It’s back-to-school time for The Real Housewives of New Jersey’s Antonia Gorga, and her dad Joe Gorga just shared a hilarious look at her process for returning to the University of Delaware for another year.
The father-of-three, more specifically, posted an Instagram video filmed by his and Melissa Gorga’s only daughter on August 23. In the video, Joe dragged a white dresser down a long hall of a dormitory and reminded the 20-year-old college junior how lucky she had it. In the caption, he wrote, “What daddy’s do for their daughters, will they ever appreciate it?”
Elsewhere in the video, Joe breathily said to his daughter, “‘Dad, do this, Dad, do that.’ You better remember who Daddy is,” as he continued lugging the furniture while walking backward. “Daddy is sweating. I wanna see you sweat for me when I get old, and I’m sick, and I can’t poop anymore, you gotta wipe my butt.”
He smiled with amusement when Antonia replied, “Ew,” over the lighthearted monologue.
She later commented with a red heart and stated, “I do,” when Joe wondered if daughters appreciated their fathers.
How Antonia Gorga spent the summer before her junior year at college
Antonia just finished spending her summer break back in New Jersey with her parents and brothers, Gino Gorga, 17, and Joey Gorga Jr., 14. She video-recorded her homecoming in May when finding her father, Gino, and the family dog hanging out in her bedroom, stating, “Always a family gathering in my room when I come home from school.”
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It’s been a summer of nonstop fun ever since for the Alpha Phi sorority girl, including Sundays at The Shore house and teaming up with her mom and more Housewives to raise money for a good cause. The icing on the (literal) cake was Antonia ringing in her 20th birthday with friends and family, and a drool-worthy collection of her mother’s Sprinkle by MG cookies and cakes.
“And just like that, she’s 20,” the Housewife stated in a tribute to her daughter. “Happy Birthday, my little mini me. It’s just me and you, kid. The only girls in this house! We need to keep our strong bond forever! I couldn’t be prouder than to be a mother of such a humble, caring, good human. You get more gorgeous as the years go on, inside and out, and we love you so much.”
What is Antonia Gorga studying at the University of Delaware?
In April, Melissa revealed in an interview with Decider that the eldest of her three children perhaps wanted to follow in her footsteps as a businesswoman. “I think that’s why she’s going to school for business,” said the “On Display” singer. “I think wants to work for herself. I think she would like to be a business owner, whether it be something with me or a branch off of something that I do. And if it’s not, I’m fine with that. But I do think her goal is to be a business owner one day.”
Melissa also said last year that Antonia took an interest in media and communications, but had been especially drawn to marketing.
“Marketing, she loves marketing,” Melissa told Bravo’s The Daily Dish. “So she’s dabbling in all three. I do think she’s leaning towards marketing, believe it or not. The last she told me she was leaning towards marketing. So that works. We can use all the marketing we can get in our family.”
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On top of Melissa’s baked-goods brand, the busy mom runs two Envy by Melissa Gorga boutique locations: one in New Jersey and one on Long Island. She recently stepped away from her podcast, On Display with Melissa Gorga, to focus on her other business ventures.
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