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Premiere: Real Housewives Of New Jersey

April 23, 2012 by · Comments Off on Premiere: Real Housewives Of New Jersey 

Premiere: Real Housewives Of New Jersey, “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” are back for a fourth season: From left, Caroline Manzo, Melissa Gorga, Kathy Wakile and Teresa Giudice chat with Posche fashion boutique owner Kim DePaola.

Sex toys in close proximity to toddlers. A shirtless Joe Giudice pumping iron. Caroline Manzo being questioned about her libido. Preschooler Milania Giudice using the words “stupid whore.” These and many other very wrong things just happened in my living room. Give me a few moments to initiate a full “Silkwood.” Okay. “Real Housewives of New Jersey” is back!

Here’s where we left off in the third season finale: Everyone hates Teresa “My book’s on the bestseller” Giudice, but for different reasons and with less fervor than they would in the season three reunion show. At this point — the start of summer 2011, before the reunion show was taped — Caroline has taken offense at Teresa’s “jokes” about her family in her latest cookbook, but things had not yet gotten to the “whirlwind of stupid” level that Caroline would reference at the reunion. We open as Melissa and Joe Gorga, Kathy and Rich Wakile and Teresa and Joe Giudice head down to the shore (sunscreen? check! leopard-print bikini? check! lube? check!). And what’s a season premiere without unfounded rumors? Joe Gorga tells Melissa that Teresa told him that Melissa would leave him if a richer guy came along. (Sometimes I feel like I’m reporting on the world’s stupidest game of “Telephone.”) Joe tells Melissa that Teresa’s just insecure because of the tabloid reports that her husband cheated on her during a trip to Atlantic City.

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