Jenna Lyons Had One Big Condition Before Returning for ‘Real Housewives of New York City’ Season 15

Jenna Lyons admits that extra alternatives got here her means after she was forged on season 14 of Bravo’s The Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis — however she nonetheless had pause about returning to the sequence. 

On Friday, it was confirmed that Lyons and all her season 14 castmates — together with Sai De Silva, Ubah Hassan, Erin Lichy, Jessel Taank and Brynn Whitfield — are in for season 15. 

Nonetheless, finally the previous J. Crew magnificence govt had some non-negotiable calls for that wanted to be met earlier than she agreed to come back again.

Rumors began swirling as as to if Lyons can be returning to RHONY after she skipped out on BravoCon 2023. ET requested her about lacking the occasion, and he or she merely mentioned she “had some issues to do.”

“I had an occasion and I had another issues that I had to do this have been private,” she shared in November, simply after BravoCon.  “…It did not work out.”

In a brand new interview with The New York Occasions, Lyons says that Bravo was “very amenable” when it got here to her requests. 

One huge situation concerned Lyons’ romantic life. “I’ve a relationship, however I wish to not title her. I wish to maintain her out of the press,” she says of what is off limits on the present. “That’s my dedication to her. It is off the desk. I joined this course of. She didn’t.”

The 55-year-old style-savvy star additionally says that she needed to ensure she would have time for her new romance whereas filming the present. “There was some concern about my skill, simply time-wise, to decide to it, and that was a giant deal,” she explains. “I even have a brand new relationship and needed to take care of privateness. It was not simply me. All of us had to determine, like, Can this work? I wasn’t certain. Undoubtedly unsure.”

Relating to rumors that she’s engaged, Lyons performs coy in regards to the ring she’s been carrying on that finger. “It is a very severe reply,” she quips. “She saved telling me, ‘Jenna, your shirt is buttoned down too low.’ And I used to be like, ‘If you need me to button my shirt, you must put a hoop on my finger.'”

On high of her romantic life, Lyons is protecting of her son, Beckett Mazeau, and the way a lot he’s featured on the truth sequence. “There was loads of filming within the house, and it was simply exhausting. It is so disruptive,” she shares. “They have been very open to decreasing that publicity and never having a lot ‘house time.’ My son is prepping for faculty. It is a very intense time.”

One huge motive she did resolve to come back again for an additional season have been the RHONY followers. 

“I did take note of my feedback. What I used to be shocked by, and one of many causes I did really feel comfy going again, is individuals have been so good,” Lyons says. “I believed I might take warmth for some issues, right here and there, and I did not in any respect. Significantly to start with, I might scan via the feedback, like, Let’s simply see if anyone’s coming at me. All of the issues that I used to be afraid of did not actually occur.”

RHONY additionally helped her profession. The Occasions notes that Lyons’ Instagram following quadrupled and her magnificence enterprise, LoveSeen, flourished. “It was surprising to see the outcomes,” she admits, noting that earlier than the present, her false eyelash firm was “struggling in locations the place individuals didn’t know who I used to be.”

And Lyons is not shy about saying that she’s returning to RHONY “for my enterprise.” As for whether or not she’s getting paid extra for season 15, Lyons confesses, “Everybody will get paid extra, and that I am not going to speak about an excessive amount of.”

That being mentioned, Lyons is pleased with how her presence on the present is reaching girls who watch. “However I’ll say, what’s constantly shocking to me, and such a young second, is the variety of people who both DM or come as much as me on the road and are like, ‘It is superb to see an brazenly homosexual girl on nationwide tv being themselves,'” she notes. “I do know that appears trite. It is not the rationale I am doing it, and I would not misinform you and say that it’s. I do not assume I am right here to be the spokesperson. That has been a very nice facet impact of the present.”

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