Has a Massive Apple fallen from the Bravo tree? Followers are pondering The Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis is canceled, and former forged member Bethenny Frankel has acknowledged in order a truth. Bravo, nevertheless, says in any other case.
“Nothing is official,” a spokesperson for the community advised Us Weekly on Friday, Might 9. “The present hasn’t been canceled.”
Even so, RHONY was conspicuously absent from Bravo’s press launch on Wednesday, Might 7, because the community touted its new and returning exhibits. One other no-show was The Actual Housewives of New Jersey, which is presently on pause after a contentious 14th season.
In a report on Friday, Web page Six claimed Bravo was taking RHONY off the air, with “hopes” to reconfigure it for a future season.
“We’re attempting to determine that present out,” a supply advised the outlet, including that Bravo execs do count on RHONY to return. “We need to determine it out. We predict there’s nonetheless life in it.”
A supply additionally advised Web page Six that RHONY has faltered as a result of New York Metropolis socialites aren’t keen to hitch the present since they’ve seen “folks’s marriages ruined, their children’ lives ruined, their companies ruined.”
Sorry however for the love and respect for the unique and veteran girl of who’s again this masterpiece was constructed on I’m glad, thrilled, and personally vindicated that new forged failed even with the title already made fashionable for 13 years earlier than them. Reign our supremes! #RHONY pic.twitter.com/ACpM4ssLGT
— Bravo by Benny (@TheRealestHouse) Might 9, 2025
On social media, actuality TV followers are calling time of demise on RHONY. They’re additionally criticizing Bravo for rebooting the present forward of Season 14 with an all-new forged — which included Ubah Hassan, Jenna Lyons, and Sai De Silva— whereas getting rid of the present’s veterans — together with Luann de Lesseps, Ramona Singer, and Sonja Morgan.
Bravo cancelling PHONY is perfection!! The one #RHONY I do know is Season 1 – Season 12. Miss them perpetually. pic.twitter.com/weYOVCJc1B
— Paul 🩷 (@PaulStans1) Might 9, 2025
“I’ll by no means forgive Bravo for ruining their finest franchise, and now, it might gone for good…. #RHONY” one fan wrote on X.
“I 1000% blame [executive producer] Andy Cohen for this absolute flop of a #RHONY period,” one other individual stated.
And a 3rd fan wrote, “Solely two seasons in, and the trash already took itself out. They might by no means do it like our ladies. Andy’s failed self-importance mission will stand because the worst choice in Bravo historical past. BYE! #RHONY.”
@bethennyfrankel Bye NYC that is the tip of an period.. #rhony #bravo ♬ authentic sound – Bethenny Frankel
In a TikTok video on Friday, Frankel stated, “New York Metropolis was my playground, and The Actual Housewives of New York has been canceled. It’s poetic. It’s bittersweet. It’s the finish of an period for me personally, and for that present…”
Frankel, who starred in eight seasons of the present, stated the unique iteration of RHONY “was a flawed group of girls in a flawed metropolis authentically being ourselves — unhinged, unmatched, [sending] shockwaves via the actual socialite neighborhood in New York and the media.”
Folks beloved the unique RHONY, Frankel stated, “as a result of it doesn’t matter what, it was actual. It was the realest that style will be.”
However Frankel added that Bravo execs “pandered to society” and “forged this shiny, curated model of what they thought folks wished New York Metropolis to be, as an alternative of only a group of associates that dwell in New York Metropolis being ridiculous, loopy, imperfect, making errors, mendacity, dishonest, stealing, copying, and berating… in some circumstances, s***ing their pants.”