Can you believe it girls? It time for the first RHONJ recap of the season! I’m not sure why we are getting a preview of the season at the very beginning, but we are.
Lexi is apparently Margaret’s “creative director.” What exactly does that entail? Anyway, Lexi brings her baby to work, which is apparently Margaret’s house. Joe has become the baby sitter for the creative director. Lexi and Margaret talk about Teresa and her boy toy. We get tons of photographic evidence of all the hand holding. Margaret doesn’t seem to care who Teresa is sleeping with. Neither do I.
Dolores is still living with Frank. And she is also living with David the surgeon boyfriend. You go Delores. It seems to be going well. David is building a house and staying with Delores until it is built. Well technically it is Frank that is building the house. This seems like a great throuple. It seems that on this episode, David has not moved in yet. But he will soon.
Missed Milestones
Teresa and her dad and Gia are all in the kitchen making dinner while the other girls watch. Teresa somehow seems likable in this scene. Must squash that feeling immediately. Gia is getting ready to go off to college. I guess that leaves Gabriella to raise her sisters. Gia apparently would not allow her father to go straight to Italy from jail. She told him if he didn’t fight for citizenship and the right to stay in the country she would not have a relationship with him. She also says things like “we’re appealing.” Apparently she is not just the mother but also the wife. That’s kind of sad.
Gia is very upset that her father is missing her senior prom, her graduation and her going off to college. This upsets Melania who spits out “no one cares!” before storming out of the room. Of all the girls Melania was the closest to Joe and this has been very rough on her. I wish they would have gotten her into some counseling. Gia tells Gabriella that she is lucky dad will be around for her milestones. Teresa points out that might not be the case. Teresa’s dad tells Gia he will be there for her as her father and her grandfather and she cries. Teresa’s dad says he cries on the inside and Gabriella gets up to hug him.
Jackie And Jennifer Aren’t Getting Along
Jennifer is planning a big patient appreciation party for her husbands patients. She let’s Bill know that Jackie might not be coming. Jennifer and Jackie’s daughters are the same age and very close. Jackie recently cancelled a play date.
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Melissa, Jackie and Margaret all go out to dinner and it is there that we find out why Jackie is pissed at Jennifer. Jennifer is still sucking up to Teresa like crazy. So those two were out to dinner with some of Teresa’s other sycophants and Teresa encouraged Jennifer to make fun of Jackie. So Jennifer mocks Jackie for the things she said to Teresa on the reunion. And of course it was posted on Teresa’s Instagram.
Mattress Money
Oh look, Teresa is putting in a pool. Isn’t that where the memorial for one Joe’s parents was? It seems she really isn’t planning for him to come home. Dolores comes over and she also wonders where Teresa is getting this money from. I’m sure the FEDS do too. Will these people ever learn? Plus she’s a single mom with four kids to feed and put through college. Is this really in her budget? Also who is paying for Rutgers? Teresa has often proudly proclaimed she has not money set aside to pay for college tuition.
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Gia says that she chose Rutgers because it was close to home and she can come home and make up for lost time with her dad if he comes home. Ironically, Gia flew out to Italy today to see her dad for the first time in four years. Teresa says the appeal is costing her so much money. Delores says she doesn’t think Teresa loves Joe anymore. Dolores tells Teresa that Jackie is talking about her and her boytoy. Teresa is pissed. Margaret is the one stirring the pot and tattling on Jackie. Wow if only we had an all cast party!
Jennifer’s Plastic Surgery Party
Oh I neglected to mention that Jennifer had pretty much full body lipo two weeks before filming started. Apparently this means people can’t hug her. Is there a lot of pain after liposuction? Margaret rides to the party with Jackie. She pretends like she didn’t tell Delores that Jackie thinks Teresa is boinking the boytoy.
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When Melissa tells Jennifer that Jackie’s feeling were hurt when she and Teresa mocked her and posted it on Instagram, Jennifer replies, “Jackie needs to stop taking things so seriously.” Jennifer is awful. No amount of liposuction can fix her. Is compassion and empathy stored in fat cells? Because clearly all of hers ha been sucked out.
Teresa is also mad at Melissa for not reporting to her that Jackie said she thinks she is getting boned by the boytoy.
Fight Night!
Bout One: Jennifer vs Jackie. Jennifer does not apologize. She doesn’t accept any blame. She is the perfect friend for Teresa Giudice. Jennifer says it was just a joke. When Jackie tries to explain why it was so hurtful, Jennifer tells her to pull the stick out of her ass and lighten up. And after all, Teresa is the one who posted it! Loser: Jennifer Aydin
Bout Two: Teresa vs Melissa Really is Teresa really going to fight with her sister in law all season, AGAIN? She’s mad at Melissa for not controlling Jackie and keeping her from telling the truth about Teresa. Teresa says that a lot of people respect Melissa because she is her sister in law. Wow. Delusions of Grandeur, party of one! We have your table ready in then narcissist section. Loser: Teresa Giudice.
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Bout Three: Teresa vs Jackie Teresa plans to tell Jackie to keep her name out of her fucking mouth. Really? It’s not like she posted a video about her and her boytoy on social media or anything. Teresa says she never throws the first punch. They agree not to trash talk anyone. Split Decision.
The episode ends with Joe being transferred to ICE detainment. Joe calls Teresa and tells her it is really bad. He just got there and he says he is already going nuts. It’s constant lockdown in a room with half a dozen or so other guys.
Teresa makes no sense. This show makes no sense. I make no sense, because somehow I keep getting sucked in by this shitshow.
Thanks for giving us West Coast folks a sneak preview of what the DVR will be catching later.
I agree with all of the above comment. Plus Gia knows her parents are not educated or intelligent.
Yep, Gia and the rest of the Giudice kids are among the real victims here. Even if Joe and Teresa tried to rationalize their scam(s) by claiming, “It’s for the kids!,” the kids are making it crystal clear now that they would have rather had their parents than all the gaudy shit that Joe and Teresa have been parading on RHONJ.
My heart is so sad for those girls and the grandparents. How could ANYONE knowingly be such an embarrassment year after year? Prostitution of family for a buck is still prostitution.
@adtleft-you summed up my thoughts and feelings beautifully, LOL. I’ve walked away from almost all of the Housewives shows except this one, BH, NY and Potomac. I guess the addition is real 🙂
For sure Teresa’s father is paying for Rutgers. I’m sure the pool was a cost job.
Can someone please explain why Teresa keeps saying if he leaves, he’ll never be able to come back to the country. That isn’t true. Why does she keep saying this.
Jennifer is a pill. Can’t stand her.
Teresa may be insane.
I love Margaret, Delores, and Jackie.
Thank GOD NO PROSTITUTION WHORE!!
From what I understand, if the appeal doesn’t go through, Joe will NEVER be able to return to the U.S. I could be wrong, but I’ve read this many times, where NJ and US attorneys have commented about the case.
Joe will never set foot on US soil again. Sure there is one last hail mary in the works, but that has like a 1% chance of happening. And he knows it,
Teresa has plenty of money coming from somewhere other than Bravo. She is likely to get charged again. She blows through all he Bravo checks the minute she gets them. And they mete them out. She will pay cash for the pool. PLEASE GOD let her do it on camera again.
The prostitution whore will be back on the scene shortly, I think.
Sorry for the family, but I am so THERE to watch Tre get busted.
Had a mom who pulled some of this shit. The perp never thinks how it hurts the family and generations following.
@JoJoFLL: Joe G. Is never coming back onto U.S. soil even for a family trip or a vacation. If you had done a little bit of homework about immigration law…like TT did and like I did and like very few other people did…then you would have known exactly what was going to happen to Joe G. and nothing would be a surprise. There are laws in place and just because reality tv and reality tv media coverage has been feeding everyone a bunch of shit doesn’t make that the truth. Everything that has happened to him was predicted on this site with TT even giving different outcomes for the different moves Joe might have chosen to take. Honestly with knowing what’s going to come down in this country in the very near future? I wish I was Joe G.’s neighbor in sunny and beautiful Italy and if Theresa had even an ounce of intelligence or even just a bit of common sense then she would pack up her family and move to Italy now…even if she doesn’t stay with Joe.
@LaLaFly as a matter of fact, I’m in the immigration business in an employment way so I DO know a bit about it.
Everything I understand is ten years before he can apply or Teresa can try and get him pardoned by Trump.
@JoJoFLL Joe Guidice did not voluntarily leave the U.S. His return to Italy is viewed as a deportation by the court. This 10 year wait before he can apply for appeal is a long shot Hail Mary pass that’s not going to work because Joe AND Theresa have blatantly disrespected the whole process and have shown absolutely no remorse and we have watched these two in action for years so is there anyone who believes Joe can convincingly beg for mercy ten years from now when he will once again probably be a drunken, mouthy, unrepentant douchebag? Why do you think Joe served almost all of his sentence before release? That’s a “message” to him and his attorneys that the court is pissed. The court could have had him serve a minimum amount of time and then start the deportation process, but they truly wanted to punish him. Theresa is dumber than a bag of rocks so I’m not sure if she is just stupidly and greedily blowing through money because she has it or if she’s trying to piss off the courts even more so there is even less of a chance of Joe ever being regarded as remorseful. I’m laughing my ass off IRL at those two taking the blame for any of their criminal activities! LOL The Trump pardon might happen if the prez thinks it might get him more Twitter traffic…
I have to give Joe one compliment: knowing how horrific it is in ICE detention lock-up, it’s saying a lot that he would subject himself to that hell because Gia demanded it. I don’t know why someone didn’t painstakingly explain how hellish it would be for her dad to be in ICE custody and inform her that daddy is done with punishment and prefers to be in Italy. But they did not and Joe did try.
You are suddenly in the immigration business now? And this is not about immigration it’s about a non citizen committing and aggravated felony. Are you in that business too?
Ten years before what? And do honestly think Trump has any idea who Teresa Giudice is? Come on, girlfriend, you are smarter than this.
Yes! Girl I deal with BOH (back of the house) employees who are mostly aliens and a good portion of the FOH are also from another country for the restaurant. My HR life consists of green cards, alien numbers, and work authorization cards. I think we’ve talked about this before.
We have. But immigration and deporation are two totally different things my love..
If anyone is interested in the MANY posts I have made about Joe’s deportation, click here.
https://tamaratattles.com/?s=Joe+Giudice+Deport
I don’t think Tre is hurting for cash. I assume she pulls in at least half a million from Bravo then she get tens of thousands every time she gives an interview, sells a photo, promotes something, makes an appearance. I just saw photos of her with her brother and Melissa at the opening of a new Hard Rock resort in Florida-obviously they were paid.
It pisses me off that she can build a pool when she still hasn’t paid back so many people that she ripped off.
Nor has she compensated the people Joe ripped off by being a slum landlord. They’re just disgusting people. It amazes me that Tre was so judgemental and hard on her cousin Kathy. She worked for years as a hair dresser and lived within her means. She and Rich didn’t build a larger home until they could afford it.
I checked with my source about Teresa’s income. She gets about a million a season pretax. HOWEVER, Her book about her prison time my source estimates probably brought her in around FOUR MILLION. I hate that she was able to profit OFF HER CRIMES!
Damn, there is something wrong with the American public (myself included because I watch this crap too) that she made Four MILLION dollars going to jail.
What?!!!! $4 million? How? Book sales? You’ve got to be joking.
So sad the daughters don’t support each other. No mention of Margaret’s financial issues. A pool? Where does T get her money?
https://tamaratattles.com/2014/10/03/the-sentencing-of-joe-giudice-and-teresa-giudice/
I guess I don’t follow the Giudices close enough to read between the lines as to how she can still afford her lifestyle with her spending habits. $4 million will not go far when it’s being spent through a sieve. Link provides no insight as to how she is earning her money 5 years after the initial sentencing. But she is clearly still lacking any hint of social awareness and humility.
The pool company paid a portion or deeply discounted. Theresa had a post sitting next to The pool, and thanking the company.
Joe said he needed to get out of prison and go to Italy to support his family. Bravo!…will make it happen.
Yes because Bravo controls the deportation authorities. I’m sure Andy Cohen just made a call.
No, of course not. Because as soon as he was out the family made money for the reunion, etc. Bravo!
I’m actually on Jennifer’s side for once. It was silly, and i thought it was funny. Unless there was something awful they didn’t show in the Instagram clip, it really didn’t seem like a big deal to me. I was surprised by Margaret and Melissa’s response.
*ducks*
Jennifer does whatever Teresa tells her to do. Teresa loves that. This is how Jennifer stays on the show. I enjoy seeing the middle eastern culture on the show, especially the food. But she’s such a thirsty bitch it is impossible to like her.
I live where we have middle eastern people that live mainstream lives. I was hiking thru a park, large gathering having a barbecue, men in one section, women at another. Both groups invited me to eat, If find most middle eastern people very kind with the exception of one country, many of those young men come off arrogant, rude and superior. Considering they speak several languages with little accent and most are university graduates maybe we do appear ignorant.
Jesus, really?
The owner of the local Middle Eastern/African grocery is teaching me how to cook those dishes.
I walked in, asking for paneer and he said “you cook? Then you make. And I will teach you”.
I love watching all the other cultures. Please, Bravo, put a camera on Grandpa Guidice and have him cook a meal. I would be riveted to the tv.
That’s fantastic!! Good for you! I wish someone would help me cook, I’m absolutely hopeless. I walk in the kitchen and my IQ immediately dips well below 100.
@scarymary when someone tells you something you’ve said hurts their feelings, when you tell them to lighten up , it was a joke, it’s a double insult.
Whether anyone found it funny or not, it hurt Jackie’s feelings. Jennifer should have apologized.
I am impressed that Gia got into Rutgers. Well, she is also clearly the smartest one in the family. The scene with her grandfather made me shed a few tears and made me miss my Pappaw terribly. I’m glad those girls still have him in their life, but he shouldn’t have too much put on him.
That scene with Gia and her Grandpa made me cry. She seems wise beyond her years and she clearly loves her Grandpa and Dad 💔
I love Dolores and Frank. They have such a great best friend relationship what a great example for their son 🙂
Jennifer is so immature and vindictive.
I love Gia. Such a smart, articulate & compassionate young lady. So happy to see her flourish despite all the family turmoil. She is so resilient & I wish her all the best life has to offer.
I agree. Gia was such a spoiled brat as a kid but turned out to be a responsible, kind young adult.
I’m glad she’s going to Rutgers it’s a good school and also a state school so the tuition is not that steep…there are student loans. Poor Gabriella, she looks so shell-shocked every time she is on camera. Such a pretty girl. Teresa never seems to pay any attention to her. I feel for these girls and wish the best for them.
Gia better be careful- all that book learnin’ at Rutgers… If she comes home sounding like other critical thinkers who can reason and make decisions- she will become just the type of people who recognize what phony ignorant people her parents are. Then she will get frozen out by her Mama.
That’s what happens to children who have some intelligence. They leave home, meet people that aren’t knuckle draggers and realize that their own family is an embarrassment. My brother in law for instance. When he met his wife and her normal family, the realization that his mom was batshit crazy hit him and he pulled away from her big time. My husband meanwhile, still kisses her narcissistic ass. It’s pathetic actually.
Ktina- you’re right it’s part of growing up. We all get perspective and grow by stepping away from our family and meeting other families, marrying into them or broadening what we know through work and school.
People with all the “ingredientses” for advanced vocabulary puts Teresa over the edge. I hope Gia keeps going and her sisters follow suit.
I’m sure that Gia is paid a lot to post on instagram.
Gia has less than half a million followers and I don’t recall her doing many promotions. Of all the kids who think they are Infamous and deserve to be paid as an “influencer” I would most support Gia for getting a few checks to help with her college and living expenses. She’s a really smart and loving girl in a really fucked up fambly.
In other news, please follow me on Instagram. I’m am trying to get to a measly 10K in followers. lol, I shall be selling you all diarrhea tea in no time. JK. https://www.instagram.com/tamara_tattles/?hl=en
Dear TT, I’m loathe to join Instagram… however because it’s you I’m now number 7800+, pat Banjo for me, Niamh x
Ah thanks! I don’t even have a cell phone, lol so it is a bit difficult for me to update but my posts go up automatically from the site! Almost to 8000 followers!
Everyone give me a follow, please! https://www.instagram.com/tamara_tattles/?hl=en
I remember when I first started on Twitter and ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE followed me. I was sure that meant I was super popular. lol. Then when it got to ONE THOUSAND PEOPLE it really tripped me out.
If anyone wants to follow me on Twitter, you can do that here https://twitter.com/TamaraTattles
Oh yeah and I am on Face book here…https://www.facebook.com/tamara.tattles I am very Facebook impaired though so don’t take offense if I don’t respond.
You really don’t have a cellphone?? Oh my god. I honestly could not live without mine. We have a relationship, the most stable relationship I have ever had. 😂
I have a relationship with my laptop. 🙂
Put up some cat photos, or a few “woman screaming at cat” memes. Your numbers should swell immediately. The WWHL episode last night that you mentioned you were skipping because of he who shall not be named had the funniest RHO tag line ever. Marge Sr. was asked what her tag line would be and she said “I have two cats but only one pussy”. I thought Andy, Marge Jr and he who shall not be named were going to fall out of their chairs they laughed so hard. Everyone loves kitty cats!
I’ll join Instagram so I can follow you.
I had lipo 20+ years ago, at the time it was extremely painful. The fat comes back and goes to different areas of the body. I was a C cup before lipo and became a DDD cup several years later.. Had a breast reduction too, that is more painful then the lipo. I don’t recommend either.
On another note, I was really hoping after Jennifer seeing herself last season would change for the better. She is still the horrible person she was last season. I’m already over her!
She doesn’t strike me as someone with an inclination towards self-insight. She is probably one of the most superficial women on the entire series which is really saying somethin’
Didn’t Jennifer go off on Jackie last year with ridiculous drama when Jackie wrote an article that mentioned Jennifer’s kids? Where was all that sunshine and lightness then?
I cannot stand Jennifer Aydin! From her lack of style (expensive is not style), to her antiquated view of gender roles in the context of a marriage (Bill makes the money…I spend it), to her messed up concept of love (Bill gave me liposuction and made me skinny, now I feel loved) , I feel that she is sending all the wrong messages to her young impressionable children. Also, why do I get the feeling that Bill does things for Jennifer just to get her out of his hair? To me he seems like an undercover cheater like any other real housewives husband…….
Yes, I get a strong cheater vibe from him. And it is clear he has zero respect for his wife.
Would you respect that? He’s an intelligent man who has an unintelligent wife. You can tell his mind is somewhere else when she talks to him. He just doesn’t want to pay child support for five kids and alimony so he grins and bares it.
I am looking forward to this season. All these ladies are nuts, and ridiculously self-righteous. I love it. Will there be acknowledgment of Teresa and Danielle’s friendship crumbling, or was that all off camera?
I’m sure they will show it for ratings. And Tamara said Danielle will be on the show.
I thought the episode with Teresa’s girls and her dad was touching. I love Gia, we watched her grow up on TV. Aww and Milania, she seems to have lost her spunky ways since all this went down with her parents. I think she was the closest to Joe and it really took a toll on her. Actually, I feel for all the girls and wish them the best.
A pool? Hmm, she said in her interview with Joe that the upkeep on the house is a lot, so add a pool!
Dolores’ kitchen is very white, with no color in it but gray. It needs some color.. fruit, flowers, a few things on the counter to add some color to her dull kitchen. Maybe a vase, cake plate, pictures.. Idk add something. I don’t think she uses it. It doesn’t look used.
Overall not a bad episode. I’m not a big fan of any of these women ( I miss the old cast)… but I will watch.
My bff had back lipo with a breast lift & she would cry from the pain of the lipo. The breast lift surprising wasn’t painful, your nerve endings get cut around the tissue but lipo , i heard is extremely painful . I’m dying to know where the college money comes from? Rutgers is not cheap. Good for Gia for getting accepted. Teresa & Joe must have stuffed quite a few large mattresses
Rutgers is a little less than 15,000 per year. So, with Bravo money and appearance fees, Teresa could def afford it. However, if she mis manages her money and over spends, then no she can’t.
Room and board is another $10,000+ and Gia is living on campus so you are at a minimum of $25K.
I hope she didn’t let her parents apply for any student loans….
Kipper, per usual, our brains are in sync! Lol! I was going to say pretty much same thing. Or if Gia filed for FAFSA… that might just be what sends Tre back to camp. Just saying.
yeah…I was thinking the same thing….hopefully they steered clear of the FAFSA because that would definitely be a Fuster Cluck….
I’ll be back for the recap and comments, but just popping by to say I watched this in the middle of the night and could not get over most of their faces! Cartoon-like caricatures! I think it’s the lip implants? Dunno. But my God, more than any other RH franchise, this cast looked freakish to me.
But maybe I was late night-xanax-binge eating distorted.
omg, I totally agree, and Teresa’s forehead seems to be shrinking before our very eyes!
Oh, and then I saw the preview of WWHL ahd dud not for a second recognize Margaret until Andy said who the guests were! Total transformation since filming I guess? I thought she had this weird mouth thing going the whole episode. Like marbles in her mouth?
Maybe Gia earned a scholarship into college, she is very bright
Rutgers could never have imagined this kind of press. Who knows. Perhaps they added incentives Gia to attend. Just sayin.
Or maybe she’s on the Rutgers rowing team! Lol
ROLFLMAO…. sure, she is right up there with Elizabeth Warren, James Gandolfini, Mario Batali, Kristen Davis, Phillip Roth, Calista Flockhart, and Robert Pinsky.
Rutgers REALLY needed the daughter of two felons who appears on a reality show to raise awareness…
CAN’T STOP LAUGHING.
There are rumors that Melissa is pregnant. Any truth to this, TT?
I feel so bad for Tre’s girls. I really hope they are getting counseling.
She is not pregnant.
Thank you.
*Ducking* as far in advance as I always do, as a Giudice Family fan here at TT’s, but this episode really emphasized why I am. They’ve always brought the “real” the best to Real Housewives for me. I actually like Joe better than Teresa in that respect, whether it was drunk somersaults or going to jail or disinterested in Xmas morning etc he brought it, lol. The rest of the cast plus his father in law agreed, I think. That kitchen scene was as real as it gets on Bravo.
Loving the Delores storyline too! I believed that she was hung up on the ex, but am happy I appear to be wrong.
I wish they’d quit trying to make Margaret’s kooky housekeeper happen. Seems too forced at this point.
It’s okay, Aud. Even my cold black heart had a little twitch during that scene. 🙂
I like Margaret. Her husband is so sweet. But the maid thing. Yeah I have to agree. She was funny in that one scene last season. But they are trying to hard with that
I’m so excited about this season. I dont know why. I love delores. She
I have fat fingers.. lol. Love Dolores and how her unconventional situation works.
Thank God for Gia. Shes such a good girl!
Cute pics on Gia’s Instagram as she reunites with Joe in Italy.
Oh..look. She’s posing with a new double G Gucci bag. The bag is front and center. And she was at the airport with Tre who sports…a Gucci sweat shirt.
Thank Gucci for Sophomore year tuition.