‘RHONJ’ Recap: Teresa & Melissa Talk ‘Family, Family, Family’ at Danielle’s Mozzarella Cooking Party

The February 14th episode The Real Housewives of New Jersey started on a light note with theresa leads Take your wedding planning to the next level and have your invitations delivered to the door. But it also sparked an awkward conversation about wedding seating arrangements, which ended in a fight between Teresa and Melissa throat about the seating arrangement in Teresa’s house bridal party — and yes, they’ve already fought about it during their season 12 reunion. But before we get to that, we need to talk about Teresa and Melissa’s fight in Los Angeles during the 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards.

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Teresa and Melissa were invited to present an award together, then they each flew to Los Angeles with their loved ones: Luis Ruelas AND Jose Gorga — but since Melissa recently caught Luis calling her “insecure,” things have been pretty weird and “embarrassing,” according to her. However, when Teresa was asked about their time together in California, she told a few women that she and Melissa had a great time together. Clearly, one of them was lying.

Either way, it was at Danielle Cabral’s mozzarella party that Teresa said it, and it was before Melissa arrived at the event. But when they were all together, things got worse. First, Margherita pizza Jose faced jennifer aydin to talk to her former best friend and “dig up” information about her. AS, pains Catania she got drawn into the fight and because she and Jennifer were already fighting, the fight got even worse and nothing was really resolved.

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Then Teresa pushed Jennifer away and tried to calm her down. Jennifer said she couldn’t believe she would have to sit next to these ladies at Teresa’s wedding, and it made Teresa wonder about the general seating arrangement. She then approached the group and asked the women how they felt about the lack of seating at the wedding. She thought it would be fun to seat everyone where they wanted, and Margaret said it would be a good idea, since the last time there was a seating arrangement, things got left out. She was obviously referring to Teresa’s bachelorette party, where Melissa was allegedly pushed against another table rhonj alum dyne beef and Luis’s family landed privileged places with Teresa.

This was a topic they discussed at their reunion last season, but after Teresa once again said that Melissa had decided not to sit next to her, all hell broke loose. Melissa said she was given her seat and she never chose to sit at the second table. Teresa said that wasn’t true and that Melissa should have sat next to her at all times, so Melissa called her a liar. Teresa then swore by her dead parents and her living children, insisting that she was telling the truth. “Why should I lie?” Teresa asked.

Then the argument escalated and they ended up fighting because Melissa and Joe weren’t invited to the wedding party. Teresa said it was because they didn’t defend her when Margaret spread rumors about Luis, but Melissa said so He did try turning it off. However, Teresa continued to blame Melissa because “family is everything” to her, and she was more hurt that Melissa didn’t interrupt the conversation than Margaret was for starting it. Melissa couldn’t believe her ears, so she told Teresa to stop talking about how much she values ​​”family” because that’s not true and never was.

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