- His red carpet gowns
are always superb,
and she's an expert gardener
who knows a good herb.
It's "Watch What
Happens Live"
with Martha Stewart
and Christian Siriano now.
[cheers and applause]
* Andy Cohen's
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* King king
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* Midnight
MC AC *
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Hey, everybody, welcome to
"Watch What Happens Live."
I'm your host Andy Cohen
in the Bravo Clubhouse
with a couple
of tastemakers
who can perfectly dress
your body and your salad.
My first guest's web site
Martha.com
is the ultimate destination
for recipes, crafts,
and all good things,
but her presence
in the Clubhouse
is what I consider
the very best thing.
It's our friend
Martha Stewart!
Hi, Martha!
[cheers and applause]
And when our next guest
isn't designing for
a long roster of star clients
from A to Zendaya,
he's helping designers
keep their "s" together
as a mentor
on "Project Runway."
It is Christian Siriano.
Hey, Christian.
[cheers and applause]
By the way,
Christian has a brilliant
new coffee table book out
that Martha and I
have just been--
just going nuts over,
right, Martha?
- I can't wait to really
look at every page.
- Me, too.
- Uh, Hanukkah may be
the festival of lights,
but we love to celebrate
by going heavy on the carbs.
So here to help us
do just that,
it's the owner
of Breads Bakery,
which has a new location
on the Upper East Side,
Gadi Peleg!
Hi, Gadi!
Great to see you!
- How are you? Thanks, Andy.
- Oh, and you made me
a "Glitter Every Day", uh--
- Of course.
- Thank you very much.
In honor of my new book.
I appreciate it.
- He's my favorite baker.
Do you know that?
- He's your favorite baker?
- Yeah.
- Well, that is saying
something, Gadi! Wow!
- That is huge.
That is huge. That is huge.
- So, Martha, you order
from this gentleman?
I go there often, often,
and take home, you know,
croissants, and-and, oh,
his coffee--
his coffee, um,
morning breads
are so delicious,
and his--
- Wow, well, you'll probably go
home with some stuff tonight,
'cause he brought
a lot of stuff,
and those latkes--
I had one before the show--
are incredible.
- Is that a poppy seed?
- Drinking game alert--
- Yes.
My guests won't know it,
but any time you hear
anyone say this word,
if you're 21 or over,
make like a rushed
"Project Runway" garment
and drink until you
come apart at the seams.
Both of my guests
have worked their perfectly
tailored pants off
getting to the top
of their fields,
but I want to rifle through
some of their finest
vintage moments.
It's time to
"Open the Vault!"
All right, look right
there, folks.
What do we have
inside the Vault today?
Oh, it is 14-year-old Martha
at Christmas.
- Wow!
- Wow, Martha!
- Wasn't I cute?
- You-you still are!
- But look how skinny
and beautiful. Oh, my God.
- You know what?
You were cute then,
but now you're hot.
- Okay.
- Okay? Here you are
showing off your tin turkey
in "A Holiday Feast
For Thanksgiving."
This is in 1986.
You went with that hairdo
for all of the '80s, didn't you?
- I did.
- That was it.
- And I had that great voice.
Don't you like my--
- You still have
that great voice.
Here you are explaining
what a buffet is in 1988.
There's that hair.
- ...laden with all kinds foods,
ranging from appetizers
to main courses,
salads, and even desserts.
- Even desserts.
Here you are-- Here's Christian
on "Ugly Betty" in 2008
after his win
on "Project Runway."
Oh, my God.
With the hairdo!
- Mr. Siriano,
I'm Daniel Meade.
On behalf of MODE,
I'd like to say how fierce it is
to have you here.
- Okay, but no one uses that
word around me. It's over.
- Oh, my God.
Give it up for these two.
[cheers and applause]
By the way, Christian,
what was your reaction
to seeing footage
of the van accident tonight,
and how proud, uh,
were you of Anna
to come back, uh,
into the competition?
- Um, let me tell you.
Anna is probably one of
the most talented designers
I've ever met,
so I was really glad
that she made it through
and pulled it through.
- And what did you think
of Bones and Era--
Erin going at
each other tonight
about the fur hood?
- I love it.
I think it's exactly
what needed to happen,
'cause it was ugly
and uglier, so great.
- All right, well,
the season to eat, drink,
and be merry is upon us.
But the one dish none of us
should be eating is crow.
So I want to prevent some
holiday holi-don'ts.
Martha, I have some timely
etiquette questions
for you, okay?
What is your
fail-safe host gift
to bring to a party?
- A dozen eggs
from my own chicken coop.
- Okay, that's
fairly relatable.
[laughing]
- Sure.
- Um, at the end of the day--
at the end of the day,
is it okay to regift?
- No.
- Really?
- No, you always
get caught.
- You-- really?
Right. Right.
- True. True.
- Always.
- Um, if someone
says "no gifts,"
is it then rude
to still bring a gift?
- Absolutely not.
You must take a gift.
- You must take a gift. Okay.
- I need a pen and paper.
- Um, how do you
deal with guests
who always seem
to overstay their welcome?
- Well, you just say,
"You know, I'm going to bed now,
so I'll see you at,
you know, the next party."
- Yes.
You know what?
I've been to many
a meal and a boat ride...
- That's a good one.
- with Barry Diller who says,
"I'm going to bed,"
and then he leaves.
Yes. Exactly. What is
the appropriate time
to arrive at
a holiday party--
Early, right on the dot,
or a little past
call time?
- A little past call time
is always nice
for the hostess or host,
because they're never
quite ready.
- What is
the maximum time
to wait for
a tardy guest
before you start
eating dinner?
- Um, not too long.
- Not too long?
- Nope, just leave
the place.
Actually, push their place
to the end of the table.
- Right. Okay, well, that
brings me to my next question.
What if you can't--
what if you go look
at the placement,
and you realize
that you really do not
like the person
you are seated next to?
Is it okay to switch the--
- No.
- No?
- I do it all the time.
- You do?
- I have to.
- No. You're not allowed to.
On Thanksgiving, my daughter
moved all the place cards
without my knowledge.
- And how did that go over?
- And that didn't
go over so big.
- No. Wow.
Are you a yeller?
- No.
- No?
- At home? At home?
- No, just in general.
- No.
- You-you cut with
a calm tenor.
- That's right.
With a knife.
- Right. Thank you very much,
Martha Stewart.
Uh, tonight
on "Project Runway,"
the designers worked
with faux fur,
but there is one
group of people
who oftentimes
find themselves
in even hairier
style situations--
The Real Housewives.
So it's time
for "Fashion or Trash, Hon?
Fur Edition."
You worked with fur
tonight on "Runway."
I want you to judge these
Housewives fur looks.
- I'm ready.
- If you like it, it's fashion.
If not, it's trash, hon.
- Ooh!
- Starting with Mary M. Cosby's
fur cuff sleeves.
- Ooo, oh, okay,
okay, people.
I don't hate it.
- You don't hate it.
It's fashion.
- I don't hate it.
- Okay, what about
Lisa Rinna's fur shrug
with sharp shoulders?
- I mean, you know,
it's got classic, I guess?
- Okay, it's fashion.
- Yeah.
- Sonja Morgan's classic
Upper East Side fur hat?
- I kinda love it. I'm sorry.
- Okay.
How about Candiace's myriad
of textured fur jacket?
- I mean-- you like it?
- The Italian flag.
- The-- oh, wow,
okay.
Um, well if Martha likes it,
then yes.
- Okay.
- Um--
- How about Teresa's
pink fur jacket?
- Ooo.
- I mean--
- Martha?
- Not on her, but I like it.
- Not on her,
but he likes it.
Okay but--
- So whatever you call that.
- What about Garcel mixing
leather and fur?
- Yeah, I don't know
about this one.
- Okay, we don't know
about that.
Luann's shawl
with fur pom poms?
- I mean, no-- I mean
maybe-maybe in Aspen,
like on a weekend,
it could work.
I don't think she's
in Aspen on a weekend--
- Martha is scowling
at this outfit.
Martha does not care for it.
- No, no.
- How about Lisa Barlow's
denim and fur jacket?
- Yeah, it's fine. I mean--
- It's fine.
- She, uh, we know exactly--
- Okay.
What about Jen Shah's
full-on wolf head?
- Yeah, that's aggressive
for me.
- Right.
- So I'm gonna leave
that as a "no."
- That's trash, hun.
Well, thank you very much.
I really appreciate it.
[cheers and applause]
Uh, Martha, our friend 9Davies
would love for you
to weigh in on,
uh, the amount of wicks
that is appropriate on a candle:
seven wick, five wick,
three wick,
one wick.
What is the perfect
amount of wicks
one needs for a candle?
- Well, you know, I used to love
real candles--
- Yes.
- But then I discovered
flameless candles.
- Really?
- And they were--
- So those--
so the electric candles?
- They're not electric.
They're battery run.
- Right.
- Battery run
and, uh, we have a new patent
that flickers the wick.
- Oh, really?
- And so it looks like
it's a real thing--
- Yes.
- And you can do it
with a timer.
You're not gonna
burn your house down.
- Right.
- You're not gonna--
- Interesting.
- Yeah, it's really--
they're really nice and--
- Okay.
- And I never thought I would
like such a fake thing.
- Right.
- But, I do.
- Um, PJ Evans
wants to know, Martha,
can you roll a good joint
after spending so much time
with Snoop?
- Oh, I knew it
before Snoop knew it.
- Okay.
[laughter]
Um, Martha, you, uh, you do--
you've-you've been on before,
um, and we promoted
your line of, um,
CBD edibles.
- Yeah.
- Do you also make
THC edibles?
- No, no, no.
- You don't.
- No, but--
- Why?
I want you to get me high.
- Well, CBD is so nice
for you, you know?
- Right.
- It really does help relax--
it helps calm--
it helps, uh,
you get a little bit well
if you're not feeling
too-too s-- too good.
- Yeah.
- So, uh, so my edibles
not are only for humans,
but we're now making them
for dogs too--
- Yes.
- And it's--
they're really efficacious.
- Yes.
- So, um, so I think, um,
I think people should try it,
and the gummies
are the best--
they're number one gummies
in America right now.
- Wow, amazing.
All right, coming up,
more efficaciousness
with Martha
and Christian.
Here she's on the show
next week.
We're going to be
right back.
* Watch what happens live
watch what happens live *
- All right, welcome back to
"Watch What Happens Live."
I'm your host, Andy Cohen
in the Bravo Clubhouse,
with a perfect duo
by design.
It's the one and only
Martha Stewart.
Check out Martha.com
for all your holiday needs
and from "Project Runway,"
it's Christian Siriano.
The second, uh, edition
of Christian's book,
"Dresses to Dream About,"
is out now.
It's so beautiful.
Great holiday gift
along with my new book.
Over at the bar,
say "challa"
to Breads Bakery owner
Gadi Paleg.
Hi, Gadi.
- Hello. Hi, everyone.
- Martha's favorite baker
in New York.
Um, do you do mail--
can people order online?
- Absolutely--
- And you ship? Great.
- It's on our website. Yeah.
- Okay.
Drinking game reminder:
everytime you hear this word,
drink it until you're
a crafty devil.
I wanna take questions
from our virtual audience here.
Leah and Chelsea
from California
with a question
for Martha Stewart.
- What was your reaction
to Katie Couric
writing about you
in her memoirs,
saying it was prison time
before you got a sense of humor?
- Oh well,
you know, Kate--
you know,
Katie is an old friend,
and old friends can say anything
they damn well please.
- Wow.
- And I still wrote to her
and said, "What the hell?!"
[laughter]
- Do you think that you did not
have a sense of humor
before going away?
- I've always had
a sense of humor,
and I will continue to have
a sense of humor.
- Yeah, I know that,
but do you think
other people
didn't realize that?
- No, you know, I don't--
I think people didn't know me
well enough to know
if I had one or not,
I guess, but--
- Right.
- I've always had
a great sense of humor.
- You were not mad at her
about that comment.
- Nah.
- No.
- Not worth it.
Very good--
- Life is too short.
- Yes.
- Yeah.
- Let's go to Heather and Linda
from Texas
with a question
for Christian Siriano.
- Hey, Christian.
During the floral challenge
this season, uh,
what did you think
of Katie blaming you
for her placement
in the bottom?
- Yes, the floral
challenge.
Katie--
I'm remembering-- okay.
Um, yeah, you know
what's interesting?
This what they don't--
they don't really realize
is that I'm really
just there to help. Like--
- Right.
- I really am,
and I've already won
the show.
I made millions of dollars
after the show.
I've dressed every single person
in the world.
- Right.
- You would think
you would've listened to me
a little bit.
And-and, you know,
they always forget, like,
they act like I don't talk
to the judges.
I talk to Nina and Elaine
all day. Like--
- Right.
- I'm with them all day.
So like--
- Right.
- You might wanna
check it next time.
- Um, Martha,
Chris I. said,
"I can't believe you went on
a date with Larry King.
What was that like?"
- Well, I thought we were just
talking about journalism,
et cetera,
and then he sort of started--
got a little amorous.
This was at Elio's.
You know, like--
- Oh my, yes.
On the Upper East Side. Yeah.
- Uptown, and everybody
was noticing
I was out with Larry King,
and-and Larry King was not,
like, tight romantically.
- Okay.
- Mm.
And, uh-uh, if you get
what I mean.
- I got it.
- And-- huh?
- I got it.
- You got it.
- Yeah.
- And, um,
but he was a very nice man,
and-and--
- And do you
just mean physically--
- By the way--
- That he wasn't
physically your type?
- No, not at all.
And-and by the way--
- Yes?
- By the way, he was probably,
other than you,
the nicest, kindest
interviewer on TV.
- Well, thank you for sharing--
- And accurate--
- Yeah.
- And caring,
and interested.
- Yeah.
- So, that's Larry King.
- You know, a very, uh--
someone who would know
this sort of thing,
and I'll tell you during
the commercial break,
told me that he was
enormously endowed.
- Oh really?
- Yes.
- Well, I got-- I never got
to know that part--
- No.
Would that have
changed your--
would that have changed
your opinion of him?
- No, absolutely not.
- Okay. Does size matter?
Does size matter,
Martha Stewart?
- Size always matters
in almost everything,
but not necessarily in--
you know,
it depends on also
the whole package.
- Yes, of course it does.
- Okay?
- Yes. Um, Martha,
from the glimpse
of the menagerie
we've seen
on your Instagram,
you have enough animals
on your property
to fill a zoo,
or in the case of a flood
Martha's Ark.
Options!
So one big question
remains...
Our announcer Paul
is gonna read off items
that Martha may
or may not possess.
Christian and I will guess,
and then Martha will reveal.
Paul, what's
our first item?
- Is one of Martha's
walls accented
with an authentic
Georges Seurat painting?
- I say yes.
- No.
- No?
Okay, what's next, Paul?
- Does Martha own
a hot chocolate set
that once belonged to Napoleon's
wife Josephone?
- Oh, my gosh.
- Oh, I hope so.
- I do, too.
- I do.
- Wow.
Where'd you get that,
Christie's?
- In Gay Paree.
- Wow, okay.
Give us another, Paul.
I mean--
hold on one sec.
Can you say how much
that set you back?
- It was a gift.
- Oh.
Oh.
- From--
- From a gentleman?
From Larry King?
No.
[laughter]
Okay, all right, Paul.
- In order to get into
the holiday spirit,
does Martha
decorate her home
with over 40 Christmas trees?
- Over 40?
- I think it's more
than that sometimes, right?
- Well, also it's the yard, too.
- No, it's more than that.
- Yes.
- Inside, inside.
- Iside?
- It sounds incredible.
- Wow, okay.
- Yeah.
Paul.
- Does Martha's backyard
play home to an Arabian
ostrich named Fen-wen?
- It's too specific.
I say yes.
- And I really hope so.
- No.
[laughter]
- Should we get one?
- No ostriches.
- No ostriches?
- No emus, no ostriches.
- Would you like one?
- No rheas.
- Wow.
- Only peacocks.
- Oh, wow.
- And geese.
And chickens and guineas.
- Peacocks take big poops.
I've seen them.
- No.
- No?
- Peacocks are the cleanest
of all birds.
- You're kidding.
Maybe these weren't peacocks
that I'm thinking of.
- I think it's the geese
that you're thinking of.
- All right.
What are you drinking, Martha?
- I'm drinking one of
my favorite new drinks.
It's a Zubrowka vodka
from Poland.
- Okay.
- And it's potato based.
It has a little bit
of buffalo grass in it.
- Yes.
- And a slice of orange.
And it's very nice,
and it's making me feel
very relaxed on your show.
- I know, I like how...
[laughter]
You're wagging it around.
- It's the vodka, right?
- I know.
I-- it goes without saying,
but I love you.
- Thank you.
- I really do.
- Paul, give us another.
- Was Martha gifted
a vintage Halston gown
by the one and only
Oprah Winfrey?
- I say yes.
- No.
[laughter]
Oprah-Oprah--
- That's so odd. All right,
Paul, give us another one.
- Oprah has never
given me anything...
- Really?
- Except time on her show,
which is much more valuable
than any gift I oculd've had.
- Absolutely, yes.
- I got a gift.
- Okay, Paul.
- Does Martha sleep in sheets
that are over 100 years old?
- No, I think
those would fray.
- No, I do.
- What?!
- Did they belong to Josephine?
- Oh, they might have been.
But I-- many are French,
they might have been,
you know, 19th century,
but really and truly
I love old linens
and old sheets.
- Wow.
- And I have a huge attic
full of them.
- That's amazing.
- Yes.
- All right, one more, Paul,
before break.
- Does Martha's kitchen house
over 47 types of salt?
- Yes.
- I hope so.
- It does.
- Yes.
- Wow! Thank you very much!
[cheers and applause]
Martha owns it
and owns it again.
Coming up next, Martha's giving
our Watch What Happens Five.
We'll be right back.
* AC in the NYC
NYC *
- All right, welcome back
to "Watch What Happens Live."
It's Andy here
with Martha, Christian,
and Gadi at the bar.
[cheers and applause]
Martha,
Adrianna F. said,
"please spill the tea,
"who is the most famous person
to slide into your DMs
after you posted
that thirst trap?"
- The most famous?
- You posted a few thirst traps.
- Well, one basic one that
I'm trying to sell as an NFT.
- Oh, really?
[laughter]
- Amazing.
- A non-fungible token.
- Yes. Like, tell me--
can you say an NFT
that you've sold
that's gone for
the most money?
- Yeah, it was one--
it was my naughty nurse.
Uh, and I was blinking,
and I had blood
dripping down me.
You know, it was after Prince,
the artist.
And it did well.
I was surprised...
- Wow.
- Somebody would buy that.
- So who's the most
famous person
that slid into your DMs
after your thirst trap?
Did you hear from people?
- Mm-hmm.
- Really?
- Mm-hmm.
- Wow.
- I wanna know.
- Quiet a few.
- Did you--
Quite a few?
- Yeah.
- Did you get
any dates out of it?
- No.
- Are you dating right now?
- Yes.
- You are?
Anyone special?
- No. I mean--
[laughter]
- It is time for
Watch What Happens Five--
- I shouldn't say no.
Yes, but I'm not gonna tell you.
- Okay.
[laughter]
It's time for
Watch What Happens Five.
Martha, if there's
any bit of shabby
in your famously chic style,
we need to know.
So please treat us
to a list
of your top five
trashiest habits
that no one knows about.
- Ugh, oh, god.
Well, one thing, um,
instead of using
beautifully ironed napkins
at dinner,
we often use bar cloths.
You know what bar cloths are,
you know, little towelettes?
- Yes.
- We use those.
- Oh, so trashy.
[laughter]
- So declasse.
Uh, what else do I do?
I wrote a list,
'cause I always forget.
Oh, I don't serve bottled water.
Everybody's always asking,
oh, Perrier, Pellegrino?
- Right.
- I use SodaStream.
- Okay.
- And you know what?
That's environmentally
sound, guys.
- Yes. Yes.
- You know, do that.
And I don't own
any fancy face masks, nothing.
I use the plain old
hospital variety.
- Okay, good.
- White on one side,
blue on the other side.
- Very trashy, that's three.
- And the best thing of all
is I love sweetened
condensed milk
cold, right out of the can
in the refrigerator.
I keep a little spoon
in there.
- Wow, milk in a can.
- Well, it's condensed milk.
- Oh, right.
- Condensed milk, so delicious.
- Okay.
And I just take a spoon of that
when I want something sweet.
- Okay.
- That's pretty trashy.
- Yes.
[laughter]
- And again, I'm very good
at frosting,
so I know how to take
frosting off of cupcakes
without really making
anybody know
that some of
the frosting's missing.
- Oh! That's good!
Thank you very much,
Martha Stewart!
I'm sure we can find
how-to guides for those
on Martha.com.
I want to thank
Martha, Christian,
and Gadi
for being here.
The word of the night
was "fashion."
We said six times.
If you've been playing
our drinking game, no driving.
We'll see you Sunday night,
everybody.
Thank you, Martha.
Thank you, Christian.
[cheers and applause]
**