Bethenny Frankel says actuality TV stars ought to strike: ‘We’ve at all times been the losers’

Bethenny Frankel would quite eat glass than speak concerning the ongoing Hollywood union strikes, however someone has to do it.

The “Actual Housewives of New York” alum posted an Instagram rant on Instagram on Wednesday concerning the writers’ and actors’ labor points, demanding that actuality stars receives a commission residuals.

“Why isn’t actuality TV on strike?” Frankel, 52, mentioned. “Actuality stars must also cease capturing community and streaming content material till their free content material is taken down. We additionally deserve residuals.

“We don’t receives a commission s–t!”

The “Skinnygirl” founder launched her frustrations in a one-minute and 36-second video, revealing how a lot she constructed from her OG days.

“I obtained paid $7,250 for my first season of actuality TV, and persons are nonetheless watching these episodes,” belted Frankel, who reportedly made $1 million per season afterward. “We’re getting screwed, too.”

She entered the fact realm in 2008 by way of “The Actual Housewives of New York,” turning into a legend for the Bravo franchise with iconic strains corresponding to “Fall asleep! Fall asleep,” “Get off my jock” and “I’d quite eat glass than speak about this.”

“I personally have generated hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in promoting and on-line impressions being on actuality TV and have by no means made a single residual.”

She declared that anybody capturing a Bravo present shouldn’t be capturing till they receives a commission residuals for all of the episodes they’ve completed.

“If a community or streamer is at the moment earning profits on me, telling somebody to GO TO SLEEP, then perhaps I needs to be compensated.”

The Publish has reached out to Bravo for remark.

The 52-year-old mogul talked about different well-liked actuality stars like Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi from “Jersey Shore” and Lauren Conrad from “The Hills” ought to obtain residuals for his or her years of labor.

“From @snooki to @laurenconrad to @kaitlynbristowe to myself, actuality TV has generated hundreds of thousands of {dollars} and entertained folks globally, and my identify and likeness and content material are used for years to return without cost on episodes the place I used to be paid peanuts for my work.”

Frankel admits that unscripted expertise ought to have a union to keep away from poor remedy and belittlement.

“Simply because expertise indicators their life away doesn’t make exploitation right,” she provides. “The mentality that we had been nobodies and that these streamers and networks have given us platforms and that we are able to capitalize on them can be moronic.”

When the final writers’ strike occurred from November 2007 to February 2008, unscripted expertise saved the day and “offered the entire leisure” for viewers, which Frankel considers the gold rush of actuality TV.

“Critics will say that actors have ‘expertise,’ which is what studios pay for; in truth, studios pay for advertisers and advertisers pay for the purchasers of the family, a ok a ladies.

“And what will get ladies? Actuality TV,” Frankel revealed.

“We’ve at all times been the losers, the ‘I’m up right here, you’re down right here’ to the actresses and actors.”

Though Frankel made an exit from her iconic position in actuality television in 2019, she claims advocating for unscripted expertise could develop into a brand new passion of hers.

“Possibly I’m the one who must GET A HOBBY, and perhaps this will probably be it.”