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Giudice Family In Talks With Bravo For Breakout Show

By:Radar Staff

Sept. 25 2012, Published 10:00 a.m. ET

By Amber Goodhand - RadarOnline.com News Editor

Teresa Giudice is the one you love to hate or hate to love on The Real Housewives of New Jersey, so brace yourselves, because RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned the Giudice family could be getting their own breakout show on Bravo.

Always feuding with someone — most recently fingered by Jacqueline Laurita for exposing Teresa's sister-in-law Melissa Gorga's alleged stripper past — Teresa and her husband Joe have tackled run-ins with the law, bankruptcy, cheating scandals and plenty of public backlash.

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"All the drama and crazy things that Teresa and Joe have done is what makes them perfect candidates for their own breakout show," a source close to the situation exclusively tells RadarOnline.com.

"They're in talks right now and the show would include the whole Giudice side of the family, which would explain why we saw more of Joe's brother Pete and his wife Sheila in last Housewives season."

However, the source notes one large hiccup that could put a kink in the Giudice's plan; Joe's impending fraud charges that he's facing up to 10 years in prison for.

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Joe will stand trial for fraudulently obtaining a phony driver's license after he was accused of using his brother's identification to get a new license when his own was suspended due to a DUI.

"With Joe's possible jail time they're trying to iron out how this show would work, but they're definitely pushing forward on it," the insider said.

The source says Bravo has exhausted all the drama they can get out of the current New Jersey cast, so their best option is a spin-off with the popular characters.