It’s day number two at the Jersey Shore and Jen Fessler is in the hot seat for talking to Teresa Giudice. Jen tells Rachel and John Fuda, and Danielle and Nate Cabral that Teresa asked her about her saying the plan was not executed at last year’s reunion.
“It’s funny … even like the night before, I have not had any beef with Louie or Teresa,” Jen tells the group. Rachel doesn’t look convinced.
“Not so long ago, Jen was saying that she didn’t even want to be in the same room as Louie and Teresa,” Rachel says in a confessional. “So I’m a little confused how we got from there to sitting together and laughing for hours at a time.”
“I think Jen Fessler is stupid for even giving Teresa the time of day to defend herself and that irritates the living sh*t out of me.”
Melissa Gorga vs. Jennifer Aydin
At Jennifer Aydin’s house, she and Dolores Catania talk about Danielle’s party the night before over her Turkish breakfast. Jennifer has no idea why Melissa Gorga doesn’t want anything to do with her. Maybe it’s because she’s BFF with Teresa?
Jennifer complains about being the one to go up to Melissa after every argument and being met with stony silence. ‘I’m not a chump here,” she tells Dolores.
Meanwhile, Melissa tells Margaret Josephs at her house, “I tried genuinely with her last year. I was being authentic and really trying to move forward with her and trying to separate her from the family situation, right?”
“Even though I do feel that sometimes she instigates it, was it necessary for her to say to Danielle, ‘Hey, this is what I heard about Melissa?'” she continues.
Apparently, Melissa is still pissed about the cheating rumor Jennifer spread about her last season about her making out with a guy friend in the back seat of a car. How very New Jersey.
Jennifer is mad because the cheating rumor actually came from Margaret, or so she claims.
“What I see alluding from her and Joe, they’ve come to a point in their life where they think their sh*t don’t stink and they think they don’t need to give you anything because they’re f*cking great,” she rants to Dolores.
Margaret suggests to Melissa that she invite the Aydins to Joe Gorga’s birthday party. When Joe calls Bill Aydin, however, it’s clear it’s not happening because of the tension between the wives.
“I don’t really believe he wants us at his party. I believe he’s just trying to like, you know, put a band-aid on a wound,” Jennifer says.
Teresa Giudice tries to defend her John Fuda comment
Teresa is trying to be all “Love, love, love” over Gabriella going to the University of Michigan. Unfortunately, the whole family is a crying mess.
She and Luis Ruelas talk about Danielle’s party where she accused John of dealing drugs.
“I have no time for like, a loser like that honestly,” Luis says. Teresa says that John is upset that she called him the “biggest drug dealer of Bergen County now.” She tells Louis, “I’m like, I would never say that.” Apparently, she meant he was the biggest drug dealer in Bergen County back in the day. So much better.
“I’m like first of all, if you hear something you ask somebody like, ‘Is this true? Did this really happen?’ When you’re a father, a husband, and you’re a leader of a family, that’s what you do. You don’t start causing a commotion and a scene and bring a manila envelope, you know, somewhere and say, ‘Oh, you better admit what you did,'” Teresa says.
“I had a second to look at him last night and he is one ugly motherf*cker,” Luis responds. Teresa laughs and she and Luis start making out.
Joe Gorga has his birthday party
It’s Joe’s birthday and Melissa is trying to squeeze in a day party at the Jersey Shore. She’s made an Italian-themed with breadsticks and mozzarella cheese decor.
Everyone’s having fun and then the Househusbands start talking about drama. “I’m not judging you. I’m not saying you’re wrong. I’m not disputing that for a second,” Paul Connell tells John.
“There’s a lot of rumors that get shot into the air the day before we’re supposed to hang out,” John says. “Hang on bro, did you really use a double-headed dildo,” Franks asks him and the guys all laugh.
Rachel isn’t comfortable being at the party. “This is not a safe environment,” she tells Margaret, who agrees that it’s not.
“Are you annoyed with her?” Margaret asks, referring to Jen. “The only reason I’m annoyed with her is because it’s not her fight to fight,” Rachel says.
In a confessional, Rachel explains that she’s disappointed because she let Jen into her life who is in turn letting Teresa into her life, when she has said sh*t about John.
Margaret agrees and tells Rachel, “Let her have a drink and then we’ll sit and talk.”
The way the guys resolve their issues is to take a shot out of a blow-up doll’s butt, which is exactly what they do.
Jen Fessler defends talking to Teresa Giudice
If Jen thought she was going to keke with Teresa and get away with it, she had another think coming. Margaret calls her out at Joe’s birthday party and does an impression of Teresa.
Jen explains that Teresa wanted to talk to her about the whole “Real Housewives of New Jersey” Season 13 reunion debacle. “You guys all got together and you had a plan to take down Louie,” Jen tells Margaret and Rachel. “Louie did his own demise,” Margaret argues. “Which is what I said to her,” Jen says.
Margaret and Rachel tell Jen that she owes Teresa no explanation. Margaret calls Jen a “wuss” in a confessional and thinks she just spews nonsense when confronted.
Jackie Goldschneider comes over and questions why Marg is getting so heated about Luis. “Jackie and Jen Fessler are totally missing the point. I’m not asking Jen Fessler to like, you know, get into a knife fight with Teresa. I’m just saying, it’s like, don’t have your head up her ass. That’s a totally different thing,” Margaret tells the cameras.
Jen tells Margaret that she shouldn’t expect her to go up to Luis and bash him. “I ain’t your soldier,” she says.
Rachel explains to Jen that she values their friendship but at the same time, it’s hard to be friends with someone that’s trying to hurt her family.
“I would never tell you who you can and cannot be friends with but it hurts,” Rachel cries and then Jen leaves in a huff.
