Life & Style magazine is reporting today that controversial castmember Danielle Staub has been fired from the Bravo reality TV series The Real Housewives of New Jersey. Citing an “insider”, Life & Style claims that Staub as not been asked to return to the show for the 3rd season … and that she was “shocked” to learn she had been canned. Here are the deets as reported by L&S mag:

Life & Style has exclusively learned that controversial Jersey girl Danielle Staub has not been asked to return for season three of the hit Bravo show The Real Housewives of New Jersey. “Danielle was told that she would not be returning for a third season,” an insider reveals to Life & Style. In fact, Danielle’s finding out she was fired “came as a complete shock, and she thought she was definitely going to return to the successful Bravo series,” the insider continues. Danielle is not only known for her vicious catfights on-screen but also for her sex tape scandal, prostitution allegations, link to drugs and legal battles with other cast mates. The insider reveals that Danielle is currently trying to generate interest in a spin-off reality series about her life. Danielle told Life & Style at her birthday party on Aug. 10 in NYC, “I don’t know if there are talks right now about a third season of the show, but I’m more excited about talks of my spin-off than anything else.” A rep for the Bravo network tells Life & Style, “Bravo does not comment on casting of upcoming seasons of Housewives while current seasons are still airing.” Danielle’s booking agent had “no comment” on Danielle’s status on the show.

On the one hand, I can see how this report might be true … but it kinda doesn’t make any sense to get rid of Danielle … mainly because she is the ONLY point of contention on the entire show. If Danielle isn’t on the show, what the hell are the other BFF housewives gonna do? All of the other housewives are related, so there’ll be no drama there. It sounds like if Danielle is out then new housewives will be introduced … and then fake drama will have to be stirred up to keep things interesting. Like it or not, I think Danielle is a very important part of the show … without her, The Real Housewives of New Jersey isn’t worth watching. We shall see if Danielle has truly been fired but if so, I think it’d be a huge mistake on Bravo‘s part.

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