Our first guest is one of the Emmy-winning hosts of The Real.
Please welcome Adrienne Houghton.
What's going on?
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
What's up?
What's happening?
It is so good to see you.
I'm very happy to see you.
Thank you.
I'm happy to see you virtually.
Absolutely.
Now, listen.
Not a lot of people know this, but you and I go way back.
We have history-- way, way back.
I choreographed--
[INAUDIBLE]
Yeah, I choreographed a number in the second Cheetah Girls.
We go back.
We go way back.
And what people don't know is that I low-key was
choreographically challenged.
I'm not even sure if that's a word.
But a lot of people don't know that, in the group,
it took me way longer than the other girls to catch
choreography.
Now, I could vibe on my own.
On my own, I've got a dance in my spirit.
But learning choreography is not the easiest thing for me.
So first of all, I just want to say thank you
for your patience.
And second of all, you were such a dope choreographer.
I love, love, love, loved working with you.
Oh, thank you very much.
Thank you.
And what's crazy is that I feel like a lot of people
have been rediscovering Cheetah Girls over quarantine.
Have you noticed that, too?
Oh, yes.
The TikTok's on another level.
Again, I still can't do the choreography.
So there's that.
I can do it in the movie, and I certainly
can't do it a bunch of years later on TikTok.
Should I attempt this?
You should.
That would go crazy, Adrienne.
It would.
That would be amazing.
I think the fans would love that.
The struggle will still be real, so--
The struggle will still be real.
[CHUCKLES] Now, also, I hear that congratulations
are in order.
You just bought a house.
Yes!
Yo, congratulations.
I just bought a home back in New York, which is my hometown.
Obviously, the pandemic has taught us so many things,
and I just realized I really wanted
to invest in something that was close to my familia.
And I'm really excited about it.
Now, also, I understand you're going to be
neighbors with Martha Stewart.
This is actually the PSA to let Martha know--
Absolutely.
--mi casa es su casa.
Yeah, exactly.
And I feel like Martha would be the best neighbor.
You could literally go over and ask her for anything,
and she would have it.
Do you have some sugar?
Do you have some flour?
Do you have the most random thing I could ever ask for?
She's going to have it.
100%.
And I'm just hoping to get invited.
Absolutely.
And then you just also had a mini The Real reunion.
You got to hang out with Tamara finally, right?
Yes!
I got to work [INAUDIBLE] crazy enough,
is working with Martha Stewart.
So I'm trying to get her to put a good word in for me.
But yes, it's so crazy.
After seeing someone every single day
for the last seven years of seven seasons of The Real,
obviously--
She's no longer on the show.
But then we went into doing everything virtually.
And I have not seen her face in over a year-- well
over a year and some change.
And so I just started crying when I walked up to her.
It was the craziest moment.
Walked up to her, grabbed her face, and was just like,
I missed you!
And it was-- it's just amazing.
Absolutely.
I haven't seen her in a year.
I've seen Loni, but I haven't seen
Jeannie in well over a year.
So prepare for me to have a full-on nervous breakdown when
I see them.
Absolutely, because there's so much to catch up on.
Jeannie has been married now.
You just got a house.
Yes.
And life has been incredible.
And yeah, we look forward to that, too.
Now, something that--
[INAUDIBLE]
--Tamara just did was The Masked Singer this year,
which you recently did as well.
And now, did you--
Yes!
--give her advice about that?
Did you talk to her about it?
So the Flamingo and the Seashell came together.
And she was mad at me.
She literally turned to me at lunch and was like,
I have a bone to pick with you.
And I'm like, what did I do?
She's like, you told me to do The Masked Singer!
You encouraged me and said that this would be a great time.
She, like me, has performance anxiety
in the sense of singing.
We love to sing.
It's one of our passions.
But then you get up there, and you're like, oh my gosh!
It is insane.
I cried every single time before performing
and after, to the point where I'm
pretty sure the whole team--
apologies to The Masked Singer fam.
They were over me.
They were so over me by, like, the third time I performed.
They're like, if this girl don't stop crying--
Honestly--
I was losing it.
So I forgot to tell her the part about how hard it is
and that not only do you have to get over the stage
fright of singing in front of people,
but you also are inside of a costume that weighs a ton.
And you might get claustrophobic in the mask.
Absolutely.
And you're trying to do choreography.
It is not easy.
And you're singing.
So I have a tremendous amount of respect
for you and you all doing The Masked Singer.
I once had a job doing this Homer Simpson
outside of Walmart.
And I thought, like, yeah, I'm about to be out here
and be a dancer Homer and this and that.
And then I quickly realized, in that summer sun,
that that's why, when you go out to the theme parks
and stuff like that, that's why they
do the most minimal movement, because that breath is so hot.
And I don't--
Yeah.
--understand how you would sing and do all that.
Much respect.
That's amazing.
Now, you don't like to fly, but your husband is--
tell us what your husband is trying to have you do.
So you don't like to fly.
You don't like heights.
But your husband is--
No.
--trying to get you to do what?
My husband has jumped out of planes, I think, over 40 times.
Guys, he's actually hiding in this room.
How many times have you jumped out of an airplane?
Oh, 25 times, not 40 times.
That was an exaggeration.
Wow.
25 times.
25 times, he's jumped out of an airplane.
I attempted to do it once.
Well, I actually did do it once.
It was the worst experience of my entire life.
Somebody actually convinced me that jumping out of an airplane
would cure my fear of flying.
And did it?
I am here to tell you that is a lie.
OK.
It made it worse.
It did not help at all.
That was the worst free-fall feeling--
this is all I can do to explain what it felt like.
And everyone else had cute videos in the air.
They were like, yes.
Yes.
Oh you know, giving shout-outs to their--
see, I don't even know.
I, the whole time, looked like this.
And I'm like, Mommy!
Mommy!
It was tragic.
So no, I will not be jumping out of an airplane with my husband.
Babe, I'm sorry.
It's not happening.
Hey, that's all right.
You know what?
But I'll tell you what.
When we come back, I'm not going to have you jumping out
of a plane or anything, but we are going to play a game.
We're going to play a game when we come back, you all.
We'll be back.
Hi, I'm Andy.
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[SCREAMS] [BLEEP] God [BLEEP]!