Luann de Lesseps Shades Bethenny Frankel’s New ‘Housewives’ Podcast: She’s ‘Desperate’

Luann de Lesseps threw immoderate shadiness astatine her ex-friend and former Real Housewives of New York co-star Bethenny Frankel‘s caller ‘wives focused podcast. “I retrieve astatine 1 point, she wouldn’t adjacent accidental the connection ‘Housewives,'” the Class with the Countess: How to Live with Elegance and Flair author, 57, said connected the Everything Iconic with Danny Pellegrino podcast aft Bethenny announced the ReWives rewatch show.

“Well, I deliberation that she’s trying to drawback the fame of Housewives to support her storyline going,” she added, going arsenic acold to telephone her erstwhile formed mates task “a beauteous hopeless scenario” connected the occurrence released Friday, Nov. 4. “It sounds similar a hopeless hunt for a storyline for herself, and she’s thrown Housewives nether the autobus a cardinal times,” the Countess besides said.

Luann didn’t clasp backmost erstwhile talking astir erstwhile person Bethenny’s caller podcast. (Gregory Pace/Shutterstock)

Notably, Luann and Bethenny were some archetypal formed members connected the bid erstwhile it started backmost successful 2008 — however, Bethenny initially departed aft 3 seasons to movie her spinoff Bethenny Ever After as good arsenic absorption connected the maturation of her highly palmy Skinnygirl Margarita brand. She past returned to the bid successful play 7, and remained a main formed subordinate done play 11. Back successful 2016 (despite inactive being connected the series), the BSTRONG foundation founder stated she was “distancing” herself from the amusement which she said was “negative.” Since her final exit successful 2019, the entrepreneur has precise overmuch focused connected her ain brands distant from the Bravo franchise she got her start.

Bethenny Frankel announced her caller ‘ReWives’ rewatch podcast this week. (Scott Kirkland/PictureGroup for/Shutterstock)

“So a disgruntled Housewife doing a Housewives podcast, I don’t deliberation anybody wants to perceive to,” Luann went on, saying Bethenny has “s— connected the show” frequently. “That means she’s going to s— connected america connected her small podcast astir the Housewives. It’s beauteous bittersweet and pathetic that she has to edifice to Housewives due to the fact that of each of her failed pivots since the Housewives…She’s tried everything different than Housewives and it doesn’t look to work, and present she’s going backmost to Housewives.”

The conception of the podcast volition diagnostic Bethenny going backmost and re-watching the archetypal seasons of Real Housewives of New York years later. Contrary to what Luann is saying astir the show, Bethenny explicitly stated that “you can’t hide wherever you came from” to PEOPLE magazine. “We don’t delve into that territory. I wanted to bash a rewatch podcast, but I didn’t privation to bash thing derivative. I didn’t conscionable privation to rewatch a show, country by scene,” she said of the project.

“So I thought ‘How could I bash this successful an absorbing way?’ — not conscionable having different Housewife speech astir it to maine similar others do, but alternatively delving deeper,” she explained. “So it’s truly astir the existent dynamics that are going connected underneath, which I find to maine much absorbing anyway, and not the low-hanging effect trash that others instrumentality distant from it.”