Real Housewives of Limerick city: TV star shares Shannonside trip on social media
American singer-songwriter and reality show personality Kandi Burruss paid a visit to the Treaty city
REAL Housewives of Atlanta star Kandi Burruss is in town and is feeling the Limerick city love.
“I’ve been getting so much love out here in Ireland,” she said in the caption of an Instagram Reel.
Ms Burruss is a singer, songwriter, actress and television personality from Georgia, US.
Known across the world for starring in Real Housewives, she also has songwriting credits on the singles Bills, Bills, Bills by Destiny's Child, Break Up with Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored by Ariana Grande, and Shape of You by Ed Sheeran.
In 2000, she won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Song for her work on the TLC hit song No Scrubs.
The reel, shared to her 10.4m followers, showed her in front of the city’s popular Cornstore restaurant, speaking with two of its staff.
“I’m out here in Limerick,” she says in the video, before turning to the male staff member next to her and asking, “is that how I say it?”
Panning to the staff members for them to say hello, she jokes: “I just gotta say, I’m worldwide, for real!”
This is in reference to the iconic Real Housewives of Atlanta moment where co-star Marlo Hampton said Ms Burruss was not famous outside of Atlanta, to which Ms Burruss responded: “I’m worldwide!”
The video, filmed on Limerick city’s Thomas Street and reposted by Cornstore’s social media account, has received almost 30k likes.
Commenters loved the video, with one Instagram user saying, “I’m from Ireland and we know you over here, worldwide for sure,” and another commenting, “Girl and a day 1 fan of RHOA and someone who lives in Limerick, this is so random but I live! Hope you enjoy the city”.
Many locals offered recommendations of places to go during her time in Ireland.
Her time in the Emerald Isle hasn’t been all fun, though, with her sharing her discovery of what’s in black pudding on the Threads app.
“So, I just popped up in Ireland & wanted to try local food,” she said. “So I went to a pub & saw “Black Pudding Salad”. Didn’t know what it was but I figured I would try it.”
She reveals that when it was brought to her table, she asked the waitress what it was exactly: “she told me that it was pigs blood & fat… I had to politely send it back…”
“I thought I was ready for the local food but I guess not. I got the fish & chips instead,” she said, adding laughing emojis to her post.