At last. After way too much heartache and pandering, Jacqueline Laurita finally sent her daughter, Ashlee Holmes, packing on The Real Housewives of New Jersey tonight. After too much partying and too little doing anything else, Jacqueline and her husband Chris had it and found some relatives in Las Vegas for Ashlee to go live with until she figured out her life.
Only they had to get her on a plane first. Of course, in typical dramatic, annoying Ashlee style (she thinks she's Ke$ha, Albie observed), she couldn't even get on her plane -- mainly because she was looking for some donuts it seems. So it was back home (with a smug attitude I wanted to swipe off of her face) for another round of goodbyes the next day when Chris himself made sure she got on the plane. Good riddance! The question is: Will it help?
Las Vegas doesn't exactly sound like the best place for someone with Ashlee's problems (she admitted to drinking Nyquil with a straw!), though on the positive side, her new, bleach blonde hair and big old pumped-up lips will probably blend pretty well there in Sin City. Ultimately, I just hope it means we don't have to watch her and her whiny little attitude anymore.
The end scene with Jacqueline looking through Ashlee's baby book was heartbreaking, however. "You never know what their future is going to be when they’re little," she said through her tears. No, I guess we don't. After all, do you think Teresa Giudice's mom ever thought Teresa would be the mess she is? Her second "apology" tonight was as delusional as it was awkward. The insight she offered into the world of publishing (that the acknowledgements are a BIG deal) was just priceless, however, don't you think? Yeah, me neither.
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Meanwhile, Melissa Gorga set out to prove she was no gold digger by writing a song for her husband, Joe. "This life that I’m living right now is a dream come true, so what I did is took all of these things that I’m feeling and made a ballad." Joe was moved, and then just wanted to poison her even more.
The biggest question of the night: Why didn't Bravo film (or show us?) the scene in which Joe Giudice grabbed Rich Wakile's cojones and ended up bloodied and bruised? That sounds like must-see TV to me.
Do you think Jacqueline was right to kick Ashlee out? Do you think it will help? What did you think of Teresa's apology?
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Las Vegas as a whole is not the Vegas strip, that is very stereotypical. If anything, maybe she'll get knocked off her pedestal
I think her family is just desperate to get her away from bad friends and from disrupting the rest of the family. They probably don't have family anywhere else other than Vegas and it was a last resort.
I think they sould send her to one of those farms like on Dr, Phil. He could straighten out her smug little ass! These people are all ridiculous. Remember when her dad bought the car. Hadnt she just been arrested? They havent done a very good job of reeling her in. No Vegas is not the answer. Can you imagine what was going through her mind "Vegas...COOL" More partying than usual! Sure they have other places they can send her...with their money? They just want to be away from her. Get her some real help will ya???
Yea send her to Vegas, good idea, being sarcastic by the way. Ashlee is the way she is becuase her mommy raised her that way. That girl is going to have some real big problems if she doesn't get her crap together now. The best thing mommy could do is send her to some small town with nothing to do but think about what she wants out of life.
Yeah, where's the fight? Wouldn't that be prime RHW's material?? Very disappointed.
Jacqueline did the right thing!
She definitely did the right thing!I used to cringe while watching Jacqueline and her daughter because Ashley reminded me a lot of my daughter.So mouthy,dramatic,behind in school,and spoiled.My daughter wasn't partying yet but was definitely headed there.I tried everything for years,even taking her cellphone away from the end of 9th grade til the middle of 12th grade.Nothing worked and she kept getting worse.A week before her 18 b-day I sat her down and told her she can start acting respectful,have a nice b-day, and stay or she can stay the same,get to take just one suitcase and get out.She chose to stay and even worked hard and graduated early and got a job.Her nasty mouth does come back from time to time and I quickly remind her that she's 18 and doesn't have to live here and she shuts up.I will however disagree with sending her to Vegas.She might get worse.I luckily have an aunt in Frasier Park in the middle of nowhere as my place to send her.
She might live in a suburb but the Vegas strip is an easily accessible 24/7 and cheap party place.She's also almost 21.My dad moved my brother and 2 sisters to Vegas when they were in their teens.They live in a suburb.My brother partied his ass off and fell asleep at red lights several times,my sister became a crackhead,and my youngest sister seems to be the "sensible one".She gets paid to show up at clubs with her equally cute friends and party and shes only totalled one car so far.Moving an irresponsible teen to Vegas is like daring them to party even more.