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“You need to fall in order to see what you have done wrong.” – Joe Gorga to Teresa Giudice, Season 4, Episode 4
Andy Cohen explained on the June 17, 2012 episode of WWHL that, over an 11-month period in 2007-2008, Teresa changed her mind several times about joining the cast (she kept dropping in and dropping out) because she wasn’t sure what she was getting herself into.
Teresa has said many, many times that she never would have signed up had the original cast included her family members. Her family members were cast in the third season after the show was an established hit, and they hid their auditions and interviews with Bravo from Teresa because their negotiations included the promise to bring family drama.
“Melissa Gorga was at nearly every single family function, especially the ones filmed for Bravo. For years, she sent Bravo ‘audition’ tapes, e-mails, and even spoke with producers and assistants in person. No one was interested in her or her husband, who they mocked behind the scenes.” – RHONJ Insider, Comment Posted at Reality Tea, September 17, 2011
When you compare what Danielle said to what Melissa herself said in her very first Bravo blog and in one of her early interviews, it confirms that Danielle simply was repeating what the Gorgas told her about Teresa, and that she was not lying about Melissa’s malicious intent regarding Teresa:
- Melissa was “constantly contacting Danielle” to “help her expose Teresa and Joe;”
- Melissa “wanted to come on with Danielle season 2 to get back at Teresa;” and
- Melissa “begged (along with Joe) to come on with her season 2,” and Danielle said “No!”.
“Teresa’s brother has been directly contacting me for the past year and a half, letting me know how he feels about his sister… And not once do you see her with her brother and her sister-in-law and their beautiful children. Not once! But she glorifies everybody else. Why couldn’t she show her real family? Why? Just tell me why? Because they have more than her maybe? Because she’s jealous of them maybe? Or maybe they would have told the truth and said Teresa goes off like that all the time. ‘It’s not just Danielle. Teresa’s certifiably crazy.’ I think they’re going to have their chance now to speak the truth. Go for it, I’m all behind you.” – Danielle Staub, September 6, 2010, Out.com
During reunion 2 in September 2010, Teresa said, “I wanna know who the f*ck she [Danielle] is talking to.”
Danielle tweeted Teresa in August 2011 (a day before episode 8 was filmed in sesaon 4), saying that Melissa was communicating with her in 2009 and 2010. And Jacqueline calls it a betrayal of their friendship for Teresa to respond to the tweets because of what Danielle did to Ashlee (which was three years ago, and which was put to rest at the reunion special for season 2 in September 2010 when Jac and Teresa hugged it out with Danielle at the very end of part 2 of reunion 2)? Danielle tweeted Teresa about Melissa contacting her, and Teresa tweeted back two responses, which had nothing to do with anyone but Melissa, yet Jacqueline makes it about her. Teresa has every right to know what went down, no matter how long ago it occurred (Teresa just found out about it the day before episode 8 was filmed). Melissa shouldn’t be off the hook for betraying Teresa, especially since she denies conspiring with Danielle to take down Teresa (so, of course, Melissa has never apologized for doing this). And Jacqueline should remember that she continued to have contact with Danielle’s sidekick, Kim G, even after Kim G encouraged Danielle to pursue the assault case against Ashlee in 2010.
“I also don’t understand how any of these women can see that Melissa was contacting Danielle in order to stir shit up for Teresa, and yet Melissa comes out of this smelling like a rose and Teresa is labeled the crazy, vindictive bitch. That’s talent.” – Stinger97, June 17, 2012, Television Without Pity
Jac doesn’t want Teresa to bring up what happened 2 years ago with Melissa because of what happened with Jac and Danielle 2 years ago.”
| Season | Episodes | Season Premiere | Season Finale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | May 12, 2009 | July 9, 2009 | |
| 2 | 18 | May 3, 2010 | September 6, 2010 | |
| 3 | 21 | May 16, 2011 | October 23, 2011 | |
| 4 | TBA | April 22, 2012 | TBA | |
This underhanded, desperate attempt by the Gorgas to defame Teresa started in 2008 and continues to this day. They came on the show behind her back with the intent to make Teresa’s personal life public in the most negative way possible and to ruin her relationships with her ‘second family’. It has been and continues to be a very public bashing of a family member by other family members, who have gossiped about Teresa to her ‘friends’ to get them to side with them to take her down. It is obscene for Teresa’s brother to expect her to just ‘let it go’ — an explanation and apology for the character assassination are necessary steps to rebuilding the trust that the Gorgas destroyed in their quest for fame.
“Jacqueline, she wasn’t being ‘friendly’ with Danielle. She wanted to find out the truth about her own family betraying her for years and trying to publicly humiliate her. How can you fault her for that? This was all news to Teresa at this time, and as her friend you should be bothered by what her family did to her, and you should have supported her in her search for the truth. A true friend would not expect you to start a war with family. A true friend would expect you to have their back when their own family is trashing them on NATIONAL TV week after week. But then again, you let your own family do that to Ashlee and you yourself did it to her, too. How hypocritical is that of you?” – Ashley86, June 18, 2012, Jacqueline’s Bravo Blog
“Jacqueline, if someone had been out to destroy you, and you knew there was one person who could vindicate you and, yes, ‘expose’ the person who was lying, wouldn’t you? I mean you and Caroline even sought out Danielle’s ex after season 2, trying to ‘expose’ her when, at that point, all the drama was dying down.” – housewives fanatic, June 18, 2012, Jacqueline’s Bravo Blog
“I know I shouldn’t try to understand Jax cause she makes my head and even my hair hurt, but riddle me this batman, why was it not ‘disloyal (to Ashlee)’ for Jax to stay friends with Kim G and then embrace Danielle at the Reunion even after the criminal charges, but it is ‘disloyal (to Jax)’ for Teresa to communicate with Danielle on a public social media to find out what a POS MeGo truly is? I just don’t get it.” – Antonella, June 18, 2012, StoopidHousewives
“So Teresa is wrong for responding ‘thank you’ to Danielle in 2011, but Melissa isn’t wrong for constantly contacting Danielle in 2009-2010; and Teresa should just get over it? “Jacqueline, you are such a hypocrite!! I can’t even bother to go into all of it except to say, ‘If you don’t want to be in the middle of a family feud, then stay out of it on both sides!!!” I completely get why Teresa is angry with you for constantly defending Melissa (a HUGE phony).” – kitty cat, June 18, 2012, Jacqueline’s Bravo Blog
“Jacqueline, you don’t want Teresa to be friends with Danielle because you think Danielle did you wrong; but you throw your friendship with Melissa up in Teresa’s face every chance you get. You know that Melissa and Danielle were conspiring together, and yet you hate one and love the other. Where is the consistency in that?” – DJ, June 18, 2012, Jacqueline’s Bravo Blog
“Jacqueline, you talk so much about being a ‘real friend’ but a real friend would have had Teresa’s back when her family came on national TV bashing her right off the bat. Does no one else think it’s completely strange that you all LOVED Teresa and Joe until you met Melissa?? The very first episode Joey and Melissa were on changed the whole dynamic of the show. I used to love you all, but now watching the show makes me sick to my stomach, and I feel awful for Teresa. What makes her wrong for wanting to know why her own sister-in-law would talk to someone who hated her so much? You say Teresa shouldn’t talk to Danielle because she hates you, but it’s okay if Melissa talks to her even though she hates Teresa? Hypocrite!!!” – BrandiG, June 18, 2012, Jacqueline’s Bravo Blog
“Jac admitted on twitter that Teresa NEVER told her to hate Kathy or Melissa, she just felt she implied it. Well, if she’s your friend and she’s venting to you, you just listen, don’t take sides. Caroline has said more than once that Teresa told them to hate Kathy and Melissa, but when confronted in episode 8, even she admitted Teresa never said those words (it was more along the lines that Teresa felt her friends should have her back and should be able to discern that Melissa and Kathy are lying).” – Lazaka, June 18, 2012, IMDb.com
NM said on June 17, 2012, The Truth About Melissa Gorga and Her Bravo Audition Tape, at The Fame-Whorgas:
“This was fantastic! I knew many of these facts but could not talk about them. The police report on Joe Gorga is the truth. Kathy also has 2 siblings with police records. I wish they would come to light. Heather Robinson is dying to get on the HWs. That’s why they brought her in for the hot-tub scene with Kathy’s sister. Melissa is very jealous of Heather. Joe Gorga called Kim D a Coke whore. Look at your own wife’s family JoeG & your cousins’ PD reports about drugs. We all live near each other. Albie & Greggy ARE VERY close! Caroline’s family is a complete mess. More needs to be exposed. This was a fantastic read. Thank you! Search hard and you will find the other police records. There is so much more that is hidden. #Fact – YOU’RE an open target when you become a public figure on The Telly! Teresa, you are a class act my dear. See you at your book signing. Melissa, I have had many a lunch dates with your sisters…Stop all the lies!…You never know how people talk when catching a buzz. Rich, you’re a slumlord…How’s the gas station doing? Caroline, I’m very glad Lauren got a lap-band. She’s very beautiful. Sad you trashed her on national TV. Wonder who I am? Don’t bother to send your investigators, I talk to you every week. Hmmmm…”
Jacqueline Laurita blogged about season 4 in her season 3 blog: she told Teresa to ignore the fact the Melissa (and her husband) contacted Danielle in 2009-2010 because it was ‘two years ago’ and Teresa needs to ‘let go of the past’. She is totally disregarding the fact that this act of betrayal by Melissa has had an extremely negative affect on Teresa’s well being and livelihood. And she is not addressing the serious question: “How can Teresa trust her brother and SIL after such a betrayal, for which they have yet to to admit or apologize.”
@JacLaurita
T never told me not to be friends with Melissa and Kathy but she implied it several times in many ways.
June 17, 2012
@JacLaurita
The real fight on the deck was 5 hours long before Caroline showed up. I didn’t know she was coming either.
June 17, 2012
@JacLaurita
Sorry Haters! XOXO! [Jac’s response for winning the WWHL poll 67% to 33%, the usual figures for their rigged polls]
June 17, 2012
@JacLaurita
I just voted for myself. Lol! I’m I allowed? Is this a fixed poll already? Who knows.
June 17, 2012
@amargentieri
This episode sucked.. @melissagorga was in it for like 45 seconds total #wtf #nothappy
Retweeted by Melissa Gorga
June 17, 2012
@LysaSimpson
Here’s how you know teresa is lying, she’s talking
June 17, 2012
@JacLaurita
Sorry Haters! XOXO!
Retweeted by Lysa Simpson
June 17, 2012
@LysaSimpson
@JacLaurita your a real person and you would have to be blind not to see that #It Is What It Is
June 17, 2012
Based on Jacqueline’s August 15, 2011, blog last year, Eye Opener, we can expect Jacqueline to defend Melissa when it comes to light in season 4 that Melissa contacted Danielle. Melissa’s reasons for contacting Danielle were to:
- Ask Danielle to bring her onto the show to get back at Teresa, and
- Feed Danielle information to use against Teresa Guidice (Melissa’s goal was not only to inflame Teresa, but to also get herself noticed by the Bravo producers).
Melissa contacting Danielle was brought to Teresa’s attention during her appearance on WWHL in August 2011 (season 4, episode 8, which aired on June 17, 2012, was filmed just after Teresa’s WWHL appearance in August 2011).
Preview of season 4, episode 8 (video below) – Jacqueline Laurita tries to get Teresa Giudice to look at this feud from another angle but Teresa is having none of it:
http://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-new-jersey/season-4/videos/its-frickin-jealousy
“In the preview of the Tre, Jac and Caroline confrontation, Teresa brings up Melissa contacting Danielle and Jac responds that it was two years ago and should be forgotten; then she chastises Teresa for contacting her more recently about the same issue. I just thought it was strange that Jac seemed to know it was true that Melissa had contacted Danielle. I thought it was even stranger that she seems to be fine with this even though this was during the same period that Danielle was supposedly out to destroy the Manzo/Laurita clan — but Jac was angry that Teresa had contacted Danielle over whether or not it was true. Did Melissa already admit to contacting Danielle via facebook? Why is this fine with Caroline and Jac but not fine with them that Teresa supposedly contacted Danielle more recently about something that actually personally had to do with her?” – g-electra, June 12, 2012, IMDb.com
“Jacqueline has no idea or concept of what true loyalty is. She acknowledges that she knew Melissa tried contacting Danielle during season 2 and justifies her actions about how she got on the show by saying it was two years ago. She knew that Melissa got on the show to maliciously hurt Teresa, and instead of sticking up for Teresa, she sided with Melissa, then wants to lecture Teresa about what loyalty is? Jacqueline is jealous of Teresa and decided that there was strength in numbers to try to take her down. The reality is that Jacqueline and Caroline are both irrelevant and probably won’t get signed for another season, and Melissa is quickly losing her credibility as more and more proof surfaces about her true intentions with regards to joining the show. Kathy is a wild card and I actually think that if she can keep the other women out of her ear, she might just be a good ally for Teresa. But Teresa is not wrong in the way she has felt about Melissa joining the show. It was low down, dirty and extremely cruel. Melissa should be the one getting yelled and screamed at not Teresa. And, for the record, and everyone who can’t read, Danielle contacted Teresa… not the other way around like Jacqueline wants everyone to believe. She can’t even get her own story straight… ” – Richie Klatt, June 22, 2012, Reality Tea
Melissa has always maintained she was not the one who fed Danielle the reunion information about Teresa; however, an insider explained that Danielle used Melissa’s name verbatim but it was edited out of season 2 reunion footage because, at the time, the viewers didn’t know who Melissa was:
“There was so much of what is now relevant information edited out of the reunion last year [season 2] because, at the time, it was irrelevant. Danielle used Melissa’s name verbatim, and among many other things, discussed Tre ‘not speaking or associating with her own family’ and being a horrible aunt. When Teresa was arguing with Danielle, which was edited down, she CLEARLY told Danielle Staub to not ‘break up’ her family – not ‘bring up’ her family as she tried to assure us. This is why… The day of the reunion, after the first Danielle confrontation (there were more), Tre got extreme anxiety – and this is when she started to put all of Missy’s motives together: coming to every family event for camera time while behind the scenes contacting producers, Danielle, and pulling the best act which got her on the show – together with Tre’s brother Joey.” [Insider commenting at Reality Tea on September 17, 2011]
Here is Melissa’s tweet (and her sister’s tweet) after Danielle’s ‘nephew’ comment during reunion 2, which infuriated Teresa:
Melissa Marco-Gorga Wow Wow Wow!!!!
August 30, 2010
Lysa Marco-Simpson what happen…………hit a nerve?
August 30, 2010
Danielle stated that Melissa had indeed been in contact with her to give her dirt on Teresa, and that she had proof in the form of voice mails and emails. Here is a September 6, 2010 interview with Danielle Staub by Out.com where she explains her comments which infuriated Teresa — comments she based on the dirt Melissa AND Joe gave to her:
Why did what you said about her nephew make Teresa so mad in the first place?
Well, if you notice, the only two times I saw her this season, she physically came after me. What did I speak the first time? Her house was in foreclosure. Is it in foreclosure?
So what were you saying?
Teresa never greeted her nephew. I have proof of that in email. She never said congratulations to her brother when her nephew was born. Her brother has been directly contacting me for the past year and a half, letting me know how he feels about his sister. And how he and his wife — pregnant wife — were thrown from her house because they brought my favorite cookies to Christmas Eve.
Your favorite cookies?
My favorite cookies. From Corrado’s! The ones I took on The Today Show in season 1 [of The Real Housewives of New Jersey].
OK…
Teresa threw a hissy fit. And not once do you see her with her brother and her sister-in-law and their beautiful children. Not once! But she glorifies everybody else. Why couldn’t she show her real family? Why? Just tell me why? Because they have more than her maybe? Because she’s jealous of them maybe? Or maybe they would have told the truth and said Teresa goes off like that all the time. ‘It’s not just Danielle. Teresa’s certifiably crazy.’ I think they’re going to have their chance now to speak the truth. Go for it, I’m all behind you.
The ‘cookie incident’, a story told in season 3, uncovers another one of Melissa’s lies.
The story about Teresa throwing out the cookies that Melissa brought to her house for Christmas 2009 was discussed during season 3. According to Danielle in her September 6, 2010, Out.com interview (above), Melissa and Joe “were thrown from Teresa’s house because they brought my favorite cookies to Christmas Eve” (it was the cookies that were thrown out, not the Gorgas).
Melissa tweeted that her first contact with Danielle was initiated by Danielle AFTER she posted about the ‘cookie incident’ on her Facebook page on December 28, 2009 (she repeated this story in her Bravo blog for season 4 episode 7).
Here’s the actual tweet:
Here’s what she said in her June 12, 2012, Bravo blog:
“When I was pregnant with Joey, Danielle reached out to me on Facebook after I posted about the Christmas cookie incident. Yes, I did talk to her. For some reason I felt sorry for her watching how Teresa went after her, and I did vent to her about my issues with Teresa.”
Danielle claims that Melissa sent her the following message in November 2009, BEFORE the ‘cookie incident’, which may have been the first communication between the two of them. If so, it was initiated by Melissa, not by Danielle as Melissa claims:
“will you (DS) help me expose Teresa and Joe please?”
Regarding Danielle, during the season 3 reunion special in October 2011, Melissa said, “I exchanged a few tweets and an email with her.” Melissa told AllAboutTRH in April 2012, “I’ve never met her,” which would be technically true if they only communicated electronically.
Here’s the ‘Christmas cookie’ Facebook comment that Melissa made on December 28, 2009 (from RealCityHousewife):
Melissa Marco Gorga finds it amazing how you can bring Christmas cookies to someones house, then go back there again the next day after Christmas b/c of a different celebration, and the woman of the house picks up some cookies and says to you, “these are the k…ind of cookies I like, when you come to my house bring these cookies, I threw out the ones that you brought, did you get them from A & P, a supermarket.” NO I replied, I got them from Corrados, an excellent Italian shop, that we all know and love. And I’m pregnant so those caught my eye and I bought them, then she replied, “I threw them in the garbage I don’t like those kinds of cookies” NOTE TO SELF: I should have said, “Well they are better then the NOTHING THAT YOU BRING TO MY HOUSE EVERY EASTER!!” How can someone be so rude, and always want to attack someone else, what could it be, HMMMMM! I think I might know but I wont go there. I think some people need to come back to plant earth, Oh I forgot, she also let everyone know Last night, AND I QUOTE “I AM A CELEBRITY”. I’ve been quiet for so long but now you’ve pushed me right over the edge! RIGHT OVER IT!!
Danielle is telling the truth about Melissa contacting her and begging her to come on with her in season 2 to help her expose Teresa and Joe.
When you compare what Danielle said her interview with Out.com (above) to what Melissa herself said in her very first Bravo blog and in one of her early interviews (below), it confirms that Danielle simply was repeating what the Gorgas told her about Teresa, and that she was not lying about Melissa “constantly contacting Danielle” to “help her expose Teresa and Joe,” and “wanting to come on with Danielle season 2 to get back at Teresa,” and “begging (along with Joe) to come on with her season 2” and Danielle saying “No!”
“Some of you may be very confused right now. You may be thinking, “Teresa has a brother?” Before all the press, you probably didn’t know we existed, did you? Well here we are! I know the episode is a bit confusing at first. You’re probably wondering why Joe acted the way he did when his sister came up to him. It’s understandable so let me explain. Teresa has kept my husband, Joe, and his family (me and my three children) away from everything she has been going through and everything that has been so exciting in her life for the last three years… She has never been happy for her brother or cared about anything good going on in his life or his children’s. She only wants to discuss her life and only cares about herself. She kept us as far away during Season 1 and Season 2, because I think she knew this would happen when they found us. Karma is a bitch… Teresa likes to be the center of attention. Be beneath her or get the hell out of her way. Well she has met her match!” – Melissa Gorga, No Fakers, May 16, 2011
“Teresa’s never given us any respect… I think when Joe and I started making a lot of money is when she really lost it. She was used to being the biggest and the best, and then when I came in, she felt threatened. She doesn’t want anyone to one up her. Teresa’s fine with you as long as you’re one step below.” – Melissa Gorga, Life & Style, May 18, 2011
Danielle first tweeted Andy Cohen about her contact with Melissa when Teresa was a guest on WWHL on August 7, 2011. Here are Danielle and Teresa’s tweets:
Teresa told fans in August 2011:
“Last night on the WWHL after show Andy read me a tweet from Danielle Staub (!)”.
Teresa detailed further what the message from Danielle to Gorga stated:
“@melissagorga Melissa Did you ever tell Teresa you were contacting me constantly? Did you tell Tre you wanted to come on with me last season To get back at her? and every time you & Tre’s brother begged me to come on w me-I said no!”
Teresa at the time was unsure if the message was true:
“I have no idea if it’s true, but I pray it’s not. I want nothing more than my family back… I wish I could magically fix it, but it’s gonna take time & trust & lots of prayers.”
Here is Danielle’s tweet to Andy:
“@bravoandy @bravotv Maybe I should show everyone what @melissagorga wrote my fb inbox about Teresa?”
Danielle also claimed that in November 2009, Melissa sent this message:
“will you (DS) help me expose Teresa and Joe please?”
Here are Danielle’s tweets to Melissa:
“@melissagorga Melissa Did you ever tell Teresa you were contacting me constantly?”
“@melissagorga did you tell tre you wanted to come on w me last season To get back at her”
“@melissagorga and everytime you & Tre’s brother begged me to come on w me – I said no!”
When a fan tweeted that Melissa was the one who fed Danielle the reunion info, Danielle responded with:
“she did indeed tell me how else would I know.”
Following Danielle’s tweets, Melissa tweeted the following denial:
“Let’s be clear. After I posted abt the xmas cookies incident on FB she approached me to film w/ her. Did I film? No! Begged her? Please.”
Let’s compare the above tweet by Melissa in August 2011 with her statement on June 12, 2012:
“When I was pregnant with Joey, Danielle reached out to me on Facebook after I posted about the Christmas cookie incident. Yes, I did talk to her. For some reason I felt sorry for her watching how Teresa went after her, and I did vent to her about my issues with Teresa. This was all addressed already at the Season 3 reunion. It was well over three years ago and since then I thought that we were working to get to a better place, but I guess I have moved on and she has not.” – Melissa Gorga, June 12, 2012, A Real ‘Rockstar’
Note: Melissa’s communication with Danielle was not ‘all addressed’ at the season 3 reunion; it was glossed over by Andy. Melissa said on the the season 3 reunion:
“I exchanged a few tweets and an email with her.”
“If liar Melissa admitted to exchanging a few tweets and an email, imagine what the real truth is! I bet Melissa had been spamming Danielle with a storm of tweets, Facebook messages, and emails, begging Danielle to have her featured on the show as ‘a friend of Danielle’. She’s worse than Kim G, who, if I’m not mistaken, shared her personal driver with Danielle just to be on camera!” [Stanton Hargrave, June 12, 2012, Teresa’s Bravo Blog]
Danielle then responded stating she has saved emails and voicemails from Melissa:
“Be careful dear I saved all your lengthy emails and recorded your calls to me you sure you wanna lie ???”
Danielle claims Melissa wrote her the message:
“will you (DS) help me expose Teresa and Joe please?”
Reportedly Teresa thereafter believed the alleged exchange between Gorga and Staub did occur:
“But someone else was tweeting tonight too. Thank you @daniellestaub for telling the truth. I’m sad but not surprised.”
Danielle, however, claims that Melissa has since tried to deny the communications:
“Be careful dear I saved all your lengthy emails and recorded your calls to me you sure you wanna lie?”
Here are additional tweets by Danielle, including one that seems to indicate that a former executive producer for RHONJ has copies of Melissa’s emails to Danielle (Teresa’s guest spot on WWHL, when she was first made aware of Melissa’s contact with Danielle, was August 7, 2011):
“@AllAboutTRHONJ you do realize I’m not the only one holding that info right??? One other person has it!!!”
According to IMDb, Rebecca Toth was executive producer for 3 episodes of RHONJ in 2010:
– Reunion (2010) (executive producer)
– Babies, Bubbles and Bubbies (2010) (executive producer)
– Generation Vexed (2010) (executive producer)
“@JordanMorrris85 yes i did but I had made a promise to not tell bc Melissa didn’t want tre to know about her coming on the show”
“@cdoddsgo @real_housewives @bravoandy @melissagorga shes’s busy searching her many lengthy emails to me Andy I told u about this a yr ago”
Click here for more tweets:
Danielle made this comment about Melissa to a fan (now a former fan) in a Twitter direct message:
“MG is a piece of shit noboby I’ll shut her down very soon I got bigger fish to fry this week and next week but interesting indeed” [Twitter Direct Message from Danielle Staub to mardigrabarbie, November 16, 2011]
Friends for over 20 years: The beautiful blonde on the left with me & Dina is Jackie — she’s the one who first introduced us. Love her!!, June 11, 2012
Jacqueline’s loyalty is not to Teresa (she has been repeating what her ‘best friend’ told her in confidence to the very people who have caused her so much pain). Jacqueline’s loyalty is to the Marcos (which includes Joe Gorga) and the Wakiles, and they are all out to make sure Teresa ‘falls’ — the cast is banding together in numbers to make their case against Teresa.
“Jacqueline, it’s not Teresa’s job to make you feel OK about what’s written about her in the tabloids. It’s her job to keep her family afloat and protect her children. It’s not your job to pry and insert yourself. If she doesn’t want to talk about her issues, she doesn’t have to. If you feel the need to, talk to your husband. If you can’t be friends with someone who doesn’t dump all her problems on the table for discussion, then don’t be friends with her. Just stop talking about her! I never talk about serious issues with my friends. Those topics are extremely private and kept in my family. Once you open up those topics to outsiders, it becomes a whole new game. And, Jac, I really think you need a job or a hobby or something. You spend far too much time and energy focused on Teresa. Take a lesson from Caroline and just walk away. Not everyone is meant to be friends and some friendships just die out over time. That doesn’t mean anyone is at fault, it just happens. So let it go.” – Swizzle, June 18, 2012, Jacqueline’s Bravo Blog
“Jacqueline, you know that Melissa started two years ago with Danielle to get at Teresa and try to get on the show. You said it yourself. How can you act as though now she is such an innocent in the battle? Yes, Teresa is holding a grudge (she really doesn’t believe she is though) but she definitely has reason to be paranoid and watch over her shoulder. The feud she had with her sister-in-law has been brought to national TV by her sister-in-law. She was going through more stress than most people can handle without Melissa in the mix. Melissa was jealous of the fame, so she worked [Danielle and the producers] until she got there. LOTS of planning and acting go into the BS we see her act out on TV. I know you are smart enough to know this. You have to accept your friends for who they are, no strings attached.” – Wives Fan, June 18, 2012, Jacqueline’s Bravo Blog
Family members that truly love each other do not go on a TV show and air their dirty laundry, especially in a blindside by going behind a family member’s back. And a real friend would never ask about truly personal problems while the cameras are rolling.
“You need to fall in order to see what you have done wrong.” – Joe Gorga to Teresa Giudice, season 4, episode 4
“Thank god Teresa and Joe are in Chicago because I don’t want any bullshit at this party. She’s lost in space these days, Teresa. And her new so-called family are finding out the hard way.” – Richie Wakile
“Richie and his co-conspirators didn’t like that Teresa wasn’t devastated by being estranged from her brother and cousin — she still enjoyed her friends, whom she referred to as family. So what is the Mego/Kathy agenda: The best way to hurt Teresa is not just humiliate her in front of her ‘fans’ but to cause a rift between her and her ‘friends.’ Guess what Richie? If her so called ‘friends’ were so quick to turn on Teresa, they were not worth having and very worth losing.” – Antonella, June 11, 2012, StoopidHousewives
“There is money in the Bravo franchises… and the only reason why Kathy and Melissa joined the show was so that they could make some money (get a piece of the pie, as Kathy explained on The View: ‘It’s a big pie…why can’t everyone have a piece of it??’)… they’ve admitted it as well. By taking Teresa down and making themselves look better (so they thought), it would bring more money in for themselves. Teresa is the star of the show, and the harder they try to take her down in such a nasty and vicious way, the more she comes out on top.” – Ruby2, June 12, 2012, Teresa’s Bravo Blog
Jacqueline betrayed Teresa time and again by sticking her nose in Teresa’s business and, after intimately befriending Melissa and Kathy, discussing with Teresa’s back-stabbing family what Teresa told her in confidence; she also repeated her conversations with Teresa to Caroline, who she knew had a problem with Teresa.
“Jacqueline, you used to be my favorite, and I was never a big fan of Teresa until all of you began ganging up on her last season… Here is my problem, why can’t you understand that Teresa may not want to put every humiliating bit of her life and her problems out there on TV? I now understand why — you tell every little secret and confidence that Teresa has told you and post it, facebook it, tweet it. How can you not understand why Teresa went to Danielle last season and challenged her to show the emails between Danielle and Melissa? … This has been Teresa’s argument about her sister-in-law backstabbing her, and NO ONE was believing her, especially when Melissa, all innocent, stated that she did NOT talk to Danielle… until her last blog where she now admits to it. Teresa wanted to prove the truth, but you all were against her by now, and also you all did not want the truth to come out about Melissa… You and Caroline became Melissa’s biggest fans just so you could knock Teresa down. I don’t know why you turned against her and sit there week after week telling all about her life — the good, the bad, and the ugly. Do you still wonder why she doesn’t open up to you???” – Janicew, June 18, 2012, Jacqueline’s Bravo Blog
Jacqueline’s loyalty to Teresa began to diminish in season 3 and was completely gone by the time season 4 began to film, probably due to three factors:
- Her envy of Teresa’s success;
- Her belief that Teresa was stealing business opportunities from her; and
- The lies she was hearing about Teresa from the Marcos (they will say anything to ruin Teresa’s relationships).
Jacqueline was easily swayed by the Marcos to betray Teresa because she and Caroline truly believed that if weren’t for Teresa, they would have successful business ventures from their exposure on Bravo.
“The issues going on between her and Jacqueline and Caroline have nothing to do with me. It’s pretty obvious they are upset with her for their own reasons. I will say that there definitely is a sense of reality that is missing lately with the fake dogs and all the other nonsense stories. Teresa doesn’t ever have to worry about me taking anything from her, she loses her credibility all by herself.” – Melissa Gorga, June 12, 2012, A Real ‘Rockstar’
The cast is in collusion to defame Teresa. They have an evil agenda to take her down. It is obvious from post-season 3 interviews, season 4 footage and interviews, and season 4 blogs that they are working from the same script.
Jacqueline’s role was to pretend to be Teresa’s friend in season 4. Her job was to:
- Get Teresa to share confidential information about her financial and legal issues on camera;
- Suggest to Teresa that if she were truly interested in fixing the relationship with her brother, she would agree to go to therapy with him; and
- Encourage her not to contact Danielle to find out what Melissa said about her (Danielle has dirt on both Melissa and Jacqueline, so both of them want to bury the truth).
“I have to say, if I had a SIL that said my love for my brother was ‘weird’ and did so PUBLICLY, encouraging others to TWIST the meaning of that love and bond between a brother and sister — and then, to boot, that brother adds more fuel to a fire that had no business ever being started — well, I wouldn’t trust the motives here by SIL. Of course, neither of my brothers married women who have issues with their husbands being close to their sisters. Thank God! Maybe Joe Gorga doesn’t understand that a therapy session would be CONFIDENTIAL unless, of course, he and Mel wanted them to film their sessions??? I guess if you accuse a sister of being too close to your husband (her brother) one minute, but then turn around and say ‘go to therapy WITH my husband’ the next minute, most sisters would have lost any sense of trust by that point. Just try putting your own son and daughter in the same situation. Kathy, if Victoria’s love for Joseph was twisted into something unnatural, by his wife no less, would you still want her to go, knowing Victoria had been humiliated already more then once with Joseph and his wife? Creepy right?! You just don’t do to a brother and sister what Missy did.” – kat44, June 11, 2012, Kathy’s Bravo Blog
“Teresa wants confirmation from Danielle that Melissa and Joe did do all the sneaky shit to get on the show that they are being accused of. Mego wants to bury the truth. Teresa wanting to hear it from the horse’s mouth is her searching for the truth.” – RabbleRouser, June 14, 2012, LynnNChicago
“The Laurita’s put everything in a friggin talking head to try to make themselves look good and everybody else look bad. Chris is sitting there eavesdropping on his wife’s conversation with Teresa, why didn’t he say what he said in the talking head to Teresa then and there and make her answer to it? It’s so easy to paint yourself as a saint when you have nobody there challenging what you’re saying. He thinks his precious little Jacqueline is so selfless and giving and nobody appreciates it. He can lose me with that crap. Jacqueline wants to engage Teresa with her very personal things on camera but I bet she never brings it up when the cameras are off.” – swankie, June 17, 2012, Television Without Pity
They are beating the therapy-with-your-brother suggestion to death in every episode, trying to make it look like Teresa’s brother is the only one interested in repairing their relationship. Either they knew Teresa would refuse therapy, and planned to use this to show that only Joe Gorga was willing to make an effort, or they believed they could pressure her into going, with the goal of twisting what she says in therapy to her detriment (just like they did with the “she will leave you for a richer man” comment made in confidence off camera during the hiatus from filming between season 3 and season 4, which her brother chose to share with the world).
“I see my husband Joe doing nothing but putting his two feet forward and also trying to move on with his sister. He is trying his hardest to convince her that they need to do something to fix it.” – Melissa Gorga, June 12, 2012, A Real ‘Rockstar’
“Bravo should never ever ever be allowed to film any therapy sessions for anybody ever like for the rest of forever. Never Ever. And it’s shocking and down right belligerent that they would even try this crap again this soon after Russel’s death. And stoopid of MeGo and JoGo for not knowing better or not caring.” – madepiley, June 11, 2012, StoopidHousewives
Jacqueline is a poor actress and failed in pressuring Teresa to confide in her (on or off camera). Teresa was very selective in what she was sharing with Jacqueline; perhaps she could sense that Jacqueline did not have good intentions or perhaps she was being more cautious because she already had been burned by her brother and his wife, and by her cousin and her husband.
Jacqueline accuses Teresa of being fake because she won’t share her financial struggles and legal issues with her ‘friends’; however, Teresa is simply protecting her family. Instead of being supportive, Jacqueline is furious and is accusing Teresa of telling the tabloids her issues while keeping them secret from her ‘friends’ (if Jacqueline were a real friend she simply would lend an ear without judging, just as Teresa did with Jacqueline when she spoke of Ashlee last season). Thankfully, Teresa hasn’t fallen into her fake friends’ and back-stabbing family’s trap.
In her June 12, 2012 blog, A Real ‘Rockstar’, Melissa continues her criticism of Teresa for the tabloid story featured on season 4 episode 8:
“I guess in her mind, there is a difference between what she is willing to share with the tabloids for money and what she will share with her friends and family. Please take note, if there are constantly stories in the tabloids, the show is going to address it. If you don’t want these issues to be brought up on the show, then don’t address them in the tabloids.”
Caroline, Jacqueline, Melissa, Kathy, Joey and Richie are bent out of shape about a tabloid printing quotes that they themselves said on camera, and fault Teresa for it, yet they have no problem bashing her every episode for millions of viewers to see. They get worked up about what’s in print as if what’s on film is not as bad when, in actuality, it’s worse because the viewers can see them saying the words (people can be misquoted in print, you big dummies).
You do NOT get paid for interviews (you can’t sell a story) BUT you can get paid for the photos (as Teresa notes in her blog from episode 7—see excerpt below). A magazine can take any story and print true or false, positive or negative (what happens during an interview can be twisted from what actually was said.). There are plenty of REAL celebrities that have stories done about them in the magazine that are negative, and nobody attacks them and says that they put it out there. The other ladies have both positive and negative stories out there, and nobody accuse them of selling stories. When you do a photo shoot, you sign over the rights to those photos. That means they can be used whenever, wherever the magazine wants to use them. You do NOT get paid over and over…it is a one time contract/deal.
“Teresa has the rights to her pictures and her dependent children’s pictures. Joe Giudice has the rights to his pictures and his dependent children’s. In order for a magazine to use them, they must obtain a written agreement from Teresa. The agreement would contain the term ‘consideration.’ ‘Consideration’ mostly means money, but can mean a barter arrangement for goods or services. So, Teresa must be paid for the pictures. A magazine could not use her pictures without her permission (which would be given in a written agreement that would be legally binding upon all parties). If a commercial entity uses her pictures without her permission (or does not purchase the rights to use her licensed pictures from a website like shutterstock – if Teresa has licensed photographs to a website), Teresa within one year could sue sue the commercial entity. An individual controls his/her pictures for commercial use. If you are indicted for crime and you walking into court on a public street, the AP photographer can photograph you and it can be broadcast and printed (think John Edwards’ trial). She is not lying about the pictures. Is she paid for the stories? I don’t think so.” – Love NJ, June 21, 2012, StoopidHousewives
“Dear PR team for Teresa, please tell your client moving forward that underscoring payment from tabloids makes her look foolish. Please have her reiterate (as she does in her blog) that she gets paid for photographs, and that moving forward she has no control (outside of answering interview questions) over the direction of the stories they end up printing (as she is not the editor or writer of any of these tabloids). This is a simple and cut and dry statement. The whole ‘I don’t get paid for articles’ is, on paper, true, but not the complete story.” – Mel, June 20, 2012, Stoopid Housewives
“Jacqueline, actually I do know how the magazines work. The quotes from Melissa and Caroline were from the show: all any writer, editor, publisher, PR specialist or publicist has to do is watch and quote them… and Richie and Kathy have probably ragged on Teresa for the money she spends. So Teresa was asked about it and responded accordingly. BTW I am not even a huge Teresa fan. However I used to be a huge fan of yours, until I realized you’re a lunatic and you can’t get anything straight.” – ohiofan, June 13, 2012, Jacqueline’s Bravo Blog
“Jacqueline, it seems weird that you believe that anyone other than the writer/editor of a magazine has ANY control over the article. Teresa and her marriage and her kids are constantly attacked and belittled by the tabloids exploiting something that one of them said. And when you talk about all of the magazine offers you turn down, do you ever consider for a minute that Teresa financially might not have the luxury to turn any good offer down? The statements in the magazine were mostly verified by the sources (Caroline and Melissa) so what is the issue there? I just can’t believe you think tabloids don’t exploit and exaggerate more often than not by putting their own spin on it. I mean, Teresa gets paid a fee (for the photos) and the magazine gets paid by how many they sell. Think about it. And who decided that Caroline can see into the hearts and minds of those around her? She throws her personal narrative into each and everything Teresa says or does. When did she turn into the Hannibal “I can see your thoughts” Lector of New Jersey? She and her family have been cutting the Guidices down and belittling them behind their backs since last season. She’s always got some agenda against someone. Always.” – KatinkaHW, June 13, 2012, Jacqueline’s Bravo Blog
“Jac turned down offers to pose for mags because she knew they would write unflattering things…but if you have total control…wouldn’t she just make sure they didn’t write unflattering things?? She is saying that she would not have control, but Teresa does? Tabloids write unflattering things all the time. Does Teresa possibly invite MORE by posing? Maybe. If she did not pose, would they write the articles anyway? Absolutely. I don’t think Teresa is totally innocent, but I do think the other ladies are making stuff up at this point.” – Viewer from Boston, June 13, 2012, Jacqueline’s Bravo Blog
“Teresa is just along for the ride of the tabloids, whether it be good or bad, for the media exposure. A lot of celebrities who are trying to ‘make it big’, are just happy to be in the press. I’m not going as far as to say Teresa is HAPPY the press is bashing her about very personal things and/or rumors, but I honestly get the vibe that her feelings on this are, ‘If you cant beat them, join them!’ And I honestly don’t blame her for this. It’s all going to be publicized anyway. Regardless though, why is it any of Jacqueline’s business anyway? If Teresa is going bankrupt and buying 20,000 Louis Vuiton bags, or whatever the case may be, why is that a personal offense to Jacqueline???? My friends’ personal lives, even if they were involved with tabloids, wouldn’t effect my love for them, I don’t think.” – parkguy505, June 18, 2012, IMDb.com
In her June 12, 2012 blog, Cover Girl, Teresa explains how the tabloids work:
“Why not get paid if you can? They’re making money selling your face, why shouldn’t you get something? Here’s how I feel about that: if the magazine is going to run a story about you anyway and you have no control about what the story will be, what will be on the cover, even how they might twist your own quotes or use ugly pictures of you, why not get paid for a professional photo shoot? If I say no, they’re going to do the story anyway, but the photos will probably not be pretty, like the recent cover of US Weekly with my arms crossed when I look all mad. Who wants that?
“They put me on the cover because apparently magazines sell really well when I’m on them. I’m not sure if that’s flattering or not since the stories aren’t typically very flattering. I’m not saying being wanted is better or somehow desirable because in most cases it isn’t, but to say that I have any control over it is false. And they know it.
“So on this episode they were all acting so shocked at the story they said I put out. First of all, they know I didn’t put it out. Yes, for that one I posed for the photos rather than have random street shots of me used. During the shoot they asked me some questions, and I answered them. Some of them, not even all of them. And I didn’t say anything bad about anyone. What did I say? They were asking all about how my friends were treating me now that I was in bankruptcy. Obviously they wanted me to say something mean or crazy, but I didn’t.
“As far as the other ladies, their quotes are from THEM, not me. Those are the things they said themselves on the show. If a writer wants to label them as “insults,” what can I do? Nothing. Just like I could do nothing about the cover headline: ‘I’m terrified of being poor.’ The editors write that I’m ‘bullied by my friends for being broke.’ Not my quote, not from me.
“What’s crazy is that Caroline acts like it is from me. As if I’m some master magazine publisher who puts these stories out. I don’t put them out. They go out with or without me. And Caroline, Jacqueline, Melissa, Kathy and their husbands KNOW THIS.
“How about the OK! Magazine cover that came out TWO WEEKS before this one and was also on stands while we were filming? I wasn’t asked about the story, wasn’t interviewed, and they don’t have a single quote from me. Inside the story says ‘On the Brink of Divorce’ and quotes a bunch of ‘insiders’… AND QUOTES MELISSA.
“There’s Melissa smiling under the headline Melissa “Tells OK! Exclusively Why She Believes She’ll Never Bury The Hatchet With Her Sister-in-Law.” Wow. So Melissa put that headline out there? Not very loyal to family… And here are a few of Melissa’s direct quotes: ‘Joe (Giudice) doesn’t always speak the truth. A lot of the things I hear him say are false.’ And ‘I always was nothing but good to Teresa,’ ‘Teresa and I both know the reason we’re not close,’ ‘She was never happy for any of the good things that went on in our lives.’ This was done right before she filmed everything she said about the In Touch article at her pool party while wiping away a fake tear.
“Regardless of the photos, I can’t control what’s on the cover or when, and I usually hate what they say.”
Jacqueline is doing just what the Marcos want her to do, and that is to get Teresa to share confidential information and to convince her to drop her investigation into the accusations made by Danielle against Melissa. Melissa does not want her deception to be revealed on camera: she is guilty and she is afraid she will be exposed for the back-stabbing liar that she is.
“I’ve been on the show for almost two years now, and I think it’s time for her to let it go… I’m sorry Teresa has such an issue with me, but it’s time she moves on and gets over it like she said she has… Teresa’s financial issues were already out in the open and the tabloid covers and ‘posed pictures’ were already happening well before we joined the show… Teresa constantly brings up the fact that I joined the show “behind her back” and that Danielle and I were in contact. I said this last year and will say it again: When I was pregnant with Joey, Danielle reached out to me on Facebook after I posted about the Christmas cookie incident. Yes, I did talk to her. For some reason I felt sorry for her watching how Teresa went after her, and I did vent to her about my issues with Teresa. This was all addressed already at the Season 3 reunion. It was well over three years ago and since then I thought that we were working to get to a better place, but I guess I have moved on and she has not.” – Melissa Gorga, June 12, 2012, A Real ‘Rockstar’
Note to Melissa: It is early in season 4, and when episode 8 was filmed in August 2011, Teresa had just found out that you had been in contact with Danielle to conspire to take her down. So, for Teresa, it hasn’t been ‘almost two years’ at all and it is not ‘time for her to let it go’. In episode 8 you were exposed as a conniving, immoral sub-human, and you don’t want the truth to come out — Teresa has every right to know what you did to her behind her back, and the viewers have the right to know too. You must come clean about what you did to get on the show and you must ask for Teresa’s forgiveness in order for her to heal and to be able to trust you and her brother again. And you must stop plotting and scheming to defame Teresa with your maliciously evil acts.
The cast are all in collusion, and are using the same strategy, which they developed before season 4 began to film in late May 2011. The had two months to meet and conspire between the wrapping of season 3 in late March 2011 and the filming of season 4 beginning in late May 2011. They are all using the same phrases to describe Teresa in their talking head interviews and blogs, and it couldn’t be more obvious that “these bitches are role-playing”:
- Teresa is fake and a bully and is losing her sense of reality
- Teresa is a coward who stirs the pots and walks away (when, in actuality, Teresa was putting on a happy face and letting things roll off her back and was, at the time, in the dark about their evil agenda)
- Teresa is selling stories to tabloids to garner pity from the viewers while presenting her cast mates in a negative light
- Teresa is spending money while in bankruptcy (notice how the entire cast in separate scenes mention that exact same things: carpet, garage with apartment above it, new closet, new furniture)
- Teresa is not loyal to her family (Melissa has a lot of nerve to question Teresa’s loyalty when Teresa’s brother and cousin have none)
- Teresa is trying to breakup Melissa’s marriage
- Teresa is a bad aunt and mother (these haven’t stuck)
- Teresa doesn’t support the other cast members’ business endeavors and also tries to steal them
- “Teresa is never happy for any of the good things that went on in our lives” (direct quote of Melissa in OK! magazine)
- Teresa is in cahoots with Kim D and Penny to setup Melissa to expose her past
- Joe Giudice is homophobic
- Teresa doesn’t want to fix her relationship with her brother
- Teresa never takes responsibility for her actions
- Teresa is playing victim but Melissa is the real victim
- Melissa is doing everything she can to fix the relationship between Joe and Teresa but Teresa doesn’t care (when, in fact, Melissa is the root cause of the conflict and the others are just pawns in her game)
Remember, Melissa is the one who said this about Teresa during season 4, episode 7:
“I get it—you need to make money, [so] make your money—but at the same time, you need to be loyal to your family.”
Three strippers versus a virgin appears to be what this is all about. Teresa says she was a virgin until age 23 and has only been with one man, Juicy Joe; Danielle has admitted to being a stripper (past and present); Jacqueline and Melissa both deny the stories. Jacqueline has abandoned her 10-year friendship with Teresa for a friendship with the Marco sisters, who are master manipulators. Jacqueline is believing all their lies. She has been deceived by immoral sisters who will stop at nothing for fame and fortune.
“I once tweeted Jacqueline something in defense of Teresa, and I was immediately DM’ed by the Marco sisters asking to delete my tweets because Jac was their friend. They never once asked me to delete anything negative I wrote about Teresa!” – MarcoSistersFan, April 25, 2012
“@JacLaurita You look beautiful!” – Donna Marco (Melissa’s mother), April 25, 2012
@JacLaurita your a real person and you would have to be blind not to see that #It Is What It Is – Lysa Simpson (Melissa’s sister), June 17, 2012
Classic Tweets By Jacqueline About Teresa Giudice:
“Teresa put out an article that I text her and threatened to release those pictures and I didn’t! I wanted to prove that. Teresa is scum!”
“What until u hear the rest. There is much more but I’m letting it all unravel little by little all on it’s own. No more talk about it!”
“Another disgusting display of Teresas lies. Keep hanging yourself! Tell every1 the plan 2 file 4 bankruptcy#2 @ how u laugh At beating the system!”
“Teresa, keep spending all the money u do &making profit from people/ fake stories u sell. It will catch up to u. U never stopped spending.”
“I don’t believe for one minute that Jaq was a “concerned friend”. You could tell they were setting Teresa up big time to spill her financial woes on TV and even she figured it out as soon as Jaq started asking specific financial questions that no friend would ask on national TV. Caro who “just happened” to be lumbering in out of the shadows sporting her ever present scowl sealed the deal.” – DryIce, June 17, 2012, Television Without Pity
“Teresa didn’t understand what Jacqueline was saying because Jacqueline had no business saying it. It was clear [to me] from scene one with Chris that whole ‘I’m concerned’ thing was an act. Nothing about it was real, they wanted to ambush Teresa. The whole thing [looks] producer contrived, from Caroline walking in, to Kathy talking about it with Melissa and her sisters. [I believe that] they are not concerned, they are jealous. All of them kept saying, Teresa and Joe are fine, they have this, they have that to the camera repeatedly to say ‘look, look! she’s lying about being bankrupt!’ as jealousy. They tried to set her up and it’s backfiring; they keep digging a hole, she keeps getting more popular. They complain about the books, they are selling out; they complain about the magazines, she keeps being on them. The dead ringer to that whole conversation is when Caroline said that ‘you told us you had a contract with the tabloids’ when Teresa did NOT say that. She said she got paid for the pictures not the stories. Everyone calling her so dumb wasn’t smart enough to get paid themselves huh? That’s what [I see] this [as being] really about. The fame.” – brooklyntvcutie, June 17, 2012, Television Without Pity
“Jacqueline, Teresa announced the news about her cookbook, and as far as she was concerned, her and Caroline made amends. Chris was able to share his good news with everyone, why wouldn’t Teresa? I guess it’s the same reason that it’s OK for Melissa to run to magazines and sell stories, but not Teresa. In fact, this whole season has been everyone can do what they please except Teresa. It’s so annoying. You really seem very jealous. It is sad. I think in time you will see that Melissa and Kathy played you for the fool you are proving to be. I think when Danielle (yes, the dreaded Danielle that seems to have a lot of information) leaks all of the proof she has, you will see for yourself that you have been wrong.” – slyklyn, June 13, 2012, Jacqueline’s Bravo Blog
“Jacqueline, my main question really is…why are these tid bits of little things so upsetting when all of you in the private rooms with the cameras are saying such bad things about Teresa behind her back? I don’t know if any of you have said anything nice. It is very high school. Caroline telling Teresa and her hat to shut up…why couldn’t Caroline say it to Teresa’s face if she didn’t wish to hear Teresa? Why couldn’t you just open your mouth and tell Teresa, ‘Hey Teresa, I need you to hear me and my problems right now?’ Why couldn’t Kathy tell Teresa to her face that she felt Teresa was dumb? The only person I see saying directly to people what they think and feel is Teresa.” – Devil wears Prada, June 13, 2012, Jacqueline’s Bravo Blog
“Jacqueline, Teresa isn’t perfect by any means but a good friend does not dish all their personal information…even after they are no longer friends. Melissa and Joe are not perfect and they have made bad choices, as has Teresa. You sound hateful by only pointing out Teresa’s faults and only praising the Gorga’s strengths.” – Mom in MD, June 13, 2012, Jacqueline’s Bravo Blog
The following is an excerpt from Jacqueline’s 2011 blog from LAST season: her comments are directed at Teresa concerning Danielle and the tweets from Danielle claiming that Melissa back-stabbed Teresa by contacting her and giving up family secrets (all of which were lies).
Eye Opener (Excerpt)
By Jacqueline Laurita
August 15, 2011
I am also very surprised that you tweeted and then added to your blog that transparent paragraph about Danielle while speaking out both sides of your mouth. On the one hand you’re telling her thank you, then the next tweet it was you don’t believe her and to leave your family alone.
On the other side you are clearly begging her to come up with proof to expose Melissa of something she may or may not have said two years ago during rough times between the two of you.
In my opinion, that is totally irrelevant now. She should have given up that information to you two years ago when it WAS relevant.
According to your blogs and interviews in other media outlets, you have always claimed that Danielle has never done anything to you, and she doesn’t bother or phase you. So why do you even care anyway, right? (Even though I know you don’t really feel that way.)
Besides, if you really mean what you say about not wanting to ever rehash the past and only wanting to move forward, and you sincerely want to make things better between you and your family, it probably wasn’t a good idea to even humor Danielle by saying you even care either way and that you even want proof. You know she’s just looking to stay relevant. I thought she said she wasn’t into drama. What do you think her motive was by tweeting that? Your well being?
My advice, Teresa — It’s in the PAST! You are in a much better place now with your family now (sort of). Keep rolling forward. I’m only telling you this because I care and I didn’t like seeing you hurting over your family, and I know how hard the two of you have worked to get your relationship to where it is today. Don’t go back to that dark place. It doesn’t benefit your relationship with Melissa today, and it doesn’t look good for you to be encouraging Danielle to “show proof.”
It also upset me very much that you would even entertain someone that was so toxic in ALL of our lives. WHY would you open that dangerous, ugly door again to invite in trouble (for everybody)? I don’t get you. BAD MOVE!
Jacqueline may have ulterior motives in encouraging Teresa not to communicate with Danielle:
Jacqueline siding with Danielle at the season 1 dinner (the one with the infamous table flip) could have been because Danielle knows the truth about Jacqueline’s past, and she feared Danielle would expose her if she didn’t show her support. When everyone turned against Danielle, it was the perfect opportunity for Jacqueline to make Danielle look like a crazy liar, discrediting her on camera so that no one would ever believe anything she said, including anything about Jacqueline’s past.
During the reunion special for season 2, which aired on October 8, 2011, Danielle called Jacqueline a Vegas whore; Jacqueline reacted by jumping up and threatening Danielle. Bravo reran the season 2 reunion special as part of the marathon leading up to the premiere of season 4: it was odd that they chose to rerun a reunion special from two seasons ago yet didn’t rerun all the episodes from season 3 (only about half of them were rerun).
Jacqueline quickly changed her tune after Danielle called her a Vegas whore during reunion 2 because she feared Danielle was about to expose her secrets. She went from hysterical to calm and collected, wanting to move past it all. She called a truce with Danielle because she saw what Danielle did to Teresa (bringing up the ‘nephew’ lie that Melissa fed her), and she didn’t want the same thing done to her. She said “I really don’t want to do this anymore”, and then told Danielle she forgives her for filing charges against Ashlee, etc. At this point, Danielle hugged it out with Teresa and Jacqueline, saying “sorry” and “no more.” Here’s a description of what happened (this happened at the end of part 2 of reunion 2, which is not available on youtube):
Teresa, after Danielle tells Andy she’ll drop the lawsuits, says: “Can I just say one thing? Danielle, I never called a newspaper, a magazine, tweet about you, never do I do any of that. I have four beautiful daughters, that’s what I concentrate on, not you. I’m not trying to take you down. That’s not what I’m trying to do. You attacked me and I attacked you back. That’s it. But am I trying to hurt you in a bad way. No.” (Danielle gets up and walks over with open arms to Teresa, leans down and hugs her and gently says to Teresa, ‘Sorry’; Teresa hugs her back, all while Caroline is making ridiculous faces; and then Danielle moves on to hug Jac and gently says ‘Sorry’ (Jacqueline looks petrified); Teresa lifts up her arms and leans backward with a sigh and a smile, then fans herself and says ‘Faint’).
@JacLaurita
Yes, the deal was to forgive D& move on, not to be friends again. Everyone agreed2let her go&then T accused me of being disloyal @JenaJs6
June 17, 2012
@JenaJs6
@JacLaurita DIDN’T YOU MAKE PEACE with danielle? Werent U the one who hugged her 4 an hr & had an epiphany as far as viewers are concerned?
June 17, 2012
Jacqueline likes to talk and she most likely told Danielle things she regrets. And Jacqueline may not have completely cut off Kim G because Kim G knows and believes things Danielle told her about them all.
Another theory as to why Jacqueline doesn’t want Teresa to communicate with Danielle is because Jacqueline may have known from day one about Melissa contacting Danielle, and she doesn’t want Teresa to find this out. In Melissa’s ‘anonymous’ bashing of Teresa in 2008-2009 on the blog “On Common Ground,” the only cast member she didn’t bash was Jacqueline: “You got the fat wife from the Brownstone that needs hair extensions. Dina’s looking old. The wacko from Wayne (her poor kids), and then Teresa… what is she gonna do when she finds out all the $ they owe people and that are gonna be looking for it after they see this show air! The only nice one is the sister in law. She don’t belong with those idiots! [posted April 29, 2009, before the May 12, 2009, season 1 premiere]”
“Jacqueline, so this is your setup blog for Teresa for next week? The word is that next week’s episode is filmed after Teresa’s August 7, 2011, WWHL appearance where Danielle tweets about Melissa’s interactions and desperate attempts to get on the show. Why didn’t you want Teresa to talk to Danielle? Was it because of fear of your own gossip to Danielle about Dina, Caro, Teresa, and your past getting out? In retrospect, Ashlee’s comments about you gain new meaning. Your alliance with Melissa et al speaks louder than your words above about your integrity and behavior.” – disgrazia4, June 13, 2012, Jacqueline’s Bravo Blog
Here are some interesting comments from viewers about Jacqueline’s 2011 blog and season 4 episode 8:
“According to Teresa, her only beef with Danielle was based on the conflict with Danielle vs the Manzos. Not to mention, it wasn’t so much that Melissa spoke to ‘the enemy’ but WHY she did it. Melissa spoke to Danielle to give Danielle ammo to use against Teresa at the reunion — and to create interest and discussion about her. Now, the chicken has come home to roost. Teresa is NOW speaking to Danielle to expose what Melissa did and why.” (In Teresa’s case, how can she trust her family without knowing just how far they went and what they did behind her back? Teresa suspected that Danielle and Melissa had been communicating, and she wanted to find out if it was true — just suspecting it and not searching for the truth means things will never get better. She wanted to get to the bottom of it, rightfully so. She wants to know exactly what kind of person she is dealing with when it comes to Melissa and whether or not she can trust her and her own brother.) [RabbleRouser, June 14, 2012, LynnNChicago]
“One of the things that made Jac go crazy (and which she referenced in a very nasty blog post on August 15, 2011, LAST season) was the fact that Teresa seemed open to meeting with Danielle to find out just what Danielle was talking about when it came to Melissa. I remember watching the WWHL episode when Teresa was on, and Danielle tweeted something like, “Ask Teresa if she knows how much Melissa was contacting me” and implied that Melissa was trash-talking Teresa to Danielle. You could tell by Teresa’s facial expression that she was shocked, and, at some point in the show, she said, “Well, tell Danielle I’d definitely like to hear more about that.” She also later tweeted sentiments along that line. Well, Jac went off about Teresa wanting to talk to Danielle, and I didn’t understand why that made Jac SOOOO upset. Does anyone have an idea as to why that would make Jac go ballistic? I mean, who cares if Teresa talks to Danielle. Melissa going ballistic over it, I can understand. But Jac? What’s the big deal? I just have a sneaking suspicion that there’s a whole lot more to that story.” [I Need A Housewives’ Detox Program, May 18, 2012, LynnNChicago]
“Melissa is going to lie and twist as usual. It looks to me like, next week, Jac is going to bully Teresa about wanting to talk to Danielle. I have a theory: Jac does not want Teresa to talk to Danielle because Danielle is going to give her the 411, not only on her communications with Melissa, but also the 411 on all the crap Jac talked when they were friends. I have a feeling Jac told Danielle all kinds of horrible things about Caroline, Dina and, most probably, Teresa! Jac is very threatened by Danielle, no matter how much she tries to make Danielle out to be a crazy woman. Danielle is crazy, but even a broken clock is right twice a day. She’s got dirt on Jac and the Lauritas and Manzos that comes STRAIGHT from Jac, IMO. I also think Jac feels a kinship with Melissa because they were both strippers and escorts who hooked up with men of means and created a false backstory with total denials of their true pasts. JMHO.” [I Need A Housewives’ Detox Program, June 11, 2012, LynnNChicago]
“Why is Jacqueline involving herself and getting worked up over “Teresa going to jail” and all of this other stuff? If Teresa isn’t worried, I certainly wouldn’t waste my energy. Is this all because Teresa chooses to keep the legalities of her situation private? Oh yeah, I forgot. Jacqueline is a passive-aggressive shit-stirrer of a bored housewife who needs to stir the pot so that she can proclaim she’s in the middle and torn so that she can play the righteous wronged party all the time. She needs a reason to hate Teresa, and by golly she’s going to come up with one. All because Mama Manzo disapproves of Teresa and — since she got her ass handed to her by the ‘Fambly’ after she overplayed her shit-stirring hand with Danielle situation, who is a legit nutbar — now she has to fall in line, friendship be damned. I have yet to see anything done by Teresa to Jacqueline, besides telling her to mind her own business once or twice. Gosh that woman clearly needs something to do besides drink, Tweet, ignore her daughter and wait to fool around with Chris.” [Noire, June 10, 2010, TelevisionWithoutPity]
“So I just caught what Jacqueline said in the preview: ‘Melissa was talking to Danielle two years ago; you’re talking to her now; you’re a hypocrite.’ So it’s a problem for Teresa to hear from Danielle regarding Melissa and Joe’s attempts to get on the show, but Jacqueline can dismiss that as Teresa’s supposed friend and not understand her position of being hurt by that? That’s the horrible thing she did that is causing next week’s big blow up? Very interesting that this is making the cut. I’m surprised this is making it to air. Hearing this and reading Teresa’s personal blog is pretty enlightening. Seems like the others better be prepared to be under the microscope regarding their castings. They’ve skated on those nebulous facts the past 1 1/2 seasons in order to make it look like its just a matter of Teresa being jealous; seems like the smoke that’s been there is beginning to show signs of a fire.” [Noire, June 10, 2010, TelevisionWithoutPity]
“Teresa didn’t block anyone. S1 cast started with Dina, expanded to Teresa, Jacqueline and Caroline, and Dina is the one who suggested Danielle since she knew of her as the crazy lady at The Chateau. Teresa had events with Joe and Melissa filmed by Bravo… the producers decide what makes the cut… every housewife on every series has said the same thing. We even saw Joe called up by Teresa at her redone housewarming party. Melissa and Joe were jealous. They conspired with Danielle and, along with Kathy, got themselves cast once Danielle was booted. One of Melissa’s own cousins who lives in PA who is younger and perhaps prettier than Melissa contacted her and asked to be filmed with her as she’s been singing for years and has been trying to break through. Melissa doesn’t invite her to parties or to filming. Same difference to me.” [Lola16, June 15, 2012, Bravo Message Board]
“Awhile back someone posted (I think it was one of the gossip sites) a video of Melissa’s cousin singing and she was pretty good. They went on to explain that Melissa didn’t want to give her cousin any air time because she was sooo good and would make Melissa look bad.” [pjkacper, June 15, 2012, Bravo Message Board]
The therapy storyline is Teresa’s brother’s rather clumsy ploy for more airtime.
How many times has Joe Gorga called, text or wrote a note to his sister since filming stopped? Zero times. During the off-season (no filming), he doesn’t bother calling his sister; he hasn’t reached out to her for nine months and counting. In fact, it seems the only time he reaches out to Teresa is when the cameras are rolling. Teresa does not need to go to therapy with Joey: it is all another set-up to make Teresa look like the bad guy. Even if the therapy were not done on camera, whatever is shared in those therapy sessions somehow would be twisted and used against her. Teresa’s relationship with her brother may be a lost cause: when a brother conspires with his wife and others to hurt his sister and constantly talks negatively about her, the sister should remove herself from their lives. Any brother who takes pleasure in a family member’s ordeals and trials, and goes along with his wife’s vendetta against his own sister, sucks big time.
Melissa to Richie, “Be sure to take Joe outside the house and tell him once again that he has to text Teresa, so he looks like the better person. Who cares if she’s at a wedding, do it!!!!!!”
Cartwheels on June 11, 2012 posted at LynnNChicago:
Here’s how a therapy session between Joe Gorga and Teresa would go:
Joey= Doctor, my sister here holds to grudges and is tearing our relationship apart.
Teresa= Joey, that is not truth, you know why I am mad.
J= I don’t know, tell me, why are you mad?
T= You know what you did Joey, but you know I can’t talk about it here in front of the therapist because there are cameras around.
J= See, you are garbage Teresa, garbage, you can’t even tell me why you are mad because there is no reason for you to be mad.
T= Joey, I have been hearing rumors and they all point to the same, but you know I can’t talk about it.
J= (blinking eyes) Doctor, I swear, here you see the root of all problems, my sister is just a f**ing b*tch, can you please tell her now that she is the crazy one and I am the Angel of God, then she will understand that I am always right.
Therapist = (with few hairs left) Teresa, what is this thing that is making you so mad but that you can’t talk about? Seems that you are hosting a lot of resentment, are you so mad that that is why you can’t talk about it?
T= No doctor. I can’t talk about it because it involves the production of the show I am taping right now.
Therapist= interesting
J= She is fibbing, she is jealous of my wife, that is all, she is jealous of me too.
T= Joey, please you know what you guys did, stop acting like it never happened.
J= Doctor, I swear she is just a lunatic, I don’t even know what she is talking about.
T= (with tears in her eyes) Joey are you going to deny that you sent an audition video with your wife promising to “take me down and expose me for the liar I am”?
J= What? What are you talking about. She is lying, she is lying, I swear.
T= Joey, I saw the audition tape and I have also seen the e-mails that your wife sent to Danielle (with her head down).
J= (blinking) The audition tape? C’mom Tre, you know that was a joke. As far as the e-mails, well, that was a test, Melissa was testing Danielle to see if she was a snitch and then she was going to give you that as proof to destroy Danielle. You know my wife loves you like if you were her sister.
T= Joey, please, do you think I am an idiot?
J= Doctor, see, there she is being unreasonable again, I have just given her the perfect explanation and she is still holding grudges. Teresa, why are you like this? You are destroying the family.
Therapist= Joey, did you actually send those tapes and your wife sent the e-mails?
J= Well, yes, but Teresa refused to make us part of the cast so we had to find our way in. She is a selfish sister, and that is the root of the problems. Could you please tell her that so we can get over with this session.
T= I can’t get over the pain of knowing that my own brother betrayed me like this and now he is acting like I should just forgive and forget that they plotted to destroy me.
J= That is enough! I have had enough! Here I am trying to make this work and you are hell bent in rehashing the past over some little petty BS. I am done.
J= (as exiting the stage – ahem – the doctor’s office) I want for the record to show that I tried, God knows I tried. You saw me sending her texts, and I wanted the therapy, so I am the good brother, the Angel of God, don’t you forget it.
“It is funny to me that they are all so interested in Teresa going to therapy with her brother, and my question would be: therapy for what? The damage done by the Gorgas/Wakiles and their betrayal is not something that can be worked out in therapy sessions (filmed); those are the kind of emotional wounds that would take years to recover. I, for one, am glad that they haven’t seen each other in many, many months… sometimes family is the most important thing, but for your own sanity, sometimes you just have to remove them from your life. I never judged Bethenny when she decided to cut ties with her mom; she said the relationship was too toxic, and I believed her… some relationships are just not meant to be, and I think Teresa and her brother maybe are just not meant to be. No hard feelings, just move on; hopefully one of them will not be there next season, so they can ignore each other properly.” – Cartwheels, June 11, 2012, LynnNChicago
“I do not know how you can say that that ‘there is no doubt about how fully committed Joey was to reconciling with Teresa’ when he is the one bringing ‘private conversations’ that he and Teresa had months ago just to bring up drama and make Teresa look bad. How can any brother do that to their own sister? I may not know a lot as to what goes on with all of you in your private lives, but that is wrong… Also, it’s all about The View and how Teresa wanted a segment to herself because she thought Melissa would attach her …well yea, can I just say ‘Reunion’? She had no idea how bad all of you would come at her…so what makes her think it would not happen again? I am not a Teresa fan; I am just watching a person being bullied by a bunch of family and friends. Teresa seems to be in protective ‘mode’, and she may say things she doesn’t mean…believe me, being bullied is not fun, and I am always going to stand up for a person who is being bullied. Kathy, I don’t see this season ending well, and for that I am sorry for all of you… [Gigi33, June 11, 2012, Kathy’s Bravo Blog]
“Kathy, the scene with Joe and Rich was as fake as the professions of reconciliation you, Melissa and Joe constantly spew.” – 3BabyBoys, June 11, 2012, Kathy’s Bravo Blog
“Kathy, and now you all want Teresa to go to therapy with her brother. Uh huh, we saw the last time Teresa said something in private to her brother, how you all used that for an entire season to bury her. Why would she go do that again? Imagine what she would want to say in therapy? That will give Melissa and Joe enough fodder to twist and turn for three seasons! If I was Teresa I wouldn’t go speak from my heart; Joe will use it again, duh! And your husband’s and Joe’s scene was so planned and orchestrated. I just can’t stand you guys, and if we have to sit through another year of you pushing a cookbook, and Melissa dropping another two songs, I will just stop watching. I want to see Teresa and her girls; you know, the family of yours you tried to just flatten so you could hawk a cookie cookbook. Just repulsed by you all.” – CookieCutter, June 11, 2012, Kathy’s Bravo Blog
“Why, why, why would ANYONE suggest Teresa go to therapy with Joe? That’s just nuts. You have to be honest in therapy, and the last time Joe couldn’t WAIT to tell the CAMERAS what Teresa said in private so he could score one for their team! That hurt Teresa terribly, so now she’s supposed to go open up in front of the one man in her family, that isn’t her father, who sold her out for a reality show? That’s just CRAZY!!!!!!!” – InstFame, June 11, 2012, Kathy’s Bravo Blog
Bravo cut a segment, Kim D’s Passion Party, where Melissa’s scamming came to light:
“I heard that BRAVO chose not to air a segment which outed Joey Gorga on owing people and not paying — specifically, Fabulous Fred, the party planner who coordinated the charity Christmas party held at the Gorga home (and shown last season). Supposedly, Fabulous Fred was going to out Joey publicly for never paying him (despite Fred’s repeated requests), but Kim D., who is a friend to Fred’s wife, talked him out of it. BRAVO taped a Passion Party held by Kim D., where Fred asked Kim D. to talk to Joey about paying him his money. Allegedly thinking it was part of the BRAVO storyline, Kim D. did, and Joey and Melissa went ballistic (because it belies their image as ballers and goes against Miss Melissa’s 1st episode dig against Teresa: ‘We PAY our bills!’…Ummm…not according to Fabulous Fred and a lot of other people in town, Miss Missy!!).” [I Need A Housewives’ Detox Program, June 14, 2012, LynnNChicago]
Will Love Will Love @WillLoveInc
@littlegoobie200 @allabouttrh @realilanaangel I tweeted both fairly recently but no response. If they want a quote they know where I am. 😉
Amber Whitmire @littlegoobie200
@WillLoveInc spill it Will! What happened? @AllAboutTRH interview time! Or @realilanaangel !
Melody Martrain @mbmartrain
@WillLoveInc @whoopibella @wendy49802 @clvpotpourri @johnnythegrk I’m sure they will twist it
11 Jun
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@mbmartrain @whoopibella @wendy49802 @clvpotpourri @johnnythegrk I have a feeling you won’t see it at all – at least not the juicy stuff.
1:47 PM – 11 Jun 12
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@mbmartrain @whoopibella @wendy49802 @clvpotpourri @johnnythegrk Although they may have edited it to air later on in S4 only to twist it…
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@mbmartrain @whoopibella @wendy49802 @clvpotpourri @johnnythegrk Whats2Spill?Look at my past tweets.I hinted A LOT.Blogs should ask. #Juicy
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@BravoAndy Question: Will @BravoTV air Kim D’s Passion Party, which looks like it was cut out to give a certain cast member the good edit!?
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@wendy49802 @clvpotpourri @johnnythegrk No, that was the fashion show. This was an adult toy party held at Kim D’s house the same week as SP
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@wendy49802 @clvpotpourri @johnnythegrk No, that was the fashion show. This was an adult toy party held at Kim D’s house the same week as SP
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@CLVPotpourri @johnnythegrk @lisaslying “Allegedly” not paying workers and the like. It was brought up at the Passion Party. All wives came.
C’estLaVie Potpourri @CLVPotpourri
@WillLoveInc @johnnythegrk @lisaslying wwwwooowww. What lie did Mel get caught up in at the party?
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@CLVPotpourri @johnnythegrk It was filmed the same week as the solstice party and it was supposed to be shown either before or after the SP.
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@JohnnyTheGrk @WillLoveInc what happened at the party?!?! How do we know producers cut it?
John Karagiorgis (@JohnnyTheGrk)
6/10/12 10:37 PM
RT “@WillLoveInc: WOW! I can’t…I can believe the #RHONJ producers cut out @KimDPosche’s passion party where M’s scamming came to light.”
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@BravoAndy Question: Will @BravoTV air Kim D’s Passion Party, which looks like it was cut out to give a certain cast member the good edit!?
Here’s some more about Danielle and Teresa from Jacqueline’s Bravo blogs:
Best Friends? (Excerpt)
Jacqueline questions whether she ever really knew Teresa.
By Jacqueline Laurita
June 13, 2012
The [In Touch] article with the dog seemed a little obvious that she had a lot to do with what was written inside. These were all things that Teresa complained to me about, so that is why it was so obvious to me. Teresa said, “This is business.” (“Business” = Money Earned) The article coincidently listed all the people she disliked the most. Just like she did with her book, she used her family and friends to make money doing her “business.”
If I looked perplexed when Teresa told me about her “renewal of vows” cover to put to rest all of the rumors she started about herself in her previous covers, it’s because I was. She knew I was asked to do the same thing, and I was told it would be made into a big deal by the tabloids. I turned it down. It’s just not me. I’m a simple girl. However, I was surprised that Teresa waited until we were on camera to tell me that SHE was going to do it. I think she wanted to hurry up and do a cover before I changed my mind and out shined her or something. I think that is why she went so over the top with her renewal picture. Her cover would come out before mine because they wanted mine to come during Season 4. It was just bizarre to me and the whole concept was so fake. (Just like the prop dog idea in the last article.)
What did she think the “friends and family bullying” article would be about? I couldn’t figure out why she would want to do that. I will say it again, it’s one thing to put out articles about yourself, but when she would slip things in about her friends and family, that was crossing the line. I was thinking to myself, “I wish she would just tell them once and for all how she really felt instead of sending messages in magazines. Maybe then the healing could begin and she could let go of all of her resentment, forgive, and move forward.” Talk about passive aggressive!
I guess I would have respected her more if instead of disregarding these articles and pretending they didn’t exist, that she addressed her friends and family with some respect and apologized for the things printed and explain how they ended up in there. Why would she continue to do these covers knowing that they were mostly negative about her and her family? She allowed it.
I started seeing a different side to Teresa that I didn’t respect. She was doing and saying some pretty ugly things. I really wanted my friend back. I missed her. I needed her. I wanted the fun loving Teresa that wasn’t self-absorbed or consumed with “keeping up with the Gorgas” and trying to surpass them at all costs. I wanted her to understand how her words and actions were affecting the people and relationships in her life that should matter the most to her. I wanted her to learn how to view things from another person’s perspective. I wanted her to know that I would still love with all of her faults, but I just wanted her to be real with me.
I knew at this point she was pulling away from me more and more. I understood the things that she was saying behind my back and where it was coming from, so I was trying not to get mad at her for that, even though it did upset me. She didn’t understand that I was trying to help her.
Spin City (Except)
By Jacqueline Laurita
May 7, 2012
7. I found it hypocritical that Teresa mentioned I was wishy-washy and wouldn’t commit to picking a side when Danielle was fighting with my family. Forgive me for being my own person and waiting to judge people from my own experiences with them. Did Teresa forget that she herself didn’t pick a side either? She also continued to be Danielle’s friend along with me even while her best friend, Dina, disliked her until Danielle did something personally to her. Teresa also tried saying hello, just to be friendly, to Danielle at the Posche fashion show at a time when Dina and I were both having issues with Danielle. I never faulted her for that. My battle with Danielle was my own to deal with. Teresa also remains friendly with Kim D. who clearly has an issue with her sister-in-law Melissa. But that is all OK for Teresa to befriend who she wants. Is that how she defines loyalty? It upsets me, and I feel it’s unfair that I am expected to follow Teresa’s rules that she doesn’t even apply to herself.
Eye Opener (Excerpt)
By Jacqueline Laurita
August 15, 2011
Finally, I felt I needed to address Teresa’s blog from last week, because I always held back on commenting on them before. I have to admit, I’m a little disappointed. What has gotten into you?
I want to address your paragraph about Caroline and me where you stated, “Caroline and Jacqueline telling me that Danielle hurt their families was enough for me to support them. I didn’t need proof. I didn’t need to invite Danielle to my parties to “see for myself.” I trusted my friends and had their back.” If I remember correctly, there is a contradiction to what you stated. When your friends, to whom you claim loyalty, strongly disliked a “certain somebody” you continued to still hang out with that “certain somebody” and gave them a chance (just like I did) until YOU couldn’t take her ways anymore.
I respected you for being your own person. You even went as far as to invite that “certain somebody” to your dinner party along with a couple of your friends, who you knew couldn’t even “stomach the sight of her,” because you are nice like that. YOU decided you had enough of that “certain somebody” having a past and present that you unapproved of, telling you to pay attention, spreading rumors about your husband and your house being in foreclosure, comparing you to a wild animal, and the most obvious and infuriating for you, bringing up Melissa’s name at the reunion show and claiming that you didn’t acknowledge your nephew. It was those moments concerning YOU that prompted you to flip a table, chase “a certain somebody” through a fashion show, and throw Andy Cohen like a rag doll. Be honest, was that about having your friends’ back, or did she insult YOU?
PLEASE DON’T PRETEND that you acted out for your friends by being a loyal soldier. You even went out of your way to say “hello” to a “certain someone” that had been harassing my daughter, threatening and spreading horrible lies about me and my family at the Posche Fashion show. Were you being a loyal soldier then or were you being your own person, which I respected and never got mad at for all the chaos you caused? I would NEVER expect you to dislike somebody, because I do or fight my battles FOR me. If you’re going to fight them WITH me because you are feeling the same way, then that is a BONUS! LOL!
Your definition of “loyalty” doesn’t always match your actions. You are your own person aren’t you? I feel like you should take responsibility for your own choices, actions, and admit to forming your own opinions that had nothing to do with your “loyalty” to your friends! You are NOT that weak of a person. I was so grateful to you when my sister-in-law, whom you had been friends with years before, and I were feuding that you didn’t choose a side. You allowed our friendship to grow. That showed me that you were a good person and had a mind of your own, but in YOUR definition of a “loyal” friend, I guess you contradicted yourself, and you weren’t that loyal yourself. Please don’t make it sound like every action you took against Danielle was for us and say that she never did anything to you, when clearly she did. The truth is you had your own issues with her. That’s all I’m trying to say. I just wanted to clear that up.
Here is a message to Jacqueline about girlfriend code, submitted by ViewerNJ on June 18, 2012 on Jacqueline’s Bravo blog:
Jac:
A true friend would NEVER air their so-called BF’s dirty laundry on national TV – period! You can spin this whatever way you want but what you have done and continue to do is discredit and defame your once BF.
Here’s the thing: once upon a time I really loved you. You are funny, but I feel that you overstepped and made it your mission to take Teresa down. Whether it is Caroline behind it or just you, I feel that the moment you decided that you felt betrayed, you took it upon yourself to completely divulge every last little piece of evidence to get Teresa.
This is where I have trouble, whether it is all true or not at all: you, as her one time BF, went against the girlfriend’s code of conduct.
What I think you fail to see is the elementary problem here. Two years ago Melissa got in contact with Danielle – which you even admitted and that was the sleeziest thing to have done, all in the name to embarrass and take down Teresa. Does Teresa hold a grudge? Maybe, maybe not, but this is where you need to understand – why can’t she? I mean really, if Dina did this to you – whether it was two years ago or not – it stings, and you want to get to the bottom of the why’s.
How dare you tell Teresa to basically get over her feelings of betrayal and move on “because it was two years ago” and if you want to move forward, forget the past. If it were me, in order to truly move forward, you need to know why, and you need an apology. Melissa didn’t do either.
Now, as far as the tabloids, what if Teresa did get paid? So what. It is a part of what you all signed on for. Why is it anyone’s business how Teresa is spending her money; money, I might add, that she is working her tail off for. If her bills ARE getting paid — and last I read in the Star Ledger of NJ, they were being satisfied by Teresa herself — then why is it your business what she buys, builds or anything?
You yourself and Chris are in financial trouble with a bankruptcy so you should not be auditing Teresa’s financials. This whole entire episode was an exposé on Teresa – nothing more. You sought to humiliate your once friend by showing that she is spending money while in bankruptcy.
Teresa may be dumb, but she is not stupid. She would never jeapordize the lives of her children by spending frivolously if she didn’t have it to spend. There is nothing wrong with buying or building something as long as you are being responsible paying your prior debt. How is it that everyone knew she bought new furniture, etc? You all planned this attack for filming purposes.
I think it is utterly disgusting how you sat there and claimed to be so upset FOR her, when you, and the rest of those girls, knew exactly what you were all doing by speaking that stuff in front of the cameras. Caroline arriving when she did was so planned. It was transparent. She never even spoke with so much hate to Danielle – a women who threatened your daughter, sued your daughter and put the lives of your family members in danger. You yourself hugged it out with her on the S2 reunion. You were able to look past all the hate there and move on with the enemy. And all Teresa did was pose for pictures in some tabloids (and reveal info that is already out there or has been said by you all on camera already), buy a few things, and write some really silly comments in her cookbook (that Caroline is hell bent on stating were a personal attack on Christopher).
Remember, Danielle reached out to her via twitter. In that moment of shock, I can see why she tweeted her back – many would have done the same to get to the truth. You all sit on your perches and wait for the attack all the while being such hypocrites because you talk such crap about Teresa, her children, her husband, etc. For this reason, I have formed my opinion. I wasn’t for Teresa, a vile fan of hers, or hating on you. I am just forming my opinions that, as a grown woman, I can’t believe the bullying that goes on; and every last one of you should be ashamed of yourself. Really. Enough should be enough.
Here’s an excerpt from Teresa’s Bravo blog (“Teresa says she is done with Caroline and Jacqueline”) for season 4 episode 8 (don’t miss it, it’s another good one):
“Before I get into the actual ‘discussion,’ I have to address a few things of the things they were saying behind my back before I got there. My mother taught me to never point out, question, or judge people for what they eat or how they spend their money. Until you walk in their shoes, you don’t know, and it’s not your place to know. Apparently the Manzo and Laurita family didn’t get that same lesson. I’m only glad I don’t have an eating problem too…
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“Jacqueline and Chris revealed on the show that they have their own financial issues. WHICH I DID NOT KNOW. She and Chris know it’s sensitive, that talking about accusations against you could hurt the outcome… and yet they did it anyway. To me and Joe. Behind our back. I was sick and shocked that they would have such an obviously planned and hurtful conversation about Joe’s and my finances knowing it could hurt us.
Editor’s Note: Chris Laurita’s company filed for bankruptcy in 2009, and Chris and Jacqueline are named in an $8 million lawsuit where they are accused of draining the company of its funds. They are also being sued over the creation and branding of BLK water.
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“I do believe that Jacqueline was upset and slowly breaking down, but it was not because of an obviously fake story that obviously didn’t bother me. So what was it? Maybe it was upsetting her that at the exact same time her ex-husband, John Madison ‘Matt’ Holmes, Ashley’s father, who we saw on this episode, was arrested with his wife for a long list of things. Funny that Jacqueline — great friend who tells her friends everything — never said a word about it. She tweeted about Matt being investigated by the FBI, but didn’t say one word to her friends. What? Matt was actually arrested and that doesn’t need a conversation, but me not telling her about one of the million fake stories about me in a tabloid, that’s a huge breach of our friendship?
“Even when I found out -– NOT from her –- about her own financial and legal troubles, would I ever talk about them on camera? No. I hate even bringing them up now, but I feel like in this case I have to because you need to see how her calling me a liar and hypocrite is just c-r-a-z-y.
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“Caroline and Jacqueline know full well that when magazines are publishing tons of stories about me and my marriage, eventually you’re going to want to put out your own actual interview where you clear things up for your fans. Like Lauren Manzo talked to US Weekly about her lap band surgery this week. That is not ‘putting out stories.’ I explained that all in last week’s blog. And they know it. But to call doing an interview or photo shoot every so often the same as ‘putting out stories to the tabloids’ about myself is twisted and untrue. I have never, Heaven as my witness, put out a single rumor story to any tabloid or blog about myself or anyone else. I know for a fact they can’t say the same thing… Some of them have RadarOnline on speed dial!
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“I also never, ever tweeted Danielle anything regarding Jacqueline’s daughter Ashley. I don’t know what she was talking about there. You all know I don’t go near any of the Holmes family, including crazy grandmas, on Twitter. The only time I’ve ever tweeted Danielle was after I was on WWHL. Here’s the story: Caroline was on WWHL the week before me (so two weeks before this episode) and Andy asked her who was worse: Danielle or Kim G? Caroline surprised the world when she said without hesitation, Kim G. was worse. Everyone was shocked, the blogs went crazy: didn’t Danielle do something super evil to Caroline’s family? How could that be worse than anything her SON’S FRIEND’S MOTHER ever did?
“You know Jacqueline watched it and read about it on the blogs. Where was the accusation that Caroline brought Danielle back from the dead? Because she did, not me. (PS: Caroline didn’t stop talking about Danielle then either. Two months later in October at the Real Housewives Live Tour in Atlantic City, Caroline told the audience that she’d rather deal with Danielle than Kim G. because ‘somewhere deep in Danielle, there’s a heart.’ A heart? After what she did to your sister Dina, Caroline? Wow.)
“A week later, I was on WWHL and Andy asked me what I thought of CAROLINE’S answer. So again, this Danielle thing is from Caroline. I said Danielle never really bothered me; it wasn’t my family she was going after. Well, Danielle, I guess sick of being talked about twice in two weeks on a show she’s not on anymore, tweeted Andy Cohen live to say oh yeah, I never did anything to Teresa? What about the time I worked with her sister-in-law Melissa behind her back? Um, what?!? News to me! Horrible, horrible news to me. You know the place I was in; you know how I felt having my family join the show behind my back for evil reasons. Now here I am, trying to make up with Melissa and forgive her, and I hear that? You saw some of the tweets on TV from that night, but I think you should see all of them.
From Danielle:
– “@bravoandy @bravotv is this true? Maybe I should show everyone what
@melissagorga wrote my fb inbox about Teresa?”
– “Wow careful now bc ive got emails from her own sisterinlaw w so
much Teresa dirt.”
– “@melissagorga Melissa Did you ever tell Teresa you were contacting
me constantly?”
– “@melissagorga did you tell tre you wanted to come on w me last
season To get back at her”
– “@melissagorga and everytime you & Tre’s brother begged me to come
on w me – I said no!”
“As soon as the show with Andy was over, I was shaking, but I’m sorry, I was happy to hear the truth. You can only be lied to for so long. Yes, I was mad, so from backstage I tweeted: ‘Thank you @daniellestaub for telling the truth. I’m sad but not surprised. 😦 #famewhore.’ I didn’t mention Melissa’s name and left who I was calling the ‘fame whore’ open on purpose, because I wasn’t sure. I figured I’d let whoever felt guilty claim the title. A super nice tweet? No. I’m not proud of it, but put yourself in my shoes if you just found that out about your sister-in-law contacting who she thought was your worst enemy. I could have typed much worse.
“I felt bad though and realized that I didn’t want the public seeing my family divided, and that maybe Danielle was full of crap, so I immediately defended Melissa and called out Danielle with this tweet: ‘I don’t believe Melissa would ever talk to @daniellestaub. Danielle, stop tweeting about my family. If you got something, show it or STFU!‘
“Melissa chimed in with this denial tweet: ‘Let’s be clear. After I posted abt the xmas cookies incident on FB she approached me to film w/ her. Did I film? No! Begged her? Please‘
Danielle shot back with: ‘oh she cannot lie out of this – she knows it and this is just the mild stuff she really had it in for tre.’ Danielle also tweeted that Melissa was the one who told her about my nephew in the hospital because ‘how else would I know?’ Good point, how would she?
“So, is Danielle lying? I didn’t know at that point, but I left it with a smack down on Danielle to just shut up. Then I show up at Jacqueline’s Baileys & Bash Fest 2011 and I’m attacked for contacting Danielle. First Jacqueline cries that if I were any kind of friend, I would never have anything to do with Danielle. Um, I don’t. No mention here of Caroline, her actual sister-in-law’s involvement. Then Jacqueline confesses that she believes Melissa probably did contact Danielle, but so what. So what? Again, which is it? You’re freaking out that I would possibly answer her back, or you’re not bothered at all that your new friend Melissa has been in total contact with Danielle? Pick one!
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“As far as Jacqueline goes, she is a really hard person to be good friends with because she is so unstable and moody. But I never thought her moods would turn crazy against me. She was screaming at me to “move on” and forgive Melissa for something evil that Melissa did two years ago, but guess what? I just found out about it a week earlier! Give me some time to process it! And I had already decided to and did publicly defend Melissa. How is it holding an old grudge when you just found out?
“Let me see if I can use an analogy Jacqueline might understand: if you caught your husband flirting with your friend, you would be understandably crushed. Say you worked through it for months though and forgave him. Then you found out he really didn’t just flirt, he slept with her. Two years ago. Does your old forgiveness count? It was two years ago! Why should you care? You said you forgave him! Hypocrite! Um, I say would you care. And that your previous forgiveness doesn’t count because you didn’t know what you were forgiving. You need to work through the new offense that you just found out about. Right?
“I knew Melissa joined the show behind my back with what I think are malicious intentions. I’m trying to work through it, but she’s giving me innocence and ‘Bravo just contacted me out of the blue.’ Then I find out months later that Melissa had possibly sold her soul to the devil to bring me down. Game changer, yes?
“If it were reversed and I had done that to Melissa, my brother would have had my head. If Jacqueline’s brother joined the show and trashed her, but claimed he joined it innocently, then she found out he’d been in contact with Danielle to do it, I think she’d probably go berserk. I’m just calming trying to process it.
“I’ll be honest, I really expected Jacqueline and Caroline to be on my side about Melissa’s harmful intentions when they found out Danielle was involved. Why wouldn’t they be, especially when they were just yelling at me for tweeting Danielle back? It makes no sense. Any friend (and all my other friends were!) would be outraged that Melissa had stooped so low. But instead, Jacqueline is defending Melissa, saying ‘so what?’ and crying about how her feelings are hurt?
I’m tired of playing on Planet Jacqueline. I’m done with the crazy. Done, done, done.
“I would never do anything to hurt or expose my friends or family, God’s honest truth. And I never have. Do I want to know what they’ve done to me so I can deal with it? Of course. Would I be crushed if some of their evil plots and secrets were exposed? I wish I could say yes, but truth be told, I’m not sure I wouldn’t be a little happy. Sorry, but I am human, and they’ve all hurt me very deeply. But their ‘exposing’ won’t come from me, ever. I believe you get back what you put into the world, and I’m only putting out positive things.
“You’ll see in the next episode that Melissa makes a surprising confession, and my brother and I come to an unexpected agreement. Giant shocker and small miracles, all in one.”
Melissa’s blog for episode 8 is short, and she doesn’t say much — she and Joe did all their talking in episode 8, discussing Teresa’s finances, which is the same thing she accuses Teresa of doing and insists she would never do (the Gorgas script scenes to show how well they are doing in comparison to the Giudices, when their wealth is really a house of cards). Melissa takes a few subtle digs at Teresa for spending money while in bankruptcy (the exact same thing mentioned by the cast on the show — the closet, carport, furniture). She also discusses her mother- and father-in-law’s living situation (the depths of her depravity know no ends) and Joe’s parents being Teresa’s nannies (Teresa never mentions that Lysa Simpson, Melissa’s sister, is her de facto nanny). She says nothing about Danielle’s accusations, except that she addressed it in the previous week’s blog (the one paragraph covered earlier in this article — see above) and that we’ll hear more in the next episode. Here are a few quotes from her blog:
“Joe’s parents have been living in a house he owns for over 10 years. We sold it last year, but they will live there until Joe finds a perfect spot to build them a new one.”
“On the outside, it seems that things are good — a new carport, new closets, a new garage/apartment, and new furniture in the house — no signs of anything being wrong.”
“The article in this episode (Teresa going to jail) was from “Life and Style”— isn’t this the magazine that Melissa has a relationship with? She had a cover with them after the christening aired. I wonder why the other housewives don’t discuss, on the show, her cover stories or interviews trashing Teresa.” – VJA on June 18, 2012, Melissa’s Bravo Blog
“Your sister-in-law owes you no explanations about what is going on in her life…and you don’t speak (only tweet) anyway. So loving Melissa, the constant “fake” conversations about your concerns for Teresa and her family are laughable. You have no desire to know whether she is okay or not…and, to be honest, I believe you relish in the fact that you hope she is hurting and stressing, personally and financially. You speak from both sides of your mouth…one moment ‘acting’ and speaking so concerned and the next moment cutting her down. Which is it? Are you concerned or do you just want to make another one of your many MANY jabs at her….whether it’s about Joe’s problems or their financial problems….your lack of concern is so palpable. Your sisters are showing up more and more on the show….should we be looking to see them join the cast so that they can peddle their wares, getting their piece of the Bravo pie as well? I’m sure we will if you have anything to say about it…was that your plan all along…ousting Teresa and bringing in your sisters?? BE CAREFUL with that! You are so transparent, and so far we have seen nothing but a lot of bullying coming from you, Kathy, Caroline, Jacqueline, your husband and Rich. We don’t have to read between any lines….it’s clearly being caught by the cameras.” – Ruby2, June 18, 2012, Melissa’s Bravo Blog
“If the Lauritas were REALLY friends with the Guidices they would NOT talk about any of their issues involving their legal cases to the damn cameras. They have their OWN bankruptcy issues to deal with and lawsuits. Are the Guidices speaking about those? Right is right and wrong is wrong. Melissa flat out LIED about contacting Danielle Staub, to the viewers and on the show. That is not something Teresa should just “get over” especially when Melissa and Joe used Teresa to get themselves on the show. Teresa may not be as articulate but her points were clear. Bottom line its not any of Jacqueline, Chris, Caroline, The Lauritas or the Manzos business. Teresa’s family affairs and true friends would have never involved themselves in it. They were literally sitting up on the show talking about what Joe and Teresa have to try to cause harm to them with their bankruptcy case. What type of friends and family is that?” – brooklyntvcutie, June 17, 2012, Television Without Pity
“Melissa, do I think Teresa should go to therapy with her brother you ask? You have to speak in complete honesty for it to work right? Last time Teresa spoke in confidence in front of Joe, he and YOU used it to burn her hard and try to crucify her to the nation. So no, only a fool would go and let you two set her up again. Melissa, this blog, as per usual, is so transparent. Your manipulations laced with sweetness are getting tiring. I don’t think Teresa should forgive you; yes, you did it two years ago, but you have done nothing but sabotage her and try to really hurt her since. She’s not holding a grudge to not move on, she’s dealing with the here and now! How dare you talk about her children like you care. You have done nothing but try and hurt that family terribly since you joined. If I were Teresa, I would never forgive you.” – Mitchysuds, June 18, 2012, Melissa’s Bravo Blog
“Teresa’s idea prior to this was that Bravo asked Melissa to be on the show, not that there was a campaign of trying to get on the show but being turned down, talking to Danielle, dropping inside info on the internet for the two years prior and allegedly sending in an audition tape promising to ‘bring her down’. She said all of this in her personal blog not the Bravo one, the link was posted a few days back. Yeah, if it was me in Teresa’s shoes, all bets would be off, I’d be done with the bitch. Done, Done, Done. This isn’t hallmark cards about redone houses and throwing away cookies; this is greed and malice coming to play. If you hated me that much 2 years ago, don’t pretend its all love now and you just want the family back together since you’ve gotten what you’ve wanted.” – Noire, June 17, 2012, Television Without Pity
Related:
- A Little Bird Told Me… Tweets, TheChirpingTwit (Excerpt Below)
Jac also relayed in DM that there is, in fact, an audition tape created by Joe and Melissa to get on the Bravo show. It’s alleged that she later said that they all have to submit these type of things to get on the show. However, we have been listening to Kathy & Melissa’s reports of how they got on the show and they both denied even trying to get on–but rather wooed onto the show by production. So if Jac knows of the audition tape, how can she simultaneously believe that Melissa did nothing to edge her way onto the show? In addition, doesn’t Jac listen to any of the interviews of Melissa and Kathy explaining their sudden appearance on the show where they deny pursuing a spot on RHONJ? [Melissa is quiet about the audition tape, which tells us that there is one; and Jacqueline DMing someone that one existed, but saying that Melissa didn’t promise in it to take Teresa down, means Melissa told her it existed yet denied the content.]
The Truth About Melissa Gorga and Her Bravo Audition Tape
“It feel like she is presenting a false face to the cameras… sometimes her facade slips and you see her for who she really is.”
“The Gorgas auditioned, as does everyone. Look, it’s not like just because she is Teresa’s sister-in-law we instantly cast her because we had heard of bad blood between them. Teresa’s brother and Melissa were filmed for a short period and that was edited into a small compilation to see if they were interesting enough to be on television. This happens on every single show. Melissa does say that they will take down Teresa in the video, but in a playful manner. I’m also sure it’s been leaked onto the net, so it wouldn’t be hard to find.” – Former RHONJ Producer, September 23, 2012
“Jac also relayed in DM that there is, in fact, an audition tape created by Joe and Melissa to get on the Bravo show. It’s alleged that she later said that they all have to submit these type of things to get on the show. However, we have been listening to Kathy & Melissa’s reports of how they got on the show and they both denied even trying to get on–but rather wooed onto the show by production. So if Jac knows of the audition tape, how can she simultaneously believe that Melissa did nothing to edge her way onto the show? In addition, doesn’t Jac listen to any of the interviews of Melissa and Kathy explaining their sudden appearance on the show where they deny pursuing a spot on RHONJ? [Melissa is quiet about the audition tape, which tells us that there is one; and Jacqueline DMing someone that one existed, but saying that Melissa didn’t promise in it to take Teresa down, means Melissa told her it existed yet denied the content.]” – The Chirping Twit
Insider Blogs About Melissa Gorga’s Audition Tape and Events from Season 3 and Season 4 Anonymous E-mail Sent to StoopidHousewives, May 11, 2011:
Melissa has been jealous of Teresa since the day they met. Melissa was a plain Jane. Teresa has been fabulous and over-the-top since high school. Look at how Melissa has transformed herself into Teresa. Melissa copies EVERYTHING Teresa does: where she get her hair done, which pediatrician she uses, she literally follows Teresa into stores. She wears the same shoes two weeks later… Here’s a classic example (so Leann Rimes/Brandi Glanville!): Teresa got a hot designer dress in Vegas with a feather skirt in Sept. She twittered it. The next month, Melissa showed up at Audriana’s birthday party in the same feathered dress.
Melissa copied the way Teresa set up her Twitter name: Teresa_Giudice and Melissa_Gorga. Who does that? Melissa’s new website is black with a diamond over the “i” just like Teresa’s Fabulicious logo on her site. And producers did know about Melissa for three years — they interviewed everyone of the Housewives friends and family every year for new blood, and they passed on Melissa every time. Then last year, Melissa and Joey got drunk and made a tape where they parodied The Godfather, sent it to Bravo, and promised they’d humiliate Teresa on TV. Bravo bit.
Teresa didn’t know anything about it until they were signed! She was completely betrayed by Melissa, her brother, and Bravo. And unlike what was reported, Teresa was stuck in a 2-more-year contract, so she couldn’t get out of it and leave the show. She tried because she didn’t want to expose her parents or her kids to Melissa’s fame whore nonsense. If Teresa always hated Melissa, why is Melissa Gabriella’s godmother?
It’s Melissa who can’t stand that Teresa got famous, and now she wants what Teresa has. Missy is stalker scary. PS– One of the reasons Teresa does hate Missy now is because Missy & Joe have an “open” marriage, and Teresa thinks it’s disgusting. Missy leaves her kids with her two nannies all the time to go clubbing and hook up (she’s usually with an exflame called “Butch,”) and Joe sleeps with everyone in a skirt. Joe actually had charges pressed against him for rape back in the day, but his family pressured the girl to drop the suit. Look up the court records in Patterson, NJ.
‘vp’, December 13, 2011, AllAboutTRH.com:
OMG! OMG! OMG! I once read a comment on a blog before they got on the show that said that Mego used to try and say she inherited a lot of money from a rich relative and it turned out to be all lies. She had all these elaborate fantasies and lies she ‘cooked’ up and had people snowed for a while believing she was born with a silver spoon in her mouth until they started asking questions and her house of cards fell. That comment was also erased shortly either by the blogger or the poster (could have been for vulgarity). It was RAW. You could tell the poster hated this woman and knew her. I considered it when watching the show, because I really didn’t understand how they could afford to live the lifestyle that they did, the home was built for someone who is worth 10 times what the Gorgas are worth. But then the sisters seem pretty down on their luck and jealous of Mego, so that didn’t check either. If she had inherited money from her grandfather so would her sisters.
‘thedesigndiva2’, May 7, 2012, LynnNChicago:
I did my “research” into MANZO and they are NOT lilly white…hahahahaha. Same with poison Joey…. He should be the LAST to talk about MONEY WOES of Knuckle dragger barney and tre… and I am talking about back a few years ago before they even hit the show… Can’t wait for “BUTCH” to make an appearance into the gossip rags… then ALL will know the REAL story about Mellissa… hahahahahahahahahahahaha. BTW, I have “family” in Montville… they KNOW lots of stuff about lots of folks…
I wonder when the “friends” from Elizabeth will be coming forward… winks. If you wanted it to remain QUIET, reality tv is not the place to be… once that closet door opens all the bones fall out…….
An insider commenting at Reality Tea on September 17, 2011 (before the final episode of season 3 aired and before the Posche Fashion Show was filmed at the end of season 4) explained how Melissa Gorga went behind Teresa Giudice’s back to campaign for Bravo to cast her on RHONJ.
The comment was initially panned as ‘fan fiction’ and given little attention in September 2011. It was re-posted in another Reality Tea blog by eveie6fan on March 10, 2012 at 9:24 pm, but still wasn’t given much attention until season 4 episode 8 aired on June 17, 2012. Now viewers are reassessing its validity following comments made by Teresa during episode 8 and screen shots of the tweets shown during the episode.
The following are comments posted by ‘Insider’ at Reality Tea in August and September of 2011.
Note: For more inside scoop, most likely from the ‘insider’ who posted the blog below, check out the post titled RHONJ Producers Socialize With Everyone But Teresa Giudice (scroll down to “According to ‘Insider’ who commented at Reality Tea in August 2011”).
Insider’s August 2011 comments:
Melissa spent the past three years haunting Bravo and Danielle, trash-talking all of the Housewives but then kissing ass once they got on, then being mad at Teresa for being upset with them after all of that. Imagine your SIL, someone you have to see for the rest of your life, doing this for you – and your jealous and brainwashed friends sticking up for them. NEWSFLASH CAROLINE – Melissa was the one who told Danielle all about your stomach surgery, made the ‘rumors’ of Albert cheating at the Brownstone, and said ‘my daughter would never do that’ about Ashley. Wake the *beep* up.”
The truth will come out. Melissa tried to be on the show from the very beginning. They did not want her because she was boring. So, she stomped her feet and stalked Danielle Staub to the point where even Danielle (of all people) refused to bring her onto the show. Melissa AND Joe wanted to come on to surprise Teresa and be on-camera friends with Danielle.
I wish that did happen because maybe Caroline and Jacqueline would not be believing all of Melissa’s lies like you will see in season four. Melissa knows how to lie and get what she wants, but the truth will come out. Her stalking Danielle is what finally got her on the show.
A lot of what was also said at season 2′s reunion (with Melissa’s name) was completely removed because, at the time, no one even knew who she was. Melissa is a complete fake. She has tried to get on the show; it never happened until she stalked Danielle and made a video WITH Joe (nice brother) saying they will ‘Destroy Teresa’. Yet, they call Teresa garbage for working to support her family and keep a beautiful roof over her family’s head.
Insider’s September 17, 2011 comment [note that the insider refers to Caroline as Don C, Teresa as Tre, Melissa as Missy and Jacqueline as Jac]:
Missy has said that she got on the show from an initial ‘surprise’ phone call from Bravo when she was driving. In other instances, she has said Bravo contacted her via Facebook. None of this is true. I can confirm: Missy has been trying to get on Housewives for years. She was envious that not only Tre got on, but that Tre was becoming successful off of the show. The Gorgas (and even Tre) act as if there is this major underlying issue during their vague conversations.
There is an elephant in the room that, by contract, none of them can blatantly discuss (or couldn’t) as of yet… There was never a MAJOR issue. That is Bravo trying to make the show interesting, which it is failing at. Missy was at nearly every single family function, especially the ones filmed for Bravo. For years, she sent Bravo ‘audition’ tapes, e-mails, and even spoke with producers and assistants in person. No one was interested in her or her husband, who they mocked behind the scenes. When Melissa gets angry, she gets angry. She was tired of being ignored (sociopath) and decided to get dirty; she contacted Danielle initially two years ago. Ultimately, Melissa exchanged phone calls, e-mails, texts, and all forms of communication with Danielle for months upon months.
Like Danielle can confirm, Mel was dying to film scenes with her similar to the ones she does with her sisters and Kathy, where she fabricates lies and bitches about Tre. While it would have made for great television, even Danielle was apprehensive and initially thought she was being set up. She, as you know, declined. There was so much of what is now relevant information edited out of the reunion last year [season 2] because, at the time, it was irrelevant. Danielle used Melissa’s name verbatim, and among many other things, discussed Tre ‘not speaking or associating with her own family’ and being a horrible aunt [the same accusation Melissa made in her sixth Bravo blog, Light at the End of the Tunnel, posted on June 21, 2011].
When Teresa was arguing with Danielle, which was edited down, she CLEARLY told Danielle Staub to not ‘break up’ her family – not ‘bring up’ her family as she tried to assure us. This is why… The day of the reunion, after the first Danielle confrontation (there were more), Tre got extreme anxiety – and this is when she started to put all of Missy’s motives together: coming to every family event for camera time while behind the scenes contacting producers, Danielle, and pulling the best act which got her on the show – together with Tre’s brother Joey.
Teresa always tries to make excuses for her brother because she actually loves him, but he is certainly no angel. Joey G and Melissa filmed a tape where they, in the style of the Sopranos, promised Bravo execs they would ‘expose’ and ‘destroy’ Teresa. They also guaranteed to give Tre what she has given them ‘…their whole life.’ The tape was over the top and completely goumba. The REAL elephant in the room, and real reason why Tre and Joey G have issues, is the show itself and how Melissa got on. However, by contract, the housewives can’t reference the show. Today, Tre can’t stomach Melissa. She actually never liked her before, but there was never an issue as major as this one – the one Missy created.
Melissa’s sisters (and family) were all in on it too. Missy has no friends – except acquaintances who, like her, want to be the next ‘Lady Gorga.’ Yes, that is what they all call her too. Many of her ‘friends’ have been stalking Bravo producers in hope of lucking out like she has. They even created tapes similar to Melissa’s – where they [!@#$%^&*] talked Tre and spoke about how she was a ‘terrible person.’ The problem with this is – Tre doesn’t care for, nor even knows, half of them. At Melissa’s single release party, which was filmed at the Hudson Terrace in NYC on Friday August 12th, Melissa actually invited [strangers] supporters from twitter for the sheer purpose of making it look like she knew a bunch of people. In reality, Missy is the bitchiest person (and was ten times more before the show). Her wannabe ‘friends’ who want to be, ‘The next Lady Gorga!’ are even worse.
Below are the names of her busted possy who have been, and still are, hardcore stalking and harassing Bravo to become official Housewives: Anne Cahalane: One of the most condescending women around. Rude and needs to be given a ‘reality check.’ No pun intended. Never met Melissa in person until her single release party last month. This is one of her hardcore Twitter supporters. Andrea Zembillis: Fly-by-night owner of a local online cookie shop. Publicly swears up and down (like Anne) that she is not interested in being a part of the show. Her actions are the exact opposite.
Martha Fava: This woman can be seen running after Teresa when Tre was chasing Staub at the POSCHE show last year trying to calm her down. This year, at the POSCHE show, she was standing next to Melissa looking ‘concerned’ when Tre got loud with Kathy. She is, like the rest, desperate to be cast. She just gave birth to her firstborn last month yet still had an in-home audition (where the cameras come into your home for an interview and tour). Heather Robinson: This one is actually more of Kathy’s friend actually. Only befriended her because they live within five minutes of each other and she wants to be on the show desperately. She, like Martha and Andrea, have been stalking the produces for over a year now. Her husband is Cliff Robinson, a former NBA player [pictured below with Richie Wakile at Heather’s VIP birthday bash on December 10, 2011; the Wakiles and Gorgas attended; Heather is not in the photo, but is pictured in other photos here]. The chick is beyond full of herself and will go anywhere as long as there is a camera around. But then again, which of these chicks wouldn’t? Lysa Simpson: No brainer. Look at how she acts; she is as desperate to get on like the rest. The funny thing is, Bravo actually considered it at one point, then came to their senses.
Nevertheless, you will see a lot more of her (as if you already don’t see enough) next season. They filmed a lot of the show for Season 4 at the Jersey shore.
Sheila Giudice: Joe Giudice’s sister-in-law. His brother (who looks identical to him) is very close with JoeG despite the [!@#$%^&*] Sheila has tried to cause. She has not been successful at causing trouble like MeGo has. Her tapes were similar to Mel’s in the sense that she trash-talked Tre in the same way.
Maria H. Chappa: Long-time family friend of the Marco Sisters (which include Melissa). She tried to become a Housewife the same time Melissa had. She supported all of what Melissa parroted in her contact with Bravo. Maria’s hubby’s company has been under a fraud investigation. She is no one to judge, let’s just put it that way. She does a lot of fundraising work for Gov. Christie. Now onto why Bravo started filming Season 4 in May. They KNEW the premiere would garner huge ratings. They thought the new cast combination of only family-family-family would be hot.
They started filming in May and will continue to film until early October. Season 3 was incredibly forced. Everyone was forced to go on that vacation (they did not choose to go) as well as forced to go to Kathy’s house party, on the run, and to the Blackwater premiere party which will air towards the end of the season. Missy sings and the place is mostly packed with Melissa and her family’s possy. In Season 4, you will see Don C and Jac turning on Tre. Jac is puppeted by Don C. Don C is mad that Tre is very close with Dina. Although Tre was always the closest with Dina, and made friends with her first, Don C is beyond big headed. Don C and Dina got into it (like they usually do) but this time Don went too far and they have not spoken for quite some time.
Don C is a very venomous individual. Example: Deloris was originally Dina’s friend: go back to Season 1 when they went to AC. Don never knew Deloris before. She actually made a subtle dig at her. However, when they started fighting, Don C picked up Deloris as a friend to spite Dina. This is how Don C works. She planned to humiliate Kim G, who Missy and Bravo TOGETHER invited with Monica Chacon. Don C turned on Tre because she is pissed at Dina and taking it out on Tre. She is angry that Tre does not jump when she speaks ala Jac. Don expects everyone to listen to her, and when they don’t, all hell breaks loose. This is why she likes Missy, who only kisses Don’s ass to spite Tre.
The fight [the one which led Tre to seek Dina’s advice and which is captured on film in season 4—see ‘Editor’s Note’ below] takes place, conveniently and scheduled, right before Melissa’s single release party. On camera, Don C and Jac try to cover up the issue and act as though they are mad at Tre for something else, but the real issue is the aforementioned. What infuriated Don even more, and helped lead to the blowout quicker, was the fact that Tre listened to what Danielle had to say regarding Melissa contacting her. Tre was already aware of Missy reaching out to Danielle, but was in denial until the WWHL Twitter War.
Don C honestly did not want to go through sticking up for Tre because that means she would simultaneously be confirming that Danielle was correct.
Editor’s Note:
‘The Fight’ in Season 4: Dina revealed on October 24, 2011, that she rekindled her friendship with Teresa after Teresa came crying to her following a confrontation with Caroline and Jacqueline during season 4 filming: It wasn’t until VERY recently that Teresa showed up at my doorstep in tears…apparently Caroline & Jacqueline had a sit down with her on camera (for season 4) and she felt attacked. All I did was console a friend who was obviously shaken. I felt bad for her..even though I had distanced myself from her a bit I was still her friend and she needed me. I did miss my God daughter and the rest of her girls and I’m not proud to say that in staying away from her I had stayed away from them too. Within a few weeks I went to Teresa’s house to spend Audriana’s 2nd birthday with Teresa and her family. No camera’s, no drama just a nice family night the way things used to be…Teresa has been nothing but supportive of Project Ladybug through the years and is extremely supportive of my new show on HGTV. She tweets about it all the time AND watches when she can as a friend should.”
Dina confirmed that she did indeed film with Teresa for the upcoming 4th season: Teresa and I briefly spoke about her broken relationship with her brother on camera. I gave her my best advice and told her to focus on all the good in her life and if her brother is meant to be a part of her life again he will be one day.” When it comes to Teresa’s diss of her sister Caroline in her cookbook, Dina claims Teresa only meant it as a joke: She mentioned the drama with her and Caroline and I told her that if this is all about a joke in a book (and she assured me it was) that’s not enough for me to hate the mother of my God daughter and a friend of 15 years. Was it necessary to write that stuff in her book? probably not but I don’t think it was written with malice either. We are all guilty of joking a little too much now & then…”
As for her strained relationship with not only Caroline, but also Caroline’s kids, Dina stated: I feel bad that my relationship with my sister and her family is strained, but I can assure you that one day it will be back to the way it was. I don’t like fighting, I don’t like drama, I don’t like confrontation, I don’t agree with ganging up on someone (one of the other reasons why I left season 2) and I don’t need to share anymore than that. I am not on this show anymore, I didn’t sign on for opening up every aspect of my life to the world for the rest of my life when I signed that Bravo contract. http://www.dinamanzo.com/press/the-truth/ Jacqueline confirmed on Twitter that the family was infuriated with Dina for filming with Teresa in season 4.
When word got out that Dina filmed a little part with Teresa on season 4, Jacqueline messaged AllAboutTRH on Twitter about it and called out Dina for doing it: For someone who claims she wants to ‘AVOID drama’ she sure picked a heck of a time to go film with Teresa when she would never film with her own family and then she tweets some of the antagonizing comments that mostly only her family understand and also she sent that blog the way she did to cover her tracks. She claims to be ZEN.
http://www.allabouttrh.com/dinaresponds/
Now – let’s remove the others from the situation – did you ever notice how miserable the Manzo family is? Don C is in denial, and refuses to discuss on camera, who her sons REALLY are. Albie, in particular, is straight up homosexual. He also, along with Lauren, have a history of verbally abusing Don C. Don acts like she is so tough and her family is in line, but it is just that, an act. Don takes being treated that way from her children because she can’t deny the truth – she is not the best mother and not the most acceptable. You would think she would be acceptable, as she has two gay brothers, but then again who are they close with? DINA!
Dina, in actuality, is the person Don C tries to pretend she is. Have you noticed how Albie keeps trying to prove he is a ‘tough guid’ since Greg, his former piece of p***y, got on the show? Greg is not only a fame whore, but he is an actual whore. Rewatch Season 2 at the annual POSCHE Fashion Show. He is sitting with Tre. How did he get this close? By [!@#$%^&*] talking Danielle. This season and into Season 4 he is up Melissa’s ass. Why is this? Because he not only [!@#$%^&*] talked Tre to Mel, but promised Mel to do so on camera. Greg has slept with every other dude in the tri-state area. He doesn’t like to work, and over time accumulated money by selling his ass on promiscuous gay hookup sites. He also has a drug habit. Don C must be proud!
Editor’s Note: Teresa’s family and friends, lead by Melissa Gorga (remember, she promised Bravo that she would bring family drama and destroy Teresa if they cast her), ridiculed her behind her back throughout season 3, an example of which is in the video above.
Season 4 is pretty much a repeat of season 3. Once they realized RHONJ was going to get old pretty quickly, they started casting for Season 5. They hired a very small casting production company [VPE Talent] to do their work. The real reason why RHONJ may flop completely? Because the head at VPE is more concerned with wanting to be friends with the potential housewives than do his job. And which wannabe housewives are up his ass to get on the show?
Missy’s busted possy – you guessed it! The last thing I will note in this e-mail is that Missy & Joe do not ‘pay their bills’ as they always say. They owe Fabulous Foods $49,500 in Season 4. Joe Gorga never answered any form of communication from Fred, and initially paid Fred $500 then told him he would ‘take care of the rest’ via free construction work. Fred was taken back. He has one of the most beautiful homes in NJ – he needed the salary of a receipt he was owed, not $500 + probono work. After months and months of getting nowhere – Fred got angry. He was about to go to the press regarding Joey G, but Kim D stopped him.
Interestingly, it was at a house party of Kim D’s where [!@#$%^&*] hit the fan. Bravo producers knew of what happened and asked Kim to bring it up at the party. Kim, knowing the show is half staged, assumed the other girls knew that this was going to happen and brought it up in front of Melissa. Missy went crazy. So did Joey G. In Season 4 they deny it, even though initially Kim tried to help them by asking Fred to not go to the press.
Remember when Joe Gorga said on the WWHL After Show, when Andy asked Melissa if she got her dress at POSCHE, ‘hell no.’ This is why – he was pissed he got exposed. Joey G actually has a history of over twenty lawsuits filed against him. It’s evident him and Mel can’t handle criticism. Look at what they did to Jay Mohr. Yet, after he mentioned how Mel and her PR asked him to speak negative of Tre – she said she was only ‘joking’ and that Jay can’t handle humor. It was evident, by the language of her and HER POSSY, that none of them were joking.
Jay Mohr can’t stand Melissa. Andy Cohen, a p***y, does not want things to get out of hand and begged Jay to please ‘keep it cool’ when he interviews Melissa on WWHL on October 3.
End comment.
Joe and Melissa Gorga’s main complaints about Teresa Giudice in season 3 were that she didn’t include them in her new life on the show, which basically translates to them being upset that she didn’t make them famous by association. Melissa was furious with Teresa for not ‘sharing the wealth’ with her and her husband during the first two seasons by way of introducing Melissa and Joe and allowing them some screen time, as if it was Teresa’s decision to make and not Bravo’s.
Melissa and Joe tried for years to get Bravo to cast them on RHONJ (she stalked Bravo by sending ‘audition’ tapes, e-mails, and even spoke with producers and assistants in person) because they saw Teresa’s success and wanted it for themselves. But Bravo rejected them because they thought they were a joke. Melissa begged Danielle to film scenes with her — similar to the ones Melissa filmed in season 3 with her sisters and Kathy, where she fabricated lies and bitched about Teresa — but Danielle refused because she thought she was being setup.
As last resort, Melissa and Joe made an audition tape promising Bravo that they would destroy Teresa (no matter how many lies they would have to tell to make that happen). Bravo finally bit and cast them on season 3, maybe because Bravo saw how incredibly upset Teresa was during reunion 2 when Danielle mentioned the stories Melissa told her about Teresa (all of which didn’t make the final cut), or maybe because Teresa injured Andy Cohen’s pride when she stood up in anger and shoved him during reunion 2 as she lunged toward Danielle because of things she was saying about her family, which were lies Melissa fed her to get onto the show.
Melissa’s desire for fame started way before Bravo ever came to NJ. She was interested in the HW shows all the way back to the original OC. When Teresa was cast in the NJ series, let me tell you that the explosion should have been heard around the world. From that day, even before filming began, Melissa & Joe did all they could to tell everyone that Bravo chose the wrong NJ HW.
I couldn’t believe the things they said about her. How could a brother stoop so low. They are broke. The house was built as a ‘spec’ house & was NOT their real home. As soon as their campaign to get Mel on the show worked, they moved to the spec house & conveniently never told the bank. I tried to tell people not to trust Melissa, but everyone has to find out for themselves I guess. [Regan, May 6, 2012, RealityTea.com]
The producers are definitely manipulating the viewers. The insider who revealed that the Gorgas made an audition tape promising to destroy Teresa had details that only someone in production would have. I think this insider was a former member of the production team for RHONJ. This insider must have been truly disgusted by Bravo and the Gorgas to go out on a limb to expose them… he or she must have left Bravo and must have safely secured a new job before posting this comment [the comment, reposted below, was first posted at Reality Tea on September 17, 2011–before the season 3 finale and reunion]… otherwise it would have be career suicide to expose them. [mike, May 18, 2012, AllAboutTRH.com]
Teresa Giudice: Melissa Gorga Destroyed My Family by Chasing Fame! Teresa knew from the onset that Melissa’s presence in the cast would cause major issues.
“I told [co-stars Caroline Manzo and Jacqueline Laurita] how upset and betrayed I felt that Melissa and Kathy [Wakile] joined the show behind my back,” says Teresa. “I told them how worried I was that it was going to do to my family what it did to their family.” The season finale explosion was crazy to Teresa. “It was clear pretty quickly that everyone was out for my blood,” she notes. “I don’t know why. I really can’t keep up with it anymore. One day Melissa is at my house for dinner, the next day she’s saying we don’t speak.”
Melissa, Kathy and Caroline Went to Various Media Outlets Before Reunion 3 Aired to Explain Why Teresa Deserves to be Treated So Badly by Them: Concerning their accusations that Teresa setup Melissa at the Posche Fashion Show on September 27, 2011, Melissa told TheInsider.com (see video below):
“Someone takes a chance when they shouldn’t have… When you do something, you simply need to own up to it. If you’re gonna throw it out there, own it, say, ‘Yes I said it and I did it.’ It’s very difficult for me to deal with someone who’ll poke you and then say, ‘That wasn’t me, I didn’t poke you’… If you throw it out there and do it, you need to own it.” Caroline said about Teresa (see video below): “Why should I feel sorry for someone who walks away from people who want to help her, that walks away from love and tries to hurt. Why should I feel sorry for that?” “You don’t have the right to play the victim when you’re the one doing all the hitting. Everybody here wants to hug… Everybody loves each other here, it’s all love.”
http://www.5min.com/Video/RHONJ-Caroline-to-Teresa-Dont-Play-the-Victim-517178066
Kate (NOT the ignorant Tre-hating “kate”) on March 12, 2012 said on AllAboutTRH:
Those on here who support Tre, support her simply because she has, in fact, owned up to her mistakes and “cattiness”, especially with MeGo, Joey, and Kathy. As of yet, none of those three have been able to do the same. All three continue to behave in snarky, back-handed, gossipy, and manipulative ways toward Tre, her fans, her children, and her products (albeit, Kathy less than the other two). THAT is the issue we, Tre supporters, have with MeGo and Joey. Not that Tre is “innocent” and MeGo & Joey are “guilty” but that Tre has owed up to her part in the problem while MeGo & Joey continue to cut her down at the ankles in order to try and walk all over her and steal her spotlight.
At what point do we, as viewers, recognize that someone is in survival mode as a result of someone else’s words and actions (i.e. Tre during S3 reunion: obvious survival mode kicked in causing her to be somewhat “embellished, manipulated, overreacted, catty, gossipy, and judgmental”)? Personally, I forgive Tre those behaviors because I can clearly see she was provoked beyond reason.
JoJoLaMa on March 13, 2012 said on AllAboutTRH:
Teresa didn’t actively attempt to invade and destroy her brother and sister-in-law’s domain and private life to make a buck. Teresa kept her cool and didn’t retaliate when her own brother talked to her in a DISGUSTING manner on national television. She also kept her cool when Caroline talked to her like a 3 yr old, lecturing her about how to handle her family while she herself wasn’t even talking to 2 or 3 of her sibs. She didn’t expose her family’s private, personal pain. When she and Joe messed up — and they DID, BIG time — she didn’t pretend they were still wealthy, and she set about FIXING her mistakes. She didn’t criticize and castigate other housewives on film for things SHE was doing herself. She didn’t talk sh*t about other people’s elderly parents. etc etc etc ad infinitum. As far as I’m concerned, she can be as ‘judgmental’ and ‘catty’ as she wants toward Mel and Kathy and Caro and Jac too.
JoJoLaMa on March 13, 2012 said on AllAboutTRH.com:
Personally, I’m not PRO Teresa as much as I am ANTI Mel, JoeGo, Kathy, Jac and Caro. I think that group are having a really hard time accepting and understanding that the issue is pretty simple. People just don’t like what was done to Teresa. Screwing over family to make a buck just doesn’t sit well with most people. Mel, JoeGo and Kathy did the screwing over and Jac and Caro supported it and kicked her while she was down, then Andy kicked her some more.
JoJoLaMa on March 14, 2012 said on AllAboutTRH:
The overwhelming majority of the Real Housewife viewing audience has turned against them. Based on their public comments and tweets, they seem to get THAT, however, they don’t seem to understand they won’t be able to manipulate the public back into loving them again. I say this because they just keep doubling and tripling down on the Teresa hate and Teresa watching/stalking – the most recent and pathetic example is Don watching and tweeting about CA just to support her ‘good friend’ Lisa Lampanelli – RIGHT! If I were Teresa, I’d be slightly creeped out by Caroline’s behavior, she’s quite obviously still obsessed with her.
They keep promising us we’re going to “REALLY get the REAL story soon!” – they also promised we would get the ‘real story’ at the Season 3 reunion too. All I got from that is Caroline Manzo is one serious, nasty, hardcore b*tch and Mel and Kathy are VERY VERY dumb and so jealous of Teresa, they can’t see straight. If they had any brains, and were serious about preserving their images and maybe even potential future business opportunities derived from this show, they’d start taking a softer stance on Teresa and everything that has happened. You know, maybe gently and sheepishly and with humility begin to admit that just MAYBE …POSSIBLY Teresa is not exactly the Devil Incarnate.
Brealyn on March 13, 2012 said on AllAboutTRH:
Oh Melissa knows she’s lying. Melissa knows she’s manipulating. Melissa knows she’s scum. Melissa knows she feeds bloggers hate about Teresa. Melissa knows damn well that Teresa DOESN’T feed bloggers information. Melissa does what she does because she knows people have good hearts and want to believe she isn’t scum and she thinks she will get away with it just likes she gets away with all the shit she’s done to Teresa. Teresa doesn’t do anything to get back at her, Teresa doesn’t stoop to her level so Melissa thinks she can get away with saying and doing whatever she wants. Melissa does not like being called out on her shit because she is used to surrounding herself with scum that lies just as much as her. Melissa you are disgusting!!!
Bay on March 13, 2012 said on AllAboutTRH:
Melissa doesn’t like lying yet she is the world’s biggest liar. Melissa doesn’t like haters yet she is the world’s biggest hater. Look what Melissa did to her own family for God’s sake!!!!! Melissa you are a nut job.
Michael on March 13, 2012 said on AllAboutTRH:
No Teresa did not give it as good as she got it, that is a lie!!!! Teresa is the ONLY one that tried!!! Teresa was ganged up on and had no one. Even a caged dog defends itself and that was all Teresa ever did. Teresa handled herself so much better than any of us would if our family put us through that. And Melissa and Kathy were non stop terrible, I mean they were horrible, they were CONSTANTLY trying to hurt her or upset her and they didn’t give a shit that it was hurting Teresa’s daughter. Melissa and Kathy put Teresa through HELL. And all because they are jealous, hateful women. And then Teresa’s own friends joined in because apparently they didn’t think she had enough abuse. I don’t want to see that ever again, last season was terrible, I felt like the whole time I was watching I wanted someone to help Teresa, I felt like I was watching someone being abused and no one was stopping it. I can’t go through another season of that 😦 I can’t even imagine how Teresa feels.
DJ on March 12, 2012 said on AllAboutTRH.com:
This woman is UNBELIEVABLE! She thought she was going to come on the scene and we were all going to ADORE HER!! It is OK for her, her troll sisters, and even JoeGo to vilify poor Teresa, but GOD FORBID ANYONE think anything the slightly unfavorable about her, and she is up in arms.
lucy on March 12, 2012 said on AllAboutTRH.com:
Melissa started this shit storm and the mass public opinion of her is going to end it. cammierari on March 12, 2012 at 12:25 pm said on AllAboutTRH.com: I know I sound like a broken record on this site (and others) but…I also would like someone to please tell us what terrible things Teresa has done to warrant all this hate directed at her. People call her mean, backstabbing, vicious, they say she lies, she’s even been called scum-but no one can point to one example of something she has done or said to prove it. I think Caroline and Jacqueline were jealous of the attention Teresa received and saw Melissa as their chance to bring Teresa down. They couldn’t wait to believe the negative things Melissa said about Tre because they figured it would finally “show T for who she is” and end her reign as most popular housewife. Well Teresa has continued to be the same person she has always been, and Caroline and Jacqueline have been shown to be the vile people they are. Instead of fighting back by giving stories where she slams those who are slamming her, Teresa has just continued to live her life, realized that Jac and Caro were never her friends, and has probably become MORE popular. Teresa doesn’t put her private business out there because it’s NOBODY’S BUSINESS but her family’s, and that’s how she wants it to stay. I am totally in Teresa’s corner and hope she continues to shine.
JoJoLaMa on March 14, 2012 said on AllAboutTRH.com:
The reason you’ll never hear the real answer to your question – ‘Why do they hate her so much?’ is because it would let the cat out of the reality show bag. It’s all about MAKING MONEY and MARKETING YOURSELF -starting new businesses or bolstering existing ones, launching products, endorsing, getting famous enough to get ANOTHER spin-off show = more money. Teresa has done this better than anyone, that’s why they hate her. It’s just pure jealousy. In addition, I think, in general weak, miserable people (Caro, Mel, Kathy, Jac) get uncomfortable in presence of strong, positive people (Tree), but you’ll never hear that either: “We hate Teresa because despite all our herculean efforts, people just don’t want to buy the sh*t we’re selling. Publishing houses, talk show producers and various product representatives keep telling us we’re just not as marketable as Teresa. All we’ve gotten out of this reality show is some bad press and some very temporary Z-list celebrity status. Wow, if I had to what Teresa went through in her personal life, I’d be in an insane asylum. I have a bully mentality and an easily-manipulated psyche that causes me to jump right in with the mob instinctively and try to kill the wounded animal of the group. Damn, I’m really a scumbag and Teresa is a pretty decent person after all.” See, saying that wouldn’t make them sound too good. We won’t ever hear that, but that’s the truth.
Joshua on March 13, 2012 said on AllAboutTRH.com:
Melissa doesn’t like the truth. She only likes people who go along with her lies and never call her out. I tried to call her out for making fake accounts on facebook and she deleted my post and blocked me. I wasn’t even rude, I had proof she was doing it and she deleted it. She is the lowest of the low in my eyes and I really think she thinks she can get away with anything because she is so good at lying. She honestly scares me.
michers on March 14, 2012 said on AllAboutTRH.com:
T is probably the only housewife who never started drama, never saw her back stab, never witnessed her lying, I think she is the only non-perfect person who kept it the realest! Has anyone ever seen here even be gossipy? I have seen her listen to people who gossip or vent, but not her. Stacey on March 12, 2012 at 3:47 pm said on AllAboutTRH.com: Melissa. We do no like you because of the way you and your midget husband behaved on the show. You are clearly not a nice person for going on the show with an already strained relationship with your husband’s family. Anyone with a brain could see right thru your BS. That is the reason people do not like you. End of story.
JoJoLaMa on March 13, 2012 said on AllAboutTRH.com:
I just think Mel et al ( and especially Don Caro ) are scumbags. That’s how it works, Mel. You voluntarily went on (clawed your way onto ) a ‘reality’ show, that in theory, is supposed to chronicle your life, your highs, lows, missteps and outright IMMORAL behavior if that’s what you choose to show, and you DID. When you go on these shows, people are going to talk about you, judge you, point out your moral, let’s say, ‘flexibility’.
old NJ girl said on February 27, 2012 at Stoopid Housewives:
I wanted to give the former Lookers employee and her husband a chance this season, but after the first episode I hated Mr PW Joey Marco. How can anyone trash their sister and their parents like he did? I also saw how he related to the Marco sisters. Then I watched the former Lookers employee tell her husband that she will take all of his families abuse so that he can make peace with them. That women may have a nice side to her but she is so passive aggressive!
I started following the former Lookers employee on twitter and quickly learned that all the nice stuff she said about making peace with Teresa was false, as she was constantly tweeting nasty remarks and retweeting even worse remarks. She continued to do this on her original twitter account even after she started the current account, which has only had a few nasty tweets about Teresa. Then I heard about the “mob” tape that they sent to Bravo to get on the show, the former Lookers employees comments on blogs during season 1 and 2 about all the women, all the emails and phone calls with Danielle Staub; and the last is the the setup at the fashion show (s4) that all the cast members blame on Teresa when Teresa had nothing to do with it. Her sisters have been horrible to Teresa on twitter.
Everyone is blaming Teresa for all the problems and not taking any responsibility for their own actions. Teresa is not perfect and didn’t act the best at times this season, but if you had darts coming at your for all directions I am sure that you would fight back and be defensive.
On screen the former Lookers employee looks like the sweet and innocent victim, but there is a whole other side to her that is calculated and mean. It is clear to me that the former Lookers employee only cares about getting her signing career going and will use anyone and anything to get what she wants.
Megan said on November 30, 2011 on AllAboutTRH.com:
None of this is a surprise to those of us that have known these people for years before Bravo ever had a show. Melissa’s sisters are called the witch’s of the North & East for a reason. We don’t bother with the ‘witch’ title for Melissa. She’s just called a bitch. Finally Caroline’s true colors are starting to be revealed & Jacqueline’s as well. And don’t think Kathy is any better. She follows Melissa, watches the behavior, engages in the behavior only behind the person’s back, and then tries to make herself look innocent. And her husband? God what scum he is. When Teresa was cast on the show, you couldn’t go anywhere without hearing Melissa, her sisters and their husbands, and Kathy and her husband, call Teresa and her family names. It wasn’t just jealousy, it was hate. If Teresa is smart, she will stay far away from these people, family or not. I knew one day the truth about them would come out, and it’s about time.
http://www.allabouttrh.com/will-love-exposes-illumination-pr-and-melissa-gorga
Melissa has a hard time not taking swipes and jibes at her SIL.
“We pay OUR bills.” “We have tons of money.” “I’m really rich and Teresa isn’t.”
Melissa Gorga’s Facade Slips During Season 3 and You Can See Her for Who She Really Is You Can See the Real Melissa Gorga in This Season 3 Footage at Stoopid Housewives:
http://stoopidhousewives.com/2011/11/02/real-housewives-of-new-jersey- melissa-gorga-responds-to-teresa-giudice-and-megos-comparing-herself-t o-britney/
Melissa has a chat with Greg [her manager] and her husband about starting out in a low-end club for a product launch of BLK water as the premiere of her single, ‘On Display.’ She has her big girl panties in a wad over performing on a small stage at a small club and threatens to give a half-azzed performance because she is in a half-azzed place.
Joey’s face was the face of a man who just realized he sunk some major change into a losing horse… one with a pretty mane, but a bum leg. That scene there is the REAL Melissa. And that is the side of Melissa that Teresa was trying to explain to Caroline and Jacqueline.
It is all about Melissa trying to necessarily be like Teresa. Joey obviously thought a LOT of his family and the way things were done. Melissa tried to live up to it, cook like the mom, have the Italian perspective, and do things the way Teresa does, not because she idolizes Teresa but because it is Joey’s sister whom he adores. It snowballed from there though.
Melissa is using a lot of animal prints these days, uses the same hand gestures as Teresa, the same squeaky voice. Her need to fit into the family, and do as they do, turned into something else. The only profound thing Joe Gorga said was “The problem is youse two are alike. Youse both like the same things.. youse two are flashy… so it got competitive.” Those two are a lot alike. Only Teresa is on the down hill ride of trying to live “flashy”… and Melissa will soon join her.
It’s not JUST about competing. If you hire an expensive photographer to get special pictures, you wouldn’t want your family using the same guy to get the same pictures (same thing goes with a stylist and publicist). There are plenty of photographers (and stylists and publicists) out there with their own styles that Melissa could have chosen from, so why use the same person? It IS irritating to be copied like that. You try to be individual, unique, your own style, and then this person close to you copies it instead of finding her own style. While it might seem flattering, it isn’t. When someone competes with you and tries to outshine you with your own light, it would cause you to compete back, compete for your own spotlight that someone else is trying to steal from you. People should use their own light to shine, in their very own unique way. It’s called being yourself.
Melissa Gorga Lies to Ilana Angel of the Jewish Journal UPDATE:
Ilana Angel of the Jewish Journal interviewed Melissa Gorga, which was published on April 13, 2012 (one day after Melissa’s interview with Reality Tea). Ilana said: I am pleased to report that Melissa said ‘Thank you Jesus’ several times and it was fabulous because I would have been disappointed had she not. We spoke about a lot of things and while some of it did not ring true to me, she was kind and surprisingly candid, so you take what you like from it… We spoke a little bit about how life has changed since they began on the show and she told me it has not changed that much. She let me know life was certainly simpler when she didn’t need to explain herself all the time, but overall she thinks life is pretty much the same. I think her response is silly.
You cannot go on a reality television with the type of following that RHONJ has, and tell me that your life is the same. Her family has been ripped apart for the world to see so how has nothing changed? There were problems before, but going public changes it all. Before the show Melissa was not on Twitter having people hate her and wish her harm. I am on Twitter and I have seen people bash her as it their lives depended on it, so if she thinks I believe her life is the same now as it always was, then she must think I’m an idiot, which I am not… Melissa told me things about her coming on the show that we have all read in a million places, and that I’m not sure I believe, but what I think does not matter… Melissa spoke at great length about her relationship with Teresa and I want to be clear that I did not ask specific questions, but she gave specific answers.
I like both Teresa and Melissa on the show for different reasons and it changes with each episode. I have flattered and battered both. Melissa told me she is a believer in karma, which I found to be interesting. She also told me she has only seen one or two episodes of Teresa on Celebrity Apprentice. For someone who is so big into karma, she does not seem to worry about her own which is fascinating. If we are to believe that family is the most important thing to her, I would expect her to be watching her sister-in-law on Celebrity Apprentice.
Even if they were not getting along, that would be an even bigger reason to watch her, because you are hoping she fails. I do not believe that Melissa does not watch Celebrity Apprentice. I do however question her motives in lying about it. If she watches, she should be proud of her and say so. If she is not watching, then her stories of their family being intact are not true and there is lots of tension.
Ilana Angel Posted This Comment at the Jewish Journal About Melissa Gorga on January 26, 2012:
After my interview with Teresa posted, I got a lot of support from her fans. They are fiercely loyal to her and it was sweet how supportive they were of her, and therefore me for being kind. The thing is, I was not kind. I was honest. She was great, I wrote she was great, end of story. I also got tweets from Melissa’s fans saying I should interview her because she was so much nicer than Teresa. Not cool, but reality fans are hard core and I get that they were sticking up for their girl. Before I had a chance to ask Melissa for an interview, Jacqueline Laurita stepped in. I tweeted that Teresa and I spoke for an hour and Jac immediately tweeted to complain about Teresa doing “another interview”.
Jac spends a lot of time talking trash on Twitter. She is irrelevant and not interesting so I get she is desperate for attention and bashes Teresa to get it. She wrote I was a gossip writer, then Melissa chimed in. I don’t remember it all and am too bored to go back and find it, but the bottom line is that Jac wrote about it, Melissa agreed with Jac, then I wrote to say I was not a gossip writer, and there was a lot of backpeddling.
Jac said she was not talking about me. Lie. Melissa said Jac was talking about another interview. Lie. I wrote to them both saying they were clearly talking about me, there was no need to lie, and I called them out on it. They then took to Twitter to publically talk about me, so it was on. Jac insisted it was not me she was referring to then sent me a message telling me to tell people she never said it was me, as she was getting attacked. Melissa also sent a private message saying she was not talking about me. Whatever. Cut to my saying it was not a big deal. I sent Melissa a couple of my interviews and asked her if she would like to be interviewed.
She publically tweeted to me, “ANYTIME!” She said her “assistant” would set it up. A few days later I got an email from her publicist saying Melissa could not do the interview now because of Teresa. This is the email: Hi Ilana, Thanks for your interest in interviewing Melissa. We are interested in working with you, however because you just interviewed with Teresa we would like to wait a little while. We will be in touch soon. Thanks again. Thank you,Robyn
I wrote to Melissa and said it was a shame she was postponing and then let my Twitter followers know the interview was off. Melissa wrote to say it was shady of me to announce on Twitter she was postponing. I reminded her she wrote me on Twitter and people wanted to know. I told her it was silly to think she could not talk to me so soon after my talking to Teresa, and she agreed, telling me again we would do the interview. I wrote her to set it up and never heard from her. She promised an interview twice, and bailed twice. She not only bailed, but was kind of not nice. It’s a drag because I really like her.
My readers and her fans were looking forward to our chat and I was really looking forward to it. I write a lot about faith, and the loss of my dad, and there was a lot to talk about with her. At the end of the day it’s not really that big of deal that she bailed. What is a big deal is that she was caught in a lie. She sells herself as the super nice girl getting screwed by her sister-in-law but in the end she looked more like a jealous fame seeker than a nice girl.
Teresa is great and I like her. I am convinced that Melissa is also great, but we’ll never know the real her because she is guarded, fake, and under the impression that her publicist knows what’s best for her in terms of her interviews, and dissed the Jewish Journal. All press is good press I guess, but promising an interview to someone who is going to write nice things and gush as a fan, then bailing and denying that you bailed is just dumb. Melissa has no need to worry about being compared to Teresa because there is no comparison.
I’m here if Melissa ever wants to do the interview. None of this will play into the conversation for me. I get that she is doing the best she can, and gets a lot of requests. I’m not mad that she bailed, just annoyed that they are lying about it. No need for drama. I think Melissa is a great mom, has a great husband, and I respect her faith. I am also a writer who has dealt with a lot of reality stars and their “people” and I would suggest to this lovely woman that she get a new publicist. One that will allow her to keep it real.
http://www.jewishjournal.com/keepingitreal/item/a_conversation_with_melissa_gorga_20120126/
Melissa Knows That She Must Fight with Teresa for a Storyline
Melissa desperately wanted to become rich and famous, but at what expense? By promising to bring family drama and to expose and destroy Teresa. She could have tricked Bravo and made that promise but not delivered once she made it to the show. They should have tried to stand united as a family with the Wakiles and Guidices, and then it would have been a different story. But she hasn’t done any of that, so it makes you wonder if she has a personal vendetta against Teresa.
Melissa knows that if she makes peace with Teresa then her days are over, so she keeps it going. Melissa’s opportunity to become rich and famous depends solely on her fighting with Teresa, so while she might have thought that she was going to kill two birds with one stone— be famous and bring Teresa down— only one of them has worked. Melissa used the premise of taking Teresa down to get on the show: she may have wanted to get on the show for other reasons, but that was her bargaining chip.
Exit4 said on May 18, 2012 said at LynnNChicago:
It would be hard to turn down the money and opportunities that these shows give you. Especially if you have a “dream” of being a pop star or Americas Greatest Canoli Baker. LOL. I do also believe that Bravo came to Mel and Kathy and I do agree that it isn’t Teresa’s show to cast. Just like Teresa had no control over the fact that Bravo didn’t show the footage they had of MeGo prior to joining the show–specifically the big introduction of her brother at her housewarming party. But then again, they had no part of the storyline–that was still the Danielle years! They KNEW (and you do too!) that they were asked to be on the show to be a foil to Teresa. How ever it played out was really up to fate…but for anyone to believe that people who don’t get along are suddenly going to make nice and “fix” their issues for the cameras…come on, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
Teresa played fakey fakey on the FIRST day of filming (the christening) and the Gorgas, literally, came out swinging. So for me (and it seems a lot of other people–even ones who don’t like Teresa) it’s not so much that MeGo wanted to and ultimately did the show. It’s that they KNEW it was going to paint their family in a bad light. They KNEW it was going to create animosity behind the scenes (for the family) and they KNEW they were going to have to dredge up family drama and situations that no one outside the family was aware of. In order to be rich and famous, she (and Joey) KNEW they were going to have to hurt the woman. And they were okay with that. They were willing to go there.
A lot of the viewers see this and recognize that there is something inherently wrong with it. Now was it her SOLE purpose to “destroy” Teresa. Maybe, maybe not..but at the very least it was 50% of her purpose! What better way to get back at the SIL who hurt you then by encroaching on her territory, so to speak, and ruining things for her.
What MeGo also knew was that Teresa would not be able to not respond to any of it. They KNEW she’d “attack back,” and I can’t help but think they believed it would simply be a matter of using her own negative personality traits against her to achieve whatever it is they wanted for themselves. Be it fame, $$$ or a little revenge. Probably all 3.
I know the more aggressive Teresa haters will say, “why didn’t she quit the show then”. To this I say: Seriously? Exactly what purpose would Kathy and Melissa have without her. If Teresa did tell Bravo she was quitting, chances are they wouldn’t have even had Kathy and Melissa–and, if they did, they would do what? Sit around and bash someone who wasn’t there? People would hate that! Plus, Teresa needs the money.
A number of people have gone on about Teresa paying her debts–well, the show is going to help her do that. You can’t have it both ways. Besides, if I was Teresa and I was having the fame and success that the show was giving me (the same fame and success you say Melissa wanted, so therefore you can’t blame Teresa for staying any more than you can blame MeGo her for joining), I’d stay too and hope for the best… and try to control it as much as I could–which is why she keeps saying “don’t say this, don’t talk about this”–sometimes in Italian! (Can I just add that I can totally see some poor PA wrestling with Google Translate to figure out what she’s saying–especially when she turns her head or covers her mouth–watch her, she does that!)
I know she was there first is a childish argument, but it kinda applies here…in any case, most of us are well aware that, without Teresa, the show would be missing something. For now, anyway. I also agree with the Twitter stuff. There is absolutely NOTHING that any of the HWs, in any city, can do to control the fans. The ones who are the nastiest on Twitter are either slightly disturbed and/or simply Tweet that stuff because they love the reaction.
What they can control are their reactions…and I will never get why some of them even engage these people. Teresa (or anyone) could send out 10,000 Tweets telling her “fans” to stop it and it won’t make a lick of difference. I will give kudos to Teresa for keeping the drama off Twitter. Jac should do the same, but she just can’t help herself!
Sabrina Bates on 19 May, 2012 at Reality Tea:
Ok, I don’t write on these sites but I am fed up. RHWNJ was Theresa’s gig, not her family’s. It appears that her brother and Melissa horned in on her action. I think Melissa is butt ugly but with implants, eyelashes and numerous spa treatments, she is not too ugly on the eyes. If one of my family members impeded on my turf, I would probably feel similar to Theresa, especially if they entered the series attacking me. As far as Melissa bringing up Joe’s legal issues on camera, so not cool. In a family, if you care, you know to keep your trap shut.
farishta said on June 18, 2012 at Television Without Pity:
“I do not believe what Melissa says just because she says it. The fact that there was any interaction at all with Danielle is amazing to me; the fact that there was and that Melissa has been pretty cagey about it suggests to me there’s still more revelations to come. And I think it’s a huge fucking deal. I’m shocked that the Manzos and Lauritas don’t seem to have noticed. What is clear on the show is that Melissa has been dancing and weaving around this issue the few times Andy or someone allows it to come up. I believe that Melissa–the same piece of shit butter won’t melt in her mouth asshole who said she wanted nothing more than the family to come together–was corresponding behind the scenes with Danielle as early as Season 2. I also believe that she and the hag sisters are the most likely sources who fed information about Teresa’s family to Danielle in Season 2, who then brought up the misinformation at the season 2 reunion that Tre did not visit her newborn nephew. But the fact that it was a lie didn’t matter then in Season 2 to these assholes, and the source of the lie, which has now emerged in Season 4, doesn’t matter now to them either. When Andy brought it up at the season 3 reunion Melissa danced around the issue by mumbling something about facebook and a few emails and Andy helped brush it under the carpet.
“It feel like she is presenting a false face to the cameras… sometimes her facade slips and you see her for who she really is.”
“The Gorgas auditioned, as does everyone. Look, it’s not like just because she is Teresa’s sister-in-law we instantly cast her because we had heard of bad blood between them. Teresa’s brother and Melissa were filmed for a short period and that was edited into a small compilation to see if they were interesting enough to be on television. This happens on every single show. Melissa does say that they will take down Teresa in the video, but in a playful manner. I’m also sure it’s been leaked onto the net, so it wouldn’t be hard to find.” – Former RHONJ Producer, September 23, 2012
“Jac also relayed in DM that there is, in fact, an audition tape created by Joe and Melissa to get on the Bravo show. It’s alleged that she later said that they all have to submit these type of things to get on the show. However, we have been listening to Kathy & Melissa’s reports of how they got on the show and they both denied even trying to get on–but rather wooed onto the show by production. So if Jac knows of the audition tape, how can she simultaneously believe that Melissa did nothing to edge her way onto the show? In addition, doesn’t Jac listen to any of the interviews of Melissa and Kathy explaining their sudden appearance on the show where they deny pursuing a spot on RHONJ? [Melissa is quiet about the audition tape, which tells us that there is one; and Jacqueline DMing someone that one existed, but saying that Melissa didn’t promise in it to take Teresa down, means Melissa told her it existed yet denied the content.]” – The Chirping Twit
Insider Blogs About Melissa Gorga’s Audition Tape and Events from Season 3 and Season 4
Anonymous E-mail Sent to StoopidHousewives
May 11, 2011
Melissa has been jealous of Teresa since the day they met. Melissa was a plain Jane. Teresa has been fabulous and over-the-top since high school. Look at how Melissa has transformed herself into Teresa. Melissa copies EVERYTHING Teresa does: where she get her hair done, which pediatrician she uses, she literally follows Teresa into stores. She wears the same shoes two weeks later… Here’s a classic example (so Leann Rimes/Brandi Glanville!): Teresa got a hot designer dress in Vegas with a feather skirt in Sept. She twittered it. The next month, Melissa showed up at Audriana’s birthday party in the same feathered dress.
Melissa copied the way Teresa set up her Twitter name: Teresa_Giudice and Melissa_Gorga. Who does that? Melissa’s new website is black with a diamond over the “i” just like Teresa’s Fabulicious logo on her site.
And producers did know about Melissa for three years — they interviewed everyone of the Housewives friends and family every year for new blood, and they passed on Melissa every time. Then last year, Melissa and Joey got drunk and made a tape where they parodied The Godfather, sent it to Bravo, and promised they’d humiliate Teresa on TV. Bravo bit. Teresa didn’t know anything about it until they were signed!
She was completely betrayed by Melissa, her brother, and Bravo. And unlike what was reported, Teresa was stuck in a 2-more-year contract, so she couldn’t get out of it and leave the show. She tried because she didn’t want to expose her parents or her kids to Melissa’s fame whore nonsense.
If Teresa always hated Melissa, why is Melissa Gabriella’s godmother? It’s Melissa who can’t stand that Teresa got famous, and now she wants what Teresa has. Missy is stalker scary.
PS– One of the reasons Teresa does hate Missy now is because Missy & Joe have an “open” marriage, and Teresa thinks it’s disgusting. Missy leaves her kids with her two nannies all the time to go clubbing and hook up (she’s usually with an exflame called “Butch,”) and Joe sleeps with everyone in a skirt. Joe actually had charges pressed against him for rape back in the day, but his family pressured the girl to drop the suit. Look up the court records in Patterson, NJ.
Reply posted by ‘vp’ on December 13, 2011 at 9:29 am at AllAboutTRH.com:
OMG! OMG! OMG!
I once read a comment on a blog before they got on the show that said that Mego used to try and say she inherited a lot of money from a rich relative and it turned out to be all lies. She had all these elaborate fantasies and lies she ‘cooked’ up and had people snowed for a while believing she was born with a silver spoon in her mouth until they started asking questions and her house of cards fell. That comment was also erased shortly either by the blogger or the poster (could have been for vulgarity). It was RAW. You could tell the poster hated this woman and knew her. I considered it when watching the show, because I really didn’t understand how they could afford to live the lifestyle that they did, the home was built for someone who is worth 10 times what the Gorga’s are worth. But then the sisters seem pretty down on their luck and jealous of Mego, so that didn’t check either. If she had inherited money from her grandfather so would her sisters.
Comment posted by ‘thedesigndiva2‘ on May 7, 2012 at 11:43 am at LynnNChicago:
I did my “research” into MANZO and they are NOT lilly white…hahahahaha. Same with poison Joey…. He should be the LAST to talk about MONEY WOES of Knuckle dragger barney and tre… and I am talking about back a few years ago before they even hit the show… Can’t wait for “BUTCH” to make an appearance into the gossip rags… then ALL will know the REAL story about Mellissa… hahahahahahahahahahahaha. BTW, I have “family” in Montville… they KNOW lots of stuff about lots of folks… I wonder when the “friends” from Elizabeth will be coming forward… winks. If you wanted it to remain QUIET, reality tv is not the place to be… once that closet door opens all the bones fall out…….
An insider commenting at Reality Tea on September 17, 2011 (before the final episode of season 3 aired and before the Posche Fashion Show was filmed at the end of season 4) explained how Melissa Gorga went behind Teresa Giudice’s back to campaign for Bravo to cast her on RHONJ.
The comment was initially panned as ‘fan fiction’ and given little attention in September 2011. It was re-posted in another Reality Tea blog by eveie6fan on March 10, 2012 at 9:24 pm, but still wasn’t given much attention until season 4 episode 8 aired on June 17, 2012. Now viewers are reassessing its validity following comments made by Teresa during episode 8 and screen shots of the tweets shown during the episode.
The following are comments posted by ‘Insider’ at Reality Tea in August and September of 2011.
Note: For more inside scoop, most likely from the ‘insider’ who posted the blog below, check out the post titled RHONJ Producers Socialize With Everyone But Teresa Giudice (scroll down to “According to ‘Insider’ who commented at Reality Tea in August 2011”).
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