Jill Zarin And Bethenny Frankel Reunite On Flight 12 Years After Massive ‘RHONY’ Feud!

Former Real Housewives of New York City besties, Bethenny Frankel, and Jill Zarin, reunited on a flight earlier this week, sparking lots of chatter amongst longtime fans. Viewers know that the duo fell out 12 years ago, in a massive feud that unfolded during Season 3. 

“So this girl walks onto a plane…” the Skinnygirl mogul captioned an Instagram snap with her former cast mate. 

Bethenny and Jill both smiled for the camera from their seats on the plane. Bethenny wrote “I’m up here” over the pic, referencing a classic RHONY diss. 

The philanthropist appeared on the show from 2008-2010 and from 2015-2019. Bethenny turned two more iconic lines into hashtags adding—#MentionItAll and #GetAHobby in her caption. 

Jill, who appeared on the Bravo show from Seasons 1-4, confirmed that the pair was in a good place by sharing the photo on her own account, captioning the shot—“Pleasant flight, no turbulence 😉✈️.” 

The former friends clashed in 2010 after Bethenny told Jill to “get a hobby” during a rocky period in their friendship. The BStrong founder later revealed that Jill had supposedly asked the other women to not film scenes with her.  

Jill, who left the show in 2011, labeled Bethenny a former “nobody” in an interview for Dave Quinn’s book, “Not All Diamonds and Rosé,” which was released in October 2021. 

“Kelly Bensimon was a supermodel and Bethenny Frankel couldn’t sell a cupcake in a grocery store,” Jill told Quinn, at the time. “Honestly, she was a nobody.”

Jill slammed her former pal in April when she claimed that Bethenny had a secret motive in her decision to attend her late husband, Bobby Zarin’s funeral, in 2018.

Jill, 58, told Page Six at the New You Beauty Awards in Miami that she believed that Bethenny, 51, made an appearance at the funeral for publicity. 

“She came with cameras [to Bobby’s funeral], which I didn’t know were going to be there, so that changed it for me,” Jill said.

“Housewives came without cameras to pay their respects: Dorinda [Medley], Luann [de Lesseps], Ramona [Singer], all came [with] no makeup, no hair, you know, not glammed out,” she added.

Jill explained that she didn’t call out Bethenny in person at the time, because there was “no reason to.”

“I was so happy to see her that I didn’t question the fact that she was all dressed up, and I just didn’t know,” she shared, adding that it wasn’t necessary to “feel” or consider whether the move was a publicity stunt.

“I think that’s what it was,” she said.

She added that she and Bethenny did have a private meeting after Bobby’s funeral. 

“She came to my house to talk without cameras and I really thought that was authentic,” the former reality star said, adding “I didn’t know that after she left my house, she was filming with the girls to download them on coming to my house.”

“I did feel a bit used,” Jill revealed. 

Jill told Bravo executive, Andy Cohen, that there was no chance for a renewed friendship with her former co-star, in May 2021.

 

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