Days after going off on Bad Bunny‘s Super Bowl halftime show in a since-deleted social media video, Jill Zarin has been dropped from the upcoming Real Housewives of New York spin-off The Golden Life on E!, the show’s studio announced Tuesday (Feb. 10).
“In light of recent public comments made by Jill Zarin, Blink49 Studios has decided not to move forward with her involvement in The Golden Life,” the studio behind the RHONY reboot posted on Instagram. “We remain committed to delivering the series in line with our company standards and values.”
Zarin was set to star alongside fellow Real Housewives of New York alumnae Luann de Lesseps, Ramona Singer, Kelly Bensmon and Sonja Morgan in the Palm Beach-set reality series, which was just announced on Feb. 3 and hadn’t yet started production.
In a minute-long video posted to Zarin’s Instagram account on Sunday, the reality star called Bad Bunny’s performance “the worst halftime show ever.”
“It’s 250 years that we’re celebrating right now in the United States, and I just don’t think it was appropriate to have it in Spanish,” Zarin said in the now-deleted video. “And quite frankly, I didn’t need to see him grabbing his G-area. I think it was totally inappropriate. You’ve got all these young kids watching the Super Bowl, and he doesn’t have to be grabbing himself every five seconds. Is he so insecure? Seriously. I don’t speak Spanish. I would have liked to understand the words he was saying.”
She also complained that the Puerto Rican superstar was making a “political statement” with the performance. “To me, it looked like a political statement, because there were literally no white people in the entire thing. I think it was a political statement, and I’m not taking a side one way or the other, I just do. I think it was an ICE thing.”
She added that “the NFL sold out” by booking Bad Bunny and also accused guest performer Lady Gaga of getting a facelift that left her unrecognizable. “I didn’t recognize her! I literally had to Google her face to see who it was.”
Zarin was an original castmember on Bravo’s New York-set Real Housewives from 2008 to 2011.
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