Ryan Serhant revealed why Tyler Cameron isn’t in season 2 of Owning Manhattan — despite joining his real estate brokerage.
“He didn’t join [SERHANT] until we were done,” Serhant, 41, exclusively told Us Weekly before Owning Manhattan returned on Friday, December 5. “So if we get a season 3, you best believe that a shirtless Tyler Cameron will be trying to sell a house in Florida.”
Cameron, 32, joined SERHANT in July with plans to work out of the company’s office in his hometown of Jupiter, Florida. According to Serhant, having offices across the country allows for a multitude of possibilities for the hit Netflix show.
“We’re in conversations about Owning Miami,” he teased. “Owning Manhattan is pretty specific, which just lets people know this is the island and world that we’re focused on — even though the show does go to Brooklyn and Florida.”
Owning Manhattan follows Serhant and the agents at his real estate firm as they tackle New York City’s most expensive listings in their pursuit of becoming the number one firm in the city. The first season starred Chloe Tucker Cane, Nile Lundgren, Tricia Lee, Jade Shenker, Jessica Markowski, Jessica Taylor, Jordan Hurt, Jonathan Nørmølle, Jordan March, Savannah Gowarty and Jeffrey St. Arromand.
After finding success on Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing: New York, Serhant approached Owning Manhattan by prioritizing real estate over celebrity cameos or over-the-top drama.
“It’s what makes this show so real. If you see people on the show [selling or buying homes], they’re real human beings. They’re people with jobs who just tend to have lots of money because they’re in Manhattan,” he quipped. “A lot of other shows have celebrities who show up and look at things but they were never going to buy anything. They just want to be on camera. I have no interest in watching someone who wants to be on TV. I’m over it.”
The decision not to lean into celebrity over real estate also means some of the brokerage’s biggest sales don’t actually appear on Owning Manhattan.
“You can’t talk about anything on the show unless it’s in the news and it’s part of the public domain. So a [$160 million transaction from season 2] was quiet and done quietly as an off-market transaction. There was no world in which those buyers or sellers or other agents involved would ever talk publicly and we haven’t either,” Serhant shared. “I’ve literally never acknowledged it other than it closed while we were in the air to Miami, so they filmed it closing, which was just an insane moment.”
He continued: “I’m filming a Netflix TV show for a company that I invented while flying on a private jet to Miami to launch a $1.5 billion tower for Mercedes Benz, and we are closing a $160 million transaction on our phone. What the f*** is happening? That was a core memory of like, ‘No matter how hard other days get, Ryan don’t be a little bitch. Just remember that this moment happened because it’ll happen again one day.”
For Serhant, working on a show like Owning Manhattan meant going all in.
“I made a deal with myself and my family and my company and Netflix. I said, ‘If we’re going to make this show, we’re going to put it all on the table. We really make sure that people know when they’re watching it, ‘Holy s***, this is real. This is authentic. This is uncomfortable at times. This is hilarious at other times, and this is really inspirational right now,’” he told Us. “The CEO side, though, is a big part of the struggle. There’s going to be professional and personal sacrifice for anybody who has ever loved what they do. Sometimes when you love it too much, it could potentially be a bad thing. I have fallouts with three of the main cast members this season and it’s brutal — and it has to be on camera because it’s real.”
He concluded: “It’s always really hard and I’m actually super nervous for people to watch it. I just do the best I can and hopefully the world sees that I’m trying my hardest.”
Owning Manhattan is currently streaming on Netflix.
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