Selling Sunset alum Mary Bonnet detailed how appearing on nine seasons of Netflix’s hit real estate show helped and hurt her bottom line.
She told Us Weekly that the show “actually hurt my real estate business. I went into Selling Sunset thinking it was going to help … and in the beginning it did.”
Mary recalled when things changed in her professional life. “The behavior [became a problem]. Basically what I’ve been told is that other agents would use some of the girls’ behavior against them, saying, ‘Is this who you want representing you?’ And I was not a part of that,” she noted. “I was trying to stop it but it’s still used against me.”
“It hasn’t hurt Jason [Oppenheim] but he’s removed from all the drama. Anything they did — even though I was removed from it — still impacted my career. I lost a lot of clients and I lost a lot of deals because of it,” she recalled. “Even though the market is very, very bad right now, I did just get one of my previous clients that wanted to list with me now. So I’ve got a four and a half million listing coming up.”
“If it was more positive then I absolutely [would return to reality TV],” she told Us. “I would never be good on The Housewives or anything like that. It’s not me and it would eat away at me. I don’t like conflict and I know people love drama but I just feel like it is soul-sucking.”
Mary concluded, “I would love to do another show because I loved being on TV. I never thought I would, but I loved parts of it. But I also want to be able to use my platform for something positive and something good.”
