GATHERING the cast of The Real Housewives of Melbourne is a nightmare-inducing whirlwind of false eyelashes and even falser personalities.

The drama we see on set is real, so gathering the eight outspoken women in the same room is tense.

Confidential experienced the lipglossed-mayhem first-hand yesterday when the troupe of reality stars ventured into the office to promote Sunday’s season three launch of the hit Foxtel show that airs on the Arena channel.

After no less than three publicists fetched weak skinny lattes and Diet Coca-Colas, the Housewives dished it up:

Lydia Schiavello doesn’t like new cast member Susie McLean.

Jackie Gillies isn’t Schiavello’s biggest fan.

And Gina Liano is a diva.

For the shoot, she refused to be in the photograph until someone fetched a strapless bra from her suitcase that was in the car outside, making her fellow housewives wait for her to be ready.

Liano caused another hold-up when she made a 10-minute trip to the bathroom.

media_camera Pettifleur Berenger — self-obsessed? media_camera Gina Liano is ‘no diva’.

“I think this season will be a lot of fun,” the gold-clad barrister said. “We’re all picking on one another, but it’s more of a sisterhood than an assassination or a witch hunt.”

But it’s no Travelling Pants, instead it was clear Pettifleur Berenger is on the outer, although Confidential found her completely charming.

“It was a very hard for me, some of the things that went on. When it’s seven against one, it’s hard,” Berenger admitted.

Meanwhile, Janet Roach added: “They’re all crazy. Having us all in the same room can be crazy.

“We all talk over each other, we joke with one another, and when you try to interview us, you can’t.”

Asked straight out if the tension is real, Roach quipped: “Have you interviewed Pettifleur?

You are in for such a treat. I don’t like her. Actually I don’t mind her, I can take her in small doses. She is so self-obsessed.

media_camera Janet Roach: “Some of them have crap values.” media_camera Lydia Schiavello: “I’m anxious but excited.”

“For the first 20 minutes I don’t mind talking about her, but when it gets to the second 20 minutes, my eyes start to roll into the back of my head.”

Of the other women, Roach said: “I think that some of them have got crap values. Lydia is married and her advice to me dating on my own is just go out and shag everything you can. We just have different ideas. It’s colourful but it is very telling about who people are.”

What you see with the Housewives is really what you get, Schiavello added.

“All the content comes out of our mouths,” she said. “The ladies know how to ham it up. We know what to give the cameras, but who would want to watch us paint our nails different colours.”

Meanwhile, new Housewife McLean said she’s getting nervous as the show’s airdate approaches.

“I’m anxious, but also excited,” said the country girl turned socialite.

“Over the last 48 hours, it’s become more real to me because I’m talking a lot about it.

“I was conscious of putting myself out there, but it didn’t feel real at the time.

“Now I’m excited to see it on screen.”