It’s official:  Danielle Staub will not be returning for season three of  The Real Housewives of New Jersey.

Bravo’s Andy Cohen, senior vice president of original programming and development, and host of “The Real Housewives” reunion shows, made the announcement Monday.  “The reunion was Danielle’s last appearance on ‘The Real Housewives of New Jersey,’” said Cohen.  “We thought the hugs were a great way to end two seasons of bitterness between the women.”

“I’m way too good for this,” Staub said in an interview after the announcement. “They have used me about as much as I can be used.”

“I think it’s time for me to move on and upward,” Staub told Us Magazine.

“I want my own show,” said the 48-year-old reality TV star, author, and budding singer.

“I want to be me now,” Staub continued. “Not me according to other people. Me…a spin-off is absolutely, positively where I’m going.”

Staub, who had tumultuous relationships with Housewives Caroline Manzo, Jacqueline Laurita and Teresa Giudice, went on to say she was the one who made the show successful.

“The bottom line is, they need me, I don’t need them,” she said. “They don’t talk about anything but me. I don’t talk about them, at all. I talk about me too!”

Staub says the spin-off will cover her continued search for her birth mother, and would allow her kids (Christine, 16, and Jillian, 12) “to be seen for the wonderful children that they are.”

If recent reports are true, RHONJ’s third season promises more drama with the addition of Teresa Giudice’s sister-in-law Melissa Gorga.  Gorga is allegedly behind the dramatic blow-up between Giudice and Staub on the reunion show.

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