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Joe and Melissa Gorga are preparing to celebrate the holidays with Teresa Giudice and Luis Ruelas after ending their feud.
In a couple of recent interviews, the Real Housewives of New Jersey couple addressed their reconciliation with Joe’s sister, spoke of the upcoming 15th season of the Bravo reality series, and admitted that when it came to their years of tension with Teresa, 53, and Luis, 51, the drama went on for far too long.
“It’s going great. It’s going really good. We’re spending Christmas Eve with them,” Joe confirmed to Extra TV at the Z100 Jingle Ball on December 12. “Everything’s good. Thank God.”
“Moving forward, everything’s great,” Melissa added. “Just kind of how it should’ve been, to be honest. I don’t know how it got to where it got, but thank God we’re moving on because life is short. We have a lot of kids. There’s seven kids amongst us … So it’s great.”
As for the new season of RHONJ, Melissa said she hadn’t heard anything “yet.”
“We do know that the show is coming back. We just don’t have any details,” she shared.
In a separate interview on Tamron Hall, Melissa described the end of her and Joe’s family feud with Teresa and Luis as a “Christmas miracle.”
“Thank God. And I just see, honestly, the relief in his eyes, that’s everything to me,” she gushed as Joe admitted that “family’s everything.”
“When you have one sibling … I can’t even believe it went this long. It was too long. Life is too short,” Melissa added.
According to Joe, everyone has been telling him, “You need to take baby steps,” but he’s not.
“We’re not taking baby steps. It just went right back to normal. We all miss each other. They came to my comedy show. It was sweet. It was nice. And the kids are great,” he shared. “[Melissa and Teresa] are like back to normal. They’re great.”
Joe also appreciates the example he and Teresa have set for others.
“Everywhere I go now, people are like, ‘I reached out to my brother,’ ‘I reached out to my father … because of you,’” he revealed.
“If we can do it, anyone can,” Melissa replied.
The Real Housewives of New Jersey has been on hiatus since August 2024.
