Virginia Sherwood/BRAVOOne member of the Real Housewives of New Jersey crew is refusing to be filmed.
Dina Manzo says her husband Tommy has had enough of being on television after VH1 featured their million-dollar wedding on an episode of My Big Fat Fabulous Wedding.
"I'll be honest with you. We did the wedding show, and he just said, 'I did that already,' " Dina tells me. "He said, 'I work so much, we spend so little time together so the last thing I want is cameras in our faces.' "
Aw, who needs him? Dina and the other Housewives provide enough drama as it is...
While Dina may boast on camera that she's a "bitch," she was surprisingly soft-spoken and warm when we spoke earlier today. "You know, you are put in certain situations during filming," Dina explained. "And I guess I was referring to a certain incident, and they have to use that as my catchphrase."
That certain situation is the much talked-about argument highlighted in Bravo's endless loop of Housewives promos that ends with a table being flipped. "You can't really explain what happened in a couple of sentences," Dina said of the cuss-filled showdown. "It really plays out throughout the entire show."
In other words, Dina ain't spillin' spoilers. She won't even say what she thinks about villainess Danielle Staub. "I guess that's something you're going to have to watch for," Dina teased.
So far, Dina, an interior designer who spends most of her time working on her children's cancer charity Project Ladybug, said she only has one regret about signing up for Bravo's latest Housewives installment. In tonight's premiere episode, she and daughter Lexi are shown playing tennis.
"The only problem I have...is the fact that I said that I was 'sweating my balls off,' " she said. "I grew up with six brothers, and it is just something I always say, like 'It's hot as balls in here.' I really shouldn't say that, especially not to my 12-year-old daughter."
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