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Caroline Manzo recently she said she wants to come back Real Housewives of New Jersey so she can verbally “Smash the ***” and “slap” her longtime rival, Teresa Giudice. So when we interviewed Caroline’s longtime friend, RHONJ star Dolores Cataniaabout her upcoming appearance on E! Famous beefwe have to find out what she thinks about Caroline potentially returning to the series.
“[Caroline] and I watched that conversation again [about her returning to RHONJ] every now and then, and that’s not what I say, ‘Never say never,'” Dolores said. HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVE, while our latest episode is on Attention Puh-Lease! audio file. “We’ve all learned not to say it – people come and go, right? I think some of the people that have gone will return this year that I have seen. So, you know, I’d love to see it. [But] Also, she wasn’t close to another of my friends – Teresa – so it was more manageable that they weren’t put in the same room while I was there. “
Dolores did not specify whether or not Caroline, with whom she will compete on the September 13 episode of Famous beefwill return RHONJ, but it looks promising that they chat about it often. “I do not [ready for the fight between her and Teresa]. I’m not ready for that…” She may not be, but we sure are! And it seems the only thing holding Caroline back is money.
“Bravo doesn’t want to pay me,” she alleged, speaking to her son, Albieabove an episode of his May 18, 2022 podcast. “So guess what, Bravo? You don’t get this for free. You don’t get free dame, Bravo. I am sure they are paying Teresa an exorbitant amount.”
Caroline, who starred on the show during its first five seasons, previously revealed that Bravo asked her to return to the show before Season 10, but when she was only offered a “friend of” role. to begin, She declined the offer.
“They wanted me to come back to see how I fit in with women — it was an insult,” she said on an episode of the 2019 Albie podcast. “I helped build that show. I am not the cause of that success, I am part of that puzzle. A very, very important puzzle. The point is, you don’t insult me like that. You don’t insult me like that by saying, ‘Let’s see how you do.’ You know how I would do it. You know how I’m going to mix, and you know what I’m going to bring. “
“Pay me what I’m worth, OK?” she continued. “You have an OG here, and I’m going to be arrogant… It’s just a matter of respect! I was one of the first women to build the program. I’m one of those original women they talk about, okay? Don’t come back to me as a newbie and [expect] I will love your bulls because I don’t. You come back to me and give me a fair amount of compensation and a fair place where I feel I belong, OK, then I’ll come back.”
Want more from Dolores and Caroline? Watch their new episode about Famous beefairs September 13 at 10 p.m. on E!
