Andy Cohen, Bethenny Frankel. Getty Photographs (2)
Andy Cohen wish to be excluded from the Bethenny Frankel narrative at some point of BravoCon 2023.
Andy, 55, kicked off the three-day conference in Las Vegas together with his “Ask Andy” panel on Friday, November 3. After he and visitor Jeff Lewis broke down the largest tales throughout the franchises, it got here time for the fan Q&A. After one attendee tried to ask about Bethenny, 52, Andy made it clear the place he stands.
“Bravo, as all of us can see, and the reveals which might be on Bravo, deliver thousands and thousands of individuals a lot pleasure and a lot happiness, which is why we’re all right here to have enjoyable,” he replied.
“I really like the enjoyment that these reveals deliver individuals. And I feel all of us do. And that’s the place that I’m at.”
Jeff, 53, equally dismissed the remark about Bethenny. “I don’t need to discuss that,” he stated on Friday.
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Bethenny rose to fame as one of many OG Housewives on The Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis earlier than finally leaving the present after 2019’s season 11. Earlier this yr, she made waves when she criticized actuality TV productions for not offering a union or residuals for stars amid the continuing SAG-AFTRA labor strike. She has since launched her personal “actuality reckoning” to help different actuality TV personalities.
“I’ve not employed legal professionals nor am I suing,” she wrote by way of her Instagram final month. “I’ve directed wronged expertise and manufacturing members to get authorized illustration and am preventing for systematic change in a broken establishment. The truth reckoning is true, actual and I’ll lead by instance and evolve for myself and for my daughter, [Bryn].”
She added: “We’ve got fed the machine scores, advert {dollars}, catchphrases and content material. We get filthy they usually get filthy wealthy.”
Bethenny has not been involved with Andy — an govt producer for the community’s reveals — regardless of as soon as having a detailed friendship. In actual fact, she has even alleged that he “despises” her present plan.
“I can let you know with nice certainty that everybody at Bravo probably despises me, together with Andy Cohen, as a result of it’s very private and since they’ve to guard the realm,” Bethenny stated on Rob Lowe’s “Actually” podcast in August. “It’s a really difficult factor I walked myself into while additionally burning bridges and seeming like I’m biting the hand that fed me, however I fed myself. There are lots of people who didn’t get fed.”
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Whereas Andy and Jeff stayed mum about Bethenny on Friday, Lisa Vanderpump has not held her tongue.
“To have an incredible tv profession, I’m so grateful to NBC and Bravo. They’ve taken a lot crap currently from so many individuals that you recognize used to work for them, [and] I feel it’s a disgrace,” the Vanderpump Guidelines star, 63, solely instructed Us Weekly on Thursday, November 2. “You’ve bought to additionally take a look at what they’ve given you as effectively.”
Lisa concluded: “No person is force-feeding you. So loads of that, loads of bulls–t, individuals casting blame. Don’t chunk the hand that feeds you.”
With reporting by Sarah Hearon
