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Michaele Salahi is doing a Playboy shoot, TMZ reports, and she's going 'full-frontal, birthday suit naked.' Salahi's rep tells us the shoot will go down later this month -- and Michaele is "very excited" about posing down. We're told Playboy honchos have not yet determined whether or not Salahi will get the cover ... but she would "love it." No doubt Salahi, 44, could use the money she may earn from posing. She and her husband Tareq ... Read More

A New Jersey lawyer for the Dept. of Justice handling the case of Teresa and Joe Giudice in federal bankruptcy court has filed a complaint on Thursday objecting to the couple's request for Chapter 7 protection, claiming they intentionally failed to reveal major assets in their original petition. The court documents that appear to have been filed by Roberta A. DeAngelis have surfaced on a 'Housewife' blog. Sources of income alleged to be missing ... Read More

'Real Housewives of New Jersey' star Caroline Manzo showed off her youthful new look Wednesday night at a party for the opening night of 'My Big Gay Italian Wedding' (below left). As Manzo, a mother of three grown children, said on the 'Housewives' reunion earlier this week, she's recently lost 25 lbs using portion control. Below right is Manzo in 2009. Part two of the explosive reunion airs next Monday. ... Read More

Bankrupt 'Houseives' Teresa Giudice is cashing in by sitting for magazine interviews, and for the latest In Touch cover she opens up about the humiliation of declaring bankruptcy and defends her spending sprees. Meanwhile she's asking for a raise on the show. From the In Touch press release: For Teresa Giudice, it was like living a nightmare. After ten years as the big-spending wife of a successful real estate developer, the Real Housewives of New Jersey ... Read More

With Labor Day and the end of a too hot summer approaching the question everyone, or at least some people between New York and Delaware, are asking is, What does it take to be a real Jersey Girl? MTV's runaway hit show Jersey Shore, which has redefined reality TV (as even more scripted drunkenness and hook-ups) has given us this generation's Gidget in the form of 22-year-old Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi. She, along ... Read More

TMZ has learned "Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Teresa Giudice is "ready to walk away" from the show unless producers cough up "'Jersey Shore' money" ... and fast!!! Sources connected to the show tell us "several of the women are no longer satisfied with their deals" and will not show up to begin shooting Season 3 on September 3rd -- unless they get new contracts worth significantly more moolah. ... Read More

You saw it, the earth-shaking exchange between Danielle Staub and Teresa Giudice on Monday night's 'Real Housewives of New Jersey' reunion special. The F-bomb barrage started with a question from Danielle to Teresa: "Did you acknowledge your nephew? Did you?" Teresa replied, "Yeah, of course I did," but after pausing for a second, she exploded. EXPLODED! "Danielle doesn't intimidate me. I don't care if she stays on the show or not," Teresa tells me in ... Read More

Bethenny Frankel has some advice for college students looking to avoid or drop the Freshman 15, or anyone trying to slim down. She writes on her blog that it is important to choose just one fat in salads and sandwiches and to "pick your battles": If you're craving fries, have them and a low fat salad. If you want the burger, great; then no fries. A salad wouldn't hurt here either. You decide what ... Read More

Danielle Staub is in line for another epic sit-down -- this time the "Real Housewives of New Jersey" star will enter the same room as her ex-husband ... to try and settle a legal war involving accusations of rape, gunplay and dog murder. It's all over a $5 million lawsuit filed by Danielle's ex Kevin Maher -- who claims Staub slandered him when she claimed Kevin once raped her on a bed of broken glass, ... Read More

Danielle Staub has reportedly been fired from 'The Real Housewives of New Jersey,' but she appeared on NYC local news station WPIX on Tuesday morning to talk about her feuds and perform her single. Danielle has hinted that she will have a spinoff project post-Housewives but didn't confirm. "Right now I'm just focusing on now and surviving being chased through country clubs and meeting at another club to have a showdown," she said. "And ... Read More