It looks like Dina Manzo is leaving “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” after Monday night’s season finale.
“Believe it or not, I’m a private person, so this experience is really hard for me,” Manzo told hollywoodlife.com on Monday at her Project Ladybug charity event in Paterson, NJ.
She also said she wouldn’t recommend other families get involved in reality shows.
“I would say no, personally,” she said. “They [her fellow ‘Housewives’] all love it a little bit more than I do.”
Adding further fuel to the fire: her husband Tommy’s anger that “Housewives” cameras covered the Project Ladybug event — and his ongoing refusal to appear on the show.
Public perception of their lives would appear to be one of the issues if Dina leaves — an offshoot of the couple’s previous reality show encounter.
Tommy’s snubbing of “Housewives” reportedly stems from how he and Dina were portrayed on VH1’s “My Big Fat Fabulous Wedding,” which documented their lavish, $1 million wedding a few years back at the family’s Brownstone catering hall.
In the episode, Tommy admits to cheating on Dina before the marriage. “I was not a good boy,” he says.
While Bravo’s teaser promoting the season finale breathlessly says that one “Housewife” leaves “forever,” a show spokeswoman was cagey yesterday when asked the question directly.
“While there is a lot of speculation about who, if anyone, is leaving the cast, viewers will have to tune in Monday night to find out the truth,” she told The Post.
Two Web sites, ninedaves.com and zap2it.com, have both flatly stated that Dina is leaving, pointing to the second-season preview trailer — which featured new footage of other “Housewives” Caroline Manzo, Jacqueline Laurita, Teresa Guidice and Danielle Staub, but not Dina.