ABBA Night on The Masked Singer had us saying "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" The Feb. 22 episode of the celebrity singing competition paid homage to the legendary Swedish pop group—and introduced two...Real Housewives of New Jersey Season 13 might only be a few episodes in, but it’s already back to a classic case of Giudice vs. Gorga. In the latest episode “Boys Will Be Boys,” both Teresa Giudice and Joe Gorga show serious signs of rising tension. Joe has obviously reached a new level of toxicity with his feelings toward his sister, while Tre just seems ready to move on with her life.
Melissa Gorga tries her best in the latest RHONJ episode to be on the same level as her husband and Tre, but we all can imagine how that turns out. Plus, there are plenty of HouseHusbands scenes for those fans who are into that sort of thing. Here are five main takeaways from the latest RHONJ episode.
The episode picks up at Danielle Cabral’s already legendary mozzarella-making party where Tre and MelGo are feuding. MelGo is hung up about the engagement party, but Tre’s ready to move on. She even asks Melissa then and there (in front of all of their co-stars) to be a bridesmaid at her wedding. MelGo doesn’t want a pity invite, but it does show Tre making an effort to make some peace. They hug it out, but it’s clear that it’s just a temporary bandaid.
The real problems come up when Melissa’s family members reveal to her and Joey that they didn’t get a coveted invite to Tre’s wedding. This is like a huge punch in the gut to Joe. He believes that Tre should respect his in-laws because they were kind to Tre and Joe’s parents before they died.
It’s not that Joe doesn’t have a point. We just have to remember this is a TV show, not some run-of-the-mill family drama. Joe seems to revel in having another reason to trash his sister and Luis Ruelas in the public eye. Good for you, Gorgas. The storyline might be enough for one season, but the family drama will last a lifetime.
Dolores Catania is in a love bubble of her own these days. She’s all-in on Paul Connell and their relationship seems to be smooth sailing. The main issue is Frank Catania. Frank isn’t handling the adjustment with his ex-wife’s new man very well. Frank’s used to being Dolo’s right-hand man and feels like Paul doesn’t understand their unusual closeness. The trio film a scene together in Dolores’ kitchen where the dominance game is on full display.
Frank comes over to shoot his calendar photo, and Paul can’t stop making jokes about Frank looking like Mr. Potato Head. Dolo is just shocked she’s at this point in her life and dealing with two grown men insulting each other with Toy Story character names. Paul makes a comment to Frank about him texting Dolores to make plans with Paul. The remark rubs Frank the wrong way. He thinks that Paul was questioning his manhood. It’s obvious these three have some growing pains to work through in this weird relationship.
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Jennifer Aydin is not being herself and even her enemies know it. Margaret Josephs may have just accused Jennifer of having “marijuana paranoia,” but she wastes no time dissecting Jen’s personal problems. At a lunch with MelGo and Jackie Goldschneider, Marge starts a conversation about Jennifer’s “downward spiral.” The trio believes that Jennifer’s outbursts are a result of her not healing from the marriage issues that transpired last season. The tone of the conversation was very mean girl. But I hate to say it — they might be right.
Jennifer and Bill Aydin film a scene at home that gives some indication of their issues. Jennifer tries to clue Bill in on her fight with Margaret at Danielle’s party. Bill tries to see Marge’s point of view and look at the fight from both sides, which ticks off his wife.
“I don’t need my husband to validate the other person,” Jennifer says in a confessional. She feels like her husband never has her back, which the editors are quick to cut back to examples of. These problems are just mounting, so it’s clear Jennifer and Bill have plenty to work through this season in their marriage. I hope they can do it and get back to being sloppy tequila drunks because I love them at their best.
The Gorgas may be mad about Tre’s wedding guestlist, but Tre isn’t happy with her brother either. And now, the Dorters have entered the chat. The episode is filmed right after MelGo and Joe release a podcast episode talking about the time when Tre and Joe Giudice were going “to camp.” The Gorgas gave themselves a whole lot of credit for being there for Tre’s kids while she was behind bars, and the Giudice clan thinks this is a whole lot of embellishment.
Gia Giudice is a friend-of RHONJ at this point. Now, Gabriella Giudice joins her in a whole scene dedicated to slamming the Gorga’s latest stunt. “Credit shouldn’t be given where it’s not earned,” Gabriella says about the Gorgas patting themselves on the back. The SHADE.
Gia also thinks that Melissa just wants to look better than Tre. Gia is messy at heart, so she’s mad that her mom extended an olive branch to ask Melissa to be in the wedding at all. The entire conversation brings Teresa to tears and shows that the feud isn’t just Tre vs. Melissa anymore. The family members are taking sides and no one is playing nice.
The Giudice vs. Gorga drama boils over at a guys’ night hosted by Frank Sr. featuring way too many shots of booze. Joe shows up to the event already mad, and it’s escalated when Bill Aydin starts telling him to be nicer to his future brother-in-law. Joe gets activated, calling Luis garbage and other names before he even walks into the bar. Luis shows up and they hug it out at first, but then it turns into some old-school Giudice vs. Gorga fighting.
Joe asks Luis why Melissa’s family wasn’t invited to the wedding. Luis blames “past bullsh*t” and says that ultimately, it’s up to Teresa (correct). Luis throws the podcast episode back at Joe to express his own hurt. Joey starts pounding his fist on the table and screaming a lot of four-letter words. The HouseHusbands calm Tarzan down to let Luis get a word in. Luis’ red face subsides and he stops making talking motions with his hands to pull out his Zen side. Maybe he really is, dare I say it, good for Teresa? Let’s not get too carried away yet.
Luis validates Joe’s feelings and suggests that the siblings sit down for a talk to clear the air. Luis is already a step above Juicy Joe in peacemaking by acknowledging the hurt and anger on all sides. Joe Gorga, however, is out for blood. He has to be convinced into entertaining a simple conversation with his sister. He is convinced that Tre is incapable of change and he is done trying to move forward. It’s sad for Joe to be steadfast in this stance when he knows his sister’s wedding is weeks away. As Luis said, Joe and Melissa’s feelings are valid. It’s how they act like they’re the center of the universe in this situation that rubs me the wrong way.
TELL US – WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THIS RHONJ EPISODE? ARE YOU SIDING WITH TRE OR THE GORGAS SO FAR IN THEIR FEUD?
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The green-eyed bandits have, ironically, made a reality TV career from creating storylines based on the lives of others. Gizelle Bryant is the leading lady on that front. It’s all about creating gossip, which then creates conflict. By the end of the season, her name is in everyone’s mouth.
But Gizelle’s sidekick Robyn Dixon can’t be overlooked. She really shocked host Andy Cohen and the rest of the Real Housewives of Potomac fan club by hiding husband Juan Dixon’s recent affair. She revealed some info on her podcast with Gizelle, Reasonably Shady. But Robyn was planning to sell the tea on Patreon.
Given that inauthentic and devious behavior, nothing’s off limits. So costar Wendy Osefo is perfectly within her rights to assume that Robyn used her for a storyline. Truly, the mother of two has nothing going on.
The political commentator has four degrees under her belt, and was enthusiastically received by her RHOP co-stars and fans during her freshman season. Since then, the winds have shifted and Wendy’s authenticity has come into question.
Wendy was asked to comment on the changing dynamics during an interview with Carlos King on the Reality With The King podcast. According to RealityBlurb!, the mother of three agreed that there “absolutely” was a change in dynamic between seasons. Season 5, her first season, was her “rawest form.” Wendy was post-partum and less focused on her “aesthetic[s].”
The Johns Hopkins professor described herself in Season 7, “like a child rebelling.” Wendy was prioritizing herself for a change. “So I want the boobs, I want to get my body done,” Wendy explained. “If I do candles, I can do candles … Why not do a restaurant?”
While dabbling in this and that, as Real Housewives tend to do, Wendy turned to co-star Karen Huger for business advice. And that conversation got her into a lot of trouble with her mother.
“Even my mom called me about that scene, and my sister,” Wendy revealed. “My mom was like, ‘Not you talking to Karen … What the hell you need Karen’s advice for?’ She said more, but you know I ain’t gonna say.”
Wendy added, “You know my momma. She doesn’t hold her tongue about nothing or no one.”
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Another topic that came up during the interview was Robyn’s conflicting behavior when filming began. Wendy considered them to be friends “off-camera,” yet last season Robyn questioned her new career paths.
Wendy said, “We saw Robyn go from selling and flipping houses to selling beauty supply store hats to doing whatever she’s doing … So let me understand. It’s ok for her to change her career path and explore different things, but I can’t?”
Here’s where Robyn’s desperation for a storyline came into play. “She never even asked me that off camera. It was me watching the episodes with you guys, and I’m like, ‘wait, that’s how you feel?’” Wendy commented.
According to Wendy, Robyn also pushed the “false rumor” that her husband Eddie Osefo had been unfaithful. She accused the mother of two of “connecting the dots … laying the foundation” to imply that Wendy had her plastic surgery because Eddie was cheating.
One of Wendy’s controversies from Season 7 was her “hot mic moment” that captured her calling Mia Thornton a liar. The problem? She called out Robyn for the same action.
Robyn excluded Wendy and her children from “Family Fun Day,” just one of her poorly executed events. “[Robyn] did not budge,” Wendy said. “She was like, ‘I don’t care, I don’t care about those kids.’”
But Wendy’s most dramatic moment to date was having a drink thrown at her by Mia, an incident she labeled as “wild.” She considered “retaliating,” but decided it wasn’t worth “losing” all that she had worked for.
The incident was controversial because it was compared to what went down between Monique Samuels and Candiace Dillard Bassett. Carlos asked Wendy if “grace” was given to her like it was given to Candiace.
“Y’all are gonna see a lot of people eat their words,” Wendy answered. She claimed people were “doing everything in their power to ice me out.”
TELL US- DO YOU THINK ROBYN WAS USING WENDY FOR A STORYLINE? WOULD YOU GO TO KAREN FOR BUSINESS ADVICE? WAS WENDY BEING A HYPOCRITE FOR CALLING MIA A LIAR BEHIND HER BACK? WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MIA THROWING A DRINK ON WENDY?
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Teresa Giudice has had her fair share of struggles on the Real Housewives of New Jersey. As if her fiery feuds with Caroline Manzo, Jacqueline Laurita, and Melissa Gorga weren’t enough, she also showcased her marital struggles with Joe Giudice. The couple’s legal troubles came to light in the show’s earlier seasons.
In October 2014, Teresa and Joe received prison sentences of 15 and 41 months imprisonment. RHONJ paused production after Season 6 before Teresa turned herself in. Filming resumed upon her release in 2015. Following her return, Joe turned himself in.
After Joe finished his sentence, an immigration judge ordered Joe be deported to his native Italy. After two denied appeals, Joe chose to return to Italy rather than stay in ICE custody. Teresa told her RHONJ co-stars that she and Joe would “go our separate ways” if he were deported. She told Andy Cohen her divorce was almost complete in September 2020.
After a difficult few years and a complicated split, it seemed Teresa finally struck gold when she posted a photo of her then-boyfriend, Luis Ruelas, on Instagram. She captioned it, “The BEST thing that came out of 2020.” Eventually, the pair took their relationship to the next level after their engagement in 2021. They tied the knot in a summer wedding filmed for a Bravo wedding special. Most of Teresa’s family, and friends attended her Jersey wedding except one couple: Melissa and her husband Joe Gorga.
Viewers will see what led Melissa and Joe to skip his sister’s big day as Season 13 continues to play out. But in the season’s second episode, it’s clear where their feud begins. According to heavy, the Gorgas shared their opinions on being left out of the family table at Teresa’s engagement party. This led to a heated discussion on camera. Teresa told her Namaste B$tches podcast co-host she was “in disbelief” over her family’s comments.
Teresa explained her engagement party took place before filming started in December 2021. Everything was fine between the families. After the celebration, she shared things also went well when she invited Joe and Melissa to her home for Christmas Eve. They were also invited to celebrate Gia [Giudice’s] birthday in January. “And now we film the show, this was in May, end of May, going into June, and now she’s bringing up the engagement party [and] where she sat?” Teresa said on her podcast. “I was like, am I in the twilight zone?… Why is she bringing this up on camera?”
TELL US – WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT TERESA SAYING SHE’S IN DISBELIEF ABOUT MELISSA AND JOE’S BEHAVIOR? WAS NOT BEING SEATED AT TERESA AND LUIS’ TABLE AT THE ENGAGEMENT PARTY A SNUB?
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