Housewives Bethenny and Kelly: Friends Again?

NYC Housewives frenemies surprise reporters and fans when they pose for photographs together at a recent red carpet event

By Marc Malkin Apr 07, 2009 10:15 PMTags
Bethenny Frankel, Kelly BensimonBravo/Margaret Norton

People may have been surprised to see Real Housewives of NYC Bethenny Frankel and Kelly Bensimon posing together merrily for photographs on the red carpet at Sunday's second annual Bravo A-List Awards.

In a recent episode of the hit Bravo series, Kelly barked at Bethenny: “I don’t like you, I don’t think you’re funny, I don’t think you’re charming. We are not friends!”

Is it possible the two have reconciled? Don't bet on it...

"We're here, so we've gotta put on that smile," Bethenny told us after their making nice for the photogs. "We're like oil and water. It's gonna be hard to get those two together."

Kelly says she just can't understand why anyone wouldn't like her. "I'm like the nicest person you will ever meet," she insisted. "I'm like a Labrador retriever. I'm so loyal. And so when people say mean things, I'm so taken aback, like what?"

Fellow Housewife Ramona Singer also joined the duo on the red carpet, but Alex McCord and just-split-from-her-husband The Countess LuAnn de Lesseps were back in NYC, as was Jill Zarin, who was helping daughter Ally prep for her Project Green Prom event.

Meanwhile, in other Housewife drama, Atlanta's Kim Zolciak said that she and frenemy NeNe Leakes are getting along just fine. "We're cool," Kim said. "I mean, we had problems, but you work though it."

In other words, don't mess with NeNe.

—Additional reporting by Dahvi Shira