Ryan Serhant is getting real about Jonathan Normolle’s firing in the “Owning Manhattan” Season 1 finale.
The Serhant. Real Estate founder, 40, tells Page Six’s “Virtual Reali-Tea” podcast that he finds Normolle’s claim that he planned his own termination from the agency farfetched.
Serhant quipped, “I haven’t publicly commented. All I’ll say is I don’t fault anyone these days for trying to control their own narrative. It’s like the facts were on a global Netflix TV show.”
“When clients come on the show, they say, ‘I want to be on, but don’t make me look bad,’” he explains. “I tell them, ‘Then don’t say anything that makes you look bad.’”
Normolle, 27, sparked drama on the Netflix reality show, which premiered last month.
He and fellow Serhant real estate agent Jessica “Jess” Markowski recorded a podcast episode, during which Normolle made vicious judgments about several of their colleagues. Markowski, 31, participated in the conversation, but her comments were notably less harsh.
As seen in the final episode of “Owning Manhattan,” Serhant confronted Normolle about the situation on top of The Edge at New York City’s Hudson Yards and ultimately gave him the pink slip as cameras rolled.
“It’s so awkward. It wasn’t my intent,” the “Million Dollar Listing New York” alum recalls to “Virtual Reali-Tea.”
“I don’t hire people with the intent to fire them,” he continues. “I didn’t hire any of the agents — who are actual real estate agents, who are actually at our company — with the intent to let them go. That was super uncomfortable.”
Normolle, for his part, claimed in a recent interview with the Daily Mail that he was the mastermind behind his own firing, further boasting that Serhant fell into his trap.
“If I don’t act like a CEO, then I’ll lose all the good people and that’s a tough lesson for me to learn,” says the “Brand It Like Serhant” author, who oversees a team of roughly 750.
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Source: New York Post
