Lisa Rinna just shocked her cast-mates on “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” by opening up about her husband Harry Hamlin’s steamy romance with Ursula Andress, who was the original Bond girl.

While admiring the architecture of Rome with her fellow cast members Denise Richards, Sutton Stracke and Garcelle Beauvais, Rinna said that the Los Angeles home she shares with Hamlin, 68, “looks a little bit like this because Harry lived there for three years and he loves this.”

Andress, 84, is the supermodel and actress who found international fame starring in the first James Bond movie Dr. No back in 1962. Rinna, 57, described Andress as “the movie star that you would imagine,” adding that she made a move on Hamlin when they were filming in Europe.

“He said she called him and said, ‘Harry, come to my room,’” Rinna said, according to Fox News. “And so he did, at 28 years old, he went in and she got pregnant that night. And that was that, at 44. First time.”

Andress and Hamlin had a son named Dimitri in 1980 before breaking up three years later.

“I was always very possessive,” Andress told People at the time of the split. “And for Harry, his career is the main thing. Love affairs and husbands can end, but a child is forever. Dimitri is my love now.”

Hamlin went on to be married to Laura Johnson from 1985 until 1989, followed by Nicollette Sheridan from 1991 until 1992. He married Rinna in 1997, and they have been together ever since. Together, they have two daughters: Delilah Belle, 22, and Amelia Gray, 19.

Last year, Hamlin confessed to The Daily Beast that he was initially hesitant about doing “Real Housewives,” which Rinna has starred on for five seasons.

“I have my divorce lawyer on speed dial,” Hamlin told Rinna when she first approached him about doing the series.

“I have had three opportunities to use him: once with Ursula, and two of my ex-wives,” he explained. “It’s the same guy every time. We send Christmas cards to each other every year.”

“I said to Lisa, ‘You can’t do this. Everybody who does that show gets divorced. It’s a horrible, horrible thing, to do that show,’” Hamlin added.

In the end, Hamlin said it was another housewife who convinced him to do the reality show.

“Bethenny [Frankel] convinced me from a branding point of view it would be a good thing to do,” said Hamlin. “Then I was open to doing it on my own terms.”

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