Selling Sunset's Chelsea Lazkani has responded to the controversy over the short skirt she wore during an episode of the hit show.
The reality program has returned to Netflix for Season 8, which once again sees its realtors sell multi-million-dollar luxury properties while navigating their interpersonal drama. Lazkani is a British-Nigerian realtor on the show who comes from a real estate family. Her father is London-based architect and property developer Segun Adefioye, while her mother Elizabeth Adefioye holds an executive title at the engineering company Emerson.
Lazkani became the talk of the office—and the internet—in the second episode when she turned up late for an open house wearing a light brown cropped jacket and micro-skirt. Fellow realtors Bre Tiesi and Mary Bonnet née Fitzgerald criticized the revealing outfit and Jason Oppenheim, who created The Oppenheim Group where they all work, questioned whether it was appropriate attire.
Viewers flocked to X (formerly Twitter) to share their thoughts on the controversy. While some rallied behind Lazkani and called out Tiesi and Bonnet for their double standards, others deemed the outfit to be inappropriate.
On Thursday, Lazkani appeared on the British TV show This Morning to set the record straight once and for all. Newsweek emailed a spokesperson for Lazkania for comment on Thursday.
"They had a little issue with the fact that you seemed to forget your pants," host Ben Shephard said, to which Lazkani responded: "They did, they did a big issue with the fact that I forgot my pants. You know what, to be fair, I felt like I forgot my pants because on that particular day, now I'll be honest, on that particular day I remember rushing my kids to school in the morning."
When Shephard asked whether she was wearing that particular outfit to school, she said "no."
"I was wearing sweats, um preparing a charcuterie board for this broker's open and I had planned this beautiful um skirt suit the day before, however didn't try it on because obviously, like, it's a skirt suit, it's very conservative at the top, right?" she explained
"[I] put it on and I was like, 'This is on the line isn't? It's on the line.' And I look at the time and I'm like, 'We got to go, we got to go.'"
Shephard then queried whether this meant she didn't have time to try the outfit on to determine whether it was too short or not.
"To be very honest with you that's exactly how it went down ... As with everything this is reality TV, I don't really plan what I'm wearing, like, weeks in advance," the reality star replied.
"I plan what I'm wearing either the morning of or really, you know how it is going to work," she explained.
However, Shepard told Lazkani that she didn't tell her colleagues this, and instead "went to town" on Bonnet and Tiesi.
"Yeah, you know why? I was like, first of all, I'm not going to bring out another outfit from my purse so leave me alone 'cause if I can't bring out—I'm a problem solution type person, if I can't just bring out another outfit from my purse then this is what you got and let's just work it—let's talk about this later," she said.
"And number two, Jason, would you like us to be on Season 20 or end right now? Because guess what, everybody's talking about this skort, so you're welcome."
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