Dolores Catania is ready to welcome any past cast member back to The Real Housewives of New Jersey.
“If we are going to mix this up a little bit or at all, I would take anybody who has been on the show in the past,” Dolores, 53, told Us Weekly exclusively while teaming up with Renuvion. “And I mean anybody.”
The future of RHONJ — especially when it comes to which Housewives are returning — is still up in the air following the season 14 finale earlier this year.
“I’m a realistic pessimist, so I’m just being very Italian and being like, ‘Ah, it’s over. It’s done.’ But I say that every year,” Dolores told Us. “I, every year, thought I was never coming back. That’s just me being, if you want to say humble, if that’s how you want to call it. Or not taking it for granted.”
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Dolores added, “I think everybody feels the same way I do. We know we haven’t heard anything, but we haven’t heard a final no.”
The season 14 finale, which aired via Bravo in August, seemed to draw a line in the sand between the cast as they had a blow-out fight at Rails Steakhouse. The aftermath was a canceled reunion.
Instead, the network opted for the RHONJ stars returning to Rails in two groups and watched the finale episode. Dolores was the only one to travel between the rooms and as the women discussed what they were watching.
“Until everybody hears that final no, everyone’s still expecting to hear we’re coming back,” Dolores also told Us.
Throughout her time on the show — she has been a main RHONJ cast member since season 7 in 2016 — Dolores became known as “Switzerland” because she doesn’t really have issues with anyone. Her season 14 tagline was: “I’m a girl from Paterson, playing Switzerland, dating an Irishman.” But she told Us that it wasn’t her favorite.
“I’m so sick of being called Switzerland anyway because I’m the only person that’s always yelled at to take a side when all the other franchises don’t take sides,” she explained. “We’re a cast. We’re a group of friends. Everyone on New Jersey knows how to fight physically and verbally, no one needs a backup. If a stranger walked up to my friend, they got a problem with me too. But in a friend group, I think we should all just handle our own s—.”
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While she’s waiting for the RHONJ call, Dolores is focusing on herself. The Bravo star recently underwent Renuvion, a minimally invasive body contouring treatment that targets loose skin at the source — which she focused on her legs. (Dolores told Us that she begged RHONJ cameramen not to film her legs.)
She compared theprocedure to being “almost” like Liposuction, which she has gotten “several” times.
“I was under general anesthesia for about an hour. It was simple. I don’t even think you really have to go under anesthesia for it if you chose not to,” Dolores explained. “It’s a small cannula that goes underneath the skin and it targets the tissue that has no collagen.”
The procedure “contracts the loose skin” and “can last up to seven to eight years.”
With reporting by Brody Brown
