As Hollywood actors reached one week of their ongoing labor strike, Bethenny Frankel, the former "Real Housewives of New York" cast member and CEO of lifestyle brand Skinnygirl, is urging reality television stars to bring forth their own set of labor terms, especially as reality programming continues to play a pivotal role while union productions are shut down until a new agreement is reached.
"Traditional Hollywood and actors don't respect us and never really have," Frankel told Salon in a video interview Thursday. "We are sort of the understudies that are going to fill in during times like this. The entertainment industry needs the circus clowns to come in and entertain the audience because the real talent is down."
