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NYC Housewives Star: "The Situation Reminds Me of Bethenny"
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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…
Are Hilton's Sisters Headed for Real Housewives?
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Kyle and Kim Richards, former child actors who are Kathy Hilton's younger sisters and aunts to Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton, could be the stars of Bravo's upcoming Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. The Richards sisters are lower-profile than their superfamous Hilton relatives, but they travel in circles no less tony.
According to a TheDailyTruffle.com source close to the project, "Bravo wanted to build the cast around some Hiltons. Yes, Kyle is one of them. I think Kim, too. But it ain't over [until] the fat lady sings."
Could this really happen? What do the Richards women have to say for themselves? Here's what we're hearing about plans to expand the supersuccessful Bravo franchise...
Another Real Housewife Wants to...Sing!
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Move over, Kim Zolciak!
There's another Real Housewife trying to warble her way into the music biz.
LuAnn de Lesseps of The Real Housewives of New York City has written and recorded "Money Can't Buy Class," a dance ditty inspired by her memoir/etiquette book Class With the Countess.
Fortunately, the countess isn't taking this singing thing too seriously. "I'm not trying to be Madonna, but I love to sing, and I can sing," she tell us. "I sing all the time for my friends."
She does have a superstar in mind for a future collaboration...
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Orange County Housewife's Real-Life Divorce Drama
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UPDATE: Tamra Barney updated her Facebook page late Wednesday night, saying: "Thanks to everyone who understands and supports me. For the record, all accusations are false."
Barney will appear on next Thursday's episode of Bravo's weekly aftershow, Watch What Happens, where she will tell her side of the story.
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Things just got a little less sunny in California's coastal Orange County.
Real Housewives of Orange County's Tamra Barney and husband Simon Barney have parted ways after the couple's tumultuous season of ups and downs.
Simon filed divorce docs Thursday, citing alleged adultery on Tamra's part as the reason for dissolution, reports RadarOnline. According to the papers, Barney claims his wife "has been verbally abusive and has committed acts of disloyalty and infidelity."
The two have been married 11 years and have three young children together.
The fifth season of Bravo's reality series has followed the couple's struggles, even hinting at the possibility of a breakup several times, including tonight's almost perfectly timed episode.
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At least these TV Couples We Love are still going stong.
How Much Are Real Housewives Really Paid?
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How much are the Real Housewives paid per episode? I get the feeling that they couldn't afford the lifestyle they portray if it weren't for the salary and perks provided by Bravo.
—David N. via the Answer B!tch inbox
As hard up as some of the ladies appear to be—what with NeNe Leakes and Kim Zolciak of The Real Housewives of Atlanta apparently demanding more cash for electric bills, clothes and such—overall, weep not. For the Real Housewives of Anywhere.
According to my sources, there are some seriously pitiful reality show paychecks out there, but the ones given to the Housewives aren't among them.
Check out the numbers:
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Housewives' Kelly: No Baby Gift for Bethenny
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Sounds like the next season of The Real Housewives of New York City may be as scandalous as the last.
"The minute I can, I will call you and give you all the dirt," Housewife Kelly Killoren Bensimon tells me from her home in NYC. "I promise I will give you everything. I'm going to be much more talkative in the press this season than I was last season."
And as us fans know, last season included lots and lots of feuding with Bethenny Frankel.
So has Kelly gone baby-gift shopping for first-time mom-to-be Bethenny?
Real Housewives Death Declared a Homicide
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A.J. Jewell's death may have been an accident, but it was a preventable one.
The death of the former fiancé of Real Housewives of Atlanta's Kandi Burruss has been declared a homicide by Georgia's Fulton County medical examiner's office, which confirmed earlier speculation that the street fight Jewell got into on the night of his death was exacerbated by his sickle-cell anemia.
"Although Mr. Jewell died of complications of his underlying natural disease conditions, the complications would not have occurred if he had not experienced the extreme exertion that was part of the physical altercation," stated the report, obtained by the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
"Due to the active involvement of another person, the manner of death is classified as a homicide."
But if you think the report brought any sense of closure to Jewell's still-grieving family, well, think again.
Bethenny Frankel Blogs About Real Housewives of Atlanta: "Please Don't Say 'Boo' Ever Again!"
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Sorry for the delay in this blog. I was still sleeping from Thursday night's reunion show.
I love that the girls took the debutante approach again, as if they're not on a reality show—one whose ratings soar when weaves are ripped off. Andy Cohen was so frustrated, you could see it on his face. And Andy, please don't say "boo" ever again. Thank you.
So, I'm gathering that the lack of drama and honesty on this reunion was replaced with a series of montages. This was when we got to watch footage that we've already seen. I can never get enough of the "Sheree-down," but seriously, we needed some meat to this matter.
Instead we got ladies with lockjaw.
The Real Housewives of Orange County Bitchfest Is Back!
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Move over, Atlanta, Bravo's original leading ladies are back!
The Real Housewives of Orange County hotties return tonight, and the premiere gets so heated you'll be wondering why everyone made such a big fuss over those other two—you know, Miss "Tardy for the Party" Kim and her lifelong frenemy NeNe.
It's safe to say that season five will be more drama-filled than ever—and not just between the usual suspects. More marriages are falling apart, the newbies are clashing with the classics, and bitter feuds are boiling over.
We caught up with the O.C.'s kinda-but-not-really-housewife Gretchen Rossi last week, and she gave us the goods on what's up in season five...
Bethenny Frankel Blogs About Real Housewives of Atlanta: Kim "Is Certifiable and I Love It!"
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I was half-asleep during the reunion last night. It was so boring I flipped through an issue of Field and Stream for some excitement. First of all, to say fashion disaster would be a gross understatement. I don't understand what the hell was going on with the outfits and the set decor. It really was quite confusing.
Sheree, Sheree, Sheree...How could you rock Dolce & Gabbana when an entire season built up to your fashion event? Big mistake. Huge. As I said before, she likes fashion, but a businesswoman she ain't. At least Lisa was wise enough to market her wares.
Kandi wears the wild outfits and rock 'n' roll hair, but she can get away with anything because she is in the music Biz.
The best parts of the show were the flashbacks to the season's best moments. In my life, I've never loved a scene more than the Sheree party-planner smackdown. Her face literally became distorted. I could watch it for days. I love when she said she could find a pookie or two in her phone book. I can't help but love Sheree, the narcissist.
Real Housewife Bethenny Frankel Ready to Be a Real Wife
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Bethenny Frankel's big month just got a whole lot better.
Everyone's favorite Real Housewife (and E! Online celeb blogger) is tying the knot, and in typical Bethenny fashion, she's telling it like it is.
"He liked it so much he put a ring on it!" the entrepreneur extraordinaire gushes to E! News of her new fiancé, Jason Hoppy.
After a congratulatory tweet from our own Marc Malkin, Frankel gratefully replied: "thanks. I'm about to go on in front of hundreds of peeps at southern women's show in jacksonville.I'm going to announce it.yippee."
The couple became engaged on Oct. 8, says People, after Hoppy asked the Skinny Girl to marry him in her rose petal and candle-strewn Upper East Side apartment.
And while we're not positive this has anything to do with Hoppy's decision to propose, Bethenny told us in an Oct. 6 interview that the two were not yet engaged, but "the other housewives have all met him and thumbs-up. You can't dislike him; it's impossible."
Either way, congrats are in order to the happy couple!
(Originally published Oct. 17, 2009, at 12:42 p.m. PT)
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Love Bethenny? We do, too! And you can always get more of the reality starlet in her weekly E! Online blog for Watch With Kristin.
Bethenny Frankel Blogs About The Real Housewives of Atlanta: "All Hell's Gonna Break Loose"
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Sheree and Kim are hanging out? Wow, we Housewives are resilient. I must say, as Andy Cohen would put it, Kim and Sheree had some serious hair systems going on. It does look great though. The weaves and wigs are literally characters in this show, to be pulled, complimented, fought over and sold.
The whole Nene and Mel father storyline is compelling. It's nice to see her calm for a while. Normal isn't always bad. I love how Nene said that house in Athens used to be a mansion. Isn't that a mansion now?
I waited with bated breath for the episodic, narcissistic Sheree line, and this time it came like clockwork: "I made my samples to fit me because I'm the perfect model." She's the best, and I still love her. Why does she say Dwight's name with two syllables: De-wight?
Who doesn't love Kandi? Premarital counseling. Yikes. His death is tragic, so it really is difficult to discuss his six children from four mothers. She'll never get to experience that difficulty, but like any marriage, it would have been difficult. It does always go back to the money. That is the core issue here. When mama said "child support" as her word, I gasped.
