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Bethenny Frankel Hires A “Niceness” Coach

Bethenny Frankel’s no-nonsense demeanor definitely makes her the real-est of the Real Housewives of New York. But now she’s trying to drop her trademark ‘tude, and even got a coach to help her! In an effort to make her syndicated “advice-based” talk show more sell-able, Bethenny has hired a mentor to essentially teach her to be nice. On air, at least.

The reality star recently shot the pilot for an “advice-based” show, but the reactions have been mostly negative so far. Producers think it’s her brash New York manner that rubbed test audiences the wrong way. “She came off as too aggressive,” a source told the New York Post. So now they’re calling in outside help to smooth out the tough-talking Manhattanite’s rough edges. The coach would offer her advice like “speaking more slowly,” and “being nicer,” the source continues.

We’d definitely like to watch the de-bitchification process in action. In fact, we’d like to watch that way more than we’d like to watch her talk show. First she gets lost at sea, and now she’d a modern day My Fair Lady? Once again, Bethenny Frankel’s real life proves to be much more interesting than any reality show could ever hope to be. Maybe a network could combine these two concepts and leave her and a niceness coach stranded on a deserted island. Forever.

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Bethenny Frankel Lost At Sea For Over 20 Hours

And now for a reality show we’d REALLY like to see. Things got a little too real during Real Housewives of NYC star Bethenny Frankel’s sailing trip this weekend, as she and her husband spent over twenty-hours stranded in the North Atlantic! A GPS failure on the couple’s sailboat lead to a “scary” and “absolutely traumatic” ordeal for the reality couple. ”I was on a sailboat on Saturday that was supposed to be eight hours and it ended up being twenty because were lost at sea,” she told E! News. Their ship was enroute to the island of Nantucket when it was hit by a large tidal wave that disabled their navigation device.

The group of ten passengers (presumably with a movie star, professor and someone named Mary-Anne to go with the reality millionaire and his wife) were understandably terrified, and Bethenny found her thoughts turning to her 15-month old daughter, Bryn. ”I was thinking, Oh, my God, Bryn! I’m not going to be there at six o’clock in the morning when she wakes up and she’s going to wonder where Mommy is and gosh,” she said. ”If something were to happen to me, what would happen to her. I was having horrendous thoughts.”

What very nearly could have been a real life Gilligan’s Island was averted by a call to the U.S. Coast Guard. ”We were in the middle of the deep sea with no land or anybody near us,” she explained. “The captain had never, in 30 years, called the Coast Guard.” The captain then proceeded to berate a small man wearing a red shirt and white bucket hat (we imagine). Luckily the team is back on land. And even more luckily, a camera crew for her new reality show Bethenny Ever After was on hand. We’ll definitely be DVR-ing that one.

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Bethenny Frankel’s Skinnygirl Drinks Yanked By Whole Foods

In case you were wondering how something could be low-cal, alcoholic and all-natural without tasting like rubbing alcohol, the answer is…it can’t. Real Housewives Of New York vet Bethenny Frankel’s Skinnygirl margaritas are off the shelves in Whole Foods, allegedly after the company found out the drinks contained the preservative sodium benzoate, “This product had been offered in about a dozen of Whole Foods Market’s 310 stores. After discovering that it contains a preservative that does not meet our quality standards, we have had to stop selling it,” their spokesperson told E! Online. Frankel fired back, “With all due respect to Whole Foods, we were in a dozen of their stores and have decided not to continue in these stores. They represent an infinitesimal fraction of our business. We are, in fact, the fastest growing spirits brand in the U.S. We were bound to piss someone off and everyone loves to try to tear down a success.” Dang girl, how many of those margs did you have before releasing a statement like that?

In addition to her thin-person booze kerfuffle, Bethenny Frankel defends Bravo over allegations that the network could bear any responsibility in RHoBH‘s Russell Armstrong’s suicide. “It’s preposterous to blame a TV show for someone’s suicide. When the show started filming, I’d heard he wasn’t so kind to his wife. But I know nothing about them,” Frankel told USA Today. Hoo boy. Controversy like this makes us want to stop by Whole Foods and pop open a few….oh wait a minute. Nooooooooooo!

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The Only Things That Matter To Bethenny Frankel Are Her Baby And Her BlackBerry

Oh, Bethenny Frankel, have you no sense of irony? The former Real Housewife/Star Who Skates posed for a Twitpic yesterday holding her adorable baby, Brynn, and captioned the photo “This is the only thing that matters.” What’s so amazing is that she couldn’t be bothered to get off her BlackBerry to properly pose with her precious cargo. So apparently the only things that really matter are your kid and getting the most out of your rollover minutes.

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Skating With The Stars Is Real And It’s Coming Soon

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Dancing With The Stars is a true phenomenon, despite the sometimes low caliber of its “stars” and the fact that we totally don’t get it. But people love it, and that means it was only a matter of time before it got a spin-off. And that spin-off is called Skating With The Stars. Has the state of television really come to this? Yes, it has.

Skating will air on ABC starting on November 22 and have the same producers at DWTS, but only six contestants. Because apparently there are literally only six D-listers that can be trusted to be in a reality show where you put blades on your feet. So who are the lucky skaters? Hoo boy. Okay, you’ve got your sauce-loving rocker Vince Neil, your unstable actress Sean Young (who we shall nickname “Blade Runner” for the duration of this show), reality-show veteran Bethenny Frankel, the Winter Olympics athlete who will obviously be the winner, Jonny Moseley, Disney Channel star (?) Brandon Michael Smith, and soap actress Rebecca Budig.

Choo-choo! Listen! That’s the sound of a train wreck waiting to happen ON ICE. We can’t wait.

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Bethenny Frankel Says Goodbye To The Crazies

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We knew this day would come, but now it’s official: Bethenny Frankel is leaving The Real Housewives Of New York. The woman already has her own spin-off (although, now that she’s married, what new title will they decide on? Bethenny Buying A Vacation House? Bethenny Is A Mommy? Bethenny Likes Question Marks?), so she doesn’t need the drama of the rest of these harpies.

Frankel decided to quit after season three, saying “Last season was scary and painful…It took all of the joy out of it.” Seriously. Even we felt creeped out after that trip to the Virgin Islands. You can cook us crab cakes any time, Bethenny, we won’t yell at you or push our food around on the plate!

Frankel is obligated to make appearances on at least a few shows during season four though, so we’re not totally rid of her. And if we learned anything from Heather Locklear, it’s that it’s much more intriguing to be a “very special guest” anyway.

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Bethenny, Bride Of Frankelstein

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First off – yes, we know we’re going to woman hell for mocking a fellow lady on her wedding day. But we.just.can’t.help.it. Bethenny Frankel, she of the Skinnys and the Housewives, married Jason Hoppy at the Four Seasons this weekend. Congrats are in order, obviously, but only after call her out for looking totally insane (with happiness, probs) on her wedding day. Maybe once we see her decked out in her dress sans hair curlers we’ll change our tune. But judging from what we’ve seen of Alex McCord and Simon van Kempen‘s outfits, we’re guessing her big day had a theme: crazy.

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Jennifer Aniston And Gerald Butler: Bounty Hunter Premiere Or Prom Night?

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Jenerald? Butlerston? Antler? It’s a good thing Jennifer Aniston and Gerald Butler don’t appear to be dating: we’d have a heck of a time trying to find a good nickname for the couple. Gernifer was in NY last night for the city’s Bounty Hunter premiere, embracing for the delight of paparazzi and studio execs. The pair had more of a “prom date” look than at last week’s London debut—blame Jennifer’s gown—but we won’t pretend the canoodling doesn’t make us curious if the pair’s chemistry translates on screen. If it does, this could be the first of many movies for Jen-Ger. That’s it…Jen-Ger!

See photos of Jen-Ger (we’re sticking with this for now), Kendra Wilkinson, Bethenny Frankel and more in our red carpet gallery below.

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