Considering the table-flipping conclusion to season one of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, along with the attention-garnering headlines generated by Danielle Staub, this is far from surprising news.

But we can now confirm that the Bravo series will return for a new set of episodes.

"They're doing a second season, and it's going to be crazier than the first," an insider told Life & Style. "It's going to explode. There's no premiere date, but everyone knows it's going to be a huge hit. The reason it has taken so long to announce is that once the show became such a hit, the women held out for much bigger paychecks."

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