by Chandra Clewley

All of The Real Housewives of New Jersey were back tonight for the reunion show. Jacqueline (who has already welcomed baby Nicholas) was about to go into labor right there on the stage she was so pregnant, and Teresa is expecting in September as well! 

Most of the show covers the typical questions from viewers on Bravo, and it looks like they are really going to address Danielle’s past transgressions in Thursday’s Part 2 episode.

Caroline addresses the fact that maybe Danielle should have picked a more opportune time to bring up the book, than at the dinner party, but Danielle comes back with the fact that no one would hear her out or come if she invited them to a separate meeting.

Is it just that Danielle has hair extensions that makes me shocked when she says that breast augmentation is the only plastic surgery she has had, besides Botox and lip injections? I would have guessed that she has had a face life, but what do I know about the miracles of Botox these days? Her cheeks looked fuller in the reunion show too, so if the subject had not come up on the show, I would have also guessed she had had a filler injected on her cheeks as well...

Dina, on the other hand, is getting a breast reduction. She feels it is inappropriate because she is a mother. She also finally answers the mystery of where her husband, Tommy Manzo, is. He chose not be a part of the show.

Teresa talks about how she met Joe (she has known him her entire life, their families were friends), the “gay” slurs that Joe made in Episode 4 (she apologizes for the slurs) and how she “skeeves” at the idea of living in a home that has already been lived in by previous tenants. She claims that many people are not into “cleansiness” errr…. (cleanliness?) Makes you think back on that table flip and how upset she was that she was being treated like an airhead. She catches her error though, and laughs it off.

Dina and Jacqueline discuss their close but rocky relationship, and Danielle jumps in because she finds it hard to believe that she is the entire reason that they have a certain tension between them. They admit that have argued previous to knowing Danielle.

Danielle and Caroline do agree on one thing, that Italian mothers should interject if their daughter-in-law’s aren’t doing something correctly. This comes up when Caroline admits that she is going to have a bit of the old “empty nest” syndrome, and that she pampers her children now because she knows that it won’t be forever. She admits to also pampering her husband, and they all interject that this is the “Italian family” way of doing things, the wife picks out the ties and clothes for the men, makes the beds etc. I suppose I better get on the phone to all my Italian girlfriends out there…I think something got lost in translation out here in California.

The last subject is the Manzo family and the rumors that they have organized crime ties. Caroline adamantly denies this. She also brings up the fact that her father-in-law was murdered when she was 22 and there are still no clues, no leads, and no answers to how, who did it or why it happened. I guess the viewers can assume that if there was anything shady going on, that it was not passed down to the generation that currently runs the Brownstone. Although, losing someone in your family in such a mysterious way may be what sparked these rumors in the first place and Caroline might have just put more fuel on the fire by reaffirming this truth about her family.


Make sure not to miss Reunion Show Part 2 of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, on Bravo, Thursday Night 9/8 C.

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