The Real Housewives of New York are certainly a lively, colorful bunch, but now they suspect that their co-star Kelly Bensimon may have staged a fight with her boyfriend in order to get attention and drum up buzz about her for the next season.
At the launch of Housewives’ Bethenny Frankel‘s diet book, Naturally Thin, the wives and their cohorts were all abuzz about Kelly’s arrest a little over a week ago, for allegedly assaulting boyfriend Nick Stefanov and giving him a black eye and a gash on his cheek.
“You’d see me hitting the bottle before you’d see me hitting a man!” Bethenny snipped.
At the same party an “insider” (or possibly a Housewife who just didn’t want to be named?!) said, “Kelly truly is the most desperate housewife now!”
Another insider revealed, “No one likes her. She hasn’t endeared herself to the ladies on the show – or anyone else.”
Several suggested the fight was fake and that Kelly was just trying to cook up the drama so she would get signed on for next season.
“Kelly is ruthless. Some who know her think she planned the attack with Nicholas. He’s speaking of her too positively for this to be domestic abuse. Shouldn’t he be angrier? It’s also convenient that Kelly timed the leak of her arrest to the day a new episode of the show aired,” said another “insider.”
Kelly reportedly appears to be in the weakest position because she is not tight with her other co-stars, Alex McCord, Ramona Singer, Jill Zarin, and LuAnn de Lesseps. Indeed, she was the only one who did not come to either Bethenny’s book signing or book release party. Meooowww! [Source: NYDN; Photo: Getty Images]
