Stefan Richter of Top Chef obviously didn’t need the prize money from the competition since he went and bought himself a restaurant anyway! If you want to work for Stefan, he is currently hiring and holding open calls from July 5 - July 7 at Santa Monica’s LA Farm. [Craigslist]

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“WHICH unnaturally thin celebrity chef credits her bony frame to good eating habits, but really is addicted to laxatives?”

I think the clue is the “unnaturally thin” phrase. Bethenny, as we all know, is the author of the very successful dieting book Naturally Thin.

But it could also be skinny celebrity chefs Giada DeLaurentis or Sandra Lee. What do you think?

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• PC hasn’t blogged about the episodes like his cast-mates, even though he’s probably supposed to per his contract. If he won’t blog, why would he tweet?
• The NYC Prep kids are all addicted to their Blackberries and in this video made for Bravo, all pick the Blackberry over the iPhone. Many of the Tweets on the PC Twitter account come from Twitterfon, an iPhone client. If you’re going to fake, at least update from the web or text, where it’s impossible to tell!
• The style of writing of whoever is updating this is not consistent at all with how PC presents himself on the show, which is, whether you find PC annoying or not, articulate & well-educated. In other words, not an incoherent caricature of what you think a rich teenager sounds like.
• If you were going to do a fake account on a rich New York person in the summer, put them in the Hamptons, not at Diddy’s white party, which by the way, was in LA this year. Also, would PC call out Kim Kardashian, a very West Coast celebrity if there ever was one?
• I just have to think he wouldn’t be plotting to make a sex tape with Jessie to make TMZ.

I’m going to call this out as fake, you guys. What do you think?

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Real Housewife of New York City Jill Zarin was getting her hair done and ran into Lisa Gastineau:

Kelly Bensimon stared at the magic of her own words:

Former Fashion Show contestant Keith Lissner got a little deep:

Bravo’s Andy Cohen celebrated July 4th with lots of pink wine:

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Okay, sort of. In this week’s Life & Style, Jacqueline tells the magazine this:

“I don’t think it was something as simple as giving a phone number out, but leave it to Danielle to try to downplay her whole dirty deed,” Jacqueline says. “She’s an angry, bitter person. She felt Dina rejected her, so she went out to destroy her!”

But then, Jezebel picked up that she also said this:

Danielle was trying to harm Dina by giving her ex-husband a phone number that might give him leverage in the custody of their daughter Lexi.

This contradicts a statement Dina recently put out about that all of the speculation she was seeing on the blogs wasn’t true. The women were also on the Regis & Kelly show this morning, (they’re pictured here leaving the show) sans Danielle, and then refused to say what it was. Caroline did say that it wasn’t that Danielle put a hit out on Dina.

Which is the truth?

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He then goes on to say that the “Colombians” who she put in jail as part of her plea agreement probably still remember what she did and that Danielle should be concerned for her safety. No word on how Kevin is contributing to keeping them safe by going on a major news network and continuing to discuss this story.

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But, being the curious gal I am, I thought I’d see what Twitter thought of the show, since it made the trending topics last night. A sampling of what folks felt:

Skeeton Mischa wondered the same thing I did about Sebastian & Taylor’s date:

This lady doubted that PC’s “counselor” was even a real professional

And others wondered why these rich kids were all using Blackberrys instead of the far more “elite” iPhone:

This woman hated Jessie so much, she publicly made plans to talk trash about her on a message board:

Media analyst Jennifer Pozner broke down why this show is even on the air:

How are you liking NYC Prep so far? Or are you sitting this one out and just going to wait for Gossip Girl to return in the fall?

[Via EW]

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Jezebel uncovered a non-alien looking Danielle Staub doing a guest stint on the soap opera “All My Children.”  She’s everywhere lately, even marching in the Gay Pride Parade this weekend in New York City. Here’s where she won’t be, however: on tomorrow morning’s Regis & Kelly Show; the 4 other housewives refused to do the show if Danielle was present. At last week’s Fashion Show finale at Cipriani, all the housewives sat next to each other in the front row, except for Danielle who had to sit apart.

[Thanks to Marie L. & the slackmistress for sending this one along!]

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