A man used the window of Jeri Cohen Fine Jewelry on the Upper East Side to propose to his girlfriend, placing a sign in the display case asking his girlfriend, Alexandra, to marry him. Tom DeBourcy said his girlfriend often strolls by the store because it was featured on the Real Housewives of New York. She told the Daily News, "I always walk by and say to my mom, 'This is the place where Jill Zarin goes!'" She then told her fiancee "This is the greatest idea you ever had! Well, maybe [after] Facebooking me." So does this mean they're Facebook official? more ›

Real Housewives Bethenny Frankel says she was pregnant during the photoshoot for her PETA anti-fur ad, though she hadn't started showing yet so it didn't hinder her from baring it all for the campaign. The 58-foot billboard was just unveiled in Times Square, and it's totally Photoshopped... right? Well, not according to the woman on it. more ›

PETA has wrangled themselves another cougar (cheetah?) for their "I'd Rather Go Naked" campaign. Last month it was 1979 Olympic gold medalist figure skater Tai Babilonia, and now it's Bethenny Frankel from the Real Housewives of New York. There's video! more ›

You may have known that the Real Housewives of New York was off the air, but Kelly Killoren Bensimon is talking like the cameras are still on her. Okay, so they were, for this 35-minute-long Obsessed TV interview that NYMag points out. Wondering how this one got into Columbia? She just asked nicely and batted her eyelashes, duh. Bensimon, who graduated from Columbia's School of General Studies at age 30, explains, "A friend of mine said you should really go to Columbia, they have an amazing journalism department there. And so I actually went to the school and I said to them, I said, 'You know, if you take me, I, you know, you just gotta give me a chance, and if you take me, then I will be the best student, I will do whatever it is, whatever you need whenever you need it. I promise you, you know, I will not be a mistake.' And this man, the dean, was like, 'Who are you? Like, what? No, no, no. We have a process here. You have to fill out an application.' And I was like, 'No no no, It's nice you have an application, I've already sent that in, but I want to go here, and I really really wanted to go there.' And he let me in." Totally not a mistake, right, Dean? more ›

Bravo's alleged boyfriend-beating "housewife" is at it again. Page Six now reports that Kelly Bensimon allegedly stole an idea for a jewelry piece from a former Elle Accessories co-worker, Celeste Greenberg. The story goes like this: Greenberg procured a vintage owl pendant for then editor-in-chief Bensimon to wear for photo shoots, and together they promptly made a deal to manufacture a replica of the design. Trouble is, those verbal agreements are always so tricky. Greenberg is now filing a lawsuit that claims Bensimon "cut Greenberg out and went ahead and manufactured the pendant on her own," which she currently sells for $325 and has been happily hawking the piece during her Real Housewives screen time. more ›

The Real Houswives of New York's Kelly Bensimon proves once again that she's a terrible person. On the heels of allegedly assaulting her boyfriend, she's now lashing out verbally in Harper's Bazaar. Page Six has an excerpt from the interview, where she calls her co-star Bethenny inauthentic, and asks: "Will she ever sit next to Lauren duPont?" Burn? (We don't know who that person is.) She then pats herself on the back for being authentic because she's "the ambassador for wool." What? This is so confusing! You don't need a crazy-talk translator to understand the following, however—when asked why she even agreed to be on the show, she declared, "I wanted to put my name up there. I was like, it's not enough for New York to know me. I wanted the rest of America to know me. I have a great life." America, if you're ready for more, you can get the full interview here. more ›

Some non-reality-television Brooklyn moms are talking smack about Alex McCord, the face of the borough on Bravo's Real Housewives of New York (and one half of the creepiest couple to ever exist). One Carroll Gardens housewife l'accuse, “She doesn’t hang out in our circles. I’ve never seen her in the park, and I’ve just about had a play date with every mom in the neighborhood." Not that we're taking McCord's side here, but, maybe it's because up until recently she actually had a job? Or maybe it's because there are a lot of people in Brooklyn? C'mon Daily News, pitting stay-at-home mom bloggers against D-list reality stars is sort of lose-lose, no? Okay, one did say, “I’m worried about putting dinner on the table and they’re worried about what to wear to Puffy’s White Party," but that burn is so four years ago. more ›

The recession is really hitting home for one well-to-do Brooklyn couple. Real Housewives of New York's Alex McCord (betrothed to the creepy Simon Van Kempen) has just lost her job as visual merchandiser at Victoria's Secret (she was 1 of 90 axed at the NYC offices). More shocking is that she even had a job! Seeing as how the couple spend most of their time shopping and plotting the huge renovation on their Cobble Hill home, this is just very sad news. What purpose could they possibly serve on the show now? Perhaps they can form a troupe of triste Parisian mimes with their French-speaking spawn, Francois and Johan. For now, McCord says they will still jet off to St. Barth's even though it was her salary "that tended to pay for their infamous shopping sprees, not to mention the cost of their full-time nanny." [via Cobble Hill Blog] more ›

Earlier this year Bravo announced their "Real Housewives" series would be moving from Orange County to The Big Apple. The show premieres tonight, and critics have already gone sour on it. more ›