Pettifleur Berenger is reportedly “devastated” not to have been asked back for series four of The Real Housewives of Melbourne, according to her ex-costar, and sometime ‘frenemy’, Janet Roach.
“Poor old Pettifleur – I’ve heard she’s devastated,” Janet told TV WEEK at the show’s media launch today at the Grand Hyatt in Melbourne. “Apparently she’s even been ringing up the producers!
“[The show] meant a lot to her.”
Janet, 58, who is returning along with previous costars Gamble Breaux, 46, Jackie Gillies, 36, Gina Liano, 50, and Lydia Schiavello, 48, will also be joined by two newcomers, Venus Behbahani-Clark and Sally Bloomfield.
At 35, Venus is now the youngest of the Housewives. Already a well-known Melbourne identity, she is a lawyer, and is currently working on her own line of cosmetics contouring products. She and husband James own property in Melbourne, Dubai and Lake Como.
The cast of season four of The Real Housewives of Melbourne.
51 year-old Sally, a widow and mother of two, is also something of a Melbourne personality. She owns a homewares store called Bloomfield & Webber in Barwon Heads on the Bellarine Peninsula, and will soon open a boutique hotel in Bali, which she is in the process of renovating.
The two newcomers will take the place of Pettifleur and Melbourne events guru Chyka Keebaugh, who quit the show at the end of the last season. Susie McLean, who only joined last season, also won’t be back. She is now happily involved in a serious relationship with comedian and radio personality, Mick Molloy.
Although Pettifleur reportedly initially told friends it was her decision to leave, it was Janet who told reporters this wasn’t the case.
“Pettifleur is naughty to say she resigned,” Janet recently told the Herald Sun. “The fact is, we knew she wasn’t coming back, because we already had our contracts and she didn’t.”
But this won’t be the last time we see Pettifleur on our screens – she’ll soon be seen taking part in Seven’s new reality cooking show, Hell’s Kitchen.
