Real Housewives of New Jersey Recap: More wedding and a magazine cover…
The cover of In Touch magazine screamed, “I’m Terrified of Being Poor.” In the photo, Teresa Giudice was posing with one of her daughters and a puppy (even though she’s supposedly also terrified of...
View ArticleReal Housewives of New Jersey recap: Teresa Giudice’s money mysteries
These lags in time between when “Real Housewives” films and when the episodes air can cause such confusion. After it came to light, in June 2010, that Teresa and Joe Giudice had quietly filed for...
View ArticleRHONJ: Teresa and Jac break up, Teresa and Melissa make up.
Teresa and Joe Giudice have filed for bankruptcy, withstood rumors of Joe’s cheating and tabloid stories that he, or both of them, may go to jail. But go to therapy? Horrors no! It’s against her...
View ArticleReal Housewives of New Jersey: Therapy, Sunday dinner and a gay bar
Well, Teresa Giudice and Joe Gorga finally did go to therapy in this week’s episode, but it wasn’t as memorable as I’d imagined. The build-up was more interesting. In fact, that part of the process...
View ArticleRHONJ: A birthday and two new girlfriends
Sadly, ”The Real Housewives of New Jersey” is just not as interesting unless one of the adults is behaving badly. This week’s episode was a case in point. It began with the sixth birthday party for...
View ArticleReal Housewives recap: Beatstock, btk, bratty kids and boys being…well…gross
I am stepping in for Virginia Rohan this week, spending Sunday night with the “Real Housewives of New Jersey” and recapping the drama so you can spend the last moments of your weekend doing something...
View ArticleReal Housewives of New Jersey recap: Beatstock, baked goods, and a prediction
Wading through all the contrivances and ridiculousness that “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” has become, we got one memorable moment of true reality in Sunday night’s episode: when Caroline Manzo...
View ArticleReal Housewives of New Jersey recap: Nonsense in Napa
At the tail end of last August, most of us were worrying about downed trees, lost power or flooded basements. But “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” gang had a different problem: How were they gonna...
View ArticleReal Housewives of New Jersey recap: THE phone call
Hi everyone, this is actually Elisa Ung, defecting from the Second Helpings blog for the night to fill in for Virginia Rohan. Do not miss this fascinating piece Virginia wrote for today’s paper about...
View ArticleReal Housewives of New Jersey reunion, Part 3: Lots of stupid stuff
Another hour of our lives that we’ll never get back, and what have we learned? Joe Gorga worked as a Chippendale’s dancer in college (college?) and sister Teresa found out when she discovered a...
View ArticleThe Real Housewives of New Jersey recap
So many minutes, so few interesting things to fill the airtime. Week three of the retreat at Lake George saw Dr. V. achieving the impossible: Getting the Gorgas and the Giudices to kiss and make up....
View ArticleThe Real Housewives of New Jersey recap
In real life, Teresa and Joe Giudice are facing some serious legal problems. On TV Sunday night, in scenes filmed months ago, they’re having a mostly sweet make-up dinner with her brother and...
View Article“RHONJ” recap: Tummy tucks and Zio talks
There are some things I wish I could forget ever having seen. One of them was the two patches of flesh (and some underlying fat) that a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon removed from Jacqueline Laurita’s...
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