Bethenny Frankel Talk Show

Katie Couric and Ricki Lake may have some fierce competition from a card-carrying “Skinny Girl” if they forge ahead with plans to launch daytime talk shows in 2012. Word on the Curb has it that newlywed new mom Bethenny Frankel has inked a deal with Telepictures — the production company behind The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Tyra Banks Show, Lopez Tonight, and Anderson Cooper 360 — to star on a gabfest of her own. The still-untitled show is currently in development.

Bethenny gained fame as one of the original Real Housewives of New York City before leaving the series to star in a Bravo spinoff, Bethenny Ever After, last summer. A foodie and best-selling author, the socialite dished on her desire to dip into the daytime market in an interview with PopEater.com earlier this year.

“I would like a daytime talk show because my conversation with my fans right now is through social networking, and my TV show communicates what I’m doing, but it isn’t really a dialogue or a conversation,” Frankel said at the time, adding that “Most of my business wishes come true.”