Real Housewives of Miami star Adriana De Moura has been very close friends with Lea Black before even being on the hit show but it seems like this friendship is o-v-e-r. Adriana took to her blog to call out Lea Black saying that kindness should not be thrown into people’s faces and discusses Monday’s episode!
This week’s Real Housewives of Miami yet again revolved around Adriana de Moura’s feud with former best friend Lea Black. Lea continues to feel hurt, lied to, and betrayed by Adriana after her 2008 marriage to Frederic came to light in the media. Adriana blames the story being planted maliciously by Lea! Onto the recap…
Joanna: We kick off with Joanna and Romain hanging out in bed. Joanna and Romain are planning their wedding, but it looks like some bumps need to be flattened out before that. For one, Romain doesn’t want Marta, Joanna’s sister, at the wedding because of how opposed she’s been to their marriage.
Then, the p-word comes up. Prenup! Joanna feels Romain is planning the divorce by asking for a prenup. Joanna doesn’t think they need one and thinks they’re in it for the long-haul. I think a prenup should be obtained when there is that much money involved.
Marysol: Marysol is still coping with Mama Elsa’s stroke and surgery. She reveals that Mama Elsa goes in and out of consciousness, which is sad and scary. Marysol misses her mom but lies on her friend Alexis for support, who just went through something similar with her son Frankie.
Alexia: Alexis is organizing her closet which has an impressive shoe collection. Next.
Lisa: Daisy, Lisa’s old maid, is working on getting her sexy after Lenny gave her plastic surgery! Daisy is also running her own cleaning business and no longer has to clean houses herself. Lisa wants her to not leave, because she will need her help with the new house.
The new house is the infamous tear-down that the preservationists aren’t letting them demolish even though it’s NOT a historic building! Lisa and Lenny tour the home which was left trashed by the squatters that they finally removed. Lenny gives Lisa a hard hat and has her work with a sledge hammer to start tearing down, which is hilarious.
Adriana & Lisa: Adriana takes Marysol and Alexia wedding dress shopping, and tells them that it’s weird Lea is not there since she was once Maid of Honor. Adriana instead now is hurt by Lea, who she thinks outed her marriage to hurt her.
Lea is also wedding shoe shopping with Joanna and Lisa, and she feels lied to. We’ve heard all of this already. Both women feel hurt by the other. Lea wants Adriana over to her house so the can discuss this matter.
It’s a stormy day and Adriana takes a taxi cab to Lea’s. Clearly RHOM’s budget is less than RHOBH’s. Where is the limo service!?
Lea greets Adriana as if nothing is wrong, and then they get into it. Adriana feels Lea has planned her demise by planting the story of her 2008 legal marriage. Adriana says she went through with the legalities of the marriage then, but the church ceremony, what counts for her, was cancelled because of her son’s issues accepting the new marriage.
Lea maintains that Adriana lied to her about being married and sucked up her money, lying that she was a single mom who needed the money. She outs Adriana’s financial woes and it’s disgusting. Lea thinks that by throwing money amounts out it’ll make her look better, but she looks tacky by throwing this all in Adriana’s face.
My thing is, both of the women are confusing and I don’t know who’s lying and who’s not. Adriana should’ve been more clear about already being married, but Lea is being vindictive and trying to play victim.
Not to mention, Lea already knew about Frederic, who Adriana has been living with for some time now despite not having had a big marriage! Lea is acting like she didn’t know Frederic was in the picture and Adriana was a struggling, homeless person.
The end left me so confused, so let’s discuss! Do you see eye to eye with Adriana or Lea on this issue?!
Tonight was the second part of the Real Housewives of Orange County season eight reunion. It was more of the same. Screaming, finger-pointing, and evidence being pulled out in all forms ranging from e-mails, text messages and even voice mails! Stupid, but here are watching so let’s get to the recap.
The second part starts off with some light topics, including the ratchet activities the girls participated in while in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. We also learned Alexis likes the size of Jim Bellino’s penis. GROSS! What would Jesus think of such a conversation?!
Tamra’s dark past then was brought to the forefront. We saw Tamra open up about her suicide attempts and her upbringing, which is why she prefers expressing anger instead of love in her adulthood. Tamra revealed she had never opened up about her suicide attempts to ANYBODY until she did it on camera, which I thought was shocking.
Tamra says the hardest part was struggling with her son Ryan’s ups and downs and then exposing this side of her. She then said she never felt able to express love until she met Eddie, which was sweet. Andy then asked a viewer question asking if one speech would change the perception of Tamra, and Tamra said she’s trying! Alexis even said she understood Tamra after that.
We then talked about the 100th episode. Gretchen apparently is not weirded out seeing her fiance with a younger girl in a french maid outfit when he was younger and better off financially. She says she’s very secure with getting sloppy thirds so more power to her.
The discussion then turns to Gretchen and her tantrum about Tamra’s dress shopping day. She says she was upset because Tamra was trash-talking Alexis to her, then being nice to Alexis’s face and inviting her. Gretchen pulls out e-mails of Tamra bashing Alexis and Tamra owns up to lying. She says Gretchen is so difficult to be friends with that she just told her what she wanted to hear! Not cool, because now what is Alexis supposed to believe?!
Tamra calls out Gretchen for making the dress shopping day about her, with the red coat with nothing under it and the engagement ring on her ring finger! Tamra then questions if it was Gretchen who planted the story about Eddie being paid to propose by Bravo, which Andy denies ever happening.
Heather then chimes in with Malibu Country of course! I swear, if this show had been airing while Malibu Country was still on the air, it would not have been cancelled due to all the free promo RHOC gave it.
Heather says Gretchen lied about having a role on Malibu Country to make herself look like she gave it up to hang out with Tamra at the wedding dress store. Gretchen then pulls up a voice mail from her agent telling her about the part. It turns out she was considered, but nothing was even offered to her so she couldn’t have turned down sh*t!
After Heather and Gretchen’s little fight, Andy asks is Gretchen considers anybody a friend. Gretchen says she considers Lydia and Heather friends. WTF? Dumb. She could’ve just said no, and that would’ve been more believable. Alexis then says Gretchen said she only befriended Tamra because she was scared, which I believe to be partially true.
The drama continues when Gretchen says Alexis is fake on camera! Vicki chimes in saying Gretchen is fake, down to her ellaborate, schemed out engagement made for TV. Basically, the entire cast comments on how it was questionably timed and over the top, made only for the cameras.
We see a montage of Gretchen and Slade’s journey this season ending in their engagement, and Gretchen just entirely breaks down into sobs. Tamra even rushed to her side on the other couch to console her. All of a sudden everyone is sorry for saying she got engaged for TV, and Gretchen continues to break down while no tears come out, and it’s the most painful acting ever.
Gretchen says she didn’t invite anybody because they were questionable people in her life at the time. Gretchen even brought up our interview with Tamra where she bashed her singing, which was around the time of the proposal. She does admit that she would’ve wanted Alexis there because she was a cheerleader for her and Slade since day one.
Alexis then breaks down saying that she doesn’t believe Gretchen wanted her there after how she treated her when their friendship fell apart. I agree with Alexis because Gretchen clapped as Alexis was thrown out and ridiculed at Tamra’s dinner party, and when Alexis tried fixing things with her after Whistler, Gretchen looked so disinterested and over it.
The second part of the reunion ends with this emotional, tearful breakdown and next week the drama hits the fan when Briana takes on Brooks, leaving Vicki in tears and walking off the set, announcing she is done with RHOC!
Let’s discuss! Who do you think was truthful at all during this second part?
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville has had her ex-husband Eddie Cibrian’s new wife Leann Rimes copy everything about her from obvious style changes, down to Brandi’s dentist! Now, Leann strikes again with her single-white-female syndrome and has jacked Brandi’s swim suit from a recent photoshoot, pictured above. Radar Online shares the following images of Leann and Eddie vacationing in Mexico, where Leann is wearing a similar lace swimsuit in a different color! 
The day prior, Leann also donned a swim suit VERY similar to one that Brandi has been photographed in. Check it out: (Thanks @alejandrapers10) 
Do you think it’s mere, crazy coincidence, or is Leann still actively trying to be Brandi?! Crazy. Brandi Glanville is known for her appearance on the reality TV show “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.”
Leann Rimes is the current wife of Brandi Glanville’s ex-husband, Eddie Cibrian. She has been accused of copying various aspects of Brandi’s life, including her style choices.
Leann Rimes was spotted wearing a lace swimsuit in Mexico, which closely resembled a swimsuit previously worn by Brandi Glanville. This has led to speculation that Leann is still trying to imitate Brandi.
Teresa Giudice has taken to her Bravo blog and she is hashing out this week’s tense Real Housewives of New Jersey episode. Her sister-in-law Melissa had a former friend try to out her meeting with an ex during the Milania Hair Care party and Teresa is writing about it all. She starts off saying:
I was sorry that Melissa got into a fight with one of her best friends at the launch party. For the record, I didn’t invite Jan or Penny. The party was open to any salon owners who called in and spoke with the Youthful 8 company reps. As soon as I found out Jan had RSVPed, I called Melissa to warn her and make sure she would be OK with it. If Melissa didn’t want them to come, believe me, I would have uninvited them immediately!
We all know producers invited Penny and Jan in collaboration with Kim D, but of course, Teresa is not allowed to say that because it ruins the “reality” show! So frustrating. Teresa’s blog continues:
I don’t really know Jan, I just know she was one of Melissa’s best girlfriends, and they were in each other’s wedding. I have no idea why Jan and Melissa would have a falling out, but like I said in my interview on the show, I have Melissa’s back. Like Dr. V suggested to us, I thought it was best that Melissa confront Jan directly, and I was happy to support her. When Jan and Melissa were talking, I was right there to make sure it didn’t get out of hand. My brother was right there too, and he wasn’t upset, shrugging it off as crazy talk, so I did too. My main concern was that Melissa knew I was there for her.
Melissa and Jan have a history. They’ve been best friends for 12 years. That’s why Melissa invited Jan to lunch to talk about her new book (and me…). I’m there for Melissa, but I wasn’t going to get involved because it didn’t it have anything to do with me. And Melissa’s a big girl. I know she can handle herself. We all saw that at Lake George.
I think Melissa wanted Teresa to gang up on Jan and cuss her out, but I think that Joe Gorga not even doing that and just letting Jan talk and talk lead Teresa to not do the same either. This was still Teresa’s new business, and why would she get into a confrontation and tarnish her new product unless she had to? Plus, Melissa has never exactly done something like that for Teresa. All I can remember is when she left Napa with Teresa and Joe Giudice after Caroline told her off, but she didn’t exactly jump in to defend Teresa against Caroline either! Hmm.
Teresa then talks about Penny and how important it was to have her “vindicate” her from the constant Melissa accusations and Teresa was taking the heat for from her brother and Melissa:
Penny is another salon owner that I have met a few times at public events. As she said, we’re acquaintances, not friends. It was kind of awkward to ask her that to her face, but I wanted Melissa and Joey to hear it directly from her since they were convinced Penny was talking badly about Melissa and that she was my friend. For a whole year, my brother and Melissa believed I had something to do with Angelo showing up at the fashion show and saying hi to Melissa, when I didn’t. But them believing that was hurting our relationship. I wanted to fix that more than anything. I told them I had nothing to do with it, Kim D told them, and now Penny told them too. What more can I do? I’m done trying to defend myself. If my brother doesn’t believe me by now over strangers, there’s nothing I can do.
Then Teresa addresses how she looked uncomfortable, which Melissa and Joe took as Teresa being guilty and scared to be outed for her involvement in the rumors:
Watching myself on the episode, I look so uncomfortable because I was! My launch party was very important to me and I was praying it would be successful and not end in a big “white trash” brawl. I never know who’s going to attack who, and people came prepared for a fight! Penny even came with a bodyguard! When asked who he was, he answered, “I hurt people for a living.” A bodyguard and my brother in the same room? They were eyeing each other and I was freaked out. It was nerve-wracking having my brand hang in the balance of people who just want to fight.
It’s been really exhausting these last few seasons to be constantly accused of everything that ever happens to other people. Trying to constantly vindicate myself to my only sibling, to watch my family get ripped apart by rumors from strangers, it’s not a good feeling. I’m so tired of working on eggshells. I just want this all to be behind us.
I know it must be frustrating for Melissa to have people say bad things about her, believe me, I know! But I don’t think she was targeted this season or last season any more than any of us. It kind of goes with the territory of being on TV. People like to say stuff about you, magazines like to write stuff about you. As I told Melissa, you have to shrug it off. Life & Style has done 2 untrue cover stories about cheating in my marriage, so I know first-hand that they are full of crap.
Thoughts on what Teresa had to say? I think it’s obvious Penny was trying to get on RHONJ for some time now and when she had a chance to by exposing Melissa, whether the accusations are true or not, she took it. It’s all production and Penny in my opinion, but of course the easy thing for Melissa is to think Teresa did it.
Former Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kim Zolciak just keeps on giving! The reality star announced her fifth pregnancy earlier this summer, and now she is revealing that she is in fact pregnant with TWINS! Is chain smoking and coffee while pregnant the secret?!
Kim and hubby Kroy are ecstatic and she tells E! News, “I’m having twins and I couldn’t be more excited. I was completely shocked. I had no idea. It was a natural conception but twins do run in the family so I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised.”
Kim looks forward to being a mom to six children, and says it’s a dream come true even though it will be crazy and busy. And yay for a Don’t Be Tardy storyline! That’s always good.
Good thing Kim has that new enormous mansion to fit her entire brood. And we also hope there’s at least one girl in there right now, which is what the couple wants! Congratulations to the Zolciak-Biermanns.
Do you think Kim will get another girl?
While season five of Real Housewives of New Jersey filmed, Melissa Gorga was facing accusations that she had cheated on Joe Gorga with her ex boyfriend, Bryan “Bulldog”. Bryan surfaced on Twitter during this time and dropped hints about the accusations.
When the show aired, Melissa brought her friend Jan DeDolce on the show because Bravo wanted to film Melissa with her friends, but as it turns out, Jan also became upset with Melissa. A few episodes later, Jan was seen outing Melissa’s meeting with Bryan while she was already married to Joe Gorga!
You might be wondering why Jan “turned” on Melissa, but she has her reasons! I got in touch with Jan recently and she agreed to answer all of your burning questions about her history with Melissa, and she is not holding back! After Melissa said Jan is desperate for attention on WWHL recently, Jan is speaking out after turning down money for paid interviews.
Jan was a very good friend of Melissa’s up until she got on the show, which is when things began to change. Jan has had enough saying, “I can’t watch her lying. She’s just such a good liar.” Check out AllAboutTRH‘s chat with Jan, found exclusively here!
AllAboutTRH: How long have you known Melissa?
Jan DeDolce: I would say over 12 years.
How did you guys meet?
We met a long time ago through a mutual friend, this girl Melissa Giordano. Melissa [Giordano]’s parents were divorced, so she would spend time here [Jan lives in Northern Jersey] and she she would spend time down the shore. She would always take Melissa Gorga out with her, so that’s how we met. And then I started dating someone from down the shore so we were just able to get together all the time.
You guys were friends and then you were in her wedding to Joe Gorga, so when did things begin to change?
Well, people get married and have kids and go on with their lives so we don’t get to see each other every day, but I guess when she got on the show, she just got weird. She is not the same person that I was friends with seven years ago.
Before she was on the show, did she ever speak negatively about Teresa?
Yeah. She didn’t like Teresa before the show. She asked me to write an anonymous letter to Bravo so she could get on the show.
Did you do it?
No, but someone else did.
Really?
Yeah, that’s how she got on the show. She would take me to Dina Manzo’s Ladybug conventions at the Brownstone and Melissa would follow the freakin’ camera around. Melissa would be seated in the back corner, and then she would always get up and prance around in front of the camera.
So obviously she was bitter that Teresa was on TV and she wasn’t.
Yeah. What she asked me to write to Bravo was that Teresa was hiding a younger, prettier girl who had more money than her.
Is Melissa that much better off than Teresa?
I mean, not at all. Her husband owes a lot of people money.
The house that they live in right now, was that built for them to live in or to sell?
What Joe does is he builds homes and sells them. So they were trying to live in this house but they can’t because they owe too much for it.
Is this why they are selling it now?
Yeah.
What type of house did they live in before this one? Was it a modest house?
Well, no, when Melissa first met Joe he had a beautiful McMansion in Franklin Lakes that he sold to a football player or somebody. Then, they moved into a house they rented in Lincoln Park until this house was built.
Even when they were moving in, they were talking about when they were going to sell it. That’s what they do. It’s like, the bank owns it, but they did move in before the show.
What did you think when she finally made it into the show? Did she tell you?
Yeah, it was actually my daughter’s birthday party. She came in and she was all like “They cast me! They cast me!” She was all excited, and I was so excited for her. She was like, “Don’t tell anybody!” yet, but then she went around to each person and told them all that she was on the show.
Did she promise to feud with Teresa in order to be cast on the show?
Well yeah, of course. They want that. They weren’t going to bring anyone who wasn’t going to bring any kind of drama to the next season.
So how did Bravo find out about you?
So, it was weird because Melissa and I started having problems. I don’t know what her deal was, but she started talking about me to people. Very two-faced. That’s when I started getting mad at her.
A picture came on Twitter of her [Melissa] from that girl Penny that only I had. What happened was, I was doing my extensions, and they were saying she had her nose done. And at that time, Melissa hadn’t had her nose done and I was like, arguing with them like, “No, her nose is real! Look at this!”
At the time, the guy [her make-up artist] was just contouring it, but now her nose is done. Her nose is completely new, so when she denies it, she’s lying about that.
So I was showing them the picture trying to prove that it was the same nose, and the girl Penny must have taken a picture with her camera. I didn’t even have a Twitter account at the time. I signed onto Twitter maybe four or five months ago but I don’t use it. This picture went up about one or two years ago.
So Melissa calls me out of nowhere asking if I had put up that picture. I said, “What are you talking about?” She started sending it to me and I told her that I had shown people the picture because they were saying she had a nose job and I was showing them that she didn’t.
So, we talked. We got set up for lunch, whatever. But of course, it was just to find out information. We didn’t talk for a few months because she’s so busy with her life and what not. There was something that went on Facebook that had upset me that she put up, and I was just over it.
How did she approach you to film with her and her other friend Maria?
Out of nowhere, she calls me to go meet her for lunch. Again. She wanted to know if I told anybody about the night we were out at Sushi Lounge with Bryan. I said no, but of course there were other people there. And Bryan is friends with Penny!
So she asked me if I would come on and film with her to say that there was no meeting together. I didn’t really want to get involved, but she asked me to film because she needed girlfriends to go to lunch with her. Melissa doesn’t have a lot of girlfriends. If you look at her wedding party, I’m the only friend at her wedding. It was all family. Her two sisters, her cousin, Teresa, me, I think Kathy might have been there too.
She was like “Please, please, please,” so I said alright. Now mind you, I denied a majority of the stuff because I just didn’t want to get involved in this. So we go out to lunch and after that, Kim D and Penny start calling me and my partner. At first, they tried telling me that Teresa had a hair product line and she wanted it in my salon.
Kim D has this guy Damien who was friends with my old partner, set up a meeting behind my back with Penny and they wanted to see if we could get me to come on the show. I said I didn’t want to get involved, but then they said it would only be about the hair products and Melissa wouldn’t be there. Kim D gave me the whole run around.
My partner then begged me and said it’ll be good for the business. At the time, I was still mad at Melissa because she had used me to get information about Bryan and to deny all that stuff. So when we get there, they push Malcolm, who is my partner, to the side and they place me next to Penny to make it seem like we came here together.
The night at Bellissimo’s [with Teresa, Kim D, and Penny] I was defending her. They were attacking her and ambushing her. And once again, I’m sticking up for her and Bravo switched it up because apparently Penny has a lawsuit with Bravo, so they didn’t use her in that scene bashing Melissa. I don’t know, maybe they wanted to make it look realistic. I have no idea. The whole thing was just fake.
They just started bashing Melissa. At the table, when they showed me saying all this stuff. It had nothing to do with Melissa. We were talking about an old boyfriend. It was just stuff that had nothing to do with Melissa. They re-arranged the entire conversation which was really messed up.
So then someone behind the cameras asks me to tell them about how Melissa cheated on Bryan, and I said no. I knew we went to dinner together, but I didn’t leave with them so I don’t know what happened.
So what you know is that you all had drinks with Bryan but you don’t know if she cheated. When was this?
This was right before she got pregnant with her third son.
Did Joe know that she was going out and Bryan would be there?
Absolutely not!
He obviously wouldn’t have liked that.
He would’ve killed somebody! She wasn’t even allowed to go to my bachelorette party, that’s how crazy they are together.
So who’s idea was it to hang out with Bryan?
Hers! She set it up. They were talking.
In this week’s episode you say she deserves an Academy Award, why do you say that?
Because she’s full of sh*t! She’s a confused person now. Everything about her is a lie. She’s like a “shore girl.” She slept around. She did whatever she could to get money, houses… She pretends to be better than everybody.
For example, her relationship book about how to keep a man. She’s just trying to make money. First it was her singing, now it’s her trying to write a book. The Housewives is going to be short-lived, I mean how long is she going to carry this out for? She doesn’t have anything else.
She’s just not a real person.
Do you think Bryan will tell his side, since he insists that they hooked up while she was married?
I kind of hope he does because she’s saying that I’m desperate for attention. Really? I’m not pushing 40 on stage trying to be a singer. I’m not trying to follow my sister-in-law’s footsteps.
She said you’re desperate for attention, but she brought you on the show first to defend her about allegations?
Yeah! Every magazine has tried getting in touch with me to pay me for articles, to bash her, sell pictures and what not. And I didn’t do it. There was one guy [reporter from the National Enquirer] who showed up to my salon twice, showed up at my house, the next day he left a note in my mailbox, called my salon.
If I wanted attention I would have done that. Bravo wanted me to get involved in other stuff. Kim D wanted me to do other things, and I just said no. I wanted no more part of it.
Do you think you would attend the reunion if asked?
I don’t know. I just think it’s such a degrading thing and I’m mad that I even got involved. I don’t want to bring that back to my family. I don’t know. I have a little bit of a temper, and I’m just afraid that I’d get to the point where I’d smack the shit out of her.
What would you describe the real Melissa as?
Melissa’s very selfish. She’s very cheap. Seriously. She’s the kind of person who will go into a store and wants to get everything for free. She’s never had style, she never knew how to dress herself. She had to call my sister or somebody, ‘Where did you buy this? Where did you get this?’
If she saw Teresa wearing something she had to find out where Teresa bought it. She’s just never had a mind of her own. She went and took Teresa’s freakin’ make-up artist, her hair stylist. It’s just crazy.
For her daughter’s Holy Communion this year she had people doubting if she actually paid for the big party or Antonia’s dress because she was constantly tweeting about the designer and vendors and plugging their business. She even had a paparazzi photo agency take pictures at the reception.
Probably because it was free. She did that because she probably didn’t pay for the dress. Trust me. She gave a gift to my daughter once for her birthday and on the tag of the outfit it said it was for Antonia.
How did she really meet Joe?
She went on the show lying at first. ‘Oh, I was a secretary, that’s how we met.’ No, he met you at Lookers. What do you mean? You were working at a strip club. No, she wasn’t a stripper. But she would only date guys with money. [If] you didn’t have money, she wasn’t dating you.
So she met Joe Gorga at Lookers?
They met in Cancun years ago, I think he hooked up with her friend in Cancun when they were on spring break. Then he saw her again at Lookers. That’s when she called me, “I met this guy he wants to take me out, but I don’t know. He’s a little short for me…”
When she finally went on a date, he took her back to his house, and all of a sudden she made up this whole story that she had to get out of her apartment, her roommate bailed on her, just so she could go and live with him.
How soon after they began dating did she move in with him?
Like, six weeks. Six months later they were engaged. Six months later they were married, and then six months after that she was pregnant. Crazy.
She was so nice to Teresa in the beginning. I don’t like Teresa, I think she’s sneaky, but I do know for a fact Teresa tried to welcome her as a friend, as a a sister, and as soon as they got married she started treating Teresa like shit.
Is her new book about having a sexy marriage a sham?
She wasn’t even into him [Joe Gorga] like that. She was not attracted to him. Of course, I’m sure she fell in love with him eventually, but the first thing was the money.
When she first met Joe she was hooking up with like three other guys at the time. There was a guy Dave who she came to see at my house after she was married. She didn’t hook up with him, but why would she come to see her ex-boyfriend? But she couldn’t be with Dave because he didn’t have enough money.
Thank you Jesus, right?
Thank you, Jesus. Please! She did tell me, I remember, we were driving home from a wedding shower for our mutual friend. We were driving through this nice part of town, and this is when she was with Bryan.
Bryan and her didn’t have that much money, he had just broken his knee so he was out of commission for making money. And she kept saying, “See, this is what I want. I pray to God to send me someone with money. I want a nice house, I want this, I want that.”
She would say that? I read the first chapter of her book and in it she writes that her family had the first Lincoln town car in her neighborhood…
Her dad may have had money, but then they were poor. Her mom used to go to a salon and she didn’t have money to tip. She’d ask if she could bring a bottle of wine or something. She didn’t have money to tip her hair stylist.
So ultimately why do you think Melissa is making up her whole act?
Right now, I think it’s for the public eye, so that they like her and not Teresa. And she is putting on an act for Joe. Joe’s family is old-school Italian, he doesn’t want to be with a girl who slept around. If he had known how many people she slept around with he would have never married her.
So do you think he knows now how she used to be?
No I think she has him blinded and he will just say people are jealous. Listen, they couldn’t ever leave each others’ side. They were always trying to hook me up with one of his friends, because Melissa wasn’t allowed to go out without him. This is why it was a surprise to me, how she got out that night for Sushi Lounge. I think he was going somewhere.
He’s very jealous. He slapped her on the face one time because she was dancing with his one friend down the Jersey shore. He got mad at her because she was dancing with his friend and he thought she was flirting. She was dancing with him trying to be friendly, and Joe didn’t like that. So, when they left the club, when we got in the car together, he smacked her on the face.
Are you shocked by what Jan had to say? Do you believe Melissa has cheated in the past!?
This week’s Real Housewives of New Jersey was pretty tense! Once again, the route the show takes is toward Melissa Gorga and Teresa Giudice. Why are the other three even here at this point?! Make Joe Gorga the third Housewife and call it a cast. Let’s get started.
Teresa and Melissa are working on re-building their relationship as sister-in-laws. Teresa and her girls come over to Melissa’s for the day, and my favorite thing about it all is the KIDS! How adorable are they when they get together? I don’t understand how these two families don’t become attached instantly just by seeing their kids interact with one another.
Antonia takes Milania downstairs to the recording studio and it’s just hilarious how Milania instantly climbs the microphone. That girl must be a crazy wild child to raise, but she sure makes some flawless TV. Teresa and Melissa sit down to talk and Melissa shows Teresa the first mock-up of her new book. Teresa is like, ‘Oh…nice…!’ which Melissa takes as Teresa judging it.
Melissa then brings up a Life & Style cover that just came out of the press, claiming Melissa cheated on Joe Gorga. She questions the “convenient” timing of the rumors since her marriage advice book is coming out soon, and Teresa tells her to just ignore it and the rumors will go away. Has that worked for your marriage’s cheating rumors, T?
Melissa says that these girls Teresa hung out with (Kim D, Penny, and Jan) talked about Melissa cheating, so she kind of hints that Teresa might have had something to do with. Teresa denies believing Melissa is a cheater and denies planting these stories to the magazine. These girls are literally walking on egg shells around each other to prevent anymore family feuding!
Kathy and Richie continue to struggle as he views her as nothing more than a housewife without a voice. He’s literally the most annoying creature, keeping Kathy from even forming a sentence at the grocery store, and if I were married to him I probably would’ve done something extreme to get out of that marriage, since apparently old school marriages (which Kathy claims to be in) don’t do divorce. Ugh.
Proving just how gross he is, Richie goes to a cigar bar with Joe Gorga and Chris Laurita. It’s Melissa birthday soon and Chris suggests Joe take her to Arizona. Not staged at all, Joe Gorga decides to invite the rest of the gang. Richie continues to bring up Melissa having sex and it’s literally disgusting. He is a vile pig who needs to not be on anybody’s TV show.
Jacqueline: After her tummy tuck and neck lift, Jacqueline comes back to Franklin Lakes from Los Angeles. The cutest thing ever is Nick lighting up that his mommy has returned! Chris Laurita talks about how it was hard with Nick being away from his mom, so I’m wondering why Jacqueline would opt for plastic surgery away from home while her son needs her in his recovery.
Caroline: Caroline continues to struggle with Al, who seems to be the unhappiest husband ever this season. He is yelling at her over furniture in their new apartment and just storms off to work. Caroline attributes this to being in an old-fashioned marriage where Al is used to calling the shots. Hmm…
Having not enough of a storyline apparently, Caroline has her daughter Lauren and Vito fill in for some filming. They talk about possibly getting engaged and Lauren reveals that whereas three years ago she even had a ring picked out, now she doesn’t really give a crap. She basically says taking the next step with Vito is not really a priority.
It’s finally time for the Milania Hair Care launch party and Teresa and Melissa are both getting ready. Kim D and Teresa come to Teresa’s house and Kim D promises that everything will be fine and there won’t be any drama with the pending issue between Jan and Penny vs. Melissa. Melissa says Jan stabbed her in the back and that she and Teresa will confront her together per Dr. V’s suggestion.
At the party, Jan approaches Kim D, Teresa and Melissa. She asks Melissa if she has anything to say. Melissa is very quiet and seems to be very nervous about Jan being there, instead of being angry that her marriage was under attack and confront the issue head on!
Melissa is upset about the rumor that she cheated on Joe Gorga with her ex and is pissed Jan told people she met with Bryan “Bulldog” (her ex). Jan tells Melissa that she DID meet with Bryan! Meanwhile, Melissa is upset that Teresa is just watching instead of confronting Jan with her like she said she would.
Melissa then gets really upset and calls Jan an “ass” but instead of seeming angry over being lied about, it seems like she’s more angry about being outed for something. Just my opinion. Jan calls Melissa an actress for being a fake person and she storms off.
Penny then comes along and Melissa confronts her about always talking about her marriage even though she doesn’t even know her. Penny says it’s because people keep asking about her marriage since she knows a lot of Melissa’s dirt. Melissa asks who are the people seeking out information and Penny fails to provide an answer.
During Melisa and Penny’s exchange, Teresa is butting in and keeps clarifying that she and Penny are not friends and that she had nothing to do with outing Melissa’s supposed cheating. Melissa and Joe take this as Teresa butting in so that Penny doesn’t out her involvement. Teresa keeps doing this because last year they linked her and Penny for bringing Angelo to out her alleged stripper past. Stupid.
Melissa and Joe say they believe Teresa, and Teresa is ecstatic that she is vindicated, but little does she know that Melissa and Joe lied. They obviously believe Teresa had a part in this and refuse to trust her!
Next week the gang head to Arizona, and have a tear-filled and “zen” trip, which I could not decipher based on the previews. We will find out next week.
For now, let’s discuss this week’s episode! Are Melissa and Joe wrongfully thinking Teresa was involved with Jan and Penny’s scheme?
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville showed off her bikini bod earlier this week when she hit the beach in Los Angeles. The 40-year-old wore a very tiny lace bikini and looked like she was having a great time!
Brandi was photoed reading Chelsea Handler’s book and chasing after some seagulls.
Love her or hate her, you must admit she looks great!
Real Housewives of Orange County star Tamra Barney married Eddie Judge last June, and of course Bravo will not let fans down and will be airing the wedding plans in a new special, Tamra’s OC Wedding!
The limited series documents Tamra’s wedding planning, her family involvements, her wild Las Vegas bachelorette/bachelor festivities, and of course the big day! Check out some photos below in anticipation for the premiere on September 2!
What a gorgeous reception and wedding! Will you be tuning in to Tamra’s OC Wedding next month?
