The Real Housewives of Orange County feud amongst Gretchen Rossi and Jo De La Rosa from RHOC Seasons 1 and 2 could be cooling off. De La Rosa thinks enough time has passed and she’s completely ready to place the ongoing stress driving her.
De La Rosa was engaged to Slade Smiley all through the to start with year of RHOC. Their romantic relationship did not work so she broke off the engagement. The couple returned to Bravo with a spin-off Date My Ex: Jo & Slade. The Bachelor-type sequence placing featured Smiley sharing a household with a number of adult males, who have been established up to “date his ex.”
None of the relationships worked out for De La Rosa. But Rossi, who was good friends with De La Rosa turned Smiley’s head. Smiley and Rossi commenced courting and finally got engaged. Smiley and Rossi are nonetheless alongside one another and have a daughter.
Gretchen ‘broke girl code’ when she dated Slade Smiley
De La Rosa stated Rossi “broke female code” when she dated Smiley. They’ve experienced a contentious romance ever given that, but she’s now prepared to go on. She clarified that they dwell in a big enough city that they never run into one particular yet another, but the tension nonetheless lingers.
“So there’s in no way been like an prospect for a operate-in, but it’s really amusing mainly because a whole lot of the manufacturers that I get the job done with like make-up or a little something like that, it’ll constantly be like, oh my gosh, like we thoroughly get the job done with one particular of the Housewives. And I’m like, oh, which is good, who? They’re like Gretchen. I’m like, which is awesome. Of course, you do,” she said on the Behind the Velvet Rope with David Yontef podcast.
She’s performed speaking about Gretchen and Slade in each individual ‘RHOC’ interview
“I come to feel like we’re always related,” she continued. “It doesn’t make a difference how extensive. And look, I experience like it is been 15 a long time. I’m certain they’re worn out of having to like communicate about it. I know each interview that I do, they’re generally introduced up. Like I’m absolutely sure both equally sides.”
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“I know for me, like, I would love to have an interview where I do not have to converse about Slade or Gretchen eternally and at any time,” the RHOC star added. “Like it will never ever go absent. I’m sorry. Slade. Like, you are stuck with it. You are the a person who proposed to me. So like, you know, ’cause there’s been items of like, properly, why does she however have me in her mouth right after all these a long time? Because it generally gets introduced up. So which is the thing. I believe like let’s meet up with, let us talk, let us have a chat, and let’s shift on. And like just about anything which is been in the earlier, it is in the previous, like you are pleased, I’m content with the hell is the challenge.”
Jo thinks likely on ‘RHUGT’ with Gretchen could be intriguing
De La Rosa additional that she has “no beef” with Rossi and is open up to connecting with her. She also mused about what it would be like to go on Real Housewives Final Women Trip with Rossi. “I would be curious to see how that would go down,” she remarked. “Also, I would like to have a chat with her, like on a beach with some cocktails and like catch up. I assume it is been lengthy adequate. Right? So I would be down.”
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