Is There a Kelly Bensimon Easter Egg in ‘And Just Like That?’

And Simply Like That followers are nonetheless ready to learn the way Samantha Jones will make her superb return, however there’s presently a much bigger query that must be answered: Did the newest episode embody one other Actual Housewives Easter egg?

Through the Thursday, August 10, installment of the Max collection, Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) met artwork vendor Mark Kasabian (Victor Garber), who runs the gallery the place Charlotte (Kristin Davis) is now working. Throughout their temporary dialog, Carrie instructed Mark she’s a author. As Mark was all too completely happy to tell her, writing is a occupation he is aware of a bit one thing about.

“My second spouse was a author as properly,” Mark defined. “Wrote The Massive E-book of Bikinis: From Havana to the Hamptons.”

The Massive E-book of Bikinis is, sadly, not an actual guide. It is potential, nevertheless, to buy a tome known as The Bikini E-book, revealed by Assouline in 2006. Its creator? Kelly Killoren Bensimon, former Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis solid member and star of the upcoming fourth season of Final Ladies Journey.

Mark didn’t point out any names, after all, however Us couldn’t assist however marvel — is his second spouse a loosely fictionalized model of Bensimon?

It could sound like a stretch, however there are a few causes this concept bears out. To start with, the timing works. Mark instructed Carrie he’s in the midst of divorcing his third spouse, that means his second spouse probably left the image some time in the past. Maybe within the early 2010s, after the mid-aughts publication of her bikini guide?

Secondly — and most significantly — this season of AJLT has already included a blatant reference to a different RHONY veteran: Bethenny Frankel. Frankel, 52, stayed on RHONY longer than Bensimon, 55, however their time as Housewives overlapped, culminating in probably the most well-known Bravo feuds ever. If there’s actually a RHONY fan within the AJLT writers room, then it appears probably they’ve seen the Scary Island episodes greater than as soon as.

The Frankel reference got here in the course of the June premiere when Seema (Sarita Choudhury) proposed sharing a Hamptons rental with Carrie, who stated she “virtually purchased a home within the Hamptons six instances however all the time discovered a motive to not.”

Seema then quipped, “Was that motive all the time Bethenny Frankel?”

Frankel took the dig in stride, sharing an Instagram video of herself ingesting wine at her property in Bridgehampton. “Whenever you’re off TV for years … AND JUST LIKE THAT … catty housewives are nonetheless speaking about you,” she wrote over the video, which additionally confirmed a scene from AJLT enjoying above her.

She captioned the clip: “CURRENTLY sipping my new Ceaselessly Younger rosé wine from my home within the Hamptons paid for by my final spirits enterprise. Cheers women.”

New episodes of And Simply Like That stream through Max on Thursdays.