Luann de Lesseps Says She Wants to Date ‘Elegant’ Kevin Costner Amid His Divorce: ‘He’s My Type’

Luann de Lesseps and Sonja Morgan are returning to Bravo in a The Real Housewives of New York City spinoff Welcome to Crappie Lake. The cable network dropped the trailer for the reality series that premieres on Sunday, July 9 at 9 p.m. ET. Watch a sneak peek in the video posted above.

After years of denying that she turned Teresa Giudice and her ex-husband, Joe Giudice, to the FBI for their legal woes, Caroline Manzo is adding a new layer to the controversy.

It’s a spring afternoon, high up in the mountains of Moab, Utah, and Kevin Costner looks up at the sky. Rough weather is starting to roll in and he needs to get back to work and bank some more scenes. After all, it’s coming out of his pocket. The project is called Horizon, the first of four films set in the pre- and post-Civil War expansion of the American West. It is his most sprawling epic since Dances With Wolves, which he also part-funded, and which brought him seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director.

McKinley Franklin editor NBCU has officially shifted the format of its “The Real Housewives of New York: Legacy” to an “Ultimate Girls Trip” format to stream on Peacocok, featuring former Housewives Kelly Killoren Bensimon, Luann de Lesseps, Dorinda Medley, Sonja Morgan, Ramona Singer and Kristen Taekman. After a low-rated 13th season and an influx of conflict, Variety broke the news that the “RHONY” would be revamping its format in a two-part strategy. First, Andy Cohen revealed that Bravo was focused on rebooting the flagship show with a brand-new cast, and the network would eventually launch a spin-off “Legacy” series that would cast original and former New York Housewives. 

hefty price tag he was charging contributed to the show’s end.The blockbuster series that starred Kevin Costner, Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser is set to wrap with the second half of season 5 this summer after five years on the air.Sheridan, 52, known as one of Hollywood’s preeminent Western storytellers, has been charging the network a whopping $50,000 per week for his own show to film at his two sprawling ranch properties.Employees on the set were puzzled to learn that Paramount was paying a horse wrangler 1,600 miles away, according to the Wall Street Journal.Back in the show’s production offices in Stevensville, Montana, confusing expenses were piling up, including a time card requesting more than $3,000 from a wrangler named Barbara Stuart, the Journal reported on Friday.“I was surprised to see a timecard for a TX wrangler come through last week even though we are now shooting in Montana,” Mary Jasionowski, the show’s production controller, wrote to Ms. Stuart, who was also not known to the head of animal handling on set.“I am Taylor Sheridan’s wrangler,” Ms.

Luann de Lesseps doesn’t know the meaning of the words “too soon”! She’s shooting her shot while she can!

Struggling to cope. Kevin Costner is “deeply saddened” by his split from wife Christine Baumgartner, an insider exclusively tells Us Weekly.

Kevin Costner reportedly will not commit to returning to film the final season of  until he approves how his role is written off the show.In what it called an «amusing wrinkle,» is reporting that the 68-year-old actor wants to feel «comfortable with how his John Dutton character is written out of the franchise» and that he «wants to prevent what Shonda Rhimes did to Patrick Dempsey, killing off the race car-driving  star in an F-you car accident. So [ creator Taylor] Sheridan may not be able to dispose of his Western-loving leading man via a kick from an angry horse.»It's also being reported that Costner's relationship with producers and network executives have worsened, and  reports that the evidence is in how Paramount handled last week's announcement — that the series would come to an end after season 5 — without giving its leading man a courtesy heads up.After ET reported that Costner, who reportedly earns $1.2 million per episode, was set to leave  after the end of season 5, Paramount Network revealed that the series will end in November, following the release of its remaining episodes.

The end of them. Yellowstone fans are unhappy with the show’s production problems, but an insider exclusively tells Us Weekly that the behind-the-scenes drama also caused tension between Kevin Costner and estranged wife Christine Baumgartner.

Project Runway is celebrating 20 years of the reality competition series with an “All-Stars” edition set to premiere on Thursday, June 15 at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo. The network announced that the premiere will be two parts and you can watch a preview of the upcoming season in the video posted above.

comes to an end this fall with the second half of Season 5, a new report has revealed creator Taylor Sheridan’s rip-roaring spending habits on the set of the mega-popular TV show have caused “internal frustration.”  A story in the Wall Street Journal said Paramount and 101 Studios pay Sheridan, 52, tens of thousands of dollars a week on top of what he’s paid to write, direct and produce his series — to use his various companies and services, including a “Cowboy Camp” to train actors. He rents cattle to Paramount at $25 a head, and he charges up to $50,000 a week for the show to film on ranches that he owns. Sheridan also billed the studio $3,000 to pay a wrangler in Texas, 1,600 miles away from set, who was looking after his own horses. Some of his exorbitant costs are a result of personal taste. For instance, he insists on using his preferred farrier to make the drama’s horseshoes, and had the specialist flown out to Montana from Texas for four nights to do the job, flummoxing executives at 101 Studios.“Are you kidding me? We can’t find a local person?” wrote David Glasser, the head of 101 Studios, in an email to staff. According to the Journal, Paramount and 101 are increasingly bothered by the powerful showrunner’s enormous expenses.Episodes of the “Yellowstone” prequel “1923” can cost up to $22 million each to produce, according to the report.

Kevin Costner has acted alongside many leading ladies throughout his 40-plus years in the business. Some of Costner's most memorable roles are with actors playing his romantic partners in movies like "Tin Cup," "The Bodyguard," "Dances with Wolves" and "Field of Dreams." After five seasons, several spinoffs and endless drama, "Yellowstone," led by Costner, is officially coming to an end.

Kevin Costner's estranged wife, Christine Baumgartner, opted for a little retail therapy amid her divorce, and she was spotted doing so without her wedding ring.Baumgartner went out and did a little shopping on Thursday in Santa Barbara, California, which is not too far from the home she and the  star share in nearby Montecito. Baumgartner looked quite fashionable with a white fedora hat, denim jacket, white top, jeans and matching white kicks.The outing comes less than a week after Baumgartner filed for divorce after more than 18 years of marriage.

Kevin Costner and Christine Baumgartner, have announced that they’re getting a divorce. The pair has been married for 18 years. Baumgartner filed for divorce on May 1st, citing “irreconcilable differences.” Costner reportedly felt shocked when he learned the news, with the couple attending red carpets as recently as this past March.

Making it official. Kevin Costner’s estranged wife, Christine Baumgartner, was spotted without her wedding ring shortly after filing for divorce.

“The King,” told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that the 41-year-old estranged royal is all-systems go on becoming a “power player” in Tinseltown after signing with esteemed entertainment agency WME.“If Meghan doesn’t end up hosting a daytime syndicated talk show, I’ll be surprised,” Andersen told the outlet. “She certainly seems well-suited to that role in particular, and I can easily see her pursuing a career path similar to Oprah’s in the media: a show, a magazine, producing, directing — the works.“She still has a sizeable chunk of the viewing public in her corner,” he added.The news of Markle’s signing comes after Page Six reported that she and her husband, Prince Harry, 38, have been spotted more often in Hollywood in recent months.

Wow, as far as Hollywood breakups go, this is a real surprise. After an impressive 18 years of marriage, Kevin Costner is getting a divorce!

Taking the good with the bad. Kevin Costner has garnered critical acclaim as both an actor and a director, but he’s faced his fair share of personal hardships.

Kevin Costner is not returning to Yellowstone after Season 5!

Kevin Costner is not returning to “Yellowstone” after season 5, sources close to the production tell ET. The news comes after reports of alleged drama between the star of the Paramount Network series and co-creator Taylor Sheridan over the actor’s filming commitments to the remaining episodes of the current season.