With a move to Max from the sister streaming service Discovery+, the real-estate reality show “Selling the Hamptons” returns for season 2 Friday, with the Stony Brook-born, Montauk-raised Dylan Eckardt joining the cast.
“I was asked to do the first season,” the 45-year-old says by phone from a Manhattan hotel, while in from home in California in order to attend a launch party at the Park Avenue offices of Nest Seekers International, the firm for which he works. The company’s Southampton office and its staff are the subjects of the show. “It didn’t really fit in the schedule of what I was doing,” he says. “I spend a lot of time between Malibu and Montauk and it just wasn’t a right fit at the time.”
It’s hard to say what changed his mind about joining the show — this, despite a rapid-fire spiel from him that lasts literally almost two minutes without stop. “I am a little ADD and a little OCD,” he states later, “so for me to get things out that are in my mind, it’s a challenge.” The closest he gets is saying, “I guess they needed a real rock star to come in and save season two.”
This is only the first of multiple references to himself, in an interview, as the “prince” and the “rock star” of his profession — the latter a term that, despite what his bio at Nest Seekers claims, is nothing Vanity Fair ever called him in its scathing 2016 profile.
“Dylan wasn’t in the prior season because he was too busy on the West Coast,” Nick Rigg, an executive producer of the show, fills in. “We chose to bring him in because he’s a Hamptons local and … he’s super connected to everyone out there. And he brings a unique energy to the mix.”
Indeed, “He heightened the sense of competition among the cast,” Rigg says. “Dylan operates with a different set of rules than the rest, and it was good to see him shake things up.” As well, “There was also some unfinished business between Dylan and Michael [Fulfree],” a…
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