It seems like everyday, there is a new story about the “Gorga Pizza & Pasta Restaurant.” Rumors began to leak weeks ago that the entire restaurant was a sham. I AM SHOOKETH! You mean Joe Gorga the contractor, fancy garbage man, landlord of a house with beavers and partner in a law suit ridden car dealership, builder of fancy houses, and now pizza maker IS NOT REALLY A PIZZA MAKER? And the whole “We are dedicating this here restaurant, that I never mentioned to my wife, to my dead mama” was all a lie? And those fake ass scenes with Joe and Melissa and Joe’s sister who seems oddly obsessed with her own brother arguing … THOSE WERE NOT REAL!???” I am gobsmacked! They seemed so real!
HOWEVER COULD THIS BE? Real Housewives of New Jersey is nothing if not a believable show about a bunch of ignorant Eyetalians from New Jersey who have real businesses that are very successful and don’t violate any laws at all And if they do, Teresa had no idear !
As the story goes, someone… Sirens Media?.. paid the owner of the pizzeria to let Teresa and Joe pretend to own it for the filming season. During that time, the health code standards were allegedly not met.
And now it seems that Teresa’s unusually close to her attorney, the weird one, is now claiming that they are moving the fake pizzeria that no one ever works in, to a “bigger location.”
Not only does Teresa’s attorney have time to ring up Page Six to plant stories the second that mainstream media gets wind of the latest farce, he’s also there to talk to her on the phone and comfort her on every single public appearance that she makes according to her latest New York Timezezess best sellinger book. Which thankfully is not a cookbook this time as we all saw in Milan she doesn’t even have basic sous chef skills.
It’s all rather hysterical that this is happening just before the final episode where the editing points to Teresa dumping Joe for being the cause of all of her legal issues. Like those times she lied to the faces of loan officers and forgot she had a rental property and a couple dozen other felonies she was convicted of committing.
James J. Leonard, the attorney/ “friend” of Teresa told Page Six, “They are in the process of closing down their current location and seeking a larger location. They are seeking different management to run it. Their focus is getting a bigger flagship restaurant in New Jersey and then expanding. I would anticipate the reopening of the restaurant to be a family affair and Teresa would be receptive to taking a more expansive role.”
HA! MOTHERFUCKING HA! Teresa working an actual real job? You better be ready support her and her passel of kids, James. She’s dumber than a box of hair and a convicted felon. This gravy train is approaching the end of the line. In my opinion, James Leonard will be done with her when RHONJ ends.
I mean, come on. I get there may be old people with no access to the Internet who believe this shit, but the ratings were worse than Potomac this season. Maybe just shut up and hope for a better season next time.
If there is a next time? This will not end well for any of them.
Yes, can’t quite put it into words, but one gets a weird feeling about the HWONJ. It seems to be running on empty.
I quit watching this hot mess two years ago and sometimes read the recaps, but the show is just so ‘skeevy’ if that is a word, I just don’t care about any of it or any of them.
I don’t get Bravo continuing to put money into an obviously losing show. These people are just so unlikable.
Didn’t Teresa once memorably declare that she could only live in new houses, because the idea of living in a house someone else had once lived in was too “skeevy”? I’m still kind of agog at that remark.
Didn’t Teresa once memorably declare that she could only live in new houses, because the idea of living in a house someone else had once lived in was too “skeevy”? I’m still kind of agog at that remark.
She requires “cleansiness”
DITTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DITTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love RHONJ & know I am in the minority when it comes to other housewives franchises being more popular but I cannot give it up. I am so attached to this particular cast of malcontents, scammers & prostition whores.
All of these shows are mental recess to me to escape from politics and real life stress. I think they are the soap operas of this generation. If you enjoy it, good for you! Everyone needs a break from real life. The odd thing here, to me, is that if this is all scripted as is being reported here, why did Siggy act out the role that so damaged her reputation?
Siggy got some bad advice. She chose the wrong company to keep off screen.
Siggy indeed got some bad advice. She is still getting bad advice. Dolores has the same bad adviser. This will all come out at the reunion. But we will likely not see any of the footage.
C’mon TT! Give us some details! Don’t tease us.
Siggy thought she could act crazy a few episodes, then get the pellets implanted and be some kind of spokesperson for hormone replacement.
Problem is that her natural state is crazy, even with the hormones, so the crazy over-the-top theatrics and sensitivity continued.
I love it too. I was really surprised to hear so many hated this season. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
Despite my constant bitching over the years, especially when Teresa and Joe were acting like they’d done nothing wrong before their stays “away”, I enjoy watching the show. Can’t stand Joe Giudice – I think he’s a squat, moody, sneaky sasquatch, but there’s something about Teresa that continues to interest me. Maybe it’s her spaciness or her special way with the English language, I don’t know. I’d love to see what’s really going on in her life, but I guess they can’t do that as long as she’s officially still with the Yeti, so if she really is thinking about giving him the proverbial boot, I hope she does it soon.
Siggy is a mess. I’m kind of stunned by how she devolved this season, and glad that she won’t be back. Whatever is going on with her, it’s not healthy, and she needs to get it sorted out.
Danielle is a nasty, gross pig. I can’t understand for the life of me why Bravo would bring her back, and why they would hide footage that proves what a skank she is. She lowers the whole tone of the show, and yes, that is possible.
Margaret and Dolores have grown on me. I actually find watching their lives to be entertaining, especially their family dynamics.
Melissa and Joe are as fake as they come. What in the hell does Joe Gorga really do anyway? Why would Production think that setting up a fake pizza restaurant was a good idea? Who gives a damn?! Not me. If not for the fact that Joe is Teresa’s brother, I think they would have been gone long ago. To redeem them, they should concentrate more on the family connection – the relationship with Teresa’s kids, Teresa and Melissa backing each other up, and their love for their dad (who, by the way, breaks my heart – what a dear old man). There has to be enough real going on without resorting to fake businesses.
Anyway, even though the show is dragging, I hope it comes back. As bad as it can be, it’s still way above RHOC, which was truly mind-bogglingly bad this past season.
yes, Papa Gorga is so sweet and genuine – my heart aches watching him mourn his wife. And I think that Joe and Melissa genuinely love each other. Joe Gorga seems really sweet. It’s the BS storylines, not the actual people, that bug me.
It is AMAZING to me that Bravo would nearly erase Danielle from the season and demote her. I’m wondering what the hell really happened this season. She is so outspoken, manipulative, broken and gross that it’s hard to fathom why they’d cut her out when they leave similar people in other franchises.
I like Margaret, too. I don’t agree with everything about her (sorry her stepkids don’t want to talk to her, but consequences), but she is interesting, strong, relatively authentic and entertaining.
I have grown to love Dolores, too. Unassuming, loyal, warm, and relatable. I’d like to learn more, as long as she doesn’t act like an asshole next season, like many nice new people become.
The franchise is a train wreck. I don’t want to watch, but it’s hard to look away. Fix it, Jesus.
I would only argue the word “Sasquatch”-Sasquatches are tall, are they not? ……..”troll” would have been the perfect word in pre-internet days.
But I do admire one thing about Joe. When trouble came, he dealt with it calmly (if drunkenly) and stoically. Grim, but stoic. He did what he had to do and kept his mouth shut. There wasn’t any whining and wailing as if he was an innocent person upon whom this terrible thing fell randomly, out of the blue, like Teresa.
If the rumors about Teresa and a male friend or friends are true, I can see her divorcing Joe-what kind of future can he have, or offer her? But she’s going to have to do some fancy stepping to square it with the Dawters.
Perhaps Bravo is thinking of a spinoff entitled, “The Real Housewives Federal Prison Alderson”.
Tamara the add redirects are back. I just “won’” something from Walmart on my iPad. Did the drill cleared the history and restarted.
Yikes. I’m getting that too. I haven’t been able to read this article. I’m sorry this is still happening!
Same here.
I am having issues, also. I have tried clearing everything deleting my cash everything. Nothing seems to work. This is the worst I’ve experienced on the site. 🙁 I hate that they’re doing this to you
yes malware has been attacking nonstop
It is so terrible that people are doing this to you. I hope they are discovered and made to stop.
Ditto on the attempts to clear. This one seems pretty tenacious. Safari and Google gave me fits. Firefox was good though!
Me too
“I am shooketh” “…no idear!” Classic TT at her best. My new words of the day. Love the shout out to Red Forman of That 70s Show at the You are here: Home/ Dumbasses!
Any bets for when Joe and Melissa file for Bankruptcy ?
New blood needs to be injected into the franchise. Teresa and Melissa have already run their course. So apparently they’ve sought to fakery. I never believed the restaurant plot knowing how Melissa faked ownership of that boutique.
Every scene in the “boutique” never has any customers. To quote the fabulous TT “me shooketh”
Love this site…my favorite! I knew this “ownership” was fake from the beginning. If you follow these people on social media, they’re never at the restaurant. If you own it and you truly invested in it, wouldn’t you be advertising it all over your Instagram?? Also, I believe Teresa’s true boyfriend is the neighbor of Joe and Melissa, Shane someone. From pictures on social media, they spent Christmas together and her Cancun vacation together.
I get the free IPad pop up on 3 other sites, in addition to TT’s . One is my local newspaper and another is my email account web address. I use Safari.
Strange.
I don’t see how this show has a future.
Take a screenshot and the time and send it to TT. It may help her.
Kandi and Todd’s restaurant has been doing gangbusters since they opened, haven’t they? A genuine Gorga pizza restaurant might well have taken off for them the way Kandi’s place has. Imagine that, a legitimate business-if they could pull off doing something straight and law abiding.
With all the things Kandi and Todd have going on you see them CONSTANTLY at the restaurant, advertising events and doing snapchats from the venue. You see Todd WORKING there all the time. Because they are running a business.
Good for them! Happy for Kandi and Todd.
Maybe they are taking a page from Vanderpump’s book. Say what you will about Lisa, I hear she is always at her restaurants as well. I think I would rather eat at OLG though….
After reading reviews of the Gorga’s restaurant, it was pretty clear that none of the family members are onsite and working there. WHAT IS WROng WITH THESE PEOPLE?? They have all the exposure and basically free advertising for their restaurant AND THEY DONT WANT TO WORK??? Unreal.
They will get what they deserve …
Teresa is like herpes, she may go quiet for a few months but just when you think you’re in the clear, out she comes again. I think she will never go away. There’s always a BS story to sell, lies to peddle. I can’t imagine Bravo will let this show go yet. If the OG cast was back then maybe it would be something but this is painful. I miss Carolyn!!!
This is the first housewives franchise in the history of housewives that I have permanently deleted from my DVR. I can’t take it anymore.
I actually went to Gorga’s Homemade pasta and pizza yesterday for a late lunch with two of my kids. My daughter is a college student who is on break, bored and binging RHONJ. Yes, I am a good parent so I took her out for lunch, but didn’t tell my son who grimaced when he saw pictures of housewives on the restaurant wall. Melissa’s picture of her basically alone is front and center (and large).
This place is in a shit location in a strip mall next to a Best Buy, but isn’t visible from the street (and around the corner from a highly visible smashburger). The place is incredibly tiny, but kind of cute. Aerosmith playing in the kitchen kind of threw the vibe off. We were there around 3pm ish and the only people there, but I don’t think that is unusual for the time.
Yes, there was not a Gorga in sight, but the food was incredibly good. I am very, very picky and have been to Italy to basically eat as much as I could. The pizza was very thin and delicious, my kids both had great pasta dishes and I had the best eggplant caponata that I’ve ever had. Also a warm caprese salad. I was hungry. The waitress and chef were speaking in Italian and we had great service. I believe no Gorga has anything to do with this place, but the yelp reviews are wrong.
As far as Danielle having sex in the bathroom, I did some investigating. There is a dark corridor leading to two single restrooms behind the kitchen. This place is so small that I can’t imagine anyone making noises in that bathroom without the whole restaurant hearing. The restroom was large though. Whatever.
I took pics of the food Tamara if you’d like to see them. I’m really bummed out it’s closing. We all had the leftovers for breakfast. Ate my eggplant cold.
A review! How cool! Thank you! The food sounds tasty. I bet the people in the kitchen would have spilled the beans if you had whipped out your notepad and stubby pencil.
Hats off to Kandi and Todd. They have really matured as marketers and business people. Teresa and Joe Gorga had the same opportunity and blew it. They are stuck with penny-ante schemes that go nowhere. Teresa did do a good job of exploiting her celebrity with the cookbooks and “autobiographies” but she needs to find something more sustainable.
I think the restaurant is back in the hands of the actual owner… I don’t think it will close, I just think that the ruse that it had anything to do with Gorgas is over. You should be fine to go back.
I think the restaurant is back in the hands of the actual owner… I don’t think it will close, I just think that the ruse that it had anything to do with Gorgas is over. You should be fine to go back.
Makes sense. The menu said a certain chef was “back.” Gorga names are still all over the menu.
I really miss Caroline and Jacquline I don’t like Teresa being the queen bee they stood up to her…I miss that.
The only thing that surprised me was that the Pizza Parlor lasted this long!
I feel bad for their father having to put up with these manufactured story lines.
I wonder if they tried to serve Fabulious Proseco or whatever the hell it was?
I hope this show will fade into the sunset soon…..
Ah! I find this story interesting and believable.
In a review I read about Gorga’s Pizza months ago, it said the restaurant was previously called “Salugo Bistro” and that many of the staff remained after they, “closed” and the Gorga’s opened their restaurant. There’s also another Salugo in Verona, NJ (still open, doing well) about 20 minutes away.
It seemed odd that Salugo would close as their reviews were pretty good and the place was popular. The owner has several successful restaurants that are more high end in more upscale towns in the area; two are in my town (the same town as Envy!)
Montclair isn’t so high end. Just sayin….
Wow, you’re a jerk.
Teresa is working overtime to make sure her reality TV career doesn’t go the same way as her short-lived spell as a restauranteur – she’s posted an Insta pic with a woman who identifies herself as a divorce attorney, claiming she’s “getting advice”. I guess we can expect several long boring seasons of Teresa divorcing, then Teresa dating, then Teresa marrying the meathead lawyer…. all while the ever-revolving RHONJ cast fawn and kiss her ass to try and stay on the show. Yawn.
I just have two observations – (i). only Teresa Giudice would manage to find a divorce lawyer who posts butt selfies on Instagram; and (ii). if their fraud was all Joe’s hard work, perhaps he should get to keep the marble mausoleum and Tre should go and live in an apartment above the restaurant they no longer own/never owned.
Too funny Johnny.
I would feel sorry for Tre ,butt she is so clueless . A DEVORCE ( tre talk) aturney?
IPoor thing, she can’t imagine that others really don’t care anymore about : WHat she does; where she goes , and whatever else she is hawking. Her days have passed. The suns in the sky have passed. CHe needs to go back to being a real estate agent and whatever the hell else it was that she just signed the papers doing.
please tell me what does joe gorga do for a living??? i really believe this show is their source only source of income. much like jacqueline and chis. what happened to home he started building that was way better than the one they live in. teresa seems to have steady flow of $$$ – new range rover, makeup/hair people at her beck and call, must be the show and all her number one best sellers!!! unreal…..now shes working up to her divorce from joe g!!
I was curious a while back and snooped around and I earned he owns a landscape/masonry business. It’s out of Franklin Lakes NJ, (If I recall correctly) It’s quite possible he owns other businesses as well (Gorga’s pizza not included!) maybe he builds houses on spec?
I’ll never figure out how they make the mortgage payments on a house worth over $3 million. Their salary on the show? The taxes alone have to be over $50k-$60k.
please tell me what does joe gorga do for a living??? i really believe this show is their source only source of income. much like jacqueline and chis. what happened to home he started building that was way better than the one they live in. teresa seems to have steady flow of $$$ – new range rover, makeup/hair people at her beck and call, must be the show and all her number one best sellers!!! unreal…..now shes working up to her divorce from joe g!!
This is an actual restaurant and was actually quite good
It may be an actual restaurant, but it’s not owned by the Gorgas.
Basically, you are not seeing a reality show. Scripted…….Fake…….SO it should not be titled “Real” Housewives….
Not that it matters but I quit watching this sham of a show just as I quit watching Housewives of Orange County after seeing 3 episodes and Housewives of Atlanta two seasons ago. All three need to sign off for good. BRAVO has been turning out some chit shows for the past two seasons. I think the network has gone to pot. LITERALLY!!!!!!!!
Are you SERIOUS? It’s not REAL? WTF? I’m writing Bravo right away. I’m pissed.
At least someone figured it out. Thank you.