill was adored.
Why are so few of these “real housewives” actual wives? I don’t deem these shit-shows worthy of my valuable time, but I have noticed on blogs & in mags (yeah, I’d rather read about shit than have to see it on TV! snark!) that many of them aren’t married. I think only 1 or 2 of them from the BH version are even married.
@ lucy2 – that’s my all-time favorite – PIVOT! 🙂
@ lady nightshade
i thought that they were alluding to the fact that she hadn’t been faithful at all during her marriage and that was why mario was like, wtf is she talking about that now she is alone? she’s been banging other guys during her entire marriage!
glad i wasn’t the only one who picked up on that because i think bravo really tried to downplay it.
Wow, Luann is awful – so Machiavellian in everything she does. She might be able to package it all up and tie sweetly with a Hermes bow, but she is indeed a snake of the lowest order.
I have no interest in a traditional ‘cat fight’ between LuAnn and Kim, but a good old fashioned ‘sing off’ throwdown in the style of the Devil went down to Georgia… now that I would pay to see. Maybe get Ramona and NeNe as their back up dancers. Oh, the mind reels in the off key, tone deaf delight.
Oh my god…he looks exactly like David Schwimmer. Maybe this guy is David Schwimmer from an alternate dimension who came to our world? I wonder what would happen in they met face to face. Would the universe implode?
fug, meet fug.
I’ve seen this Ross look-alike somewhere before…
i wonder if luann makes le schwimmer call her “countess?” after all he is just a commoner.
“It’s not easy finding quality people”….you mean rich people, LuAnn. Let’s be honest here.
I agree that LuAnn’s visit to the inner city was “squirm TV” at its worst. She said nothing empathetic to those girls, kind of conveyed the “good to see ya/wouldn’t wanna be ya” attitude. Horrible woman!
Lem, Lucy2 and wow – LOL, LOL and right? I though Justin Long too.
(PIVOT!) *giggles*
Is it just me or does this broad look like a brunette Chelsea Handler? At first I thought this photo was Chelsea and Ross/Russ. I have no idea what a Real Housewife is or looks like (and I think I’ll keep it that way). So I’m starting the rumor (in my own head at least) that Chelsea and Schwimmer are bumping uglies.
PS What happens when you lose your title? Are you de-Counted?
He looks like some combo of Ross and Nicolas Cage. . . I suppose Luann must really enjoy comedy.
I might be missing something, but I’m not even sure why people continue to address her as “Countess.”
We don’t have titles in this country, so how is it even valid?
I liked LuAnn until she went with Bethenny to get into the car, and Bethenny introduced LuAnn as LuAnn to her driver…then in the car, LuAnn says, “uh, it’s Mrs. de Lesseps.”
That lady has balls.
Ramona, on the other hand, makes me want to kill myself. How someone married that lady, I will never know.
@mel
yeah, I was surprised they downplayed it too. Maybe it was in her contract somewhere that they couldn’t obviously talk about it.
he looks like the long lost child of david schwimmer and mitch Mcconnel
That’s one scary mawfaggah. He looks like Ross in a very bad, spooky, creepy, scary way.
I think he looks like a combo of Justin Long and David Schwimmer. Instead of a Brangelina he is a LongSchwimmer, which sounds like either an Olympic athlete or a creepy porno star.
He’s 35 and probably the son of Moroccan-Jewish diplomat Andre Azoulay. His father is better-looking and very admired, for his advancement of music and culture.
Didn’t she get a divorce? I don’t think she’s a “countess” anymore. It’s a title she only got by virture of her marraige (not like, say, Princess Anne, who is a princess by virture of being Elizabeth and Phillip’s daughter regardless of who she married). But I guess she gave up a large part of the cash settlement in exchange for her ex-husband to allow her to keep calling herself that. Pathetic.
Wow! I didn’t know that the Countless ever made a guest appearance on ‘Friends’.
Wasn’t that show already over before ‘Housewives’or am I mistaken?
Whoever wrote this article clearly isn’t watching this show because Luann is an absolute nightmare! She is a condescending mean girl who looks down her nose at everyone. Her behavior is truly pathetic this season.
it’s just russ!
Wow, the resemblance is uncanny.
does anyone know the story of her divorce? Page 6 was talking about her claims of him keeping her in a birdcage(I am serious about that, but now I cannot find the story-someone help me!!!!) When I read the story, I did not watch the show, and now I am hooked and want to read it again, after “getting to know her” on the show. And Bethennay is ten times better than LuAnne-while she may not do public catfights, she sucks. You know those people who make jabs at you, and puffs up their own feathers, but there is nothing concrete you can hold onto- so when you get mad or offended, they just look dumbstruck and pretend like they have no idea what you are talking about? She is one of them. However, no one tops the list of worthless people like Kelly
Omg he DOES look just like David Schwimmer! How unfortunate for him.
Kaiser your mom knows what she’s talking about! Bethenny is the only sane one – tells it like it is and is genuine and sincere. Alex is also pretty normal, not to mention kind and diplomatic. The other women’s egos are so big that they are practically delusional, it makes them cruel and nonsensical in almost every disagreement. Shame on you for saying “ugh” about Bethenny!! I couldn’t care less about LuAnn, although she’s so unbearable that I do kind of feel bad for Ja… zzzzzzz….(snore)….. What was I saying?
If LuAn wants to meet “quality” people she should be going to church not cocktail parties.
It’s just unbelivible, just when I think I am done playing a four hour long game of spot the difference with my niece, others have go, so tell me what the limit on this uncanny resembelace?
PIVOT! PIVOT! PIVOT! lololol
is LuAnn a man, she/he is sooooooo passive aggresive, she is just awful…beware the snake Jill…..
Azoulay is a Jewish name- and she is about as “goyish” as they get!! I guess he’s willing to marry a Shikseh for fame, and she’s too old to have kids anyway so it may not matter!! Or, Maybe she’ll convert to Judaism, if she’s smart enough! It takes a very very smart girl, like Ivanka trump, to be able to convert to Judaism.
She is not a Countess! Not by blood anyway! She just married into royalty and now that she is divorced she is still using the title and forcing people to call her countess, which she is not! She is just a pretentious peasant! I am a countess/Grafin which in German is countess I was born into the blood royal I can trace my family back to the 900’s AD and I would never force anyone to call me countess or Grafin, I prefer just being called Wilhelmina…As I am not defined by my blood or title!