Dolores Catania Is ‘Afraid to Ask’ Andy Cohen When RHONJ Will Return

Dolores Catania is as curious as fans are about when filming will pick up on The Real Housewives of New Jersey.

Catania, 54, appeared alongside some of her Traitors season 3 costars at a Nov. 15 panel at BravoCon 2025 in Las Vegas, and when she was asked when she’ll be back on camera for season 15 of RHONJ, she admitted she’s scared to ask executive producer Andy Cohen about it.

“I’m afraid to ask, because he looks pissed off that people are asking him, so I’m definitely not gonna ask,” she said.

What she does know is that filming will not be happening before the end of the year, “so next year” is hopefully when it’ll resume. “They wanna get it right, and I can almost appreciate that,” she said. “But I don’t want to be away much longer.”

She’s eager to be back on camera because she said fans are “missing out on things,” including her son’s upcoming wedding (he got engaged in February) and her own engagement.

Catania got engaged just days before BravoCon. Her boyfriend of five years, Paul “Paulie” Connell, popped the question at an Apple Store in New Jersey to a totally unsuspecting Catania, who told PEOPLE afterwards that she was “ecstatic.”

“You know when you feel that happiness down in your gut? That’s where this excitement stems from for me,” she said. “I feel so blessed, I almost feel guilty! Like, I don’t deserve to be loved this way.”

“I keep telling Dolores, she deserves that and so much more,” Connell told PEOPLE. “She’s an incredible woman. And when I was proposing to her, I was able to articulate to her everything I see that she is, and everything I see that she does, and the impact she has on everybody around her. She’s one in a million.”

On Nov. 13, Cohen told fans that they shouldn’t expect any news about the state of RHONJ to be announced at BravoCon. Speaking to Access Hollywood, he said, “We will announce something when the casting is right. We’re not gonna be backed into something that’s not gonna be great because the Jersey fans deserve greatness and we’re not there yet.”

Fans have been missing Real Housewives of New Jersey for over a year now, as the most recent season, 14, concluded in August 2024. At the reunion, the cast was split into two separate rooms amid strife between the women — namely, sisters-in-law Melissa Gorga and Teresa Giudice.

Catania filmed the reunion with Giudice, Jennifer Aydin and friend Jackie Goldschneider, while Gorga, Margaret Josephs, Danielle Cabral, Rachel Fuda and Jenn Fessler were in another room.

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Speculation was rampant following season 14 that RHONJ could see a full revamp ahead of its 15th season. Cohen fueled that speculation when he teased that season 15 could have “all fresh faces” on his SiriusXM radio show. But a source close to production told PEOPLE that despite Cohen’s comments and the status of the show’s much-divided cast, its future was still up in the air.

“Nothing has been decided yet,” the insider said at the time.

Last November, Catania admitted she hadn’t heard even “one word” about the show’s fate for season 15.

“I would like to see everyone come back,” she said on Teddi Mellencamp and Tamra Judge’s Two Ts in a Pod podcast. “I don’t like change.”

“It’s an ensemble cast. When we’re good, we’re really good, so it’s a shame that it’s come to this,” she said, calling it “bulls—” that some cast members refused to film together.

On Nov. 14, Giudice shocked BravoCon fans when she revealed she made up with brother Joe Gorga and Melissa, and posed for photos with them throughout the weekend.

“We have all gotten together. I’m really grateful and I’m thankful,” Teresa, 53, said during the “Housewive2Housewive” panel on Nov. 14, referring to her brother and sister-in-law.

Catania just hopes it lasts. “Whatever it is, let’s hope it’s the last time they f—— make up,” she said on the Nov. 15 panel. “I am so f—— done of it and sick of it. We have other stories to talk about. Put it to bed, everybody.”

BravoCon 2025 continues through Sunday, Nov. 16 at Las Vegas’ Caesars Forum.