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Hi RT readers! Introducing our newest writer Maria Diaz to you all today! Some of you might be familiar with Maria as she has been blogging about Bravo shows for a while now. You will be able to read more about Maria tomorrow when we publish her bio! Please give her a great RT welcome! Thanks – RT 
Our long national nightmare may be coming to an end; Us Weekly reports this weekend that Bethenny Ever After, former housewife and current Skinnygirl mogul Bethenny Frankel‘s hit reality show, will be coming to an end after its third season premieres on February 20.
Before you put your monogrammed tinfoil hats on and blame this on Jill Zarin, do not fear: the source tells Us Weekly that this was a decision Bethenny came to on her own, wanting to end the show on a “high note” and instead she “is going to concentrate on her many business ventures.”
“The door is open for other projects with Bravo,” the source adds. “But as far as Bethenny Ever After goes, she feels that ending the show on a high note and ending it after this season would be best for her family. She doesn’t want her [20-month-old] daughter [Bryn] to grow up on TV.”
This was a year of almost endless bad press for Bethenny, who for a while seemed virtually untouchable, as viewers watched her go from the sad singleton begging her detached boyfriend to move in with her on Real Housewives of New York City’s first season, to happily married, with a baby and a fat bank account after she successfully sold her line of Skinnygirl cocktails to Jim Beam for a highly disputed amount of money. However, then came some lawsuits, an accusation that she faked being lost at sea for her reality show and lastly her talk show got dropped.
In any case, if there’s one thing Bethenny is good at it’s spinning just about anything in her favor (it’s why they pay her the big bucks!) and she did just that at this weekend’s Television Critics Association press junket (this is when the networks roll out previews of all the new shows, along with forcing the actors and other stars to talk to an army of members of the media).
She says all the stories are just making her stronger and it’s a testament to just how popular she is, telling E! Online: “I’m also a little bit flattered because it means I must’ve really made something out of myself, because there are that many that that want to tear me down. A lot of people want to tear me down, and if I were them, I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for that to happen.”
Bethenny also spoke out about her former BFF Jill Zarin. When asked if she had any advice for the now fired Jill, she stated, “Jill Zarin is definitely a survivor. She is definitely well-to-do and I don’t think she’s worried about finding a job.”
Bethenny doesn’t end there going on to give Jill a not so subtle diss. “She was on the show for years, and in many of the cities people are only on for one or two seasons,” Bethenny explains. “It just happens that they make it a little fresher. I’m sure she’ll find exactly what she’s looking for. It probably just stings a little bit. It’s a little bit difficult. She has her own way of dealing with it. I’m sure it’s difficult for her a little bit to watch what’s going on with me. Maybe if I were in her position, that’d be difficult for me, too. She handles it the way she knows how.”
As for what we can expect on the third and reportedly final season of her reality show, Bethenny states we will get to see some marital issues between her and hubby Jason Hoppy. Though she says her marriage has “amazing ups,” it also has struggles: “I just turned 41, and I unintentionally crammed everything in,” said Bethenny. “I got pregnant, I got married, I sold part of my business, and now we’re settling into what married life really is.”
Bethenny notes that she’s still “in therapy,” and despite problems between Jason and herself, she did not request that the cameras be turned off. “We’re going there,” she added.
Regarding her future on Bravo, they are naturally tight-lipped about whether or not the third season of BEA will be her last (I’d like to suggest a follow-up entitled Everybody Hates Bethenny, where she will just deal with all her haters) and the network tells Us Weekly that: “They haven’t even finished shooting this season so no decision has been made about another one yet.”
Whatever the decision is, love her or hate her, no doubt folks will be watching Bethenny, whether to laugh, cry or just speculate on how much plastic surgery she’s truly had done.
[Photo Credit: WENN]
TELL US – THOUGHTS ON BETHENNY CHOOSING TO END HER SHOW? SMART? ARE YOU EXCITED ABOUT SEASON 3? THOUGHTS ON HER COMMENTS ABOUT JILL & HER MARRIAGE?
Jason is Catholic not Jewish…just to claify.
I don’t think Bethenny was dissing Jill, I actually think she is trying to relate to how she would feel if the roles were reversed. That’s an admirable trait.
Bethenny is not perfect and doesn’t pretend to be. Her honesty is what people are drawn to as well as her ability to recognize her own faults. She’s just as hard on herself as she is on others.
Marriage is hard work, but I think as long as she keeps a solid family life at the center of her goals, they will have a long and successful marriage. No one’s perfect, no marriage is perfect; you always have to work on yourself and your relationships-that’s just life. Bethenny has had a difficult upbringing. If she could find a relationship with God (if she doesn’t already have one), she would find a lot of healing (just speaking from experience). I wish her and Jason and Bryn the best.
If the marriage lasts I would be very surprised because he is too nice for her. She is a real beyotch most of the time and that has to be hard to live with!
Welcome Maria, loved your blog and writing style!!!
I would like to thank Bethenny for her gift this year. Now leave b*tch!
Maylis, I hope you read this. My heart goes out to you. Approval from our parents is something that we crave our whole lives. Even when we recognize their faults and maybe their inability to give that of themselves (and especially if you have a people-pleasing type of personality-it’s very hard to reconcile those feelings). I am praying for you Maylis. I don’t mean to be prosthelytizing, but God has healed me so much in this area (it truly transformed my life fourteen years ago). I found great help through a pastor (she’s quite well known now) named Joyce Meyer. You might like to visit her website-lots of helpful articles. She shares her own faults and mistakes and how she’s overcomes many of them. God bless you Maylis.
EveryOne does NOT hate Bethenny, Maria.
Snarky is fun, nasty is not. This blog was nasty.
#106 I agree, there is a fine line between snarky and hateful and this blog was just that, full of hate and nastiness. I guess it is good that Bethenny is leaving so she doesn’t have to put up with these nasty bloggers who in all reality are nobodies and would never have anything close to what Bethenny has achieve with her business skills.
Bethenny is not everybody’s cup of tea but she has not have any of the outrageous behavior of the other housewives and she has even be gracious in her reply to JZ. I think that Reality Tea is now catering to another kind of readers and posters that are outright nasty and hateful, just not for me.
Goob bye RT.
@107 Princess, If your looking for the all love for Bethenny Frankel all the time blog, You should probably go over to Lynn Hudson’s website “I hate Jill Zarin”, it would probably be more your cup O tea.
I actually like Bethenny. We share the same kind of sense of humor. Just wish we shared her money!
I love Jason because he reminds me of my husband. Very calm until he’s had enough, then watch out! And I, like, Bethenny, have a husband I don’t deserve, but thankful for his love, nonetheless.
I really do enjoy they dynamics between them. And Bryn…what a sweet addition to the mix.
#108
I would never read anything that has hate in their blog name, just not my cup of tea. I just thought that RT was snarky and hilarious sometimes, I see how they have lost that just to please posters like yourself who pride in being mean spirited and nasty. I guess RT is now your cup of tea and that is fine, there any many other places that I could visit. Enjoy!
@110 Princess, have fun!
@110 – I’ve been on here for a short time and I have seen the same. I mean, I can be nasty, but I won’t be that way to other posters, but I will be towards a HW or another reality “star” on here.
@108 – my comment was not in reference to you
@Maylis:
Thanks for Ur heartfelt words of Wisdom!…
@GreenMoon:
Maybe I will now read her book, been reading Ur comments for a while and agree with many things U say, and if U say it’s worth a read, that’s good enough for me, hope Ur well, U…
Thannk you Kat x, i do believe, and it does help me a great deal.. And thank you Meinla x.
I hope Maria does not get disheartened you know, her first blog is getting her quite a baptism of fire.
@114 Meinla, You’ve lost your mind.
@Bryan:
LOLOL….ya think?…maybe it’s the L.A. water….lol…I said Many things that @GreenMoon said, not Everything, and yes I’ve been jabbed also in the past by her/him but why go there?…..Life’s tooshort…. Best U Raconteur, U……lol…
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Maybe Betheninny has learned something in her quest for Fame and Fortune, I think havin’ a Family might’ve mellowed her and taken some of that hard edge off, let’s hope so anyway, everyone deserves to be happy…IMHO……
@117 Meinla, everyone deserves it, but it takes a little work, you also have to want it and know what to set aside to get it. All I see is someone with dollar signs in her eyes and a constant need for fame and a do anything and use anyone to get it.
If we’re to believe BF’s spin on wanting to go out on a high note, then she ought to have bowed out of her series at the end of last season at the latest–thus avoiding the lost-at-sea lie and downplaying the Whole Foods scam.
Maria – I know your an “author” but snarky and bitchy are not synonyms.
oops – you’re NOT your!
who’s the dumbass now?
@Crimson Rain. The mean spirited tone of this article is in the first sentence. You can’t unread what you’ve already read.
Why are people criticising Maria for writing exactly how every single other blogger on here writes? jeez
Luv realitytea b/c they have such funny “tongue in cheek” blogs. This one did not fit with their usual style. Hope “Mary”can mentor Maria to turn down the “hatin”
I love bethenny and will miss her, but I respect her for looking out for the sanity of her child and the hope for a long REAL marriage that won’t be ruined by the cameras.
I really liked your article post.Much thanks again. Cool.
It was just way to long!!! I wish Bethany wasn’t ending her show. She was my favorite RHONY! And loved her spin off! But, if it’s effecting her health and marriage? I’d ditch the show too, and don’t blame her! Good grief it’s SNOWING? Oh, yeah.. Good Luck Bethany!!!
what a whiny post nasal drip look at me and pay me narcissist.just sayin.
Lol all these responses are being posted by the same people , a select few who have a problem with Lynn Hudson’s blog and hate bethenny frankle. These aren’t real posters expressing any kind of objective or new thought out Opinion. Same names , same comments, different years zzzzzz