The Bravo reality television series, “Princesses: Long Island,” may be nearing cancellation, multiple sources have told the New York Daily News.
“It’s very unlikely to return,” a source close to the show told the Daily News.
Sources told the Daily News that no footage for a possible second season have yet been filmed, and production would have to begin soon for new episodes to air this summer.
“It’s kind of common sense,” a source identified as an “insider” told the Daily News. “They wouldn’t start production unless the show was picked up.”
But sources said the show’s many controversies may result in its cancellation, rather than from reasons stemming from its ratings.
The last straw for the Daily News’ so-called “insiders” was the show’s June 30, 2013 episode in which cast member Amanda Bertoncini used a September 11 memorial statue for deceased firefighter Jonathan Ielpi in Great Neck Plaza as a prop during a racy photo shoot for her business, a koozie-like product called the Drink Hanky.
Bertoncini was further criticized after she mentioned the Drink Hanky as part of an apology she posted to her Facebook page.
“Some shows just aren’t worth the aggravation,” a source identified as a “production insider” told the Daily News.
A Bravo spokeswoman told Blank Slate Media that no official decision has been made about the show.
The show drew immediate backlash following its June 2, 2013 premiere, during which cast member Ashlee White of Roslyn made disparaging remarks about Freeport over the phone to her father as she drove to meet another cast member, Joey Lauren Brodish, a Freeport resident.
Freeport residents were reportedly furious over the remarks and a Facebook page boycotting the show was created the next day, with the South Shore community listed as its founding location.
The Princesses also drew the ire of Congressman Steve Israel (D-Dix Hills), who criticized the show in a June 19 Huffington Post editorial in which he chastised its “gross generalizations about the living and dating habits of unmarried Jewish women,” and wrote that the show’s stars promote anti-Semitic stereotypes and “portray Jews and Long Islanders in the most unflattering light possible.”
“Therefore, I will not silently tolerate a show that paints Jewish women on Long Island with all-too-familiar and painful stereotypes – money-hungry, superficial, Jewish-American Princesses,” Israel wrote. “The characters on the show are welcome to live their lives however they may choose, but I don’t want viewers of the show to think that they are, in any way, representative of Jews or Long Islanders.”
