The cast of Selling Sunset is heading to Europe
How are you doing, Mary?
What have you been up to recently?
A big group of us from the show are going.
I think it’s like me, Chrishell, Emma, Amanza, then Jason, Brett, Romain.
And then Brett’s girlfriend, Tina.
And so it’ll be a lot of fun.
We get a couple of weeks.
That’s so nice.
We get a couple of weeks off between Season 4 and 5.
So no cameras here?
This is just for fun?
So Adam was like, we are coming.
They just made it a smaller crew that’s going to come.
So it’ll be fun.
We’re going to allow him to do that, but it is our vacation.
So we’re not going to let him stay.
Is this going to be your first time going to Europe since the pandemic?
Or have you done any more traveling?
What do you spend your time doing?
Well, when you’re not working.
So you do give yourself downtime and you give yourself weekends?
We don’t really have normal schedules.
So a lot of times we work on the weekends.
Open houses have been allowed again.
So last weekend, I did an open house on Sunday.
Well, it definitely has impacted my job, but luckily real estate agents are essential workers.
So is construction, so Romain and I have continued to work throughout the pandemic.
The market’s actually just been on fire.
So we’ve been busier than ever, both of us.
It’s just caused some differences, some challenges, and then no brokers opens, no open houses.
So that makes things a little bit more difficult.
And then also doing open houses.
You get a lot of new clients that way.
It’s in a place that it’s really never been in before.
And they were so surprised by that.
I wonder how it’s affected your day to day and how it’s affected your work.
Well, it depends on the price point and the higher price points, it depends.
They’re going over asking, and it is so difficult to go up against.
There’s just so many buyers.
Everyone’s trying to take advantage of the interest rates.
And so there’s a lot of buyers out there and not enough supply.
So that has been interesting.
It’s definitely a seller’s market in the $3 million under range.
You’d go in hard and get them the house.
And so you’re kind of done.
This time you’re just continuously showing properties, writing offers, show more properties, writing offers.
So it’s very tedious, but I’ve got two assistants right now.
Oh, well, I mean, …
I think just the lavish kind of lifestyles.
The homes are just beautiful with amazing views.
All the Hollywood Hills homes, you always get these incredible views.
And of course, we sell a lot of homes that don’t make it on the show.
They’re great homes, but they go through and see everything that we’re selling and showing.
And they pick the ones that are the best, that have the most wow factor.
But if it’s a celebrity home or just something spectacular then we use those instead.
Well yeah, there’s a lot.
And then life happens, things change.
And so everything else changes too.
And so they edit things out.
Heather did the whole egg retrieval, everything like that.
And all of it was cut out because Chrishell ended up getting divorced.
So again, next season, I never went through.
I’ve been too busy this season, but I do need to.
I’m going to freeze my embryos or our embryos and stuff.
So I’m willing to do it on camera.
I don’t know if they’ll want to film it.
And even if they do film it, if it’ll get aired.
It depends on what happens with everybody.
So, yeah, there’s a lot that goes on with a lot of us.
I’m just excited to hear that for you.
Well, we’re not trying to get pregnant anytime soon.
It would be a couple years, but …
I’m getting ready to turn 41 and I need to prioritize it no matter how busy I am.
And you want to make an option for your future self if that’s what you decide.
Does Mary Fitzgerald watch episodes of Selling Sunset?
Do you ever watch the show?
Do you sit down and just watch it on a weekend?
I will watch our wedding.
I’ve watched it quite a few times, especially around our anniversary.
I know this always makes me get out of it, so I’ll watch it.
And I’m like, okay.
I’m over it.
Even the other way around you’re able to be like, “Hey, watch this back.
This is what you said, this is what you sound like.”
Yeah, it does.
I do do that.
So yeah, so we do watch it then.
We’ve done it in different ways, but it’ll be on again.
We let our friends and family see it all together.
This is how Selling Sunset began
How has your experience been working with Netflix?
Well, it took a while.
Jason had been approached by a couple of different people before with ideas of a show.
He turned everybody down, just didn’t think it was going to be the right kind of fit.
And he was just nervous.
It would tarnish our reputation, a luxury brand that he’s worked really hard to create.
So he asked for a meeting.
He’d always kind of been interested in real estate, wanted to do a show.
And we knew his reputation from “Laguna Beach” and “The Hills.”
And we knew that he is just [a] mastermind with reality.
Season 4, I think you’ll see more women empowerment.
It doesn’t matter if you’re bickering.
So we did a sizzle reel and he pitched it around.
Ultimately Netflix decided to pick it up and that’s who we all had hoped for anyway.
Mary Fitzgerald dishes about ex-boyfriend Jason Oppenheim
That’s awesome.
And then on the topic of Jason.
It’s so in the past, I don’t think of Jason at all like as my ex-boyfriend.
He’s one of my absolute best friends.
We co-parent our dogs together.
He’s like a brother to Romain.
And I understand in the beginning how people want to understand being able to work together.
Even right when we broke up, we’ve always respected each other above everything else.
I think part of it, we never did anything wrong.
He just wasn’t able to commit.
He always respected me.
We loved each other.
So why not have the person in your life?
You’re just choosing to not be together anymore.
And that doesn’t mean that anybody did anything wrong.
There’s not anything ugly.
And maybe dating, we didn’t, we got it wrong by dating.
We were just supposed to be friends, but you have to live and learn.
I didn’t jump into it.
I wouldn’t be that mature, but I understood.
But it takes a little transition period, but I would say after six months, we were fine.
I mean, but now.
No, that totally makes sense.
We’re closer now than we were when we dated.
What makes Selling Sunset such a hit?
That’s a really refreshing response.
Thanks for answering that.
What do you think it is about the show that people just love?
The fact that it was renewed for a fourth season and a fifth season, people love it.
What do you think it is about it?
I think that it touches on there’s something for everybody.
And it’s just a fun show to watch.
And it truly just has something for everybody.
I see young girls that aspire to be successful and it’s motivating to some people.
And then I’ve got people in their 70s, that reach out.
They’re like, oh my gosh, I watched this with my daughter and granddaughter.
And I don’t know, I think it just has something for everybody.
Yeah, I think you’re totally right.
Yeah, I do, honestly, I think this is going to be the best season so far.
I’m like, oh my god, I forgot all about that.
This season I feel like I’ve just been blindsided like every step of the way.
Yeah, it’s going to be fun.
Is there a celebrity that you would love to work with?
If they emailed you and asked you to sell them a house, who would you want?
I would say, well, Prince Harry is over here now.
He’s in the Montecito area.
So I would love to sell them a house.
That would be so fun.
I know, I know.
I’m a huge, huge fan of them.
So that would be incredible.
Some drama with some of it too, not related to me.
And then, yeah, obviouslyAmanzahas been one of my best friends for 20 years.
Chrishell and Heather and I are all very close.
Emma is one of the new agents and I’ve known her for about five years.
She’s one of my really good friends.
She’s a total sweetheart.
I think everyone’s going to absolutely love her.
I think there’s a lot of people that I would say I get along with pretty much everybody.
I think that’s definitely clear from the show.
Can you remind me how you met Amanza?
Well, it was when we first moved to LA.
We’ve been roommates over the years.
And she’s the one that actually introduced me to Brett and Jason.
But 15 years ago, yeah.
We all met at a barbecue on her rooftop.
And I met them for the first time then.
Wow, what a small world to meet her that way.
That is so serendipitous.
It happened a couple of different times.
It was like the 500.
And we remember, we were like, oh my gosh.
We were standing here talking to each other the whole time.
And it was before I’d even moved out.
So we’d had multiple run-ins together and we didn’t even realize it.
That is blowing my mind.
We were meant to be in each other’s lives.
Yeah, life kept putting you in the same space and you guys finally made the connection.
“Selling Sunset” is available to stream on Netflix.
