[The Real Housewives Of New York City Full Episodes
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The cast of the first season consisted of Bethenny Frankel, Luann de Lesseps, Alex McCord, Ramona Singer, and Jill Zarin. Other housewives that starred in multiple of the first thirteen seasons include: Kelly Killoren Bensimon, Sonja Morgan, Carole Radziwill, Heather Thomson, Dorinda Medley, and Tinsley Mortimer. The series was rebooted for the fourteenth season, making it the first series in the franchise to be completely recast. The cast consisted of: Sai De Silva, Ubah Hassan, Erin Lichy, Jenna Lyons, Jessel Taank, and Brynn Whitfield.
While in pre-production, the show was initially titled Manhattan Moms. It was later rebranded to become the second installment of the then-new Real Housewives franchise. The first season premiered on March 4, 2008, and starred, Bethenny Frankel, Luann de Lesseps, Alex McCord, Ramona Singer and Jill Zarin. Cast members were paid for their appearances on the series. Frankel, for example, was paid $7,250 for the season.
Kelly Killoren Bensimon was added to the cast for the second season, which premiered on February 17, 2009. The third season premiered on March 4, 2010, and saw the addition of Sonja Morgan as a main cast member, along with Jennifer Gilbert, in a recurring capacity. In August 2010, Frankel left the show in order to expand her Skinnygirl product line.
Cindy Barshop replaced Frankel for the show's fourth season, which premiered on April 7, 2011. After the fourth season, McCord, Zarin, Killoren Bensimon and Barshop were effectively let go from the show.
In April 2012, Bravo announced a revamp to the cast for its fifth season, integrating Aviva Drescher, Carole Radziwill, and Heather Thomson, into the main cast. The season premiered on June 4, 2012. Production for the sixth season was set to begin on May 8, 2013, but the cast instead chose to go into salary negotiations with Bravo, effectively delaying shooting. Drescher, Morgan, Radziwill, Singer, and Thomson renewed their contract in May 2013, while de Lesseps was demoted to a recurring role. The sixth season premiered on March 11, 2014, a year later than planned with Kristen Taekman as the latest housewife. Drescher was dismissed after the sixth season.
The seventh season premiered on April 7, 2015, featuring the return of Frankel and addition of Dorinda Medley, while de Lesseps returned in a full-time role. Taekman and Thomson exited the series after the season ended. For the eighth season, which premiered on April 6, 2016, Jules Wainstein was added to the cast, while Thomson returned in a guest capacity. At the end of the season, Taekman did not return and Wainstein left the show in September 2016 for personal reasons.
The ninth season premiered on April 5, 2017. Tinsley Mortimer joined the cast, while former housewives, Thomson and Zarin appeared as guests. The tenth season premiered on April 4, 2018, with the cast of the ninth season returning. Drescher, Killoren Bensimon, Thomson and Zarin all appeared as guests. It served as Radziwill's final appearance on the show.
On March 23, 2022, it was announced that following the thirteenth season's negative reception, the showrunners had made the decision to 'most likely' recast the show from scratch for the fourteenth season, and create a second version of the show following some of the show's original housewives, referred to as RHONY: Legacy or RHONY: Throwback. It was later announced that veteran housewives, de Lesseps and Morgan, would star in their own spin-off series, titled: Luann & Sonja: Welcome to Crappie Lake. Filming for the spin-off began in July 2022 in the small town of Benton, Illinois. The series premiered on July 9, 2023. The fourth season of The Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip, a spin-off featuring various women from The Real Housewives franchise, being billed as 'RHONY Legacy' premiered in December 2023 on Peacock. Taking place in Saint Barthlemy in the same villa that was featured in the fifth season of The Real Housewives of New York, the cast includes: Killoren Bensimon, de Lesseps, Medley, Morgan, Singer and Taekman.
On October 16, 2022, Andy Cohen revealed the new cast for the show's fourteenth season by announcing that, Sai De Silva, Ubah Hassan, Erin Lichy, Jenna Lyons, Lizzy Savetsky, Jessel Taank and Brynn Whitfield, would be leading the rebooted series. On November 16, 2022, Bravo confirmed that Savetsky was departing the series midway into filming the season. Savetsky claims that the reason behind her decision to quit was that she had received anti-Semitic hate across her social media accounts. The fourteenth season premiered on July 16, 2023.
Then-current cast member, Frankel, stated in 2017 that she would like to see the series "represent New York more." Writing for The New York Times in October 2019, author, Tracie Egan Morrissey, posed the question, "If less than half of the city is white, why is 100 percent of the cast of The Real Housewives of New York City white?" Former cast member, Thomson, also stated that during her time on the series, she had pitched several women of color to the show's producers to diversify its cast members due to her concerns about the issue. The women also received backlash for highlighting the class divide in America through the ignorance and mistreatment of staff featured on the show.
The announcements of both the reboot and new cast of the show's fourteenth season have been criticized by some long-time viewers of the series, who argued that these were rash and poor decisions on Bravo's part. The reboot's cast has been deemed unappealing by these viewers, many of whom appreciated the franchise's specific focus on established spheres of older, upper-class New York socialites, labeling the choice to fill the new cast with "influencers" as a deviation from the show's original subject matter. The decision has been labeled as another move in Bravo's larger attempt to appeal the network to a younger and more social media-oriented audience.
The Real Housewives of New York City airs regularly on Bravo in the United States; most episodes are approximately forty-two minutes in length, and are broadcast in standard definition and high definition. Since its premiere, the series has alternated airing on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings and has been frequently shifted between the 8:00, 9:00, and 10:00 PM timeslots.
In July 2012, Bravo released a social networking video game version of The Real Housewives of New York City, titled as Real Housewives: The Game. Following weekly new episodes, a new game was available based on the story.
In 2016, On Location Tours hosted an official The Real Housewives of New York-themed tour in New York City. The tour is centered around giving passengers an almost four-hour trip to visit numerous places where current and former housewives "have dined, shopped, dated or had a fight or two," and is described as the "ultimate, one-of-a-kind Real Housewives experience."
I know that Real Housewives of New York City has changed a lot over the years, but there are some things that will stand the test of time. I'm talking about the episodes that every RHONY fan knows and loves. These are the episodes that you can just watch in isolation without the build up of watching the ones that aired before them and still thoroughly enjoy them.
RHONY has featured some straight up iconic moments that I will never get over for the rest of my life. Yes, I get that's a pretty major assertion to make, but that's how much I'm into this show. And I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way... right? From the best reunion walk-offs, to the most on-point insults, to the wildest arguments, to the moments that none of us will ever fully understand, Real Housewives of New York City has been nothing short of legendary when it comes to reality TV.
If you are going to marathon the show, I have some suggestions about which episodes to include. These are the Real Housewives of New York City episodes that devoted fans will never forget. Ever. (And it turns out, we have Luann D'Agostino to thank for many of them.)
Nothing will ever live up to the madness that went down during this Season 3 trip now known as "Scary Island." The drama between Bethenny Frankel and Kelly Bensimon cannot be paralleled. I will never get over Bethenny telling Kelly, "Go to sleep!" after she ranted about Al Sharpton and jelly beans for no reason. It made zero sense and I loved it. All of this craziness went down during a trip with the most ridiculous premise: a celebration of Ramona Singer's "renewal," which is an basically an annual "change" at this point that never seems to actually take place. Nevertheless, these Ramona reincarnations always entertain.
Kelly really had no idea who she was messing with during her Season 2 fight with Bethenny. These two didn't get along from the jump, but their enemy status was cemented when Bethenny jokingly said, "Evidently, she's Madonna." Personally, I feel like Kelly overreacted to that whole thing and channeled it into the iconic showdown they had at Brass Monkey. The fact that she had the audacity to tell Bethenny that she is above her is one of the most absurd things I've ever watched. Bethenny is the Queen B for a reason. The lead up and the aftermath of this confrontation made this an unforgettable episode.
The final Miami episode from Season 8 was just off the rails. I went from feeling bad for Luann because her now-husband Tom D'Agostino was caught kissing someone else to being vicariously embarrassed by the fact that she seemed to care more about how it looked to the outside world. On top of that, we also got Bethenny's crying and dramatic request for a drink after sharing the news with Luann. The episode was just the perfect storm of drama.
Luann has been such an interesting character to watch. On one hand, she was all about the etiquette of being a Connecticut-born countess, but at the same time she was on the prowl in her dating life. In Season 5, she appeared to have an affair with a man who became known as "the pirate." But in an interview with Miami New Times, Luann explained that it was a misunderstanding. "If Ramona [Singer] had asked you how you got home, and you had gotten a ride home with a Johnny Depp lookalike, what would you have said? For some reason, immediately I just said, 'Oh, I got a ride home with my Italian friends!'" Luann continued, "Little did I know that they had set me up to have dinner with him that night. So when I realized that he was coming, I panicked, and then I made the call to him that everyone saw. It was a comedy of errors, basically. The cover up was worse than the crime." It definitely looked suspicious on the show, to put it mildly, but Luann denied that any cheating occurred.
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