- She and Idina Menzel
made an iconic pair,
and she finally undid whatever
curse ruined her hair.
It's "Watch What
Happens Live"
with Kristin Chenoweth
and Gina Kirschenheiter now.
[cheers and applause]
* Andy Cohen's
Got the 411 *
* King king
Of midnight fun *
* Late night
MC AC *
* Late night *
Hey, everybody, welcome
to "Watch What Happens Live."
I am your host Andy Cohen
in the Bravo Clubhouse
following an explosive episode
of "The Real Housewives
of Orange County."
Wow. So I'm excited for us all
to sit, sit, sit down
and dive into the drama.
My first guest is a
mega-talented triple threat
who just dropped an album
with the least threatening title
of all time.
It's called
"Happiness is Christmas,"
and it's out now.
Say hi to Kristin Chenoweth.
Happiness is
Kristin Chenoweth!
And at Heather's
party tonight,
tensions were raw between
Shannon and my next guest,
much like that bar
of uneaten sushi.
It's Real Housewife of Orange
County, Gina Kirschenheiter!
Hi, Gina.
Great to see you.
Tonight's bartender is an expert
on making candy houses.
I wonder if she's ever made
a candy casita.
It's the host of "Candified:
Home for the Holidays."
All four episodes
are streaming on Hulu now.
It's Jackie Sorkin.
Hey, Jackie.
- Hi, guys!
- Hey!
I just wanted to say, Jackie
made a treasured piece of art
for "Watch What Happens Live"
hanging in the hallway.
Um, that's all candy.
Uh, later in the show,
she's gonna reveal
her latest work of art.
I can't wait to see.
Uh, drinking game alert--
My guests won't know it,
but anytime you hear
anyone say this word,
if you're 21 or over,
in honor of tonight's
lawsuit controversy,
drink until you're a boob.
Wow, uh, what
an episode tonight.
- It was an episode
for sure, yeah.
- Did you expect to get
Heather's wrath?
- No, and it's rough.
It's not great.
- No.
- You don't want it. It's bad.
- Right, and were you surprised
by her revelation
at the end
of tonight's episode
that Shannon had warned her
not to trust you and Emily?
- Um, I wa-- well, yeah.
I mean, you saw
the look on my face.
I was surpr-- I didn't
see that coming at all.
Honestly, I didn't know that
Shannon was doing--
Like, it-- that was, like,
actually impressive
how much she was
working everybody over.
- Wow, Cheno,
your reaction to--
When I saw you
tonight backstage,
you were like, "Wow."
You had just seen the episode.
- Well, because I-I know
Heather a little bit,
and, Heather, I'm just
gonna say to you,
you-you-you got upset
with the wrong person.
And, yes, I'll come
over to dinner.
[laughter]
- Right.
And eat some of that sushi
that's never gotten eaten.
- And I'll just-- oh, that
was the real killer.
- It's great there. I know.
I was gonna say,
I'm never gonna feel
those hot towels ever again.
I feel awful.
- You will.
- Reaction to the footage
of Heather threatening
to quit the show
in tonight's episode.
- I almost texted her
and just said,
You are never allowed--
Heather, you are never allowed
to quit the show, girl. No.
- Now what got Emily
so pissed tonight?
That's what I don't--
- You know what?
It doesn't take much.
You know, and her trigger button
is you can't call her stupid.
She doesn't like that.
She worked very hard
for her education.
- Okay, from the Giudice
school. Yes.
- Yeah, and she's worked
very hard,
and she's a very
smart woman,
and you-- she just-- that's not
gonna happen with Emily.
- Okay, SqueakyLamby tweeted,
"Why didn't you tell Shannon
"if she didn't tell Heather
about the rumor, you would?
"You promised her you
wouldn't say anything,
"but you couldn't wait to run
to Heather to spill the tea."
- Yeah, no, I mean,
I waited, like, a bit.
It was, like, I don't know,
like 12 hours.
I did. I totally did.
- Girl, that's a long time.
- Yeah, right?
- Do you-- do you wish
you hadn't told Heather
about the lawsuit?
- No, I don't regret it.
I just, like,
I recognize-- Hindsight--
Like the timing
wasn't, like, amazing,
but, like--
Like, I really messed
that dinner party up.
But, you know,
it's okay.
- Were you surprised
that Heather was not more pissed
at Shannon right off the bat
and that-that she
was directing it at you?
- Um, no.
You know what?
I really felt like
I understood--
I-I knew that she was confused
about what was going on.
And I was just allowing her
to have that moment,
and I-- and I was
really hoping
that we could
source it out later,
and I'm glad
about that.
- And why do it that night?
I mean, like--
- Yeah, no, it wasn't--
That wasn't great.
- Right. Okay. Okay.
- It wasn't great. Yeah.
I'm not gonna do it.
But-but you're welcome for that.
- Yeah, right. Yeah, well,
I mean, it was-- it was wild.
Uh, well, Kristin is one of the
best belters in the business,
but her most
impressive vocal range
is the one she employs
to voice Bravo opinions.
Well, I don't know if that's
the most impressive.
Let's get into it.
"Orange County"--
Do you think Shannon truly
doesn't believe
she's a pot-stirrer?
- I don't-- I don't
think she thinks she is.
- Uh, do you agree with Heather
that the messenger
should be shot?
Because if she didn't know
the information about Nicole,
it would not affect her world.
- I-I don't think anybody
should be shot.
- Right. Oh, okay.
Uh, how do you feel
about Shannon's dramatic
ponytail at Heather's party?
- I am actually wearing my hair
in honor of Shannon tonight.
- Right.
[laughter]
Could you ever be with a man,
uh, like Ryan who all--
avoids conflict and high stress
at all times?
- I think all men
avoid all of--
that's all they care about.
- Also, he's never
wearing a shirt,
which I think is fantastic.
- I don't mind it a bit.
- It's so weird.
- This is the OC
I wanna live in.
- Amen.
- You know?
- Yes. Amen! Shalom!
- Uh, "Salt Lake City"--
What did you say?
- Amen and Shalom!
- Yes. "Salt Lake City"--
general reaction
to everything going on
with Jen Shah.
- It's Shah-mazingly sad.
- Yes.
- And it's just awful.
It's actually-- I--
I don't get joy from watch--
I do watch it like--
like I drink water.
- Yeah.
- But I-- it makes me so sad.
Makes me so sad.
- Thoughts on, uh,
"Beverly Hills"?
Um, do you feel more sympathy
for what Erika's going through
after seeing her
on the reunion, or less?
- Well, you know that, uh,
that we're friends,
and I texted you
and I said,
I'm-I'm upset with her,
and no, I don't like her,
and then I love her,
and you know what I think?
Hurt-- she's so hurt
and angry that it comes across
as mean sometimes.
- Sometimes?
- Sometimes when people are
mean, they're hurt and-and--
- She is. She's hurt.
- She's hurt and angry.
- Hurt people hurt people.
- Thank you, Gina.
- Hurt people hurt people.
- Gina Angelou.
Um, thoughts on, uh, Nicki Minaj
taking the host's seat
at the, uh, "Potomac" reunion.
- Loved it. I Loved it.
I think she did--
I think she did Nicki.
Did like-- If I, for example,
were to be asked
to come to the "OC"
or the "Salt Lake"
to maybe do part of the reunion,
I would do my thing.
- Uh, I did receive
a text,
uh, putting herself out there.
- I love it.
I feel like you'd be on my side.
Let's do that.
- Yes, volunteering. yes.
So if you hosted, what?
- I would be me,
and Nicki's doin' her,
and I think nobody
can get mad at you
when you're being
your authentic self.
- As a good Christian
Belle yourself,
thoughts on what's-what's being
alleged about Mary's church.
- Mm, I would never,
ever judge anybody's church.
I don't-- I don't go there.
Temple-- anybody's faith.
Um, now if I weren't-
went to a church
where somebody
was being worshipped,
I probably wouldn't go back.
- Uh, do you think
Sutton overreacted
to Erika's threat
by hiring her own security team
for a week?
- No. Unh-unh.
I love you, Sutton.
I want your clothes,
I want your business,
I want your hair,
I want your clothes.
- Wow! You love--
you will stand by
the Southern ladies, right?
- Because we sometimes--
and you know,
think about when
you moved from Jersey
to OC--
- New York, but yeah.
- New York.
- If it was a New Yorker.
[laughing]
- Yeah, and how--
- Everybody!
It's everybody.
- Yeah, how we can seem kinda--
- Right.
- Not real, but we're
actually more real.
- Yeah, and you wanna--
you-you-you--
- Yeah.
your own people.
- Your own people.
- Yeah, that's right!
- Yes.
Thank you very
much, Cheno!
[cheering and applause]
Well, Gina and Emily
may be besties,
but she's also
hitting it off
with Heather,
so I wanna find out
where she's more sympatico
within this potential
future crew of tres amigas.
Gina, I have questions,
pick your answers
between Emily
and Heather.
- Oh, so unfair.
- Oh...
- Whose marriage
do you admire more?
- Oh my god, really?
I mean, I--
Emily.
- Okay.
Who has the stronger
business sense?
- Heather.
- Uh, who has the better style?
- Heather.
- Uh, who's
the bigger pot-stirrer?
- Emily.
- Uh, who would
you go to advice first?
- Um, I'd probably
go to Emily,
but then I would
follow up with Heather.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
- At this moment, who do you
feel closer to right now?
- Well, Emily is one of
my dearest friends, yes.
- Yes.
- Yeah.
- Um, who plans
better parties?
[laughing]
- Heather. Like--
- Now Emily is
a party planner,
is she not?
- Yeah, but she's not
as good of a party
planner as Heather.
- Okay.
- It's $36,000.
[laughing]
- Who's harder to calm down
when she loses
her temper?
- They're both challenging.
- They're both challenging!
Um, who has
the saltier vocabulary?
- Saltier? Uh, they're--
they go toe-to-toe, man.
- Really?
- They know a lot of
very big words.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
- Thank you very much!
[cheering and applause]
Um, what did you--
what's behind you?
What are you
covering up?
- Oh, well, I have a--
I brought this for you.
It's a little gift
for the Clubhouse.
- Really?
- Yeah, I thought
I would just give ya
a little gift.
- Wow.
- It's from me to you.
- This is...
- Yeah, it's just a little--
- Hair? Oh, is this
your old hair?
[laughing]
- I thought that
you would love that.
Time to retire it!
- I think,
maybe in the fake fireplace?
- It's gotta go!
I'm gonna retire it. Oh!
- It's a fake fireplace,
everyone! It's not
really gonna burn.
- I think it's great, yah.
- I think maybe we should--
- Yes, yes!
- Like, hang it
on the fake fireplace.
- Hang it on--
[cheering and applause]
- I love it!
- [indistinct]
[laughing]
- By the way,
we are all so happy
that you figured your hair out.
- Sorry about that.
I know, me too.
- It took you how many seasons?
- Like, a lot of seasons.
- Right!
- All of them. All four.
- Yes.
- Yeah!
- This is your fourth season?
- Yeah, it was my fourth.
- Wow, so it took--
usually people figure it out
in season two.
- No, I had to go
a full year of seasons,
you know?
- Wow.
- It's like, Fall, Winter,
Summer, Spring.
I had to go all of them.
- Right. Kristin, are you--
- That's winning all the way.
- Kristin,
are you happy for her?
- Yes, I told her immediately!
- You did.
You told her backstage.
- I-- yes, but you know what?
- Way to do better.
- What-- we always can
do better. We always--
- Yes, we can.
- We can do better.
- Yes, we can. Coming up,
more with Kristin and Gina.
First, it's Shotski night!
[cheering and applause]
It's Shotski night, guys!
All right!
Oh my god, these are
serious Shotskis.
Come on up here.
- [indistinct]
- Let's lean down.
One, two, three.
[cheering and applause]
You can get your Shotski
at shopbybravo.com!
Get it for Christmas!
Set your DVR for
tomorrow night's show!
We'll be right back.
* Jimmy Fallon
shotski shotski *
- Boys.
Booster Club dinner,
five minutes.
- Yeah, yeah, we--
uh, it can wait.
- No, they cannot wait.
They're the team owners,
you're the guest of honor.
Luke can babysit
the film, right, baby?
I tell you what. You can
come back here tonight.
You guys can touch,
and you can watch film
all night long.
How's that?
- 72 hours until the national
goddamn title game,
and I gotta parade around
in this dog and pony show.
- Heavy is the head that
wears the crown, m'lord.
[cheering and applause]
- All right, that was a clip
of Kristin Chenoweth in her
new movie "National Champions,"
out in theaters Friday.
Also on the acting front,
Kristin was nominated
for a Critic's Choice Award
for "Schmigadoon!"
Congratulations.
- Thank you.
[cheering and applause]
- Also wanna shout out
"Watch What Happens Live,"
nominated for
Best Talk Show.
[cheering and applause]
- You sit by me
at the table!
- Oh, I would love it.
Welcome back to
"Watch What Happens Live."
It's Andy, uh, also joined
by, uh, Gina Kirschenheiter
from "Orange County."
[cheering and applause]
Tonight's bartender is
sweetening the deal.
Say hi to
the host of
"Candified:
Home For The Holidays,"
out now on Hulu.
It's Jackie Sorkin.
- Hi!
[cheering and applause]
- So Jackie, you've created
a new piece of art
for our "Watch What
Happens Live" studio complex.
- Yes, yeah, one of my favorite
things to do for you.
Such an honor, and I'm such
a Housewives fan.
- Okay.
- Are you ready?
- Yes.
- Okay, three, two...
one!
- Wow!
[cheering and applause]
Oh my god, what is
that made out of?
- So everything that
we do is-- it's candy art.
Everything is--
- That's amazing.
- Legit all candy.
- Wow!
- Yeah, one of my
favorite scenes
that I feel like--
- I wanna lick it!
- Yeah, iconic.
It's iconic.
- All right.
Thank you so much.
What an incredible--
[cheering and applause]
Drinking game reminder,
anytime you hear this word,
in honor of Kristin's
exquisite pitch,
drink until you're
no longer sharp.
Let's take questions
from our virtual fans.
Here are McKenzie
and CJ from Toronto,
with a question
for Kristin.
- Yeah, hi there.
Is it true that
you and Idina Menzel almost
kissed at the end of your
"For Good" performance
at the Tonys this year?
And if so,
why didn't you do it?
[laughing]
- Well, I love love.
Um, and, you know,
I cannot confirm
or deny any of that.
[cheering]
- She said it
on a podcast.
- I cannot confirm
or deny any of that.
- Let's go to Andrea
from Washington
with a question for Gina.
Hi, Andrea.
- I am a huge fan, Andy.
- Thank you.
- Gina, how jealous do
you think Shannon was
of Heather's
home tour,
and has Heather
visited your home yet?
- Yeah, okay.
Very jealous.
And, um...
[chuckling]
I think, uh,
she has, and I had--
- Was that on camera?
Heather's visit?
- Yeah!
- Yes.
- And-and honestly,
I'll be honest,
I had no-- like, I was
the least worried
about Heather coming over
to my home, because I knew
that she would be
happy for me.
- Of course.
- Yeah.
- Of course she will.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Um, thanks,
virtual audience.
[cheering and applause]
- I threw out
all my clothes, though.
- Right.
- I threw out all my clothes.
- Kristin, uh, congratulations
on your engagement.
- Thank you.
There he is.
[cheering and applause]
- He's right here.
Um, when are you--
when's the wedding?
- Well, you're gonna get
a Save The Date soon.
- Ooh!
[audience oohing]
- I want one too.
- I'm excited.
Uh, Gina, Daniel D. with a ton
of numbers after it
wants to know your thoughts on
newbies Jen, Nicole and Noella.
- Okay, well, Nicole,
like, sued Heather,
so that wasn't, like,
a great thing.
You know, so you can't--
that one--
That one was short lived.
And then I feel like Noella is
very interesting and complicated
and I think that's good
for friendships,
because it mixes it up.
- Okay.
- And Dr. Jen is educated
and my emergency contact,
and I feel like
that's good, too.
- That's good, too.
- Yeah.
Uh, Kristin, Jenna P.
wants to know your reaction
to the news that for
the first time in 18 years,
Broadway will have it's first
Black full time Glinda.
- My girl Brittney.
I have been waiting.
- Yeah.
- I think it's about damn time.
And, Brittney, I love you,
and I'm proud of you.
[cheers and applause]
- Um, Stacey O. said,
"Gina, do you think
Shannon's tears were real
"at Heather's house tonight?
"She must have known that
everything about Heath--
"about Nicole was gonna
get back to Heather somehow."
- Yeah, no, like, Shannon's
a regular crocodile,
and those were
crocodile tears.
- Ooh. Um--
- I mean, it's true.
Like, it's true, though.
I mean, we all know it is.
- By the way, you know,
what I love is that you can
clock how long it takes
for pint-sized Kristin Chenoweth
to get drunk,
because she's drunk now.
She's been sitting here
for 12 minutes.
- I can't feel--
I cannot feel my face.
- That's so funny.
- I love it.
I know, you put me
next to the tiniest person.
- Tonight, Noella did not
approve of Gina's insulting
treatment of her quote-unquote
"elder" Shannon,
which wasn't exactly
a compliment,
so let's all enjoy
a game on the topic
that may get me sued.
It's time to play
"Who's! The! Elder!?"
I'm gonna present you
with pairs of Housewives.
Guess who's the elder
of the two.
Garcelle Beauvais
or Lisa Rinna?
Who's the elder, Cheno?
- I'm gonna say, uh, Lisa.
- Gina?
- Me, too. Lisa.
- Yes, it's Gina--
It's Lisa.
Okay, who's the elder?
Heather Dubrow or Kenya Moore?
Cheno?
- Uh, Dubrow.
- Gina?
- I think Heather.
- It is Heather Dubrow.
Uh, who's the elder--
Candiace or Gina?
- Cheno?
- G-Gina.
- Please be me.
- It is you.
- Yes!
- Uh, who's the elder?
Meredith or Teresa?
- I love her, but Meredith.
- The elder. I think that
Meredith, yes.
- Yes, but only by--
She turns--
Meredith turns 50 next week,
so only by--
- By the way,
they all look amazing.
- Um, who's the elder?
Sutton, or Margaret Josephs?
Cheno?
- Oh, God.
- Sutton.
And I love her.
- I think it's Mar-Margo--
Mar-- Uh, Margaret.
- You think it's
Margaret Josephs?
- You think it's Margaret?
- Margaret.
- Let's reveal.
It's Margaret.
Um, who's the elder?
Shannon Storms Beador
or Karen Huger?
Cheno?
- Karen.
- It's totally Shannon, I think.
- Um, it is Karen.
It's always Shannon?
Is that what you said?
- That's the only one
I was wrong on.
We get along great.
- Okay, who's the elder?
Dorit or Robyn Dixon?
Cheno?
- Oh, this is tough.
- Oh, Dorit is not--
she's going backwards.
- Uh, I'm gonna say--
I'm gonna say Robyn.
I don't know.
- She has no age.
- I don't know.
- It's Dorit.
Uh, who's the elder?
Ashley Darby or Whitney Rose?
Cheno?
- Ashley.
- I think Ashley.
- It's Whitney Rose.
Who's the elder?
Dolores or Mary M. Cosby?
Cheno?
- Oh, this is hard.
I-I'm gonna have to go
D-Dolores, but I could be wrong.
- I'm gonna go the other way.
Mary, 'cause Dolores is great.
- You're gonna go Mary?
It is Dolores by a year.
Who's the elder?
Marlo Hampton or Kyle Richards?
- Oh, they're both so cute.
Marlo?
- [sighs] Kyle?
- It is Kyle.
Uh, we don't have
a score up there,
but I think--
- We're both winning.
- You tied.
Thanks for playing
"Who's! The! Elder!?"
All right, stick around.
After the break,
we got a lot more.
We have a very fun
"Watch What Happens 5."
We'll be right back.
* BRB
Be right back *
* OC Orange County *
* OC
Orange County *
* Orange County
OC *
- Welcome back to
"Watch What Happens Live."
It's Andy here
with Kristin, Gina,
and Jackie here at the bar.
[cheers and applause]
Kristin, Daniella W. said,
"If you could have
"any Bravolebrity officiate
your wedding,
"who would you choose?"
- Gina.
- Oh, well, yeah.
- Besides Gina.
- Okay, well, I mean, I wouldn't
hate having Dubrow do it,
'cause I could also
have it at her house.
- Oh, yeah, that would be
a good plan.
- Good plan. Yes.
- Thank you.
- I'll just attend.
- Uh, Kristin, uh,
Imani Y. wants to know
how shocked you were
to hear that Raquel and James
broke up.
- What?
- Yeah, they did.
- Did you not know that?
- When did this happen?
When did this occur?
- Like today.
- It just--
- Where have I been?
- No, it-it-it-it happened
last Thursday night.
They announced it at the reunion
last Friday.
- You're lying.
- I'm not lying.
No.
- It's a lot.
- Well, she was shocked.
She is finding out--
- Wait a second.
- Yes, it's true.
- Wait one-- no.
- Yes. Yes.
- Back the truck--
- Yes.
- I'm everything.
I know everything with this--
- Yes. No, this happened.
- Who broke up with who?
- You know what?
It's not my story to tell.
- He had a--
You know, Tom Sandoval
planned that whole thing.
- I know. I know.
- Well, you know what?
It's better now
than later when you--
than when you--
- Yes. Yes.
- It's better now than later.
- You just rip
that band-aid off.
- Um, Gina, Olivia B. wants to
know how it's going with Travis.
Do you think
he could be the one?
- Oh, no, I know
that he's the one.
- Really?
- Yeah, he's the one.
He's my only one.
He really is.
He's the-- he is--
- He's your person.
- He's my person.
- Wow.
- And-and I really like--
Like, he's a really good person.
- How does your ex
get a long with him?
- You know what?
They're okay.
Like, we all-- It's weird.
It's actually kinda weird.
I'm like-- and I-I like
apologize in advance to people,
'cause I'm like, I understand
that, like, it's weird
that we get along so well,
but we all really--
We actually really do.
We're, like, on the sports
fields all weekend,
and they, like,
text each other
to, like coordinate
about the kids
when I'm, like, here with you.
- That's great. Good.
- It's healthy.
- It's nice.
- That is healthy.
I'm so happy for you. Yes.
- Yeah, me, too.
Uh, it is time for
"Watch What Happens 5."
The Dubrows wasted $36,000
on uneaten sushi tonight,
which was a number that
none of us can roll with,
so here are the top
five things
they could have gotten
for $36,000 instead.
At number 5,
how about three nights
in the Turks and Caicos
Triton Villa
featured on "Ultimate
Girls' Trip"?
No word on whether you'd
get the best room, though.
Or consider another Dubrow
investment for option 4,--
at least 720 bottles
of Veuve Clicquot.
Fill your Jesus jugs
with our number 3--
720 personalized Cameo messages
from Alexis Bellino.
You'd have to package
this one up in a hot box.
Our number 2 is 450 bottles
of La Dame.
And our number 1 way
to drop $36,000
may or may not come
with several interns.
It's a month's rent
towards Sonja's townhouse.
- Oh, my God.
- Now I would personally
do the reasonable thing
and buy 2,403 copies of
Kristin's new holiday album
"Happiness is Christmas."
[cheers and applause]
That's what I would do.
I want to thank Kristin, Gina,
and Jackie for being here.
The word of the night was
Heather. We said it 28 times.
If you were playing our
drinking game, no driving.
Tomorrow night, Ana Gasteyer
and Rachel Dratch
at 10:30 after "Project Runway."
Go to our After Show
at Twitter Live.
We have a big surprise.
See you later, everybody.
[cheers and applause]