Bethenny Frankel and Jill Zarin Reunite, Allege Andy Cohen Orchestrated Cameras at Bobby Zarin’s Funeral

Nene Leakes is opening up about her experience with Bravo as the star of The Real Housewives of Atlanta as well as her fallout with Andy Cohen.

“Hello Isaac” podcast this week — including how he prefers to get intimate.“Asking for a friend, are you a top or bottom?” Mizrahi, 61, questions the Bravo honcho in a clip of the podcast posted to Instagram.“I’m a top,” Cohen quickly replied.“You’re a top?!” Mizrahi replied in shock. “Well, that was really an easy answer for you.”Cohen admitted that he had the answer “readily available” for the fashion designer.

If you’ve paid attention to Andy Cohen‘s interviews over the years, you already know that his preferred position in bed is being a “top.”

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Bethenny Frankel has enlisted two of the most high-profile attorneys in Hollywood to help in her self-proclaimed fight to help protect reality stars from what she says is exploitation by networks and studios. Power players Bryan Freedman and Mark Geragos are now working alongside Frankel to investigate the treatment of reality stars. Freedman tells me that he has heard from roughly 50 reality show cast members from various docuseries and competition shows who believe that they were “used and unfairly” treated by television networks and streamers.

Bethenny Frankel is going off on Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, and asking them to “go away for a long time…and close the mouth” after what she’s calling “the biggest botch job ever.”

Bethenny Frankel is happy to remain engaged to fiance Paul Bernon, and revealed she doesn’t have immediate plans to walk down the aisle to marry him.

Porsha Williams thinks Bethenny Frankel's call for a reality TV star strike has some real merit.Williams recently sat down with ET, to dish on her Fox celebrity competition series, and she addressed recent remarks made by Frankel about the possibility of reality stars unionizing and striking to demand better contracts and to stand with the ongoing SAG-AFTRA/WGA strikes.«I can respect a lot of what Bethenny had to say, actually. I mean, why would I have any problem with her speaking up for reality stars?» Williams shared.

Bethenny Frankel is looking back at one RHONY moment she regrets.

Bethenny Frankel's advice to Rachel Leviss -- should Rachel choose to go back to the kind of environment that ultimately landed her in a mental health treatment facility — is don't agree to go back to  until she's hammered out a new deal with Bravo.Speaking to ET's Kevin Frazier after questioning why reality TV stars haven't gone on strike, Frankel says Leviss is the one still getting dragged for her role in creating Scandoval, an affair with Tom Sandoval, whose nine-year relationship with Ariana Madix was torpedoed when news of the affair surfaced earlier this year. While the rest of the gang have all returned to production for the highly anticipated season 11, Leviss has bee noticeably absent. And Frankel, host of the  podcast, encourages Leviss to keep it that way until both sides can come to an agreement.«She had an affair. She's not the first person in the world that's had an affair and, you know, bullying or beating someone down for a tragic error that, yes, everybody has, like,  grabbed and ripped the meat off the carcass.

Andy Cohen is setting the record straight after he was captured on camera commenting on the state of star Kyle Richards' marriage to Mauricio Umansky. During an interview with at the premiere last week, Cohen was asked which of the cast's husbands he deemed the «hottest.» Apparently stumped, he turned to a nearby Brynn Whitfield — freshman star of the newly-rebooted franchise — for her opinion. «Am I going to get in trouble for saying Mauricio?» she asked. «No, that's fine,» Cohen responded — but it was his next comment that raised eyebrows: «He's available.» Asked whether he agreed with Whitfield's pick, Cohen conceded, «He's pretty handsome.» Taking to the comments on the clip, fans were quick to dub the moment — and Cohen — as «messy.» On Thursday, Cohen took to Twitter to address his remarks that have since made headlines. «I was being absolutely flip and cheeky,» he wrote.

Bethenny Frankel is calling for a reality TV union.

posted an Instagram rant on Instagram on Wednesday regarding the writers’ and actors’ labor issues, demanding that reality stars get paid residuals.“Why isn’t reality TV on strike?” Frankel, 52, said. “Reality stars should also stop shooting network and streaming content until their free content is taken down.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Bethenny Frankel says reality stars should take a page out of the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes and unionize. She says she believes reality stars should be earning residual-like payments when their series become hits and are replayed by networks and streamers across multiple platforms. Frankel shot to fame on the original “Real Housewives of New York.” She says she was paid $7,250 for the first season, but has never received any compensation based on the show’s massive success. She has a starred in a variety of reality series since “RHONY,” including “Bethenny Getting Married,” “Bethenny and Frederick” and “Bethenny Every After.”

Andy Cohen may have spoken out of turn on a recent red carpet, when he was captured on camera commenting on the state of star Kyle Richards' marriage to Mauricio Umansky. During an interview with at the premiere last week, Cohen was asked which of the cast's husbands he deemed the «hottest.» Apparently stumped, he turned to a nearby Brynn Whitfield — freshman star of the newly-rebooted franchise — for her opinion. «Am I going to get in trouble for saying Mauricio?» she asked. «No, that's fine,» Cohen responded — but it was his next comment that raised eyebrows: «He's available.» Asked whether he agreed with Whitfield's pick, Cohen conceded, «He's pretty handsome.» Taking to the comments on the clip, fans were quick to dub the moment — and Cohen — as «messy.» The exchange went down more than a week after news broke that Richards and Umansky had separated after 27 years of marriage. However, the estranged couple issued a joint statement at the time that any claims of them divorcing were «untrue.» They admitted to going through «a rough year» and clarified that «there has been no wrongdoing on anyone's part.» «Although we are in the public eye, we ask to be able to work through our issues privately,» they concluded their message.

Bethenny Frankel has one question — «Why isn't reality TV on strike?»The former  star posed the question Wednesday in one of her trademark sound-off posts, in which she shared that, during her first season on the hit Bravo show, she earned a paltry $7,250.«Hollywood is on strike. Entertainers are fighting for residuals, and no one will promote anything. Why isn't reality TV on strike?» she asked.

Bethenny Frankel is revealing something surprising about her ex-marriage.

Bethenny Frankel has a bone (or two!) to pick with Andy Cohen.

Bethenny Frankel is claiming Andy Cohen told her to marry ex-husband Jason Hoppy, which she says was the «worst idea in history.»While speaking with Jill Zarin on the latest episode of her Just B podcast, the former Real Housewives of New York City star briefly mentioned her ex.«Andy told me to marry Jason, so, there we go,» Frankel told Zarin. «F**king worst idea in history.»In a 2021 episode of her podcast, the 52-year-old SkinnyGirl founder also touched on why her marriage didn't work out.«I ended up marrying someone who was just a regular person, who seemed like they could handle all of what’s going on with me, and being in reality television,» she explained.

OG “Housewives from RHONY”, Bethenny Frankel and Jill Zarin, just reunited one-on-one for the first time since 2010.

After more than a decade, Real Housewives of New York City fans can finally rest easy knowing that peace has been brokered between two legends: Bethenny Frankel and Jill Zarin.