Here. We. Go. The Real Housewives of New Jersey started the big retreat tonight, and shoes weren't even removed before the verbal jabs started flying. By the end, the jabs turned physical with Joe Giudice and Joe Gorga getting into an all out brawl. Those poor team builders didn't stand a chance.
Of course, Bravo ended things there with an annoying "to be continued", so we'll have to wait until next week to see what happens. Previews show things getting even uglier.
The Gorgas and the Giudices are still riled up after being at each others' throats.
After the nasty fight, Teresa and her Joe try to unwind with some sexy times in the bathtub.
Despite their rocky family history, Melissa still expected a little more from sister-in-law Teresa when she was confronted with the ugly accusation of cheating on her husband of nearly nine years, Joe.
On the episode, Gorga's former BFF Jan DeDolce told a table full of women that Gorga had cheated on Joe with an ex-boyfriend, a claim that Gorga vehemently denies. "I've never cheated on Joe," she tells Us Weekly. "This is all disappointing." According to DeDolce, the ex "admitted that [Melissa] blew him."
But more than being angry at DeDolce, Gorga's outrage is being directed toward Teresa, who was "just sitting there" at the table when the subject came up.
"No matter how much you can't stomach me, I'm your brother's wife!" Gorga tells Us. "When you hear an accusation as disgusting as this, that's going to be on national television, how do you not walk away from the table?"
"I'm putting the blame on that she sat there, listened to the rumors, and didn't call me." she adds. The 34-year-old mother of three opened up to Us back in May about her struggle to mend familial ties across the board.
During the June 2 season premiere, Gorga and Giudice, 41, attempted to reconcile for the sake of their daughters Antonia Gorga and Melania Giudice, but the efforts were half-hearted.
"I was fed up with trying. I was fed up of being set up," she explained to Us, referring to Giudice's infamous "Strippergate" set-up, in which she supposedly tried to expose Gorga's alleged stripper past. "I'm not gonna allow my children to hear things about me and I don't want that kind of talk around my children."
"At the end of the day, I love our extended family, I love my sisters, I love Joe's sisters," she added, "but it's about my kids and it's about my husband and that's who I'm protecting as a mother."
According to sources close to Dalton, her past comes back to haunt her this season. While not much as been revealed, Dalton will be facing a divorce -- and nasty custody battle -- with one of her ex-husbands. Also, despite being a realtor on the show, Dalton doesn't have a home, so she's crashing at rapper Lil' Kim's place.
"They've been friends for almost 18 years, so Lil' Kim didn't hesitate to let she and her daughter stay at her place until the dust settles from the divorce," a source told EnStars. "Jen is trying to figure everything out, and Lil Kim is totally supporting her BFF. Jen doesn't want to be alone, so this is a safe place for her to be right now."
In the most recent episode, Dalton's loyalty is questioned after she hears Teresa Giudice and her friends discuss negative rumors about Melissa Gorga: that she cheated on her husband Joe Gorga. Despite being Teresa's BFF, Dalton runs to Gorga with the gossip.
"Your friend Jan is not a friend," because she told Teresa and the others that "you've been cheating on your husband and you guys have been messing around for a long time," Dalton told Melissa during a lunch date. "You don't need people like that in your life."
Gorga later took to her Bravo blog to vent about the cheating rumors, admitting, "I don't know who to trust."
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