Bethenny Frankel just missed the cut for Donald Trump’s “The Apprentice,” revealing on Monday that she was the first alternate for the sophomore season of the popular NBC reality TV competition that aired in the early to mid-2000s.
A natural foods chef at the time, Frankel auditioned for Season 2 of “The Apprentice” (2004) and advanced through multiple rounds of casting before being being informed by producers that she would not make the final 18 contestants. Kelly Perdew ultimately won that season and a position within the Trump organization.
“I was on the normal person’s ‘Apprentice,’ meaning not ‘The Celebrity Apprentice,'” Frankel recalled. “I was selling these Bethenny Bakes cookies at a trade show at a booth. And I asked my partner at the time if he could get me the cheapest, smallest video camera — I didn’t know how to use one — and I asked him to record me selling cookies…...
A natural foods chef at the time, Frankel auditioned for Season 2 of “The Apprentice” (2004) and advanced through multiple rounds of casting before being being informed by producers that she would not make the final 18 contestants. Kelly Perdew ultimately won that season and a position within the Trump organization.
“I was on the normal person’s ‘Apprentice,’ meaning not ‘The Celebrity Apprentice,'” Frankel recalled. “I was selling these Bethenny Bakes cookies at a trade show at a booth. And I asked my partner at the time if he could get me the cheapest, smallest video camera — I didn’t know how to use one — and I asked him to record me selling cookies…...
- 9/18/2023
- by Lawrence Yee
- The Wrap
On “The Big Shot With Bethenny” on HBO Max, Bethenny Frankel — the founder and CEO of the lifestyle brand Skinnygirl, and the most successful graduate of “The Real Housewives” franchise — went searching for a No. 2 for her company. The show was first announced in Feb. 2020, then delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic, during which Frankel turned her attention to helping to solve the shortage of PPE with her signature determination. Her relief work organization, B Strong, was more effective during Covid’s early days than many local governments. “It just became the biggest effort that I’ve ever worked on with my partners in Miami, Global Empowerment Mission,” Frankel said during Variety’s Virtual TV Fest presented by Amazon Advertising.
Speaking about her different approaches to business and emergency assistance, Frankel said: “I’m much tougher in relief work. There is no margin for error. It is urgent. Everything, get out...
Speaking about her different approaches to business and emergency assistance, Frankel said: “I’m much tougher in relief work. There is no margin for error. It is urgent. Everything, get out...
- 6/8/2021
- by Kate Aurthur
- Variety Film + TV
Editor’s note: This story has been updated with a quote from Bond producers Eon Productions about their commitment to theatrical releases for future 007 installments.
Amazon and MGM have struck a $8.45 billion deal for the e-commerce giant to acquire the storied studio behind James Bond. MGM’s enormous library and underutilized franchises will be major assets for Amazon’s streaming efforts: While Amazon has virtually unlimited money to spend on film, TV, and music (last year’s content budget: $11 billion), it doesn’t have a century’s worth of content.
With streamers dominating the industry in a post-pandemic land grab for subscribers, the MGM deal means Amazon has a clearer path to the industry’s number-three spot, after Netflix and Disney. This deal gives Amazon a major leg up on another deep-pocketed tech company, Apple, which planned to spend $17 billion on content last year but has no library to speak of.
Amazon and MGM have struck a $8.45 billion deal for the e-commerce giant to acquire the storied studio behind James Bond. MGM’s enormous library and underutilized franchises will be major assets for Amazon’s streaming efforts: While Amazon has virtually unlimited money to spend on film, TV, and music (last year’s content budget: $11 billion), it doesn’t have a century’s worth of content.
With streamers dominating the industry in a post-pandemic land grab for subscribers, the MGM deal means Amazon has a clearer path to the industry’s number-three spot, after Netflix and Disney. This deal gives Amazon a major leg up on another deep-pocketed tech company, Apple, which planned to spend $17 billion on content last year but has no library to speak of.
- 5/26/2021
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
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With nearly 500 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable and streaming, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. So consider this our reminder to set your DVR, order a Season Pass, pop a fresh Memorex into the Vcr… however it is you roll.
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- 5/15/2021
- by Ryan Schwartz
- TVLine.com
Before her notoriety as one of Bravo’s “Real Housewives of New York City,” Bethenny Frankel emerged from a very different style of reality TV. In 2005, she competed on “The Apprentice: Martha Stewart,” a show designed to burnish Stewart’s image just after her release from federal prison, and, after having done that, to choose for Stewart a successor figure. Frankel came in second place on the series. But in the years since, she’s pioneered a sort of celebrity that looks, on the surface, a bit like Stewart’s. Like Stewart, Frankel unifies a plainspoken and somewhat acidic sensibility with an attainable consumer brand. Some 16 years after hoping Stewart would choose her, it’s Frankel, on the new HBO Max series “The Big Shot with Bethenny,” who’s doing the choosing.
This show, Frankel tells us, is an attempt to find “a vice president of operations — but come in...
This show, Frankel tells us, is an attempt to find “a vice president of operations — but come in...
- 4/28/2021
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
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