Despite residing in Florida, Bethenny Frankel doesn’t plan on filming The Golden Life with her fellow Real Housewives of New York alums because they can’t afford her.
Bethenny is “protecting [her] peace” by staying off of E! as it would not “be good for business.”
Times have changed:
According to the Skinnygirl founder, “[Reality TV] used to be good when I was promoting my own business. But now that I work with a lot of other brands and have different types of equity deals and partners, they don’t look highly upon that genre. They kind of like that’s it’s in the rearview.”
“Despite some of the women asking if I would come back, the amount of money it would take for me to come back, which E! could presumably never pay, would make the other ‘Housewives’ resent me so much, which did happen before. It happened last time. It would create too much resentment.
“I’m really happy for these women and I want them to thrive [and] succeed and I want the show to do well.”
“I like my life now,” the former reality star said. “I like not having to do anything anyone else tells me to do or be anywhere anyone else tells me to be.”
She concluded, “Protecting my peace and this stage of life is very important to me.”
Bethenny went on to call the show a “savage, amazing move by E!” for building a show around Dorinda Medley, Sonja Morgan, Luann de Lesseps and Ramona Singer’s long-lasting friendships.
