The Real Housewives of New Jersey | |
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Genre | Reality television |
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Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 14 |
No. of episodes | 249 (list of episodes) |
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Camera setup | Multiple |
Running time | 41–43 minutes |
Production company | Sirens Media |
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Network | Bravo |
Release | May 12, 2009 – present |
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The Real Housewives of New Jersey, abbreviated RHONJ, is an American reality television series that premiered on May 12, 2009, on Bravo. Developed as the fourth installment of The Real Housewives franchise, it has aired fourteen seasons and focuses on the personal and professional lives of several women residing in the state of New Jersey, primarily in North Jersey.
The cast of the recent fourteenth season consists of Teresa Giudice, Melissa Gorga, Dolores Catania, Margaret Josephs, Jennifer Aydin, Danielle Cabral and Rachel Fuda, with former housewife Jackie Goldschneider and Jennifer Fessler serving as friends of the housewives. Previously featured cast members include original housewives Dina Cantin, Jacqueline Laurita, Caroline Manzo and Danielle Staub; and subsequent housewives Kathy Wakile, Teresa Aprea, Amber Marchese, Nicole Napolitano and Siggy Flicker.
The success of the show has resulted in the spin-offs Manzo'd with Children and Teresa Checks In .
The Real Housewives of New Jersey was announced by Bravo on April 15, 2008. [1] The first season premiered on May 12, 2009, and starred Caroline Manzo, Jacqueline Laurita, Teresa Giudice, Dina Cantin and Danielle Staub with Dolores Catania as a friend of the housewives. For the first time in The Real Housewives franchise, the series followed cast members who are related to one another: sisters Caroline Manzo and Dina Cantin were at the time married to brothers Albert and Tommy Manzo, and Laurita is married to Caroline and Dina's brother, Chris Laurita. [2] Dina and Tommy Manzo would later end up separated. [3] [4] The second season premiered on May 3, 2010, with Dina Manzo departing the series after the seventh episode. [5] Staub left the show after the second season. [6]
The third season premiered on May 16, 2011, with new housewives Melissa Gorga, Teresa Giudice's sister-in-law, and Kathy Wakile, Teresa's cousin. Kathy's sister, Rosie Pierri, appeared as a guest. [7] It delivered the highest rated season premiere in Bravo's history and the highest-rated season premiere in The Real Housewives franchise at the time. [8]
The fourth season premiered on April 22, 2012. [9] This season served as Dolores Catania's final season as a friend until Season 7 where she would become a main cast member. Dina Manzo appeared as a guest during the fourth season. The fifth season premiered on June 2, 2013. [10] Caroline Manzo and Laurita left the show after the fifth season. [11]
The sixth season premiered on July 13, 2014. [12] It featured the return of Dina Manzo as a full-time cast member and new cast members Amber Marchese, Teresa Aprea and Nicole Napolitano. [13] Wakile was demoted to a "friend of the housewives" role, while Laurita also appeared as a guest. [14] [15] [16] Aprea, Cantin and Napolitano left the show, while Marchese was fired after the sixth season. [17] [18]
Laurita returned as a full-time cast member in the seventh season, which premiered on July 10, 2016. [19] The season also featured Dolores Catania and Siggy Flicker as new cast members, Dolores Catania was a friend of the show for the first four seasons and was originally cast for the show in Season 1 but backed out for personal reasons. Kathy Wakile and Rosie Pierri appeared as "friends of the housewives". [20] Aprea and Napolitano also appeared as guests. [21] [22] The season marked the final appearance of Laurita, Wakile and Pierri in the show. [23] [24] Staub returned to the show as a "friend of the housewives" for the eighth season, which premiered on October 4, 2017. It also featured Margaret Josephs as the new cast member. [25] Flicker left the show afterwards. [26]
The ninth season premiered on November 7, 2018, with Jennifer Aydin and Jackie Goldschneider joining the cast and Staub returning as a friend. [27] The tenth season premiered on November 6, 2019. [28] The season marked Staub's final appearance, as she announced her resignation from the show for the second time in January 2020. [29]
Filming for the eleventh season was postponed by Bravo in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [30] The eleventh season premiered on February 17, 2021. [31] The twelfth season premiered on February 1, 2022, with Traci Johnson added as a friend of the housewives. [32]
The thirteenth season premiered on February 7, 2023, with new full-time housewives Danielle Cabral and Rachel Fuda joining the cast, as well as Jennifer Fessler joining as a friend of the housewives, alongside former housewife Jackie Goldschneider. [33]
The fourteenth season premiered on May 5, 2024, with the entire cast from the thirteenth season returning. [34] In June 2024, it was reported that there would not be a traditional reunion for the fourteenth season, making this for the first time in the show’s history. [35]
Cast member | Seasons | |||||||||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | ||
Teresa Giudice | Main | TBA | ||||||||||||||
Jacqueline Laurita | Main | Friend | Main | |||||||||||||
Caroline Manzo | Main | |||||||||||||||
Dina Manzo | Main | Guest | Main | |||||||||||||
Danielle Staub | Main | Friend | ||||||||||||||
Melissa Gorga | Guest | Main | TBA | |||||||||||||
Kathy Wakile | Guest | Main | Friend | |||||||||||||
Teresa Aprea | Main | Guest | ||||||||||||||
Amber Marchese | Main | |||||||||||||||
Nicole Napolitano | Main | Guest | ||||||||||||||
Dolores Catania | Guest | Guest | Main | TBA | ||||||||||||
Siggy Flicker | Main | |||||||||||||||
Margaret Josephs | Main | TBA | ||||||||||||||
Jennifer Aydin | Guest | Main | ||||||||||||||
Jackie Goldschneider | Main | Friend | TBA | |||||||||||||
Danielle Cabral | Main | TBA | ||||||||||||||
Rachel Fuda | Main | TBA | ||||||||||||||
Friends of the housewives | ||||||||||||||||
Kim Granatell | Friend | Guest | ||||||||||||||
Kim DePaola | Guest | Friend | Guest | |||||||||||||
Jennifer Dalton | Friend | |||||||||||||||
Rosie Pierri | Guest | Friend | ||||||||||||||
Traci Johnson | Friend | Guest | ||||||||||||||
Jennifer Fessler | Guest | Friend | TBA |
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | Average Viewers (millions) | ||
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First aired | Last aired | ||||
1 | 10 | May 12, 2009 | July 9, 2009 | 2.25 | |
2 | 18 | May 3, 2010 | September 6, 2010 | 2.74 | |
3 | 21 | May 16, 2011 | October 23, 2011 | 2.66 | |
4 | 24 | April 22, 2012 | October 21, 2012 | 2.66 | |
5 | 22 | June 2, 2013 | October 20, 2013 | 2.29 | |
6 | 19 | July 13, 2014 | November 20, 2014 | 1.86 | |
7 | 18 | July 10, 2016 | November 13, 2016 | 1.54 | |
8 | 16 | October 4, 2017 | January 31, 2018 | 1.24 | |
9 | 18 | November 7, 2018 | March 6, 2019 | 1.22 | |
10 | 19 | November 6, 2019 | March 18, 2020 | 1.18 | |
11 | 15 | February 17, 2021 | May 26, 2021 | 1.05 | |
12 | 16 | February 1, 2022 | May 17, 2022 | 1.04 | |
13 | 19 | February 7, 2023 | June 13, 2023 | 0.93 | |
14 | 14 | May 5, 2024 | August 11, 2024 | 0.73 |
The Real Housewives of New Jersey airs regularly on Bravo in the United States; [36] most episodes are approximately forty-two minutes in length, [37] and are broadcast in standard definition and high definition. [38] Since its premiere, the series has alternated airing on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday evenings and has been frequently shifted between the 8:00, 9:00, and 10:00 PM timeslots. [36]
The series' success has resulted in a development of spin-off series. Caroline Manzo's sons, Albie and Chris, had a web series spin-off alongside their roommate and friend Greg Bennett, Boys to Manzo, which premiered on May 30, 2011. [39] [40] Caroline Manzo moved on from the original show to her own spin-off, Manzo'd with Children, [41] [42] which premiered on October 5, 2014, on Bravo. [43] It featured her daily life with her husband, sons and daughter [44] and lasted for three seasons. [45]
In October 2015, a three episode spin-off, Teresa Checks In, premiered. It followed the life of the Giudice family during Teresa's incarceration, including her nearly daily phone calls from prison, and featured Melissa Gorga and her husband, Joe, and Rosie Pierri. [46] [47]
In December 2018, an after-show featuring season 9's cast was released online through Bravo.com and YouTube. It featured their reactions to the most recent episode and thoughts on the season. [48] An after-show for the tenth season started streaming online on December 11, 2019. [49]
Giudice and Melissa Gorga starred in the first season of the Peacock spin-off, The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip. They traveled to Turks and Caicos alongside several other Housewives cast members from other cities. [50] [51]
Teresa Gets Married, featuring the August 2022 nuptials of Giudice and Luis "Louie" Ruelas, aired on Bravo on May 23, 2023. [52]
Danielle Staub is an American television personality. In May 2009, she came to prominence after being cast in the reality television series The Real Housewives of New Jersey, as a main cast member for two seasons (2009-10), and afterward as a friend for three more seasons (2017-20).
Teresa Giudice is an American television personality best known for being in The Real Housewives of New Jersey, since the show's premiere in 2009. Besides appearing on the show, Giudice wrote multiple New York Times bestseller cookbooks and was featured on Donald Trump's The Celebrity Apprentice 5 (2012).
Caroline Manzo is an American television personality and entrepreneur. She is best known for starring in the reality television series The Real Housewives of New Jersey, and her own spin-off show, Manzo'd with Children.
Claudine J. "Dina" Cantin is an American television personality and entrepreneur. She is most known for appearing on The Real Housewives of New Jersey as an original main cast member, appearing in that capacity from 2009-2010 and 2014, as well as her own party-planning television series Dina's Party.
Melissa Ann Gorga is an American television personality and former stripper. She is a cast member on The Real Housewives of New Jersey, joining the show in its third season in 2011.
Katherina Wakile is an American reality television personality. She starred in the Bravo series The Real Housewives of New Jersey, which features the lives of her and her family members.
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The second season of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, an American reality television series, was broadcast on Bravo. It aired from May 3, 2010 until September 6, 2010, and was primarily filmed in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. Its executive producers are Rebecca Toth Diefenbach, Valerie Haselton, Lucilla D'Agostino, Jim Fraenkel, Omid Kahangi, Caroline Self, Tess Gamboa Meyers and Andy Cohen.
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Jacqueline Elizabeth Laurita is an American television personality and spokeswoman on autism issues known for starring in The Real Housewives of New Jersey.
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