Bethenny Frankel commented on the debunked rumor that the Real Housewives of New York was canceled.
Bethenny began with imagery courtesy of Madonna … “New York City was my playground … and the Real Housewives of New York has been canceled.”
“It’s poetic; it’s bittersweet; it is the end of an era for me personally and for that show which was an alchemy of disaster.”
B on why the OG RHONY was so magical:
The B Strong Founder described the OG cast as “a flawed group of women in a flawed city authentically being ourselves. Unhinged. Unmatched. Shock waves through the real socialite community in New York and the media.”
“The powers that be pandered to society and tried to fit 25 pounds in a 5-pound bag. If you try to please everyone, you please no one.”
“So, they cast this glossy, curated version of what they thought they wanted New York City to be, instead of a group of friends who live in New York City being ridiculous, crazy, imperfect, making mistakes, lying, cheating, stealing, copying, and berating … in some cases shitting their pants … and people loved it.”
“No matter what, it was real. It was the realest that genre can be. So, bye New York. You will be missed.”
The claim that RHONY was canceled misled many:
News broke when a major publication reported that RHONY was going off the air, not ‘canceled.’ The headline stated, “Bravo flagship ‘RHONY’ going off the air, network ‘hopes’ to revive it.”
Again, they never used the term canceled. Here are some phrases that were used in the body of the article:
- We’re trying to figure that show out.
- We want to figure it out.
- We think there’s still life in it.
- Execs do expect RHONY to return at some point and in some form, but certainly not with all of its current cast.
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But, news that RHONY was ‘canceled’ spread like wildfire. Note, the fake news came from an unnamed source, despite it being a major publication. If you read the original article to the last sentence, they clearly stated the truth, explicitly … from Bravo, not an anonymous source.
“A Bravo spokesperson said: ‘Nothing is official. The show hasn’t been canceled.’”
Later, a second major publication reported that a Bravo spokesperson told them, “Nothing is official. The show hasn’t been canceled,” the same exact quote that was given to the first major publication from Bravo.
The moral of this story? No one said RHONY was being ‘canceled.’ But, people had to read the whole article (and consider that it was an anonymous source) to realize that. The article misled readers until the last sentence. That final sentence clarified all the ambiguity from the article and came from a credible source (a Bravo spokesperson.)
Again, “A Bravo spokesperson said: ‘Nothing is official. The show [RHONY] hasn’t been canceled.’”
