Bethenny is getting her own reality show http://www.nypost.com/seven/07162009/gossi...ity__179500.htm

Anybody heard anything more about this?

Oh, Cripes.

Is this the same Jason from the first season?

I think this is a little premature, isn't it? The show isn't a done deal at all, especially since because of the name chosen, she's in for a legal battle that might either derail the show or seriously delay it. There's already a dietitian who uses that name and she's apparently pissed about this and already contacted an attorney.

No, not Jason from first season. New guy. Seems a little quick to be engaged.

Is anyone else a little sick of Bethenny and her whole "I'm skinny" schtick?

Just, me? Alrightly then - sitting at my table for one...

I like Bethenny and all, but too much of a good thing and all that. After a while she seriously starts to work my nerves.

Nope, not just you. What annoys me is she acts like she's breaking some brand new mold with her skinny schtick and her cooking ideas. She is so not the first person to have these ideas, so I'd love it if she didn't act like she was. And I agree, too much of a good thing. I can take her and enjoy her a lot more on RHNYC than I can on her own show where she's in every single scene. The novelty of her will wear thin much quicker that way (and its already a bit worn for me).

Stupid. Who thought this woman deserves his own show? If she gets her own show, then why not give individual shows to all the women who have appeared on the Real Housewives. Madness.

P.S. Bethany isn't that skinny either, so not only is the title plagiarism it's also false advertising.

I'll join you, but I'll need a sturdier chair. Zaftig & the City as I am and all.

Wonder if she'll go wedding dress shopping with Jill and adopted Mom, the wise guru Gloria. Or is that too plebian for a NYT best-selling authoress?
Will she invite her biological parents to the nuptials? Will they even come after being dissed for 2 seasons on TV?

Okay, I'll watch but I'm not going to be happy about it, damn it. ; )

You need a bigger table, WitsNSass, because I'm with you, too.

Bethenny is way too skinny. The kind of skinny where she has a lollipop head, and her head is the only thing that keeps her from falling into grates and cracks as she moves through NYC.

Supposedly she and the new man have been together for eight months and just got engaged. Seems a little fast to me, but my biological clock isn't ticking loudly enough to drown out my common sense with desperation - but methinks that Bethenny's is.

If she gets her own show I don't want to see Jill or Gloria, sage and wise-guru that she is, anywhere near it.

Oh, come on! Just think of the tired, trite advice on happy marriage Gloria will dispense through her unmoving face. Jill can throw B a shower, loudly evaluate the gifts, and Bethenny will threaten to stab her in the eye with skewers like in S1 because now B's even hungrier and crankier. Like those buttons for Vote Perot said in '92: C'mon, it'll be funny!

I will be watching this show cause:
1. I find Bethany mildly amusing and
2. My standards are pretty low. I watch NYC prep and I have to do that with the shades pulled and my door locked. Not something I want to admit!

Is being skinny that big of a virtue? Her body isn't something I strive for. Add 20 lbs, then maybe. Hopefully, her boobs are reduced. I never understood a chef that doesn't eat. Kind of an oxymoron.



I hope they create some interesting situations cause there has to be something more than shopping/going out to dinner.

I think this is one that I may be able to avoid watching. I don't think she can carry her own show a la Kathy Griffin. She is nowhere near as funny (or cute) as she thinks she is.

However, if Kelly Bensimon will guest then incoherently insult Bethenney on one of the episodes, I may break down and watch that one, because I could watch Kelly make an ass out of herself for hours (and I did, this spring!)

Please tell me that Jason does not have small children? It won't take too much longer than a nanosecond for Bethenny to get envious of sharing her new beloved's time when he has the children. If there are teens, that's a little better. They'll tell her off in 2 minutes. However, before we know it, we're going to have a "it's-them-or-me" ultimatum, and who is going to find that kind of trauma entertaining? Definitely.not.me.

Bethenny is just not marriage material, imho. The only way this show must be successful through its first (and only) season is when we suddenly see the breakdown of the relationship, the end of the engagement, an attempt at a reconciliation, a final failure, and then Bethenny going from "friend to friend" for their advice about wth is really wrong with her or, at least, with her choice of men.

I agree that Bethenny in small doses is okay, but last season she often crossed the thin line between being a smart, witty, intelligently-acerbic woman to being a nasty, envious, judgmental and two-faced shrew. She truly needs to work on her reactions to people and situations that exacerbate her very real insecurities.

I hope this show falls through, and B sticks with RHofNYC.

Hell to the no. Health is. If somebody would organize a big ass sit-in somewhere, we could protest both the name and the concept. I'll bring the real cookies.

Yes! Like Tori Spelling skinny. You can freaking tell by the size of their heads they weren't meant to be that emaciated.

No, she isn't. How will she survive without Jill telling her how amazingly funny she is every 10 seconds? Actually I think Beth can't WAIT to put some distance between herself and the other Ho'wives, including Jill and her botox vile of a mother.

They both look like their implants are about to burst out of their chests too. I don't think anyone is meant to be that emaciated. It doesn't look as bad with really young girls, less than 25, but once you hit your thirties I think it looks crypt-keeperesque.

I'm sure there will be the token gay waiting in the wings to fill those shoes.

If Bethenny has another season of mean girls with Jill it could be the tipping point to the wrong side for her and her endorsements. B needs to spruce up her image or at least stay away from the negative. If she does a road to the wedding show it could be really good for her and probably better then another season of RHWs. I wish her well and rather enjoy her tenacity but don't find her particularly talented and while her products will perform better then most of the other RHWs junk I think her "skinny stuff" will not have a long shelf life.

I'm just wondering what products she'll come up with for weddings and romance that will be sold on Bravo. Isn't that Bravo's big thrust ~ selling stuff on their site.

There already is. Remember Bethenny's plan B? The cute hairdresser? He is the token gay who is just dying to go shopping for wedding dresses with Bethenny, listen to her relationship problems, and laugh at the bons mots that drop from Bethenny's mouth like so many sparkly, snarky gems.

I don't trust skinny chefs, either. If Bethenny's food tasted that good, she'd damn well want to eat it, and put on a few pounds in the process.

I guess this means that she won't be on RHoNYC. Do you suppose if I wrote begging Bravo to keep Jill off of the airways they'd listen?

Ugh...horrific idea to showcase Bethenny's grating personality on a show all her own. Unclear how large her ego has exploded thus far, but I don't think this chick has the goods to back it up with. But then again, I'm anything but a fan. Do a search on Bethenny Frankel on YouTube - she has some old-ish amateur videos up of her suggesting healthy, easy meals. Literally, they consist entirely of the novel concept of toasting bread, heating up a Boca Burger, and slapping soy cheese + tomato. She actually has the audacity to say, "this is beautiful." Like hell it is, Bobblehead! How in the hell did she get a book deal again?

She can't, but the good news is that she won't have to. If this scarily imagined dog's breakfast of a concept comes to fruition, I am certain that a bunch of never-before-seen-or-referenced characters will suddenly be featured as an intrinsic part of her life, a la the usual formulaic plot devices of "reality" shows - we'll have an actor playing her assistant, maybe one as her trainer, a heretofore unknown "friend" and/or "relative" or two will pop up, and there will be a few guest appearances by cast members of other Bravo shows. Add in a bunch of contrived drama about her personal and professional life and and the viewer is totally misdirected from the fact that there's no reason for the show to be on the air.

Watch out, Andy Cohen, I'm gunning for your job!

So true! Why give her her own show out of all of the Housewives? She's not that interesting alone.



Absolutely not. I'm kind of appalled at the insinuation.

Why not give LuAnn her own dating show with a bunch of young guys and call it "Hooking up with the Countess". I would watch that.

Or Caroline can do her own version of "Unsolved Mysteries" where she always assumes the wanted guy is innocent and makes excuses for the whole show, unless it involves a ProstitutionWhore! of course. This I probably wouldn't watch though.

Can't believe there's already a forum for this show already! I personally don't think its actually happening, but I can see Bethenny deciding to leave. She has been distancing herself from the cast and not making appearances with them for a while. This could be due to her book tour, but I follow all of them on Twitter and it doesn't look like she's been hanging out with Jill. Jill even tweeted something about going to lunch with her "real BFF." Probably reading too much into this, but it's interesting.

Kathy can carry a whole show because she's a genuinely funny comedian who has an interesting life and isn't afraid to make fun of herself.

In any case, it looks like this whole thing may have been a sham. Fox News posted today that her "engagement" is fake and that HBO wouldn't let the title of the show go through b/c it's too close to sex and the city.

http://www.bravofan.com/bethenny-frankels-...just-be-a-ring/

Yes, that's my blog, hope I'm allowed to link to myself! That also leads to the fox news article.

Highly doubtful this show will happen-The fiance isn't in real estate, the title is ripped off of another womans company and HBO is ticked that she is ripping off Sex and the City's name.

I'll stick with Sandra Lee for drunkorexia.

It already exists and it is called "The Cougar". Time to get on season two with LuAnn as the cougar.

Drunkorexia is excellent, and a perfect description for Bethenny. Unless she's on something else. Who thinks she may take diet pills?

There's a blind item floating around saying that she's addicted to laxatives and not "naturally thin." How true it is, I don't know.

I believe the laxative blind, as she told a website a few years ago: http://www.thisnext.com/list/1B4FBF14/Bethenny-Eats

The woman obviously has issues with food, and states in several different waysa that she is saving her calories so that she can have a few cocktails in her book. The sad thing is that she's already written book number 2, and number 3 is in the works!

Since the title Sex and the City was ripped off from Helen Gurley Brown's seminal novel Sex and the Single Girl, I don't think HBO has a lot of room to point fingers. There was also a movie called Sex and the Single Girl starring Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis, and Lauren Bacall.

Perhaps both titles are an homage to Gurley Brown's work? /sarcasm

Bethenny is a drunkwhorexic - which is what distinguishes her from Sandra Lee the drunkorexic.

Anyone hear if this show is still headed towards a tv near you? Or have we all dodged this bullet?

Does HBO even own the rights to the name "Sex and the City"? The show is not an original idea, it's based on Candace Bushnell's book and column. IDK - maybe she sold HBO the rights to the name...

I'm hoping we dodged a bullet, pixie721

I thought I read something online where Bethenny said she was absolutely coming back from more RHONY.....in which case, if she was on RHONY, I doubt she'd have enough "material" to carry her own show. I don't even see how planning a wedding is enough for an entire separate show - it seems just enough to carry Bethenny's "story" on RHONY - um, assuming she's actually engaged.

Bethenny's only good in small doses, so I really hope this Skinny & the City doesn't pan out.

Bethenny and Jason are NOT engaged. NO show. She's returning for season 3 of RH.

Even if you didn't like RHoOC Laurie and George their wedding was the highlight of that season. I'll bet Bethenny used her "engagement" and possible wedding planning as a bargaining chip to increase her salary with Bravo. RHoNY need something like a wedding because I heard that they are not filming the Hampton's summer season and that leaves them with only the fall in NY.

DeMoTV ~ I'm thinking B will work out an engagement if at all possible for season 3. Glad she won't have her own show tho because I don't think there's enough there.

Bethenny can't carry a show on her own , she needs the other women to balance her out.

Fuck me blind if I didn't hear on E! News this weekend that this is going forward. I normally don't watch E! News so I don't know what the segment was, and I was surfing channels to boot, but it was something along the lines of, "Which Real Housewife is getting her on show on Bravo? Bethenny Frankel or ________ (from RHoAtlanta)?" The answer was Bethenny. They went on to start to say what the show would be about but I continued surfing.

Of course, there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip, as they say. In this case, one can only hope that there's a banana peel on a well-oiled patch of ice ahead.

Daisy720





lol! add to that #2 statement, "in the dark"
me too.

I think you are going to have to set a buffet.

As for her natural parents being invited to her wedding...what parents? Don't you know she's an orphan? She has no parents, she raised herself, blah, blah, blah.

I wonder if they are going to change the name of the show, because Bethany is pregnant.

I'm so glad for her. I hope she has a happy and healthy pregnancy! I wonder if she's taping now? And how much do you wanna bet the other Housewives (all cities) are insanely jealous of her show.

I hope she is not drinking any skinny margarita and she is eating.

I somehow missed this rumor until now (guess I have been too focused waiting for She by Sheree to hit a store near me) but I really hope that someone who claims to be as a witty and funny as Bethenny could come up with a more unique and original name for a damn show. "___ and the City" has been done to death. Even her own franchise has used it, as the ROHNYC posters in the subway all last season even said "Six in the City". Laaaaaame.

This oughta be good for an ep or two:

Bobby Frankel, 68, Trainer of Champion Horses, Dies
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Published: November 16, 2009
Bobby Frankel, one of the most successful American thoroughbred trainers of the last 40 years, whose horses included the champions Bertrando, Ghostzapper and Empire Maker, the winner of the 2003 Belmont Stakes, died Monday at his home in Pacific Palisades, Calif. He was 68.

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Bobby Frankel with his horse Empire Maker, who won the Belmont Stakes in 2003, denying Funny Cide the Triple Crown.
The cause was cancer, the jockey agent Ron Anderson said.

Frankel, who trained in California for most of his career but never lost his Brooklyn accent, quickly rose to prominence after taking out his trainer’s license in 1966. Working with modestly talented horses bought from other stables in claiming races, he turned losers into winners at a remarkable rate, winning a record 60 races at Hollywood Park in 1972, the year he relocated to Southern California from New York.

He soon graduated to stakes-caliber horses and blue-chip owners, winning the top-graded Pacific Classic at Del Mar six times and saddling six winners in the annual Breeders’ Cup championships, the sport’s equivalent of the World Series or the Super Bowl.

Although he never won the Kentucky Derby, Frankel denied Funny Cide the Triple Crown in 2003 with Empire Maker in the Belmont Stakes. With nearly $228 million in purses, he ranks second only to D. Wayne Lukas on the list of leading career earners. Frankel was voted the top trainer in the United States five times in the annual Eclipse awards, the racing industry’s Oscars. His first award came in 1993. He later won it four years in a row, from 2000 to 2003. In 1995, he was inducted into the Racing Hall of Fame.

“He had a natural sense of what the animal was feeling,” said Jay Hovdey, a California-based columnist for the Daily Racing Form. “For all his urban angst and the New York in him that was never California-ed out, he was attuned to the natural, the rural, that horse racing is all about. That’s why his horses lasted so long.”

Robert J. Frankel was born on July 9, 1941, in Brooklyn, where his parents ran a kosher catering business and bet horses on the side. Growing up in Brooklyn and in Far Rockaway, Queens, he accompanied his parents to the races at Monmouth Park on the Jersey Shore and at Pimlico in Baltimore.

His aptitude for math helped him develop into an astute handicapper and a successful bettor.

“I’d go down to the candy store in Far Rockaway every night at 7:30 when the Form came out," he told The Independent of London in 2005. “I’d handicap all night long and then go out to the races the next day."

After giving up on college after one day, he got started in racing as a hot walker, a stablehand who walks horses after their workout runs to cool them down. His first mentor was Buddy Jacobson, a leading trainer on the New York circuit in the 1960s. After taking out his trainer’s license, he saddled his first winner, Double Dash, at Aqueduct in November 1966. In 1970, he won his first important race, the Suburban Handicap at Belmont Park, with Barometer, a horse he had bought in a claiming race for $15,000. That summer he tied for first place in the trainer standings at Saratoga.

Like many aspiring trainers, Frankel concentrated on claiming races, lower-level contests in which all the competing horses are offered for sale. Shrewd trainers learn to spot horses with potential, buy them and improve them. Frankel excelled at this game, and after taking his act to California, established himself as one of the sport’s brightest talents.

“He was very patient with horses,” said Chad Brown, a trainer who worked under Frankel for more than five years. “He let the horses come to him; he didn’t push them. He individualized them, training each one a little differently.”

Backed by deep-pocketed owners like Edmund Gann, Stavros Niarchos and Bert Firestone, Frankel began winning the sport’s most prestigious races. He won his first Breeders’ Cup race in 2001 with the sprinter Squirtle Squirt and last year won the filly and mare sprint with Ventura, for his sixth Breeders’ Cup victory.

Frankel trained 11 Eclipse award winners, including Aldebaran, Bertrando, Ginger Punch, Possibly Perfect and Ghostzapper, who won 9 of 11 lifetime starts, set a stakes record in the Breeders’ Cup Classic and was voted horse of the year in 2004.

In all, Frankel won 3,654 races from 17,657 starters. His last major victory came Oct. 17 at Woodbine, near Toronto, when Champs Elysees won the Canadian International, run at a mile and half on grass.

Frankel’s two marriages ended in divorce. He is survived by a daughter, Bethenny Frankel, a star of “The Real Housewives of New York City,” a reality series on Bravo.

In a sport populated by tight-lipped trainers and owners, Frankel stood out for his pungent, off-the-cuff comments and visible emotions; he often fought back tears when a favorite horse turned in a great performance or headed off to retirement.

“Isn’t that the kind of horse you’d want to see Roy Rogers riding off on?” he said to a New York Times reporter as his horse Native Guest prepared for the Preakness in 1975. When asked if the horse, which had raced only four times, might lack seasoning, Frankel said, “I’ll put salt and pepper in his hay, that’ll be seasoning enough.”

What makes you think she came up with it?

Well, now Bethanny's current tweets make a lot more sense. I wish her well getting through this difficult time.

I hope she was able to reconcile with him before he died. On RHoNY she always spoke of her parents very negatively, and referred to herself as an orphan.

Aw, that is really sad that they werent able to reconcile before she got married and had a child.

On another note - did you see that fortune? I wonder if he left it to her. She was his only daughter. If so, she may just be the richest housewife yet. Just saying.

Snark aside, sad situation.

Can't lie, I was wondering about the money as well. Didn't she complain about having trouble paying the rent in interviews? I wonder how this will play out in the new tv show. She always seemed like the poor friend who accompanied her rich friends on vacation in exchange for providing entertainment/cooking occasionally.