![]() ![]() It’s not such a bad business strategy, of course, to ally with convicted felons. “I was like ‘Ewwwww, you’re a convicted felon!’” (She hasn’t returned for Season 5.) “When she got sentenced, I called her up,” Natalie recalls. Alicia DiMichele, a Philly boutique owner, was sentenced to four years of probation for an embezzlement charge. ![]() Renee Graziano, sister to show-runner Jennifer and an incorrigible shit-stirrer, has a mobster ex-husband who wound up ratting out her mobster father (while Season 2 was filming). Big Ang, a veteran of three breast augmentations who sounds like a throat cancer patient on an anti-smoking PSA, is the niece of former Genovese crime family captain Salvatore “Sally Dogs” Lombardi. But the feuds in Mob Wives are also dog whistles, little reminders that each of these women is connected to at least one man, dead or alive, who has led a life consumed by violence and criminality. Lady feuds aren’t particular to Mob Wives. It should be noted, however, that in her heart Natalie would like everybody to “get along,” but when she gets “attacked” or “taken advantage of,” that’s “when the beast comes out.”Ī word on feuds, before London gets back from his Starbucks run and I learn about Natalie’s forthcoming line of handbags. It’s not worth spelling out the terms of the current feud(s), as feuds are the lifeblood of Mob Wives and by the time this article is published, the feud(s) in question may have been rendered obsolete by fresher and more scandalous feuds. ![]() Lately, the ladies have been ganging up on Natalie, who, as a younger, prettier version of themselves - and I may have talked myself into this hypothesis to justify what is turning into a not-unsympathetic portrait - helplessly triggers their enmity. Or as Natalie puts it, “It’s basically a bunch of women’s lives intertwining, and this shit just brews.” There’s no real plot on the show, so drama is generated when producers emphasize somebody’s flagrant violation of loyalty/honor as it relates to friendship/family. “My dad comes over: ‘What the hell’s going on this season? Everyone’s attacking you! Why are you calling people rats?’” she says. Then she points out that Philly rapper Meek Mill is probably more famous than she is.īetraying more fame-rookie jitters, the 31-year-old is also nervous that the current season of Mob Wives, her second, has cast her in an unflattering light. When I tell this to Natalie, she gets excited and makes a note to go buy a copy. I won’t stoop to listing her precise number of Instagram followers, etc., but I will say that a recent issue of US Weekly featured her as Pennsylvania’s lone representative on a Reality TV Star map. This is hard to quantify, but thanks to the show, Natalie is now likely one of the most famous personages living in Philadelphia. One of them is now on federal probation, and the other one is Natalie Guercio. ![]() (If this preposterous concept leads you to reason that the program is a sham, a) I will get to this question in a few paragraphs and b) omertà isn’t what it used to be.) Last season the producers for some reason stirred in two Philadelphia Mob Wives. “‘Where’s Natalie? I hate that fucking bitch.’”įor the benefit of the uninitiated: Mob Wives is a reality television show about a group of foul-mouthed Staten Island women who are, in one way or another, connected to the Mafia. “You get some haters that will call in,” she says. Apparently this will change the next time an episode of Mob Wives airs on VH1. Even for a funeral parlor, the place feels sleepy. Grandpa Nunzio paces silently around the kitchen table. Her boyfriend London is on a Starbucks run. Natalie, wearing a black tank top, is doing her makeup. The day after Christmas, Natalie buzzes me in and tells me to ride the elevator to the third floor, where she rooms with her young son, Nunzio, and her 86-year-old grandfather, Nunzio, the patriarch of the funeral parlor. Her family has owned it forever, and until recently she was full-time there, doing hair for corpses. Natalie Guercio, whose family runs a funeral home, joined the show last season. ![]()
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