After months of waiting, Bravo confirms that The Real Housewives of New Jersey will return later this spring. And better yet, the entire cast – Teresa Giudice, Melissa Gorga, Jacqueline Laurita, Caroline Manzo, and Kathy Wakile — will return.

‘Real Housewives Of New Jersey’ Season 5 Premiere Date

The series will return on Sunday, June 5, at 8 PM ET!

Contrary to recent reports, there are no new housewives officially joining the cast. But we’re sure that friends of the housewives will be making regular appearances. We’re hoping that we’ll get a cameo or two by Danielle Staub!

Bravo released a statement saying:

“Season 5 welcomes back the entire cast as Teresa Giudice, Melissa Gorga, Jacqueline Laurita, Caroline Manzo, and Kathy Wakile pick up right where last season’s contentious reunion left off. This season they are on a mission for redemption, scrambling to pick up the pieces of their fractured relationships. The women also find themselves shifting through rubble after Hurricane Sandy leaves much of the Jersey Shore in ruins, including some of their homes. A sense of communal rebuilding encourages Teresa to rise above the past drama with her brother and sister-in-law, Melissa, and mend her family for good. Jacqueline struggles to cope with her son’s autism diagnosis while tensions from her fallout with Teresa push her towards her breaking point. As Caroline fights to shed her reputation as a bully and Melissa strives to break free from the weight of her husband Joe’s family drama, Kathy attempts to step out of her husband’s shadow to find her own voice and launch her career.”

What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Are you excited for season five?

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Teresa Giudice butts heads with pretty much all of the Real Housewives of New Jersey (remember the explosive three-part reunion?) and now, star Caroline Manzo is spilling that she doesn’t think they “can ever go back to how” they were, but that both are making an effort to be civil to each other for the sake of their families.

We caught up with Caroline at the UNICEF Snowflake Ball where she revealed EXCLUSIVELY to HollywoodLife.com that she will be back for the next season. “The past is where I want it to be in the past, I feel good about it. I have a very positive attitude. I’m back. I’m going in with a clear mind.”

Caroline also told us that she doesn’t think she will ever fully reconcile with Teresa. “I don’t know that we could ever go back to how we were. You know, it can get to, how are things, how are the kids.. you know civil. Will it ever be how it was?… Doubtful. It is what it is. We are big girls.”

She added that right now, “We’re civil. We always have been.” We beg to differ!

Caroline said she’s looking forward to a stress-free holiday! “Well a lot of people put a lot of pressure on themselves, you know, to have the perfect table, the perfect meal… I just go with it!”

What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Will they ever make up?

– Reporting by Nicole Debari

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The third — and final — part of the Real Housewives of New Jersey season 4 reunion unraveled in a rather tearful, truthful and emotional way. From screaming to crying, the final installment was a dramatic ending — to say the least.

The Truth About Joe Giudice’s Financial Troubles

The third part of the reunion kicked off by discussing Joe Giudice’s financial woes. Teresa Giudice made it known that she was mad because her family discussed his incarceration on TV when she asked them not too. But host/moderator Andy Cohen interrupted and asked Teresa why it was such a big deal that they discussed it on TV when she was talking about it in magazine interviews all throughout the season. Good point, Andy!

Not to our dismay, Teresa’s response lacked a sensible answer. Then Joe and Teresa went on to say that while Joe is facing 10 years in jail, they’ll “cross that bridge” when the time comes because they aren’t worried. After commercial break, the rest of the husbands join their wives for what must have been the most dramatic reunion in all of Bravo history.

Joe Gorga Faces Teresa For The First Time In A Year

Joe Gorga hasn’t seen his sister since the dramatic Posche fashion show throwdown that happened nearly a year ago. But after a video montage of Joe Gorga showing his penis on TV, Joe goes head-to-head with his brother-in-law.

“It makes me sick that I even have to be here to look at ya,” Joe Giudice says to Joe Gorga.

The two start fighting and Joe Gorga reveals their fight began years ago over tools. Andy asks Joe Gorga if his relationship with his sister has always been full of tension – and his reply is no, but they’ve been fighting for a while now.

“We had our issues way before this show,” Joe Gorga says.

Andy starts to ask if everyone can just get a long because Joe Giudice could end up behind bars, and everyone starts yelling after Teresa says Melissa Gorga got in the way of their relationship. But then the fight spotlight turns to Joe and Joe again when Joe Giudice asks Joe Gorga how he met his wife.

“Shut the f***k up about my wife. I laugh about you every day. You bum. Why don’t you pay your bills?” Joe Gorga yells to Joe Giudice.

Once the boys cool down, Joe Gorga reveals a shocking truth amid the season’s stripper claims. Joe was actually the one who took off his clothes back in the day — he was a dancer at Chippendales!

“I had a G-string as an outfit,” he says.

The Moment of Truth

Once again we are brought to the fight that ended it all: the Posche Fashion show. Teresa says for the millionth time that she didn’t call Melissa a stripper, but then she gets into a fight with Jacqueline  Laurita and stands up and screams at her. Fortunately, there wasn’t a table in sight.

Not too long after Kim D. enters to tell the truth about that dramatic night.

“She [Teresa] did not know this man [Angelo] was going to mention anything about Melissa’s past,” Kim D. says.

Kim reveals that Angelo was at the salon and once she found out the news that he knew Melissa, she called Teresa to get her in on the scheme – without Teresa knowing exactly what was going on.

“Now we can all agree it was a setup,” Melissa says.

But Caroline Manzo intervenes and reveals that Kim said that Teresa knew something was going to happen.

“Did she know something was going to go down, yes, but did she know exactly, no,” Kim says, adding that she knew the target was Melissa though.

“She did not know what it was about,” Kim says.

Then Andy asks Joe Gorga if he sees a future with his sister.

“I don’t know. It’s tough,” Joe says. “I didn’t just lost my sister; I lost my parents.”

“Just be happy,” Teresa says as she cries and speaks to her brother. “Just be happy.”

Chris chimes in and says that he knows Joe Gorga wants his sister back and this is all a bunch of “bull s**t.”

The reunion concluded with Caroline Manzo giving her finals words of wisdom.

“I know one day we’ll be sitting around, all of us, all of us, and we’ll say remember when. You can’t have this much pain without love,” Caroline says.

Hmm! It was definitely a dramatic ending to a dramatic season.

What did YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Weigh in and vote below.

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Yikes! During part one of the Real Housewives of New Jersey reunion Lauren Manzo got in a heated argument with Teresa Giudice about her lap band surgery.

The heated fight between the two reportedly happened because Teresa called Lauren “lazy,” according to Us Weekly. 

“She was saying Lauren was lazy,” a source tells Us, adding Teresa’s train of thought was “Lauren has all the time to work out. She took the easy way out.”

This all happened after Teresa pointed out Caroline Manzo‘s rolls on the Sept. 30th reunion.

“Look at yourself, you have three rolls: blubber, blubber, blubber,” Teresa said to Caroline.

“And you know what, I f*****g wear them proud,” Caroline responded.

We’re definitely expecting part 2 (which airs on Oct. 7) to be just as dramatic — if not more — than part 1!

What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Do YOU think it was wrong of Teresa to call Lauren “lazy?” Weigh in and vote below.

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Part one of the Real Housewives of New Jersey reunion got ugly on September 30 — but it’s about to get even uglier on part 2. However, Teresa Giudice writes on her own personal Bravo blog that she won’t be exposing any of the other housewives’ secrets — unlike what they’ve done to her.

“It was a struggle because they attack me so viciously and yet they have their own skeletons, their own public scandals and newspaper articles and financial problems that don’t get discussed on the show, because I won’t discuss them. They do it to me, but I won’t do it back,” Teresa writes.

“I’m not proud of everything I said at the reunion, but I am proud of the things I DIDN’T say. As they were yelling at me, I kept reminding myself not to say this or that about their private lives, I kept thinking about Dina and her and Caroline’s mom, Nettie, and family stuff I did not want them to hear me say.”

Teresa isn’t exactly on good terms with the housewives — and that became very clear during part one of the reunion.  If she really does know the other wives’ scandalous secrets, they should be counting their lucky stars she didn’t reveal them!

Tre went on to say in her blog post that she had no idea what the other women were plotting against her.

“I do never know what crazy angle the other women are going to take at me, so my strategy is to sit there and be as calm and mature as I can,” she writes.

What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Do YOU think Teresa should expose the other New Jersey housewives’ secrets? Weigh in and vote below!

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The Real Housewives of New Jersey proved they know how to put up a good fight during part 1 of the season 4 reunion on Sept. 30!

And Caroline Manzo‘s daughter, Lauren Manzo, revealed to Us Weekly that Xanax was being passed around to keep their anxiety under control!

“Xanax was being passed around like candy,” she tells Us Weekly. “There was so much yelling, Andy [Cohen] was shouting at everybody to be quiet!”

Yikes! The entire reunion was filmed on Sept. 7 in Atlantic City, New Jersey — but part one (out of three) aired on Sept. 30. Housewife Melissa Gorga recently told HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY that the reunion was like nothing they’ve experienced before.

“I think the reunion will clarify where things are today. It was a crazy reunion. It was crazy, but we’re not there yet. Things are not good. And it’s a bumpy road right now. Things are not good,” Melissa tells HollywoodLife.com.

Part two airs on Oct. 7 and we can’t wait to see Rosie get in on the action!

What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Are you shocked the reunion was so heated that they needed Xanax? Weigh in below!

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Part one of the Real Houswives of New Jersey reunion was apparently the tip of the iceberg for the three-part throwdown. But from Lauren Manzo swearing at Teresa Giudice to the always-poised Kathy Wakile going crazy on Tre, we can’t imagine it getting much worse!

Flashback: Season 3 Reunion

The reunion kicked off by discussing the season 3 reunion — which Jacqueline Laurita didn’t go to. Of course, that was the big question: WHY didn’t she show up to the reunion?

We learned at the end of the season 4 finale that it was because Jacqueline was on the verge of a breakdown, but there was a tidbit more to the story. Jacqueline was apparently “so sick” of Teresa’s Posche fashion show set-up that she couldn’t bear to see her again! Teresa wastes no time to battle back and shouts that she never planted Angelo who revealed that Melissa Gorga used to “dance” for him — which wasn’t true.

“Prove it b***h,” Teresa screams to Jacqueline.

Jacqueline goes on to attack Teresa and say that she has a recording of one of Teresa’s friends revealing that Teresa did in fact set up Melissa at the fashion show, but that it’s “illegal” to share that recording on the reunion. Hmm! So, guess she did?

Moderator/host Andy Cohen asks if Teresa has seen the other housewives since the Posche fashion show last year and she says “no,” she hasn’t — except for Melissa at her daughter’s birthday party. Then in some crazy way Teresa says that she has never spoken badly about her brother or Melissa and that totally throws Jacqueline over the edge. Andy is understandably upset and just keeps on saying “I want to move on.”

And so do we!

Jacqueline’s Relationship With Her Daughter Ashley Today

Teresa wasn’t the only drama in Jacqueline’s life; she was also going through a tough time with her daughter, Ashley Holmes. Jacqueline says that she’s never been happier with Ashley, but then Andy asks about Jacqueline’s financial woes.

Andy then asks Jacqueline about her austistic son, Nicholas, and proceeds to play a very emotional montage which ends with him saying “I Love you.” The cameras are back on Jacqueline as she’s bawling into Caroline’s lap.

“He’s going to say it again,” Caroline tells Jacqueline as she rubs her back.

Teresa says “she doesn’t understand” which triggers Caroline to tell Teresa to “shut up” many, many times.

The Truth About The California Trip

Even though it seemed like everything was OK between Jacqueline and Teresa in Cali — it wasn’t. Jacqueline took to the reunion to reveal that she heard Teresa talking about her when the cameras weren’t rolling.

“I overheard you say [to Melissa] ‘I hate Jacqueline I can’t even look at her f-ing face,’” Jacqueline says.

“So what caused this break-up?” Andy asks.

“All you cared about was exposing them. You wanted me to call her [Melissa] out that she was a stripper,” Jacqueline says to Teresa.

Jacqueline goes on to say that that was the only reason Tre was happy to have Melissa and Kathy on the show — so she could expose who they really are!

“I never called her a stripper,” Teresa shoots back, leading Jacqueline to scream at Teresa and tell her she’s “sick” and “going to hell.”

“Any hope of getting back to that place [in Nappa]? Andy asks.

“I just don’t know. I don’t know,” Teresa says.

Jacqueline doesn’t even say anything.

Lauren Manzo’s Shocking Weight Loss

The focus turns to Caroline Manzo who’s been suffering through menopause and had a lot going on with her kids this season. Then low and behold Lauren Manzo — who just had the lap band surgery — walks on to the stage 35 pounds skinnier. We must say she looks great!

Everyone is talking about how great Lauren looks until Teresa chimes in and criticizes the surgery.

“That’s my problem not yours,” Lauren screams to Teresa.

The Return of Rosie

The focus shifts to Kathy and Andy says that her husband, Richie, has been mean to Tre — but she doesn’t care.

“All these people here are insignificant to me, I don’t give a sh**. But I have it outlined every single thing Richie has said about me [on TV],” Teresa says.

“Right because he wants you,” Kathy jokes in response.

Teresa fires back by revealing that Kathy and Richie almost got divorced — which Kathy denies. This sends Kathy, who rarely yells, into crazy housewife mode.

And fortunately she has her sister Rosie to back her up.

“I don’t care if I get locked up, I’ll kill her,” Rosie screams from back stage.

Bum, bum, bum! Until next Sunday….

What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Was this the most dramatic reunion in RHONJ history? Weigh in below!

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From her infamous table flip to dramatic showdowns at the annual Posche fashion show, Teresa Giudice is always keeping the drama alive on Real Housewives of New Jersey.

Now with Caroline Manzo, Kathy Wakile and Melissa Gorga all against Tre after the season 4 finale; I think it’s safe to assume we have a slew of crazy moments ahead of us!

Click through the gallery above to see our favorite ones so far!

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