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Dolores Catania & Paul Connell Share Long-Awaited Relationship News
Dolores Catania and her boyfriend Paul “Paulie” Connell revealed that a date for his long-awaited divorce has finally been set.

In February 2025, “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” star and her longtime love appeared on SiriusXM’s Jeff Lewis Live and gave an update on their relationship. During the interview with Lewis, Connell shared, “My date is set for my divorce to be finalized, which is next week.”

After Lewis questioned if he should offer “congratulations” to Connell, Catania chimed in to say, “You know, a lot of people gave me a lot and him a lot about that, and he was just, whatever. I don’t care what people say, Jeff, to tell you the truth.”

Connell has been open about how he was still legally married when he started dating Catania in 2021. He has also spoken about his amicable split from his wife Joanne. The two separated well over a decade ago and Joanne filed for divorce on February 4, 2020, after 16 years of marriage, according to The Sun.

Of the slow divorce process, Connell explained to the outlet in 2023, “There’s been no really need for me to be divorced. Like, it’s not like I was getting married, or I go around marrying people for the fun of it.”

“Obviously when me and Dolores got more serious, now the conversation’s like, ‘Okay, now it’s time to close that chapter,’ and that’s it. There’s really nothing else,” he added.

In May 2024, Catania told Us Weekly that she wanted her man’s divorce to be finalized. “In all fairness, for us to be at the relationship we are, he should not be married and, yeah, I expect a divorce,” she said. “[I don’t expect] a ring [or] marriage. If it comes great, but that has to be [after a divorce].”