This week, Bethenny Frankel announced her engagement to Paul Bernon.

Her announcement just happened to coincide with another piece of news.

It was the same day that the RHONY trailer dropped.

Coincidence? No one thinks that. Especially not her former castmates.

An inside source spoke to Page Six about how the Housewives are reating to Bethenny upstaging them.

“They’re all confused why she’s still obsessed with RHONY,” the insider shares.

The source continues: “and would orchestrate her engagement news to come out the same time as the trailer for the show.”

“Bethenny is just being her petty self,” the insider characterizes.

“But,” the source notes, “she can’t take away the cast’s happiness.”

The insider continues: “Or how hard they worked this season during the coronavirus pandemic.”

“The cast collectively feels like the show is so much better without her,” the source alleges.

“And,” the insider adds, “that she wouldn’t have been able to navigate the serious topics of this season.”

At present, it is unclear who if any among the current Housewives reached out to congratulate Bethenny on her engagement.

Bethenny’s representative, however, says that Bethenny doesn’t give a flip about how the ladies feel about anything.

“Bethenny is living her best life and isn’t concerned with what the cast thinks,” her rep affirmed.

Additionally, the rep noted that Bethenny only confirmed the news after eagle-eyed fans spotted the engagement ring.

The ring that Paul slipped onto her finger when he proposed is said to be worth about seven figures.

One jewelry expert speculated that the ring has a $1 million value, due to the center stone being an estimated 8 to 10 carats.

“It looks like she wore a three-stone ring that features a huge 8- to 10-carat emerald-shaped center stone set,” the jeweler assessed to Page Six.

The jewelry expert continued: “with two smaller emerald accent diamonds we estimate to be around 3 carats total.”

“If it’s a real, natural diamond, I’d estimate its retail value at up to $1 million for a natural emerald-shaped diamond ring of that size,” the jeweler stated.

“And if not … probably under $5,000 as a good fake,” the expert concluded.

Bethenny and Paul began dating in 2018, as we reported at the time.

However, the two broke up two years later.

This pas January, they reconciled. Clearly, they decided to play for keeps this time.

As we noted, this season of RHONY appears poised to tackle — for better or for worse — some pressing social issues.

Eboni K Williams is the show’s first-ever Black cast member.

As with Beverly Hills when Garcelle Beauvois joined, this is a long, long overdue milestone.

In the trailer, Eboni is seen calling out Ramona Singer for her dismissive and outdated term for referring to “the help.”

Quite frankly, it is stunning that no one has spoken to Ramona about this before.

Or maybe they did, and Ramona being Ramona, she simply forgot. She is not generally seen as the brightest apple in the basket.

The new season premieres on May 4.

While some viewers are tired of seeing important issues tackled on reality TV … well, imagine how much more tired marginalized people are of oppression.

It will be interesting to see if Bethenny plans to upstage her erstwhile castmates in any other ways.

Despite leaving RHONY behind, Bethenny Frankel continues to piss off her former castmates … and to call them out on their BS.

This time, she’s talking about cosmetic surgery. And she’s calling out Ramona Singer in particular.

“When I get upset with people with all the filtering,” Bethenny Frankel began on a recent episode of her Just B with Bethenny Frankel podcast.

“And,” she continues, “all of the fake lives and pretending everything’s perfect and then they contour their waist, etc.”

“I just feel that that’s not truthful,” Bethenny explains, “and it makes people feel bad about themselves.”

“Someone like a Jane Fonda or when we knew that Demi Moore got the work — not that she said it,” Bethenny noted.

She then got more personal, saying: “or even when Sonja [Morgan] from my show got a facelift like we’re happy for her!”

Bethenny added: “She said it.”

“If you look good and you’re f–king 55 or 60 and you look young,” Bethenny decrees.

She continues: “it’s not because you ate placentas or because you drank water or used ponds skincare.”

That is generally the case, though genetic factors often play a much larger role in apparent aging than lifestyle or diet.

“Or Ramona — she’s like Death Becomes Her,” Bethenny comments, referring to the classic film.

She predicts: “She’s gonna be 95 and she’s gonna be in the goddamn box saying, ‘It’s just Ramona’s skincare.’”

Bethenny declares: “It’s like, the jig is up!”

“So, I’m just thinking, people should just be honest,” Bethenny expresses.

She explains that honesty is best “’cause that’s really empowering to other women.”

And Bethenny is not the only one who has come after Ramona, specifically, fo rher dishonesty.

At the Season 12 reunion, Dorinda Medley trashed Ramona.

She called Ramona a “PSA for a bad facelift.”

Ramona loves to credit for Ageless by Ramona skincare line for her look, so she simply fired back: “You are disgusting! Go to church!”

This month, Bethenny asserted that Ramona is certainly not the only Housewife to have some work done … not by a long shot.

“Everybody’s had something different done,” she said.

Bethenny continued: “Like all the Housewives have had that string thing.”

The what now?

“They put, I guess, a series of strings under your face,” Bethenny explained.

“And then,” she went on to describe, “like a marionette it’s supposed to pull it up.”

“A lot of the Housewives have had many lifts,” Bethenny reflected.

She then speculated: “Which means they’ve done individual like á la carte menu tweaks.”

“Like someone has done an eye thing or a neck thing,” Bethenny detailed, “but just know that everyone’s doing it.”

‘And so,” Bethenny reasoned, “that’s gonna feel sucky if you don’t have a lot of money.”

She also opined that this kind of cosmetic work is an “unfair thing” in that wealthier people “can do that s–t.”

As is so often the case, the “secret” to anything from weight loss to a good face isn’t exercise or a $30 ointment, it’s wealth.

Bethenny explained: “That’s why I think there’s a lot of that anger on social media.”

She continued: “and why people are coming out to me saying, ‘Yeah, what about all the plastic surgery?’”

“But I think if I was honest about it,” Bethenny suggested.

Bethenny imagined: “like, ‘Listen, I’ve worked hard, I wanted to do this because of this’ and maybe people will save up.”

She continued, speculating: “and I guess in non-cosmopolitan New York overpriced cities, there are payment plans and lesser expensive options.” Maybe in other countries, anyway.

“But I just want to talk about it,” Bethenny concluded, “because I feel like it’s a taboo thing.”

Bethenny Frankel is single.

But is she ready to mingle once again with the program that made her famous?

As previously reported, Frankel split from boyfriend Paul Bernon after two years of dating.

In the wake of this break-up, questions are…

Late last year, rumors were swirling that Bethenny Frankel and Paul Bernon were getting engaged.

A lot of fans loved their romance. But all good things must come to an end.

Us Weekly reports that Bethenny Frankel and Paul Bernon have broken up.

In fact, their source shares that the pair split “a couple weeks ago.”

Likely, this means that they broke up in late September.

As we reported at the time, Bethenny and Paul began dating in October of 2018.

RHONY fans can recall how the pair were seen engaged in a very public display of affections in Boston.

Just two months after Bethenny’s on-again, off-again ex-boyfriend Dennis Shields had passed away, all eyes were on her as she grappled with this emotional pain.

Bethenny did eventually open up about Paul and their romance.

In July of 2019, she spoke, sharing that being with Paul made her feel “happy in a way that’s different” than her previous experiences in relationships.

This was not meant as a knock or a drag at any of her exes. Though one could be forgiven for interpreting it that way.

“Not a high or a low, just a balance,” Bethenny explained.

She interrupted herself to clarify “which, if you know my personality at all, it’s not often that balanced.”

“But,” Bethenny stressed, or maybe the opposite of stressed, at the time: “I feel just balanced and healthy.”

Then, late that summer, Bethenny and Paul got much more serious.

Almost one year into their (public) romance, they were going house hunting together.

The two were looking into homes specifically in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

“They live together in the Back Bay area [in Boston] now,” an insider said of the two at the time.

The source added: “She has been spending a lot more time up there.”

“They are house-hunting in the New England area,” the insider then confirmed.

Bethenny and Paul had a great deal in common, including shared interests in philanthropy and politics.

Paul, a producer, has been particularly involved in Emily’s List, a long-running political organization held in high esteem.

Emily’s List seeks to help get more pro-choice Democratic women elected into office. Bethenny and Paul shared an interest in making the world a better place.

Bethenny’s most infamous relationship of course is with Jason Hoppy, her ex-husband.

The two married in 2010 and, after nearly three years together, announced their breakup in 2012.

The two share a 10-year-old daughter, Bryn. Unfortunately, it seems that their daughter was the only good thing to come out of their marriage.

For years, Bethenny has shared that Jason continues to “torture” her, even though it has been so long since they were together.

Bethenny and Jason resolved their custody agreement in 2014. They settled financial issues in 2016.

Their divorce, however, has never truly been finalized — to this day, it appears that Bethenny remains legally tied to Jason, with no love lost between them.

She confirmed this grim legal status just last month. In 2019, she had tweeted cryptically that she “had” to leave the show because she was the only actual “wife” left.

Bethenny would not have been able to marry Paul before taking care of that. Still, we doubt that ink on a legal document is what caused her and Paul to end their romance.

Sometimes, people just don’t stay together. Relationships are like that, and we wish them both the best.