Caroline Manzo Leaving 'RHONJ' After Season 5 Reunion Episode
After five dramatic seasons on The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Caroline Manzo is reportedly leaving the Bravo reality show.
She will not be returning for season six, multiple sources told Us Weekly. (Manzo has yet to make an official statement on whether or not she’ll be back on the show.)
The season-five finale of RHONJ -- which currently stars Manzo, Giudice, Laurita, Giuidice's sister-in-law Melissa Gorga and cousin Kathy Wakile -- airs on Sunday, Sept. 29.
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Manzo is currently taping the pilot for her own spinoff, Manzo'd With Children. The show will follow her as "ringleader of the crazy circus that is her Italian family." The series will feature husband Albert, grown kids Albie, Chris and Lauren and her sister Fran.
In other RHONJ news, Teresa and Joe Giudice are speaking out about their 39-count indictment fraud charges on a special episode of Watch What Happens Live on Sunday, Sept. 29.
In a preview, host Andy Cohen asked the couple: "Just hearing about [this] I got emotional knowing you -- where is your emotion in this?"
Wiping away tears, Teresa responded: "I can't fall apart Andy, I mean my daughters -- they mean the world to me."
"You go through things in life, I don't know why, I mean I'm asking, 'Why is this happening to me?' Maybe its something my daughters could learn from," she tearfully said.
On July 29, the Giudices were indicted for allegedly conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud, bank and bankruptcy fraud and making false statements on loan applications. Teresa and Joe pleaded not guilty during a court appearance in New Jersey on Aug. 14; their next hearing will be on Oct. 3, with a trial set for Oct. 8.
