This is only episode two of this season and tonight battle lines will be drawn that will remain in place for the rest of the season. Siggy is FURIOUS that Teresa tossed the birthday cake. Even though the whole cake throwing nonsense has become a staple of all the Bravo shows. Especially, Shahs where no one on that show has ever been allowed to actually eat the cake. Siggy is actually, really pissed and will remain pissed for the entire season.
I’m over the new trend of the housewives calling their husbands to tell them about the fight they were just in. Now we have Frank, who isn’t even a husband having his own scene with Frankie. We have enough going on with the actual cast without all of these filler scenes.
Everyone except Siggy and Dolores head to the beach for yoga the next day. Teresa is the instructor. Siggy and Dolores go to a juice bar. Siggy is worried that the girls will behave badly when she takes them to her friend’s house later in the day.
At the beach they have a ceremony for Teresa’s mother. I can’t with that. Life is depressing enough without attending a funeral for someone I don’t even know. For some reason Margaret bought a wreath to set out to sea. Does Margaret even know Teresa? As I am typing that she says she just met Teresa 36 hours ago. I’ve got to fast forward through this now.
Finally, everyone comes together in the van to go to Siggy’s friend’s house. Siggy was expecting an apology. What she got instead was a van ride in awkward silence. Before going into the house, Siggy asks everyone to please behave themselves and be respectful. Now everyone is pissed and no one really wants to be there. The house is gorgeous and the outdoor space is amazing. They have a lovely tennis court and pool. Laura hired a lifeguard for the pool because Teresa can’t swim. She also hired a tennis instructor to give the ladies lessons. But first they have a champagne lunch. Danielle tells the hostess about Margaret’s lovely gesture to Teresa. This is the first Siggy is hearing of this and she is not please at all. Siggy is mad that Margaret didn’t call her so that she and Dolores could have been there. Dolores is pissed too.
Teresa and Melissa and Danielle are loving the swim lessons from the lifeguard. Teresa got the lesson but the other two found watching the lesson to be quite enjoyable.
After tennis and swimming, the two warring factions trash talk the others. Dinner will be at Siggy’s house so she and Dolores go there to set up while the other ladies go back to the hotel to clean up and get ready for dinner.
I find it amusing that Teresa, Melissa and Danielle are offended that Siggy pointed out she has a higher IQ than they do. The moment that you enter Siggy’s house you are treated to an arrangement of a dozen or more photos on the wall. They are all of Siggy.
I keep forgetting to recap. There is not much to say. Siggy hired Sexz Chef to cater some crab cakes. Nothing says keep it clazzy like Sexz Chef.
No one is talking at dinner. Siggy says that she can’t take the fact that people are not even addressing what happened. Someone tells her they are just trying to be polite. Siggy says that she cannot believe they did not apologize to her today. The laugh and are shocked that she feels she is owed an apology. I really hope there is no cake for dessert. Siggy denies saying all of the things she said. Margaret who is only in the group through Siggy has completely turned on her and calls her Soggy, because she cries over everything. Now I really can’t pick a side with this crazy, but Margaret is in Siggy’s home. Siggy was her entry ticket to the group and within three days she is going to just turn on her completely? That’s some lowdown behavior even for this bunch. Then Siggy calls them all trash again. I think I might have to be team Siggy on this one. Melissa and Danielle take special offense to being called trash. Melissa tells up that there are two thing you can’t call Jersey girls and that is stupid and trash.
Melissa storms out and Teresa says that no one calls her and her sister-in-law trash so she’s leaving too. Siggy offers a doggie bag and Teresa says she doesn’t want her fucking food and the crab cake was salty. The crab cake is not the only salty thing in this room. Everyone leaves except Dolores and the lines have been drawn.
Siggy is starving and Sexz Chef has the entrée ready. It’s dinner for two. Next week seems to be even more nonsensical fighting about the lack of common decency and basic decorum with these women.
I just want to point something out.
Siggy keeps repeating that she knows everyone in town and was mortified that they threw the cake in her town.
I live in Fort Lauderdale and work in Boca Raton two days every week. I literally work across the street from the juice bar and down the street from the Boca Raton Resort where they had the yoga (The Beach Club).
Boca Raton is a small town.
The cake throwing episode took place at Shooters Restaurant in Fort Lauderdale which is more than 40 minutes south of Boca. It is also a struggling restaurant (my good friend is a manager there) so most likely empty.
No way Siggy knew anyone in the restaurant. People from Boca stay in Boca.
Oh, well done, Nancy Drew! That’s super-significant information.
No sarcasm there – I meant it!
Thank you! This episode was making me nuts!
I don’t have tv thank go so I live on Tameras recaps..
I’m team siggy on this one.. I think that Tré and Melissa and Danielle are being low class. There are certIan things you should and should do. If you are at home and wish to throw cake haave at it. But at any establishment its low class. As she said Trashy.. Their New Jersey side is showing.(add snotty thoughts)
I think at the least they could have choked out a fake apology to Dolores and siggy. Instead of being stuck up each others asses.
I also think Margrett (sp) is a snake. Who does that. To a “friend”, who helped get her where she is.
However, I think the gesture from her to Tré regarding the wreath was a nice ice breaker for the group to warm up to her. She should have included the others too since they have known Tre for so long.
I think there is too much miscommunication here. And its only going to get worse.
(Also if you type siggy it auto corrected to soggy. Thought that was funny)
Also as far as Shas not eating cake, I think MJ has eaten enough!! Snicker.. Much like myself.
I need to lose some weight so I can start calling people fat again. There’s no point in being a cunt if it’s ironic. *sigh*
Mark, this made me nearly spit out my coffee. Meow. And reason #3897 to lose the pounds! 😉
omg this was hilarious
Siggy and Dolores did not respond to a group text that morning about going to the beach. It’s their own fault that they were not there. Siggy calling them trash and talking about her IQ being higher sorta negates the cake throwing. It seems like and even match to me.
I agree, they chose not to go!
Agreed! I couldn’t believe that they were upset with Margaret over missing an event that THEY CHOSE not to go to. It’s not that I am completely against Siggy and Dolores, but their hollier than thou attitude on this trip is ridiculous. They see nothing wrong with Siggy’s behavior and everything wrong with everyone else…
Siggy has some kind of point, but 1. she was acting like a maniac herself and 2. she’s making way too big of a deal about it!
Nice info, JoJo! It makes me crazy when Bravo does that kind of crap. I go nuts when they show the Big Peach on every episode of RHOA…it is no where near Atlanta! Hell, it is not even in Georgia…it is in Gaffney, South Carolina!
Shooters is not 40 minutes from Boca. It is 20 minutes. Shooters is not a struggling restaurant and in fact is always packed. It is famous amongst yacht owner who love to dock and dine. It is very difficult to get a seat outside even with reservations. Also, Boca residents love to go to Fort Lauderdale for their infamous beautiful restaurants and bars on the intercoastal.
By the way this is the same restaurant that Theresa had her book signing in January 2017 at the convention room next door named The Grateful Palate… same owners. I attended this book signing and it was wonderful as was Theresa.
Hope this helps everyone understand why this episode was filmed at this restaurant. It is Stunning as are the housives of New Jersey.
No honey, Shooters is 40 minutes in good traffic.
Yes, Teresa throwing the cake was inappropriate but like she said it was a release to let go and have some fun. She spent three months sleeping every other night in a hospital – draining. If Ziggy was such a relationship expert she would have understood this. Yes, shouting her entrance in a restaurant and dumping wine on a table soiling people’s clothes is high class. I thought it was thoughtful of Margaret (maybe Bravo) to have the wreath ceremony. Ziggy and Delores were being childish not answering the text to go to the beach. I see Ziggy is another Kim Z having photos of herself everywhere. Siggy is perfect. I like Margaret.
Soggy is perfect.
Excellent recap. Siggy is annoying and takes herself too seriously. Last weeks restaurant scene was obviously staged and stocked with people she knew. Siggs is impossible and I’m already over her this season.
I was over her 10 minutes into the first episode. She’s still got “love to hate” status for me though.
I get why Siggy would be upset about the cake getting destroyed. She went to some effort to personalize it for Melissa with the Envy wallpaper.
I think the reason she is so upset is that she feels underappreciated and since she has a bit of an ego, she just cannot let it go!
You should be her spokesperson. I say that without an ounce of snark, because you explained that better than she did.
I didn’t watch last season and have made it through these past two episodes and so far I’m team everybody except Siggy and Delores.
The cake throwing was not a big deal.
I don’t think Margaret is being dirty to Siggy or turning on her, she simply doesn’t agree with Siggy on this cake gate issue. I hate when people like Siggy accuse every one who doesn’t agree with them of “not getting it”.
I am confused.
Siggy is mad about the cake, but screamed her head off in one restaurant and dumped her glass of wine in a fit of glee on the table on purpose in the other. At least Theresa and Melissa have the emotional stress of losing Mama Gorga. What is her excuse? Sorry, but Siggy is the biggest drama queen. I just cannot.
If this is the primary arc for the season, they should stop showing it now. We don’t need to see another episode.
They are each wrong, making poor choices and reflecting bad manners. The show continues to take its toll on people. In this case, Siggy has a far overinflated ego , the product of one season when she received a good edit, and has no idea what it is like to be on the receiving end of criticism, before a nationwide TV audience. She will hopefully grow from it now. There is ZERO evidence that she has any ability to be involved in counseling interpersonal relationships, since she has the audacity to suggest her IQ is higher than that of others in the room. If it was, she would never say so – she shows neither the intelligence she proclaims nor the skills in relationships. None of this would be happening if those little claims were true.
Beyond that, Siggy was a boor at the restaurant the first episode and made an idiot of herself. Pouring wine was less obvious but also lacking grace and discretion , Of course throwing the cake, when someone went to so much effort to have it made , was thoughtless fun fueled by booze, but should be thought of in that light. I know I would be offended if I went to the trouble and expense to plan it and
felt it wasn’t appreciated too. But Siggy continued to exaggerate all of it by demanding an apology and making multiple scenes about it, drawing others into it to further her point of view.
It would have been nice for Margaret to let Siggy know about her plans, but when they didn’t reply to her text, that is on them to some degree as well.
They should all admit they were not at their best and move on. Siggy appears to be extremely interested in showing the viewing public just how special she is on every level, and no one but her is impressed. She is trying way too hard, and is missing the point- she needs to consider the context.
I would be embarrassed beyond words to have any of these things play out as they did on the show in my life, and none of them would – but that’s the point- it’s not our lives. It is theirs.
This is New Jersey -they are striving to find a new direction, and this one is a complete and utter bust. There is no way it will holdup an entire season. Stop and try something else. Please- or this is the last season, like a number of the other series.
I think its just wrong to throw food/drinks/tables/chairs in a restaurant. These woman are not anyone I would want as a friend and I sure dont envy their lifestyles. The show needs some drama but its completely jumped the shark. I think its time to end the all of the current (except NY maybe) Housewives and recast. They can do “where are they now” updates every couple of years (like 3 part show for each city) if there is any interest. In fact I wish they would do that now with Miami and DC and some the gals from other franchises.
I’m glad to read the recaps but not willing to waste my time on the shows.
Somebody said that when a housewife suddenly acts all cranky like Siggy did, they are probably having problems at home.
Siggy said it best when she said everyone was crawling up Teresa’s ass. It cost Jacqueline her spot for calling out the obvious. Something about anyone taking attention or having problems that do not concern Teresa is not allowed. Entitled bitches. I’m team Dolores. Can we PLEASE let someone else have a story line other than the felon????
Better housewives than Siggy have tried to knock Tre off her perch for years now. Melissa finally figured it out: if you can’t beat her, join her. That’s not an endorsement, just an observation. Same theme bubbles up in every franchise.
I do like Delores. I hope she isn’t pigeon-holed into Siggy Sidekick and Personal Bodyguard this season.
I watched, or read, an interview with Siggy where she stated that Tre apologized about the cake incident as soon as she realized that Siggy was hurt by it, but Melissa did not. That certainly is not what we saw last night, unless it takes Tre an awfully long time to realize what she’s done. I guess I just answered my own question!
Yes! This is exactly what I was thinking. They all gather ’round her, this flock of pigeons. I just can’t with another season that revolves around Teresa and people kissing her felonious ass. Now it’s Danielle (wtf?). There’s something fishy about Margaret. I felt the wreath thing was disingenuous. She just met her. She’s already crawling up Teresa’s a–. She turned against Siggy too quickly.
I think they all suck (except so far I like Delores) Maybe I’m getting old but I understood why Siggy was upset. She took the time to have this cake made, included little details and it was not appreciated and then they threw it too. It wasn’t cool. Her feelings were hurt but that doesn’t usually translate well when you’re drunk, especially to other drunk people. She’s gotta be accountable for her behavior too; her presentation at the restaurant was way over-the-top.
For a relationship expert, she didn’t handle it well the following day when she was sober. She’s got some ego! I also thought the girls could have been nicer. They’re all chuckle-heads.
Is this the stupidest conversation ever?
And Is this going to be the major plot point this season?? Cake-gate? God help us all.
No matter what who goes into a restaurant, a place of business and throws a cake? Definitely NOT CLASSY women, not trash, but really disrespectful to Ziggy, to the staff at the restaurant, all I can say is IF it was set up for them to do that by the show that’s one thing but to do it as classy, adult women representing New Jersey, that is wrong, very wrong and not funny. It’s as it a 1 yr old put their hands and face in the cake like most babies do that’s what I saw them acting as 2 year olds all night.
Who do they think they are anyway?
I love Siggy and Delores. The rest need help. I don’t know if I can watch them, felons by Bravo network. They should try to get Martha Stewart to do New York. Bethenny would die.
Siggy has been claiming to have been Bullied this season on RHONJ throughout the press prior to the premiere. She even continues to say the girls bullied her on twitter. Yet on the preview for next week Siggy says loud and clear to Margaret she does not want to empower her, but to destroy her!
Yes, siggy was off the rails! She clearly said things at the cake throwing that she denied next day! Her screaming in the restaurant prior and pouring red wine on the table were pretty embarrassing/crude too! She is all about her which is different from her previous persona – everyone’s friend – trying to mend all fences. The wall of photos of her in the condo just said it all. The cake throwing was awful – I could see teresa smashing a little cake on melissa for fun but throwing the whole thing was gross!!!!
This really is my least favorite of all the housewife shows. Theresa is still disgusting and her Danielle and melissa ugh. It’s all hail Theresa again this season. She is still a disgusting pig and melissa worse then ever. Idk I just don’t know. Lol.
Yes, where does Teresa get all her money from to live her lifestyle. Who pays to have makeup and hair done for her on the show,and it makes me sick to see Andy suck up to her. The lady is a damn criminal. If she was a regular person NOT a trashy new jersian ( which to me she makes or state look bad) that just happens to be on a reality show she’d have had the book thrown at her by the courts, her and her husband still have their house and I’m sure she wasn’t made to pay the amount of money back that they really owed. If it was you or I we’d still be in prison come out to no house,, and I’m sure they stashed plenty of money. I couldn’t believe joe wasn’t even a citizen of the USA. Really??? Deport him too. Boy did this complete crime story piss me off
They DID act like animals. My 8 year old son knows better.
At one point,Melissa was wiping frosting and cake off her hair, ear and neck with one of the restaurant’s throw pillows.
There is not a single likable person on this show. Melissa, Tre and Danielle are just scummy lowlifes. Siggy is a bombastic, overacting, egomaniac. Delores — meh. The new woman – untrustworthy.
No one to root for.
Hmm.. tossing cake around on a patio in an empty restaurant or screaming your entry at a crowd and turning your full wine glass upside down on a table? Siggy, I don’t think you can take the high road on this one. I give a pass to the grieving ones who got drunk and had some silly fun.
At least they were laughing. Siggy just scared the crap out of everyone. So intense. If you do a nice thing for someone, do it for the right reasons, not because you want friends to genuflect and kiss the ring.
Didn’t watch regularly last season but am giving it a try now. I was a loyal watcher of the earliest seasons and I’m very happy to see Teresa and Melissa getting along. I guess I dipped out during the Amber/twins season because I couldn’t stand any of them so I’m glad they and Jacqueline are gone.
What I’ve noticed with all the housewives franchises is a huge change in their conflicts. It used to be where there would be a disagreement, then they’d make up within the next episode or two. Now the same disagreement constitutes the storyline for the whole damn season and sometimes carries over into and through following seasons. It’s ridiculous! There has got to be some fun time in between these tiffs so we, the audience, can have an opportunity to get invested in the “actors”. Also, we need to know a resolution will be forthcoming followed by some lighter, fun times. The emotional trajectory is all wrong and I see it here, with NJ, and also with OC. Give us a break with all the animosity and name calling!
Siggy is super loud and annoying but I can see why she’s upset. On another note I may see Teresa on Sunday. She’s coming to a hair show in London that I’ll be at anyway. That’ll be random
Siggy Flicker, or Soggy Flaps as my Autocorrect suggested, needs to tone it down. Is this trick mental? I can’t believe she was still talking about that damn cake 24 hours later. That was a minor faux pas that should have been put to bed five minutes after it happened. She must be hella bored if that got to her that much.
And also – it wasn’t at a “restaurant”. It’s a crappy waterfront bar that serves glorified fast food to a college-age crowd most of the time. They might as well have been at a Denny’s, ffs.
Johnny, about four years ago, the original Shooters shut down and that was the crappy college waterfront bar. The new owners came in, kept the name, and spent millions upgrading the property. It is actually quite beautiful now but pretty expensive.
They also have a gorgeous adjoining property next door that does events called Grateful Palate Catering &
Events.
That’s interesting! I tend to avoid Broward, so I hadn’t heard that.
I wonder why they kept the name? “Shooters” just sounds like the kind of place where you buy lurid-colored shots by the tray and throw up on the way home to me.
I used to work at a place called Shooters and it was exactly as you described. LOL.
They kept the name because all of those college partiers from the 80s and 90s are now rich Boomers.
Don’t avoid Broward! We have Rosie’s!
It’s so odd that Teresa was using her father’s health as another reason not to go “away”. He seems to be doing pretty good. That’s good. He’s sad, but his health really improved. Remember Joe had to promise Teresa to go see him every day or week? What a lot of repercussions for a gold trimming. So sad.
(I think her parents suffered and had to do a lot of work to keep Teresa and Joe’s lives going)
All for material items that I hope she’d give back in a second.
You suppose Melissa couldn’t find some appropriate object to clean up with, like, I dunno, a couple napkins? Do they have those in slightly-south-of-Boca restaurants?
Would you reach for someone’s throw pillow and smear cake all over it?
I thought the cake throwing was appalling and found it offensive. It was a beautiful, expensive cake (ok, paid for by Bravo, but still) and those pigs destroyed it to make a spectacle of themselves on tv. The entire thing was very hokey and scripted. I have no hope that the rest of the season will be better.
I missed Siggy’s debut season. I once knew someone who informed me regularly how smart she was and that her IQ was very high. I did not know there were two people in the world who think that’s an appropriate statement to make.
Up until Siggy’s first season aired and she started catching heat for it, Siggy was an extremely vocal Trump supporter. (She later claimed to have changed her mind and wasn’t going to vote at all to silence her social media critics, but couldn’t resist taking endless deeply misogynistic digs at Ms. Clinton – weird for someone who sets themselves up as some kind of love guru and champion of women.)
The fact that she’s following in her idol’s footsteps and declaring how smart she is, and how her IQ is so much higher than her rivals (when she is, in fact, adjacent to braindead), should surprise no one. She’s got as much hot air and as much fake hair on her head as her President, although I will credit her with being far more entertaining.
It is possible for reasonably sane people to have supported Trump at first and then voted for the loathsome women responsible for the Libyan debacle because his temperament and misogynistic, blowhardy stuff became too much to over look and it made a person have serious concerns about his sole access to the nuclear football.
So I hear. Allegedly.
I agree. I can see that he was hiding much of his crazy pretty well back in 2015, and my support for the Democratic candidate certainly wasn’t without qualification. (It’s actually strange to think just how recently this reality we’re now living all seemed like an impossible joke!)
I think Siggy’s turnaround came off as dubious at the time because she’d been out-Trumping Trump up until she started attracting criticism, but joking aside she may well have had a change of heart. I recall how committed she is to her faith from last season, and I would imagine a lot of Jewish voters found reasons to abstain as the campaign wore on.
Morons.
Siggy had a weekend planned in her head. She expected it to go as she wished; she did not consider what the others might enjoy.
Siggy wanted a 3 tier, $1000 cake for Siggy. I suspect Melissa would want a warm chocolate brownie fed to her by Joe (as she lounges in a warm bath).
Not understanding the focus Sig is placing on herself, is she that thirsty?
Yay! Whole screen pop up ads gone today. Thank you TT.
YES! There were literally people working on the issue over night. I was afraid to ask if it was fixed but no complaints today!
If this is the storyline for this season, going to be a long one. I’m having such difficulty getting past Danielle’s comfort, Melissa’s season one personality, and Siggy sucking up all the attention. Teresa is seemingly very well, and living life without stress. Too bad her daughter’s aren’t, or her father.
She seems like she doesn’t have a care in the world. That’s worrisome. I think she is living her life and Gia shows it when fake Teresa plays for the cameras. Gia has said she hates it, and she is not hiding it this season. Stupid storyline if in fact it is.
Teresa is away from home too much! Those girls & her father need her to be home taking care of her responsibilities! Gia is going to, if not already, resent her mother for not staying home and taking care of them. Teresa is always praising Gia for “handling” things. Why should she be handling Teresa responsibilities? People like Teresa anger me. Dumping their grown up responsibilities on their children and elderly parents. Teresa should be ASHAMED of herself. Face timing and texting doesn’t make up for it either. Your children need your presents in the home to feel safe, secure & LOVED! I wish she’d grab a clue!
As much as I hate Teresa, isn’t this her only source of income? I don’t blame her for not risking her job by refusing to go on a cast trip. What else does she have but housewives?
I wonder what a Dina thinks of Tree and Danielle being all chumy?
I’m with Teresa and Melissa on this one (uggghh, thanks Siggy!). At the cake throwing incident everybody was very drunk (much more than their usual drinking) and sometimes things get out of control, not the end of the world – though I see how the behavior was inappropriate. However, Siggy called them stupid, trashy and threw a fit. Next day she expects an apology and denies the nasty words she said and proceeds to say more nasty things. I mean, let it go, already! I liked Siggy first season but this is only episode 2 and she’s wearing me out.
I think we’ll probably be on Siggy’s side by the end of all this, because her opponents are felonious fraudsters with Cartier trinkets in place of brains, but yeah – she so needed to let this go five minutes after it happened! Crying over spilt cake just seems kind of unhinged to me, I was honestly wondering whether she’s under-medicated or overserved for most of this episode.
Delores’s reaction when Margaret was whining about the IQ thing was great, though. “Who cares?” I couldn’t have said it better myself lol!
I agree but what annoys me about Dolores (whom I generally like) is that she has such a laissez faire attitude about the ugly things Siggy said but is completely on board with the tantrum Siggy threw over the damn cake! Hypocrite much? LOL
Well, Siggy missed the simple truth – you can not be responsible for how other people behave, you can be responsible only for how you choose to behave. And lets be honest – she wasn’t behaving like our beloved hostess Dorinda. You invite people home to demand apologies and call them trash?
“Introducing to the group” doesnt mean you are friends with someone. I think that Margaret didn’t know Siggy that well, and thats why she reacted this way.
OT: On Orville (star trek parody) during 3rd or 4th episode captain and the first officer were kidnapped and put in alien zoo to be looked at. The rest of the crew saved them by providing the zoo keeper with database of reality tv. So last scene we see is with tens of aliens on another planet watching Teresa flipping the table on Danielle and everyone is doing OOOOOOOOoooh 😀
Let them eat chocolate pie with secrect ingredientses. Just sayin’.
LOL production are evil monsters. You know they were behind this.
Do we really believe Siggy was Margarettes ticket in to the group originally?
Margarette was hired and production set it up that way, the fact that Soggy keeps bringing this up is baffling.
Well yes and no. Margaret was brought on by production of course, but she was given to Siggy so that Siggy and Margaret would have other people in their alliance. Just like RHOOC brought in Peggy and Lydia in to support Vicki. Peggy and Lydia went ride or die with Vicki right away, even when it made no sense. But Margaret went rogue and immediately started kissing up to Teresa.
TT can you validate my crazy memory? Can anyone recall “reading” Melissa Gorgas book?
I read it once standing in a bookstore and swear that she stated she had lived in Boca Raton as a child.
If this is true why didn’t she mention something like hey I grew up here?
She said it in her blog post 🙂