Real Housewives Of New Jersey
I haven't watched enough of RH - NJ to really talk much about it, but I know many of you have and so I wanted to give you the opportunity to talk at length about how the allegations made in that book I wrote about earlier this season about Danielle are even more sordid than we first were led to believe.
The Smoking Gun has all the documents here, but the thing that kills me about all of this is not that she lied. I totally understand why she lied about her past because her life became one big lie when she flipped on the guy with whom she was arrested. Changed her name and hid from death threats so I get the lying. What I don't get is why Danielle Staub would want to risk retribution from all the people she screwed over and sent to jail just so she could have a few months on a reality show. Also, I don't know why some of these other husbands who have very questionable careers would want their lives exposed either. Is being on Bravo that important? Are you that crazy for fame that you will risk everything just to be on television?
This is NJ, my home State, you are talking about. Absolutely nothing makes sense in this State. Having a questionable career in NJ means you are in politics. Their husbands are businessmen. I can understand your confusion; those of us born into it, like royalty, know no other way.
ReplyDeleteI loved that on the reunion show she said she was an escort, but not a prostitute. Uh huh.
ReplyDeleteThey're not the sharpest tools in the shed.
ReplyDeleteJersey women of this ilk are not educated. They rely on new money and loud mouths.
I. Love. This. Show.
I just loved that they said "Bubbies"....
ReplyDeleteDid this season not do well because I feel like they only had like 5 episodes?
I just can't understand why Danielle would risk her life to be on tv. It's obvious that she changed her name for a reason, and the people she pissed off 25 years ago are probably still angry.
ReplyDeleteI also don't understand why the other women agreed to do the show, given their husband's "businessman" status (thanks Mikey). Caroline and Dina's father-in-law ("Tiny" Mazur) was shot and killed and found stuffed in his car trunk a few days later. I know that happens to businessmen all the time in NJ, but don't you think their sons and their wives would try to AVOID publicity?
Oh and my favorite favorite favorite line was Teresa saying of Danielle, "We don't associate with people like that, people involved with extortion and kidnapping." Uh. What is it again exactly that your husband does as an "entrepreneur", Teresa?
not one of them had the slightest bit of polish or refinement, in fact, i found them scary with their brusque manners and their tough accents, but i admit it, i was glued to this show! the only thing that tops them are the RHOAtlanta (team Nene!).
ReplyDeleteI only watched RHNJ for about 5 minutes but the 5 minutes I saw involved Teresa saying that her husband was hot and "delishus." I thought, wow, she must have a really hot husband. Then they showed this short and stocky guy who was, well, not handsome. And I thought, that must be true love.
ReplyDeleteI am RHNYC girl all the way.
It is a trainwreck, and I love it.
ReplyDeleteDanielle is just downright pathetic. But the real victims here are those two daughters of hers. Poor things!
A few theories:
ReplyDelete1) She thought that if she were famous, it would be harder to get near her without being seen (granted, this involves some delusions of grandeur, but there seems to be no shortage of ego here).
2)She enjoys drama regardless of the consequences.
3) She is mortally stupid.
To answer your two questions, Ent, YES and YES! Some weekend you've got to catch a marathon. Watching episodes back to back can change your life.
ReplyDeleteI read that Teresa either either already has, or plans to, get rid of her new buhbies. So sad.
AnnMarie:
ReplyDeleteYes.
Yes.
Yes.
I love Dina and Caroline, and I feel sorry for Teresa. She's just smart enough to have an idea of how dumb she is, and to be ashamed of it. It's too bad she isn't just a touch dumber; she'd be oblivious.
ReplyDeleteMooshki: LOL : )
ReplyDeletei was wondering why the IRS isn't interested in teresa's husband, for one. they have more money than God, it seems. they pay for everything with huge wads of cash. he's in the 'construction' business. i think that's kinda like tony soprano being in the 'sanitation' business.
ReplyDeleteas a jersey girl, i'm really sick of this being the only representation of new jersey. i was really disappointed that those were the only type of women they chose to represent nj, but of course, what did i expect.
ReplyDeleteOh AnnMarie! "Mortally stupid" has just become my favourite sentence ever!! Thanks for that LOL!
ReplyDeleteMooshki - she was an escort, y'know, like Holly Golightly.
ReplyDeleteGladys - I recall that Victoria Gotti had a reality show, as well. Just sayin'. :)
I'd never watched any of the RH shows before, but my sister-in-law's boyfriend worked on NJ, so I watched this season. When I saw him last summer, he was going to the filming in Atlantic City and hinted at the shadiness of the group, but since it was before the show aired, I had no idea. I'm going on vacation with them next week. Can't wait to get behind the scenes scoop from him.
ReplyDeleteAli, you'd darned well better do a write-up for us!!! Email it to Enty and he'll post it. (That's an order, Mr. Lawyer! :) )
ReplyDeleteThe thing that really irks me about Danielle is how delusional she really is. She just doesn't get it. What also really irks me about her is how she lets her daughters know EVERYTHING about her including her sex life. Her daughters are under the age of 14 I believe. Her reasoning is that it prepares them to be tough when things are thrown at them in life.
ReplyDeleteYou can tell her daughters are going to have issues later in life from the way they act and react to her on the show. The older one especially seems very embarassed.
This woman is just a shame...Oh and if she even TRIES to deny the sex tape someone call foul because she was on the second episode talking about how she wanted to take Steve into the bathroom at the restaurant.
why does this woman have those children? where is their father?
ReplyDeleteGyahhh! Bleccchhh.
ReplyDeleteDid you see the hairline on the screaming woman who tipped over the table? That was some Planet of the Apes sh*t there.
Idiocracy...
It's happennnnniiiinnnnggggg.
i will no longer be embarrassed when i say i was "training" to try out for survivor before my joints betrayed me!
ReplyDeletei haven't seen any of the real housewives shows, but y'all are so funny, i may have to catch them!
selena - on another blog they refer to her (the hairline girl) as "Frank Vincent". As in, Billy Bats from Goodfellas. I thought I was gonna die from laughter.
ReplyDelete"The thing that really irks me about Danielle is how delusional she really is. She just doesn't get it."
ReplyDeleteIt was so bizarre that she didn't have the slightest clue why bringing the book to the dinner party was inappropriate. (Although, I still think the show's producers were behind that.)
procrastination101, it's the same way i feel about the portrayal of black women on the 'real housewives of atlanta'. one show i did not care to watch.
ReplyDeleteITA Mooshki, it had to be a producer set-up. When she walked into the dining room, she had no bag or anything to hide the book in. The producers probably stashed it under the table.
ReplyDeleteProcrastinator and Southerner, I can't say anything about the way big boobed overly tanned and botox'd blondes are portrayed in Orange County. I think Bravo got it right with that one.
ReplyDeleteI don't watch the housewives shows, (yeah, i know, I'm lame, lol), but I first thought when I saw this pic that it was Terri Hatcher. Are they doing the same drugs or do they have the same plastic surgeon? Maybe both?
ReplyDeleteWith Jon and Kate getting $75K an episode, I'm really not surprised that these women want to be on a reality show, too.
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree -- Theresa's wads of cash, humongous house, husband doing business out of a tiny, cheap, old office -- it doesn't add up! The IRS will be on his arse by the second season.
As scary as Caroline is, I really like her chutzpah. Dina, I like her too!
Theresa is dumb as a brick but very likeable. And as caveman as her hubby is, at least they have a loving marriage -- that is, wait and see what happens if and when the money goes away! Angry wife, miserable life!
You guys make this show sound like a beautiful disaster, and I've never watched a minute of it. Unconscionable! Sign me up for the next marathon. lol
ReplyDelete"on another blog they refer to her (the hairline girl) as 'Frank Vincent.'"
ReplyDeleteOh, my God. That's it - Philly Leotardo! (For the first few episodes, I kept studying her forehead, thinking she was wearing some sort of weird headband.)
Oh, please, Bravo, renew this series.
Hahahaaaaaa, sporky!
ReplyDeleteJust came back in and caught your's and Katie's posts. Too funny!
That chick's swimming in the shallow end of the gene pool, if you ask me.
that show is great ... i just learned of the mafia ties of the bitchy family that runs shit on the show ... so maybe it wasn't just a guido "act"
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