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The “Real Housewives of New York City” have turned into a bunch of nail-biting nervous Nellies whose futures on the show are in limbo.
“They are getting the runaround from the Bravo network about the new season,” a show insider tells Confidenti@l. Bravo is always secretive about the drama leading up to filming, but we hear from a source that it’s worse than ever now, and the ladies feel “tortured” by their bosses.
Taping for season six, likely to star Countess LuAnn de Lesseps, Ramona Singer, Aviva Drescher, Carole Radziwill and Heather Thomson, has been pushed back — for the second time — until late February, without a specific start date. It was originally supposed to start next week.
“The entire thing is in disarray,” says our show insider. “They were told one date and it didn’t happen. The last season ended in October and they were told to keep February onwards free. They’ve been waiting weeks to get story lines and plot out the season, but nobody’s called.”
Not only do the ladies not have a start date, they don’t know if everyone is definitely being asked back.
“It’s likely to be the same cast, but they still haven’t been told who’s coming back and who’s not,” says the source. “They are going crazy. They call the network every day demanding answers.”
The countess is especially nervous because she has a pending deal with home shopping network QVC, selling home goods including towels and plates. She fears the deal will fall through if she doesn’t have a show to hawk it on.
Radziwill, who recently landed a six-figure deal to write a novel called “The Widow’s Guide to Sex & Dating,” is worried her book will “tank” if she’s not on the show to promote it, says our source. “Not many people connected with her. The truth is, Jill Zarin brought the ratings and she’s gone and no one is as good.”
Meanwhile, “Real Housewives of New Jersey” is in full swing, with Bravo hiring Teresa Giudice’s real-life friends, Noelle Brescia and Priscilla DiStasio to be “unofficial Housewives” who hang out with Giudice. “Teresa is crazier than ever,” says our insider.RELATED: LuAnn de Lesseps Gives a Rare Glimpse of Her Home
Please do something with yhe RHONYC it was so Painfully boring ladt season!!! Get rid of everyone except ramona she is the only one keeping that show afloat.
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