Pour a dirty Grey Goose martini — Dorinda Medley is officially joining the cast of “The Real Housewives of New York.”
The blond socialite — long rumored to be the newest addition to the franchise — will be bringing her “Mad Men”-inspired drink of choice to the gaggle of polished reality stars when the new “Housewives” season premieres April 7 on Bravo.
“Nothing is more elegant than a martini glass,” purrs Medley, who was hooked up with the opportunity to appear on “RHONY” by her longtime friends Ramona Singer and Countess Luann De Lesseps.
“I live on the Upper East Side, and it’s a small fishbowl up here. I am not going to be that ball of yarn that came out of nowhere,” says Medley, 50, a mother of one (daughter Hannah is 21).
“I know these girls. I know their world. I’ve even done a few cameos,” she says. “So I thought, why not give it a try and see if it is something that suits me?”
After all, it’s just another — albeit more public — chapter in the Massachusetts native’s rather eventful life.
In the late ’80s, Medley worked in the Garment District and married a Scotsman before moving to London, where she started a cashmere company that counted Princess Diana as a devotee.
“It was 1989. I got Princess Diana to be one of my clients, and project [the company] forward with the British classes,” says Medley — who, after 10 years, divorced and moved back to the Big Apple.
The single mother became a real estate broker and met Richard Medley, a hedge fund adviser and former partner to George Soros, while showing him an Upper East Side townhouse.
Seven months after he bought the pad, he asked her out on a date. The pair married in 2005.
“If I had known I was going to be living there, I would have gotten the bigger townhouse,” she jokes.
After Richard passed away in 2011, Medley took time to focus on herself.
“I’ve been presented with a lot of different challenges and that’s why I wasn’t afraid to be on the ‘Housewives.’ The whole point is to keep going foward and try again,” says Medley, adding that if life was “Sex and the City,” she’d be a hybrid of Carrie Bradshaw and Miranda Hobbes.
“I think I’m creative, and I consider myself a smart woman,” she says — but admits that she’s nervous to see the finished project and came prepared with a spirited attitude to deal with the drama.
“I like to see a good argument between two people. I think you learn when you argue,” she says. “It’s just an expression of your opinion.”
Medley is currently dating John Mahdessian, the owner of Madame Paulette — a renowned restorer of couture — and says she wants to be the fun one.
“I want to be the woman at 80 cracking jokes and picking up a man,” she says. “I want to be the life of the party until my last breath.”
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