'Real Housewives' Table-Flipping Finale Staged?

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The explosive "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" season finale aired to ratings gold on Bravo -- but was it all staged for the cameras?

 

It sure wasn't, a rep for the network tells "The Insider": "Bravo does not manufacture any of the events you see in any of the 'Housewives' series. What you saw in the NJ finale was 100 percent real. Tune in tonight at 9pm to see an extended version of the dinner and better look at how it all went down."

In the finale, which brought in over 4.6 million viewers, the housewives got together for a celebratory dinner, during which housewife Danielle Staub publicly accused Dina Manzo of maliciously revealing Staub's alleged criminal past, which Dina seemed to deny on camera, with her sister Caroline Manzo taking the fall instead.

The dinner showdown between the luxe ladies ended with housewife Teresa Giudice flipping a dinner table over during a confrontation with Staub. Catch the extended director's cut of the ladies' last supper, airing Thursday night at 9 p.m. on Bravo.

Published 6/18/09 by the Insider

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  • How did Danielle get the book into the restaurant, it couldn't fit in her bag and it wasn't visible until she out it in the table??????
    Anonymous 10/17/09 Reply
  • ??? Sentence structure, please...
    Anonymous 6/20/09 Reply
  • Watch the finale...see how people move, where they end up in each shot, how the camera is positioned between the adults and the kids table, and how they're right there to capture Danielle producing the book and setting it on the table. Setting up...
    Anonymous 6/20/09 Reply
  • Wow.... Maybe U don’t know, some guys are having fun with those sexy models on the interesting club ____.com___ , whether U are a fan or not, just have a try. So much fun there!
    Anonymous 6/18/09 Reply
  • danielle she is the only one that real on the show and that ex boyfriend of her isn't a man a real man does'nt talk or show anything about what he did in bedroom with her pepsi nyc ps and what happen in the past stay in the past we lov you danielle
    pepsi 6/18/09 Reply
    • danielle is trash who shares THE sorted sex life IMPRESSIONABLE teenage daughters NO CLASS WHAT SO EVER..Engaged 19 times thats so fresh yeah HELLOOOOO
      KenieK 6/19/09
  • I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT OH WAIT A MINUTE I HAVE LIVED IT. BEING ITALIAN I HAVE SEEN WORST AT DINNER PARTIES. VINNIE
    VinnieM2 6/18/09 Reply
  • ...................
    NeverLetGo 6/18/09 Reply
  • It looked very staged to me. A bit over the top.
    pebbleroc 6/18/09 Reply