Real Housewives of New York City star Jill Zarin admits she can't get enough of Jersey Shore.
"I'm addicted," Zarin told me last night at the Human Rights Campaign's Sundance Film Festival party for the documentary 8: The Mormon Proposition. "If there wasn't all that press about how we shouldn't watch it, I probably wouldn't have."
But now that she has, she laughs, "The Situation reminds of Bethenny [Frankel] with the one-liners. It's amazing; he comes up with these one-liners and sayings just like Bethenny."
And speaking of Bethenny, what is going on between her and Zarin? It doesn't sound pretty…
"It was a really rough four months for me, probably the roughest four months of my life emotionally," Zarin said about filming the new season of the hit Bravo reality show.
The Housewives aren't allowed to get into specifics about any of the drama (or anything else about the show, for that matter) until the season premiere on March 4, but Zarin said, "I'm scared. The drama, the meanness and the cattiness…There were a lot of ups and downs."
She does have a sunnier outlook on last season's newbie Housewife, Kelly Killoren Bensimon, posing for an upcoming issue of Playboy.
"She's a model and her body is her canvas," Zarin said, adding, "It's Playboy and it's very prestigious for her to do something like that. It will help her career."
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Who else did we run into up at the big Park City, Utah, film festival? Find out at our fab Sundance Red Carpet blog.