Yes, Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin know how lucky they are!
At the gala dinner of the LGBT Center in Los Angeles on May 18, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills The alum opened up about her 32 years with Hamlin and Hamlin — 27 of which were married — and her comments may disappoint hopeless romantics.
“I think it’s real luck,” Rinna, 60, told PEOPLE at Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium, adding, “I think it’s luck. Really.”
Harry Hamlin and Lisa Rinna at the beginning of their relationship.
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“Because who would have ever thought? I mean, we really love and respect each other, so that helps,” she said of Hamlin, 72. “And I really like him as a person. I think he is a really good man and I feel really lucky. But I think it’s really hard to find someone you want to spend that much time with, right?”
Timeline of Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin’s relationship
So, unfortunately, there is no special approach to happily ever after – at least according to Rinna.
“I don’t think there’s any secret,” she said and added, “I just think we were very lucky to find each other.”
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But the couple previously answered the same question – “Is there a secret to a successful relationship?” — differently.
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Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin in 1994.
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As they approach a quarter century of marriage in 2022, the couple revealed the secret of their successful relationship to PEOPLE, explaining that, contrary to popular belief, it actually has a lot to do with how fundamentally different they are.
While Hamlin likes to spend her free time outside, Rinna is happier at the spa, the couple revealed, with RHOBH Alum adding that they “eat differently, sleep differently” — and even have very different astrological signs.
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Still, they’ve been married since 1997, so those differences clearly bring them closer together, the couple – who also share two daughters, Delilah Belle, 25, and Amelia Gray, 22 – explained at the time.
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From left: Lisa Rinna, Henry Eikenberry, Amelia Gray Hamlin, Harry Hamlin and Delilah Belle Hamlin.
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“We have nothing in common. Nothing,” Rinna told PEOPLE. “I mean, we’re kind people, I think we’re both good-hearted in general, but we don’t have anything in common. Zero, zip, zilch.”
Hamlin interjected, “I’m an outdoorsman, I love camping and going to the mountains, and her idea of camping is anything below the 10th floor of the Four Seasons Hotel.”
“But I think that love also comes into play somewhere,” added the actor. “Love, respect, listening and attraction.”
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