Rumors swirled this week that The Real Housewives of New York City was headed for an unceremonious end — but Andy Cohen and Bravo wants fans to know the door isn’t closed just yet.
“Nothing is official. The show hasn’t been cancelled,” a Bravo spokesperson clarified to PEOPLE on May 9, pushing back against a Page Six report that claimed the network had shelved the show with only vague “hopes” of reconfiguring it in the future.
An unnamed insider did admit, however, “We’re trying to figure that show out. We want to figure it out. We think there’s still life in it.”
Cast member Sai De Silva took to Instagram to quash the speculation in her own way, sharing a screenshot of a text asking if RHONY had really been pulled off the air. Her response? “It’s just fake news.”
The latest season of RHONY, which premiered in 2023, marked a major reboot of the long-running franchise. The cast was completely refreshed with new faces including Jenna Lyons, Jessel Taank, Ubah Hassan, Erin Dana Lichy, and De Silva herself — part of Bravo’s effort to breathe new life into a show that had been on the air since 2008.
Earlier franchise star Bethenny Frankel, who helped define the original RHONY era, weighed in with her own take via TikTok. “It is the end of an era, for me personally, and for that show which was an alchemy of disaster,” she said, reflecting on the show’s transformation and apparent limbo.
“It was a flawed group of women in a flawed city authentically being ourselves — unhinged, unmatched, shockwaves through the real socialite community in New York and the media,” Frankel continued. But she didn’t shy away from criticism of the rebooted format, suggesting the network “cast this glossy, curated version of what they thought people wanted New York City to be.”
In the words of RHONY’s original queen bee: “Bye, New York. You will be missed.”
After The Cut published an article bidding farewell to The Real Housewives of New York, Andy Cohen responded with a playful correction, saying, ‘This is a cute story—except it’s not cancelled.’
Bravo’s current message, however, leaves the possibility open that RHONY could return — perhaps with another shakeup. As executive producer Andy Cohen put it back in 2022, “We’ve spent a lot of time figuring out where to go. And the plan that we’ve come up with, I think, is a real gift to the fans.”
Whether that gift ever gets unwrapped remains to be seen.
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