Welp.
This would explain it.
Speaking to Dolores Catania last week on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, the talk show host said of the recently-taped Real Housewives of New Jersey reunion:
“It was really upsetting… I’m not right fro…
Ever since it was first reported that he was seeing Teresa Guidice, we’ve all heard that Luis Ruelas is bad news.
Margaret Josephs and Teresa will go to war over it as the season continues, but she’s not the only one talking about it.
The husbands of RHONJ, including Joe Gorga, are asking Luis very directly about the accusations from his exes.
Did he abuse his ex? If that’s who he is, he and Joe are going to have a problem.
It has been claimed that Luis Ruelas physically abused his former fiancee, even striking her in front of her children.
That goes above and beyond the initial rumors that came out.
Being toxic, love-bombing, and being horny are one thing. Domestic abuse is another, and some have wondered if Teresa is in danger.
The husbands addressed what they had heard, not just speaking about it on camera but asking Luis directly.
“Yeah, I’ve had a couple of bad relationships,” Luis began, at first just speaking about broader accusations from exes.
“But I’m sure every guy at this table has a girl that’ll talk bad about you,” he continued, “and say something different or opposite of the truth.”
That was not quite enough, and Tiki Barber asked Luis about the abuse allegations.
“There’s no physical violence. There’s no truth to that,” Luis claimed.
He alleged: “There’s a couple of very angry exes [who are] very thirsty for attention, so no.”
“Let me let you in on a little secret,” Luis then continued.
“The girl you’re referring to, I heard a rumor that she stabbed her husband with a butcher knife,” he claimed.
Luis specified that it was “while I was dating her, [I heard] a rumor about it.”
Luis revealed that he had stayed with the woman despite allegedly hearing about the alleged stabbing rumor.
“I didn’t want to believe it… I was stupid. I don’t know man, I wasn’t strong,” Luis said.
Understandably, not everyone present was sure that Luis was being sincere … and not just trying to steer the conversation.
Joe freely admitted to the confessional camera that this is not a dating situation that he would have picked for his sister.
“This is a little weird, but Teresa has made up her mind that she wants to stay with Louie,” he stated frankly.
“And if I want to stay in my sister’s life,” Joe admitted, “I’m gonna keep my mouth shut.”
But Joe’s desire to stay in his sister’s life did not mean that he wasn’t going to keep an eye out.
“Listen, there’s a lot of s–t coming out, but I said to my sister, ‘Does he treat you right?’ She says yes,” Joe told Luis.
He then warned: “But you f–k up, I’m gonna find out about that, trust me.”
In that same episode, Teresa was preparing for her one-year anniversary celebration.
She prepared to mark the milestone with Luis, with Gia and Gabriella there as she got ready.
Of course, Gia has expressed some wise reservations about her mother’s head-over-heels romance.
Teresa even brought up her own history, of having gone to prison, to defend Luis’ reputation.
Gia sagely noted that her mom spending time behind bars for a white collar charge isn’t really comparable to a man accused of mistreating his partners.
But even she could admit that her mother seemed happier than before. Teresa’s gonna do what Teresa’s gonna do.
On this season of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Jennifer Aydin has been at the center of conflict.
She has clashed with Melissa Gorga. She has clashed with Margaret Josephs.
Even the husbands are part of this Real Housewives feud, and faction lines are being drawn.
After Jennifer called out Bill for not defending her, he spoke up for her — and ended up storming away from Joe Gorga and Evan Goldschneider.
On this week’s The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Jennifer Aydin was still fuming over her husband.
No, it wasn’t about his affair a decade ago — at least, not directly.
Instead, as she griped to Dolores Catania after a workout, it was about how he didn’t defend her.
Jennifer had called Melissa’s husband, Joe, a “little bitch girl” during the previous episode, which did not go over well with Melissa.
“Listen, Bill was a f–king p–sy,” she complained to Dolores on Tuesday’s episode.
“Yeah, I’m f–king mad at Bill,” she confirmed.
“He just stood there and said nothing,” Jennifer characterized.
“It’s just, I would’ve liked something,” she explained of her frustrations.
“For 10 years, I’ve been putting him on a f–king pedestal,” Jennifer described.
“If I saw people ganging up on him, I would’ve been like, ‘With all due respect, if you disrespect my wife, you disrespect me,'” Jennifer told Dolores.
“It’s like he’s already betrayed me once,” she said, a clear reference to his past cheating.
“And now,” Jennifer argued, “here he is, he’s doing it again.”
Jennifer did speak to Bill about it.
He pointed out that she clearly wanted it both ways — for him to not wade into their battles, but for him to also support her.
To some degree, Bill took that to heart as he met up with the guys towards the end of the episode.
Guys night included Joe Gorga, Evan, Tiki, Joe Benigino, and Frank.
The first Joe stirred up a mess by writing “f–k you” to Bill in the group chat when the dinner was being planned.
Before heading out to meet them, Bill quipped: “Obviously, Joe Gorga brings the girl drama into boys’ night.”
When Bill first arrived, he joked “Am I invited to this, I don’t know.”
He was, in fact, invited.
In fact, Bill already had an outspoken ally in the group.
Even before his arrival, Tiki Barber had asked the others to not lay into him over Jennifer’s drama.
“When men go through what he’s going through, other dudes need to have his back,” Tiki suggested.
He added: “The last thing he needs is for us to go kick his ass again.”
“I try not to get into her woman drama,” Bill asserted as the obviously dramatic topics came up.
“Your wife is out of control,” Joe warned him, and he did not stop there.
“She does a lot of things, bro. Jen got dirty and disgusting,” he continued. “I think she crossed that line.”
Obviously, Bill couldn’t just ignore that, and tried to defend Jennifer, who was not present.
He argued that, unlike some of the cast, Jennifer didn’t go delving into other people’s business on purpose.
This led to him clashing with Evan Goldschneider
“You don’t think that Margaret crossed that line digging for my secret,” Bill protested.
He insisted: “Jen, never went digging for anyone’s dirt.”
Evan snapped back: “Yes, she did.”
“We may disagree but she did not,” Bill disputed. “People can be nosy.”
Evan doubled down: “She is trying to find stuff to hurt individual people.”
He didn’t stop there, accusing: “That’s not a good person.”
“If you think that way, I don’t think we can see eye to eye,” Bill said.
Unwilling to sit and listen to his wife be insulted, he stood up and walked away.
“I’m done. I’m done,” Bill said as he fled from the guys’ night turned guys’ nightmare.
For the past week, Bravo has been excitedly promoting the showdown between Gia Giudice and Joe Gorga.
On this week’s The Real Housewives of New Jersey, it went down.
Joe was astonished that his adult niece would confront him over how he discussed her immediate family.
But Gia did more than lay down the law. She also proved that she’s, frankly, almost too mature for this franchise.
Joe Gorga found himself on the receiving end of some serious roasting from his niece.
“This is why people just shouldn’t open their mouth in the first place, just like Dad didn’t deserve it either,” Gia said at a gathering.
She warned her uncle: “You’re going to come at me disrespectfully? Because then I won’t talk to you.”
“If you want to say something, go ahead. I’m your uncle, I’m your godfather and I’m older than you. But go ahead, talk,” Joe said.
It’s unclear why his familial relation or age are factors here.
Respect your elders is a scam invented by old people to receive unearned respect, and Gia made it clear that she knows that.
“I’m an adult now, so you can talk to me like one,” Gia advised.
“I’m done with you being disrespectful. You’re not going to talk down to me either,” she informed him.
An astonished Joe weirdly asked: “Where were you raised?!”
“That is horrendous! I loved you since the minute I saw you, I fell in love with you,” Joe shouted as he got up and walked past her.
Outside, he vented to Teresa Giudice’s beloved Luis Ruelas.
“She looks at me like I’m the devil. Your father was the devil, not me,” Joe insisted, calling her behavior “terrible.”
“I’ve been dealing with this for 20 years,” Joe went on to explain to Gia.
“I don’t want to feel like I’m this devil of a man for doing what? I stuck up for my sister, I stuck up for my parents, my only sister,” he asserted.
“Why would you ever want to say that about them?” Gia asked, shooting down the idea that he was just being truthful. “It’s not, that’s when I walk away.”
Melissa stepped in to play peacemaker, both with Joe and with Gia.
Gia returned to explain to Joe that it was frustrating that he was “looking at me like I’m 5 years old.”
Joe explained that he found it surprising that his 21-year-old niece wouldn’t agree with him, being old enough to see her dad for who he is.
“I understand, you have every right if you want to be mad at my father for putting my mom in jail,” Gia affirmed
“You don’t think he’s mad at himself?” she asked. “He lives with it every day, he’s not even in this country.”
“But it comes to a point where the bashing is just too much,” Gia explained.
“This is also me defending my sisters too because they’ve been through enough,” Gia asserted.
“The jail thing happened 5 years ago, let it go under the bridge,” she suggested.
This prompted Joe and Gia to hug and make peace, vowing to not have needless conflict between them now that they’ve aired their viewers.
This week, another messy season of The Real Housewives of New Jersey began.
Bravo released a sneak peek of next week’s episode, where we take a break from Teresa’s fiance drama.
Instead, the focus falls upon her daughter, Gia, who lays into her uncle Joe Gorga and calls him out.
If he cannot communicate with and about her family in a respectful manner, she doesn’t want to speak to him.
Next Tuesday on The Real Housewives of New Jersey, there’s a discussion about what Jennifer Aydin has been saying.
“I don’t want to be around people that are nasty,” Joe Gorga declares.
While several of those present express their agreement, this strike s anerve with Joe’s 21-year-old niece, Gia.
Remember when Joe had so much to say about Joe Giudice last year?
Gorga accused Giudice of “[putting] [his] mother in her f–king grave.”
He also insisted that the father of his nieces didn’t really know how to be a “man.”
“Dad didn’t deserve it [Gorga’s comments] either,” Gia asserts in this sneak peek clip.
Joe tells her that he hears what she’s saying, but Gia is not done.
“If you’re going to come at me disrespectfully … then I won’t talk to you,” Gia counters.
Joe tries to have it both ways, both encouraging Gia to “go ‘head” and say something …
… But simultaneously suggesting that because he’s her uncle, her godfather, and happens to be older than she is, perhaps she shouldn’t be saying anything.
Fortunately, Gia knows that weirdo give-unearned-respect-to-elders culture is a scam invented by old people and doesn’t fall for it.
“That doesn’t mean anything, Zio [Uncle] Joe,” Gia tells him.
“I’m an adult now, too, so you can talk to me like one,” she informs him.
“Because I’m done with you being disrespectful,” Gia firmly informs him.
Joe, whom we all just heard speak to her as if she has no business speaking her mind, insists that he is not being “disrespectful.”
“I would never allow my daughter to talk to my aunt or my uncle [like that],” he then insists.
Joe then throws shade at his own sister, saying: “I mean, where were you raised?”
The truth is that Gia was raised in the Twenty-First Century, not in pre-Renaissance Milan where she was expected to learn hemming and embroidery.
That’s not what she says, or even has time to say.
Instead, Joe gets up and storms off in a huff.
Joe complains that the situation is overall “horrendous.”
He tells his wife that he is removing himself from the social gathering because of these “f–king people.”
Melissa Gorga then tries to take it upon herself to do damage control.
Melissa tells gia that Joe is simply in “shock” because Gia gave him an “attitude.”
That is such a weird way to talk about people, in general.
She confronted him about something that made her unhappy. Which “attitude” is that?
“He loves you like he loves Antonia,” Melissa assures Gia.
Of course, this is the same Antonia whom Joe just said he wouldn’t “allow” to similarly confront her own relatives if she wanted to.
“He understands that your dad comes first, but he doesn’t understand, so you know what I’m saying?” Melissa says. “He dies for you.”
Joe is clearly feeling very attacked right now.
Griping about what Gia said, he notes that her “father was the devil, not me.”
What a mess! We might not be Joe Giudice’s biggest fans, but it’s nice to see Gia stand up for herself instead of bow to generational B.S.
Huge news in the world of The Real Housewives of New Jersey.
Teresa Giudice is engaged to Luis Ruelas. It’s really happening.
Whether that’s good news or bad news really depends up on whom you ask.
Teresa’s protective brother, Joe Gorga, is weighing in.
This week, in the aftermath of the big news about Teresa and Luis, Joe Gorga spoke to Us Weekly.
On Thursday, October 21, he admitted that he actually cried when he first heard.
“I’m so excited,” Joe gushed. “I’m so happy for her.”
“[Luis] came in like what she needed,” Joe praised his apparent future brother-in-law.
“She needed that Superman to come in and take her life and fix it,” he characterized.
“And,” Joe alleged, “that’s what he’s doing.”
“I always said she needed a beast of a man,” Joe stated in reflection.
“And,” he assessed, “he is one of them.”
So Luis is both Superman and a beast? What … what version of DC Comics has Joe been reading, we wonder.
Mostly, Joe is delighted that his older sister has found a new man who fills her with joy.
“He’s living up to everything he’s talking about,” Joe stated.
“So,” he expressed, “I’m just so happy that they’re in love.”
While the news of this engagement sent shockwaves through the Housewives fandom this week, it was not a shock to Joe.
Why? Because Luis told him in advance that he planned to propose.
And it sounds like his big sister is over the moon.
“She’s ecstatic. She loves him,” Joe declared.
“She’s really, really happy,” he shared.
“She always wanted to be loved, like, really loved,” Joe explained, “and he loves her.”
Joe received advanced notice, as he stated.
And he’s not the only Joe in the family who heard the news personally instead of in the headlines.
His former brother-in-law, Joe Giudice, also heard the awkward but important info from the most trusted of sources.
“The girls told him,” Joe Gorga said of Joe Giudice, referring to Teresa’s four beautiful daughters.
“I don’t know if [Teresa] told him,” he admitted.
Joe added: “I didn’t even ask that question.”
“Don’t know, don’t care,” Joe continued, reminding everyone of how little respect he has for his former in-law.
“Probably not,” he added.
“But,” Joe affirmed, “it’s all good.”
Joe’s wife, Melissa Gorga, also knew what was coming after Luis gave the couple the heads up.
“She’s so happy for her,” Joe said of his wife’s feelings regarding his sister’s engagement.
“Melissa’s a happy person,” he added. “She’s had a great life.”
“We’re happily in love,” Joe bragged, “and we have a great marriage.”
He explained: “so Melissa just wants the same [for Teresa].”
Apparently, Joe and Melissa are of the opinion that Luis is the key to all of that and more for Teresa.
Right now, Teresa and Luis are still vacationing in Greece.
When they return home, the Gorgas plan to help them celebrate this news with family.
“We’ll do something, definitely,” Joe promised.
“This is big news, this is nice,” Joe expressed.
“It was meant to be,” he opined.
Joe concluded: “It’s a beautiful thing and I love it.”
Of course, not everyone is so happy.
Many of Teresa’s fans have been paying attention to what Luis’ exes have to say and worry that this will not end well.
Only time will tell who is right: ample anecdotal evidence provided by Luis’ exes, or Teresa’s … ahem … taste in men.
It’s no secret that The Real Housewives of New Jersey stars Joe and Melissa Gorga have been experiencing some problems in recent months.
Once considered the most stable of any couple on the Bravo hit, the Gorgas now behave as though their marriage …
