Real Housewives of New Jersey celebrity Frank Catania is engaged to girlfriend Brittany Mattessich 25 years after his break up from ex-wife Dolores Catania.
“We’re Engaged!!!! 💎🤍 I’m so excited to start this next bankruptcy with you along with all of the different excellent issues we have now happening,” Mattessich announced via Instagram on Sunday, October 29. “Thankyou for being you & making me the happiest lady on this planet. I wouldn’t want to do this existence with any person else different then @frank.catania.sr 🤍🤍 love you such a lot my fiancé 🤍🤍🤍”
In the snaps, Mattessich confirmed off the large diamond ring she won from Frank, 58, as they shared a kiss. The Bravo character proposed in front of a flower wall lined in red roses, which was also embellished with an indication that learn, “Will you marry me?”
Frank’s relationship along with his now-fiancée was once off and on for years, but they in spite of everything made issues professional in May 2022 before he were given down on one knee.
While Mattessich has appeared on RHONJ through the years, Frank is extra steadily observed on the truth show along his ex-wife, Dolores, 52.
Dolores and Frank had been married from 1994 to 1998 and proportion two kids: Gabby, 28, and Frank Jr., 25. Both RHONJ stars were candid about their divorce, revealing that Frank’s infidelity led to the downfall of their marriage.
Despite calling it quits, the exes have stayed shut over time — and have even made headlines for living together post-split.
“Everybody wants us to be together. We are together, we really are. We by no means separated, even if we got the divorce, which I'm hoping I may write about in the future so that other folks can understand that you'll want to nonetheless have a dating with someone,” Dolores advised Us Weekly solely in May 2021 about her untraditional relationship with Frank. “Life is repeatedly converting, it doesn't matter what occurs.”
Frank isn’t the one one who’s discovered love once more. Fans watched Dolores’ courting with David Principe play out on RHONJ prior to they split in 2021. She has since moved on with boyfriend Paul Connell.
Dolores made her romance with Connell Instagram official in February 2022, and whilst they seemed blissfully in love, Frank admitted that he was once “not on the best of terms” with his ex-wife’s new guy.
“Paul is not used to the dynamic between Dolores and me,” Frank told Us in October 2022. “If you spend more time with Dolores and me, you get to see there’s nothing to fear about, right? I really like her. I can all the time love her. I always handle her.”
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Dolores’ new relationship was “hard” for Frank as it changed the dynamic between himself and his ex-wife. (Frank got emotional in regards to the shift of their relationship all through an episode of RHONJ which aired in March.)
“It’s a transition and he doesn’t like trade. He’s taking it non-public, and he is harm. I don’t wanna see him hurt,” Dolores informed Us in March. “Then I’m mad, don’t make me really feel accountable at the moment, just move along side this for me. I’ve always been there for everybody. Just let me revel in any individual who is giving me a lot of consideration. Paul needs to be such a lot part of my life and he’s so good about it and I’m enjoying my time here.”
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