In Season 6 of The Real Housewives in New York City, Kristen joins Ramona, Sonja Morgan, their feuding partner Aviva Drescher, and returning Housewives from Season 5, Carole Radziwill and Heather Thompson.
The show follows the women who mix business with pleasure, party like rock stars, spend the summer in the Hamptons, and let their emotions get the best of them.
Cast of The Real Housewives of New York City Season 6
- LuAnn de Lesseps – renowned American singer, model, actor, and socialite
- Ramona Singer – a well-known American entrepreneur, novelist, and TV host
- Sonja Morgan – an American television personality, philanthropist, and socialite
- Aviva Drescher – an American television personality and the first and only New York City-born housewife in the history of RHONY
- Carole Radziwill – an American television personality, journalist, and author
- Heather Thomson – an American television personality, historian, professor, author, activist, and speaker
- Kristen Taekman – an American television personality, a professional model, and a businesswoman
Episode 1 - If You Can Make It Here
The women are back and just as tough as ever. Heather Thomson throws her own birthday party, but no one is excited to see Aviva Drescher after some of the strange things she’s done in the past. Aviva goes up to Ramona Singer and tries to make up with her.
Heather’s longtime friend Kristen Taekman, who works as a model and is a mother of two, is also introduced to the women. Her beauty is the talk of the party. Later, Aviva tries desperately to win Ramona back, but her last attempts are shocking.
Episode 2 - Give Up the Ghostwriter
When Aviva gets a book deal for her memoir, she decides to get help from Carole Radziwill, who is the most famous author in the group. When the subject of “ghostwriters” comes up, their lunch quickly turns awkward, and things get bad. Sonja Morgan, dating a 23-year-old boy-toy, meets Harry Dubin, Aviva’s ex-husband, for dinner.
Their steamy past comes to the surface. Aviva has a housewarming party at her new townhouse on the Upper West Side. Ramona upsets Carole by talking about some bad news about her. Carole fights her enemy to clear her good name.
Episode 3 - Model Behavior
At Aviva’s housewarming party, Carole and Aviva’s fight gets out of hand and shocks everyone. Ramona helps Avery prepare for prom, and she can hardly believe that her little princess will soon be going away to college. Kristen’s husband and Heather put her under a lot of pressure to run in a tough mud run. Kristen reluctantly agrees to compete.
Episode 4 - Holla in the Hamptons
The women go to the Hamptons to see Sonja do a burlesque act at a charity event, which makes people look at her funny and judge her. Countess LuAnn de Lesseps returns to the group by hosting a Hamptons barbecue at her house. Another explosive argument about “book-gate” causes Heather to defend Carole fiercely.
Episode 5 - Everybody Thinks We're Drag Queens
The fighting at LuAnn’s barbecue keeps going, leaving the women stressed. Sonja tries to lighten the mood the next day by going to a relaxing brunch, where she loses a piece of herself by accident. When they return to the city, Carole gets a rare honor at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade.
This means that Carole, Kristen, Sonja, LuAnn, and Heather have to dress up as drag queens who live on the water and parade around the boardwalk. Aviva and Reid go to Upstate to see if Aviva can face her biggest fear: the machine that took her leg as a child.
Episode 6 - Unhappy Anniversary
RHONY Ramona Singer is back from her trip to Africa with her family, and she feels calmer now. When she hears from Heather about all the trouble in the Hamptons, she makes it her mission to help Heather and Aviva get along.
Kristen and Carole see their old friends Brandi and Yolanda from “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” and tell them juicy details about Kristen’s bachelorette party in Vegas a few years ago. Heather and Jonathan’s 10th-anniversary party is calm and peaceful. Still, Heather discovers that some of her guests have cheated on her.
Episode 7 - Fireworks
It’s the 4th of July weekend in the Hamptons, and all the women are at the beach having fun. Ramona and Mario ask Kristen and Josh to come over and play tennis, but the afternoon is ruined by some angry words. Kristen and Ramona fight about Ramona not going to Heather’s anniversary party.
The tension sets the mood for the weekend’s remaining time. When Sonja says that Ramona isn’t a good friend, the friendship between the two starts to fall apart. When Aviva tries to talk to Carole about their fight at a Fourth of July clambake, fireworks go off.
Episode 8 - Unforgivable Debt
Due to their recent fight, Ramona starts to talk about Sonja’s money problems. Kristen meets with a new modeling agency and hears that she has been given an offer. Sonja’s date doesn’t show up, and she thinks Ramona is to blame.
Episode 9 - The Last Splash
Real housewife Kristen Taekman is worried about Sonja’s problems, so she has her business-savvy husband, Josh, look at Sonja’s confusing business plan. Carole goes to a matchmaker to help her find love. Heather invites all the women, except Aviva, to spend the weekend at her vacation home in the Berkshires.
Ramona reluctantly agrees to go, but she doesn’t stop complaining once she gets there. When a calm canoe trip turns into a bloodbath and Kristen and Ramona fight, things get dangerously out of hand.
Episode 10 - Bon Voyage Ramona
Heather tries to stop Kristen and Ramona from fighting by making them a dinner fit for a king. The following day, the women go hiking in the woods. Ramona finds something that makes her think of her worst childhood fears, which makes her want to leave the Berkshires.
The women then have a relaxing afternoon of sunbathing, swimming, and hitting on young men. At their last dinner, they devise a plan to give Ramona her “just desserts” for leaving them under suspicious circumstances.
Episode 11 - The Ramona Trap
When the women return to New York City, they talk to Ramona about her bad behavior, like leaving them for a party in the Hamptons. Kristen and Josh are having trouble in their marriage because they disagree about how much Josh cares about their family.
LuAnn invites Carole for a double date with an eligible bachelor. Ramona tries to make up with Kristen by saying she’s sorry, but Kristen may not be ready to forgive.
Episode 12 - Requiem for a Poodle
Sonja asks her A-list spiritual healer to help break her bond with Millou, her beloved dead poodle, even though he has died. While that is going on, Kristen is trying out for a home workout video.
George, Aviva’s controversial father, comes back, and this time he brings a new lady friend as a surprise. Everyone comes together for a memorial service to say goodbye to Sonja’s dog like no other.
Episode 13 - Win, Place, or Sonja
George, Aviva’s sex-obsessed father, has shocking news for Cody, his girlfriend of 25 years. Aviva decides to throw a party for them at a museum that is unexpected but fits the theme.
LuAnn takes everyone except Aviva and Ramona to Saratoga for the weekend to watch horse races, drink, and look for men. Sonja parties a little too hard, though, and things quickly get out of hand.
Episode 14 - Sex, Lies, and Facials
The trip to Saratoga ends with a wild night out, where Sonja does more than anyone expected. Back in New York, Ramona and Avery spend some time together before Avery goes off to college. Things heat up when Sonja’s gossipy facialist tells Kristen some secrets about the women.
Kristen tells Carole and LuAnn what she heard, and they get angry and say the stories aren’t true. At a charity luncheon that LuAnn hosts, Aviva sends out a rude text message that makes the Countess very upset.
Episode 15 - Ten Gallon Spats
The women are halfway through their trip to Montana, and Sonja and LuAnn are still upset with each other. With a full day of outdoor activities, you can forget about the drama for a while. When the women try fly fishing, skeet-shooting, and repelling, they become real City Slickers. But things get tense when it’s Kristen’s turn to go down the mountain.
The women get together for a modern treasure hunt called Geocaching. Still, they break up again when Kristen’s patience runs out with Heather after a few beers.
Episode 17 - Bury the Hatchet
Heather and Kristen are still fighting as the women prepare for their “glamping” night. To no one’s surprise, Ramona sides with Kristen, and the two become friends for the first time. Heather and Kristen can’t get along before the big rodeo show, which is fun for the women because it’s so different from what they’re used to.
Episode 18 - Something to Sing About
When the girls return from Montana, Aviva discovers that everyone has been making jokes about her illness. She decides that she needs to take a break from the group. Mario, Ramona’s husband, will sing at an open mic night at Birdland, one of the most famous jazz bars in New York City.
Heather and LuAnn are also supposed to sing, but when LuAnn changes her mind, Ramona loses it. Kristen cooks dinner for Josh to get him to come home more often. When he’s late, they get into a big fight that makes it clear their relationship has more profound problems.
Episode 19 - There's Something About Harry
Carole turns fifty and decides to have a big, expensive party for her birthday. As Ramona and Mario get ready to send their daughter Avery off to college, Kristen and Josh go to a marriage counselor to get their marriage back on track.
Harry Dubin, Aviva’s ex-husband, gives Sonja an incredible piece of jewelry and a promise. Still, a shocking turn of events shakes their relationship to the core.
Episode 20 - The Last Leg
Sonja has to talk to Harry and LuAnn about their supposed night together after she was wooed and left at Carole’s birthday party. Kristen uses her marriage to get a modeling job. When Aviva returns to the group after being away for weeks for the first time, accusations, insults, and body parts fly in an explosive confrontation that ends the season.
Episode 21 - Reunion Part One
The NYC ladies Aviva Drescher, Sonja Morgan, Carole Radziwill, LuAnn de Lesseps, Ramona Singer, Kristen Taekman, and Heather Thomson get together for the first time since the season finale. Andy Cohen is in charge of the show. Ramona gets in trouble for how she treated Kristen in Montana.
Aviva tries to explain why she used the f-bomb in front of kids. Carole talks to Sonja about spreading rumors about her ex. Plus, LuAnn doesn’t hold back when she tells Sonja what she thinks of her sometimes weird thoughts.
Episode 22 - Reunion Part Two
In Part 2 of the reunion, Aviva and Carole’s tensions come to a head as they find out more about the “Bookgate” fight. When Ramona tries to explain to Heather why she doesn’t like the Berkshires, she makes things worse.
LuAnn talks to Sonja about how their friendship has changed. When Andy asks Ramona how her marriage is going, things take a turn that no one sees coming. LuAnn uses the chance to get back at Ramona for what she said about her divorce before.
Episode 23 - Reunion Part Three
When the women get to Mexico, Ramona and Sonja fight over who gets the best room, which sets them to stand out from the rest of the group. Tinsley talks to Ramona and Sonja about an article that hurts them. Luann takes a tumble. Sonja is told off by Bethenny.
The Real Housewives of New York City Quick Facts
- an American reality TV program
- aired on Bravo TV
- aired from March 11, 2014, until August 12, 2014
- filming took place in New York City
- Executive producers include Andrew Hoegl, Barrie Bernstein, Lisa Shannon, Pam Healy, and Andy Cohen
- consisted of 23 episodes