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BOOTY CALL: Don’t let the smiles fool you. Bay Ridge’s Joey Lynn Tekulve (left) and Christy Livoti of “Brooklyn 11223” hate each other’s guts. Producers hope that translates into a hit as big as “Jersey Shore” (top). (
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It’s “Jersey Shore’’ à la Bay Ridge — where they just won’t fuhgeddaboutit.
A once tightknit group of girls from the Brooklyn ’hood are still at each other’s throats over an alleged heinous act of betrayal years ago — and their long-simmering beef has spurred a new documentary TV series called “Brooklyn 11223.”
The show, which begins airing on the Oxygen network March 26, features such residents as Christie Maria Livoti, for whom there is no greater sin than seducing someone’s boyfriend and lying about it.
The object of scorn for Livoti and about a dozen of her closest friends is Joey Lynn Tekulve, 24, a pal since kindergarten at PS 215 in Gravesend. Their friendship abruptly ended after Tekulve allegedly seduced Livoti’s then-boyfriend about three years ago.
“If somebody does wrong to one of us, it’s like doing it to all of us,” said Livoti, 23, a pretty brunette with a thick Brooklyn accent who looks as sweet as a cheesecake from Junior’s but who is as tough as the R train that rumbles beneath Bay Ridge’s main drag, Fourth Avenue, where the girls spend most of their Friday nights.
“Joey Lynn did something wrong to me, and the rest of my friends figured, ‘That’s [Christy’s] best friend since kindergarten. Imagine what she could do to us?’ ” Livoti said.
The girls and Tekulve haven’t spoken to each other since, although they can’t help running into each other all the time, which apparently makes for good TV.
Executive producer Michael Hirschorn said the idea for the series came to him after he saw 2009’s Broadway revival of “West Side Story” and thought the tale of rival gangs could somehow be turned into a reality show.
But after an exhausting two-year search, instead of gangsters, he discovered what he said was a far more authentic tale of betrayal.
“The Bay Ridgeness [of the characters] came through,” he said.
At an uncomfortable Post photo shoot featuring Tekulve and Livoti in Bay Ridge last week, the silence between the two women was palpable as they posed just inches from each other.
“If you can’t handle me at my worst, you can’t handle me at my best,” Tekulve shrugged as she and Livoti refused to look at each other.