Reality Check: Bethenny Frankel, former 'RHONY' star, lists Hamptons home

If you happen to have $5,995,000 handy, you could live in the Bridgehampton home of former “The Real Housewives of New York City” star Bethenny Frankel — who was partly raised in Rockville Centre and now splits her time between the Hamptons and Manhattan.

Along with a 5 bedroom house of more than 2,500 square feet, the ¾-acre property on Lumber Lane also includes a guest cottage. The listing, at Douglas Elliman, says the recently renovated main house features a kitchen with custom millwork and high-end appliances and a dining room overlooking a bluestone patio and landscaped gardens. The master bedroom on the second floor has an en suite bath and a private sun porch offering views of the gardens and 40 acres of open fields.

An additional outdoor kitchen complements a heated gunite pool, a sauna, an outdoor shower and a pool house with a half-bath. The renovated 1 bedroom,1 bath guest cottage has a kitchen, a living room, a washer/dryer and an outdoor shower.

Annual property taxes are $11,937. Purchased with an adjacent lot for $2.65 million in 2013, according to property records, the estate is one of multiple properties that Frankel — founder of the Skinnygirl food-and-drink empire she sold for an estimated $100 million in 2011 — owns in the area. Among them is her new home in Southampton, on Shinnecock Bay, bought for $5.45 million in October 2023, but which she did not make public until May.

See more on Acorn

Jane Seymour will host the first reality TV show on the Anglophile streaming service Acorn. AMC Networks announced Friday that “Relative Secrets” will be a hybrid true-crime/genealogy series examining ordinary people’s family histories and the skeletons in their closets.

“I’m thrilled to come aboard ‘Relative Secrets’ as host, deepening my rich relationship with Acorn TV,” said Seymour, who stars in the streamer’s detective series “Harry Wild.” She added that the new show gives her “the chance to uncover real family unknowns. As we all know, reality is often much stranger than fiction … I can’t wait to dive in.”

Participants include the daughter of a serial killer; a 99-year-old World War II veteran concerned that his absence led to his grandmother’s murder; and a mother who abandoned her three children to start a new secret life. No premiere date was announced.

Finale

With Adam Hart, Chris “Murt” Murton and Rebecka Evans eliminated, in that order, on “MasterChef” season 14, that leaves Becca Gibb, Kamay Lafalaise and Michael Leonard as the three finalists on the two-hour closer airing Wednesday at 8 p.m. on Fox.

Premieres

Ten bakers compete in John Henson’s “haunted” Henson Laboratories for judges Stephanie Boswell, Carla Hall and Zac Young on season 10 of Food Network’s “Halloween Baking Championship,” Monday at 9 p.m. … and partly opposite from 9:01 to 10:04 p.m., a returning couple and four new families star in season 4 of the thisclose moms and sons of TLC’s “I Love a Mama’s Boy” … Tuesday at 8 p.m. ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” returns for season 33, with co-hosts Alfonso Ribeiro and Julianne Hough, as well as judges Derek Hough, Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli … Wednesday from 8 to 10:01 p.m., also on ABC, “The Golden Bachelorette,” starring 61-year-old Joan Vassos, makes its series debut … Opposite on CBS from 8 to 9:59 p.m., season 47 of “Survivor” includes Woodbury-raised podcaster Jon Lovett, a former speechwriter for President Barack Obama … and partly opposite, from 9 to 10:30 p.m., it’s season 5 of Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” … and Food Network’s “Halloween Wars” begins its 14th season Sunday at 9 p.m., with returning judge Shinmin Li and Aarti Sequeira overseeing eight teams of bakers, confectioners and pumpkin carvers.

Recaps

Six acts on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” — singer Richard Goodall, dance troupe Brent Street, comic Learnmore Jonasi, dog act Roni Sagi & Rhythm, synchronized-drone group Sky Elements and illusionist Solange Kardinaly — joined the four Golden Buzzer honorees. All 10 perform one last time Tuesday ahead of next week’s announcement of the season 19 winner.