NYC vs. the O.C.: Housewives Bring It

Fri., Jun. 6, 2008 3:33 PM PDT by EOL Staff

Somebody call maid service—the Housewives are airing their dirty laundry.

Things got ugly Wednesday night when Bravo's A-List Awards brought together the cast of The Real Housewives of Orange County and their New York counterparts.

"I hope their boyfriends are hotter than their husbands!" Jeana Keough snarked to the Daily News.

And the backstage bitching only gets worse...

O.C. ~~hussie~~ Housewife Tamra Barney says there's no contest between her hubby Simon and Alex McCord's metrosexual man of the same name. "I have the hot Simon; she has the gay Simon. Eww...he's so creepy!"

Maybe that explains the catfight that allegedly occurred.

Barney, who says "The Housewives of the O.C. can kick the Housewives of NYC's ass," claims that she was attacked by single-but-trying New Yorker Bethenny Frankel.

"Bethenny scratched me a little bit. I swear to God. She tried to get me from behind, and I put my arm up, and she scratched me. I covered it with makeup," she told People.

Bethenny denies getting physical. But the damage is done. If poor Simon had any hopes of proving his hetero-hood, she just blew it by throwing down for him.