The Real Housewives Of New Jersey is poised to return October 4, so we know what that means…press tours for Teresa Giudice! In a recent interview, Teresa touches on the themes that have run her life for the past several years: fraud, prison, and hustling for money.
While Joe Giudice serves his sentence in New Jersey’s Fort Dix Correctional Institution, Teresa is back home trying to earn a buck to support their four daughters. Bravo paychecks, ghost written memoirs, and paid promotional appearances are keeping the family afloat for now – but how long will it last? According to Teresa, it better last a while, because she doesn’t want to depend on Joe for anything ever again!
“Will I still be married to Joe in 40 years? I have no idea,” Teresa tells US Weekly in an interview about her new memoir, Standing Strong, in which she admitted she’s still angry with Joe for landing both of them in the clink.
“I know he didn’t mean to do it intentionally, but I’m still mad at the situation,” says Teresa, who plans on keeping her finances separate from Joe in the future. “I’m never signing anything ever again,” she says of the lessons she learned from her fraud indictment. “I think we should keep things separate. So in that way, we kinda will be divorced.”
Though she doesn’t plan on divorcing Joe (yet!), Teresa claims that rumors of her having a boyfriend are completely false. Kim DePaola is also the dubious source of these rumors, so…let’s just let that sink in for a moment. Teresa defends, “I have a lot of guy friends. I really don’t care what people think — I’m not living in a bubble, I have to go on with my life. And when I was away, Joe was photographed with girls and he told me, ‘Listen, they were with my friends,’ and I said, ‘OK, fine.'”
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Teresa also hints that it will take some work to put their marriage back together after Joe is released from prison (and if he doesn’t get deported). Asked if she’s forgiven Joe yet, Teresa answers, “We have to ride this whole thing out. He has to serve his time, come home, and do amazing. And then I’ll answer that question.” Whoa.
Joe recently getting kicked out of his prison alcohol program over his immigration status does not bode well for his chances of remaining in the country after his sentence ends, but no new information has been confirmed about this. It certainly seems like Teresa is quietly backing away from her past statements that their family WILL BE JUST FINE! lately, though, so one has to wonder if something’s up.
Teresa even admits she wishes she’d never said yes to being a Real Housewife. “I wish I never put my husband on TV,” she explains. “He looks back on how he was on the show and feels bad that he was so s—ty on TV. He’s not like that in real life.”
In Teresa’s real life, she’s getting ready to go on a book signing tour this October to promote Standing Strong, and hoping this season of RHONJ is a hit. “I can’t take a break!” says Teresa in regard to her hustle. “I have four daughters, so I have to keep going. This is going to be my best [book]. I finally open up.”
TELL US: DO YOU THINK TERESA IS LAYING THE GROUNDWORK TO DIVORCE JOE?
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It's 19 years later and Mariska Hargitay is still wearing the gun and badge, championing survivors as Sgt. Olivia Benson on Law & Order: SVU. And she wouldn't have it any other...Ugh – what can even be said about last night’s Below Deck, except Disco makes more sense? I mean, Kate Chastain is in a cult and gone mad, Chris Brown is absolutely bafflingly sucky, and everyone wants Brianna Adekeye to suck their summin-summin.
With one charter out the door, the crew is in da club and Jen Howell is in the cups. Actually, she’s in the jungle juice and drowning in it. Jen’s messiness is also messing up Kate’s ‘date’ with sexy Aqua Jesus, who truth be told is just OOOOKaaay looking, but Kate has some weird taste in significant others, to say the least! With someone else assuming responsibility for Jen – for once! – Kate and J2.0 depart for his heavenly waters. “What would Jesus do?” Kate says, “Me.” Indeed.
The next morning, Kate walks of shame right into the prying eyes of the crew, and Kate reports that she visited the holy land and came to meet God twice. Captain Lee Rosbach looked like he wanted to choke on his bagel. Holy lack of professional boundaries, Jesus.
Unfortunately, Kate‘s encounter with the Holy Spirit did little to improve her own good graces. In fact, getting away with sin seems to have left Kate feeling immortal. She drinks a beer while they clean the boat and more than ever is treating Jen like part-court jester/part-cabin wench. Although Kate does let Jen put on her bikini and iron her piles of laundry above deck, as Kate watches on nearby, with her beer, and checks her email. What if Jen gets a wrinkle in the napkins and the wrath of Satan needs to come down on her?!
Nico Scholly is dealing with the three month anniversary of his brother’s death while trying to wrangle this atrocious excuse for a deck crew into some semblance of competence. He escapes for a tearful conversation with his girlfriend Holly. Later that evening, he confides in Brianna (and her magical ukulele) that he’s having a really hard time and worrying about his mom. Brianna takes this as a sign that Nico wants more than her friendship. She blew off Sex God Chris Brown for him! Oh, Chris Brown. Let’s check in on him, shall we?
After he drunkenly professed having the hots for Brianna – over bananas and peanut butter (it was a sign, cause: bananas!) – and she gently rebuffed him, Chris Brown decided not to put his energy into anything else. Like nothing. He seriously thinks a shammy works itself. While Bruno Duarte and Baker Manning are trying hard to show improvement, Chris Brown is trying hard not to fall asleep on duty. Nico and Captain Lee are beyond frustrated.
The new charter guests are a group of cougars looking for a disco party, but no one is feeling it. Kate and Lee are not looking forward to two days of shrieking and whopping it up. Jen even notices that the lead guest looks like Vicki Gunvalson – and they are sisters in spirt as well. Oh god, please do not give Bravo any cross-over ideas!
With the group of eight ladies on board, the frazzled crew is immediately enveloped in a sea of WHOO HOOOS, and maybe all the carrying on explains how Chris Brown and Baker got distracted as the boat was pulling away from the dock and didn’t notice that one of the lines was still attached! Major Oops. When Chris Brown hears a lady whooping it up, it’s a transfixing experience for him and he is momentarily transported to an exalted state of ecstasy. They are all calling his name. I don’t know what Baker’s excuse was, cause she was literally staring over the side of the boat, watching the dockhand miss the rope.
A quick note about Baker: You can take the girl out of the south, but you can’t take the southern French tipped acrylics off the girl! A deck hand with acrylics. Girl, this and the big hair halo hat (you know those hats with the cut out on the top of the head to accommodate bouffants) are my favorite things about her. A southern woman never lets her swagger go, not even in sweltering sun while she’s working a shammy!
Anyway, back to the matter at hand – the unattached line causes the Valor to CRASH into the dock, leaving a big dent. Lee is beyond furious and Nico knows that this is the fault of his totally inexperience and unprepared deck crew who don’t even know what they’re supposed to be looking out for. Nico also knows that somehow, somewhere along the line (pun intended) he’ll be blamed.
After the incident, Nico warns the deckhands to steer very clear of Lee and work as hard as possible. Everyone takes the threat serious except guess who? Why, our old foe Chris Brown!
Chris Brown continues slacking off while wondering why everyone thinks he’s such a slacker. He’s a guy who listened to a bunch of Jimmy Buffett songs and thought working on a yacht would take him to Margaritaville. Captain Lee is not about that life and Chris Brown’s laziness gets him sentenced to all-night Anchor Watch. Chris Brown doesn’t get it – why didn’t they just tell him something was wrong with his job performance instead of fabricating this BS punishment? Um, dude, they’ve been telling you over and over again.
Meanwhile, Kate is having Jesus-withdraw and taking it out on Jen and everyone else! Kate got her just desserts when Bruno almost made her fall out of the tug boat as she was going ashore to pick up disco supplies for the guests which also soured her feelings towards him. While Kate was on-board, Brianna was responsible for managing the guests’ needs, but once Kate left, she put Brianna on break but had Jen take over. It’s almost as if Kate wants Jen to fail miserably! And fail miserably Jen did!
Jen seriously doesn’t know the difference between a Stella and Sauvignon Blanc. It takes her 35 minutes to find a bottle opener and she twice serves the guests warm beer. Among other things. Jen blames Kate and complains that she shirks responsibility and is a hypocrite for leaving Valor for church.
When Kate returns, she forces Jen to wear a disco wig to serve dinner and Jen is the ONLY one required to wear a costume. Kate smirks that it’s revenge for all the time Jen spends styling her Marcia, Marcia, Marcia! hair, and it’s definitely Kate’s way of f–king with Jen. It’s pretty snarky and mean. Kate is being awful to everyone; she even calls Matt Burns and his cooking boring. Luckily, the guests LOVE it and cannot stop raving about how delicious every morsel is – even the bread pudding. Who likes bread pudding? I think it’s too heavy for yachting life.
Jen and Chris Brown are basically in the same predicament: neither comprehends how bad they are at their job.
Unfortunately for Jen, Kate is far more vicious about asserting her authority and condescending her charges than than Nico is. Jen complains about the wig and generally runs around like a chicken with her wig ripped off. When Kate lectures her on handling the stressful dinner rush, Jen interrupts to complain that Kate is micromanaging her. Kate treats Jen like a child; Jen acts like a child – how is it possible that Jen actually has a child. Are we sure her dad is watching her daughter or did Jen just leave her home alone with a couple boxes of Captain Crunch and the TV remote? #CallCPS Seriously, will Chris Brown and Jen never have a ‘Come To Jesus’ moment?!
Salty at Jen, and deserted by the Holy Spirit, Kate next turns her wrath on poor, innocent, stupefied Bruno. After working a 14 hour day, he’s relaxing with his after-dinner tea, when Kate attempts to order him into a disco costume to dance for the randy cougars. It was the saddest disco party I ever saw – like sadder than the one Shannon Beador threw and with even lower-rent costumes, but I don’t think Bruno’s abs could’ve saved it.
Oh ladies… they should’ve left those glory days on dry land! Bruno grumbles that he’s too tired to subject himself to more sexual harassment at the hands of horny guests and demure. Kate rips him out for admitting that he’s tired, then accuses him of not being able to do his job. I’m on Team Bruno here. Frankly, I’m surprised Chris Brown didn’t leap around the corner and eagerly volunteer to strip tease for these ladies while wearing an afro. Cause the ladies love Chris Brown. Instead the they were stuck with Brianna and her magical cleaning spray.
The next morning, Bruno tattles to Nico about Kate yelling at him. Nico promises to intervene in the future, but warns Bruno that Kate does have some authority over him, even if she doesn’t realize how hard he’s working above deck. BS – Kate totally knows and was just being a twat.
Luckily, the guests had a blast, and they were more than wooed by Matt’s food, so they reward the crew with a big tip. Unfortunately, before Lee can dole out the dollars, there’s major trouble docking the boat. With not enough pressure due to the water levels, it’s literally an all-hands on deck situation to manually position the Valor, yet the deck crew is too inept. After watching Bruno lamely toss a line right into the water, missing the dock completely, Matt drops what he’s doing to pitch in, basically saving the the crew another crash. Nico is disheartened as he watched this motley mess of people f–k up yet again.
Lee is livid, and as he hands out tips, congratulates the ladies but warns the deck crew that someone is getting fired. My Magic Hate Ball tells me that Chris Brown is going to find himself on the first dinghy home! And no one wishes for that more than Nico.
By the time the crew hits the bar, tensions are at an all-time high. And no one needs a drink more than Jen! At least that’s what she tells herself … every trip back to the bar. Jen is fed up with Kate and her hypocrisy and micromanaging and the only thing she can do is self-sabotage with martinis the size of her head. While Jen gets more and more trashed, Brianna dry-humps the stripper pole, which is obviously a signal to all the menz that she wants some sexing! Matt confides to Nico that he’s got a major crush on her, and Nico encourages Matt to live out the fantasies he cannot by asking Briana out. She accepts, although she doesn’t seem thrilled about it.
In the Uber back to Valor, Brianna whispers to Nico that she wished he would’ve danced with her. Back on board, she puts on a her sexiest mumu to drunkenly wander into his room and confess that she thinks he’s handsome. Unfortunately, Nico’s roommate is Matt, and Matt shows up just in time to break up this would-be tryst. Nico realizes he narrowly escaped a serious mistake. What if he finds himself fin the same boat out as Chris Brown?! I mean, there’s Holly to think of you guys! Meanwhile Jen is crashing around the yacht like Chris Brown and Bruno are in charge of managing her ropes. Bruno is shocked by the level of drunkenness Jen is able to accomplish. She and CB are totally soul mates!
I dunno you guys – Brianna seems like one of those girls who calls herself a ‘guys-girl,’ pretends she has no idea why guys are always trying to get in her pants while she shamelessly flirts with them. Am I just being a bad girls-girl, who deserves to be stoned by Real Housewives across the globe?
TELL US – DO YOU THINK NICO IS GOING TO CHEAT ON HOLLY? SHOULD CHRIS BROWN BE FIRED? WAS KATE OUT OF LINE TOWARDS JEN AND BRUNO?
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After endless questions and speculation, This Is Us revealed how Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) died. Or did it? "Thank God, man," Ventimiglia told E! News' Will Marfuggi about the...If you’re still watching Jax and Brittany Take Kentucky, the train wreck of a spin off that gave us six episodes to tide us over until Vanderpump Rules starts again, then you probably saw the escalation of Jax Taylor’s bad behavior from a mile away. This week, Jax takes that bad behavior to a whole new level of douchy-ness, resulting in him blatantly disrespecting girlfriend Brittany Cartwright, her family, AND her friends. No one is safe when Jax has had a few tequila shots and feeling homesick for L.A.
We start the episode with Jax actually claiming to be enjoying his farm chores as he gets up early with Mamaw to feed the chickens and the cows. Mamaw is so impressed that this “city boy” is enjoying throwing some chicken feed into a pen and heaps a chicken’s turd worth of praise on him about what a man this makes him. I guess Mamaw is hurting for company since her standards are so low but either way, Jax seems to do no wrong in her eyes.
As they walk back to the house, Mamaw asks Jax how he met Brittany and he weaves a romantic tale about being in Vegas and seeing a beautiful woman across the room (Brittany, we presume), getting her number, and then her moving to L.A.two weeks later. Cut to Brittany’s friend also telling the same story, but this time it’s slightly less romantic – she asked Jax to go and play Jenga with Brittany and his response was that he would….errrrrrr…..chow down on her rump right now. OK, he used much cruder language than that but I really can’t bring myself to repeat it, even for the sake of this recap. Sorry, guys.
Back at Sherri’s house, Jax and Brittany get ready to go out for their last night in Kentucky. They are meeting all of her family and friends for dinner and it’s already a full table when they arrive. Everyone orders and Jax tries to get something sensible, claiming that he’s gained weight with all the fried food this trip. As they settle into dinner, the family wants to know if they will be back for Christmas and Jax says no, despite assuring Mamaw just a few days earlier that they would be there for the holidays. Brittany is annoyed and explains that Jax always does this, says one thing and then completely denies ever saying it. Yeah, there is a word for that – it’s called lying. You would think she’s pretty used to it by now.
As Jax chats with her family, he starts to get cocky about how this “city slicker” boy has won over her family, thanks to Sherri going on and on about how Mamaw has had a spring in her step since he’s arrived. I don’t know 1) why Jax fancies himself such a city boy when he lives in L.A and 2) Sherri is so eyeroll-worthy of being a Jax groupie – it’s like she’s living out all of her frosted lipstick dreams through her daughter.
When Jax goes to the bathroom, the women in Brittany’s family ask about the details of their fight from the other day and Brittany tries to brush it off, embarrassed that she has to relive what a complete a**hole Jax was being. Brittany’s sister Tiffany is less willing to let it go, telling them all how Jax likes to put himself up on a pedestal and throw in Brittany’s face how he pays for everything. Sherri doesn’t even bat an eye, hoping her little meal ticket to a TV wedding won’t let her down over something as silly as being controlled and manipulated by her significant other.
After dinner, they all hit the bar and Jax is feeling so good about winning over the family, he cozies up to Don, the one person who definitely isn’t impressed by Jax’s television appearance resume. Don sits him down for a man to man and tells him that he still isn’t sold on him. Jax looks surprised, then spouts some nonsense about “god bless Brittany” since she’s the only woman who can put up with him. How nice FOR HIM! What about what Brittany needs? Don tries to tell him to just focus on making Brittany happy with his heart since that will go much further than money ever could but Jax has already tuned out since he didn’t get the validation he thinks he deserves.
When Jax rejoins Brittany and her friends at the bar to do some shots, Brittany wants him to apologize to her friend Ashley for drunkenly yelling at her the other night. Nice try, Brittany but unfortunately for you, your boyfriend has no redeeming qualities and he makes it well known by refusing to apologize, then slamming back his shot before she can finish her heart felt toast to her friends. Her friends look at him in dismay and Brittany has no choice but to press on with the evening, hoping it will get better.
HA! So much for that plan since the next scene flashes “12 Hours Later” and plays ominous music. It’s the last morning for these two in Kentucky and looks like it will be anything but a good one. Sure enough, Jax went off the rails last night and turned into a total jerk, then ended up staying at a hotel instead of coming home with Brittany.
Brittany‘s family is going to do a dedication ceremony for her grandfather this morning so she frantically calls Jax to find out where he is but gets his voicemail. Brittany goes to talk to Tiffany and Sherri about what happened and explains that Jax yelled at all of her friends and Tiffany last night, all because Tiffany made a comment about him being mean, which he totally is.
Instead of telling Brittany what a disrespectful loser she is dating, Sherri blames her, saying that this is what happens when you go out drinking and they should have just come straight back to the house last night instead of going out. Just as Sherri is getting barf-worthy in her defense of Jax, he arrives by taxi and stomps up to where they are sitting, clearly ready for a fight. He snaps at Tiffany, saying she can leave and she doesn’t even argue with him, but wanders off.
Brittany tries her best to get him to apologize and Jax goes off about how Tiffany has no right to criticize his relationship. All Brittany wants is for Jax to be more respectful of her and her friends and family but Jax is Jax and no one comes before him and his ego.
Jax whines about how she doesn’t have his back, no matter how horrible his behavior is and goes in on Brittany about how her friend made the comment that her life was better before him. Jax highly doubts that, as he tells us in his talking head, because you know, Brittany would still be drinking in strip malls with toothless people if it weren’t for him. This is a prime example of how Jax thinks he’s better than everyone in Brittany’s life, including Brittany herself, even though he tries to deny it. Brittany is now crying, saying that Jax has an anger problem and as he continues to yell at her for using “the waterworks” to make him to blame for everything, Sherri jumps in and instructs Brittany to apologize TO JAX. He storms off.
But with Mamaw’s prodding, Jax joins the family at the gazebo for the dedication ceremony. Too bad he still has a chip on his shoulder so he stands off to the side while the family dabs their eyes and says nice words about their patriarch. Jax is ready to go home and he doesn’t care who knows it.
Once the ceremony is done, Mamaw pushes them together to talk and Brittany has no choice to give him one last shot to apologize for his behavior. True to Jax form, he doesn’t and is impossibly stubborn when she tells him that he can’t talk to her like he has been. She tells him she is going to stay for a few more days and he doesn’t try and talk her out of it. He tells her she is a big girl and can do what she wants, then leaves to pack. Sherri takes him to the airport and Brittany knows that something has to change and this is her last stand.
Looks like Brittany finally got her spark back.
TELL US – DO YOU THINK JAX AND BRITTANY WILL STAY TOGETHER?
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They may not be Real Housewives anymore, but Brandi Glanville and Kristen Taekman are real friends. Brandi took the time to visit Kristen and her husband Josh Taekman during a trip to New York City. Brandi also brought her boyfriend DJ Friese around.
Considering these two have been friends for years, I am sure they talked about more than just the Real Housewives franchise, but I assume (and hope) they at least talked a little bit about their former costars. Between the two of them I’m sure they know a whole lot about the people in the franchise.
Brandi documented her NYC trip with lots of pictures and even started hash tagging a combined version of her last name and her boyfriend DJ’s by writing “#frieseville.” So clearly this is a serious relationship if they are combining last names for a hash tag. I’m half kidding when I say that, but I do think it’s cute.
Brandi took a bunch of photos at popular tourist spots like murals and signs. She even flew out to the Hamptons in a chopper.
If you miss seeing Brandi and Kristen arguing with Real Housewives at dinner parties, then I’m sorry because there’s no chance that either of them will be back on Bravo at any point soon – although Real Housewives of Beverly Hills can definitely use Brandi at this point. Since they have both retired from the Housewife life, all of their fans have left for entertainment is social media.
Check out the gallery below to see the former Housewives hanging out in the Big Apple.
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TELL US – DO YOU MISS WATCHING BRANDI GLANVILLE & KRISTEN TAEKMAN ON REAL HOUSEWIVES?
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Even though Kathy Wakile isn’t a Real Housewives of New Jersey cast member anymore, she is still trying to parlay her reality TV fame into opening an Italian restaurant in New Jersey. If that sounds familiar, it’s because she’s not the only New Jersey Housewife who has done this recently. With that said, it will be interesting to see how Kathy’s PizzaLove restaurant will do in comparison to the one that her two cousins Teresa Giudice and Joe Gorga opened with Melissa Gorga.
Kathy’s restaurant is not open at a full-scale yet, but PizzaLove is having its soft opening to test out the menu and bring in some customers for the future. I wonder if it will serve up those cannolis that Kathy started serving while she was still on the show.
Kathy posted about the soft opening on Instagram. Kathy wrote, “The Wait is Over! Who’s Hungry? PizzaLove’s kitchen is heating up & testing our menu! Stop in and have a bite during our soft opening!” She also mentioned that customers could get orders for dine in, take out, or delivery from the Wyckoff, New Jersey restaurant.
Recently Kathy shared photos of her trip to Italy to do some research for the restaurant.
Teresa, Joe, and Melissa’s Italian restaurant opened up back in May and it seems to be going strong at this point. Not only that, but it definitely serves as a story line in the upcoming eighth season of the show, so it has a dual purpose there. There’s no official word on when PizzaLove will officially be open for business, but I’m sure Kathy will make sure to share that news on social media whenever the time is right.
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TELL US- WHICH NEW JERSEY RESTAURANT WOULD YOU RATHER EAT AT: TERESA, JOE, AND MELISSA’S OR KATHY’S?
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