Dina Manzo Warns Other 'Housewives' Ready To Quit

Ex "Real Housewife" of New Jersey, Dina Manzo, told me backstage at "New York Live" that other ladies currently on "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" are not having fun anymore and might follow Manzo’s precedent and say goodbye to the show.

“Well it didn’t feel good anymore,” Manzo told host Sara Gore and me, while promoting her new HGTV reality show "Dina’s Party." “It wasn’t fun and I woke up one morning and [thought] 'what am I doing? I don’t like doing this. I don’t have to do this.' And that’s where that fine line comes. You can leave. I wouldn’t put my daughter on anymore [during] season 2, my husband never wanted to be on. So you have that choice. I don’t blame Bravo. I don’t blame production 'cause at any time you, you do sign a contract, but you can play chess. Say, okay fine come on over and film me washing my dishes.”

And although the current cast was rushed back into filming another season before this one, which captures Teresa Giudice's financial disaster, has even finished airing, Manzo tells me it might be the last for more than one of the housewives. She also confessed that, in her opinion, Bravo was too quick to air "The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills" after the suicide of Russell Armstrong.

“I really thought it was going to [be] postponed a bit ... People forget that it’s really our lives it's not just a scripted show,” Manzo said. “So it’s a very hard thing for the audience to remember for that second. This really happened in someone’s life ... So, I thought they would wait a little bit longer but my god, what a situation.”

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Comments

[Chirper Lady]

11:17 PM on 09/18/2011

@kissmechuck - Agree. What i find most annoying is that the entire Manzo family and GREG, who were supposed to be friends to Teresa are constantly making snide comments. Not only to her back but in her face. Moreover, where does Greg get off w/his blantant disregard for Teresa and her feelings. When did he become a housewife and why are his opinions so important.. What happened to Caroline to make her behave so rudely to Tereasa. Tereasa seems to have a lot of balls in the air, however she is not without fault. Her constant catty comments and overreactions to EVERYTHING are exhusting. I can not help but to say I really hoe that the New Jersey Franchise either get cancelled or that next season there is an entirely new cast. You can not have one w/o the other so if a few go... I would like to see them all gone.

[glers]

03:08 PM on 09/15/2011

who is she? and what does she do?

[Tom in FTL]

11:34 AM on 09/15/2011

Wow! These women want attention. They want people to notice them. Then when they get that attention and the camaras are prying a little too much. They start crying about their lives. Please spare me..

[chrissf4529]

10:28 AM on 09/15/2011

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, whiney, boo hoo. No loss, except to their respective walletts. Lets all talk about " Biting the hand that feeds them".

[mopsy1]

09:59 AM on 09/15/2011

whatever shall we do?

[dmm1047]

08:50 AM on 09/15/2011

Good, bye!

[Ted Cantu]

06:30 PM on 09/14/2011

You women want to quit .. QUIT !! YOu dont enjoy it... We dont enjoy it. I dont enjoy watching this show. I DEFINATELY dont want to see any of them pop up in Playboy or another reality show. Quit. Better yet, I wont bother watching it. Happy ratings.

[Morrison Thompson]

10:46 AM on 09/14/2011

Are any of these women actually housewives?

[vivemente]

05:17 PM on 09/14/2011

Yes

[John Di Saia]

09:47 AM on 09/14/2011

Sounds like it is time to talk money. :)

[rockinroll]

09:11 AM on 09/14/2011

She wouldn't have her HGTV Show if not for Houswives.

[FLDeziner]

09:05 AM on 09/14/2011

If you're one of those who can't bear to watch the real NJ housewives, I'd recommend reading Jay Mohr's blog about each episode. The blog is funnier than the show.

[maybesomeday]

07:10 AM on 09/14/2011

I have watched these shows over the years and it was before anyone committed suicide that I made the decision to stop watching. I think it became oh so clear to me when I was watching the Orange County women and the awful, and I mean awful, mean spirited Tamara acting like an idiot. That's when I baled out on the sickness these women provide.
I'm from New Jersey and as other Jersey girls have already written here this is not how New Jersey women conduct themselves, at least not in my world. All the Jersey shows are exaggerated to the mob theme and it's ashame that, that lingering underbelly of what New Jersey is all about still lingers.
There's a large population of Italians in this region because Ellis Island is where they landed and they stayed here. Without a doubt we have some of the best food, the best stores, the best of everything, almost to the point of being spoiled with too much.
But we aren't catty women willing to scratch out the eyes of every other woman we meet. But don't mess with our families that's all......and for the rest we live in peace.

[Pixiesnix]

03:57 AM on 09/14/2011

If I were Kim Richards, I'd quit that show post haste. She was not ready to deal with all that.

[FLDeziner]

09:00 AM on 09/14/2011

You're right about Kim. She'll end up in Celebrity Rehab before they're through with her.

Watched her for only the 2nd time the other night, and I'd swear she's bipolar. Those mood swings and comments she makes are completely bizarre.

[rowdiman]

07:54 PM on 09/13/2011

I always thought she was too rational and low-key for that bunch.

[electros]

05:26 PM on 09/13/2011

Lets see, a reality show where all the people are set up together and the production company pays them to travel and be together at all types of functions so they can then film their fake fights and their basically wanna be have money lifestyles!

Kind of like Senior vs Junior building goofy theme motorycles for blue color companies-who cares if they can build a chopper with a company name engraved on the chrome BFD!