Stop the presses! The Real Housewives of NYC is adding a sixth housewife when the reality show returns to Bravo sometime in 2009. Not to worry, this doesn't mean Alex McCord and her creepy-yet-fascinating husband, Simon van Kempen, got ousted from the club. (Although I'm sure Jill Zarin is doing her best to make that happen. Apparently those two got into some kind of feud in the Hamptons. Where were the cameras, Bravo? Come on.)

Anyway. All five of the original New York housewives will be back for season two, plus new cast member Kelly Bensimon. Bensimon is apparently a designer, model, author and fashion editor who also writes for Hamptons Magazine and manages to author books, operate a jewelry line AND raise two children! Does anyone fact-check these bios, or do the housewives just get to describe themselves however they want? I still find Countess LuAnn's whole "We gave the Statue of Liberty to America" story a bit suspect.

But first, we get the Atlanta housewives, who thus far are mostly known for being not white. It's the most diverse Housewives cast ever! Which isn't saying much, since the franchise hasn't seen any kind of diversity since Jo de la Rosa fled Coto de Caza for Los Angeles on The Real Housewives of Orange County. She's now pretending to date men on a farcical reality show called Date My Ex with the help of her ex-fiance, Slade Smiley, airing Monday nights.

Get a sneak peek of The Real Housewives of Atlanta July 30 on Bravo. That spinoff premieres Sept. 16.

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