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Nardos Haile

Jessel Taank is RHONY's breakout star

Jessel Taank has called her fellow "The Real Housewives of New York" cast members "cackling hags" in her dry British cadence, labeled Tribeca as an “up-and-coming” neighborhood, and keeps a hit list of all the people who have wronged her: all of which suggest the perfect makings of a Supreme Housewife in training. 

As the first-ever Indian housewife across the Housewives Bravoverse, the British-American fashion publicist has become the most interesting player in a cast full of people begging to be seen, reinvented and liked by both the series rabid online fanbase and its casual viewers. In a field of potentially more well-known castmates, like former J.Crew fashion mogul Jenna Lyons, influencer Sai de Silva and real estate agent (and Trump donor) Erin Lichy, Jessel's British charms outshine all the New York City elitism and pick-me behavior that runs through the core of RHONY. 

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