We start tonight with everyone headed to the final all cast fashion show. Dolores is not among the group of women pissed off at Jacqueline. Jacqueline feels like Dolores set her up to make it look like she didn’t go to her ladies night at the event. It seems that the event that started the rumors that Jac was refusing to film? Oddly next week on the reunion, Teresa will accuse Jac (and Caroline) of setting her up to be a felon in prison.
Melissa is very nervous because it is her first fashion show and she doesn’t know what she is doing. It’s a large fashion show and has an actual runway and plenty of Bravo production help with the chairs and signage. It already looks way more professional that the usual Posche Fashion show with people eating dinner while models wander aimlessly in boring outfits. Teresa arrives early to give helpful advice like telling one of the models to “use more lip.” I’m not sure that suggestion is as well suited to this situation as perhaps it was on previous occasions when Teresa may have heard it. Meanwhile, we see a “sick” Jac refusing to speak on camera and writing notes to Chris.
In a highly staged scene, Joe asks Teresa who is coming to the fashion show. Because, you know, he would never have discussed this matter with his wife who is in charge of the event, He asks specifically about Jac. This give Teresa a chance to let us know, she wants nothing to do with Jac. She seems highly offended that Jac called her a criminal. Perhaps felon would have been better received? Or thief? Teresa says Jac is a disgusting person (takes one to know one) who plants bombs and waits for them to go off. She’s like Osama Bin Laden. I wonder who wrote that line for Tre. Teresa says, “She’s calling me a criminal? I think she’s the criminal.”
Next we see the line to check in for the fashion show. Who has to check in to a fashion show? People on a reality show who have to sign releases and no disclosures and get their phones taken away from them, that’s who. Showing that is just ridiculous. According to Vicki Hyman of NJ.Com, “The event was open to the public, but tickets were $85.39 for standing-room only to $370.24 for the VIP experience, which included a front row seat, a photo with “Real Housewives” stars, an open bar, dinner and gift bag.”
Rich and Kathy show up. This should be interesting. Teresa greets them awkwardly but goes through with the usual pleasantries. Dolores and Siggy rush in to scoop up Kathy because Jac has been telling Kathy that Dolores set her up. Dolores explains what really happened. Kathy says they should talk. Dolores says that she’s too angry for that right now. Teresa, realizing she is being left out of the scenes with all the people she is shunning interrupts the conversation and tells Kathy that Jac is an evil person. Teresa rushes to her next filming mark to speak to Siggy who invites her to a lunch at her house where everyone can talk out their issues with Jac. Teresa asks if she has insurance. Probably, and Bravo does too and this is an all in so we will see you there, Tre. This was a last minute lunch that was thrown together when Jac refused to come to the Envy show.
The fashion show starts of great but the timing in between costume changes is not working so there is a long pause before round two. There doesn’t seem to be anyone in charge of shoving the models into their next look. But overall it went fine. Teresa’s future rosy cheeked husband was there and got special camera time as Melissa thanked him for being her friend and her attorney. Oy Vey! Is he preparing to be Melissa and Joe’s incarceration coach next?
Next, Dolores tells Frank that she is ready to be a lot more self-sufficient. She then makes sure she is still on his life insurance policy. Frank seems to be having trouble giving up control of Dolores. They fake fight over the check Bravo paid at the end.
Teresa has her lawyer over for espresso. You know what? I really like both of my lawyers. But I don’t invite them over for cocktails. This guy is taking over Joe’s screen time for sure, and other things seem quite possible. They talk about Joe and yoga and her finances. Teresa talks about putting the house up for sale. I don’t believe her. The entire time she was in prison she did everything she could to keep that house. Teresa shows off her cookbook covers that she had framed. In her talking head, Teresa says she is a better person and she is proud of who she is. That was a ridiculous scene.
Siggy and Dolores cook with their mothers. Siggy says when she was a kid she stole a bunch of stuff trying to get put in Jail so that she didn’t have to move to Israel. I’m bored.
Joe makes a romantic dinner for Melissa and apologizes for talking crap about her working at the store. Joe carries her off to the bedroom to enjoy his “candy stick.”
Siggy’s lunch is not at her house like I thought I heard her say. It’s in a private room at a restaurant. The first thing she does is remove all the knives from the table. She should have nailed the table to the floor as well. Ah she says that she decided at the last-minute that the women are too volatile to be in her house. She also hired security.
On the ride over, Teresa drives the point home to Melissa that Jac is evil. She tells her not to give Jac another chance.
Jac is the first to arrive. Siggy cries. Because, Siggy. Jac is still sick. I am sick of her bulbous boobs hanging out of her red confessional dress. Dolores comes and Siggy cries. Dolores comes in and apologizes to Jac for flying off the handle. They hug it out right away.
Teresa and Melissa arrive and Jac is kind of bossy with them about her plans to talk to them one on one. Already this isn’t going well. Teresa says Jac is not calling the shots. Jac says she is today. Siggy steps in to mediate and explains that Jac wanted to speak to everyone one on one. Teresa says that everyone having to leave the room is stupid, and Jac who is now a crusader to rid the world of any sort of word that describes people of low intelligence says she doesn’t like the word. Why do people think that when people use words like stupid they are trying not to offend the recipient? That’s so retarded. SWIDT? How many emails do you reckon that will get me? Idiots. Jac calls Tre a bitch and Tre calls Jac a cunt. Apparently they like those words. Teresa says no one is going anywhere and she doesn’t want to speak to Jac one on one. Tre starts calling Jac an evil person for the millionth time. Jac picks up her bag and starts to head out and says that if Tre is too afraid to speak to her one on one she’s out. Teresa stands up. Security is now on high alert. Teresa screeches and Jac walks out of the private room. Dolores goes out to kiss Jac goodbye.
Siggy is determined to chase down Tre in the parking lot with Dolores. They take off their shoes to run after Jac. Chris drives off with Jac in the car. What a ridiculous scene. Teresa rants about Jac. She says she wanted to give her the kiss of death. She’s evil, yadda, yadda, yadda. Whatever.
Endnotes: Siggy is still hosting Friday night dinners and has stopped playing relationship expert with the others. Dolores is still running her gym and is not taking money from Frank….unless he offers. Melissa is considering expanding the store she does not own. Teresa is still doing yoga…with Danille Staub. They show the photo where she can’t even do a half lotus. Edited they actually show the one I just edited in that happened first. Jac has not spoken to Melissa or Teresa. She’s focused on the new grandbaby.
And we survived another season.
I plan to try to recap WWHL tonight with Teresa and Melissa. The drinking word should be “evil.”
‘what a ridiculous scene’ lol
it’s totes clear that Dolores doesn’t really care for Teresa. i mean Teresa didn’t even know when her “best friend of lied-odd years” is her BFF. Jac showed her disdain for Melissa and Teresa tonight. It was like she was initially sabotaging the sit down because she didn’t want to face them.
Jim Leonard was the lawyer who negotiated both Melissa’s and Kathy’s contracts when they first signed with Bravo. He has been seen on the show in past seasons as their friend.
He seems to ooze inauthenticity. He’s a housewives fame whore. I believe TT has outed him in previous posts.
He has a love affair with the camera, for sure.
Marie, one day, when you start to wonder why some words are in a different color, YOU WHOLE WORLD will change.
Oh TT that made me roar with laughter ????
That was just boring and horrible. Jac is not stable and needs to leave the show now!. Teresa is beyond words for me, she hates Jac and was horrible tonight. She needs to own her sh**, but it will never happen. Seems like she would rather stay in her expensive home than think about college tuition for her four girls. I do think she really misses Joe, that I just don’t understand at all. Hate this show, read your recaps and watch a bit. Please Bravo do not give Thersa a show.
Jack seems truly nutty. Not just for TV crazy, but really disturbed. I am also so sick of people cussing each other out as a first response to conflict. I realize a well-placed explitive has power, but it seems wrong that every little thing has these women hauling out the f bombs.
And, Teresa trying to look like the responsible parent saying she needs to start saving money for Gia’s college education. SMH, she should have put some thought into that project a few years ago!
Bankruptcy and jail might have side track that project?
The entire episode was a big ol’ snoozefest.
‘I was gonna give her the kiss of dead’. Nope. Never, ever has she read a book. Not one.
Andy called her out on “Kiss of dead” I just assumed I heard it wrong. Melissa tried to cover for her correcting him and he was like um I KNOW.
I want to send Andy a question to ask Teresa (insert evil laugh). I doubt he will but here it is…. “Teresa what do call someone who admits to mail and wire fraud, bank fraud, false statements on loan applications and bankruptcy fraud, is found guilty & spends 11 months in jail if not a Criminal? And I want an answer in a one word not excuses how it’s not your fault & everyone else is to blame…………….One word- What would you call yourself? Whoops I mean your husband, Well you know who I mean…I laugh thinking about her reaction
Whatever would her answer be? and could Melissa keep a straight face while Andy asked Teresa? We need a camera to zoom in on that for sure
Thanks for your re-cap TT I couldn’t sit though that snooze fest RHONJ finale
Your humor is always on point…..#ShadyLady….lol XOXO
Keep in mind that. Jac has a SAG card, is an actress and really needs the money. Discount half of her histrionics.
Exactly! If a convicted felon who stole $14M is rewarded with a $1M Bravo contract, why shouldn’t Jac make some $$ too? She was the ONLY cast member to speak the truth about this simian, so for that I am thankful.
I love crazy Jacqueline. Let’s see who is honest here. If you had a friend IRL like Teresa and was under tremendous stress with a special needs child and dealing with a rebellious daughter who was being threatened by one Danielle Staub, what would you do? I’d lose my mind. Then for Ms. I’ve Taken Accountability by going to camp wants to rekindle a made for tv friendship, who the hell wouldn’t be leery? To see Teresa blame Jac and Caroline for her going away next week is par for the course.
Melissa is a vapid fair weather ignorant twat whistle. Dolores poor Dolores, Teresa didn’t even know when your birthday was, please remember that next season. Siggy, ugh I just can’t. Would love to see Carolyn, Jacqueline, and Danielle on next season and watch Teresa implode. Thank TT for taking one for the team, I’m watching WWHL to see just how far up Teresa’s ass Melissa is.
I feel like I need to install a macro to change Camp to FEDERAL PRISON.
Go one better. Install a macro that changes the word “Teresa” into an emoji of a woman with way too much makeup, wearing a mink coat over a black and white horizontal stripes jump suit, with diamond studded hand and ankle cuffs, and a word bubble coming from her head that says “I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE MY FAMBLY.”
Wasn’t aware she had been in anything but Housewives?
Back between the first and second season of Real Housewives when this show was really watercooler hot Jacqueline, Teresa and Danielle all three appeared in speaking parts on an episode of Mercy on NBC. Just a useless tidbit but it’s the first thing that popped into my head when reading this comment lol.
I really can’t stand Jaqueline so it pains me to say this. She’s a paranoid lunatic, but…it was EXTREMELY weird that Dolores called her the night of the gym event asking if she was coming, just to “make her feel included” or whatever her excuse was. She’d already said she was sick and wasn’t coming – why would you call the night of, asking if she’s coming? I thought it was a bit weird watching the show and can see why Jaqueline might think it was a setup.
I was thinking that too. Why wouldn’t Dolores say something like; “Sorry you’re not here, you are missed.” or something like that. It did seems to me as if Dolores had some motive for phrasing it the way she did.
Ditto. The comment Delores made did not feel like it was meant to make Jaq feel appreciated or included. Delores also complained about and derided Jaq in the car with Siggy.
The editing sucked, but I think it was hard to delete most of the scenes with Robyn and find a way to make the few scenes she appeared in make sense. Furthermore, Jaq’s refusal to talk and write notes and her not appearing at the Envy fashion show made the editing choppy as well.
I don’t see how the show can continue. Joe is gone at a minimum of 41 months. I agree with Yoya that Jaq is a paranoid lunatic. Chris enables her. Jaq isn’t really friends with anyone, just Chris. Same with Teresa and Melissa. Their only friends are their husbands and parents. The show has nowhere to go. Time to put it to bed.
I’m still baffled why anyone would think it’s smart or in Tre’s best interest to admit anything on national tv. Whether guilty or not it just seems assisine that anyone would get angry because she will not do this. Jac is dumb. Like really, really dumb. Plus she’s psycho too. Listening to her husband condone her psychotic behavior is even worst. Jac & Chris are heated that Melissa & Joe are now getting along with Tre. Siggy is useless & the crying is annoying. Would love to see Danielle back but Wacko Jaco would implode.
I’m not sure that “Admitting” to her crimes is what people want Rolly (I could be wrong) She was found guilty! & still CANNOT “acknowledge” any wrong doing of any kind! That’s what pisses me off & She says she is not a criminal WTF?
Rolly, SHE TOOK A PLEA DEAL AND ADMITTED GUILT AND SERVED FEDERAL PRISON TIME. That whole, “don’t admit to anything” is BEFORE your court appearance.
Whether guilty or not? Are you new? I have laborious laid out her FORTY ONE FELONIES AND HOW SHE PERSONALLY (not Joe, Teresa) committed them.
WHICH SHE ADMITTED TO.
This is my point though. Common knowledge & public records indicate Tre is as guilty as sin. Why would a so called “BFF” keep bringing it up, talking & slandering her with her own family members while blurring it out in public? I’d pay Wacky Jac in dust too. So what she won’t acknowledge what’s true. Bet she won’t do it again & that’s more important IMO.
How is it slander if it’s true?
Worst season ever. Would like to see RHONJ without Teresa and Melissa. A Caroline, Lauren, Jac, Siggy, Delores, Kathy, Rosie, and maybe one more new person show would be much better. The HW’s shows have become toooooo much. Too much shit stirring for camera time.
Add me to the list of people who would love for this to happen. Caroline has always said she’d never return but the last time she was on Watch What Happens and Andy asked her she said it would depend on who else is there. I’d love to see Bravo finally say enough of the delusional felon and drop Teresa (and Melissa) and have a new season featuring Caroline, Jacqueline, Delores, Figgy and Kathy/Rosie. Make it a fun season and see what happens with the ratings. Bravo would never do it because for some reason they think that there is no show without Teresa but they seem to forget that last season (which was the first without Caroline, Jacqueline (and Kathy/Rosie) was a extremely low rated shit show. A season that was so focused on Teresa and so low rated that not even the return of Dina could grab ratings. They ended up bringing Jacqueline and Kathy/Rosie back midway through the season to boost ratings and interest was still so low that the season was shortened and ended early.
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Jac acting like she is “holding court” at the restaurant was insane. Anyone would be mad. The reason Jac didn’t have her say in VT was because she was screaming and all over the place. Funny how security left after Jac exited. Did she flip the bird at Dolores and Ziggy as she was driving away? Jac needs to understand that no one gives a shit about her feelings. It was an odd way to end the season and hope Jac is gone.
Once more thanks TT for taking one for the team. I have exhausted my patience for Teresa and can read recaps . Teresa is soo annoying & pompouse.
The only thing that’s going to be interesting about this season is the reunion. Andy’s gonna be throwing invisible shade like it’s going out of style. Someone said will Melissa be able to keep a straight face. What about Andy? He should be a pro poker player.
I blame the producers/editing for this jumbled mess. Was there others at the lunch? I just didnt get Jac saying she didn’t want to talk with “all of them” a few times. She’s a mess.
Isn’t Dolores a long time friend of Caroline Manzo?
Yes, she’s a very good friend Caroline’s, longer than she’s been friends with either Jacqueline or Teresa. I think if she’d agree to stick around next season and Bravo would agree to dump Teresa Caroline would come back.
I’d like to see Caroline, Dolores, Jacqueline, Kathy, Rosie and a random idiot.
From your lips to Bravo’s ears.
I totally agree, but Kathy’s husband grosses me out so much.
Cathy Rosie the hubs. All sorta gross me out. Joey Melissa. Maybe I need to stop watching?!? Ekk I’m an NYC BH girl but watch these in between seasons……….. I think I need to cut cold turkey. They are all getting boring and thrashy. All of them. So sad.
I’m sure you are probably watching Manzo’d With Children TT and saw Delores at an event with Caroline. She had shorter hair in an older hair style . And she was actually dressed more like a housewife. It was nice to she her looking more normal and not like she’s going to a photo shoot. Which is how most all of the housewives look most of the time.
The Jersey wives are really tacky. Delores is so over the top plastic looking and when my husband saw Siggy, he recoiled in horror
Thanks for the recap, TT. When I saw Siggy and Dolores running through the parking lot with their shoes in their hands in a preview, I decided not to watch.
Yes, chasing that nut job, barefoot, screaming out her name was pathetic at best. She just blew up the “sit down” before it even started.
OMG. Stop with the “41 counts”already!!
That was overkill by the Feds. She pled to 5 counts not 41 and served her time. More than any CEO of banks who were never charged by the FEDS because they are in bed with the President and all the politicians (2008 downfall of our economy) see academy award documentary “Inside Job.” She has been vilified enough already and maybe people should be as outraged over Hilary Clinton and all her pay to play crimes ! Perspective people.
Madashell, grown folks are talking here. Please have a seat.
Do I detect a hole in the fence?
A big hole apparently Cat !!!
Not sure how we can compare Tre with Hillary? Put the pipe (just kidding) down Madashell but we are talking about a reality show that is partly based on some participants attending camp for periods of time and returning with a yoga mat permanently attached to their arse 🙂
Thanks for the recap TT, this show jumped the shark and was eaten by it this season. I now officially hate this franchise. Just yuck.
YUCK! I will probably watch the reunion, but then no more! I wish they would all understand that the bigger the boob job, the FATTER they look! I can say that because I have recently become fat from pizza and beer–I blame my beloved Chicago Cubs! HAppy Hallowe’en, everybody! ?
So true about the boobs❗️
Oh Chris, of the hollow glazed look and the flatly intoned defense of Jac. I guess he’s sold his soul to Bravo and become the sacrificial Stepford Husband. His own fault, but he used to seem like such an affable guy, I feel bad for him. A little bad. Not that much, though. A smidge.