I really don’t understand the RHONJ Bravo Blogs this week. The twins seem to be mad a Teresa and Amber. This seems off to me. They didn’t ask Victoria Gotti to tell them the crazy rumor about Rino and his mother- in-law. I had trouble understanding Nicole’s blog at all. I’m posting an excerpt from Teresa Aprea’s blog below. As of now at least, Teresa and Amber are keeping the rumor fairly quiet. Teresa told Dina and Amber told Jim, but I don’t think that was necessarily wrong. Now when Jim just blurts it out on the trip in front of the whole group, that is outrageous.
Am I just looking at this wrong? Please explain to me the basis of Teresa bring mad at Teresa and Amber. 
So although we met at Dina’s home as a preliminary meeting for the fundraiser, the subtext of this episode was the private conversation that took place between Amber and Teresa Giudice. Anyone who attended Victoria’s house that day knew there was going to be more lies to follow. At that time the idea of going to Florida for some R&R, especially for Teresa Giudice who was going through so much, seemed like a good idea. However, if I had known that Teresa Giudice and Amber met with Victoria previously and listened to lies about my mother, I would never have considered going to Florida with either of them. It appears the real purpose of the Florida trip was to ambush me and my sister. Obviously this would be revealed at some point and you’ll see how it plays out. I would expect something like this from the Marcheses, not from Teresa Giudice, because I did nothing to hurt her or her family. She was my friend and I considered her a good one. My entire family has done nothing but love and pray for the Giudices. As you have seen, Rino has expressed such compassion and stood be their side from day one. But now I sadly see that there was an agenda to hurt my family with all these disgusting lies. Some people will say and do anything to get attention and be in the spotlight.
Especially interesting how Teresa Giudice responded to Amber on this episode by saying she has enough on her plate with her own problems, when it was Teresa who brought Victoria around to spread these lies for the world to hear. What kind of person does this? I signed up for this show not my mother. There used to be a line of respect when it comes to parents and children. I guess these types of people don’t live by those standards with which I was raised.
Yeah, I think her anger is misdirected. How is it that she is not mad at Victoria for bringing it up?
If you think the mafia isn’t a threat to ones personal safety, honey, you are living in a fairyland. Many of Victoria’s family members are either in jail or have done significant time including her father, ex husband, and at least one brother. I don’t care how mad you get with her – it’s madness to go after her.
Then why say anything ? Why dispute it? Wouldn’t fear of the mob dictate that they not call out a lie?
Yeah! And Teresa didn’t BRING Victoria in to tell the lies for the world to hear, Victoria told them the story without being asked. And what were Amber an Teresa to do? Get up and run out of the chile’s house holding their ears, saying la-la-la-la? Be real. Teressa is just mad cuz the tea got poured.
From what she’s saying in the last paragraph it seems Teresa Aprea believes Teresa Guidice brought Victoria Gotti on purposely to talk about the rumor.
Hmmm……what better way to divert attention from your legal problems than to wreak havoc with the rumor to end all rumors about a castmate’s family. Production loves it because it’s a juicy outrageous rumor. Teresa G. delivers the drama and gets to remain valuable to production while minimizing the spotlight’s direction on her.
I was actually thinking the same thing as you! Plus maybe there is something that hasn’t aired yet…
I don’t know. Teresa and Amber both looked genuinely surprised to me. Bravo obviously set this up, but I think even the producers know allowing certain things to play out with real reactions on camera is best for the show.
Um, Amber is a horrible actress. I disagree. Teresa would look shocked if someone told her that the sky is blue.
I still don’t believe Teresa is the person she should be mad at. I think she was really caught off guard when she said it. It definitely is a good diversion. It is a sucky storyline.
I think the reason TeRessa/Nicole was angry with Teresa and Amber is because she expected them to immediately say something to Victoria Gotti at the time the rumor was first told. At least that’s what a friend would do. It wasn’t Amber’s place, as a stranger, to quell what Victoria said, but since Teresa implies that she and Victoria are established friends, Teresa could have said “Oh that’s nonsense, Victoria”, and that would have put an end to it. But Teresa went further in her talking head piece by saying that it could be true, and that stuff like that happens in families.
For the TeRessa/Nicole unit to be angry at Amber or even Jim, for that matter, seems a bit misplaced.
In my musings over this, I think Victoria learned that Nicole/TeRessa were coming on to the series this season and probably contacted one of the producers at Bravo and told them she had a good story to tell about the new people and of course Bravo was not going to pass that up. I don’t think Teresa Giudice was aware of it beforehand, Producers may have alerted Teresa that Victoria was stopping by the signing event that evening and let Victoria take it from there.
Teresa really should not have mentioned it to Dina at all. Certainly that was not nice.
The twins have every right to be angry at Teresa. She was the one who gave Victoria the platform to spread the rumor. If she knew prior, it was cruel on her part to go after the twins and their mother. If she didn’t know then Victoria Gotti is an evil bitch willing to walk across Tre’s corpse in order to get 15 additional minutes.
One thing for sure is that BRAVO knew VictoriaG was coming with the fire. She was going to give them something and not just encouragement to Tre like she did last year. Been there done that! They mic’d her for the liquor store and set up at her house.
She managed to slay Rino, the wife and MIL while making herself out to be the femme fatale who spurned Rino’s romantic advances. Big moves for a 70 yr old.
yes, yes and yes.
Yea my mom was mad at Teresa too after viewing this episode, saying Teresa keeps bringing these old women on the show to destroy people
Just like she brought the strip club manager and his wife to try and destroy Melissa. Good point. Teresa uses her position on the show to bring on attention- starved nobodies to do her dirty work for her.
I think when something that vile is brought up the natural inclination is to lash out at anyone who is associated. From reading her blog is seems like the source of her frustration with Theresa is that she tried to be respectful about Theresa’s issues and doesn’t feel like she got the same kind of loyalty in return. As for Amber, who knows – that girl is a special kind of crazy – but I think she considered her a (Bravo) “friend”. Remember, she (or her sister – I can’t keep them straight) did lash out at Victoria in her 1st blog & we were all wondering who she meant & why. Having said all that — it may be complete bullshit. These women are indescribably bat shit crazy & trying to figure out what is going on in their minds is complete insanity in and of itself…..
OMG I can’t believe I’m actually taking up for Teresa Giudice. This is such a bizarre feeling but here goes. I don’t think Teresa really knew that Victoria Gotti was going to tell the story about Rino and his mother-in-law. She isn’t a good actress and she truly looked shocked when she heard it. I don’t think it had ever come up in conversation between the two of them before. Why should it until the twins became a part if the show? TeRessa blames them for listening to lies. How did they know what they were going to be listening to because neither one of them is psychic? Hell, they are both dumber than a box of hair. Nobody wants to confront the person who put the story out there for whatever reason. When Teresa G. said she had enough on her plate, that sure sounds to me like she wasn’t going to do anything with the info but pretend she never heard it as long as possible.
I got sent to the moderation corner again. I’m starting to feel paranoid. Where’s my Valium?
Try not to feel alienated. Word Press stopped sending me email notifications when there is a new post , a long time ago. And I used to get tossed into moderation once in a while for good measure. Maybe it’s to keep us on our toes. 😉
I agree. It pains me to stick up for Teresa but I do think Victoria’s story was a total shock to her. I do think she and Amber are culpable for not mentioning it to the twins afterwards though. Since Victoria spewed filth on camera, they should had the decency to give Twin Whoever (I can’t be bothered to remember who is who. With those twits, who cares) a heads up. I can’t imagine a worse piece of gossip and I can’t believe Bravo aired it.
Teresa did the EXACT thing that Amber did when she told Melissa about the “breaking up a family” thing. And this story is even worse. If they were pissed at Amber before, they HAVE to be pissed at Teresa now.
This.
Wtf? How did Teresa do the exact same thing Amber did? That doesn’t make any sense at all.
1) Amber took something she heard/made up long before filming, and randomly told Melissa while driving and twirling her Addams family It hair. Melissa, when angry at Amber, told the twins so they can ‘defend themselves’
2) Teresa was told a rumor, by another person that we ALL saw. Teresa said she didn’t know what to do with the information, and doesn’t want to do anything with it. So far she’s talked about that concept with Amber and subsequentially Dina. Unless she uses that information against teRESSA because she pisses her off then they aren’t even remotely similar.
Maybe I’m missing something but those situations are completely different, much less EXACT.
You’re retarded.
…right, well, that’s embarrassing.
So much for the art of rebuttal when one believes what they said is the correct stance.
My son learned the weightlessness and immatuity marked by using the word “retarded” when he got a demerit for it in the third grade. Jesus, I should have written that lady a thank you letter.
I’m on Psylocke’s side with this.
I think TeeCee is retarded.
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Tre says she didn’t know what to do with the info yet what she DID was gossip and spread it to another cast mate similarly to how Amber spread gossip to Melissa (whether made up or not doesn’t matter).
That being said, I don’t think Amber or Tre were wrong for sharing gossip as neither looked to be done in a malicious way. The twins are loony and have been looking for a fight since day 1.
This move by Tre was genius! TeResa should be mad at her. She’s mad at Amber well, because it’s easy.
TT, what did I tell you at the beginning of the season? That it would boil down to Twins/Melissa vs Amber/Tre/Dina with Melissa as a floater. That’s exactly what it’s looking to be. ^_^
All those women are crazy. I would look hard at the Bravo shot stirring and realize my mother and husband would not do such a thing. The best way to kill the rumor is ignore it. Teresa G. should STFU and realize she will need all her friends, and Amber should stick to the subject she knows, The Cancer.
Well, the two broke girls don’t have two brain cells to rub together between the two of them. They’re not dumb enough to go for V. Gotti, so they’ve set their targets on whoever else was around, whether it makes any sense or not. I mean, they were talking about suing Jim Marchese. Whaaa?
On the other hand, as another poster pointed out, Teresa does not have Kim D., ultimate hearer of rumors and gossip, to do her dirty work for her this season. Maybe she knew what V. Gotti was going to say and brought Amber along, knowing she would not be able to help herself from spreading what she’d heard.
Also Victoria knows a lot about Rino and possibly that family and they know (along with the mafia thing) not to go after her. Also what mother would do that to their daughter and have sex with the daughters husband? Santa isn’t such an angel as she tries to portray. And your right, they are broke girls if you heard the rumors Bobby the son of the Billionaire met Nicole during the casting and they decided to have this relationship as a story (they have only been dating for months and he’s not into her at all, in fact I bet anything that Amber his “friend” would leave her husband in a minute to get at Bobby’s money). Rino tries to make himself out to be a mobster and the real ones don’t like that.
lol someone believes everything they read on the cocktail weenie’s twatter.
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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I could totally understand why she’s angry at Teresa – though I’m sure this is also stemming from footage we’ve yet to see.
Teresa was the one that brought Victoria on the show period. They literally drove to her house, had a 5 minute sit down in her kitchen just to tell that nastiness, and then left. It doesn’t even need to be said that Victoria was brought on to bring drama – the only question is if Teresa knew beforehand what she was going to say, or at least who knew in particular it was going to be about.
I imagine if that was my mother, just to see someone continuously talking about it what be angering. Regardless if Teresa is the one who eventually brought it up in the group or not, she had entire scenes centered around talking about it with Amber like 10 feet away from the rest of the girls and acting all coy about what they were discussing, and then later with Dina. All of that is just guaranteed camera time, on national tv, talking about your husband boinking your mother.
She keeps saying she’s not going to bring it up, has to much on her plate, etc. as a buffer so when push comes to shove she can be like “it’s not my fault I heard it, it’s not like I brought it up in mmmm
Clearly they aren’t “friends” beyond the show, much less “good friends” – I don’t think Teresa would have stooped to entertain that rumor if it were about Dina or someone she was actually friends with. Or at least a normal person wouldn’t….so who knows, she actually probably would.
This is the first season without Kim D. I much prefer her to be the bearer of all things gossip than Victoria.
I was actually happy we weren’t going to have to endure another lame Kim D. Fashion show fiasco! Haha…now I regret thinking that! Now stories are going around that Bravo has added more episodes well into October. Guess who’s Fashion Show is coming up!? LoL…only guessing if the added episodes thing is true, that it has more to do with outside interest/drama…what do I know. All I can do is speculate! ☺
Victoria needs to take a time out and get her weave together. I agree, we need Kim D back for this sort of thing. Although I hate those fashion shows.
Kim D is a horror show.
I’ve always thought Tre and Joe got their shameless nerve to do what they did to go to jail because they hang around the likes of Vict. Gotti. She’s not worth spelling her whole name out. This mentality think they are above the law somehow and so many in their circle have probably get away with exactly their crimes on a regular basis. There seems to be some kind of honor code amongst these people that crosses the line. Not stealing or anything illegal, but lying about one of them is forbidden. Could get you cut. I wouldn’t play in the same sandbox as these people. Those twins never seem to have logical reactions. They seem overly self-important, but I think they all think that way about themselves.
TeRESSA must think she and her sister are the only ones handed a script before shooting. It was so clear that Teresa was simply working during that scene. I am sure she could care less at this point now. Besides she’s trying to figure out just which shade of orange will become her new black.
If there was zero truth to this, I think they would only be mad at Victoria.
My biggest pet peeve about these women is that they act like they aren’t on a reality tv show that has producers that decide a lot that goes on this show. For one Teresa can’t just bring someone one the show. Hello don’t you think she would of brought of other ppl on this show if she could just bring whoever she wants. And for her to say Teresa was a good friend of hers is a joke. Teresa is her cast mate. They are forced to film with each other and they don’t see each other if they aren’t filming.
I have to completely disagree with you — even just being a viewer you know what kind of scenes they are going to put on the show and what kind they aren’t.
You bet your sweet ass they’re going to show Victoria gotti saying something like that – just like they would never pass the opportunity to show someone tripping, someone saying something incredibly embarrassing, etc.
And WTF do you even watch this show?! Teresa has brought on half a dozen people in the last year alone to say stuff on her behalf – she’s literally like the only housewife to to that – and guess what? They’ve shown it every damn time.
Tre may be dumb as a box of rocks, but she sure does know how to set people up, and I think that’s how she gets her jollies. She gets caught at it, but that doesn’t stop her from doing it again. I think she was looking to start a fire a few miles away from her, to distract from her issues. She already knew the hot gossip that Victoria was holding onto, and she decided to use that to start the fire. But she needed a patsy. So she thought “Hey, Amber!” So she and Victoria planned to bring Amber over and use her. And it worked. Amber fell for it. But the twins have seen thru it. That’s why they are mad at Tre. Anyway that’s my humble theory.
Sounds about right!
Makes absolutely no sense and is completely wrong.
I think YOUR theory is completely wrong though, I do think the same as Greenwood that Teresa brought on Gotti to divert some attention off her back
I’m with Teecee on this one. Makes no sense.
Like most of the times where Tre has had people on the show say unsavory things about others, I don’t think she knew of the details, but just that something groundbreaking would be said. Tre is a terrible actress; we can tell when she’s faking and when she’s real. #TreHugger
My thought process is that Amber and Tre knew that Victoria would drop a bomb on the show; why else would the producers want them to film together? However, they didn’t know what was going to be said in my opinion, so the twins anger does seem misplaced. They really are angry at production for making this a storyline but again they can’t break the fourth wall so just blame the ladies instead.
Fourth wall is the perfect term that’s been eluding me to describe the awkward productioness that lingers over every debacle.b
Tidbit of the day for everyone who doesn’t care: she-hulk is the only marvel comics character who breaks the fourth wall
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It happens on every show. I really wish they openly discussed production manipulation and filming obligations, it would make the shows more realistic and transparent. I mean Kandi married a show producer, and other wives have had words with prduction before. Why not just openly discuss it?
When I saw the Victoria Gotti scene I thought here we go again-she will say something awful about someone-production is not going to send a crew to film Victoria Gotti’s newly remodeled kitchen.
I don’t blame twin Teresa for being mad at felon Teresa-what she orchestrated is unforgivable. If she was so innocent in the situation she should have handled it the way Dina did-with disbelief and a little scold about talking about someone’s mother. Amber could have done the same.
Is she too scared of Victoria to call her out directly? Seems like misplaced anger.
Meh. The twins are boring to me. Maybe they just want to pull themselves out of the background and into the spotlight for a bit?
Who’s idea was it for Teresa and Amber to visit Victoria? Was it Teresa’s? Or Bravo production’s idea?
Looking forward to the Florida fiasco.
Even with the Rino/Santa “scandal” the show is horrible! Bringing back Jac, just to mostly film with Kathy is NOT going to help. Cameo appearances by Victoria Gotti are a waste of time. This season is a bust. Nobody cares about cancer girl, or melissa and her dream shack! I am actually looking forward to the Manzo’s show.
Ok, mini b*tch session over.
I agree Melissa. There really isn’t a storyline except for the felons preparing for jail. And Juicy isn’t playing along with that and Teresa has her full on mask of everything is perfectly normal, nothing to see here. The only breakdown we are seeing is their kids. Which is said. Gia looks like she has been crying for days in every scene. bless her heart.
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Yes, Gia breaks my heart. I’m sure it’s been drilled in her head to not talk about it with anyone, so she probably has no outlet.
I’ve wished for the last couple of seasons they would scrap all of cities and start anew OR start the farewell process. Well, maybe not scrap Atlanta.
They actually are starting the farewell tour on RHOA this season. It’s going to be ridiculous hard to edit because everyone is going in opposite directions Phaedra filmed alone in the house AGAIN today.
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Oh wow TT, so the end is near. How long, in your opinion, will it take for the other franchises? I could be wrong, but, I thought Atlanta did well in the ratings? Oh and do you have any scoop on whether Phaedra is going to be full time or part time?
I heard full time, but I swear, she is taping from the house in exile. It’s been like four times since Apollo went to college.
BTW, I think I tweeted this fun fact the other night when I was up worrying about Banjo that it took the film crew TWO HOURS to film Phaedra getting on the black bus to go to Savannah last season FROM HER HOUSE.
But if you remember, on the show they made it seem like everyone drove to “Nene’s Party” separately… and everyone except Kenya was late….
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Also it seemed like the trip to Savannah took forever. Nope, it was the filming before leaving they kept redoing. EVERYONE was picked up in the black party bus from their house.
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Oh wow! I do remember that! Didn’t Greg stand outside by the curb to give them flowers or something?
I wish they wouldn’t make these things so contrived, like we don’t know about all the set ups. It’s not like we would stop watching.
I agree, too. The only thing that interests me at this point is watching how production works.
Cat, I would LOVE to read an in-depth journalistic explanation of exactly how production teams rule these “characters” in this particular franchise.
All franchises, season after season have the same formula: gossipfest lunches, gossip-fest “trips,” gossipfest dinner parties, gossipfest/catfight gala/event grand finale, all filled in by gossipfest side journeys to boutiques, plastic surgery offices, gyms. Everything appears to be a total producer setup in order to follow this blueprint.
Seems like the explanation in a nutshell. The only thing you left out is how many times they replay the same scenes over and over which is why they almost never eat at any of the dinners until filming is all but done.
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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Yes I see they won’t say Victoria Gotti is lying and mad at her. Amber didn’t know her she was scared to go to her house in Sandals in the snow!! She is a idiot!!
I know I’m late to the party and i have not read the comments yet but I’m on the bus so I decided to add my 2 cents … Ummmm me no think that thEresa wrote this blog . She doesn’t know some of those words.
My answer to your question is maybe ( and I’m trying to think in retard) Threhsa thinks that Theresa and Victora planned the whole converation for the cameras ??? Me no no but that’s what I think .
I too am confused as to why Theresa would want to set the twins up . It sounds like something Theresa would of said before her jail troubles
Are you on the bus to see me?????? Do I need to do laundry???? 🙂
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Tamara Tattles wrote:
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