New York Post

Montauk boots Bravo

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THE Bravo reality show “Summer House” is being frozen out of Montauk.

The Town of East Hampton has denied the show’s permit applicatio­n to film outdoors on town property.

“They can’t shoot on the beach. They can’t shoot on the street. They have to be on private property, and pretty much everyone has told them, ‘No way!’ ” local surfer/photograph­er James Katsipis told me.

Bravo hasn’t identified the singles in “Summer House,” but one is Cristina Gibson (right), who had described herself on Twitter as “Jersey girl turned New Yorker by way of Hollywood . . . Team Blade.”

But a spokespers­on for Blade, the crowdsourc­ed, short-distance aviation company, said Gibson no longer works there: “We needed to part ways because our relationsh­ip with the Town of East Hampton is so important.”

“I can’t find one positive thing that can possibly happen from this show,” Katsipis said. “I told [producers] straight up, ‘I will do everything in my power to stop you.’ ”

Other Montauk residents have vowed to disrupt Bravo’s camera crew with foghorns and mirrors, and one even suggests the town folk wear outlandish costumes to ruin scenes.

A Bravo source said, “This show is not about Montauk . . . We are shooting all over the Hamptons. So we have plenty of options.”

The crew filmed in the IGA supermarke­t in Amagansett last weekend, but the only business in Montauk that gave permission is the Sloppy Tuna, “and the producers don’t want to go there because it’s like a frat party,” Katsipis said.

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