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BY LINDA MOSS

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

"Jerseylicious" will return for its second season Sept. 5, and there's a new addition to the cast.

Here's a spoiler alert: Christy Pereira, part of the mother-daughter team that runs The Gatsby Salon, the centerpiece of "Jerseylicious," is pregnant in Season 2.

"And of course, Style's cameras will be there to capture the joy as Christy and her husband welcome their first child!" The Style Network said in a press release Wednesday on the new season's premiere.

In its freshman season "Jerseylicious" was Style's most-watched new series, as viewers tuned in to see the battles between brunette makeup artist Olivia Blois Sharpe and her nemesis, blonde hair stylist Tracy DiMarco.

The reality show's second season has 20 new one-hour episodes, and continues to follow the staff at the Green Brook, N.J., salon. It will air on Sundays but has a new time slot, 8 p.m. instead of 10 p.m.

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Season 2 of "Jerseylicious," Style says, "is full of budding romances, growing friendships, bitter rivalries, plenty of Tracy vs. Olivia hair-raising feuds and even a new baby."

The comedic drama of "Jerseylicious" centers around the high-profile and recently renovated beauty salon run by the mother/daughter management team of Gayle Giacomo and Pereira.

"Christy is beaming with excitement as she is expecting

her first child, but she is getting self-conscious of her growing belly," Style Network says. "With a little encouragement from her friends and colleagues, she decides to embrace her baby bump in a glamorous pregnancy photo-shoot — leopard, lace and all Jersey!"

The salon's team of experts and experts-in-training includes Anthony Lombardi, an established stylist whose own beauty parlor, the Anthony Robert Salon, in Verona, N.J., recently completed its own renovations.

The "Jerseylicious" cast also includes Gigi Liscio, a young hairdresser who wants nothing more than to find "the one"; "The Glam Fairy" Alexa Prisco, one of the top bridal make-up artists in the Tri-state area; Sharpe, a party girl trying to become a successful makeup artist; and her rival DiMarco, a talented hair stylist who loves tormenting Sharpe, whom she calls "a cheap knock off version of me"; and Filippo, Lombardi's flirtatious intern who focuses more on getting phone numbers from clients than working on his craft.

In the premiere episode, the salon's business is booming with the help of last season's new additions Sharpe, DiMarco, Liscio, Lombardi and Prisco.

"High demand, intense hours and personality clashes, however, are taking their toll on the stylists," according to Style.

Lombardi's Anthony's newly renovated salon on Bloomfield Avenue is ready to open for business, and "he is struggling with leaving his new found family at The Gatsby," Style said in its press release.

Hot-headed Prisco and her new apprentice Sharpe "are up to their wings with ‘Glam Fairy' clients," according to Style, while Giacomo is beginning to feel The Glam Fairy's absence in the salon and "decides to confront Alexa about her attitude and priorities, which causes tension with everyone."

Here's what else Style says viewers have to look forward to.

"Tracy asks her boyfriend, Lorenzo, who is also Olivia's ex, for help with a huge event at her beauty school alma mater because she wants to show how she's grown since graduation, but the night ends a humiliating disaster," according to Style. "Throughout the season, the dramatic rivalries continue as self-proclaimed ‘villainess' Tracy continues to clash with makeup-maven Olivia who develops a new love interest that sends Tracy over the edge."

Meanwhile, tensions between Giacomo and Prisco reach new levels as both entrepreneurs have conflicting priorities regarding having their own individual businesses succeed.

In Pereira's absence as she preps for her baby's arrival, Lombardi tried to bring his own expertise and ideas into the salon, which is not well-received warmly by the bosses.

The Jersey Girls of "Jerseylicious" also attempt speed-dating and head to Atlantic City "to hunt for some hot muscular men, while sweet-as-sugar Gigi starts to question her relationship with longtime boyfriend Frankie," according to Style.

Left out by the women, Lombardi's intern, ladies' man Filippo, decides to take his boss to the Jersey Shore to show him a fun time.

"Those stories, as well as a boob job, a pizza-tossing contest, a strip show, romances taken to the new levels and even a Jersey invasion of Texas, are just a few of the many not-to-be-missed happenings on the new second season of ‘Jerseylicious,'" according to Style.

"Jerseylicious" is produced by Endemol USA for The Style Network. Three-time Emmy winner Alex Duda is the executive producer, along with by Style executive producers Sarah Weidman and Merah Chung.