Bethenny is beginning to dip her toe into social media again after taking a bit of time off. She recently replied to a fan with the news that Dennis was at the reunion filming. I thought that was interesting.
That’s all I have for now but I am waiting for some RHONY that I should get sometime this weekend, Perhaps even tonight.
Everyone needs someone in their corner. It’s so sad that B is without her anchor, 3 children are now missing a father and a 20+ years wife is without her best friend and love of her life. I hope they’re all beginning to heal and find comfort in the time they had with him. He seemed like a great man.
I agree. The situation is just so sad in many different ways.
Very kind comment, GLH. A tragedy like Dennis’s death affects so many people on so many different levels.
To know that Dennis will not be there anymore, and all that it entails for all involved, makes me very, very sad. RIP, Dennis.
Love transcends all things. It cannot abate as long as it is allowed to flow freely. Whom better than an angel to have your back?
That is so beautiful T D.
Bethanny has had many losses over the past year. Carole was one of her besties when she was going through a lot of hell with her ex. No matter that I was on Bethanny’s side, it’s still a loss. She called Dennis from Colombia so he was obviously a rock in her life. This has to be a really tough time. TV and bedtime, indeed, I get that.
I was a follower of Lynn’s blog and followed it for awhile after she passed away. Also, stopped watching HW’s for a few years and started watching again a couple of seasons ago. I’ve limited myself to NY and OC (still questioning my decision regarding the latter). I have always liked Bethenny probably because I have to respect her extreme work ethic and quest for success. I also know that she’s the kind of person who can only be taken in small doses.
With that, I agree that she has experienced more loss than what life normally deals us. I will include her marriage as well. Even if it was as intolerable as she reveals, divorce is still a loss. She seems to be doing fairly well with the loss of Dennis. Who knows? She may have been considering marrying him but needed certain circumstances to change before she committed (divorcing his wife comes to mind). Anyway you look at it, it must be hard.
Just watched Reunion 3, and I am pretty confused. WTH happened to Carole? In the beginning, she was really cool. Articulate, humorous and added a different dimension to the show. I enjoyed her. Now? Don’t let the door hit you in the ass. Ugh! She’s evolved into an awful human being.
Dorinda is a hot mess despite her attempts to convince us that she’s getting healthy.
Anyway, hi everyone. Thanks for letting me join your group.
Are you new? I’m not super good at remembering everyone… If so, I’m going to welcome you. I’m not on the “welcoming committee” (giggle) just 2 glasses of rose in and I remember my few first few tentative posts…TT is amazing.
Yah! I wish I’d have taken a few years off from any or all RH franchises but, um no I didn’t…
I DO remember Carole from her first season. I loved her, I loved reading her blogs on Bravo, not sure if they’re still there, I really should go back and reread them if they’re there. She was cool. She down played/ignored her Princess title, she shopped second hand groovy clothes, on and off dated a rock star, lived alone in a single girl apartment in NYC, she wrote a best seller…was basically the independent free spirit of HW’s. Fast forward to this season. She’s just not the same person!
As for Dorinda? I loved her too! Now I’m sad and scared for her really. I hope she can find some happiness in her life beyond her current reality. When she’s good she’s good but those moments seem to have gotten further and further apart (non existing).
Bethenny is Bethenny, she’s never changed. I loved her at hello, doesn’t mean I don’t think she makes errors, I love her ability to keep striving to be better and her flat out strength to make herself a better life financially and emotionally, she literally seems to have a fire under her ass! I really respect her strength and ability to keep strong during confrontation, that’s one quality I wish I had more of. It’s not always pretty but I think she knows that, can’t help it and tries to rectify if she hurts someone. Women can come across “bitchy” in heated interactions, men don’t get that labeling, they’re usually described as strong, unyielding, powerful etc…It’s wonderful when a man respects and loves a woman with her strengths and weaknesses. The fact that Dennis was back stage tells me how close these two were. I can’t imagine her loss.
PS. Now 3 glasses in, sorry TT for my over indulgence with wine and words.
I loved your post! One thing: didn’t Bethenny take a “90 day” break from Dennis? Where does that leave the marriage proposal? I think Bethenny wasn’t cool with the drug use and gave him a time out.
I don’t think there was any marriage proposal and they took “breaks” during the years they were together..I remember how excited Bethenny was when she and Dennis first started dating and her telling Carole that her walls about never getting married again were cracking (totally paraphrasing). I thought he was divorced before he passed away now it sounds like he was still married? All very sad,.
Thanks for the welcome, Kipper! The only way that I know how to handle these shows is behind a few glasses of merlot so Bottoms Up!
I started watching season 1 of RHONY, and it’s pretty interesting to see how some of them have changed. Bethenny had a smaller role back then, for sure. Jill and Ramona hogged the cameras. And, then there was Alex and Simon. Gawd! They were awful and so pretentious. Last that I heard, they were selling towels or something, lol!
Does anyone know how to access the early seasons without having to pay for it, i.e., Amazon, etc?
Did you check Netflix? I think that’s how my daughter watches, they are older seasons not current (I know it’s online service, just an option….)
maybe Carole’s Hippocampus was ACTUALLY bigger when we first met her and it has since Shrunk ……LOL!
Right? Giggle!
It’s fascinating- and huge that he was with her behind the scenes. Sign of a great woman (and a great man), when she can take the lead, and he is there to fill in the gaps. (have one of those, so I know). But this show- and the way they all acted and reacted. I’m sure knowing that Dennis was there pissed Carole off to the enth degree. I mean, she knew she had to come out swinging. Rock solid and smart in ways few of us can appreciate- I know when I have been in the presence of visionaries, genius businessmen and “moneymakers”, the level on which they think, execute, and solve problems is astounding. It makes you realize that we should all think, and be on a higher level. Possibly why she came off so sound and rational- she was encouraged to raise her game.
?? For Bethenny in her time of grief.
Truly breaks my heart !!! He seemed like a great / different guy w a heart of gold!!! What a loss for Bethenny and Bryn and his children ….??
Dennis dying was tragic in many ways….too young, good man to his ex, well liked, responsible father….
I think he was perfect for Bethenny , the steady, supportive man she needs and it might be a long time or never till she finds another like him.
So sad.
For some reason, to me this makes Carole’s non-stop attacks on Bethenny, while she is grieving the loss of Denis, all the more egregious.
Yes it does and its inexcusable. I hope she keeps Sonja as her friend because I don’t think Sonja is a mean girl, sort of crazy but not mean.
I am really pulling for Sonja too considering the financial hardships she has gone thru without really whining about it too much. Some good news on Sonja though I saw in the Bankruptcy Institute Journal, she is out of bankruptcy. She lost a pile of money, around 8 million paying it off.. Her worth before that was the 8 million she lost, plus the townhouse valued at10 to 13 million , plus another 3 million John Morgan still owes her in the divorce settlement. So she was pretty well off at 23 million in assets before she got mixed up in her movie making venture. At least she has the townhouse to convert to cash in the future if she needs to..
Hasn’t Sonja been mean to everyone on the show at one time or another? Lol.
They are all mean. But the Bethenny/Carole duo was by far the meanest. So it’s funny they are the ones that had the final battle against each other, Carole giggled at every putdown Bethenny ever made,
I dunno about the meanest… B’s attack against Lu, Carole saying John is “pathetic, he’s just a sweaty misshapen fat mess, etc etc” when he tried to apologise to B, Ramona poking fun at Jill and Lu’s kids or the whole “lets make fun of the anorexic girl” bs were all way up there in the shitty for no reason category. That said you’re on the money with your assessment of Carole. I really don’t understand how she can keep a straight face calling B a bully, when she actively took part in B’s tirades against others for 2 seasons and for the most part encouraged it.
So true. Carole was betthenny’s willing sidekick in rude behavior for the past few years.
I get Betthenny’s loss, but for the sake of his estranged wife, who she’s known for decades, and his children, I would like to see her keep her comments to a minimum.
She has on the most part. The only post she’s shared that I thought could possibly be overstepping the mark was sharing a picture on Instagram of a sunset with a quote by Dennis underneath that was an exact mirror of a post his ex-wife had shared a week previously… although she could have sought Jill’s permission before sharing that.
The Sun Also Rises was Dennis’ favorite book. It’s not that deep.
Still… its kinda like recycling someones sentiments, y’know? It’s not a bad thing or anything to bash her about on here (the wife might have been pissed, who knows. though shes got more on her plate to worry about tbh so probably not) but I thought the Dennis and Cookie post was a lot more personal to her and actually meant a lot more.
Ok, Tamara already kinda knows I may be a weirdo or at the very least quirky based on a share I did previously, but interesting topic of conversation tonight at my casa was about my state of birth, more specifically, my city of birth, Springfield, Illinois, the state capitol. So, probably not well known, but Springfield was the departure point of The Donner Party; they literally met up with their covered wagons behind our Old State Capitol Building and there’s a plaque at that location commemorating this is where The Donner Party departed from…………here comes the really weird part, where I literally burst out laughing, as it totally relates to RHNYC – Apparently, Springfield, Illinois should be known as the City of Dorinda, because we try and make things nice – the plaque commemorating the departure of The Donner Party actually refers to that whole horrible experience as “an ill-fated trip to California.” Seriously, it reads in my head like “So, maybe some things went wrong on this little vacation trip, perhaps we lost a couple of horses, one went lame and another got swept away in some river, but honestly, it was just a little ill-fated trip to California. See, we can make it nice even in Illinois. (Sorry for being self-indulgent, but I find my home state seriously disturbing sometimes, although Springfield, Illinois is also home of the best damned horseshoe sandwiches in the universe and if you don’t know what those even are or have never had one, you are missing out on a true culinary delight, probably about 8000 calories minimum, and 5M carbohydrates.)
I have no idea what this comment has to do with anything at all, but it did bring back a distant memory of a field trip from the burbs of Chicago to Springfield. I can’t even remember if I went on it. I know my mother wasn’t down with a field trip that far away. Would it have been an overnight? I vaguely remember a bus, but I’m still not sure I was allowed to go. I did get to go to a museum in Chicago, probably with parents and not a field trip where I put like 50 cents into a machine and it made me a wax bust of Abraham Lincoln.
That’s all I’ve got.
Thats totally my fault – stupidly thought I was in your Part 3 reunion blog and realized after I posted it that I posted it in the wrong blog part about Bethenny – I’ll pay more attention next time. I know I have a very weird/quirky sense of humor, but all I could think of when I read “an ill-fated trip to California” was Dorinda making it nice – I have no other explanation for myself, sadly. I lived most of my adult life close to Chicago and actually worked for a company out of Chicago for 2 decades. The museums in Chicago are really awesome. Wonder if you visited the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago perhaps? I have a vague recollection of the wax bust of Lincoln machine from there, as a lot of our field trips in school were either to Springfield (grew up about 16 miles south of Springfield in a small town) or Chicago and I think we went to the Science and Industry museum at least twice.
It seems whether Bethany & Dennis were on or off she could always count on him to have her back. He could talk her down it seemed when she needed. Her anchor, when everyone kept dumping on her. There did seem to be a very different family dynamic.
I agree, Lb! I think Dennis truly was B’s anchor. It makes me so sad for her that he’s gone now and I am sad for his family as well. With Bethenny’s shitty childhood with her horrible parents, I would guess she has a really bad attachment disorder and that can tend to lend people as adults either to have a horrible time ever truly bonding with anyone at all and pushing people away or you become everyone in your life’s personal doormat because you avoid confrontation like a plague for a conscious or subconscious fear of someone getting really angry at you, or you become pretty much a recluse and never trust anyone. I think Dennis was the one person in Bethenny’s life that she felt safe with, but there were still some issues where she felt needed to get worked out before she could commit to any kind of permanent relationship too. It did not help her one bit to marry that narcissist, Jason, either – I detest him so much. A wolf in sheep’s clothing is exactly how he acted on camera – I cannot imagine how horrible he was off camera because his mask slipped a few times on their own show.
Men like him are extremely rare these days, as partners and as fathers, such an immense loss for everyone in his life. It truly makes me sad.
Very sad. She may talk some during the season and we will learn more, but it’s a huge loss for her clearly