Just because she won’t be back for the next season of “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” doesn’t mean we won’t have villainous Danielle Staub to kick around anymore.
Reports that Danielle is getting her own show are harder to ignore than the attention-loving Danielle herself.
“It’s going to be a spin-off that’s a combination of her persona that’s loosely based on her ‘Real Housewives’ character and the evolution of where she is now,” a close friend told the gossip Web site Radar.
The source said the show will be about “the future of her career, her high-profile life, her kids, her being a ‘mom-ager.’ ”
Bravo has already leveraged the success of “The Real Housewives of New York” with a spin-off, “Bethenny Getting Married,” starring former cast-member Bethenny Frankel.
The show documented her nuptials and the late-in-life birth of her first baby.
The show was the biggest premiere in Bravo’s history, which is why the network began right away to look for an opportunity to do it again.
Danielle, who became a reality TV sensation in the “Jersey Housewives” first season for stirring up the close-knit group of Franklin Lakes wives, was the obvious candidate.
But her storyline now appears to be played out.
Relations have become so tense — ending with a comic chase through a north Jersey country club and a hair-pulling incident that led to an arrest — that the other three housewives now refuse to be in the same room with Danielle.
In the latest episode, her costars, Caroline Manzo, Teresa Guidice and Jacqueline Laurita, took a trip to Italy — leaving Danielle behind, while she hired a private investigator to find her birth mother.
The second season finale, set to air next Monday, is shaping up as Danielle’s farewell.
As for getting her own show, officials at Bravo are grinning broadly and saying, “No comment.”
But there are now leaks aplenty that Danielle will be back.
“I don’t know if there are talks right now about a third season of the show, but I’m more excited about talks of my spin-off than anything else,” she told Life & Style magazine last week at her birthday party, staged at a topless bar in New York.
“It will definitely be a lot more of her [gal pal Lori Michaels] and I and definitely my kids,” Staub told NBC that night. “There will be a lot of questions that will be answered.”
Staub’s agent declined comment yesterday.