Melissa Gorga joins cast of RHONJ

Bravo did it again by hiring Melissa Gorga as the new edition to the Real Housewives of New Jersey, a recipe for drama. The most recent arrival to the housewife family is Melissa Gorga. She is married to Giuseppe Gorga, Teresa Giudice's sister-in-law. Melissa has three children, two boys and one girl.

Although, this is not one big happy family. Teresa and Melissa have been feuding for quite some time. The comment that Danielle Staub made on the reunion show about a "nephew," was actually referring to Gorga's newborn son. (refer back to earlier post) Teresa believes that Melissa is a gold digger and refuses to come back to the show if Melissa joins.

Teresa and Joe Giudice are currently experiencing some extreme financial problems as they declared bankruptcy. There is no way that Teresa will walk away from the show, she needs the paycheck from Bravo to keep her dirty spending habits alive. Teresa most likely does not want her sister-in-law on the show because she will out do Teresa in every way. Gorda lives in a mansion that is twice the size of Giudices' foreclosed home and also has two nannies that live with them.

Teresa Giudice: Truth about nephew comment

On The Real Housewives of New Jersey reunion show, tensions flared when Danielle Staub made a comment about Teresa Giudice's nephew. Staub asks Giudice, "Did you acknowledge your nephew?" Giudice then starts screaming at Staub by saying "Do not break up my family!" Viewers were confused by the nephew comments made on the reunion show. Whose baby was Danielle referring to? Why did this make Teresa lash out?

It turns out that the baby that Staub was referring to was Teresa Giudice's sister-in-law, Melissa Gorga. Melissa is 31 years old and is married to Teresa's brother. “Melissa’s husband used to have a landscaping business and then he got into real estate. And she used to do his paperwork as his secretary and now she is a housewife,” a Giudice family friend tells RadarOnline.

Behind the cameras there is a giant feud between the sister-in-laws that Danielle Staub was aware of. A family member told RadarOnline

“Teresa and Melissa don’t get along …They don’t speak.” Apparently when Gorga's son was born Giudice did not acknowledge him. Teresa states the opposite in an online comment, “In April, my newest nephew was born off camera. (No, not Jacqueline’s baby; Jacq and I are not related.) And no he’s not sick. He’s perfect and beautiful and we’re blessed to have him in our lives. If you all remember, I was scheduled to do the live Bravo Chat Bubble for a Real Housewives of New York episode the night he was born, and I was at the hospital so long, I was late logging in. So, yes, of course I was at the hospital when he was born!”

Fans have been asking, why does Teresa not like her sister-in-law? There has been speculation that Melissa Gorga slept with Teresa's husband, Joe, and fathered his child. Most likely the dislike is out of jealousy since Gorga lives in a $4 million mansion, twice the size of the Giudices.'