 October 2014, it was announced that Bethenny Frankel was returning to the series in season seven after a three-year hiatus from the series.Frankel returned to the series despite claiming she had quit reality television for her talk show "Bethenny" and that she wouldn't return to "'The Real Housewives of New York City".Frankel stated that she was excited for her return, saying "It feels like the first season when it was fresh and new and unknown," as well as speaking about the network, "Bravo has always been the place on television where I have the freedom to be unfiltered, honest and inappropriate."