The Real Housewives of New Jersey was the fourth spinoff in Bravo’s iconic Real Housewives franchise. Teresa Giudice made a huge impression from the second viewers met her. The OG is reportedly under a lot of stress about the possibility that RHONJ won’t return to Bravo.
The show was put on pause in August 2024 after Season 14 ended in a bitter feud. Teresa Giudice’s tense relationship with her sister-in-law Melissa Gorga came to a head that left the family split apart. The network’s recent convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, put the future of the New Jersey installment in further doubt.
Teresa Giudice Distressed Over RHONJ Not Returning
When RHONJ was put on pause last summer, fans and the cast thought it would return by now. Unfortunately, the show has yet to return with nothing seemingly in the works. During this year’s BravoCon, Andy Cohen said he didn’t have an update about a new season.
He said that the network wanted to “get it right” before bringing the show back to the air. It wasn’t the news that fans wanted to hear. It also reportedly upset Teresa Giudice.
Sources spilled to Radar Online that the OG housewife is distressed at the idea of RHONJ not returning at some point. Teresa Giudice is “devastated the show remains on pause,” the insider said.
Furthermore, they claimed that Teresa Giudice and her husband, Luis Ruelas, need the show to get out of debt. She reportedly has $303,889.20 tax lien, while he is over two million in tax debt.
“Teresa and Luis definitely do want it to return for financial reasons,” the source said. The RHONJ star also reportedly misses the spotlight. “She also is a star and loves being on TV, and being off this long on a show she helped make famous and was the star of is definitely a blow to the ego.”
Teresa Giudice was a contestant on Season 4 of Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test alongside her oldest daughter, Gia. Teresa quit the show early on. Gia was one of the season’s winners.
Glimmer Of Hope
Andy Cohen was less than optimistic about the future of RHONJ at BravoCon. However, Teresa Giudice shared a shocking update. She revealed that she had made up with her brother, Joe Gorga, and his wife, Melissa.
However, the insider told Radar Online that the reconciliation doesn’t necessarily mean the show will return soon. The source pointed out that Bravo seemed disinterested in the reunion.
“We’ve watched their drama, their makeups, their falling apart, fist fights between family members, therapists working with them, and more… and, now that the show’s been on a hiatus, a MAJOR thing happens in their life, and there’s not one camera rolling? It kinda reeks of them just not being into the show anymore and Bravo being over it,” the source said.
RHONJ star Dolores Catania returns to Bravo on the upcoming The Real Housewives of Rhode Island spinoff, putting the future of the New Jersey spinoff deeper into question.
Tell us in the comments if you think RHONJ will return at some point.
Jennifer Havener grew up in a small town in Upstate New York. She earned her B.A in Writing & Literature from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. She always knew watching reality TV shows and soap operas, particularly ‘Days of Our Lives’, would come in handy someday. When she’s not writing, she’s playing with her dogs, Lola and Ruger
