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'Jerseylicious': Season Recap Just Means More Fights

Cast sits down for a retrospective on season three.

Season three is over, and the cast of “Jerseylicious” came together for a sit-down with host Vivica A. Fox that aired Sunday to discuss the trials and tribulations of the last 20 episodes—and maybe to fight just a little bit more.

Besides a look back at styles over the past three seasons, and pre-taped comments from fans about the hottest guy on the show, the episode focused primarily on two things—the possibility that Gatsby Salon owner Gayle Giacomo would sell the business, and the constant bickering between hairstylist Tracy DiMarco and makeup artist Olivia Blois Sharpe.

Let’s start with Giacomo and her flip-flopping constant mind-changing about whether or not to broaden the business with salon owner Anthony Lombardi. First, Giacomo admitted that global domination is hard.

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“I don’t feel global domination is something we can do in six months to a year,” she said. “I am getting started on a couple of things, and I feel that that’s where I will be in the next year.”

But global domination apparently did not include going through with several business partnership she initially arranged with Lombardi, including one for a barber shop and another for a kids salon.

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But Giacomo said she didn’t believe she was stringing Lombardi along—although the shock on his face when he heard that may imply otherwise.

“I had no intentions of stringing him along, I felt he was part of my family,” she said. “Everything we started, it happened too quickly.”

Lombardi, for his part, said he believed none of the ideas should have gone as far as they did if Giacomo was just going to back out.

And Giacomo said she really thinks these business deals through, and knows that making an investment risks a lot of money for herself and her family.

What about making an investment in stopping the constant bickering at the Gatsby? Or is that just making an investment in the reality show?

Anyway, the conversation then shifted to the possible sale of the salon, and how far Giacomo let that go, despite the fact that she insisted she was never intending on selling the salon at all. She said she did not feel she was leaving her employees hanging because she told them about the offer and that she was not going to sell.

But then why did the potential buyers go through interviews of all the employees?

And Cathy Giove, mother of intern Fillipo, got in on the fun as they showed clips of Giacomo’s employees talking to her about working at Lombardi’s salon, of which she was going to be a partner.

Ah, the drama.

Even Christy Pereira, Giacomo’s daughter and manager of the salon, got in her two cents on this development.

“We were just letting her hear Warren out, and that’s what we told the employees,” she said. “We would never have thought about selling.”

Somewhere there had been a miscommunication—if you can call it that. Maybe if everyone would stop talking over each other, people could get a word in edgewise.

Or maybe their ears are just ringing from all the fighting.

And speaking of fighting, part one of the recap ended with some, as DiMarco and Sharpe aired out their differences one more time by talking about their fights over a man [Sharpe’s current boyfriend, and DiMarco’s ex, Mike to be specific, who said his relationship with Sharpe is going very well and they do love each other]—and dissolved into yet another fight about respect.

Sharpe said she once had respect for DiMarco until one day when an exchange of words about Sharpe needing the love of her fans because she didn’t have it from her family changed all that.

That’s harsh—and was apparently cut out of the episode that actually aired.

Anyway, from there Sharpe said, she lost respect for DiMarco.

The conversation [well, fight really] devolved from there into talk about who Tweeted what and who talked smack about who on Facebook … a sad commentary on the use of social networking in the 21st century.

But don’t fear “Jerseylicious” fans, the fun does not stop there.

The third season reunion and recap will continue next Sunday, with what appears to be a look back at the high-heeled kick discussed ‘round the world.

The “Jerseylicious; Wild and Untamed” part two episode will air at 7 p.m. Oct. 30 on the Style network.


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