There’s drama afoot within the Backyard State as half two of The Actual Housewives of New Jersey season 13 reunion noticed the women’ husbands start to anticipate taking the ground with their respective wives.
As avid RHONJ followers are conscious, the husbands of the Jersey iteration of the franchise are as integral to the present as their wives. As final week’s half two reunion episode started to wind down, cameras panned to Frank Catania, Joe Benigno, and Joe Gorga as they watched the explosive sit down from backstage. Frank then let the fellows know that he and Teresa Giudice’s husband, Luis “Louie” Ruelas, have some unfinished enterprise to hash out.
Frank and Gorga commented on how “bizarre” and strenuous the most recent season of RHONJ was in comparison with earlier seasons. Benigno then quipped, “So let’s assume — what’s the distinction in 13 years?”
Frank wasted no time, responding that he thinks Louie’s addition to the group was the catalyst that set off the explosive chain response of occasions that led to the forged’s most divisive season but.
“There was such offended, offended arguments on this present, and it has by no means, ever gotten to the purpose it has gotten to proper now — and the one factor totally different is Louie,” Frank stated.
As followers are conscious, Frank has a bone to choose with Louie. He revealed that not solely did the businessman “f—ck [him] over,” however he additionally dealt with his son Frank Catania Jr.’s employment along with his firm in a disrespectful approach.
“Usually, I hold my mouth shut. Not as we speak,” Frank defined to Gorga and Benigno. “Guys, you already know in addition to I do, I might by no means chime in, I’d by no means soar in on the bandwagon, however the truth that he f-cked me this yr for no motive and I did nothing however attempt to assist him.”
As for the way Louie professionally harmed Frankie, he stated that Louie allegedly “closed down” his firm with no discover and was MIA for days.
“He didn’t inform Frankie. Frankie was reaching out and referred to as me and stated, ‘Dad, what do I do? I’ve been calling Louie and he gained’t reply,’” Frank alleged.
In response to Frank Sr., Louie by no means gave any motive as to why he “shut down” his firm.
“That’s the one factor I bought an issue with,” Frank stated.
This isn’t the primary time Louie’s enterprise practices and ethics have been referred to as into query. Beforehand, he revealed he was requested to “step down” from his function at his startup advertising and media firm, Digital Media Options, as a consequence of public backlash.
“Teresa didn’t need me to say this, however they let me go from my firm from all of the adverse stuff that got here up within the press due to my exes on the market,” he stated on the time.
The corporate has lately been sued for harassment.
On the finish of Could, Teresa revealed that Louie and his son, Louie Ruelas Jr., have begun the method of beginning a brand new firm, Males of Legacy. The corporate will try to bridge the hole between fathers and sons whose relationships are strained. There’ll apparently be a podcast as properly.
“Louie, my husband, and my stepson [Louie Jr.], they’re beginning a brand new firm referred to as Males of Legacy… They’re going to be serving to fathers and sons that don’t have a superb relationship to have a greater relationship,” Teresa instructed Bravo’s The Every day Dish.
“They’re constructing an entire [podcast studio] — which I feel is finished any day now… in one of many garages [and] it seems to be stunning,” she concluded.
Half three of The Actual Housewives of New Jersey season 13 reunion airs Tuesday, June 13, at 8 p.m. EST on Bravo.
