For months, we’ve been anticipating Teresa Giudice’s return to The Real Housewives of New Jersey.
The mother of four is still behind bars, but she’s reportedly already worked out a deal to appear in the show’s next season, and now it seems producers might be planning to sweeten the deal by giving Teresa the ultimate homecoming present.
Yes, according to Radar Online, Bravo execs are hoping to fire Melissa Gorga in the very near future.
If you watch The Real Housewives of New Jersey online, you know that Melissa’s rivalry with Teresa often provides plenty of entertainment.
The problem, it seems, is that upcoming Teresa segments will focus on her struggle to readjust to life on the outside while preparing for her husband, Joe Giudice, to begin serving his own 41-month sentence.
It’s a high drama, and it’ll likely make for good ratings – but it also makes Melissa the odd woman out.
“Bravo warned Melissa that she is very boring and has no storyline,” says one insider.
“She doesn’t fight with Joe, and the music career thing didn’t work out. She really has nothing else going on.”
As part of a last-ditch effort to create some drama, Melissa opened up a clothing boutique that will compete with a store already owned by “friend of the Housewives” Kim DePaola, but sources say it’s too little, too late.
“That’s why she is opening up the store, so that’s her storyline,” says the production insider. “One of the storylines is going be Melissa’s store against Kim’s store…It’s all to make herself interesting again.”
Yes, nothing makes for more compelling viewing than two Housewife hangers-on attempting to top one another’s fourth quarter sales figures…Sorry, we just dozed off for a second.