Bethenny Frankel Hard Launches Relationship With New Boyfriend in PDA-Filled Photo

Bethenny Frankel has officially hard-launched a relationship with her new boyfriend Shane Campbell.

“If a launch 🚀 is hard this is a diamond…,” the Real Housewives of New York City alum, 55, revealed via Instagram on Saturday, May 9, alongside a PDA-filled photo with her new beau.

Several Bravoverse favorites celebrated Frankel’s hard launch and her kiss with her new boyfriend under a glittering disco ball.

“Launch it baby !!! ONE LIFE,” Real Housewives of New Jersey star Melissa Gorga encouraged Frankel, with Orange County alum Gretchen Rossi sharing multiple heart-eye emojis.

Page Six reported in April that Frankel was dating Campbell, a Miami-based investment banker. They stepped out together at the Global Champions Arabians Tour in Miami Beach that same month.

Us Weekly has reached out to Frankel’s spokesperson for comment.

Frankel was first married to entertainment executive Peter Sussman from 1996 to 1997 and later chronicled her courtship with her future second husband, Jason Hoppy, on her RHONY spinoff Bethenny Ever After. Hoppy, 54, and Frankel’s March 2010 wedding at the Four Seasons Restaurant in New York City was filmed for the Bravo special Bethenny Getting Married.

The couple welcomed a daughter, Bryn, in May 2010. After Frankel filed for divorce from Hoppy in January 2013, a custody battle dragged on for nearly a decade before it was finally resolved in January 2021.

During a December 2025 appearance on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, Frankel insisted that her divorce from Hoppy was the most painful experience of her life.

“I have seen my mother slit her wrists. I have lived my whole life chasing her into bathrooms, trying to catch her throwing up. I’ve been around guns, the mafia, the race track. I’ve been through everything,” Frankel explained to host Alex Cooper. “I have seen everything. Nothing compares to what my divorce was for 10 years.”

She continued, “It was so traumatic. It was 10 years of my life. I lost hair. I thought I would never survive it. I didn’t want to. I had to because of my daughter. I literally thought I’ll never be happy again.”

Frankel explained to Cooper that she managed the trauma one day at a time in order to navigate years of courtroom showdowns with her ex.

“I treated it like a marathon, and I went one mile at a time, and I checked every box,” she said. “It was fraud, it was stealing, it was hacking, it was harassment, it was abuse.”

(Hoppy has denied any wrongdoing towards Frankel.)

Following Frankel’s divorce, Real Housewives of New York City viewers got rare glimpses into the Skinnygirl mogul’s on-off romance with Dennis Shields, who died at age 51 in August 2018 from a suspected drug overdose.

Frankel has continued to pay touching tribute to Shields in the years since his death, including with a 2020 memorial on his birthday.

“Happy Birthday Dennis … Thinking of you today and every day,” she wrote via Instagram in February 2020. “It’s been tough recently because the world lost another legend and so many innocent lives. You are gone but never will be forgotten. You are missed. You are constantly quoted. You are one of a kind. … We miss you.”