If you’ve been craving to know what hell is really like, may I suggest you waste an hour of your life watching monomaniacal, desperate, finally-a-housewife Bethenny Frankel’s new show, “Bethenny Getting Married?”
Watching this boring, self-absorbed woman constantly screech “Skinny Girl Margaritas” and browbeat her fiancé is almost worse than living with her.
Perhaps to women in prison, Bethenny’s life seems exciting. To people with a real life, her desperate need to be famous is a horrible thing to watch.
On tonight’s premiere, just about everything she says seems untrue — especially when she does the humility thing for the little folks. For example, she says about herself and fiancé Jason, “We’d both rather be eating potato skins at the mall [than be at a fashion show].”
Then why aren’t you at the mall eating potato skins? Why are you a self-promoting celebrity chef instead of a mall-crawler?
In another cringe-inducing scene, she screeches at Jason about his friends, and then tells “us,” her adoring public that, “Jason wants people around all the time, and I don’t.” Really? Then why is there a camera crew following you 24/7?
Even if you can get past that giant pile of horse manure, it’s the ignorant sexual harassment she inflicts on potential assistants who come to interview with her that is so vile (and probably against the law).
To one guy she says, “You’re a very hot guy. Do you sleep around? Do you think about sex all the time? That’s OK, you can tell me.”
Since she works at home (and her fiancé doesn’t seem to work, even though he’s called a “businessman”), he’s always around the apartment/office. To one interviewee he says, “I admit I was a bit uncomfortable with a straight guy [working for Bethenny].” Then he points to and talks about her naked poster, and tells the uncomfortable guy that Bethenny always walks around naked.
Speaking of uncomfortable, while berating Jason about the upcoming wedding, Bethenny screeches, “It’s a lot harder for me [to keep the list small] because I have a lot more business-obligation people than you do!”
Jason defends himself by saying that while that’s true, he does have friends and family. Yikes.
Nothing much happens other than Bethenny talking about herself endlessly. She’s so desperate to seem interesting that she even goes to a shrink to talk about her childhood.
Stay tuned. Can “Bethenny Getting Divorced” be far behind?