Carole Radziwill returned to The Real Housewives of New York as a friend for the current season and was upgraded to full-time halfway through filming, Andy Cohen said around October 21, 2026. Cohen described the return as organic, prompted by her positive BravoCon experience and familiarity with the new cast, not a legacy-casting strategy. He also disclosed that Radziwill emailed him at the end of her last season telling him not to speak to her again. The discussion now weighs the mid-season promotion against that past rupture, with no word on how the two reconciled.