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Bravo head honcho Andy Cohen recently released a new book entitled Andy’s Bravo Scrapbook: Twenty Years Behind the Scenes of the Real Housewives and the Bravoverse.
In it, he looks back at the last 20 years at Bravo, sharing photos he’s taken along the way and stories he’s gathered over that time.
In one part of the book, Andy, 58, shared a story about Bethenny Frankel and Jeff Lewis in which he took the opportunity to slam Bethenny, 55.
“I was excited to have Bethenny and Jeff Lewis on in 2022,” he writes, regarding an episode of Watch What Happens Live. “Both were long off Bravo, but I considered them friends and masters of the genre of trash-talking.”
“Unfortunately, I think that episode resulted in the beginning of the end of my personal and professional relationship with Bethenny,” he continues. “Worth noting that while we were doing the episode, I thought it was going great and that she was, as usual, on top of her game. It was very clear after that night that she can dish it, but she can’t take it.”
On that episode, the topic of Bethenny’s podcast, in which she was going to do recaps of the Real Housewives, was brought up, as Andy pointed out that it seemed sort of hypocritical, as she had been outspoken against the franchise after leaving it.
He also asked Jeff, 56, if he was enjoying the podcast, and Jeff questioned Bethenny about what made her podcast different from other ones that were already out there.
“Well, I wasn’t let go by Bravo. I actually left on my own choice… I’m not a disgruntled employee,” Bethenny stated at the time.
Jeff acknowledged that he had been fired, and Bethenny quickly replied, “And that’s why you’re so bitter,” which Jeff denied.
When speaking about the episode later, Bethenny said she felt “ambushed” by Andy and Jeff.
Last weekend at Bravo Fan Fest in Charleston, South Carolina, Andy appeared on a panel with Carole Radziwill.
While there, a question was asked about whether Bethenny had said anything about Carole returning to RHONY, as the pair had a major falling out years ago.
“If she has, I haven’t heard anything,” Carole said. “I haven’t spoken to her in many, many years. I mean, I don’t know if she’d come back; that is way above my pay grade. That’s Andy’s…”
“I’m not really active on TikTok,” Andy piped in to add, seemingly taking a dig at Bethenny having a big presence on that app.
Bethenny quickly took to TikTok to reply to Andy’s dig.
“Well, Andy Cohen took a swipe at me on a panel, so let’s take the bait,” she said. “I think he was asked, ‘Would you ever have Bethenny back on the Housewives?’ and he said, ‘I’m not really that active on TikTok,’ which is abundantly clear because he’s still sitting in the same place I left him.”
“The only thing that has changed are the ratings,” she elaborated. “So while he’s a little bitter that he lost his OGs who are living The Golden Life on E!, he’s living the stainless steel life over on Bravo where he’s their b**ch, he waits for them to pay his paycheck while we’re all over here making our own coin our own way on our own terms.”
She concluded, “If you’re gonna take a shot at this B, you better not miss. You’re welcome.”