Lizzy Savetsky has left The Real Housewives of New York Cityseason 14 one month after she was announced as a housewife.
Lizzy gained a hefty Instagram following as a fashion influencer and matchmaker. She was announced as a member of a rebooted RHONY at BravoCon in October.
Other members joining the reality franchise were Brynn Whitfield, Erin Dana Lichy, Jenna Lyons, Jessel Taank, Sai De Silva, and Ubah Hassan.
She was originally slated for The Real Housewives of Dallas season 6 before the show was canceled.
Originally, she made it sound like she voluntarily quit, but Bravo viewers always thought that Lizzy was actually fired. Rabid fans of the show have suspected that.
8 Lizzy Savetsky Announced Her Real Housewives Departure
On November 16, 2022, Lizzy Savetsky announced her departure from RHONY season 14 due to alleged antisemitism. "I thought participating in [RHONY] would be a great chance to represent people like me and share my experience," Lizzy wrote, adding that "This path was no longer right for me and my family."
While Lizzy's announcement implied that she chose to leave, however, several clues online have led fans to believe that Lizzy was let go from RHONY season 14.
7 Lizzy Savetsky Fell Out With Brynn Whitfield Over Dating
Rumors are that Brynn Whitfield and Lizzy had already had a dispute.
Brynn reportedly asked Orthodox Jew Lizzy if she’d set her up with a Jewish man. Sources said Lizzy declined, saying she prefers to only set up Jews with other Jews. She added that Orthodox Jews favor marriages between Jews to preserve the ethnic lineage. We’re told that she explained that Judaism is not just a belief system, but also a people.
6 Brynn Whitfield Felt Affronted By Lizzy Savetsky
Sources say that Brynn Whitfield felt affronted and said that Lizzy Savetsky’s use of words sounded like terminology that is used by “horrific people [meaning Nazis] who did evil things to your people.” This reportedly shocked and upset Savetsky.
According to multiple inside sources, the tension led to an off-camera phone call between Savetsky and Whitfield, during which they discussed the power of racial slurs.
5 The RHONY Racial Slur Controversy
Page Six reports that Brynn Whitfield, who is half-Black, used the N-word during the class. Lizzy Savetsky apparently got the impression that Whitfield planned to tell other cast members that she had also used a racial slur during the phone call.
Sources close to the reality show say that Savetsky’s plastic surgeon husband, Dr. Ira Savetsky, was outraged and reported the alleged incident to the show’s producers. Unfortunately, he did not censor himself and said the word in full. He did apologize, but it looked like the damage was already done for the pair.
4 Real Housewives Of New York City Struggles With Diversity
RHONY has gained heat over the years for its all-white cast. In an attempt to redress this issue, the producers added the show’s first Black cast member, Eboni K. Williams.
It ended in disaster when Williams accused a fellow cast member of racism, sparking a huge third-party investigation that effectively ended the show mid-season. It never even made it to a reunion episode. Bravo announced this spring that it would overhaul the show with a brand new, racially diverse cast.
3 Why Lizzy Savetsky Left The Real Housewives Of New York City
Sources close to the Bravo show’s production still want to make it clear that Lizzy Savetsky and her family did experience an overwhelming amount of anti-Semitism online, and the incident that allegedly happened with Brynn Whitfield was not the only reason she quit the show.
Since RHONY season 14 is still in production, we are unsure whether Lizzy will be totally cut from the show or will appear in limited scenes. She has interacted less with other castmates since the show started filming.
2 Lizzy Savetsky Posts About Feeling Dark After RHONY Exit
Since the story about her exit emerged online, Lizzy Savetsky has taken to Instagram to talk about dark times and how to get through it.
She has recentl.y used her Instagram Story to suggest prayer, meditation and more to lift spirits and find joy. “Things that help me when I’m feeling dark: Prayer- just talking out loud to G-d and asking for strength in the face of things I can’t control,” Savetsky says on her Instagram stories. “Meditation- pausing to focus on gratitude and open my heart to understand my fellow humans.”
If all else fails, the brief reality star suggested “helping someone else.”
“This is the most effective! Don’t need to overthink this one…it can be as simple as calling an older relative or being wholly present with my children,” she wrote.
1 Lizzy Savetsky Was A Controversial Booking To Many
When Andy Cohen introduced the RHONY season 14 cast at BravoCon, fans of the Bravo franchise immediately combed through each woman's social media posts in the hopes to get to know them better.
Unfortunately, many people were unhappy with controversial images shared by Lizzy Savetsky, who is a self-described Zionist. One Instagram post that was particularly upsetting to people was shared in March 2022/ It featured a photoshopped Vogue cover that slammed model Bella Hadid's interview with the fashion magazine.
Lizzy condemned Bella, who is half-Palestinian, and her sister Gigi as antisemitic after they commented on Palestine and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
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