Have Jill Zarin, Kelly Bensimon, Cindy Barshop & Alex McCord Been Fired From The Real Housewives of New York City?

Kelly Bensimon, Alex McCord & Jill Zarin

It has been clearly obvious to the majority of viewers for two seasons now that The Real Housewives of New York City had a couple serious problems.

Primarily those problems were Kelly Bensimon and Jill Zarin. Zarin's on screen antics regarding Bethenny Frankel were repulsive to a lot of viewers.

And it was completely clear, to most, that something is seriously wrong, mental health wise, with Kelly Bensimon. And not in an entertaining to watch, but in a disturbing to watch, way.

Jill Zarin's neurotic need to constantly pick fights and hold grudges eventually wore down most viewer's tolerance. This is just not a nice person. It's not just the constant snarkiness, the constant self-righteousness, the overarching narcissim, it's just that this is just not the type of person most of us would tolerate having in our lives. So, why would we want to watch her on our TV screens?

Various websites are reporting that Bravo has decided to dump Jill Zarin and Kelly Bensimon.

And Alex McCord.

I think it is just a given, with no need to mention it, that Cindy Barshop is toast.

But? Alex McCord?

It won't be the same show without Alex McCord. Getting rid of Jill and clueless Kelly greatly improves the show's dynamic, likely causing the discourse to be much more elevated. Alex was never a problem. I know some viewers did not care for Alex and Simon, but the majority grew to like the pair.

Just read the comments to the housewives blogs on the RHONY website and you can easily tell Alex is popular with the viewers, in an authentic way. Then check out the comments to Jill and Kelly's blogs. It's like they pay people to make boilerplate "you are so wonderful" type comments.

As of September 15 Alex McCord Tweeted that as far as she knows she is still on The Real Housewives of New York City....

I can not imagine what rationale Bravo would have for dumping Alex. Then again, by what rationale did they add Kelly Bensimon and Cindy Barshop to the cast? And by what rationale did Bravo keep the repugnant Zarin after her repugnant mistreatment of fan favorite Bethenny Frankel?

It's all very perplexing.

Note to Bravo and Andy Cohen. If you fire Alex McCord, I won't be watching the New York City Housewives anymore.

UPDATE: From Facebook, a Thursday, September 15, denial from Alex McCord regarding being "fired" from the Real Housewives of New York City. Along with some Facebook comments from fans of Alex...

Medina Mount Jarman Alex and Simon, I do hope you return. If not, I am sure there are other things in the works for you. LuAnne and Jill are very tiring to watch and their mean girls act is old. :)

Linda Lieberman Andy C could've just taken a vote - you WOULD be in -Jill-out

Dixie Leigh Hope we'll still see you this season. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THE BLONDES. ALL OF THEM. RAMONA, SONJA, AND ALEX!

Suzanne Mourer Alex, I hope that you are still on. Jill was so mean, and I'm glad that she is off. Here's to many more years to come for you!

Merilyn Zallan Ulrich I was hoping that Jill, the Countess and Kelly were history...oh well. I can still hope. I also hope that you and Simon come back as the show won't be worth watching without the two of you.

Kellie Corrigan didn't understand the addition of Cindy.....the more they add the farther away from fun the show gets....LuAnn is a snob and Kelly is just plain impossible to watch. Maybe you & Simon shosuld do your own show...??

Vicki Troglen Haynes I just wrote a friend telling her that i would NO LONGER watch the show without you and Simon. I saw that news on an online magazine that you, Jill and Kelly had been fired. Fire them with Lu-Ann man and leave you alone please. Thanks so much Alex!!!!!

Laurel Stinnett If you and Simon go, then my days of watching ANY Bravo program will be over. I love the two of you. You are honest and forthright and GENUINELY kind and compassionate. You are not fakers like those pathetic aging harpies Jill, Kelly, and LuAnn. I agree that you should get your own show if Bravo fires you.

Penny White Roberts Bloom You have to stay...you and Simon make it more interesting especially the blondes are the most real.

Robin Goetzinger Alex I really hate to see you go. I want that fake red headed two faced mouth of a trucker Jill gone, crazy jelly beans for brains Kelly gone, classless COUNTLESS so called women/man who thinks she/he can sing LuLu gone and Cindy who can't be bothered with taking care of her children, so she pushes them off onto someone else. GONE GONE GONE GONE all of them.

Melissa Durbin It is all over the place that you are not going to be back on the show .I hope it's not true but if it is just see it as a chance to do something else . I will miss you so much on RHONY .I think they made a mistake in letting you go.

Maria Annette Sprouse Fore Alex..the RHNY will not be the same without you and your family, when I read the "supposed" firing of you I was quite upset, Love you on the show and it will not be the same without you, hope Bravo realizes that..........:)

Is Bravo Going to Do the Right Thing & Remove Cindy, Kelly & Jill from The Real Housewives of New York City?

The Real Housewives of New York City Reunion shot video for 9 exhausting hours. The majority of the footage shot did not make it to the 2 part, 3 hour Reunion Show.

One of those moments we did not see on the Reunion Show was Alex collapsing in relief, I assume, that the nightmare of dealing with the 4 Shrieking Monkeys known as the Gang of Brunettes, also known as Cindy Barshop, Krazy Kelly Bensimon, Jealous Jill Zarin and Classless Countess LouAnn, was over.

Of the Gang of Brunette housewives only one is an actual wife, that being Jill Zarin.

The male population of the planet is not big enough to find a mate for the sourpuss Barshop woman, so she had to couple with a turkey baster in order to become a mother.

I do not know if the reason Alex fainted on the couch was because Jill Zarin heartfeltedly apologized for being such a mean-spirited, bullying, heartless bitch to her, followed by the hug we see in the picture.

The Interwebs are full or rumors that a major shakeup is in the works for the Real Housewives of New York City. Andy Cohen made it real clear on Facebook and Twitter that he has heard, loud and clear, the viewer's disgust with the low-level of discourse on display by Cindy, Jill, Kelly and to a lesser degree, LouAnn.

Neil Patrick Harris told Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live to dump the entire cast. That seems a bit drastic to me. The consensus on the Interwebs seems to be that definitely Cindy, Jill and Kelly need to go.

And that Kelly is definitely intellectually challenged. And mentally ill. I know I was very surprised that Bravo brought Kelly back after the entire St. John's mental meltdown spectacle. It seemed as if Bravo was exploiting mental illness for its entertainment value. Trouble is, viewer's do not find Kelly's mental illness entertaining, they find it troubling.

Supposedly filming for the 5th season of RHONY is to begin Labor Day weekend. Methinks somehow Bethenny Frankel, now that she actually is a New York housewife, needs to come back, combined with Ramona, Sonja and Alex, plus a couple other real housewives, who pass a psych test, and I think this failing Housewife franchise might recover its formerly high viewer numbers.

But, if Bravo brings back Cindy, Kelly and Jill, the viewers will indicate they have had enough. By not watching. I know I want to see, or hear, no more of those three.

I think it is Jill who soured the franchise. Last season with her insane vendetta against Bethenny. This season it was Alex and Ramona who Jill targeted.

Simply put, Jill is creepy. A very creepy mean girl consumed by jealousy. Think about who Jill really is. She is married to a shopkeeper. Jill does not own her own business, or have a job. Her husband, Bobby, may be a nice guy, but he seems clueless as to what an Uber Bitch he is married to. Defending her on St. Johns, talking to Simon about his non-existent mean Tweeting.

Meanwhile, Ramona is married to Mario. Mario is a good looking guy. Combining Mario's DNA with Ramona got them Avery. Combining Jill's DNA with Bobby got them Ally. Ramona has 5 businesses. She is a successful, talented woman. And much better looking than Jill.

Ramona can rock a bikini. Jill can not. Ramona is older than Jill. Yet in much better shape. Ramona is more popular with viewers than Jill. Which is yet one more thing Jill is jealous about. In her core Ramona is a nice person. In her core Jill is a bitter shrew.

Jill is also jealous of Alex. Alex is also better looking than Jill. And younger. And happily married. And talented. With a job, or two. In her core, Alex is a nice person. Very articulate. And sensitive. And, unlike Jill, not a bitch.

Jill Zarin is also very sensitive, but only as it pertains to her own hypersensitive feelings. Jill Zarin seems unable to empathize with others in a real way that involves being sensitive to the feelings of others.

Jill is consumed anger over how much the viewers have come to despise her once they figured out what a horrible human she is.

Some of the stunts Jill Zarin has pulled have been astonishing. Jill penned a bad advice book with her equally vile mother, Gloria, and her sister. The book tanked, sales-wise. Jill then made fake positive reviews on Amazon, using a fake name, Susann Saunders. Jill is so sloppy these comments were traced back to her computer's IP address.

Jill later had her hapless husband buy thousands of copies of her book so as to make it look like the anemic sales figures were not anemic sales figures. Meanwhile Bethenny had several best sellers, fueling Jill's seething jealousy.

To counter all the accurate comments on Jill's Facebook fan page, Twitter and who knows where else, Jill somehow hired minions to delete accurate comments from Facebook and post false positive comments.

On Jill's Bravo Blog there are two types of comments. Those that seem real, on target and legitimate and those that seem like they come from a boilerplate template, all with a "We love you Jill" theme.

No one in their right mind could possibly love Jill Zarin, reprehensible mean bullying lying rat that she is.

If Andy Cohen and Bravo want to have a large number of viewers for the opening of Season 5 of RHONY, let it be known that the firing of Jill, Kelly and Cindy will be shown.

If Andy Cohen and Bravo want their New York City Housewive franchise to totally tank, bring back Cindy, Kelly and Jill, for one more round of disgusting the viewers.

If Andy Cohen really heard loud and clear what the viewers where saying, what he heard.

Loud and Clear.

Was.

Get rid of Cindy, Kelly and Jill.

Thank you. I feel better now.

The Real Housewives Of New York City Was Boring Again This Week Til Sonja Forgot Her Underwear

The last episode of The Real Housewives of New York City started off so boring I was thinking it was maybe time to bail.

But, then I remembered this was going to be the episode where Sonja's derriere gets exposed.

Again.

The boring stuff before Sonja's unfortunate exposure included a long look at Cindy's abode. And the kid's she bred by in vitro fertilization.

The guy who provided the material that was used to do the fertilizing showed up. Cindy's brother does not like the guy.

The sperm donor seemed sort of creepy to me. And then Cindy tells us that they had been an off and on again couple. And that they were on at the time she got pregnant, and then off two months later.

So, why were they using the in vitro method to make a baby and not the old-fashioned way?

Did Jill come to visit Cindy? I think I remember some Jill comments about nannies and the house being a mess.

For some reason Cindy asked Jill to go to the dentist with her. That seemed weird. And then Jill made it even weirder when she started acting like a co-dentist. Jill informed us that she and her mother and sister have the gift of having doctor's skills with no license.

Jill has really made it clear she has no clue why the fans have turned on her. Bad Jill was on display this episode.

And then we kept cutting to Sonja's, where she was fussing over her costume for her Masquerade party. That was all so totally boring. Except for the strange part where Sonja explains that she has friends who will call her from Europe, asking if someone could stay with her. We learned this when she explained who the houseboy was she was ordering to make her tea.

Something is very wrong with Sonja this year.

Sonja's Masquerade party was held in a little place called The Vault. The housewives and husbands arrived, fawning over how great they looked. Alex and Simon were Cleopatra and Mark Anthony. Not the one married to Jennifer Lopez. Alex looked good with black hair.

And then Jill arrived and proceeded to bad mouth Sonja's bad parties, the small room, the small number of guests, the bad food.

And then suddenly Sonja realized she'd forgotten a key part of her costume. Her bloomers. Or whatever she called them. She learned this while Jill  was next to her. Jill had a real good view and proceeded to inform everyone that Sonja had an enormous bruise on her butt.

Sonja was very loud about her missing underwear. Letting everyone know she was not fully dressed.

Next up was Ramona's product launch party for her Pinot Grigio line. The Countess asked Ramona one technical question after another about Ramona's wine. Til Ramona could take it no longer. The Countess, at times, really seems like she has something wrong with her.

At some point Jennifer, who's wedding we attended during the first episode, told Ramona about some bad Jill behavior at Jennifer's wedding where Jill grilled Jennifer about why she invited Alex and Simon. And about how well she knew Ramona.

Ramona took extreme umbrage. And of course, after fueled by enough Pinot, confronted Jill, who denied it all. Jill never answers a direct question. It's very annoying. Jill then left in a huff, and ran into Jennifer, totally distorting what had just happened. Then Jill went back into Ramona's party and lied about the talk she'd just had with Jennifer.

Next we see Jill crying with LuAnn, with the Countess tackily adding fuel to the fire.

I think the simple explanation for Jill, in addition to being a narcissist, is that she is a pathological liar. They are the worst of the liar breed. Because they believe their lies while they are doing their lying. And then they get mad at you when you catch them in a lie, which usually just causes more lying.

I really can not stand Cindy.

The Real Housewives of New York City Needs to Get Rid of Cindy & Get Sonja Underwear

The latest was another strange episode of The Real Housewives of New York City.

That is either Johann or Francoise with mother Alex. If I had to guess I'd say it was Francoise who got a piano for his birthday. Francoise seemed to care less.

Then in her talking head comments, Alex would be saying things like how thrilled the kid was. Then we'd cut back to the kid not being thrilled.

It was very odd.

But not as odd as Sonja's toaster oven cooking lesson. Sonja's toaster oven looked antique, which the Countess pointed out. Why would anyone think it is easier to cook in a toaster oven than a real oven? Made no sense to me.

Sonja had Cindy come to her house so Sonja could educate Sonja regarding multiple bad Cindy behaviors, including, adding to the list, dancing with Sonja's houseboy upon arrival. Cindy lied to Sonja, telling Sonja that she had not told Kelly that Sonja was having Ramona come to her toaster oven demo.

To make clear Cindy was lying Bravo showed us a clip of Cindy telling Kelly what Cindy denies telling.

Now, back to Sonja before we get to Kelly. Sonja went to some baseball thing, involving NYC firemen who were in a calendar, with Sonja throwing the first pitch at a baseball game.

Was Sonja told to come dressed as some sort of cheap hooker? As you can see in the picture above, Sonja's outfit had her looking slightly preggers.

And then we were treated to a view of Sonja's backside when the wind blew her skirt up and kept it up.

This seemed to excite some of the firemen, even more so when Sonja had them take off half their clothes. One of the firemen told Sonja after the photo shoot they should exchange information.

That is a sophisticated way of saying I want to have your phone number. This is how Kim Zolciak snagged her latest baby daddy, Kroy Biermann, on The Real Housewives of Atlanta.

Kelly displayed a little crazy Kellyness this episode, bringing up Scary Island again. Being irrational about Ramona.

Kelly bugs me bad.

But not as bad as she used to. Now, after enough exposure to Kelly, I've learned a lot of what makes her annoying is because the poor girl is so damn dumb.

Kelly and Ramona had lunch together, with Sonja. That went well. Except for Kelly saying stuff that had Ramona's eyes bulging a bit.

Jill got back from Australia and met up with some of the housewives to give them Aussie trinkets. Jill's talking head told us she was no longer going to gossip. About 5 seconds later Jill was back gossiping.

Later, in several drawn out segments, Jill went to Alex's house where they had lunch and seemed to settle their differences, with Jill actually seeming to act like a decent human.

We'll see how long Jill being decent lasts.

I really can not stand Cindy. This is the best they could find in all of New York City?

In the previews for next week we saw Sonja's bare backside again. Rivetting television.

The Real Housewives Of New York City Is Currently Boring Without Bethenny

That is Ramona and her pinot grigio with her arm around the Bethenny replacement, Cindy Barshop, at Cindy's birthday party, that was not a birthday party, at some horse farm at what is, apparently, known as the downscale zone of the Hamptons on Long Island.

This latest episode of The Real Housewives of New York City may have been one of the most boring in Housewive Franchise history.

I'm starting to think the loss of Bethenny Frankel has left a HUGE hole that the remaining housewives, and the new one, can't fill.

Speaking of the new housewife, Cindy, who is not married and so is not a wife, along with Countess Luann and Kelly, who also have no husbands, I really do not like Cindy.

In all of New York City the RHONY producers could not do better than this?

I'm starting to wonder if the reason the New York girls had their show's premiere postponed was because it was realized how boring it was. So, they went back over their footage to see if there was some more material to work with.

For months Bravo milked "Thug in a Cocktail Dress" in promos. The "Thug in a Cocktail Dress" really turned out to be much ado about little.

This week it was Sonja falling off a horse that got the promo blitz. And that turned out to be nothing. We should have figured, after seeing Sonja's ample derriere exposed in the first episode's preview of the coming season, that Sonja had ample padding, on her backside, to easily overcome a hard landing on it.

Luann had a cocktail party at which Ramona provided a little drama by grilling Luann about leaving her kids in the Hamptons while she goes to NYC. To work on her music career. When Luann talks about working on her music career it seems even funnier than when Kim Zolciak does it.

Due to it being so boring I lose track of the sequence of events. At one point Sonja meets Cindy downtown for lunch. This turns into way too much about Cindy's problem with her teeth veneers. Which somehow had Cindy thinking it was okay to bail on the lunch she had invited Sonja to. But not before Sonja told Cindy she was planning on inviting Ramona to Sonja's toaster oven cooking lessons with Kelly. Which had Cindy advising against this.

Then at Luann's cocktail party Cindy got Kelly aside and warned her not to bring her kids to Sonja's toaster oven cooking lesson. This had Kelly scared as to what the threat could possibly be. This had Cindy swearing Kelly to secrecy, after which she informed her about Sonja's evil Ramona plan.

Despite promising discretion, Kelly then later confronted Sonja, on the beach, in the Hamptons, about the Ramona Intervention. Sonja tried to reason with Kelly, which we've learned is not possible, which soon had Kelly laying on the sand making sand angels.

There was an extremely boring segment at Luann's house in Southampton, with her daughter. Then boyfriend, Jacque, showed up where he got weird on the floor, talking to the dog. Jacque sort of creeps me out. He looks to be half the size of Luann. On Watch What Happens Live Luann said Jacque gets told a lot he looks like David Schwimmer and Adrian Brody. Can David and Adrian sue for such slander?

We saw a segment with Luann taking her son, Noel, to a skate shop, on Long Island, where Noel hawked the skateboards he has designed. I know Luann has been a bit cash strapped waiting for her singing career to take off, but putting the young teenager to work seemed a bit much. Noel has a website selling his skateboards. He calls his business Fancy Fool. He seems like a good kid.

Cindy made a big deal about a party at the aforementioned horse farm not being a birthday party, for her, because she never has birthday parties. But it turned out to be a big, weird birthday party. It was funny when Ramona arrived and demanded her pinot grigio. Before noon. And then Ramona wanted to ride a horse, but they would not allow her to take the reigns, instead leading Ramona around like a little drunk kid on a pony.

Cindy had a freak out because dip was on the buffet table. She's really weird.

Ramona then tried to confront Cindy's brother, Howie, about some remark he made about a cigar and Ramona's dead friend, Jeff. I sort of get Ramona's point. But can that woman carry a grudge? And always choose the wrong time to address it.

Jill returns from Australia in next week's episode. RHONY better pick up. There are battle lines drawn now. Cindy has royally pissed off Sonja. Crazy Kelly can return at any time. Ramona reliably provides amusement. I am somewhat optimistic that this week's episode was just a lull before a big crazy storm.

That is sort of hinted at the Housewive's blogs on the Bravo website. I've not seen so much sniping at each other on the blogs before. A lot of defensive spinning of the "facts." Reading the blogs was more entertaining than watching the show.

The Premiere of Season 4 of The Real Housewives of New York City with New Housewife Cindy Barshop

I did not realize Season 4 of the Real Housewives of New York City started up on Thursday, April 7.

But, my DVR did.

The New York City Housewives are my favorite of the Bravo Housewives franchises. With Beverly Hills a close second.

The New York City girls bring the best drama, often courtesy of Kelly Bensimon. This year Kelly's intro tagline is "I'm living the American Dream one mistake at a time."

That's pretty funny. I have a terrible feeling that Kelly is going to grow on me this season and become likable.

Of course Jill Zarin has learned from her mistakes, realizing why fans started hating her, has now grown. But, bad Jill came quickly out to play in the first episode, snarking on Ramona and Alex at a wedding.

The new housewife, replacing Bethenny Frankel, is Cindy Barshop. The first episode and the previews of the season gave some indication that Cindy is going to bring some good drama.

Cindy is a baby mama of twins. She is in her 40s, with no baby daddy, acquiring the reproductions via in vitro fertilization. Of course Jill, upon meeting Cindy, felt she needed to pry into Cindy's private baby business.

I just realized, Cindy is yet one more "housewife" who is not a wife.

We went out to dinner with LuAnn's French boyfriend and Sonia and her boyfriend, I think the name was Brian. Brian is some sort of artist.

The dinner dialogue amongst the 4 seemed somehow somewhat creepy to me.

I think maybe Sonia is not going to go over quite as well as she did in her first season with the housewives.

It appeared, in the preview of the season, that Alex's new found opinionatedness wears thin on some of the housewives' nerves. Like LuAnn.

No clue yet what Alex does that has Sonia ordering her out of her house, with Alex commenting that Sonia is a thug in a cocktail dress.

Alex and Simon now work at home, in the same room. Simon quit his job managing a hotel. Alex is now a model. Which made for some unkind commenting from the other girls. Like Kelly.

At some point in this season the housewives go to the Middle East, I think to Dubai. The previews showed them on camels with one of the camels getting overly frisky. There were some scenes of Kelly acting somewhat crazy, but not to the crazy level of last season's mental breakdown.

So, I am in for the duration.