*On Wednesday, Dec. 18, the hosts of The Real reveal how the places they grew up influenced them, and co-host Adrienne Houghton sends a love letter to her hometown of New York City.
How polite are you when it comes to your servers in a restaurant? Co-host Tamera Mowry-Housley advises that it’s just wise to be nice to the person who brings you your food and explains why!
And is it wrong to have your personal packages signed for at your office? The ladies discuss.
Adrienne’s Love Letter to New York
Adrienne Houghton: New York is like the ultimate melting pot, I felt like, when I went to high school, I felt like I was at the United Nations. I had someone from Russia sitting next to me, my girlfriend was from Indonesia, like, I loved that. I also obviously am such a true New Yorker, and a Manhattanite, I was raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, so I still to this day, even though I’ve been in LA for over six years, I don’t have a driver’s license, you know this. I walk everywhere, I swear if we could still hail cabs here I would love that – I wish LA still had that, like hailing cab culture. I do Uber, all right. I also think that the New York City streets raised me, to some extent. There’s something to be said – my husband always says this to me. He’s like, “Yo, it’s so crazy how you and your sister think,” or, “how you and your mom think.” And I may not be book smart, but I am absolutely street smart, and I am very aware of my surroundings.
[The Real audience applauds]
Adrienne: And I think that comes from being on the trains at a young age, and you’re just taught to have… a defense mechanism, but I’m always very alert. The other thing is, I think the streets also taught me how to trust my gut and my instinct. I like to say I have a sixth sense of what’s real and what’s fake. I think when you grow up in a city that hustles all day, I’m like, “Ooh, I could spot a hustler from a mile away!”
[The Real audience applauds]
Adrienne: You can’t run game on me like that, I’m normally able to recognize that I also – I love our slang. I love that I still have my –
Tamera Mowry-Housley: I love your accent.
Adrienne: …New York accent.
Tamera: I love your accent.
Adrienne: I love that! So, if I hang out with my mom too long, I’ll be like, “I need some cawfee, I’m gonna make a phone cawl…” like, “Take out the gawbage,” it’s out of the control. Um… And I love that when you travel around the world… When I was in Paris, when I was studying in Paris, I love the fact that people would ask me, they’re like, “You’re American,” and I don’t know why, I’d be like, “No, I’m a New Yorker.”
Tamera Mowry-Housley: Wow.
Loni Love: Wow.
Adrienne: They would be like [RAISES HAND]. I don’t know, there was a level of respect given to New York that just – I hold so dear to my heart. I think that people in New York get a bad rep for being hard or not friendly – no, we’re just minding our business.
[The Real audience applauds]
Adrienne: We’re just out there just trying to get through life and we’re just real and I just love New York so much.
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About THE REAL
THE REAL is a live daily, one-hour, two-time NAACP Image Award-winning and Emmy-nominated talk show now in its sixth season on Fox Television Stations and in national syndication (check local listings), with a rebroadcast on cable network Bounce. The bold, diverse and outspoken Emmy Award-winning hosts, Adrienne Houghton, Loni Love, Jeannie Mai and Tamera Mowry-Housley, all frankly say what women are actually thinking. Their unique perspectives are brought to life through candid conversations about their personal lives, current events, beauty, fashion and relationships (nothing is off limits). Unlike other talk shows, THE REAL hosts are admittedly a “work in progress,” and fearlessly invite viewers to reflect on their own lives and opinions. Fresh points of view, youthful energy and passion have made THE REAL a platform for multicultural women. Produced by Telepictures Productions and distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, THE REAL is led by Executive Producer, Rachel Miskowiec (Good Morning America, Katie, The Tyra Banks Show, Judge Hatchett, The Ricki Lake Show) and shot in Los Angeles, California.
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