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Bravo list for ‘RHONY Legacy’ has Jill Zarin, Kelly Bensimon

Warning: if you see any of the following women in the Hamptons next summer, check for cameras.

Page Six hears that Bravo’s short list for cast members for the brand new “Legacy” spinoff of the “Real Housewives of New York City” are Jill Zarin, Kelly Bensimon, Dorinda Medley, Luann De Lesseps and Sonja Morgan, plus one or two more names we’re yet to pin down.

Meanwhile, we’re told the longest-serving “RHONY” star, Ramona Singer, has not made the cut.

Sources say that contracts haven’t been signed, but talks are underway with all the potential stars.

Earlier this year, the network announced that it was putting the 14-year-old series through a major overhaul.

Execs split the series into two shows: “The Real Housewives of New York City,” which has an all-new cast of untried stars, and the “Legacy” version, which would feature a cast of fan favorites from earlier seasons.

For some of the returning cast, they’ve reached way back into the archives. Zarin only appeared on the first four of the thirteen seasons that have aired, but her memorable battle with former cast member Bethenny Frankel has given her an outsize presence in the minds of many “Housewives” addicts, in spite of her brief stint.

Sources said Ramona Singer won’t make the cut, while her castmates return.
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Bensimon, meanwhile, also left after the show’s fourth season, and has since reinvented herself as a wildly successful real estate broker.

Only four of the new stars have appeared on-screen together. Zarin, Bensimon, De Lesseps and Morgan overlapped fleetingly for Season 4. That was Morgan’s first season, but Medley didn’t join until Season 7.

Jill Zarin’s tenure on “RHONY” was brief, but she remains a fan favorite.
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Exec producer Andy Cohen “put a pause” on her participation in 2020 after a series of ugly fights involving the star.

We reported at the time that the network hoped to bring her back.

Reps for Bravo declined to comment.

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Dorinda Medley calls Jill Zarin a ‘lapdog’ on ‘Ultimate Girls Trip’

Dorinda Medley slammed “lapdog” Jill Zarin as “thirsty” for trying to force her way into an appearance on “Housewives” star Eva Marcille’s radio show.

The former “Real Housewives of New York City” stars began hurling insults on each other after a night of cocktails during Thursday’s episode of “The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip Ex-Wives Club.”

The drama started when Zarin, 58, asked Marcille if she could cameo or at least sit in on the “RHOA” alum recording her show in the morning, which set Medley off.

“What are you, a lapdog?” Medley, 57, said in a confessional. “This is so awkward and thirsty.”

Marcille, however, wasn’t offended by Zarin’s request, explaining in a confessional that while the request wasn’t “bad intended,” it was just poor “timing.”

As Zarin exited the room, she quipped to co-star Phaedra Parks that Medley was being “such a f–king bitch.”

“This is Dorinda being a bitch,” Zarin told Parks. “She tried to be nice tonight, but she couldn’t hold onto it.”

Jill Zarin called Dorinda Medley a “f–king bitch” while Medley compared her to a “lapdog.”
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When Medley overheard the comments, Zarin — who said earlier in the episode they’d known each other 20 years despite never appearing on “RHONY” together at the same time — openly slammed her for not being a supportive friend.

Zarin then broke down in tears.

“I’m so f–king losing it you know what honestly I have been such a good friend to her I have been holding back so much with Dorinda, because I’m giving her such a pass,” Zarin cried to Parks.

“You don’t have to make me feel bad about it,” Zarin emotionally told Medley.
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Parks, in an attempt to play mediator between the intoxicated women, told Medley that Zarin felt she wasn’t supportive enough over their years-long friendship.

Medley, however, defended herself saying that the pair haven’t been close in a long time and she hadn’t “seen Jill for years.”

Medley became angrier after Zarin suggested she hadn’t supported her over the years.
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“After everything we’ve been through! Funerals, life you went to these people before me and you cried out of ridiculousness,” Medley said to Zarin — who got up and attempted to leave.

“There she goes, because she can’t deal with it,” Medley cried. “And there’s where you’re weak.”

Zarin eventually walked to bed and agreed with Medley that she’s “weak” and “can’t deal with it.”
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Zarin got the last word in a confession, telling the camera that Medley’s “intolerable” behavior turned her into a “horrible person.”

“The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip Ex-Wives Club” is available to stream on Peacock.

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