Bethenny Frankel fans shouldn’t expect the Real Housewives of New York City legend to look connected the highly anticipated RHONY Legacy show that’s successful the works. “I deliberation you’re beauteous improbable [to spot her],” Andy Cohen, 54, told HollywoodLife‘s Ali Stagnitta EXCLUSIVELY portion promoting his FRESCA™ Mixed partnership, which is FRESCA’s caller enactment of premium, pre-mixed cocktails. Bethenny, 52, starred connected the amusement during its premiere play successful 2008 and became a fan-favorite during her three-season run. She past near for her precise ain spinoff, Bethenny Ever After, which aired betwixt 2010 and 2012. She rejoined RHONY for Season 7 and near the deed Bravo series erstwhile again aft Season 11 successful 2019.
“I near due to the fact that it became not who I truly was anymore, and you can’t bash thing retired of fear,” she explained connected Paris Hilton‘s This Is Paris podcast successful April 2022. She added that she was solely determination for the paycheck and hinted that she wasn’t fond of however the amusement had evolved. “I was determination successful the opening erstwhile it was thing that nary of america truly adjacent knew what it was, and present it’s thing that … radical person a preconceived conception astir it, and they cognize what’s going to happen,” she theorized.
“I mean, however galore foundation events tin we spell to? How galore friends tin we not enactment connected vacations, and however overmuch play bash we privation to debar and past spell close into the play connected the vacation?” she continued. “So … the clip had travel [for maine to leave].”
Bethenny besides shaded being a housewife during a Feb. 2020 chat with Variety by hinting that it was not a existent job. “I person a existent career. So it’s truly hard [to beryllium connected the show] erstwhile we’re not covering that what I’m truly doing is my career, due to the fact that I past person to bash the amusement and my existent career,” she bluntly stated. “So if we’re conscionable showing maine having lunches and connected vacations, past I’ve got 3 jobs — due to the fact that I’ve got to beryllium a parent too. So it becomes truly exhausting and taxing, and you get mired successful caring astir things and radical that you conscionable usually wouldn’t attraction about.”
As fans know, Bethenny has done rather good for herself implicit the years arsenic the CEO of Skinnygirl, a manner marque offering everything from low-calorie intoxicant to clothing. Over the summer, she launched her caller Forever Young vino brand, which she tin beryllium seen promoting successful the video above. The mother of one launched her Just B podcast successful 2020 and a business contention series, The Big Shot with Bethenny, in 2021. She is besides a New York Times bestselling writer with aggregate books, and truthful overmuch more.
Bethenny isn’t the lone RHONY favourite who doesn’t program to look successful the upcoming RHONY: Legacy spinoff. Andy besides revealed that it “doesn’t look like” Ramona Singer is successful favour of returning to Bravo screens either. “She’s successful the happiest spot I deliberation she’s been successful since I’ve known her. Which is, you know, 13, 14 years,” helium noted. “If you travel her connected societal media, she’s surviving her champion life. And she’s having a batch of fun. And she looks great.”
Andy confirmed successful March that determination is definitely a amusement successful the works that features immoderate of the astir iconic Real Housewives of New York City stars. The amusement volition beryllium a abstracted bid from the rebooted RHONY, which is presently filming with a brand-new cast. “You cognize that we’re astatine a crossroads for RHONY,” helium told Variety. “We’ve spent a batch of clip figuring retired wherever to go. And the program that we’ve travel up with, I think, is simply a existent acquisition to the fans.”