Teresa Giudice (born May 18, 1972) is a reality television cast-member and fitness competitor, best known for starring in The Real Housewives of New Jersey.
Besides appearing on the show, Giudice has written multiple New York Times bestseller cookbooks and was featured on Donald Trump's The Celebrity Apprentice 5 (2012).
On December 23, 2015, she was released from federal prison after serving 11 months of a 15-month sentence for fraud, while her husband and four daughters resided in the Towaco section of Montville, New Jersey. She is known for her extravagant lifestyle and highly publicized financial and legal troubles leading up to her prison sentence.
Her husband, born Giuseppe but called Joe, began his 41-month sentence on March 23, 2016
Andy Cohen acknowledges that The Real Housewives of New Jersey needs a shakeup and teases that changes are coming to the Bravo reality series.
As Season 14 of RHONJ wraps up, Cohen knows there’s a problem with the show and revealed that producers are working on something for Season 15.
The current cast doesn’t seemingly get along and has been unwilling to film together. Things are so bad among the cast that a cast trip was scrapped, and Bravo opted to cancel the traditional reunion that puts a cap on the season.
A fan of the show called into Cohen’s SiriusXM show Andy Cohen Live who suggested that a “rebrand” was needed for RHONJ, which the executive producer of the franchise agreed that it was time.
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