‘Owning Manhattan’ star Chloe Tucker Caine shades Jonathan Normolle for claiming he orchestrated his own firing: ‘Sit down’
“Owning Manhattan” star Chloe Tucker Caine is weighing in on castmate Jonathan Normolle’s claim that he orchestrated his own firing in the Season 1 finale.
“It’s so crazy” Caine, 33, says during an exclusive interview with Page Six’s “Virtual Reali-Tea” podcast.
Notably, the actress-turned-real-estate-agent — who made her reality TV debut when Ryan Serhant’s Netflix hit premiered on June 28 — did not film any one-on-one scenes with Normolle, 27, who had a polarizing presence on the unscripted series.
“I didn’t to do any scenes with him,” laments Caine, who emphasizes that she would welcome him back in the fold if only to set him straight. “Let me at him! I have some things to say.”
Normolle ignited drama on “Owning Manhattan” when he and fellow Serhant. agent Jessica “Jess” Markowski recorded a podcast episode, during which he made ruthless remarks about several of their colleagues.
Caine would enjoy clapping back at his harsh judgments.
“You look like a boy who negotiated his way onto planet Earth. I’m going to need you to sit down, stop talking, put the helmet [down],” she tells Page Six, revealing the message she’d share with Normolle should he return for Season 2.
“We understand you ride a motorcycle but I’m going to need you to put your helmet down, zip your lips and listen. We’ve got to go over your whole life choices.”
Normolle previously claimed to the Daily Mail that he was responsible for his own termination, further bragging that his now-ex-boss Serhant, 40, fell into his trap.
“I had a plan because I was under contract with Ryan and all the sponsorships,” Normolle told the outlet.
“The only way I could get out of those contracts was if I got Ryan mad enough for him to fire me,” he added. “… I went in on Ryan with all these things and he got upset enough to fire me on TV — and instantly these contracts were completely void.”
Caine tells “Virtual Reali-Tea” that Normolle’s story doesn’t make any sense to her. “Jonathan saying he masterminded his firing?” she says. “Not Jonathan.”
Though Markowski, 31, partook in the explosive conversation with Normolle, her comments were decidedly less vicious. Serhant kept her on staff, but gave Normolle the ax in epic fashion during a tense conversation on top of The Edge at New York City’s Hudson Yards.
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Caine feels Serhant made the right call to save Markowski — even if she wasn’t a fan at first.
“I really did not like the bitch at the time. I was like, ‘You’re hanging with the wrong crowd. How do you not see the red flags? They’re, like, literally the biggest red [flags] in front of your face: Jonathan,’” she recounts.
“I was just like, ‘What is happening?’ And then the podcast happened and I was like, ‘Girl, get her out of here!’”
However, Markowski’s decision to apologize for her part in the messy situation won Caine over.
“I will say she really took accountability. She was like, ‘Listen, I screwed up. I did and I’m owning it. I’m going to put my head down and I’m going to get to work,’” she tells “Virtual Reali-Tea.”
“And she has and she’s killing it and I respect her. She’s really grown on me, that one.”
Perhaps there is room for Normolle to make nice with Caine and the rest of the “Owning Manhattan” cast. Serhant said in July that he would entertain the idea of the tattooed hunk returning for the show’s forthcoming sophomore installment, which was announced his week.
“I came to New York City to do theater, so I got onto a soap opera [‘As the World Turns’]. So I played Doctor Evan Walsh IV. Not long after I started did I go from a good doctor to the doctor that kills everybody to then is murdered by his own grandmother. Which in ‘Actor World’ means you’re fired,” he told us.
“And I remember going to the executive producer and he’s like, ‘Hey, listen. If the audience loves ya, you can always come back from he dead,’” Serhant elaborated. “And that’s what I’ll say.”
“Owning Manhattan” is available to stream on Netflix.
