By Nola Ojomu and Cydney Yeates For Dailymail.Com
18:30 06 Jul 2024, updated 18:32 06 Jul 2024
Owning Manhattan has gripped viewers since the new real-estate series first dropped on Netflix last week, with some claiming the drama is better than that of its predecessor, Selling Sunset.
The eight-part series follows property mogul Ryan Serhant‘s eponymous company and his elite army of agents as they compete to secure New York City‘s most exclusive luxury listings.
With such high pressure, onscreen drama is inevitable – but the tensions have reached boiling point off camera too, with Jonathan Nørmølle, Jade Shenker and Chloe Tucker Caine among cast members embroiled in bitter spats in the wake of the fallout from the hit series.
Nørmølle, 27, has made it clear that he has no regrets about his actions, which saw him fired in the final episode.
He has since been slammed by former boss Serhant, as well as co-worker Shenker, for his conduct with fellow brokers and for the scathing comments he made about them in a since-deleted podcast.
Now, insiders have revealed his actions did not come as a surprise to other agents, many of whom had concerns about the decision to hire him in the first place.
‘Not only was his conduct with others a cause for concern, but some believe he had inflated his level of experience before joining the company,’ one insider claimed.
Elsewhere, a second source revealed that Nørmølle has retaliated against Shenker’s recent claim that he is ‘fake’ by telling everyone she was not even supposed to star on the show.
‘He keeps reminding everyone that Jade wasn’t even part of the original cast,’ a second insider revealed. ‘There was another agent who ended up dropping out and that is when Jade got to join the show.
‘Jonathan thinks she just wants her 15 minutes of fame and believes she hasn’t even done as much of the real estate sales as she claims.’
Elsewhere, Caine has blasted Shenker on Instagram after the latter revealed to DailyMail.com that she had blocked her co-star for allegedly trolling her on TikTok.
‘You guys saw five minutes of something that has being going on for months at this point,’ the new mom fumed in a reaction video posted to Instagram. ‘And you guys think I’m shady?’
Caine then went on to post screenshots of the pair’s recent phone calls as she clapped back: ‘Really??? We aren’t close friends right now? This is how many times we’ve talked in the past 48 hours alone…
‘Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice?! (I don’t remember the end of this saying but you get the gist!!!) FAME HUNGRY AF, ALWAYS WAS.’
The successful broker then went on to claim that she was the one who introduced Shenker to the person that helped her secure a $42 million building that first helped her become a Serhant agent.
Shenker was quick to hit back with a string of rebuttals on her Instagram stories, while also leaving comments directly under Chloe’s posts as she appeared to remain unbothered by her estranged friend’s claims.
Caine later found herself embroiled in an online scuffle with another former employee.
Former assistant Lindsey Welch had been a source of conflict for Caine and fellow agent Jordan March, after the latter hired the assistant shortly after Caine chose to part ways with her.
The issue led to a heated conversation between Caine and March in the second episode of the series before they later squashed the beef.
However, the comments made about Welch appear to have angered the staffer who wrote on Instagram: ‘Put me on a pod too since you pushed the narrative that you “fired me” when the truth is we did not work out because you were an incompetent agent.
‘Also failed to mention you asked me to come back via text but go off.’
She then added: ‘Let’s set the record straight, I taught myself everything I know through trial and error – because no one poured into me.
‘Across Chloe and Jordan’s Team it was me behind $59,000,00+ sales that went to…
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