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Infinity pools, estates in the Hollywood Hills and movie-set views are par the course, with celebrity clients also coming with the territory. DJ Alesso, rapper French Montana, NBA player Thomas Bryant and actor Simu
Liu have all featured on season four, with big gun A-listers like Meryl Streep, Orlando Bloom and Ellen DeGeneres also enlisting the services of the luxury-
focused Oppenheim Group. And no, Davina still hasn’t sold the infamous $75 million house. If you know, you know.
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There seems to be genuine affection towards Villela from the other ladies on the show. She’s come across as a diplomatic influence who has attempted
to build bridges and dissipate some of the tension between cast members. Even Christine Quinn, the portrayed Cruella de Vil of the show (and we’re not just talking about her love of animal print) concedes: “I was going to be a bitch to you but now I feel horrible. You’re too nice”.
Villela is bubbling with energy and it’s endearing, both on the
beautiful, I get emotional talking about it”
meditation for helping her through some of her darkest times. “It’s changed my life. For the first three months after my sister passed away, I was super depressed.
Then I thought, I can’t continue like this. I have to do something. When I was going through that nightmare, meditation helped bring some peace to my heart. The pain was still there, but it was more manageable.”
You’d be forgiven for thinking Selling Sunset was just a designer-bedecked spectacle
of impossibly glamorous living. Season four has featured a heady mix of love triangles, former best friends, storm-outs, fallouts and the cliffhanger revelation of an undercover romance between an agent and a boss. But there is also some big-bucks selling – with eye- popping commissions to match – and getting to nose around houses the majority of us will never put a tootsie in is undeniably part of the show’s appeal.
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