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Dorinda Medley shared whether she would return to film Real Housewives of New York: Legacy, and she addressed how the franchises have changed. Castmate Luann de Lesseps said RHONY used to be “comedy,” but today Real Housewives is “so dark.”
After season 13, the network fired the entire cast of RHONY and replaced them with younger stars. Some fans think the reboot has lower ratings because the new cast is inauthentic and too worried about their perception on social media.
“Some of the franchises have gotten so dark,” said Luann on Dorinda’s Reality Checked radio show on SiriusXM.
“I was just saying that in our radio show the other day,” Dorinda agreed. “Someone, I think, called in and said, ‘Would you like to be back and do it?’”
“And I said, ‘Well, listen, I would love [to] … do a Legacy and be back with my girls,’” she added. “It really was comfortable … You kind of knew what you were getting, and you knew you were gonna make funny TV … It’s natural.”
But Dorinda explained that the franchises are today more intense.
“What they do today — not only within the show, but the external banter — has gotten so much more fierce,” she said. “[So] I think it would be hard [to go back], because some of these girls really go through hell today. And the lawsuits and the destroying … we didn’t have any of that.”
Luann agreed that their show was more “witty,” and it was more of a “comedy.”
“Even when we went through stuff, we all got through it,” said Dorinda. “Even though you knew there was gonna be bad scenes, you never left thinking my life is gonna be over … You’re like, ‘Oops, that’s gonna be a bad episode.’”
“That’s true,” said Luann. “Yeah, I never felt that way, I don’t think.”
Back in May, Bethenny Frankel reacted to a report that the reboot was getting canceled.
“It’s poetic. It is bittersweet. It is the end of an era for me personally and for that show, which was an alchemy of disaster. It was a flawed group of women in a flawed city, authentically being ourselves, unhinged,” said Bethenny at the time on Instagram. “The powers that be pandered to society [with the reboot] and tried to fit 25 pounds in a five-pound bag. And if you try to please everybody, you please nobody … So they cast this glossy curated version of what they thought people wanted New York City to be instead of just a group of friends that live in New York City, being ridiculous, wild, imperfect, making mistakes … and people loved it because no matter what, it was real. It was the realest that genre can be.”
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