It’s a charming bit, and it plays just as well a day later when she repeats it, word for word, on Watch What Happens Live, Bravo’s dishy late-night talk show hosted by Andy Cohen.
You post it, and you print it, and you frame it, and you talk about it.’” “Max was like, ‘Mom, you don’t post it,’” says Dubrow, mimicking her teenage daughter’s scorn. (With celebrity plastic surgeon Terry Dubrow, co-star of E!’s Botched, Heather has four children.) Then Dubrow posted the screenshot to her Instagram. (I did: Rihanna called her “so chic while being a mom.”) Dubrow saw the news through the Google Alert she has for her name and promptly shared a screenshot to her family group chat. She left the show after five seasons, citing a classic: She wanted to pursue other opportunities.įive years later, she’s back, and she wants to know if I saw what Rihanna said about her a few days earlier. In her first stint on the show, Dubrow played the smart brunette in a sea of dumb blondes Housewives aren’t supposed to look at the camera, but if they did, Dubrow would provide the knowing Jim Halpert glances as boozy, bronzed antics erupted around her.
A sitcom actress in the ’90s and early aughts ( Life With Roger, Stark Raving Mad, That’s Life), Dubrow is better known in recent years for playing herself on The Real Housewives of Orange County, where her role is that of fastidious taskmaster, archly kicking the plot forward in bedazzled five-inch heels.