LOVE STORIES: RHONJ Star Dolores Catania and Paulie Connell
The Most Dramatic Podcast Ever
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4.3 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Amy & T.J. are counting down to Valentine’s Day with our Love Stories series and today they are joined by Real Housewives of New Jersey & star of The Traitors, Dolores Catania and her fiancé Paul “Paulie” Connell. The two sit down with Amy & T.J. to share how a missed first date and an accidental meeting at the Apple Store turned into a lasting connection. Dolores and Paulie open up about finding love after past marriages, learning to trust again, and why they believe healthy relationships require communication, compromise, and yes, the occasional fight. From joking over thermostat wars, phone habits, and Dolores packing up to “leave” more than once, to setting boundaries that protect their relationship, they explain why peace, friendship, and starting each day fresh matter more than perfection.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.9 | 1969, Malcolm and Martin are gone. |
| 0:07.8 | America is in crisis. |
| 0:09.5 | At a Morehouse college, the students make their move. |
| 0:12.3 | These students, including a young Samuel L. Jackson, |
| 0:15.4 | locked up the members of the board of trustees, including Martin Luther King's senior. |
| 0:20.6 | It's the true story of protests and rebellion in black American history that you'll never |
| 0:24.9 | forget. |
| 0:25.9 | I'm Hans Charles. |
| 0:26.9 | I'm Mennelick Lamumba. |
| 0:28.1 | Listen to the A building on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your |
| 0:33.5 | podcasts. |
| 0:38.3 | This is Amy and TJ, love stories. |
| 0:46.4 | Hey there, everybody, and welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. |
| 0:52.1 | Where we are bringing our love stories to you all as we count down to Valentine's Day. And today we are very excited to have Dolores Katanya and Paul Polly Connell with us. I think most of you know who Dolores is, a long time fan favorite on the Real Housewives of New Jersey. And Paul is originally from Dublin, Ireland. |
| 1:13.5 | They met in 2021 after a chance encounter at an Apple store. |
| 1:19.4 | Here is their love story. |
| 1:21.2 | All right, Dolores and Paul join us now in person. |
| 1:24.5 | We usually have to do these interviews with people on Zoom. |
| 1:27.3 | It's good to be sitting in a room with you all. |
| 1:29.6 | We can see the, they can't fake it now, Robes, if they don't like each other. |
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