‘The Real Housewives of New Jersey’ returns for its fifth season
Sunday, June 2, 2013 Last updated: Sunday June 2, 2013, 11:12 AM
BY VIRGINIA ROHAN
STAFF WRITER
The Record
Hate means never having to say you’re sorry.
At least that’s true of “The Real Housewives of New Jersey,” which begins its fifth season tonight — without apology and, against all odds, with the entire feuding cast intact
Over the past four seasons, the Bravo show has featured table-flipping, hair-pulling, cursing, sibling feuding, name-calling and brawling — most recently, at a Ridgewood hair salon, during a private event on March 30. That last incident — which led to criminal charges against housewife Jacqueline Laurita, two other cast members and the man they fought with — will presumably become the big blowout episode of Season 5.
Despite all the mayhem, the “RHONJ” stars have never displayed the kind of public contrition — onscreen or off — that traditional actors who misbehave must adopt. Hugh Grant, Mel Gibson, Michael Richards, Alec Baldwin — all seemingly followed carefully crafted crisis-management scripts after their respective misdeeds became public. And after Reese Witherspoon’s recent arrest in Atlanta for disorderly conduct, the actress went on a veritable media mea culpa tour.
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