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Danielle Staub is getting some help.
The former Real Housewives of New Jersey troublemaker tells People that the fallout from her last stripping appearance prompted her to seek treatment for issues that have been plaguing her for years.
When MTV’s The Real World debuted almost 20 years ago, perhaps no-one could have predicted that the reality series would usher in an entirely new species of celebrity. What began quietly in the ’90s and exploded in the Noughties – with “celebutantes” like Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie – is now the norm. American television has spawned a seemingly endless crop of “celebrities” with little discernible talent, and only the most tenuous claims to fame. and if the tabloids are any indication, we can’t seem to get enough. Meet the Famous-For-Nothing Generation.
"The Housewives of Orange County," we know, converse mainly by holding glittering iPhones braced in their palms, as if shouting into the crown jewels. "Atlanta" and "New York" maintain a strictly oral tradition: third-party gossip is hurled back at the accuser publicly, preferably at high enough volume to overcome the fact that everyone’s at a gala to benefit the needy, or somebody else’s wedding. (Poor "Miami" and "D.C." — they would have launched a tradition if anyone had been listening.)
But despite their “dems” and “dats,” New Jersey is increasingly bound to the written word, from the aforementioned "Cop without a Badge" incident — which cemented Staub, in the other housewives’ eyes, as a cut-rate criminal — to that departed lady’s Twitter missteps, as when she agreed with an avid follower that Jacqueline’s daughter Ashley probably would be better off dead, to Jacqueline’s avowal that even though the other housewives were spurning Staub, she wouldn’t promise not to text her from time to time.
Former Real Housewives of new Jersey’s Danielle Staub is trying to use her reality television fame to brand herself.
Although she’s not on the new season of the show, she’s also apparently busy with a few other projects – a book, a t-shirt and jewelry line… and more, ahem… (see below).