After Monday's epic showdown on "The Real Housewives of New York Reunion Part 2" everyone was asking which of the ladies would be invited back for another season and who would be shown the door.
“No one knows at the moment who is in or out, but the second the contracts go to our representatives we all email and call each other immediately. So if someone does not get a letter we know within hours,” one Housewife tells me. "All the cast will now be glued to their iPhones as they wait for the call from Bravo on whether they are being invited back."
The ladies should be receiving their letters of do or die very soon, as producers have indicated they hope to be back in production for the 5th season by Labor Day. But if a Housewife does not receive a letter, that doesn't mean she's stuck with a pink slip. Instead, the ladies who do not receive an offer are merely "not invited back."
“What’s happened with other casts in the franchise is offers go out to the women they want and those [they] don’t do not hear a word," two of the ladies explain. "Technically no one gets fired they are just not invited back.”
Although this has never happened to any of the ladies of the New York cast (it has happened in Atlanta, Orange County and New Jersey), this year even the cast members of New York expect a shake-up. The only New York departure to date has been Bethenny Frankel, who left the show to collect $120 million in Skinnygirl Margarita satchels of gold.
During the reunion, [Ramona was] hitting below the belt. I tried to be a friend to Ramona. And I thought that she was acting a little bit erratic, more so than before. I was trying to help her and point it out," JIll said.
"A lot of times people who have problems don't see it themselves. That's why there are interventions ... I really wanted to try to help her. And instead she tried to turn it around on me."
When the topic of alcohol – particularly, Ramona's Pinot Grigio – came up at the reunion, Ramona responded to Jill's accusation that her drinking sets a bad example.
"Jill, I really respect you. I think you're a fabulous woman," said Ramona. "I know at times you had problems. You went to AA. You had an alcoholic problem. Just because you did doesn't mean I do."
Jill, who denied she ever had a drinking problem, believes outing someone about going to Alcoholics Anonymous is unacceptable. "Whether it is true or not, is irrelevant," says Jill, who claims she received a letter from a woman who's been trying to get her daughter to seek help for addiction.
"The mother tells me the daughter is scared to go in the program because she's worried that a friend of hers might out her," Jill says. "It's destructive to people and the damage that Ramona caused is going to prevent people from getting help."
In fact, according to Jill, Ramona should apologize. "She should really retract that," she says, "and try to figure out how to go back out there and say, 'I'm sorry.
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