Back in March, Bravo announced The Real Housewives of New Jersey is finally returning after two years off the air. Dolores Catania is eager to return, though she’s one of only three returning cast members. OG Teresa Giudice, Melissa Gorga and Dolores will welcome a new group of women to the show.
“We’re back,” Dolo said at the March 30 premiere of Bravo’s newest franchise, The Real Housewives of Rhode Island. “I will miss the girls that aren’t coming back. I’m from New Jersey. We don’t like change, right?”
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Though she misses the rest of the cast, “I’m embracing everybody,” she told People. “I’m looking forward to starting again. It becomes a part of your life, so I’m ready to go back. I miss it.”
Bravo announced the return of the Jersey girls on March 24. Filming is set to begin this spring. The long pause on the show was due to some of the cast members inability to get along.
Nobody wants to watch women constantly fighting, so the show was put on ice until the dust settled. But since then, two of the show’s most combatant cast members, Teresa and Melissa, have allegedly made peace with each other.
Just hours before the relaunch was announced, Margaret Josephs shared that she would not be returning to the show. However, “This will not be the last you guys see of me on television,” she hinted. “That’s not a threat, it’s a promise.”
Executive producer Andy Cohen has long expressed his desire to make changes to the show ahead of Season 15. “We’re gonna figure something out,” he said when a fan suggested bringing in new faces. “We are all on the same page about that.”
For her part, Dolo always hoped the show would return, but was “afraid” to ask Andy about it. “He looks pissed off that people are asking him, so I’m definitely not gonna ask,” she joked at BravoCon 2025.
The Real Housewives of New Jersey is currently streaming on Peacock.
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