Teresa Giudice Paid Apology
Recently RHONJ star Teresa Giudice publicly apologized to her fellow costars on In Touch magazine. Teresa wrote an apology to each of her costars and sold them to in Touch for $6k. An In touch editor said, “Why send a private letter when you can have In Touch deliver the news to everyone?” The editor added, “It’s so emotional to read that Teresa missed her friendship with Jacqueline and that she has nothing but love in her heart for Kathy. It’s a fantastic story that any magazine would love to have as an exclusive in exchange for $6,500.”
Can’t this editor get in trouble for revealing this information? I’m not trying to make excuses for Teresa but she did already say sorry to everyone and now the public truly knows how sorry she is. BUT if that was me and I cared to say sorry to them (which I wouldn’t, shoot they’d apologize to me if anything) I would call them then tell the magazines how I spoke to the ladies and everything is okay. What are your thoughts on Teresa’s paid apology? Does it still make things sincere?
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Definitely not sincere but I don’t think any of the cast’s friendships with each other are truly sincere/real. They are in competition for screen time, publicity time, products, etc. and seem like they would all sacrifice friendship to get ahead. I hope for their sakes they have real friendships away from the camera. If their on camera friendships are their only ones, I feel really bad for all of them.
The way I see it, Teresa already apologized to them, time and time again. Teresa needs the money so she tells InTouch about her apologies, I don’t see any problem.
The other ladies are not going to accept her apologies one way or the other because then they wouldn’t have a story line and a punching bag to make them feel better and like they are bonded by a common enemy, so what is Teresa to do?
Take the money of course, I know I would.
If Melissa, Kathy, Jacqueline and Caroline are so dumb to be giving interviews and “exclusives” for free, then that is their problem. Teresa needs the money so she goes with it.
Very simple if you ask me.
BTW, when are the other ladies going to apologize to Teresa for all the vile things they have said about her? Just asking….
I so agree with you. Yesterday I rec’d Teresa’s cookbook. I read it cover to cover. And from the way I read it, the issues at hand, Teresa explained the Olive Garden comment was from Racheal Ray show, & explained everything right there in the book the car was thing did say she would want Her girls involed in that sort of thing etc. She has apaolgised privately & publicly over & over, if the other ladies don’t want to accept it then she needs tomove on. I am especially dissaponted in Jacqueline though. I think Caroline is a ring leader & everyone seems to follow the leader. Teresa also mentioned all of them in the beginning of her book how much she loved her adoptive family but I don;t see Caroline or the other girls talking about that. They do need to apologise to Teresa & remember without her there would be no show. Caroline is treating Teresa the same as she did Danielle, looks like she has a problem with strong women. The public is sick of it & we aren’t even in the season yet.
When Danielle brought up Melissa at teh reunion.. Teresa figured out that it was Melissa and Kathy who were leaking her private information to tabloids and online. Melissa was making money off of Teresa! So why would she turn around and tell Melissa, Joe and Kathy ANYTHING about herself? so THEY can profit off of it. At least this way, Teresa can ensure the only one profiting off her misfortune is Teresa and her children. They are just angry they cant make money off her anymore.
I know some people like Kathy, but i dont. I think she plays the situation and hides her hand better than Melissa but she is just as nasty as Mel.
I do not agree with you on this…true it is a reality show and there is always a need for drama to keep it interesting but u do not have to sell ur soul to the devil…she has a cook book and other stuff happenig for her so she does not need to portray herself to be such a vindictive, manipulative, unkind, fake friend and family member…she is entertaining but u have say she is pretty bad…she should not appologize because she is how she is…
This is very suspicious. What editor would reveal $$? It’s like giving away Coke’s formula. If you paid to little, other mags now know the what amount they have to offer to get the next exclusive. If it’s too much, other celebs will want the same amount or more, depending on their celebrity status.
My belief is that she was paid. She has a relationship with this magazine. But how much and how it went down, no one knows.
No matter what she does, her castmates will criticize her.
The one positive that came out of this is that I can see that Jacqueline wants her friend back. She jumped on this apology which I see as a positive sign. She’s the only friend in the cast that I think T really has. Kathy has promise to be a cordial cousin. Melissa and Joe are poison (he even admits he has poison in him – lol) and Caroline is just a bitter old woman who loves to conduct hate trains.
If I needed money I wouldn’t dance w/out clothes like MelWhorega…I would sell my story to a mag in a heartbeat if someone paid me…Tre is apologizing (for what I have NO idea)…but she did it on her terms. I have ZERO problem with that…
Thats the problem.. The magazines are only interested in Teresa. The magazines dont sell with the other 4. So in order for any of them to sell a story it has to be about Teresa… LOL Personally, im happy she is making money off of it.
She should,God knows she has put up with enough grief over the other (ahem) ladies. Why not……. they will always find a reason to complain. That being said, why not collect something for the headache.
I have to disagree about Jacqueline. I think she was on WWHL and seen the results (60 %) want them to forgive Teresa. So I think she wrote the blog saying a lot of good shit about Teresa so the viewers will like her. Before the vote she was saying how the apology wasn’t sincere. She is a bad friend and Teresa is better without her.
Teresa is making her money…good for her….but she is not a saint..although she is our favorite but she created her grief for herself…by wanting to prtray herself as something she is not…she is my girl but she is not the nicest person…she is jalous of her sister inlaw…she cannot even be truly happy for her and her music…u can see it in teresa’s face…she is absolutly jalous
Her apologies were real, Teresa is REAL. They have to pay her, it’s not like she was trying to get a ot of money 6 grand is nothing. Teresa has apologized soooooo many times in private! This was for her fans so her fans would know they are lying when they say she didn’t apologize, Teresa had no choice but to make it public because they lie so much. I am so sick of this witch hunt, just leave Teresa alone for Gods sake. Jeez
Good! Fuck those bitches! Teresa didn’t have a choice because they lie so freakin much, if Teresa didn’t publicly apologize they would say she didn’t aplologize. And come on 6 G’s is nothing. How much do those lying bastards get paid everytime they sell a story badmouthing Teresa on the downlow???
Exactly Teresa didn’t do it for money that is just stupid. Now Teresas disgusting brother and his hateful, lying wife sell dirty stories all the time badmouthing Teresa and get paid. Why doesn’t anyone call out the dirty Gorgas? I’m am so sick of everyone trying to hurt Teresa, people just need to leave her the heck alone. I really don’t know how Teresa keeps it together with everyone tearing and picking at everything she does. Will people not be happy until they have stolen every ounce of joy left and she’s curled up in a ball crying? ENOUGH!
I believe that she was paid to apologize, I love Teresa I do but when you get paid to make an apology I don’t find it sincere, the problem is poor Teresa could have done it in private and there is a possibility that Caroline and all of them would say that she didn’t. But I think they want a sincere apology instead of an “I’m sorry I got caught” kind of apology which is what Teresa has been giving in my opinion. (I AM A TERESA FAN. So please do not tell me i’m stupid, or melissa or a tre-hater, when I am quite the opposite.) The only relationship I want to be fixed is Jacqueline and Teresa’s, that was genuine.
I believe though that Teresa IS sorry, but I do believe she went about it the wrong way with this magazine thing. :/
I disagree with that whole I’m sorry because I got caught. It was published in a book, I don’t think she was trying to hide anything. Perhaps she’s sorry it was taken in the way she intended for it to be taken, and that is what she is sorry for, not that she got caught. We are in the 2nd episode of the season and she’s apologized 2x on screen, and Jac said in the scene with Caro in the kitchen that she had already spoken to Teresa and that T had apologized in her way to her. So if you are counting that is 3x she’s apologized. Lord knows how many more times we will see her apologizing to them, but we have yet to see any of them apologize to her for their horrid behavior. I think her apologizing in the magazine was a way to cut their legs from underneath them. She’s going on an apology tour, while they go on a bashing tour. Every single appearance, article, blog, etc the rest of them are bashing her. So T, took the $6k and gave them a subtle F— You. They can say all they want about her but Teresa is about her business and they are messing with her livelihood.
*It was NOT taken in the way she intended.
I also agree with you that I would like to see her & Jac work things out. But I do believe Jac has lots of apologizing to do to Teresa for the things she has posted about her.
You would definitely have to pay me to say sorry those women.LOL love you Teresa!!! They are basically getting paid to keep a story line with Teresa, even if it’s ugly, than GREAT let Tre make a few bucks off of them too! I think it’s hilarious and I have a feeling Teresa has moved on and could really care less about her castmates and who would blame her!
I think its hilarious too! The others are just angry they arent selling stories. If Teresa is going to be beaten up no matter what she does.. why not make money off of it?
Teresa did apologize on camera twice to Don Caro and the very next scene we see her tell Lauren and Jac that Teresa didn’t apologize.
The bottom line is all of these women, the Manzo kids and the husbands are always going to blame all the problems on Teresa. Yet they don’t accept any responsibility for their own actions. In addition they constantly wait for the cameras to roll before they talk about issues with Teresa. Blind siding her and setting her up. The clips from next Sundays show prove my point. The former Lookers employee waits until they are at a party with the camera’s rolling to bring up the same thing that has already been talked about for 2 episodes. Kathy did it last year. She waited for the Christmas party to talk to Teresa but yet they all live within minutes of each other.
Don’t these people have something else in their lives to talk about?
No, they dont have anything else to talk about. Their purpose is to spend the entire season bashing and proving to the viewers how AWFUL Teresa is. Too bad its backfiring in their FACES! hahaha!
Cant wait to see Melissas “innocent face” with her list of Teresas sins… at the reunion. No way can Andy gang up on Teresa this year and get away with it.. he knows it!
She DID apologize to their faces first!!
I mean Joe Gorga waited until filming until he told Melissa about the gold digger comment and to talk to Teresa about it. Does that still make things sincere?
lol…never thought about it that way…
thats what i said- lets be serious – gorga had told mego about the gold digging comment before the cameras rolled and then reperformed the whole scene on camera cause they are scum bags like that –
oh wait
another point I wanna get out off my chest so i could have a nice day ….is that you know how Melissa and Caro and all those freaky deaks were saying how Gia shouldnt know about any of their issues (id be worried if an 11 year old wasnt able to comprehend a conversation if she overheard one – but thats besides the point) how melissa and joe were talking about the fight guidice had and their issues they have with them while driving in the car and Antonia was in the back seat listening – so Melissa — zip it honey
I know the voice of reason is not that welcome around here. I mean why deal in fact when a salacious rumor is so much more fun.
For what it is worth, this Rob Shuter guy is about as reliable a source as the last child repeating the message in a “Telephone” game.
As a former professional, LEGITIMATE newswoman it really galls me when proven gossip-mongers like Shuter (how many times has he been proven wrong not to mention his established bias against Teresa Giudice) repeat something they say was told to them and it gets passed along as the gospel truth. Always by an unnamed source no less.
So-called unnamed sources were always discounted where I worked. We figure if a source isn’t willing to go on the record they are not credible. How does one know if their information is accurate or close to the truth if they aren’t willing to stand behind their allegations/assertions. They may have a personal ax to grind. They may be misinformed. They may be repeating something they heard as well thinking it true but finding out later it was not.
Am I the only one that remembers Adrienne insisting she was told by a “source” from Radar Online that Lisa had been paid $25,000 for a story. An allegation that Lisa flatly denied. An allegation that was later proved to be a lie when Radar Online issued a public statement backing Lisa.
Unless and until an In Touch editor goes on the record to say Teresa was paid, this is all speculative gossip started by someone who has proven he will write anything just to fill space.
“We figure if a source isn’t willing to go on the record they are not credible” that’s how it should work, NOW folks just run around with these things, that is why these RAGS are still in business….there is NEVER such sources.
Good information! Thanks I figured it shouldn’t be believed that she got paid. But yea doing in magazine is probably not the best choice
@Raynia – In my opinion it was a very good choice for Tre.
She said that she has apologized privately to each of them and on the show (Season 4) at least twice that we have seen so far.
They are all still ganging up on her by refusing to accept her apology, or lying about Tre apologizing, (DonCaro) so she apologizes in a magazine. They can no longer say that she has not apologized, cause now everyone knows that she has.
So now the only thing they can do is say it is not sincere, well you know what, an apology is an apology whether they like it or not.
“I know the voice of reason is not that welcome around here. ”
Probably not a good idea to open your comment with an insult to everyone here when you want people to take your words into consideration. Just a thought.
Teresa herself said she was making money from the articles. Wow, you all are certainly blind aren’t you? This woman, who was going to affect every single consumer in this country, affect YOU and had every intention of passing the buck on. You think she manned up because she is so “KIND”…she was going to go to jail for fraud. This wonderful woman, lied in court documents. You think the woman who can’t even spell out or say a single sentence wrote a cookbook!!!! Can you say Ghostwriter. The problem is that our country has been getting more ignorant by the minute. It is a sad state of affairs when you find this many sites, all of women, one being a legitimate newswoman, who believes this crap. We wonder why other countries laugh at us and why we are owned by other countries. I took a break from school to watch some mindless TV and caught the very episode where she spoke of her “business” deals.
Keep idolizing ladies. It will do our country good. Keep believing that Teresa, or any of these reality dumbos care about you. They do want your money though. It is one thing to watch for fun every so often, but to believe this bs is frightening. They are all full of it. Even dear fraudulent Teresa, her bad behaving children, and her thug, identity stealing husband.
Do you all know how stupid other countries think we are? Everyone knows that Teresa is the bomb, but do any of you know who we are in debt to in this country? Who owns us right now? What the state of our economy is? What the biggest news stories are?
Jamee
I don’t believe an editor would reveal how much they paid anyone. I mean specially if that person sells mag, why isn’t the name of the editor revealed, and who was he/she was talking to.
Well I believe Teresa DID do private apologies first. I think the magazine ones were to not only show her friends that she is sorry, but to also show the public. I think it is sincere. Caroline said she was upset because the cookbook remarks were in ‘print’, well now her apology is in ‘print’. I feel like Teresa insulted them publicly and now she is apologizing publicly. I don’t see what they big deal is with that.
Ditto…..
funny, how differing one woman’s opinion can be..I think Teresa was very complimentary and flattering especially to Caroline in her cookbook. Teresa critics (her castmates) are responding to their own lack of self-esteem and self-worth. Why is it that they all ways have something negative to say about her, why? If they find her so distasteful stay the hell away from her but you don’t have the right to destroy the woman.
I hope Teresa bought 6 pairs of Louboutin shoes with the money she received if the story is in fact true.
I would write some fake apology letters for 6 pair of Louboutins! I like the idea of Teresa getting a bag full of red bottoms for each episode they bash her in. I hope she continues to sell stories and stock her closets. :0)
They ALL get paid for everything!! Those women would talk crap regardless so you might as well get paid for it.
I can appreciate ‘allabouttrh loyalty to teresa, but come on, the is a crock of shit. If I imagine myself as being famous, and in a public feud. regardless of any previous apology i got, if I ever saw in a magazine with a paid apology, I wouldn’t be furious….I would just be done with that friendship.
Look, I don’t know what happens behind the scenes all I see from her is how fake her face-to-face apologies appear, and how she goes to magazines to get paid to say I’m sorry…..to me she is the poster child for making money at other peoples expense.
So if you were PUBLICLY humiliated you would be fine with a personal apology, you wouldn’t want anything fixed publicly?
I wouldn’t want a PAID public apology……that’s tacky
Oh wait a minute,”tacky” Teresa certainly does not have a patent on “tacky”, This is the least tacky offensive thing out there with the Housewives. Mego down on her kneess inging in front of her husband’s crotch doesn’t warrant a “tacky” or her husband sniffing her underwear, or planning a $50,000 b’day party for Jesus that you forget to pay for……PULEEEEZE!
A year later…Teresa has seemed to have moved on from all of them…guessing In Touch may have come up with the idea along with her PR people since the show is now back on…and I am sure she is happy to collect the money for it…Do I think her apologies are sincere…yep I do…all of them…and the others wanted to keep the drama so they can be relevant. As any viewer can see, they are intent on bringing her and her family down and we know she has had almost nothing to do with them for a year so actually I don’t think she is worried about any of them at this point but being smart in business..she takes the money!!!
“regardless of any previous apology”. So what you are saying is that you are just as unforgiving as Caroline and crew. And the thing is…what exactly does Teresa need to be forgiven for? She meant no harm by what she wrote, she has explained this many times. When it became obvious that nobody was willing to accept that she meant no harm she gave in and apologized multiple times for the fact that they were insulted by her words. Even though her words were never intended to cause hurt feelings. The In Touch apology was a way of publicly acknowledging a public feud so the PUBLIC can also see that she’s bending over backwards trying to fix this. And she shouldn’t have to be doing any of this.
my whole problem with this is that she was paid, it’s not about being unforgiving, trust me I give people many many chances, I am completely aware that people make mistakes and as long as their apology is sincere, and nobody was completely hurt, forgiveness is in order. I just don’t think anybody should have received compensation for it. In this situation I think a lot of people are at fault, not just Teresa.
I’m pretty sure she didn’t get paid for the apologies she got paid for the article!
Geez; read between the lines!
Youre right, Teresa should have the class her castmates had when they apologized to her..right?
The way I see it is she’s damned if does damned if she doesn’t. Of course getting paid for an interview isn’t all that sincere however, it wasn’t her only apology. She’s already done it in private, over the phone, and on the show. It’s been quite a while since all of this went down. Teresa is a public figure and like others, they use the media as an outlet. To better their image, or even to make a comeback by admitting to faults. To me it’s not so strange that she would. Regardless, I don’t think Teresa thought much of it. In her way she just wanted to share herself with the world and express how she felt. Weather they want to accept it not is up to them. After all, this is a reality show and don’t we want to know everything that goes behind the scenes? We saw the reunion, we heard the rumors, we read twitter. it’s no secret what’s going on and at this point Caroline will find any excuse and reason to never have Teresa in her life no matter what type of apology she gets.
In total agreement…who cares if she got paid or not…I am pretty sure that Melissa also got paid for her *teresa is ruining my marriage* story in US Weekly…and??? Just the usual Caroline finger pointing campaign…making a big deal out of nothing!
Exactly…why is it OK for Melisa to bash her SIL to US weekly, reality tea etc.? Same for Jac. She’ll talk to anyone who will listen. Caroline was on all these talk show after s.3 ended saying She was never Teresa’s friend and bla bla..going on Wendy, cracking jokes at Teresa’s expense on WWHL But that’s ok too. When Teresa does it she gets crucified. Everyone has their own way of doing things and unfortunately if you don’t do it according to Caroline then you’re out!
Caroline’s own sister, Dina, ditched her…enough said…
@mm – you are right, well said.
Donnalee EXACTLY! They should reveal how much Melissa was paid for that. They should also reveal how many articles she was paid for being the “annonymous source” Dont they have to report these things to the IRS? Would be interesting how many tax forms she recieved from all the different media outlets that were buying her shit.
Let’s look at this from a different angle. Does anyone actually believe when mamma bitch and the bitchettes go out and bash Tre on tv and in print medium they are not getting paid? Right.
HAHAHA so right…they are all getting paid also…they all just stupidly think the viewers are stupid like them…DOH!!!
If that was anyone else boy everyone would be in a uproar. They would be famewhore losers and evrrything else!!!
Maybe it has something to do with the amount of apologies Teresa has given.. and the lack of apologies she has recieved. I think people are all sick of seeing the hypocrites and Teresa is getting a pass for “defending herself”
Of course she was paid. None of these women do anything without getting paid!! She probably needs the money more than anyone; her husband is probably now a house husband.
that I can agree with – freaking fat drunk loser
@Kate – better than an alleged rapist, wouldn’t you agree.
1. Teresa has apologized several times.
Is she sincere? I believe she is and the opportunity to put it out there for all of us to see is like exposing your vunerablities so I support her. It doesn’t matter though because now all the talk is about how insincere and genuiness(sp) of the apologies because she pocketed the money from the mag. Apparently a lot of people are in a position to turn down cold hard cash and because she took the money it is about the money. Since no nudeness was involved, do you think Melissa, JoGo, Caroline or Jac would be turning down 6k? Besides if these people aren’t talking to you maybe you have to publish in a mag.
I don’t see anything wrong with her being paid….
I really don’t see why it is necessary for Teresa to apologize anyway, they are one giving her the business because misery loves company and they want her to be poor, down trodden and suffering. I liken all of this to the Salem Witch Trials and Teresa is the one being judged by actual witches.
Strikes me as funny how her Highness Princess Caroline is now backing off of T in her blog. Seems she sees how she is losing her fan base with this stupid bullying of hers. She is pathetic!
What is the difference between apologizing in Intouch magazine and apologizing on a reality show….ANYONE…they are both public apologies, and guess what Teresa was paid in BOTH settings….The rest can go SCRATCH.
Good point!
Right on!
soo don’t you think she should have apologized privately/sincerely? and anytime someone apologizes and then says BUT – that NEGATES everything that came before it.
She apologized privately, publicly and personaly and has recieved ZERO apologies for the way she has been treated. Why is that ok? Nothing she has done is good enough. What more would you want her to do?
@ Kate – Are you feeling okay. I think you should unwind between posts so you can make more sense. “Teresa apologized BUT she wasn’t sincere so it doesn’t count”
The word BUT negates everything right, your own words.
So, if I got this correct, we should NEGATE EVERYTHING you say.
Okay, LYSA, we will.
Have a nice evening.
I feel scared to voice my opinion here for fear of backlash.. but I feel I am pretty unbiased when it comes to all of the NJ housewives, meaning I see the good and bad in ALL of them. Teresa, in my opinion, did do some legitimate apologies…Caroline seemed to not want to hear it and I have to believe that this goes beyond calling her the Olive Garden comment. In fact, she has stated it is much more than that. But how can Caroline talk about Teresa being family one season and then all of a sudden they were never really friends, that is bullshit. Something big happened there, that we may never know. Jacqueline, although annoying vocal on twitter, has stated she tried to make amends with Teresa to no avail in December…and then was surprised by the article and immediately attempted to reach out to Teresa, which from the way it seems, didn’t go so well…which leads me to believe the “public” apologies from Teresa were not that sincere (which at this point she just may not care and just want to pocket a paycheck). I believe other magazine seem to paint Teresa as the villain (ie. the article I just read in US WEEKLY last week). I dont think she is the villain at all, I DO think if we can ALL put ourselves in these ladies positions, you can see just how jealousy, envy and greed could infiltrate your relationships. Especially if you see one of you getting A LOT of deals/offers (and if it is things YOU personally would have had a desire to do, like cookbooks, make-up). It seems to me, (no one attack me please) Teresa has jumped on EVERYTHING offered to her (granted she needs money more than anyone) and I believe it has left the rest feeling like she is monopolizing it all. As far as Melissa and Joe go….there are no words for these two. They are DISGUSTING. I would just die if my brother pulled the crap on me publicly that he has done to Teresa. It is disgusting….so, well I guess maybe I am a little biased when it comes to some castmembers! LOL
I agree with you. And to further your point, Caroline lied big time at the reunion and the moment she tried to blame Teresa for the conflict she has with Dina that’s when all bets were off. Teresa said, “No, you backstabbed her” and Caro didn’t know what to say. That’s when Mel chimed in telling T that she had turned evil. But it was ok for Caro to blame Teresa for something she had nothing to do with, that was acceptable to Mel, but the moment T (her family) defends herself she’s evil. Caro has lied several times to the viewers. Her actions don’t match her words, which point out she’s a much bigger liar than anyone of them.
I agree and remember caro saying we were never friends, but this season starts off with her saying she was a true and loyal friend, what is it ……
I hate the entire cast except T
I think your comments were well put, but I do want to point out one thing. Yes, Teresa is jumping on every offer she gets, but the girl is in a lot of debt and working to pay it back. I can’t say that if I were in the same position, I wouldn’t jump on offers like these. She has four kids and that is a lot of college tuition money. And I totally agree with you about Mel and Joe. They are in it for the fame. Why does he wait until they are on camera to bring up $25,000 and the comment Teresa made about Melissa leaving him for another man? If I thought my brother was dating a girl who was after his money, you bet your a$$ I would tell him. It’s the right thing to do.
If she hadn’t already apologized a gazillion times prior to the in touch article, then I would have to agree that this an insincere apology, but since she already apologized personally and on the show…I see nothing wrong with doing it publicly. She’s just covering all her bases.
After everything these women have put her through she deserves to get paid. Also, all of these women get paid she bash Teresa. They all do magazine articles like Melissa who just did a article stating “Teresa is trying to break up my marriage”. Melissa got paid for that but that’s okay? She has also done ton of interviews. Jacqueline and Caroline did articles and interviews about Teresa and got paid. Through out the whole press tour these women were bashing Teresa and getting paid. Teresa didn’t do the press tour remember? She didn’t get paid for that. It comes down to they all get paid to do the same.
I don’t care if Teresa got paid or not. She wanted the apology to be as public as the “insults”, so she put them in a magazine. I’m pretty sure it was In Touch who called HER because they knew Teresa on the cover would sell magazines, which is what they want. She could have said whatever she wanted for that $6500, but instead, she chose to apologize to her co-stars.
All winter she ignored their insults and their bashing her in any and all media. Now she puts out an apology to the very women who were trashing her!! IMO, that’s called taking the high road and trying to put the past in the past. GOOD FOR HER.
Keep shining Teresa!! WE SEE YOU
Tre has more class in her pinkie finger, than the Jackhole4 have between them all.
Of course she got paid. So what? The rest of the cast is being paid by Bravo to bitch about her and ruin her image for however long this season runs. What’s the difference?
& you know this how????
right back at you…………….and you know that they are not being paid, how??
Wake up Lysa “aka Kate”, you are well aware that they are trying to destroy Teresa, by trying to ruin her image. Too bad it is not working.HAHAHA
Go dry your sister Melissa’s crocodile tears, she is crying right, cause we all know the truth hurts. Her phoney life is starting to fall apart and it is only going to get worse.
Are they NOT on the show bitching about Teresa every 2 second? Yes. Who cuts the check for them? Bravo.
Lauren manzo: @Lauren manzo There’s nothing I love more than a group text convo w our producer friends @RebeccaResnick @L_Vee @PRoaldsen @GreggyBennett @chris_manzo
maybe this is some kinda of proof?
There’s nothing she loves more than that? Nothing? Says a lot about those strong Italian values about family and loyalty that Caroline drilled into her if there is nothing she loves more than a group text with a bunch of producers. Nice priorities, Manzo.
Talk about beating a dead horse! Basta! If any publication wants to pay ME 6500.00 bucks, I’LL gladly apologize to all of them.
LOLOLOLOL Me too!!! Me too!!! hehehe
Who the hell cares how much Teresa is getting paid to issue an apology. The bottom line is that she’s the ONLY ONE who’s said “sorry” thus far whether she’s right or wrong. Personally, I don’t give a crap whether Teresa’s apology was sincere or not, she doesn’t owe them one. But seeing as they all feel like they deserve apologies, she gave them what they wanted. And whether it’s sincere or not, it takes a bigger person to say sorry. Whenever I apologize for something I know I’m not at fault about, I don’t sincerely mean it, I say it so that we can bury the hatchet and move on which is exactly what Teresa is now trying to do.
I think her first couple of apologies were sincere, but those ladies are too full of hate and jealousy to accept it. Since Caroline takes everything in print so literally, maybe that’s why Teresa printed her apologies.
Ok, Teresa got paid for a story. Big deal. She has apologzed and apologized. Screw it I hope she gets 10 more pay checks for apologizing. The bitter women are not willing to accept her apology paid or not so I hope Teresa milks it for all it’s worth. Hahaha!!
And I hope Tre laughs at their stupidity all the way to the bank.
If you really go back and watch from the very beginning, Caroline, has been subtly bashing Teresa. She rolls her eye, or chuckles when Teresa’s english isn’t perfect. She makes references to the girls being different than if she raised them, on the cruise ship in Italy. She points out Joe being Joe, and chuckles but makes sure to paint him in a bad light, with a chuckle. Caroline is just a nasty person. If you were to count up all of the insults, eye rolls, and snarky put down comments by Caroline, Her kids, Her husband, before the brother even came on the show, Teresa’s small “joking” comments in the cookbook, would pale in comparison. This is a mountain made out of a molehill. Why? Because Caroline’s kids got into a big fight in Punta Cana, that supposedly started because Teresa spilled a drink on some lady. The actual police report though, states it was only the two Manzo boys, Greg Joe Gorgo and Joe Guidice who were present and all were charged equally, and they all had to pay the same fine. This is when it suddenly became imperative to paint Teresa in a bad light!
Also, lets look at all of the personal dirt that has come out on everyone on this show… oh wait, so far the only personal dirt has been about Teresa and Joe. I’m sure Teresa has a lot of dirt on all of them…but I’ve never heard her bring up any of it on camera. If it’s brought up, it’s one of the others saying Teresa said something off camera. How convenient. Right now her brother is under inditement for tax fraud, and being investigated for shoddy materials and workmanship to save money on all of his businesses. Does Teresa bring this up.? No… yet we’ve heard each and every one of them bring up all of Joe’s personal troubles with the law. Misrepresenting the facts as well. It’s been over a year, since they filmed, and Joe has not gone to Jail. Why because all of the legal troubles were settled without hardly a wimper, and Teresa is working hard to pay back any debt that wasn’t paid off by the selling of their buildings. This is a fact you can look up. But they still bring it up all the time! They want her to look bad.
Why? Because they were charmed by the evil sister in law and dumb as a rock, brother…and they decided that Teresa was being so unfair to him…privately… she never said anything in the public eye. And like any good 8th grade mean girl, they all switched sides and ganged up on Teresa.
I won’t even go into what Teresa could have said about Jacqueline, and her exploiting and publicly abusing her daughter for 3 seasons, exposing and making a storyline out of how poor Jac had to sacrifice so much for this ungrateful party girl daughter …”and I didn’t even get a christmas gift”… booo hoo. I’m sorry but what 20 year old is all that much more together? Especiall when your own mother throws you under the bus every chance she gets, then your step father throws money at you to buy you off in private, then snatches it away, saying “bad girl” on tv…for ratings… when you use it.
As far as I’m concerned… Teresa has a bad temper. Do I wish I could muzzle her and keep her from saying some of the things she’s said… yes of course. But I have never ever seen her go after someone. She loses it when someone tries to hurt her or her family. When someone picks on her. When someone attacks her. I’ve seen her stop talking and try to think when something is said that’s so bitter and mean…almost as if she’s thinking “did they really just go there… I could say something, but I can’t go that low” and then she stumbles and mutters something that insulting, but doesn’t really counter what they said…and isn’t convincing, because I think she just can’t be that low. Not to her family anyway. I think she bottles up a lot of what she could say to protect them from the ultimate exposure. She does it with Joe, her husband for sure… but I believe it because she doesn’t want everyone hurt…not because she’s trying to hurt people.
lol!!!
@Kate – What the heck are you laughing at? Your laughing cause Tre won’t go there, but you have once again failed to think this through. The Jackhole4 had better start thinking about how far they are willing to go in their quest to destroy Teresa. REMEMBER, that she only attacks when provoked.
Teresa has said it repeatedly, over and over again, even on Celebrity Apprentice.
Who knows what will happen at the Season 4 reunion show.
Well said!
Readers, please read this excellent post. It’s a great summary of events.
It sure is. Well written @MOMMAHURLEY.
Thank you… There’s so much more too. The Brownstone is being foreclosed on… Albert was fired by the Governor of New Jersey from the Board of the Water District because he lied about where he lived. Rumor has it that he keeps an apartment at the Brownstone for special guests, ( of the entertaining variety) so he claimed this was his residence. Also the Manzo boys, and Chris Laurita and Caroline Manzo are being sued for copywrite infringement and theft of their company BLK from the Blackwater company that asked them to be their front persons, basically advertise for them, the way many of these companies do… but the just took it over as their own and represented it as their own. Shady Shady. And on top of that Melissa and her extremely unsavory background is coming to light… all of it. They are all a big fat mess…and Teresa hasn’t said a word about it! She could! But she hasn’t. The rumor mill says, the reason Melissa got so angry, and the reason Jacqueline attacked Teresa on twitter is because of both of their stripper backgrounds coming to light…they blame Teresa. Well I know one thing in life… you can’t prove you didn’t do something if gossips say you did… but in this case, the people who outed them both have fully admitted they did it on their own, because they can’t stand the Gorga’s hypocracy and greed. Teresa fully admitted that she warned them that this kind of thing could happen when you come on a show, because there are vultures out there just ready to dig up dirt and discredit you, and she’s already paid that price. But they took those warnings and turned them around on her Blaming her. Caroline now says she blames Teresa for getting in the middle of her and her sister…and turning her sister against her… However the very fair, and high road, sister Dina came on Twitter, and very nicely stated that her problems with her sister have absolutely nothing to do with Teresa, and that she’s sorry she distanced herself from Teresa just to stay away fromt he entire Housewives thing, because she couldn’t stand what it had made out of her sister..and she just didn’t want anything to do with it! But she missed Teresa, and her God Daughter Audrina, and Teresa has never been anything but great to her.
But I’m beginning to think that most of this is just a bunch of drama stirred up and that this whole bunch of mean girls, and undersized, over sexed guidos, well in the Manzo boys case, they’re a little oversized! (I love how they trash their sister, calling her ugly and fat, while Caroline laughs at how funny they are, meanwhile her daughter is hurting) . Have you looked at the younger Manzo brat lately< it's a little hard to miss his big fat cheeks and double chin! Caroline… you're a horrible mother! At least to your daughter. There is a decided Girl/Woman hatred in her….she only loves and respects her boys!
Anyway, my point is… They're all laughing all the way to the bank cause all our hatred is just giving them ratings… so I think I'm going to just take a page from Caroline's book and ignore them all, except Teresa. I feel sorry for the two Waililie kids, cause they're on the road to Reality Ruin! And Lauren… don't worry that your guido boyfriend likes tall skinny blondes… He's not exactly a looker … I don't think they're looking at him, so he's lucky to have you! You're beautiful at any size, but stay away from trashing people just cause your mom hates them, or you will wind up in a world of ugly that you aren't mean enough to handle…. take the high road .
MOMMAHURLEY, that was BEAUTIFUL! Both of them and ALL of it! Love, love, love!!
Is Melissa’s new love song about Joe any less sincere because she is making money off of it? The lyrics mean nothing because there are dollar signs attached? That seems to be Caroline’s logic…
GREAT point!!! I guess that’s how it must be..she must be doing the song for MONEY..not because she loves him…if she did…she could have kept that song private!!!
Good point. I wish someone would ask the hags exactly what you’ve asked. I’d like to hear their answers.
soo you are basically comparing apples & oranges….
No we are comparing Hypocrites and Teresa!
No, Kate. It’s an honest question to which I’d like to hear an honest answer. They are all doubting the sincerity of Teresa’s (fourth, at last count) apology because it was made available for public purchase therefore she received money for it. So using THEIR OWN logic, I’m wondering if that means that Melissa’s song for Joe is equally lacking in sincerity since it is also available for public purchase and Melissa is making money off it as well.
Their assertion is that when there is a profit attached to a sentiment, all sincerity goes out the window. Once money is involved it apparently becomes the sole motivator, negating everything that came before it. So I guess the same can be said for:
-Caroline’s advice column
-Caroline’s radio show
-Melissa’s music career
-any of the 900 products/businesses/people that Jacqueline endorses on her website
-all of the women’s relationships with each other
Everything they do nets them a return on investment. They are ALL getting paid just to be on the show and it only extrapolates from there. So to call Teresa out specifically for one instance, for one interview in one magazine that earned her one paycheck is beyond hypocritical. When they invite TV cameras into their homes, taking a shit earns them a paycheck. So to cast doubt on the sincerity of Teresa’s words because she received money for it is ludicrous. They ALL receive money for the fact that they wake up in the morning.
This is not “apples to oranges”. I’ve said it again and again. Why are all these behaviors okay for the rest of them but not okay for Teresa? Why do they hold her to a different standard than themselves?
Cara, that was so well done!
Thank you, Calzoned!
Who cares if she got paid? The others probably get paid to give their bashing interviews! Jac had a part with Kim G planting a pic of Joe Giudice with another woman to gossip columnist! At this point if she is STILL going to drug thru the mud by all of them a year later AFTER she personally apologized more than once, good for her! Get something good out of it Teresa!
Melissa and Kathy are getting paid to bash Teresa on the show. Remember Teresa said nothing bad about her family in Season 1 and 2.
u r high AND blind/deaf???? SELECTIVE MEMORY IS A WONDERFUL THANG!!! LOL!!
@Kate “aka MeHo’s sister Lysa” – I think not. I have a pretty good memory, and didn’t MeHo complain that Tre did not want Bravo to show her or her ugh huband on air in season’s 1 and 2. MeHo and the hags were so busy trying to get MeHo on her SIL Teresa’s show that they didn’t have time to watch.
Stop picking on newer posters LYSA !!!
Kate, can you please give ONE example of Teresa bashing Melissa or Kath in seasons 1 and 2? I will seriously send you 50 bucks if you can find JUST ONE bad thing about them during seasons 1 and 2.
Don’t call her Kate… It’s Meilissa sister. Roxy can simply check the IPO of every poster to see what computer they are on… and obviously this is Lyssa! This is why so many are turning on Melissa, becuase bloggers are comparing ipo’s and starting to realize the sisters of Melissa are putting out most of the postive stuff about Milissa, or recruiting people to do it, and the same for Negative stuff about Teresa! They are just too dumb to realize how the internet works and that you can’t really cover your tracks very well. Hi Lyssa! I mean Kate! Were’ on to you all!
Oh do be careful! Lyssa will tweet her lawyer on you!
Kate it appears as you are suffering from one or all three you mentioned! Start back from before T’s family joined the cast, then come back and comment!
In all honesty, I do not recall Teresa saying anything outright bad about Melissa or Kathy. She called one of them “evil”…I think it was Kathy when she invited Joe and Melissa to Christmas Eve. She said Kathy was an evil cousin or something along those lines.
What DOES stick out in my mind from season 3 is Kathy and Melissa and their constant:
-eye rolling
-sneering
-remarks about her intelligence, vocabulary, parenting, cooking, finances, husband, voice…..and whatever else they could pick apart.
And they did this not only in their TH interviews but while Teresa was actually in the room with them. It wasn’t just Melissa and Kathy either. It was Caroline and her spawn, too.
This everyone vs Teresa thing is old. I’m actually feeling bad for Danielle because for seasons 1 and 2 this was the position she was in. The difference is that Danielle is crazy and Teresa is not.
Oh! That reminds me… During the season 2 reunion when Danielle mentioned Melissa’s name to Teresa…it caused her to go ape shit in DEFENSE of her family, did it not? And that was after Teresa had realized (with a TV camera in her face) that her sister-in-law had been speaking to Danielle and feeding her information to create problems. Teresa STILL defended her.
You want to question us about selective memory again, “Kate”?
Who cares if she got paid, she is trying to keep a roof over her head, food on the table, and her pay for legal bills. The others get paid to trash her on tv, interviews, talk shows, and the web.
If this is true whoever leaked the information should be fired. There has to be a confidentiality clause about how much a person gets paid for an interview.
I’m still confused on why she doesn’t downsize that roof! She has her family, her health…why is she working herself crazy to keep that huge, gaudy house??
Downsize and relax a little Teresa!!
You are right about that I wouldn’t want her heating billsp
I actually think Teresa is smart to keep the house. Her young daugthers are comfortable there, and I think moving could disrupt their feeling of security. Plus, the property has a large yard, gate, and security cameras. Hopefully now that Teresa has done CA she will be getting more offers and more $$$ so she can pay that heat bill lol
I’m sure they probably have a mortgage that they are upside down on,( that means they owe more than it would sell for) like about 50% of people who bought their houses in the last 10 years in this country, because of the Banking Fraud, and the Economy! they wouldn’t get enough to pay it off. And thy’d lose a fortune, so they’re probably hanging on till things improve!
Well it sounds like she tried to apologize during the first or second episode of season 4, which filmed almost a year ago. (I refuse to watch and only get caught up thanks to this blog!!) And the article does say that she’s apologized privately to each of the women. So the article was not her first or only attempt to mend fences.
I really don’t see the problem. When Roxy first posted Teresa’s article there were a lot of comments on how Teresa was almost forced to do this, because if the apology was in black and white print, the others could stop denying that she apologized. Now that she got paid, it’s a problem? I don’t get it.
And considering the kind of money Teresa makes from her cook books and other products, do you think $6,500 really makes that much of a diffence to her?
Also it’s the magazine that makes out like a bandit. I wonder just how much in additional sales that magazine did because of this article!
The entire book brouhaha is an invention. Teresa said those things on Rachel Ray. Caroline herself shook her head at her son’s stupid stripper carwash idea. Caroline put the issue out there on the show, Teresa merely commented which she is free to do. She did not get caught. You don’t get “caught” writing things when you are writing a bestseller. There’s no getting “caught” involved. What we do have is an excuse for Caroline Manzo to take up with the Gorgas and Wakiles because she decided that would give her more drama and more story line since how much more bad parenting are viewers willing to watch?
@Kija – Then, I guess Caro must have realized what was happening with MeHo’s hatred of Tre between S3 and S4. Wasn’t S4 done filming the night of the S3 reunion show??
So far, in Season 4, she is trying to branch out with her own family.
Lauren chubby, Caro menapausal. Then why is she still on the hate train with the others almost a year later???
It doesn’t make sense to me.
I meant MeHo’s hatred of Tre in SEASON 3,
NOT “between S3 and S4″
If you think back to the end of season 3…there was a lot of press about how Caroline and Jacqueline were told that they were too boring and they would be dropped from the show, if they didn’t bring the drama… and then there’s the whole Punta Cana fight thing that happened right at the end of the season… and they had just begun filming season 3 when the reunion happened. The scene where Teresa is talking to Dina happened at the Posh fashion show… Caroline assumed when she saw Teresa talking to Dina that Dina was taking Teresa’s side and went ballistic. The truth is, according to Dina, that she hasn’t had any contact with Caroline for years, and neigher have 4 of Caroline’s other sisters and brothers. And it is because of Caroline’s behavior and nothing else! Caroline attacks anyone who gets in her way! She’s the epitome of Do as I say, Not As I do! or I can do anything, but I’ll ruin you if you do the same back to me! This is what Dina wanted to get away from!
I wouldnt even apologize, but it makes me happy to know she made money off of it!!! Those bitches don’t deserve a real apology– which she did give them, also.
I for one, am sick of the whole cookbook/apologize/didn’t apologize thing…I also wouldn’t be surprised if Bravo didn’t have something to do with this latest publicity stunt because they see how the tide is turning. We have all said more than once that we’re over it all…so by keeping it in the forefront on this blog and in our responses it keeps the show relevant. I see this two ways…these apologies that T made were made last year…if I were on a show and I still had to apologize more than a year later for things that happened I would tell the producers to go scratch their asses…BUT the flipside of this is….if I were the supposedly (and notice I said supposedly) scorned one, I’d be a little pissed about an apology in a magazine as opposed to a personal one, if one needed to be given. So see? Again these housewives are puppets and Bravo is the Gepetto.
but we’re seen Teresa apologize personally-and it wasn’t accepted. So to me, there IS no flip side. Caroline said it: she wants to eliminate T from her life.
ok just thought id share
Type in teresa giudice on google and see the articles that came up in the past hour
melissa saying how she sets teresa straight in the 3r episode
please read the article
im trying to keep my cool
im really trying
I CANT STAND MELISSA
First it was “read between the lines” and “planting seeds” the new buzz words for next weeks blogs will be “pattern”
They all think we are stupid enough to fall for their BS. The only stupid people of the gang bashers. Most people are seeing right through them. Even the folks who didn’t like Teresa are not support her. They see that Teresa has changed, she has tried with all of the them and she doesn’t talk negativity about any of them in public. Teresa is selling more cookbooks (thanks to Don Caro) has more paid appearances, selling more drinks, has almost 80,000 more twitter followers now and making more money mostly beacuse people don’t like the 4+ ( really 15 against one if you add the wicked sisters of the shore, all the Manzo’s, Ashelee,and the husbands) gang bashing.
OMG – I never thought of it that way.
15 against 1, I don’t know how Tre does it. Well I hope, hope, hope that Tre gave it to all of them in Season 4.
I don’t care what this terrible thing they keep talking about is, they deserve it ten times over.
I will still be a fan, and will forgive her anything she has done at this point.
And, I’m really glad that I have not watched one episode so far in season 4, I will wait for the reunion show.
BRAVO SUCKS !!!!!
She is an insincere selfobsessed materialistic narcissist – for an apology to count it must be hearfelt & sincere – T doesn’t know what that means.
Melissa is an excuse for a human being
She doesnt deserve an apology
let alone a sincere apology LOL!
Kate, go scratch, you are a waste of space on this earth just like your sister Melissa is.
Meho and her hag sisters, wouldn’t know sincerity if it hit them in the face.
Melissa has been caught on screen lying more than once. Telling a story completely differently than it actually happened! Nobody is fooled by her. Her time is over. Her talent is nonexistent. She’s fake, and it’s all about to come out!
Melissa’s lies are listed on the famewhorgas blog:
http://famewhorgas.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/melissa-gorgas-best-quotes/
I disagree. I think Teresa is a very sincere person
Kate, it’s odd that you use the word “narcissist” to describe Teresa. In actuality – and I’m not being mean or condescending or anything, I’m applying actual knowledge of psychology here – Melissa is a TEXTBOOK narcissist. By definition, a person with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) will usually show several of the following:
-obsessed with him/herself
-takes advantage of others in order to achieve his/her own success
-becomes jealous easily
-obsessed with being the best at what he/she does
-often copies the behavior of others
-has inflated views of his/her own perceived good qualities
-has inflated sense of self-importance
-has obsessive fantasies about achieving unrealistic goals
Apply these to Melissa:
-if there is any question as to whether she is obsessed with herself, just read one of her Bravo blogs. She can’t type without overusing the words “I”, “me” and “my”.
-assuming that the story about her writhing her way onto RHONJ to take down Teresa is true (and there is enough corroborating evidence to believe that it is) then yes, she takes advantage of others to achieve success
-this entire situation is born out of her jealousy of Teresa
-one example of how she needs to be the best:
“Teresa thinks she throws the best parties. But *I* throw the best parties. She’s a faker.”
-her sick, copycat behavior is WELL documented right down to tweeting a carbon copy photo of her own child wearing the same outfit in the same pose as Teresa’s child one day after Teresa tweets an identical picture. She does this with copying Teresa’s clothing, hairstyle and color, using Teresa’s hair stylist, wardrobe stylist, photographer, etc. She did not look like this before she started dating Joe. Once she became part of the Gorga family she began to copy everything Teresa does. In a FRIGHTENING way.
-”Thank you, Jesus” much? Her inflated view of her good Christian image does not align with the behaviors she exhibits.
-”On Display” is a CLASSIC example is self-importance. Nobody knew who the hell she was when she wrote that song.
-and the pop star fantasy….at age 33
There are even more symptoms of an NPD but I don’t think I have to elaborate. Melissa is a sick individual. I don’t know if Teresa even realizes what kind of crazy she is dealing with. And Melissa probably doesn’t even understand that her behaviors are not normal. She probably doesn’t even think that her copycat crap is a big deal because she thinks that everyone does things like this.
Oh and here is an interesting fact. You want to know what is a frequent cause for a Narcissistic Personality Disorder? Overly excessive praise during childhood that is never realistically balanced with constructive feedback. She could potentially be this way because of all the smoke that her family has blown up her ass her entire life. She never had anyone give it to her straight. Everyone has always told her how frickin wonderful she is so now she not only expects it….she believes it.
CARA THAT WAS BRILLIANT!!!!
HOLY COW
YOU NAILED IT WOMAN!!!!!
First off, she did apologize privately and that’s really big of her when she honestly didn’t know what in the world she did! T looked so confused with everyone getting upset with her bc perhaps she didn’t mean for the comments to be malicious in any way. I have both cookbooks and glossed right over the comments. I didn’t see anything wrong with them! The others owe T a load of apologies bc everything they do is out of malice!
So, sorry, T is trying to pay back some bills she owes and I I were her I would accept money too for an apology! Homegirl is a hustler fo sho! Go on and get paid, T! She has a legitimate reason to accept it!
hear, hear……….
I think it’s completely shameful, that her BROTHER and her SISTER IN LAW would try to take money out of their sisters Children’s mouth…money which may mean the differencew between life and death to the children…. when they supposedly have sooooooo much money! How do you justify that?
The longer Bravo drags this storyline out (the cookbook comments), the more cookbooks Teresa sells and the more money Bravo makes because they get a percentage of the profits. This feud is a carry over from last season, which end ONE YEAR AGO in May 2011. Bravo took this cookbook episode in season 4 and moved it up to season 3 for the finale so that they could stretch it out over a year for maximum profit. Savvy viewers are way beyond this. The other HWs are foolish for falling into Bravo’s trap. Maybe they finally figured out that Bravo is using them to help sell more cookbooks.
LOL…….. that can’t be it, cause according to the Jackhole4 Tre is sooo dumb. Jokes on them!!! hehehe
haha I thought it was great when Caroline went on Jimmy Fallon and held up Teresa’s In Touch cover
Season 1… viewers LOVED watching Teresa spend her money. We were watching “life styles of the rich” (even if it was inflated lol) In season 2 with the economy in the toilet people started resenting her. Most Americans were suffering in some form with job loss, foreclousers etc..
Eventually, Teresa was hit with bankrupsy and Joes long line of crimes.
Then we see Teresa trying to cut back, we see her suffering and struggeling. She starts becoming more relateable to the viewers because 90% of us have suffered in this way. We know EXACTLY what she is feeling and going through because most of us are going through the same thing in some form!
She kept her dignity, kept her head high and worked her ass off to turn her life around… Exactly what most Americans are doing? So to watch the evil 4 attack, tear down and sneer at …..Teresa? People are taking it personal! putting themself in Teresa’ position and saying “what would i do” The more they try to tear her down, the angrier the fans get. Teresa will win this “game” simply because the others are too stupid to realize what it is they are “saying” to the viewers with their actions.
I will be very surprised if BRAVO doesnt clean house in NJ after this season.
I think Bravo (the production team in particular) made a huge mistake thinking that viewers would take Caroline Manzo’s side, no matter what. I think they should scrap the whole franchise. They’ve damaged it beyond repair for me, at least.
Bravo knows that they have a gold mine in Tre.
Wasn’t there something leaked that said Tre has already signed for S5??? They could bring in all new people (NO FAMILY) and get back to Tre working hard and enjoying her life, and enjoying her Real Friends. Focus on Tre and her Fabulous Family. I’m sure she would have plenty of followers that would continue to watch, I mean don’t we all like a feel good story???
Teresa better get a nice big raise too
The paid apology is okay for Team Teresa! Teresa does nothing wrong on this site.
It’s not so much that Teresa does “nothing wrong”; it’s just that I haven’t seen any of the others do anything RIGHT as it regards Teresa. I’m against bullying — and these women (and their spouses and kids) are bullies..
I agree Calzoned.
Ya, instead of being paid to give an apology she should have given out apologies the same way she recieved them. I’m angry she is apologizing at all.
I’m with you, Say What. And as a matter of fact, I’m starting to feel like Bravo, the whole cast of NJ (except the Giudices) and jmusso and a few others who post here owe ME an apology! lol
lol
Hey jrusso, I don’t care if I’m picking my nose or looking pretty..if I’m on ur mag cover, u bet ur sweet a$$ ur gonna pay me.
U do realize that magazines only put on the cover what they know will sell! In fact, I think they should have added another “0″ to the amt!
ITA – Imagine the outrage if that was leaked.
LOL
That’s an interesting thought because today I was in the grocery story, and Us was on the top shelf with Teresa the Full page Cover!… then I looked down and there was little ugly MeHo, a one inch picture on the side bar of the cover of another magazine! ha ha ha ha That about says it all doesn’t it?
That right there is the answer to all of this! Melissa will never be as popular as Teresa. Melissa will never gain the full cover of any magazine unless its detailing her ruin, how she faked being rich and tore her family apart for $. Melissa cant handle Teresa being better than her..
How many times does Tre have to apologize……Not sure if I can continue to watch the T-bashing again!!!
Agree! And to all those complaining of her being insincere, at this point sincerity should be out the friggin window!!! I do not know what some people were taught but when a person apologizes you accept it, period, end of story. Since when do we have to start measuring sincerity levels? I cannot even believe grown women on a show for the public would keep using that as an argument! What are you teaching the youth of today??? Keep demanding apologies until YOU feel its sincere? WTH is that? Then after you do the moral thing and accept it, you move on, with or without continuing the relationship!!!!!! I am sooooooooooo over this apology. This is a world record for one person apologizing over and over and over again for the same thing.
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In Touch made out like a bandit with only paying her $6,500.
Seriously, if anyone thinks ur gonna get rich of 6500 dollars…ur nuts!
IMHO….it was a sincere way of saying to the general public, “I messed up and I own it.” I do believe that it was sincere way of trying to put out some fires and she has been told that she doesn’t own what she did. Well by putting herself on blast by doing a cover for In Touch certainly declares that she’s owning it. And yet, their still complaining. Is she suppose to give up her first born and then they’ll finally put a clamp on their yappers.
I gotta ?. What exactly is she suppose to own? All I ever see on that show is the other housewives and some of their mates ripping Teresa a royal one. Still don’t get what she did that deserve the public flogging.
Teresa, all I know is that u better ask for a hefty raise if u plan on doing Season 5…and by the way u are the STAR of that show….no one else is relevant. The rest of them need and depend on u to remain on the show. U got the upper hand and I’m sure they are seething about that….
good post Pixel
I don’t think she should have apologized so I’m glad she got paid.
How much are the other housewives getting paid to continue to bash Teresa in the tabloids and blogs?They go on any talk show that will have them (especially during that 2-week media blitz prior to reunion 3) and sell stories to the rags and blogs as “secret sources” to make Teresa into a villain.
I love Teresa but those apologies were horrible. I actually picked up the magazine and I couldn’t help but shake my head.
I think she started off her apology to Melissa with “I forgive you for ____”
You NEVER start off an apology by mentioning what the person did wrong, even if you think they’re at fault !
She started off “I forgive you for” with Kathy. But to be perfectly honest, she has NOTHING to apologize to Kathy for.
Thank you ! I couldn’t remember who it was for.. nonetheless, it’s probably better to not apologize at all than to do it in that way.
Just take Vicki’s apology to Gretchen ! It didn’t help at all because she demanded an apology in return.