RHONJ : Inside Jennifer & Danielle's Shocking Physical Fight
Originally appeared on E! Online
Things are far from rosy in the Garden State.
A heated confrontation between Jennifer Aydin and Danielle Cabral turned physical during the explosive June 23 episode of The Real Housewives of New Jersey.
What started as an argument over one of Danielle's charity events quickly escalated when Jennifer accused her costar of trying to sabotage her own hairdresser's new business venture.
"The girl who does your hair extensions, Marissa, she asked me to be a hair model for what I thought was a Masterclass," Jennifer alleged during the argument, adding that Danielle told her not to do it because Marissa wasn't going to pay her. "I was turned off that you wanted to make money off somebody that I would think you considered a friend."
The accusation about Danielle's character caused the reality star to explode with anger in the middle of Teresa Giudice's backyard party.
"You f--king piece of s--t motherf--ker. That's what you are!" she screamed at Jennifer. "Don't you f--king dare. My people are my people. I f--king ride with my people."
In a confessional, Jennifer explained that, "That's a behavior trait I would never do to my hair girl."
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However, Danielle was shocked her costar would weaponize their private conversation against her on camera.
"I am stunned that she's trying to switch such an innocent conversation between her and I against me," she admitted in a confessional. "Marissa's my hairdresser. She also does Dolores [Catania]'s hair as well. Marissa had come out with a new hair line, so we were gonna go do this photo shoot for her."
"The phone call had nothing to do with getting paid," Danielle added. "As Jen's friend I wanted to tell her, 'Just an FYI, this is what you're gonna be doing. Your hair girls might be offended by this. You're gonna be promoting someone else's line.' Because I know my hair girls would be offended."
But a furious Danielle continued to hurl insults at Jennifer, yelling, "You're dirty. Everybody was right about you. You're a piece of s--t. I see you, you're a f--king dirtbag."
That's when Jennifer pushed Danielle, to which Danielle retaliated by smashing a plastic cup into Jennifer's face.
The fight was quickly broken up, but their costars were left in shock. And as Danielle exited the event, she unleashed more insults targeted at Jennifer's husband Bill Aydin.
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"Your wife's a b---h," she told him. "Your wife's a dirty f--king dumb b---h. Just so you know, when you go to bed at night, you're sleeping with the f--king devil."
While Jennifer admitted she wasn't hurt by the slap, she did attempt to rationalize getting physical with her costar.
"She was in my face, it happened so fast," Jennifer told her costar in the wake of their ugly fight. "I could have pushed her. Don't come into my personal space. That is an act of aggression."
See how the drama plays out when The Real Housewives of New Jersey airs Sundays at 8 p.m. And keep reading to look back at the most shocking reunion fights in Bravo history.
Teresa vs. the Gorgas, The Real Housewives of New Jersey
After feuding RHONJ's entire 13th season, Teresa Giudice declared she was done with brother Joe Gorga and sister-in-law Melissa Gorga...forever.
Melissa and Teresa exchanged endless jabs and the fighting got so bad at one point, Andy Cohen reprimanded the co-stars. "Stop!" he yelled. "I swear to god, you guys are like f--king kindergarteners. It's crazy, you don't grow!"
The reunion ended with Joe sharing parting words after Teresa made it clear she wanted him out of her life. "You know what the best thing to do is?" he proposed. "Forget about me, I will forget about you. That's it. Do your thing, leave me alone, leave everybody alone, live your f--king lives."
Kathy Hilton vs. Lisa Rinna, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
Kathy Hilton and Lisa Rinna came face to face for the first time since the dramatic fallout of Kathy's alleged Aspen "meltdown" during RHOBH's season 12 reunion in 2022. Though Kathy apologized to sister Kyle Richards for allegedly bad-mouthing her, Kathy and Lisa had yet to settle their bitter feud and the tension was palpable through the TV screen.
Kathy denied all of the name-calling Lisa accused her of—which included insults like "stupid," "useless" and "pieces of s--t."
Kathy and Lisa's heated confrontation hit a climax when Kathy accused Lisa of trying to make her look bad to save her job on the show."You did it on camera because you're contract was coming up and you needed some drama because you fight with everybody," Kathy claimed. "You drove Lisa Vanderpump off the show, what you did to my sister [Kim Richards], you've had problems with everybody. With Camille Grammer, I mean the list can go on and on. And then saying you've been bullied? You are the biggest bully in Hollywood and everyone knows it. You're mean and you don't tell the truth."
Lisa left the series after the showdown.
Kelly vs. Braunwyn, The Real Housewives of Orange County
RHOC's season 15 reunion was heated with many co-stars coming after Braunwyn Windham-Burke. But it was Kelly Dodd's explosive claims that Braunwyn is a "fake alcoholic" and only using her sobriety for a "storyline" that shocked fans and Andy Cohen alike.
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Bunnygate The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
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It all started during RHOBH season seven, when Lisa Rinna bought Kim Richards' newborn grandson a stuffed bunny as a peace offering. Then, when it came time for the reunion, Kim revealed that she couldn't accept the gift, let alone gift it to her grandson because "it didn't feel like it had good energy."
The result? A lone tear falling down Rinna's face before she stormed off set.
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Let's Get Physical, The Real Housewives of Atlanta
Porsha Williams and Kenya Moore have had their fair share of fights on RHOA, but the reunion where things got physical is another level. Kenya pulled out a megaphone and that seemed to be the last straw for Porsha, who then got in Kenya's face and pulled her to the ground by her hair while Andy Cohen shouted, "No, no, now!"
Everyone vs. Michael Darby, The Real Housewives of Potomac
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Travel with us back to a time of innocence, back to 2009 when RHONJ season one reunion aired. Viewers all remember Teresa Giudice's infamous table flip, but what came next was Danielle Staub and Caroline Manzo's intense, tearful standoff over what Danielle "did" to Dina Manzo. What did she do? We've got you covered.
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Briana vs. Brooks, The Real Housewives of Orange County
Ick. Vicki Gunvalson's daughter Briana Culberson went toe-to-toe with Brooks Ayers a number of times at RHOC reunions, but the moment where they got heated over Brooks' message to her husband Ryan where he told her to hit her to get her to "fall in line."
Danielle vs. Teresa, The Real Housewives of New Jersey
Teresa Giudice can have quite the temper on RHONJ. That was evident in the season two reunion where she jumped off the couch and lunged after Danielle Staub. Andy Cohen got in her way and Teresa shoved him. This reunion also gave birth to a very meme'd moment, Danielle saying and then Teresa repeating, "One at a time!" These days the ladies are as thick as thieves.
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Family feuds are nothing new to RHONJ, but they went to the next level with Teresa Giudice and her cousins Rosie Pierri and Kathy Wakile. Teresa and Kathy got into it over fathers. Rosie, backstage, got so heated she started screaming about wanting to rip off Teresa's head. Her shouting didn't go unnoticed and Tre made some very meme'd faces.
The Sisters Richards, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
Kim Richards and Kyle Richards have a complicated relationship, one that viewers have followed on screen for some time. During the season five reunion, which was pretty dramatic for just about everyone, Kyle and Kim got into it yet again, this time over Kim's dog biting Kyle's daughter, which started the feud. The sisters went back and forth the whole reunion, with Kim screaming, "You're horrible! This is why I don't like her!" and Kyle yelling, "You're so f--king mean!" at various points of the reunion.
"Blubber," The Real Housewives of New Jersey
The RHONJ season four reunion was one of the record books in terms of fights. Who can forget Teresa Giudice and Caroline Manzo's split screen action that featured Teresa saying, "Look at yourself, you have three rolls: Blubber, blubber and blubber" to Caroline in a battle over looks.
Stonewall Singer, The Real Housewives of New York City
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"Lie-ann," The Real Housewives of New York City
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Battle of the Texts, The Real Housewives of New York City
Season 10 of RHONY was a bad one for Bethenny Frankel and Carole Radziwill's friendship, and the reunion was even worse.
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Kim vs. NeNe: Round 1, The Real Housewives of Atlanta
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"The Lies!" The Real Housewives of Atlanta
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Season 5, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
Season five of RHOBH had so much juicy drama, so of course the reunion did too. Brandi Glanville sparred with both Lisa Rinna and Lisa Vanderpump. Kim Richards and Lisa R. rehashed all sorts of drama and that was just the tip of the iceberg.
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When Andy Cohen brought up Candiace Dillard Bassett's social media posts about the other RHOP women—namely, Ashley Darby—he went as far as reading one of her particularly nasty tweets aloud, prompting a heated exchange between the two ladies.
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