The Real Housewives of Melbourne star Anjali Rao has revealed that the sprawling six-star apartment she lived in on the show is not her real home.
The former CNN newsreader, 47, confirmed on Instagram the swanky pad in South Yarra's Capitol Grand was just leased for four months while she filmed the series.
In her day-to-day life, Daily Mail Australia can reveal that Rao resides in a fairly regular $530-a-week rented property in an outer suburb.
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EXCLUSIVE: Real Housewives of Melbourne star Anjali Rao is living in a humble home in the outer suburbs, despite leasing a luxury six-star apartment on the show
Average day: The 47-year-old stepped out of her car and made her way inside on November 23
And instead of luxury limousines and chauffeured BMWs, she drives a 2007 Holden Astra worth about $6,000.
While her suburban quarters aren't quite as fancy as her luxury lodgings at the Capitol Grand, she's not exactly on struggle street either.
Her home has four bedrooms, two bathrooms and a two-car garage.
However, some of the outdated fixtures and fittings don't appear to be up the glamorous standards of the Foxtel reality show.
This could be why she decided to lease a ritzy apartment for the TV series.
Casual: Rao was dressed in a comfortable pair of flip flops and an oversized dress
She wrote on Instagram this week: 'Whilst I leased my beautiful apartment at the incredible Capitol Grand for the four-month duration of filming The Real Housewives of Melbourne, I, like certain other Housewives over the years, reside elsewhere in my normal life. So what?'
In an episode of The Real Housewives of Melbourne, Rao referred to the Capitol Grand apartment as 'my stunning home' and 'my queendom'.
Situated at the crossroads of Toorak Road and Chapel Street, the Capitol Grand is right in the heart of stylish South Yarra.
Budget friendly: Instead of luxury limousines and chauffeured BMWs, she drives a 2007 Holden worth about $6,000
The luxury development features a communal lounge, gym, library, cinema room, meeting and dining areas, spa, pool and massage rooms.
Rao's apartment has become a major storyline this season, after co-star Kyla Kirkpatrick accused Janet Roach of trying to 'break in' to the six-star lodgings to see if Rao really lived there or not.
'Kyla tells me that on the day of my pool party, Janet broke into my apartment to try to discredit me, to try to prove that I'm a fraud,' Rao said on the show.
'Yeah I really live here. All my s**t is here; it has been for three months,' she added.
Not bad: While her suburban quarters aren't quite as fancy as her luxury lodgings at the Capitol Grand, she's not exactly on struggle street either. Her home has four-bedrooms, two bathrooms, a two-car garage and a spacious back patio
Rao quit the show shortly thereafter, claiming the other women engaged in 'fake fights' and that reality TV is 'manufactured'.
Fellow Housewife Jackie Gillies has since shot down rumours of the alleged break-in, insisting was all made up by Kirkpatrick.
'This bulls**t about Janet breaking into the apartment, this is a mess,' Gillies said on her Shine
