“I was also really nervous going into it because I’ve watched Bravo for 20 years, and Andy is such a celebrity to me. Like, that’s the first time I’m sitting in the hot seat with Andy Cohen,” she noted. “I had this huge grin on my face and just looked completely starstruck. But he was so cool and made us look completely comfortable. And Lindsay obviously helped too.”
Georgina agreed about the intensity of the day. “It was a lot,” she said when she spoke with Bravo Insider weeks later in July. “I came out of there. I was like, what just happened in that room?”
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Yvonne had the guidance of her BFF, Lindsay Hubbard, to help her through it all. Yvonne continued, opening up about what Lindsay told her heading into the reunion. “She is like a pro,” she said of Lindsay, who has experience with Summer House reunions. “She’s always like, ‘Be your authentic self.’ She’s always like, ‘Yvonne, pay attention!’ I feel like I have really bad ADD, so she’s always like, ‘Focus! Listen to what everyone’s saying!’ So it’s good for me to have someone that’s reminding me because I might zone out a bit.”
“She’s really very much her most authentic self. She’s exactly who you see on screen is exactly what you get in person,” she continued. “So that was really important for me, to be exactly who I am. What you see if what you get. I don’t think you’ve seen my fiery side yet.”
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Georgina also got some words of wisdom from Lindsay before the Season 1 reunion for In The City filmed in June. “So, Lindsay absolutely told us, Yvonne and I, she kind of prepared us,” Georgina said. “She said, ‘Speak up. No one’s going to give you your turn to talk. So you just have to kind of give your opinion without trying to interrupt anybody.’ I went in there knowing what I felt and what I thought. And I didn’t plan to change that.”
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— Reporting by Abby Feiner and Stephanie Gomulka
