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"There&amp;#x2019;s an old saying: The family that helps one another through a 41-count federal indictment together, stays together. Or something like that.&amp;#xA0;\r\nAs Real Housewives of New Jersey opens its sixth season, Melissa and Joe Gorga stand in support of Joe&amp;#x2019;s sister, Teresa Giudice, and her husband, Joe, who each face prison time for fraud. In other words, this is no time to re-hash past fights about discarded desserts or who called whom a stripper.\r\n\r\n&amp;#x201C;No matter what has happened between Teresa and I&amp;#x2014;[it&amp;#x2019;s] ridiculous and petty,&amp;#x201D; says Melissa, who calls Teresa to commiserate when she sees news of their troubles on TV. &amp;#x201C;It means nothing right now with all of this.&amp;#x201D;\r\nBut fret not, catfight fans. This is the Real Housewives, so there&amp;#x2019;s always someone ready to throw down. Meet Amber Marchese&amp;#x2014;one of three new women introduced this year&amp;#x2014;who has her claws out from the outset.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\n&amp;#x201C;Melissa and I were friends in our twenties,&amp;#x201D; explains the married breast cancer survivor. &amp;#x201C;We both wanted to be successful. We had just different ways of going about it. So I went the school way. I&amp;#x2019;m a Columbia graduate. . . &amp;#xA0;Melissa wanted to marry money.&amp;#x201D; Not even one episode in, and she&amp;#x2019;s already throwing shade. NeNe Leakes tips her hat to you, Amber.&amp;#xA0;\r\nBalancing out Amber&amp;#x2019;s feisty energy: Teresa&amp;#x2019;s longtime friend, Dina Manzo, who returns after abruptly quitting in season 2. (Conveniently, her estranged sister, Caroline Manzo, and sister-in-law Jacqueline Laurita, are both off the show.) &amp;#x201C;In my life,&amp;#x201D; says the ever-Zen Dina, who briefly lived in a Mongolian yurt while on hiatus from the show, &amp;#x201C;spirituality plays a huge role.&amp;#x201D;&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nSo does her estranged husband, Tommy. He and Dina are still living together&amp;#x2014;and sleeping together!&amp;#x2014;even though they&amp;#x2019;re separated. Says Dina, &amp;#x201C;He has his life, I have mine and we me meet in the bedroom.&amp;#x201D;&amp;#xA0;\r\nRounding out the cast: Amber&amp;#x2019;s friends, fiery twins Teresa Aprea and Nicole Napolitano. To help viewers tell them apart, Teresa&amp;#x2014;pronounced Tuh-RAY-suh, thankyouverymuch&amp;#x2014;helpfully offers that she&amp;#x2019;s the &amp;#x201C;bitchier&amp;#x201D; sister. Like Dina, she has an unconventional relationship. She remarried her ex-husband Rino a few years after they split. (Meanwhile, in a Housewives first, divorcee Nicole bunks at her parents&amp;#x2019; home!)\r\nAll the ladies come together together for the first time when Amber throws a &amp;#x201C;harvest party&amp;#x201D; at her home. (Let us pause and reflect on the amazingly ridiculous trend of themed Housewives parties: solstice parties, white parties, pajama parties, wine-and-painting parties, and, our personal favorite, a hoedown party at the construction site of a new home. No one has a barbecue anymore, huh?)\r\n\r\nAlas, no tables are flipped at the harvest party, but the seeds of drama are sown. Amber immediately confronts Melissa about why their friendship faded. &amp;#x201C;I feel like you just disappeared,&amp;#x201D; Amber tells Melissa. Not about to be guilt-tripped, Melissa fires back, &amp;#x201C;I didn&amp;#x2019;t really hear from you, either.&amp;#x201D; And so the ladies leave it at that. . . for now.\r\nThe episode takes a surprisingly emotional turn back at the Giudices&amp;#x2019; marble-filled mansion, where they pose for a portrait with Joe&amp;#x2019;s entire extended family. &amp;#x201C;Whenever anybody&amp;#x2019;s in trouble. . . this whole group is there in a minute,&amp;#x201D; Joe says in a toast that brings his daughter Gia to tears. &amp;#x201C;I love youse all.&amp;#x201D;&amp;#xA0;\r\nTell Us: Do you feel bad for the Giudices? What do you think of the new cast members?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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