‘The Real Housewives of New York City’: Meet the new housewife

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Kelly Killoren Bensimon has yet to demonstrate why Bravo even bothered adding her to its Real Housewives franchise.

She fits in on paper: She’s rich, a former model, the ex-wife of fashion photographer Gilles Bensimon, has two daughters, is a writer-journalist and zzzzzzzzzz. Oh, excuse me. You see, all that aside, Kelly is a crashing bore.

On the ‘Real Housewives of New York City,’ we already have a well-adjusted, leggy former model in LuAnn, and even she has a quirky personality that comes out when it comes to her role as Countess de Lesseps. All the other housewives are genuine characters, whether we’re talking about the ambitiously creepy Alex and her metro husband, Simon, mouthy social maven Jill, caustically sarcastic Bethenny or even crazy-eyed Ramona, who never fails to embarrass her daughter.

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