Bethenny Frankel: My HBO Max The Big Shot business reality show is a lot different from The Apprentice

Variety

Frankel, who was runner-up on Martha Stewart's The Apprentice in 2005, acknowledges the comparisons between The Big Shot with Bethenny and The Apprentice, especially since they're both produced by Mark Burnett. But, she adds, they are "literally apples and skyscrapers. This is a lot of comedy. I’ve been on The Apprentice, and my friends when I came off were, like, 'Why weren’t you funny?' This is a lot more showing the personal side, and the warts. I’m not pretending my business is perfect, I’m not pretending I’m perfect. It’s showing really the guts of how to be successful in business. It’s a different format, and the way that people move in and out of this show is different. I don’t want to give it away, but it’s different. But also I have a multi-million dollar shapewear business, a multimillion dollar microwave popcorn business with Conagra. A very successful, high, high multi-millions of dollars supplement business that’s at Walgreens. So I have these businesses, some of them that have been around for a decade. And the things that really happen, I’m really partnered with HSN, and have a business there. So the things that are really true to this business will be part of the show, versus me just bringing in a random task for everybody to do."