New York Housewives: The Claws are Out!

Feb 282010

The new season of the Real Housewives of New York premieres March 4, but the cast is feuding, in public, even before we see the divisions, clashes and catfights. They won’t show up for each other’s premiere parties.

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Meow! Ramona Singer threw a premiere party for the new season of “Real Housewives of New York City” on Wednesday night – but some of her castmates and “friends” were noticeably absent.

Jill Zarin , Kelly Bensimon and LuAnn de Lesseps were nowhere to be seen at Tenjune, although Bethenny Frankel, Alex McCord and Sonja Morgan celebrated with Singer.

The reason?

“There’s a clear split between the cast, and you can definitely see it by who decided to attend Ramona’s party,” says a source.

There’s a little competition going on, too: The insider says de Lesseps is throwing her very own bash when the Bravo show premieres next Thursday.

“Since LuAnn is having her own party, she felt there was no reason to attend,” the snitch says. “But that is a little surprising, considering Andy Cohen and a number of other Bravo honchos were all at Ramona’s party. Everyone was expecting her, Jill and Kelly to at least stop by.”

While Singer tried to save face and enjoy her fete, there was one other housewife who couldn’t mask her sour feelings about the rifts between the ladies: Newest addition Jennifer Gilbert was overheard whining that despite helping de Lesseps book Chelsea venue La Pomme for her premiere party next week, she didn’t even get invited.

Worse still, Gilbert’s not even sure about the gal who did put her on the guest list. “As for Ramona,” she was later overheard sighing, “I think she just hates me.”

At least she has a sense of humor about being on the outs with the in-crowd. Gilbert was also heard laughing to some non-Housewife guests, “Am I going to get voted off the island?”