Bravo is cleaning house.
The network announced Monday that Danielle Staub, the firestarter on "The Real Housewives of New Jersey," would not be returning to the show. Throughout the tumultuous second season, Staub enraged Caroline Manzo, her sister-in-law Jacqueline Laurita and family friend Teresa Giudice, although Staub seemed to make amends at the end of Monday's reunion episode.
"The reunion was Danielle's last appearance on 'The Real Housewives of New Jersey,'" said Andy Cohen, Bravo's senior vice president of original programming and development, who also hosts "The Real Housewives" reunion shows. "We thought the hugs were a great way to end two seasons of bitterness between the women."
It's the latest in a series of "Real Housewives" departures. Sarcastic chef Bethenny Frankel, who starred earlier this year in the spinoff "Bethenny Getting Married?" about her nuptials and pregnancy, told Us Weekly last week that she did not want to return for the New York edition's fourth outing because last season was "scary and painful."
Last month, energetic entrepreneur Lisa Wu Hartwell also was revealed not to be among the Atlanta ladies' third season, premiering Oct. 4. Cohen said it's because she "moved far, far, far outside of Atlanta." NeNe Leakes, Kim Zolciak, Sheree Whitfield and Kandi Burruss will instead be joined by model Cynthia Bailey and lawyer Phaedra Parks.
Lynne Curtain, the spacey mother of two rowdy teenage daughters introduced at the beginning of Orange County's fourth season, posted on Facebook last month that she would not be returning to the show. Cohen wouldn't comment on the most recent cast changes with the Orange County entourage because the sixth season is in production.
