Lisa Rinna Is Unrecognizable With Curly Blonde Hair Transformation
Lisa Rinna is owning it again—and this time it’s another surprising red carpet look.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star—known for sporting her flippy brown bob—changed her hair to a curly blonde pixie cut at the May 18 world premiere of Stop! That! Train!, the action-comedy starring RuPaul and other famous faces from the Drag Race universe.
"Derby debutante, of course," the 62-year-old called the quirky hair transformation in an interview that evening with Entertainment Tonight. "We were kind of going for a Madonna, Doja Cat vibe today."
Rinna paired her Shirley Temple curls with a baby blue dress—featuring a voluminous ruffle skirt and a giant ribbon on the neckline—at the event. The Mommy Meanest actress has a cameo playing herself alongside a colorful cast of Hollywood stars in the Adam Shankman production, including Sarah Michelle Gellar, Joel McHale, Rachel Bloom, Nicole Richie and Raven-Symoné.
However, it was the ensemble of celebrity drag queens starring in the satirical movie, such as Jujubee, Latrice Royale and Monét X Change, who inspired Rinna to bring the drama with her unconventional getup.
"How do you show up at a movie premiere filled with every drag queen known to man? What do you wear?" Rinna was admittedly questioning herself. "What do you do? You have to go for it."
But it's not the first time the former QVC personality showed up and showed out with blonde hair for a big night out. Rinna previously sported a platinum bouffant style—with bleached eyebrows to match—to the 2025 Fashion Awards in London. The year before, she wore a spiky blonde bob to Paris Fashion Week.
"As an actor, I never can express myself enough because I never get to work enough as an actor," Rinna explained to E! News in February 2025 about why she likes to get creative with wigs. "So this has been a way for me to express myself and create all the time. And it started to move me to tears because I thought, ‘Look what I get to do.’ If I waited for an acting job, I would not get to create that much, unfortunately.”
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The Gypsy Rose: Life After Lockup star debuted a short bob in March 2025, more than two months after giving birth to her and fiancé Ken Urker's first child, daughter Aurora Urker.
The formerly blond Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star debuted a red bob on Watch What Happens Live in January 2025.
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While attending Chanel's Tribeca Film Festival Artists dinner in June 2024, Katie debuted a subtle, yet striking transformation of rich caramel balayage highlights that were blended throughout her brunette tresses.
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