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Teresa's RHONJ Reunion Blog

Blog post from Bravo.com. Teresa talks about her nephew and why she lost it.


Go Big or Go Home
By: Teresa Giudice

Ciao Tutti!

OK, deep breath. Exhale. Watching the first part of the Reunion show was completely crazy, made my heart race, and I lived through it!

First, a public apology to Andy Cohen. I love love love you. I’m sorry I pushed you, but it’s just my natural reaction to try and shake people off when they’re holding me back. And I know it’s just a natural reaction to try and hold someone back who’s on the move. Thank you for caring about me and for being such a gentleman. You are the best.

Yes, I was mad, but I promise, I would never touch a hair on Danielle’s head. She’s just not worth it, she’s sue happy, and it’s what she wants. I know this and I would never give it to her. I do have self-control when it comes to being physical. But I am a screamer. I can’t help it and I do own it. I’m just very vocal when I’m mad. I’m Italian and I live in New Jersey – we cook big, we love big, we laugh big, and we scream big. At least I do anyway. It’s who I am and I’m not going to change for anyone, especially not cameras.

But like Caroline said and Dina said last year, I’m really only like that very rarely and only when I’m pushed to the edge. Danielle just knows how to get in there and push buttons. Instead of taking care of her beautiful daughters, she spends her time running around town trying to dig up dirt about all of us. And then she spits it back at you when you least expect it. It’s ALWAYS lies, but it’s shocking to hear because she’s letting you know she’s talked to people in your life. It would make anyone crazy.

When I’m attacked, I attack back. I have never gone after her first. Except for being on the show together, we don’t interact. I don’t sit around and talk about her. I don’t Twitter about her. I don’t try and find out things about her. I don’t care. But I won’t stand for her to bring up things that have nothing to do with the show and are none of her business and that are total lies. Who would sit back and let someone spew lies about their family on national television?

Danielle’s all about making a fresh start and not wanting people to talk about her past (and her skanky present), but then she starts in with my family. For the record, I said “Do not BRING up my family” not “break up” – she could never break up my family, but she does need to keep their names out of her mouth. Of course I have a lot of wonderful family members and friends that are not shown on the show. It’s completely unacceptable for Danielle to drag them into the mud and lie about them.

I know I opened my home and my heart to the viewers and I’m so blessed you have let me. But my extended family – my aunts and cousins and in-laws – didn’t and they deserve their privacy. I would not answer anything about them because it’s nobody’s business, but since so many of you asked what Danielle said that made me so mad, I will tell you as best I can…

In April, my newest nephew was born off camera. (No, not Jacqueline’s baby; Jacq and I are not related.) And no he’s not sick. He’s perfect and beautiful and we’re blessed to have him in our lives. If you all remember, I was scheduled to do the live Bravo Chat Bubble for a Real Housewives of New York episode the night he was born, and I was at the hospital so long, I was late logging in. So, yes, of course I was at the hospital when he was born!

When we were talking about Danielle not even acknowledging the birth of Jacqueline’s new baby Nicholas – which is part of the show – Danielle jumped in and accused me of not acknowledging my own new nephew. Did you see my face, how confused I was? At first, I had no idea what she was talking about because I WAS there and my 90,000 Twitter followers were kind of at the hospital with me that day too. But then I realized what she was saying – that she had been digging around my extended family and trying to find dirt on me and defame them. And I just had it. I will not stand for that (or sit still anyway).

It’s the same thing that happened at the Fashion Show. My life is complicated and stressful enough due to the bankruptcy and the ongoing legal issues we’re going through right now. If you’ve ever been in the legal system for anything, you know it’s painful, private and definitely not fun. I wish I could say more about my finances and address the inaccuracies in the press more clearly, but our case is still open, so I can’t. Then to have Danielle throw one of her little bombs at me about my house being in foreclosure (which for the love of all that is holy it is NOT!) let me know she was in my legal business as well. She needs to stay out of my private business. I’m not in hers. Never have been.

So to answer the question about why I talked about her sleeping with Steve after just meeting him and then screwing around with him at my Shore house in front of both mine and her daughters… that is connected to the show. In the first season, I gave her a chance. I invited her and her girls and her new boyfriend into my home, and she disrespected me and horrified me with her behavior. We all saw it. And then she lied about it. Lied and lied and lied and then denied. Everyone always asks me what I was saying when I flipped the table last year. I know a lot of it was bleeped out, but here’s the answer: "You f----ed a guy in my Shore house!" That’s what set me off. Completely and utterly disgusting.

The only other thing I have to say about part 1 is sorry Caroline, but I’m afraid I don’t agree with you about prostitutes. Call me old school, call me old fashioned, but I do have a problem with them. I think they do hurt more than just themselves. I’m not a big fan of whores – the prostitution, coke or skanky kind.

On a happier note, it was awesome that Andy mentioned my New York Times best-selling book Skinny Italian. Thank you all for making it such a success and embracing my family’s culture and cuisine. I’m hard at work on the next book – but it will have all new recipes and juicy stories – no quickie rehashes here – so you’ll have to get both!

Thank you all for your support. I answer only to God, I’m not going to change for a show, but I do appreciate all of your kind words and sweet messages. They really make a huge difference in my day!

Visit my website at http://www.teresagiudice.com/ for more information about Skinny Italian including a list of the recipes, gorgeous photographs and the latest news from the Giudice family. There’s an awesome unaired bonus clip on Bravo of the behind-the-scenes making of the book. So fun! http://j.mp/a4lawG

And follow me on Twitter @teresa_giudice. I answer as many tweets as I can, but I do read every single one.
Tanti Baci,
Teresa

Bethenny Rejected Bravo's Offer To Return For Season Four

Post from US Magazine.

Photo: Wire Image

After three seasons, Bethenny Frankel exclusively tells Us Weekly she is leaving the hit Bravo show.

“Last season was scary and painful," she tells Us about why she’s rejected Bravo’s offers to return for season 4, which begins filming Sept. 20, according to a source. “It took all of the joy out of it.”

Last season, Frankel, 39, continued to fight with rival Kelly Killoren Bensimon, but it was her intense feud with former BFF Jill Zarin that hurt her the most.

Zarin, 46, bad-mouthed Frankel to their castmates - and even tried to get some not to film with her (she has since apologized).

Frankel -- who welcomed daughter Bryn in May with husband Jason Hoppy -- tells Us she doesn't "see any reason to go back."
This summer, she debuted her own spinoff show, Bethenny Getting Married? The June 10 premiere attracted more than 2 million viewers -- about the same as RHONY averaged in season 3 -- the highest rated debut for a new Bravo show.

Though a Bravo insider reveals that Frankel is contractually bound to make a few appearances on RHONY next season, the network is still hoping that she’ll come back full-time.
But Frankel (whose empire includes books, Skinny­girl margaritas and a Body by Bethenny DVD) tells Us, “My gut’s saying not to be part of this cast."

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Caroline's RHONJ Reunion Blog

Blog post from Bravo.com

Exit Off Crazy Turnpike
By: Caroline Manzo

Photo:Bravo

Hello again! 17 down, 1 to go! I have to admit that I’m not quite sure how to address tonight’s episode. I feel like we’ve been down this ugly road before and quite frankly, I’m ready to take the first exit off the crazy turnpike. There’s no denying that this reunion was literally the modern day version of the OK Corral. We filmed for ten hours. TEN HOURS. It was one of the most frustrating and mentally exhausting things I’ve ever done. You need to understand the process. First, we live and experience what you see week to week in real time. Months go by, and we relive those moments as we watch each episode along with the viewing audience. In that time, we blog about it, talk about it in the different media venues, and answer all of your questions. When we meet to film the reunion, we’re pretty worn out emotionally. It’s liked the movie Groundhog Day. You wake up every day and you feel like you’re trapped in a time warp! Naturally, all of the emotions you’ve experienced in the past year or so come back to you full force during the reunion taping. It’s the moment of "truth." It’s the last time you’ll have to address any issues you may have with a castmate, or explain comments or behavior on your part too.

Sooo, here we go… let's talk about tonight’s episode. First things first. I expected yelling, screaming, and tears. I NEVER expected Andy to get tossed like a rag doll. I was in complete shock when that happened. Actually, I had to compose myself because I wanted to cry. Seriously, I did. When Teresa jumped off the couch and approached Danielle it was literally within the first ten minutes of filming. The only thing going through my mind at that moment, beyond the obvious WTF is going on, was that I couldn’t sit through hours and hours of this. If this is happening now, what’s it going to be like when we get to the real issues? Thank God it never got to that level again, it was an ugly moment. Ugly, ugly, ugly.

Now, let’s talk about me. First I need to explain a comment I made before you all have a stroke. When I told Andy that I didn’t find anything wrong with stripping and prostitution I simply meant this: A stripper puts herself (or himself) on stage and takes off their own clothes, no one else’s. A prostitute sells his or her own body, no one else’s. When someone goes to a strip club, or visits a prostitute, they do it voluntarily. It’s an individual's choice.

I’m not going to relive all the drama of the season tonight. I’ve already addressed it in previous blogs. I’ve received thousands of comments regarding tonight’s episode with everything from "I love you," to "You’re a bully." I get it; it’s totally expected and normal to have a mixed bag of emotions. Guess what? It is what it is. There was absolutely no way in the world I was going to sit quietly and listen to the lies and accusations that were being tossed around. My reactions were genuine and heartfelt. I wasn’t playing to the cameras, and I wasn’t looking for anyone’s sympathy. Those ten hours were my last chance to say what I had to say. It was the last time we were all going to be together and there were some issues that needed to be addressed. I take full responsibility for what I said, and how I presented myself. Trust me, I had a range of emotions as I watched from happy to sad, proud to embarrassed. That makes me just like the rest of you … HUMAN.

Next week is our last episode. I have my blinker on, looking forward to exiting the “crazy turnpike” and finding the “sunshine and lollipop highway”….. wish me luck.

Again, I want to thank each and every one of you for watching week after week. You’re the best.

Xoxo
C.

P.S. Kudos to my Lauren! She did my makeup as well as Jacqueline’s. Great job LaLa…. You made you’re momma beautiful. Xoxo

P.P.S. I have a new advice column and website! Check it out! (please)

The RHOBH Premiere Date And Cast Photo

Post from People.

By:Charlotte Triggs
It’s official! The Real Housewives are invading Beverly Hills for the latest installment of the Bravo reality franchise, debuting Oct. 14 — and many of the casting rumors are turning out to be true.

Adam Olszewski/Bravo

Camille Grammer, who filed for divorce from her husband of 13 years, Frasier star Kelsey Grammer, in July, will appear on the series. The mother of two is said to share several on-camera scenes with her ex during the upcoming season. Grammer owns a TV production company and has a collection of rare first edition books, including Pride and Prejudice and The Sound and the Fury.

Adrienne Maloof: The New Mexico native is part of the Maloof dynasty, which owns the Sacramento Kings basketball team and the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. She has three young sons — Gavin, 7, and twins Christian and Colin, 4 — with her husband, prominent plastic surgeon Dr. Paul Nassif.

Kim and Kyle Richards: The Richards sisters are former child stars, who both appeared in Disney films like Escape to Witch Mountain and projects like Little House on the Prairie. Their other sister is Kathy Hilton — Paris Hilton‘s mom.

Lisa Vanderpump: The British restaurateur is a new fixture on the Beverly Hills scene, running two restaurants and writing a skincare column in Beverly Hills Lifestyle magazine. Married for 29 years to her husband Ken, she’s the mother to Pandora, 24, and Max, 18. She also has four dogs.

Taylor Armstrong: Wife of a venture capitalist, Armstrong moved to Beverly Hills seven years ago from Oklahoma, and focuses on raising her daughter Kennedy, 4. She also runs her own SAP firm, eImplement Inc., and volunteers for the 1736 Family Crisis Center.

Should Teresa Be Kicked Off The RHONJ?

Post from Babble.

Posted by MaraLee
On last night’s explosive The Real Housewives of New Jersey reunion, Teresa Giudice pretty much loses her mind. Kelly Bensimon on “Scary Island,” was nothing compared to her crazy!

Photo: Bravo

Within the first five minutes of the show, Teresa drops the B-word several times at Danielle Staub and tries to attack her. Video is below for those who missed it.

Sometimes when these women fight it seems staged and there is no doubt that producers egg them on to scream and cry. The ratings are much higher if they have to bleep out swear words or there is the suspense of someone walking off with the possibility of them never coming back. But you can normally tell when someone is going off, they have it mostly under control. Teresa seemed like she had a mental break with reality and could actually harm Danielle.

Teresa even physically pushed Andy Cohen (who let’s face it, should probably work out more), sending him flying on to the couch. You can tell that this was not part of the plan when he scolds her and tells her to keep her butt in her seat.

Teresa has displayed dangerous behavior and she should be kicked off the show. Sure Danielle, the source of her anger, will not be back next season, but if Teresa is this mad at her, she can get this mad at someone else. No one got hurt this time…but Teresa has shown that she is completely capable of attacking someone. And what if producers aren’t around to stop her? I could see an off-season brawl leading to more than just a wounded extension.

What do you think? Should Teresa be kicked off?

Teresa Loses It Over Her Nephew?

Post from Reality Tea.

The Jersey ladies are gathered together for the first time in over a year, with the exception of Dina Manzo, who exited the show mid-season because of Danielle Staub. Despite Dina’s absence, she is still the topic of conversation among the housewives and Teresa has no problem putting all of the blame on Danielle.

Photo: Bravo

A video clip shows the aftermath of a fight between Danielle and Teresa. It seems Danielle brings up Teresa’s family, and she decides to take out her bankruptcy humiliation frustration on her.

You have all likely seen the previews by now which shows Teresa Giudice shoving host Andy Cohen as he tries to hold her back. Well, Teresa is now speaking out about her actions, trying to explain why she want ape nuts on Andy.

“I didn’t mean to shove Andy,” Teresa tells UsWeekly. “I love Andy.” On why she shoved him, she said: “When I’m attacked, I attack back. I don’t like to be held back or touched…Listen, I know how to control myself. Just don’t hold me back!”
Caroline Manzo gives her take on the reunion show as well, “There are no words,” she said. “Just no words. I could not compose a rational thought in my head for two days [after the taping]. It took me two days to regroup.”

There is also a rumor that has been going around for the past couple of weeks stating that Teresa’s husband Joe Giudice has been having an affair with a Jersey woman named Tara G. We received an email about this a while back, with someone telling us that everyone in the Giudices hometown is aware of this woman and the affair, including Teresa.

We didn’t publish this as there was no proof attached to the email. So, if there’s anyone out there with proof, photos, last names, facebook pages etc, Please feel free to email us the details using our site contact page or at Realitytea@yahoo.com.

A  clip of the reunion:

Red Carpet Fashion Wrap With LuAnn

Video of LuAnn's apperance on Lawrence Zarian's Fashion Wrap.

LuAnn Performing At Fashion's Night Out

From LuAnn'a Facebook.

I'm so excited to sing at Macy's during San Francisco's Fashion's Night Out, September 10 at 7:30 PM. Hope to see you there!

Carmen Centolella Contradicts Danielle's Story About Her Kidnapping

Article from NJ.com.

By:Vicki Hyman/The Star-Ledger

Follow "Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Danielle Staub has always downplayed her role in a kidnapping and extortion scheme in Miami nearly 25 years ago, when a drug deal gone bad led to her arrest and nearly month-long jail stint. The arrest, described in the true-crime memoir "Cop Without a Badge," was used by Staub's fellow housewives in attempt to discredit and shame her on the first season of the reality show.

Photo: Mike Derer/AP

But the victim, Carmen Centolella, now claims that the reality show star helped choreograph the drug deal, and that she pistol-whipped him and stuck a gun in his mouth during his two-day ordeal.

Share Centolella’s story diverges wildly from the tale Staub has tells in the pages of her memoir, "The Naked Truth." She claims in the book that she had introduced Centolella, a neighbor in her Miami apartment complex, to some friends who — lo and behold! — were drug dealers. Centolella got some drugs from them to resell, but then claimed a couple of guys robbed him and took the drugs, a story that Staub didn’t buy.

"The neighbor tried to do dupe them and make me look really bad," she writes (Staub doesn't mention Centolella by name in the book, though his name is in the court records). "The more I think about it over the years, the more I believe that he was hoping they would blame me and hurt me for his misdeeds. What a coward!"
Centolella describes Staub, then known as Beverly Merrill, as an acquaintance with whom he’d snorted cocaine with on occasion. He says he had no idea Staub had become a reality show queen until Staub’s ex-husband, Kevin Maher, tracked him down and asked him to testify in his defamation suit against Staub. Maher, the subject of "Cop Without a Badge," filed the lawsuit after Staub claimed that Maher repeatedly beat her and raped her during their marriage.

Centolella says Staub had bragged about her drug world connections, so he asked her to set him up with two kilograms of cocaine to sell to two men who also lived in their complex. The day of the deal, Staub arrived at his apartment with only one kilo of cocaine, telling him, "'We’re only going to do one at a time.’ She was very, uh, cocky." But the buyers ended up pulling a gun and making off with the cocaine.

Staub "starts flipping out on me," and dragged him to her apartment, where her boyfriend Daniel Aguilar, who was involved in the drug buy, was waiting, he says. (Aguilar is called Jorge in the book; he too is testifying for Maher.) Aguilar, Staub and another man took him to a safe house in south Miami and tied him up; Aguilar punched him in the face, and then Staub grabbed a 9mm gun, hit him in the back of the head with it, slapped him, grabbed him by the throat, and shoved the gun in his mouth, Centolella says. "You better get this money or you’re dead," he says she told him.

Centolella finally called his father in upstate New York to ask the money, even though he knew his father didn't have it. "At least I would get to talk to him if I wasn't going to live, to say good bye to him."

Staub has said she didn't have anything to do with the kidnapping, but admits that she did talk to Centolella’s father "about the $24,000 debt his son owed and that needed to paid in full immediately," she writes in her memoir. But Centolella's father contacted the FBI, who tracked down Centolella and his captors as they drove to a Western Union to pick up the money. Centolella was later charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs and served several years in prison; Aguilar too served time. Staub cooperated with prosecutors and got five years’ probation after pleading guilty to extortion.

After Maher contacted him, Centolella made sure to catch an episode of "Real Housewives." "I wish I could jump through the TV and wring her neck like she did to me."

Though the revelation of Staub's past misdeeds was the crux of the first season of the show, it has also surfaced this season in connection with an assault on Staub by Ashley Holmes, the daughter of fellow housewife Jacqueline Laurita. In the finale last week, Caroline Manzo, Holmes' aunt, asks Staub to drop the charges against Holmes, saying that Staub of all people should know what it's like to be young and make mistakes. Staub was not moved.

Meanwhile, lawyers for both Maher and Staub were in mediation on Friday in California, but Staub filed papers seeking to dismiss the case, claiming that she never made the remarks that Maher claims she did ... and that if she did, it couldn't damage his reputation any more than tales of his excesses in "Cop Without a Badge" did, E! Online reports.

"As far as my past is concerned, I have always been honest even when it was difficult to do so," Maher says. "I stand by what is printed in my book -- not all of it I'm proud of but most of it I am."

Caroline Manzo To Appear On The Nate Berkus Show

Post from Have U Heard.

By:Shari
I had the opportunity to attend a taping of the Nate Berkus Show - and I am so glad I was there!!

Photo: Getty

One of the segments on the upcoming Nate Berkus Show is about two women – think Thelma and Louise and mix it with Eat, Pray, Love – who take to the road in search of a husband. Julia and Silva, two single women, with great careers and amazing travels were missing one thing in their lives - love.

Julia and Silva took to the highway to search for love. They are traveling, by car, coast-to-coast and taking photos, recording videos and stopping by television studios to talk about their trip. One of their stops brought them to The Nate Berkus Show.

Nate surprised Julia and Silva by offering them a “reality show” within his talk show. Nate and his fans are going to follow Julia and Silva on their journey. To help them in their quest for love will be Caroline Manzo who is the matriarch and the most sane housewife on The Real Housewives of New Jersey. Manzo has been happily married for 26 years to her husband so she will be a great “marriage mentor”. The ladies will stop by Manzo’s house to see what it’s like to be happily married and hear about Caroline’s own love story.

It wasn’t revealed as to Caroline’s complete role on the “reality show” but adding Caroline to the mix will only make it a better story.

What do you think about Caroline being an example of a happy marriage? Is that a good choice?

RHONJ Preview

RHONJ Reunion Part One Review/Recap

Article from NJ.com.

Vicki Hyman/The Star-Ledger
The "Real Housewives of New Jersey" reunion: Zero to crazy in 90 seconds flat. Yessir, that's about as long as it took for Teresa Giudice to unleash her first zinger at Danielle Staub, all while ostensibly answering host Andy Cohen's innocent question about what they think about that other Jersey reality show. Teresa was put off by one of the female cast member's willingness to jump into bed with a guy she just met. "I'm old school, like, you need to get to know someone, not after a week you sleep with someone, like certain people in this room, but we're not going to go there right now ... Keep asking questions. ... Wait, you know what, let's go back to that one. I think Danielle could relate to them, right Danielle? Because after a week you met Steve, you slept with him in my Shore house, in front of your kids. That was okay, right?"

Photo: Bravo

You have to give Danielle credit for keeping a preternatural -- okay, preternaturally creepy -- calm about her most of the evening. "You really are insane aren't you?" she calmly tells Teresa.

"You're a pig," Teresa shoots back. "Look at yourself. You're disgusting. And you're desperate."

Consider that an amuse bouche. The drama reaches a fever pitch soon after, when Jacqueline and Teresa complain that Danielle didn't call to congratulate Jacqueline Laurita on the birth of her son, Nicholas. (My burning question: If they think Danielle is such garbage, why would they even care at this point? Why wouldn't they welcome Danielle being incommunicado?) But then Danielle drops a bomb on Teresa: "Did you you acknowledge your nephew?" We don't know what she's talking about, but we can certainly guess what she's getting at. Teresa is taken aback, but snaps to fairly quickly. She gets up, stalks over to Danielle, and screeches in her face, "Do not break up my family!" This is one of the few times I am happy to be hearing impaired. That did not look pleasant.

Andy tries to pull Teresa away, and Teresa pushes him back. Hilariously, he collapses into his seat as Danielle strolls off the set, Teresa cursing and throwing a pillow at her. Teresa screams, and I quote, "Bwouaaaaaaaaaah!" Spellcheck, don't fail me now. Andy and Caroline Manzo move in to calm her down. Filming is suspended, except, of course, it isn't. We see a group of people trying to calm Teresa, while at the other end of the set, Danielle paces, saying, "I can't bring up something that's the truth ... but they can lie about me?"

When Andy approaches Danielle, she takes him to task for letting the situation get out of hand. "I could have quite possibly been hit there, so someone needs to be on her. If she moves her ass off that couch again, I'm leaving." "I'm not gonna let her get up," Andy assures her. Yeah, you and what army? Back on set, Teresa is screaming at Andy to get Danielle back in there, and Andy sternly tells Teresa that she can't get off the couch again. "I'm not going to hit her," Teresa says. "She's not worth it."

Backstage, Danielle is almost in tears while her entourage calms her down. On set, waiting for taping to start, Caroline tells Teresa to be smart. "Don't let your emotions to get to you. She wants this. She wanted that moment. You just gave it to her -- again." It may be true that Danielle wants it, but isn't it also true that Teresa fired the first shot? Like the last time?

Well, that was very dramatic, wasn't it? The rest of the evening kind of pales in comparison. There is just one more point I'd like to bring up before delving into the other skirmishes of the evening: The very idea that that all this drama is anything close to "reality." In that regard, there were two illuminating comments made during the reunion. First, when Jacqueline brings up rumors that Danny Provenzano split from his wife while filming the second season because he allegedly had an affair with Danielle, Danielle says, "I don't hang out with him. I tape with him, and that's it."

And when Danielle and Teresa start to bicker about how much Teresa talks about her, Teresa snaps, "Bitch, I don't talk about you. Okay? I'm doing it right now because we're on a freaking TV show ... I never talk about you. Unless it's on camera, thank you." Which basically means that all that time spent talking about Danielle this season -- we'll conservatively estimate it as 85 percent -- was put on for the camera. Of course, the only surprise is that the producers let those acknowledgments air at all.

Caroline does insist, however, that she's been real throughout the season. "I know what I am as a person, okay, and I could sit here and you could throw something at me and I'm going to own it," she tells Danielle. "I've been like this," she says, waving her hand in a straight line. "You've been Mr. Toad's Wild Freaking Ride. That's what I see when I look at you. It's a matter of convenience, what it is at the moment that works for you."

Other highlights (or lowlights):

-- Andy raises the question lingering from last season's reunion show: What did Danielle do to Dina Manzo that made big sister Caroline so mad? Danielle says that Dina thinks Danielle was working to get custody of Dina's daughter Lexi taken away. Danielle denies this. "Why would I do such a thing ... I don't think she's an unfit mother." Jacqueline says that Danielle's lawyer put some sort of gag order on Dina so she couldn't discuss the allegations. Danielle allows that she may have, because Dina lied about the situation in an interview. "Do. Not. Speak. Of. My. Sister" Don Corleone, er, Caroline tells Danielle. Jacqueline tells Danielle to shut up and calls her a piece of garbage. Look who's finally growing a spine!

-- Teresa confirms that Joe didn't get her a huge diamond for their anniversary; it was a yellow sapphire cocktail ring. When Andy asks her about a New York Post report that detailed their bankruptcy filing, including $20,000 in credit card debt to Bloomingdale's, Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom, Teresa scoffs. "Do we believe everything the New York Post writes?" She flat out denies the credit card debt, even though the bankruptcy papers that list $20,000 in debt to the three major department stores were written up by her own lawyer. Which she signed. She says Joe didn't tell her about the depth of their financial problems because he was protecting her, and that she doesn't read the negative things that are written about her. "Are you keeping out the negative or do you think you're a little bit in denial?" Andy asks her. "Keeping out the negative," she says firmly.

-- When asked whether Caroline regrets taking a shot at Danielle's children by saying they don't have light -- or as Caroline now describes it, "innocence" -- in their eyes, she says she doesn't. Danielle insists that her children have light. "Do you know they cry at school every day?" Jacqueline asks her. "Because of rumors that they hear ... I feel bad for them." Leave the girls and their light, or lack thereof, out of it, please.

-- Teresa swears that Joe was not drunk the night he was arrested for DUI after crashing his car. He only went to a nearby friend's house and downed a couple of shots because "he was all shaken up," Teresa says. Danielle finds this hard to believe. So does my turtle.

-- Danielle refuses to confirm or deny that she's dating duet partner Lori Michaels, or, as Andy puts it, swimming in the lady pond.

-- Danielle denies that she's making any money off the sex tape that's currently in circulation, and denies Jacqueline's suggestion that she and her bed partner made the tape in order to release it.

-- When Andy says that the father from the baby cancer benefit claims that Danielle never donated any money after ruining the event, Danielle tries to set the record straight. With no help from Caroline. "I went door to door" -- "Lie." -- "collecting" -- "Lie. Lie." -- "commitments" -- "Lie." -- "of $6,000" -- "Lie." Then Caroline really rips into her: "You came into my place of business looking to cause a problem. You brought danger to my son in the shape of that Sweathog reject 'Okay, Mr. Kot-ter or whatever the hell his name is fool. Your intent was to come and cause a scene to try and defame my husband."

-- When Caroline asks Danielle to explain what Danielle meant about greeting her son Chris pleasantly at the benefit and calling it a "psychological F-U," Danielle claims that it was just an acknowledgment that they were putting the families' differences aside. Oh, please. "You do not sit here and try to make a fool out of me," Caroline says. "I am looking at the fool."

Next week, part two of the reunion: Danielle walks off the set again! The return of Kim Granatell! And best of all, a head in a bag!