Reality Check: Andy Cohen clarifies 'RHONJ' comments

Bravo executive Andy Cohen, impresario of the “Real Housewives” franchise, has clarified his comment to a caller to his SiriusXM radio show, in which he had suggested “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” was undergoing a complete overhaul as did the New York City edition.

The caller “had not heard that we are going to re-imagine the show in some way,” Cohen, 56, explained Wednesday on a subsequent episode, following a kerfuffle that his comment caused, “and I'm, like, ‘Yeah, well, we're rebooting it.’ … And she was kind of yammering on about Teresa [Giudice, one of the stars], and I go, ‘Yeah, well, you know what? Who knows? Maybe it'll be all fresh faces.’ ”

That comment “got printed everywhere as though it was something that I have not said on this broadcast 85 times. I'm like, ‘Wait, this is not new news,’ and I was also not definitively saying it's going to be all fresh faces. I was, like, ‘Maybe all fresh faces, maybe not.’”

Meanwhile this season ...

Teresa Giudice is speaking out about the acrimonious rift between herself and her cast mate and sister-in-law, Melissa Gorga — who this year opened the Envy boutique in Huntington, making the store a part of the current 14th season.

“Never again” will the two appear together on-screen, vowed Giudice, 52, on Wednesday’s episode of the satellite-radio network’s “Let’s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa.”

“First of all, to me, family is so sacred. … I'm all about ‘The Godfather’ movie: You never go against the family. I live by that. I stand by that. I'm a loyal person,” she said.

Complicated family dynamics already were swirling when Melissa and her husband Joe Gorga, Giudice’s now-estranged brother, skipped Giudice’s 2022 wedding to Luis Ruelas. Much mutual sniping ensued, and tensions escalated.

“My parents were so upset,” Giudice told Ripa. “They're like, ‘What?’ Me and my brother were best friends. We always got along. We never fought. We were really best friends until this happened. Until the show,” on which Giudice was a founding cast member and Melissa Gorga joined only in season 3.

“It was, like, a little jealousy about that I was on the show and they weren't, and it's, like, ‘This is my thing.’ … You should all be happy for each other and lift each other up, you know?”

Premieres

The tiny dancers and their “Dance Moms” are back in streamer Hulu’s reboot “Dance Moms: A New Era,” streaming early Wednesday, featuring new dance coach Glo Hampton … Also that morning on the streaming service WOW Presents Plus, it’s a third season of Filipino queens on “Drag Race Philippines” … Early Friday on Netflix, the new “Blue Ribbon Baking Championship” is a culinary competition with “all-star” built-in, as co-hosts Jason Biggs and Sandra Lee plus judges Lee, Bryan Ford and Bill Yosses assess 10 champion bakers from state fairs nationwide … and Sunday night on WE, a musical and reality TV family reunites after an untimely death, as sisters Toni, Towanda, Trina and Tamar Braxton and their mother, Evelyn Braxton, return for “The Braxtons,” starting with a commercial-free premiere from 9:30 to 10:13 p.m. Immediately following from 10:13 to 10:44, the new “Wiggin' Out with Tokyo Stylez” follows the celebrity hairstylist who has created custom wigs for the likes of Cardi B and Trina Braxton.

Recaps

“The Bachelorette” eliminated Sam Nejad.