{"id":500139,"date":"2026-03-03T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/500139\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T00:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T00:00:07","slug":"carole-radziwill-cast-on-rhony-season-16-as-friend-filming-starting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/500139\/","title":{"rendered":"Carole Radziwill Cast on ‘RHONY’ Season 16 as ‘Friend,’ Filming Starting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCarole Radziwill<\/a> \u2014\u00a0who was on \u201cThe Real Housewives of New York City<\/a>\u201d from Season 5 through Season 10 \u2014 will be rejoining the cast in the role of \u201cfriend\u201d for the 16th season of the Bravo<\/a> series. Filming begins in New York City this week. <\/p>\n

Radziwill, an author and journalist, distinguished herself during her years on \u201cRHONY\u201d with her dry wit, and of late has been appearing in public and on social media with Erin Lichy, who has starred on the reality series since its Season 14 reboot<\/a>. Lichy, Sai De Silva and Jessel Taank are the only three cast members from the \u201cRHONY\u201d reboot who will continue on with the show: Brynn Whitfield and Ubah Hassan, who were central figures in the controversial final episodes of Season 15, have left, and Racquel Chevremont also won\u2019t be returning. Designer Jenna Lyons announced in November of last year that she also would not be coming back, nor will Rebecca Minkoff, who was a \u201cfriend\u201d during Season 15 and never really connected with the cast.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Monday, DeuxMoi posted<\/a> about Lichy, De Silva and Taaank\u2019s returns, and that filming will begin this week. The gossip site also posted that the new additions of the cast are Daisy Toye (who works with Martha Stewart); Hailey Glassman (whose name you may recognize from the tabloids when she dated Jon Gosselin shortly after the Gosselins split); and celebrity trainer Erika Hammond. The DeuxMoi source also leaked that Lori Gordon, the former showrunner of \u201cThe Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,\u201d will be taking over the reins at \u201cRHONY.\u201d (Both shows are produced by Shed Media for Bravo, so that would make sense.)<\/p>\n

\n\tRepresentatives from Bravo declined to comment on the DeuxMoi report, but then confirmed the cast on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tRadziwill left \u201cRHONY\u201d after a difficult season in which she and then-Bravo star (now anti-Bravo activist) Bethenny Frankel feuded intensely. In announcing her departure in July 2018, Radziwill said in a statement, \u201cMy original curiosity about reality television has waned over the years and I am focusing on TV and writing projects that better suit my more steady temperament.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tHer split from Bravo had certainly seemed permanent until recently. During a Season 10 reunion episode, Radziwill, while arguing with Frankel, accused \u201cReal Housewives\u201d executive producer Andy Cohen of being afraid of Frankel, producing an all-timer of a moment<\/a>. \u201cYou\u2019re so full of shit, Andy,\u201d Radziwill said to Cohen. \u201cAre you kidding me? You\u2019re afraid of her too?\u201d Cohen responded sarcastically, \u201cYeah, I\u2019m afraid of her.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the years afterward, Cohen and Radziwill exchanged jabs in social media and in interviews. Cohen even went as far as to accuse Radziwill of being a critical anonymous source who was quoted in a New York magazine profile <\/a>about him, saying the show had turned into cast members \u201cdoing opposition research and making up false story lines and leaking stories on each other and trying to get one another fired.\u201d Cohen said on his SiriusXM show \u201cRadio Andy\u201d that it wasn\u2019t \u201ceven a question\u201d that the source was Radziwill, leading her to respond saying \u201cthere\u2019s always one short-ish dude waiting to be offended\u201d about a \u201ctruthful observation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tYou get the picture: Bravo, Cohen and Radziwill seemed to be done forever. Miraculously, though, Cohen said in fall 2024 that he and Radziwill had been in touch, and then in August 2025, Cohen brought her to his nightly talk show \u201cWatch What Happens Live\u201d to surprise his guests Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers. Her appearance proved to be hugely popular, and from there, Radziwill was welcomed back into the Bravosphere, appearing at BravoCon in November 2025 in Las Vegas. Speaking with this reporter in a casual conversation in the press room, Radziwill seemed stunned to be there, but said that the fans had always been so welcoming that she was having a lovely time.<\/p>\n

\n\tNotably, Radziwill will not be appearing on the E! series \u201cThe Golden Life,\u201d which will reunite \u201cRHONY\u201d legacy castmates in Palm Beach, Florida, and begins shooting this spring. (Except for Jill Zarin<\/a>.) <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Real Housewives of New York City\u201d entering production flies in the face of dire reports last May that the show had been canceled. Despite Cohen and the network shooting down those reports, on Threads <\/a>and on Radio Andy, fans worried that \u201cRHONY\u201d was gone forever. On the final day of BravoCon in November, Cohen said during his \u201cAsk Andy\u201d panel that filming would begin soon<\/a>, and that the cast was set. It was clear then that Lichy, De Silva and Taank would be among that cast, given that they had been invited to BravoCon.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn an interview with Variety<\/a> from the convention, Bravo boss Frances Berwick described the difficulties of finding the right cast. \u201cIn terms of the learnings on the reboot of \u2018New York,\u2019 you know when you watch Olympic skating and somebody falls, and then it suddenly makes you realize that what they are doing is incredibly difficult?\u201d she said. \u201cWe don\u2019t always nail a cast \u2014 sometimes you get a cast like \u201cSalt Lake City\u201d that has this magical alchemy. But we don\u2019t always get it right. I thought the first season of the reboot of \u2018Housewives\u2019 of New York was actually great.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe don\u2019t need to rehash, but we didn\u2019t love where we came out with the second one,\u201d Berwick continued. \u201cAnd that\u2019s why we\u2019re being really thoughtful about how we bring that back. But it\u2019s an important city.\u201d<\/p>\n