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Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Sonja Morgan Spars With Ramona, Gets Advice From Bethenny

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Sonja Morgan got advice from Bethenny Frankel and fought with Ramona Singer on Tuesday's Real Housewives of New York City.

Here’s the thing: Most of the time people should mind their own business, but it’s rare that anyone actually does. This applies to colleagues, parents, and yes, Housewives — so it was only a matter of time before The Real Housewives of New York City squared its focus on the ladies sticking their noses in places they either weren’t wanted or probably didn’t belong

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Things got off to a nice enough start when Bethenny Frankel gave some softball advice to aspiring “fashion lifestyle brand” maven Sonja Morgan. (We couldn’t help but notice, though, that the conversation quickly devolved into a discussion about sex and black cards, which, in retrospect, isn’t all that surprising). While it was pretty clear that Sonja was more interested in discussing her rules for the bedroom than the boardroom, she was clearly touched by Bethenny’s willingness to take her venture at least a teensy bit seriously–at least, in comparison to the other ladies. We can only imagine this is what prompted Sonja to invite the Skinnygirl mogul to her showroom to check out her wares.

Meanwhile, Carole Radziwill struggled to come clean to LuAnn de Lesseps about her relationship with Adam. Though Kristen Takeman (wisely) urged Radzi to grow up and fess up, Carole didn’t quite get around to it until after LuAnn got to it first. Each woman seems to have her own irons in the fire, and, in episode 5, many of the gals got burned.

Bethenny’s Mission to Help Sonja Focus Gets Off to a Rocky Start

When Bethenny first arrived as Sonja’s headquarters, her initial impressions were positive. She liked the logo, the sketches, and the sample–but her positive feedback ended there. Slipping into business mode (“business” is the nice word for it), Bethenny grilled Sonja’s team about their buyers, manufacturing, and just about everything else under the sun.

Sonja Morgan
Bethenny Frankel gave advice to aspiring “fashion lifestyle brand” maven Sonja Morgan on Real Housewives of New York.

“They revealed they didn’t have orders yet,” a stunned Bethenny noted of the collection that was slated to launch in spring/summer 2015 (i.e. now). While Frankel was the first to admit that fashion was not her expertise, she said, “I know enough to know that in a couple of months you’re not just going to pull a clothing line out of your ass.” Bethenny’s visit didn’t end before a trip down memory lane, however, with the two women reviewing the short list of Morgan’s past failed projects, which includes (but is not limited to): screenplays, movies, a “sexy novel” of some kind, a toaster, and some mysterious award she got from Marc Jacobs which sounded more like a random/ possibly true claim than an actual business.

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Sonja seemed immune to Bethenny’s abrasive approach, however, and chalked her friend’s comments up to her being “protective.” Bethenny didn’t put it exactly like that, however. “She’s just listening to anything everybody’s saying. I feel bad,” she lamented before adding, “This bitch is going to get screwed again.”

Carole Comes Clean

Carole continued her reign as the Cougar Supreme with an update on her thriving romance with the 20-something chef, Adam. “We’re practically living together,” she told Kristen over drinks before revealing she might be exaggerating a tad. “No, but we’ve spent a bunch of time together. He’s really nice,” she added with a smile.

Carole Radziwill
Carole Radziwill is still dating twentysomething chef Adam on RHONY.

In a levelheaded moment, Kristen warned Carole that if she didn’t tell LuAnn about her relationship with Adam (who is LuAnn’s chef as well as her niece’s ex-boyfriend), it could get messy pretty fast, but Carole didn’t seem too concerned. “Of course I’ll tell LuAnn, I just haven’t had the opportunity up until this point,” she reasoned (though we’re not totally convinced that this is true).

Later, at a cocktail party hosted by newbie Dorinda Medley, Carole got her chance to tell LuAnn the truth–because LuAnn pretty much made her. “My niece has been texting me,” the countess said in her signature polite-but-firm tone. Radziwill insisted she was planning to tell LuAnn this very evening but didn’t feel guilty about her relationship with the much younger man. “Her niece is upset. I don’t care,” Carole admitted. “I didn’t do anything wrong. He didn’t do anything wrong.”

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More interesting, however, was the reveal that Adam was planning to go on a trip to Nicaragua with a group of friends, and LuAnn’s niece would be among that group. (It didn’t sound like Carole had received an invite.) Radziwill knew about the trip and didn’t seem to be too bothered, but come on… that can’t possibly go down without some drama.

Heather Really, Really Wants to Help Sonja

Clearly stung by the news that Sonja had sought business advice from Bethenny and not her, Heather Thompson confronted the budding fashionista at Dorinda’s little cocktail soiree. “Bethenny said she was going to your presentation and she was confused about why you had her going and not me, since I am the fashion girl,” the shapewear founder whined. “I would love to see all the things you are doing. We want you to succeed,” Heather reiterated in a tone that didn’t sound like she wanted that at all.

Dorinda Medley
Dorinda Medley hosted a cocktail party for her RHONY castmates where plenty of drama went down.

Then the two women argued for a bit about whether Sonja had, in fact, given Heather the actual address to her showroom or not. “You’re not supportive at all!” Sonja exclaimed. “You’re making it all about you!” 

Watching the fight play out, Dorinda compared Sonja to an animal that gets put in the corner and “gets kind of squeaky.” Oddly enough, that wasn’t a terrible description. Eventually Sonja let the fight with Heather smolder out because it was time to fight with Ramona Singer instead.

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Ramona and Sonja Have the Most Efficient Fight Ever

We’re not sure what to make of this one. Ramona felt Sonja was ignoring her at the beginning of Dorinda’s cocktail party, which then prompted Ramona to ignore Sonja for a while. (For context, Sonja had just told Ramona she wanted to go to Atlantic City together for Ramona’s birthday.) After taking turns ignoring each other, they started talking and then screaming and then–before anyone could figure out what prompted the fight in the first place — they had made up.

It turns out that was good timing because they stopped arguing just as Dorinda’s dry-cleaning magnate boyfriend John began grinding uncomfortably on Kristen… and you know how Sonja doesn’t like to be left out.

Tune in to The Real Housewives of New York City on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo.

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