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Parade caught up with the cast of The Real Housewives of Orange County at BravoCon 2023 to discuss all of their favorite holiday traditions. Emily Simpson and Gina Kirschenheiter shared some hot takes on the popular kids' tradition of Elf on the Shelf, along with a warning to never let your elves "have babies."
Power couple Heather Dubrow and Botched plastic surgeon Dr. Terry Dubrow opened up about their special New Year's Eve manifestations that happened to be quite lucrative for the pair over the past years.
Meanwhile, Vicki Gunvalson, Tamra Judge and Shannon Storms Beador discussed their love of the Christmas season and the family time that it brings.
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Emily Simpson & Gina Kirschenheiter’s Favorite Holiday Traditions
Emily Simpson: Favorite holiday traditions.
Gina Kirschenheiter: That’s fun!
Emily Simpson: I love the holidays because my kids get so excited. But I will tell you, for Christmas, my kids love the Elf on the Shelf and I hate it. But I have to do it because they love it. And so then I start to get creative and I, like, Google. Do you Google?
Gina Kirschenheiter: My elf had babies last year. Don’t make that mistake! And you've got to move the baby!
Emily Simpson: I had my elf get a friend! Yeah.
Gina Kirschenheiter: And you got a dog!
Emily Simpson: Yes. And then my elf had a friend, and then I had to move both of them. So I was like, why did I do this to myself? But, so we like that.
Gina Kirschenheiter: Every year now we do with the kids, we each pick a name, and then whoever you get, you do one purchased gift and one homemade gift. And then on Christmas morning, we all open. It was so special last Christmas and I'm so looking forward to it again.
Emily Simpson: I might just steal that.
Gina Kirschenheiter: You should. It was so nice.
Emily Simpson: But you have like 8,000 kids.
Gina Kirschenheiter: I know, that's why you only pick one name!
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Dr. Terry Dubrow and Heather Dubrow’s Favorite Holiday Tradition
Heather Dubrow: At New Year's, Terry and I sit down and we separately write what happened this past year, and then we write what we hope happens next year. And we put that in the safe.
And then when we sit down and we read to each other what happened the past year and we go over, what did we do? Well, what do we need to work on? And then we open what we wrote last year to see if any of it came true.
And guess what I predicted last year?
Dr. Terry Dubrow: Selling our house for a boatload, buying a place.
Heather Dubrow: I was like $5 million off.
Dr. Terry Dubrow: Yeah, you were only 5 million off. You basically predicted every single thing that happened.
Heather Dubrow: We manifested!
Dr. Terry Dubrow: It’s super weird. Yeah.
If you if you think positively and you really want something to happen and you're a good person, it probably will happen.
Vicki Gunvalson, Tamra Judge and Shannon Storms Beador’s Favorite Holiday Traditions
Vicki Gunvalson: Be with my family, always. My kids, grandkids.
Tamra Judge: I don't know, I feel like we're starting a new family tradition. We just bought a house in the mountains, and I think that we're going to have the holidays there every single year in the snow. So excited about that.
Shannon Storms Beador: I've been very vocal that Christmas is my favorite holiday and Christmas Eve is mine. So I like to have all family and friends over because everyone's festive and in a good mood and so that's my day,
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