Former Real Housewives of New York star Bethenny Frankel thinks Lisa Rinna owes Erika Jayne a big thank you for resurrecting her career.
The Just B podcast host dished on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills personalities’ dynamics and how Rinna benefited from one of Erika’s insults.
Rinna’s return:
“I’d like to discuss Lisa Rinna’s reinvention,” began Bethenny. “Lisa Rinna has reinvented herself.”
“She has a new chapter, a new career. She was just on a red carpet, like, talking to celebrities, and she was in this rose gown.”
“And she has been in Hollywood forever. And I think she knows everyone. So she’s a great person to be on a red carpet, because people are going to immediately trust her, say hello.”
“She knows Hollywood from like the Harry Hamlin angle, from the Michael Bolton angle, from the reality TV angle, from her own acting angle. Like, she’s been around a minute, not unlike myself. And she’s been around that business, so she knows the people.”
“And I kind of like her on a red carpet. I thought that that made some sense. And she’s like, in fashion now. Her daughters are models, so that tracks too. She’s learned and circulated around and gotten savvy about the fashion business and the going to Milan or Paris and Fashion Week.”
The makeover:
“Erika Jayne can take full credit for Lisa Rinna’s reinvention because Lisa Rinna had the same haircut and the same dresses for every scene.”
“And Erika Jayne raised the goddamn bar because Erika Jayne was every single scene and a different hairstyle, a different outfit, a different shoe. She just was turning looks, even if she wasn’t leaving her bedroom. She just changed [RHOBH] into that.”
“That was never my thing. And this is not a criticism. It’s a fact for me. It wasn’t my thing. It wasn’t how I came up on the show. And the show was just about like real.”
“You’re not going to have Denise Richards, who was in her jean shorts and a tank top, fitting in when you got Dorit like bedazzling her skull. And Erika Jayne raised Dorit’s game too. Kyle started dressing differently, she turned it up.”
“And now Lisa Rinna is a fashion person and she could thank Erika Jayne and, frankly, the Housewives.”
