Just B Rant: BS and The BH

Published Oct 5, 2023, 4:00 AM

If Watch What Happens Live is doubling down on their questions, then Bethenny is doubling down on her opinions! Find out what got her worked up and what she reveals about the behind the scenes of the show!

Plus, the trailer for the upcoming season of RHOBH trailer is out and so is Bethenny’s take on it!

So if I tell you, I got fifty messages today on my Instagram showing me this clip and I thought that it had to be an old clip and I couldn't figure out why. So I have a clip here that is a shady whale. I don't know what that means. But the moms have now come out. Now here's what's going on Andy Cohen's show. I think it's more of like a promotional vehicle than a success driver. From a rating standpoint, it's a couple hundred thousand viewers, fewer than Real Housewives in New York, which can get like four hundred to five hundred, but usually in the high hundreds, and now I think it's in like the low hundreds. So the base for that show is the moms. You know a lot of Karen's, a lot of moms like the women that are you know in my messages and that that basically buy the washing machines, that buy the Dunkin Donuts coffee. That it's my people. These are my people. These are my women, like you know, and they will stay with you. I am doing a new business, which is a new shopping app. And the people on the board, who are very smart, very smart board of people from major retailers. They were talking about first launching to twenty five to thirty year olds, not forever, but first, I go absolutely not. You cannot fuck around and not have my moms. You can't have. You have to have like the eighteen to forty nine, the thirty five to fifty five, like we need my moms. Like moms are forgiving. You make a mistake, they'll get mad at you, they'll troll you, but they will come back to you. The young kids twenty five, eighteen thirty five, like they're gonna they're gonna bolt the minute you do something. Like the moms are fucking warriors. Okay, my moms are my people. So all my moms came into my comments today and some of my moms have been angry at me, angry at things that I've said. It could be about Megan Markle, it could be about Donald Trump, it could be whatever. But we have a conversation. We have a conversation. I explain things I go. I feel the need to explain. I feel the need to double down. I felt the need to do my Instagram post, my manifesto. They want an explanation. They're holding you to task. I can't just say something walk away and think I'm gonna convince them. My moms are an army and they will fucking hold you, and their lawyers, their private investigators, they will hold you to it. They have receipts they want to know. But you said that on June ninety ninth. What did you mean You've got to keep you side of the street clean. Well, my moms came in and they all sent me this shady whale video. I woke up to, like all these shady whale videos. So I see this shady whale on Watch What Happens Live. It's like a whale character. And this is a question to Heather. I think it looks like Jenny McCarthy's on with Heathery. She looked amazing, shitd have Bob haircart. I think Jenny MacCarthy's probably promoting the masked singer. Heather's promoting Orange County Housewives. We gotta hawk our wares, been there done that Six months ago. I was doing that, which we'll get to that in a minute, because that was Andy's big smoking gun Watch What Happens Live? Wrote Oh Bethany six months ago pitched us to be on to be on for her Wine. Yeah, my publicist pitched to be on the Wine and a bunch of different shows. Yes they did. I said what I said. So, so the Shady Whale asks this question to Heather Dubro because Heather Dubrow just sold her house and they said it was the most expensive house ever sold in Orange County. I think it was like fifty million or one hundred million. I think it was fifty something million, A lot of money. This is a question that the Shady Whale asks Heather Dubro, whose house on your show would get the least money if sold? Like, whose house would go you know, Garner the least money. Jenny mccarth I think it was Jenny McCarthy. I couldn't see it was like on my phone, so I'm just watching a video. I think it was Jennie McCarthy goes, oh my god, and Andy as if these questions aren't produced, like the whale, Oh did the whale? Did the animated whale come up with a question? I mean, and just by the way, last night, so many people message me and email my publicist about what I previously said about how the questions are planted. How like that girl from the New York Housewives said I was the most overrated housewives and maybe I am who cares? But she didn't say that on her own it was produced, and I'm sure now they'll call her to make her make a public statement that it wasn't produced. But the shady whale asks Heather who whose house would get the least money. Jenny McCarthy is like, oh my god. Andy Cohen can't believe what the animated whale said. That animated whale thought of that all by himself and instead, and Heather doesn't want to answer the question because she thinks it's me, and she says it's mean she's a woman on a show called The Real house Wives in twenty twenty three, saying that's me, and Andy of course answers the question. He thinks it would be Gina. This girl Gina on the show. Gina's not on the show. To defend herself, she posts a video responding that that was like me and saying that there are six women on the show and only four of them own their own homes, of one one of whom is her And I don't know how old she is, but I didn't probably own a place in my late thirties if that's how old she is, but who cares anyway. And then she says she's the youngest because they're all twenty years older. So she's defending her home. Now, let's just do this. What if your kids were at school and someone said Mary has the worst house of all of us. My child's school would would suspend the kid, maybe expel them, like the big trouble that would happen if one kid said that somebody else had the ugliest or the poorest or the dirtiest house, Like that's children on the school yard. This is a show, like Andy, I owe you an edible arrangement every day. I should send you a fruit basket every day. You prove me right. You're making this so easy. I wish we were in a court of law. Like I said, you were playing checkers, and I'm playing complicated chess. I don't know. I think you're playing checkers. I think you're fucking playing marbles, like literally playing Mark. You're asking someone who has the shittiest house on your show to grown women in their fifties at forties, what the heck that? Literally my phone blew up this morning. It's fucking whale and comments and this is literally what Laura dot Quervo five eighty seven said. This is the stuff Bethanie is talking about. I like it or not. Then another woman, chef Fecilia exactly heart like they're all talking. I'm starting to see Andy in a new light. He is messier than all the housewives. I love how direct you are in this video without throwing shade. You just told him the fact, straight up polite. They're talking to Gina. He wouldn't own anything without all of you being on his franchise. They're fucking they're fucking doing his work for him. He's using Watch Rappin's Life to ask which Real Housewives of Orange County has the cheapest least valued home on today's market? Are you serious? What does he want women on his franchise to buy a home that they can't afford? Because that makes great headlines, great point. Well, you know what the alternative is. You're gonna be made fun of on the school yard for having a shitty house, So why not fucking wrap up your credit card, hope that you'll curse someone out badly enough on this show for ratings, and maybe you can pay off your credit card and maybe you won't have to go to jail for fraud. But this fucking show and this franchise perpetuates an environment where you'll do anything to appear rich, because if you don't, a shady whale is gonna ask you why you're the poorest fucking housewife. Basket on the way, Andy co an edible arrangement fresh every day. I can't afford it. I never played that game. I showed my ikea apartment. Luanna made fun of me for having a skinny girl shrink wrapped car. I'll never forget it because I couldn't afford a real car. I was not I had no money until I did. But this environment not only perpetuates abuse of women to each other, it perpetuates somebody getting made fun of if they don't have as much, or somebody being glorified if they put their burke in right in the camera shot. Put that fucking burk in right in the eye of the camera. Buy a big house you can't afford. You buy a big house you can't afford. It's better than the alternative. The audience is gonna think you're rich, and I will say it. Ninety nine point nine percent of the housewives do not have what the show shows they have. Why was Nannie saying rich bitch to keep up with everybody else? Why was Charat and Chateau Charat that never got built to keep up with everybody else? But the shady whale is gonna come make funny you if you're poor, so you might as well fucking defraud everybody so you can appear rich. You guys created this fucking environment. I was in the center. I can honestly say I never pretended I had a goddamn dollar that I didn't. Can you imagine how degrading to be mocked for what your house looks like? People want to feel house proud. I haven't seen the show. I haven't seen her house, but I'm sure Gina wants to feel house proud. She owns it, she bought it with her own fucking money. It's not easy to buy a house. I had brind three years. I was in my forties before I bought a house. The first thing I ever bought my whole life was my apartment in Tribeca. I was like forty one. I was scared. I bought it my own fucking money. I had no money up until then. I always rented. What the hell would it mean to buy something in my forties? And it's so funny because every day I read like I respond to things that I've said in the media because Page six is smart enough to write about it. Daily Mail smart enough to write about it. And then you get the Bravo multi billion dollar company machine and their big response is, well, Bethany was you know her team was pitching that she was on our show six months ago? Is that all you got? We can fucking do this all day because I got nothing to hide. I got nothing to hide. The Beverly Hills trailer came out. It's great, it's juicy. Uh, It's obviously the most successful show in the franchise. The city itself is a character, so like Beverly Hills being so bigger and larger than life and the money and the shininess and the butt and like that's their marquis. That is their flagship store. That is the ultimate realm that they need to protect. Is the most successful vehicle besides vander Pump Rules on that network. But it's a better flagship store because it's like it's got this like depth and this institution that keeps growing and like that's air Mez of the network, and so they came out with the trailer, which is looks really entertaining, but you're watching some of the tricky editings. So I believe that when Maurice and Kyle are talking about their situation, and when Kyle says, well, something about like infidelity, and Maurice says, I'm just glad it's you. I Maurice is not saying that Kyle cheated. There's no way that Maurice is saying that in a trailer, which is what the trailer is edited. As Maurice is talking about I bet my life. They're talking about an article, a piece of press, and so in the press it's reading like Kyle's having an affair versus Maurice, who's been in the press, is having an affair. And I believe that. I believe that Maurice is saying at least or I'm glad it's you this time, like meaning in the media for that. I just do not believe that Kyle had a public affair that everybody found out about. And it's not because I'm detecting Kyle, which i am, and I will never There are people that I will never ever rat like I'm not a rat. I will tell things that are my opinion in society, like right now about what's going on and what's happening with Andy, but there I will never no matter what happens, you know, short of him suing me or they're being a legal subpoena. I don't share texts that I've had with anyone. Could be Niini, could be Jill zen Iron back in the day, could be Andy Cohen, could be Kelly Ribb. I do not share texts, and I don't share things that I've learned in a trusting environment. I grew up Nannying Paris and Nicky Hilton like to we go into the ground. I'm not sharing anything that they wouldn't want people to know that you know that the Paris liked ferrets and that we went ice skating into the mall. Like I would not share anything that went on with Paris or Nikki or Kathy Hilton or Lauren Michaels or all of the people, or Jennifer Lopez or you know, I know a lot of people. I do not divulge secrets. That is just something that everybody knows about me. Everybody knows that I am evaulved and I have every secret and I don't share. I can share my opinion, like I can say what I think of a scene between Kyle and Lisavander Punt, but I will not never share secrets. I will not divulge. Just it's a code they take very seriously. I don't share things that went on with like exes or you know, I don't write songs talking about things that happen with x'es. I just am very I have a code. So that's how I feel about the Kyle and Maurice thing. I will always pay them the respect that they deserve, and I will always honor their family and their marriage and the four kids and that I know, and it's just it's just where I come from on that, and even being friends with Kathy and Kyle and knowing what's gone on between them, same thing, like, do not cross that line. So the Beverly Hills trailer is out. And I said this to Jill Fritzo, a publicist that I share with Denise Richards. And I love Denise Richards for being so pure in Midwestern and like not cunning and savvy in this way. Denise Richards, I predicted it. I heard that she filmed, and I said to Jill, why would she film? She's not being paid. And the thing is, even if Denise was being paid for one seeing what she wasn't you film one scene. They're vultures the production and Bravo will market that one scene so the viewer and the press and every magazine will think that Denise Richards has come back. This is the reason I would never go back and shoot even a lunch, even five minutes, because the trailer would contain me in it, and it would have tricky and cute marketing, so the viewer would think the bee is back. And I would have been paid, you know, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to do one lunch, which would sound like a lot to somebody because it's one lunch. But they would market me as if I had shot for four months, and it would be free. And so Denise Richards gave them the cow, gave them the milk, gave it all away for free, and now she's in the trailer. And that's what happened with Jill Zarn at the funeral, which I did not know was an ambush. She was not miked, she did not sign a release saying they could film the funeral. They took a chance that she wasn't going to sue her, which she didn't, and Jill Zaren wasn't paid to cover the funeral, and the funeral was all over the trailer. It was the big teaser, the reunion between she and I. It added a lot of angst and a lot of anger with her towards me because I never knew that she didn't know I was coming. I was told she had asked for us to come, She had had a former friend or a friend assistant talked to Bravo about it, but they never confirmed. They never set anything up, They never gave a time, They never got it cleared, which is why no one's inside or even near inside, which is why Jill's and no makeup and has no microphone on. It was a full fledged ambush. So Denise Richards thinks she's going to one lunch and doesn't play chess and think five steps ahead that they're going to market that every super tease, every trailer, People, magazine, all of it, all for free, mention it all. Brandy Glanville posted something because a text, a textual exchange between her and a therapist who reached out to Brandy like, hey, over here in case you want talk, and Brandy was like, excuse me, Like they were acting like it had been a practice in you know, that's been going on for decades, you know, since the Dinosaur era, housewives have had an in house therapist to talk to if they have something they want to work through, lall lalls. As Paul will say, Brandy was like, excuse me, wrong number? Who is this? Like we've never had a therapist. And she's smart enough to know that, Like that's Bravo trying to like deconstruct and Monday Morning quarterback therapist. Try to plug a therapist back into sixteen years of reality TV that never happened, and she's like, I'm sorry, this is the wrong number. We've never had a therapist. A lot of talk about Tyler Cameron and the questions Andy asked him on Watch What Happens Live, many people coming into my messages on Instagram saying that he was sort of objectified and talking about him as if he were like the gardener on Desperate Housewives, that moms wanted to sleep with him, and should he take his shirt off, and like all these really intelligent breaking news questions that a lot of people had a problem with because I think me mentioning that watch What Happens Live is basically the vortex and command central for women trashing other women and people being objectified and demoralized. While Andy stays clean, he makes other people answer embarrassing questions, and then there's shady whales and shady boots, and so many people have come into my messages talking about fake, fake questions, that they've been in the audience and they've been callers, and that callers have their questions vetted and produced, so the caller will have a question, but like it'll sort of be changed into another question that's been planted. And the Bravo PR machine has responded to my daughter feeling like I was bullied when I was on his show, and they say that the show is for people twenty one and over is inside that room because people are drinking, but they have the television with the live show for people's glam teams and people's kids that's in the green room. And my daughter, whether she was backstage or at the house, would have said he was bullying you. They made a statement saying that the show isn't catering to thirteen year olds, which yeah, it's not, but I still have a child who did watch it, and whether at home or in France or on her computer or on a clip on Instagram or TikTok, Brynn would have said, they gang up on you and they bully you. It doesn't matter where it was, like, I don't know if it's Mickey Mouse or fucking Donald Duck who's handling Bravo pr but like, you're gonna have to do better than that. They're two big smoking guns with its. Six months ago, I was trying to be on watching What Happens Life to promote Forever Young Wine Thank You, which yeah, okay, And actually they declined because they can only hawk liquor brands that they're paid to hawk, like Fresciela or whatever Andy's hawking. They won't hawk my brand even though I was on the show for you. So that's why I didn't do Forever Young six months ago as a bartender, thank God, because I would have aged like bad milk. And they answered the Brian question by saying that the show is not for thirteen year olds. Yeah, I realized that, and Sesame Street isn't for twenty one year Olds, but we still can watch it.

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