December 22, 2023 • 41 mins
Jo De La Rosa is going back to the beginning… season one of RHOC!!
How did she meet Slade? How did she find out her engagement ring was… *fake*? She gets all kinds of honest about Gretchen Rossi ending up with her ex, Slade!
Plus, find out what caused her to be the first in Housewives history to ever leave the franchise.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Two Teas in a pod which Teddy Mellencamp and Camrad Judge.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Hi, guys, welcome to another episode of to Teas Myself,
Teddy Mellencamp.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
And tambrid Judge.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Should we have a I mean, this is clearly an
o G to the OC that we haven't seen in
a very long time. So I'm so excited to introduce
Joe Dela Rosa.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
She's a television personality best known as being the original
housewife in the Real Housewives Orange County. She released an
album in two thousand and seven called Unscripted. Joe was
also part of the first spinoff of the Real Housewives franchise,
Date My Ex Joe and Slade.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
That aired in two thousand and eight. I don't even
know about this had it lasted long.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
She recently started her own creative agency called House of
Gray and was married a year ago to Tarin Gray.
So there's you can go and see her People magazine
article about her wedding or her engagement and get caught.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Up from the past.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Do you look amazing?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
How's it going?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
It is going so well. Thank you so much for
coming on our podcast. We're so excited to have you.
You and I have been chatting on on DM. Oh
my god, the outfit, the hair, that everything. My question
to you is do you still own a skytop?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
I'm absolutely not. I got rid of those ages ago.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
So tell So do you live in La now?
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Yeah? I've been living in LA since I left the show.
Actually really literally, did.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
You leave or did you get the boot? Or did
you break up with Slade?
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Broke up with Slade and then moved her late?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
My heart was always city, like I've just I've always
gravitated the city, you know, the lights of Hollywood and whatnot.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
And yeah, was it hard for you to leave from
the show or you were sitting along?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
No, No, I don't think so in the sense that,
like because it was a breakup and I was just
ready to like start my life over. I was also
already going to LA every weekend with my girlfriends, and like,
I was just in such a different place in my
life where.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
You were going to LA when you were dating Slade.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, yeah, but that's what I like a Slade?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Were you, honestly, like honest back then, love of my life?
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Then? What?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
In my twenties he really was? I had just graduated,
you know, college, he threw my college graduation party.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Oh god, how did you meet?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I'm so taken aback by this because I'm watching things
where you're going out and having fun and I'm like,
clearly you're twenty four years old.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah, how was he home wear? Dressing up in costume
for him? I'm like, information, I'm.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So sorry you had to see that, Teddy, I'm so
sorry I had to see that. So uh I I yeah,
no excuses, just young dumb but him.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I worked at a mortgage company. That was my first
job out of high school. I was a little assistant.
He was one of the title reps that would come
in every week, and I like, my boss was like, hey,
you need to like take her out and like teach
her the business. And he taught you the business, all right,
he taught me the business. But like when I met him,
he was like all the dad vibes, like dockers, like
(03:31):
khaki shorts, like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
So when you had a Hummer back then, like you
were hot.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
So the fact also about Hommer, huh why with the
chron Like why was that the thing?
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Well?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Why was the calm cline underwear with the ice mask
on his face or whatever he had.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
He was so special back then.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Yeah, I mean you dodged that bullet.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Okay, so you were twenty four years old.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Yeah, how did this all come about?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Because it originally was called Behind the Gates, right.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Uh, yeah, I believe.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
So I know there was a lot of stuff circulating
before like I ever joined and I had I have
this little like I think it was like a studio
that I was living in Encoda Dacasa. So a lot
of people don't know that, like I was already living there.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
And yeah, you didn't live with Slide.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Not right away, Okay, so I'd gotten like my own
place for a minute, but like it was just a
little studio again right out of college.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Like yeah, fairly trying to find my way.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
So yeah, it just kind of it was wild. And
then there was just I think being so young and
being thrown into the life. First of all, I did
not come from money, so like everything that like I've
done in my life, I just like was on me.
So to get thrown into number one, a world of
like wealth, number two, being so much younger and everybody
(05:00):
being so much older, I was super intimidated going in
because like why wouldn't I be with like you know, sure,
and all the personalities as well, and.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
You didn't know anybody right when I didn't know anyone.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Literally, I remember first seeing like first day shooting. They
brought me to this bar in the middle of Koto
and they were like, okay, Joe, we're gonna you're gonna
meet all the girls for the first time on the patio,
and I think it was like Kimberly and a bunch
of other like you know.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I remember that scene. Yes, and you're saying you want
to make friends. Yes.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Are you talk to any of the girls to this day?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yeah, actually still talked to Gina Alexis. They actually came
to my wedding when I just got married a year.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Okay, I was going to talk to you about that.
So your one year anniversary is coming up on the
twenty eighth. Congratulations. Now you are a cougar because you
are five years older than your husband. I am five
years older than my husband.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Really, yeah, up here to go, you go, girl pounded out.
I think I'm actually seven. He's thirty five, thirty six? Yeah,
oh you're seven years old? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Hold on, speaking of age, how old is Slade?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
He was fifteen years older than me when I met him,
and I so when I met him, I was he
was thirty do the math, so doing the math backwards?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Yeah, so wait, so you're forty.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I'm about I'm about to be forty three in September
and forty two.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Right, and he's fifteen years older than you.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah, okay, so forty, I'm fifty eight years old, so
you're he is low to change.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
He pulls up, he says he's forty eight, says he's
forty eight years old to this day.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
I'm sorry what he's just kidding?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Yeah, just kidding.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
What I joke with everybody, I'm forever twenty seven because
La just keeps you like, yes, it's La La Land
and like nobody ever grows up here, at least on
our side in West Hollywood and Hollywood.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
But he's absolutely not forty eight.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
No, he's ten years older than that.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Okay, how long were you guys dating before you were cast?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
And when I met I met.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Him and Gretchen at like a race car event years ago,
back when I was still on the show, and I
remember him telling me something along.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
The lines like the show was his idea?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Is that his idea? Like he started it? It was
his idea to go on and like to do the
whole thing. Because a lot of people may or may
not know he was. He had an agent in LA
when I met him, he was already because of his
like cycling stuff he would get he would book like
professional cycling stuff.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
You know.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Can you clarify something for us, Yeah, because he has
said that he raced in the Tour deference, I'm calling
bullshit on that. I'm saying that he was like a helper,
a water boy, something like that. Eddie actually is a
cyclist as well. Didn't ever race in the Tour de France,
but he took Slaid out one time riding in Napa
(08:01):
when we were filming and he could barely keep up.
In fact, he was on the side of the road
in cramps and Eddie was like rubbing his cramps out
because he was so bad. Is that just an exaggeration,
because I feel like he likes to exaggerate to make
him you know.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
So all I remember is it was him and the
big cycling guy.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
I'm sorry, so I note.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yes, the two of them were like Lance was a
national champion at the time of his like state, and
then I believe I remember telling me.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
He was his in his state.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Telling you or did you see it with your own eyes?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
He told me, he told.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Me when we met, like because I would ask him,
I'm like, why do you put on these like super
neon outfits and like sit on a bike and like,
like I just I wanted to like understand.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
I mean the cycling outfits are horrendous that he has
a ton of them. I mean they're all neon, which
is great because people's eddie cycle he does, he does.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, yeah, But then how long did you guys date
before you were cast? I?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Oh, such a long time ago. I want to.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Say maybe like at least almost a year, if not
a little bit. And we were together for like a
while actually, because we were already engaged when we were
on the show, and we got engaged almost at a year,
so at least a year we were dating before, so
we had like a fully normal life of just you know,
(09:30):
living in Coodo with the kids.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
I had moved in at the time.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
And then that was the shasting process then, because like
for us, it's for me, it was very different than
even for Tamra, Like how did it work for you?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, So they were looking for the fifth couple to cast. Uh,
And again I wasn't there when we got cast. This
was all Slade.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Wasn't friends with Scott.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Done up. Yeah, So we lived literally down the street
from Scott, and I guess there was a charity event
that Slade went to and that's kind of where the
whole thing went down. So what I remember and then
how it actually happened was two different things.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
I later found out.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I thought that Slade had gone to this event with Scott,
this you know, codo party that he had thrown, and
they had asked us to be on the show, is
what I originally thought. It was kind to find out
later Slade had bought a ticket. It was like a
charity auction to be on the show.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
And I remember hearing that, so he got his way
on the show.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
But I don't remember that again ages ago. So I guess, yeah,
that's apparently how it ended up happening. But I was
never there. And then Slade came home one day and
was like, hey, so we're going to do this thing.
And I you know back then, so I never.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Even met you and did auditions with you or any
kind of no camera work.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Nothing, nothing.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
It was literally the I guess maybe the allure of
like young girl moving.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
To codo with this older guy who has Do you.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Remember who the production company was back then? It was evolution,
so it's spent abolition from the very beginning. So yeah,
you were the very first to leave the show and
then do a spinoff.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
God bless that spinoff.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Oh my gosh, I need to watch it. I didn't
even until I was reading your intro, I was like,
what is it? Was?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Was dating my ex is that it was like the
Bachelorette meets a reality show, except there was no like.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
But don't you feel like it would really make it today?
Speaker 5 (11:32):
I feel like it was it's time and it was
on yep.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
What Yeah, So I was the first to get a
spin off, and then I had just gotten and I
know there's going to be all Back then it was like,
you know, getting a record deal was like a funny thing,
you know now looking back at it.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
But I was also the first. I was never a singer.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I was a dancer and I just had music and
singing in my life, and they were like, you know,
dancer first, singer second, and more like karaoke singer. But
you know, the producers were like, hey, we want to
give you this music opportunity, and I was like.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Yeah, let's do it. Who doesn't want to ever do
an album.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
And put themselves on like a music video, like as
a little girl dancing in the mirror with like a
hair brush unscripted.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Did I hear that Gretchen bought your the rights to
your music or something like that years ago?
Speaker 5 (12:39):
He sure did, what I mean? And why did she
do that? Yeah? So again this is just what I hear.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
So my music producer at the time, Brian Todd, was
the music producer for Ashley Tisdale. For me, for like
a bunch of like young like you know, Hollywood la
like girls that were like trying to come up and
make it type thing.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
That was the reality version.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
At some point there was a financial situation and he
started to sell his catalog. Catalog's out and for whatever reason, uh,
she decided to buy it for how much I'm not
sure that's all.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
But what was the point?
Speaker 4 (13:22):
It was it just for something to put on the show?
Speaker 5 (13:25):
I mean, I don't know. I think it was wild.
I think it was wild.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
She ended up coming out with a single after that too,
I saw, well, So I don't know if like that
was the way she would like, I don't know, I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
But let me go after my new boyfriend's girlfriend's music.
Like really, now, when when Gretchensley started dating where what
was your mind at at that point where you're like,
what the because he dated Laurie after you? Right, yeah,
so you had a single.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
I had a single.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
It ended up on radio, which was amazing, music video
ended up on Network on TV and then right when
and I also got a publishing deal because one thing
I was.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Wow, was a songwriter.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
That's actually what I actually for reels like did where
I felt the most confident, And I got a publishing
deal through Sony. And then one of the songs I
ended up writing ended up actually On the Hills on MTV,
which was.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Kind of cool. Oh I remember yep, it was called
a Little Inspiration.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
And yeah, were you ever on the Hills?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I so, Lauren Audrina, Yeah, that whole crew the scenes
I was ever in, like never air because you know
they shoot everything I never did. But yeah, so like
that whole group of like OC girls, it was same age,
same time. We all kind of came up together and
Lauren Conrad and I had a friend in common. Leslie Bruce,
who worked at US Weekly, went to uc Ervine. She
(14:50):
introduced us, and so the both of us being in
la being the girls on reality from OC just kind
of like grew up and kind of grew up together.
Lauren kept going and has blown up since then, and
I kind of took a break from reality after. You know,
just did you.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Do any other reality shows after your spin off?
Speaker 5 (15:10):
No? No, no, would you ever? Yeah? Definitely?
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Okay, So you will be coming to you will be
coming to my parties next season?
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Oh? I mean yes, I was.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Perfect because Andy said you're the one that got away
too early.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Really yes, Oh my god, Andy, that's so sweet.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Maybe some double dates with the husbands or parties or
something next season.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I'll see. So I have a question.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
One of your main storylines was making friends and Codo.
Did you find any genuine connections with any of the
women on the show.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
I did.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I will say number one Gina. Gina has been like
a second mom to me. I always called your mama Gina,
and that's kind of what she's been in my life.
If I ever needed advice or anything like that. Kimberly,
even though she left the show super early after season one.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Where did she go? You know what? None of us
know that. Like I heard she moved out.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Of state and just that's what I heard.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yeah, but she was more of like she was like
if there was a housewife training of how to be
a housewife, because I had no idea, like you know
what I mean, just that world.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
She was my like Yoda if you will.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah, she's like a caricature of what a housewife is
supposed to be.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Completely Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Like I ran into her at the montage. Wait what
she's back, Gina. Yeah, she's in Orange County.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Oh no, I was talking about Kimberly.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Oh Kimberly.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
No, no, I'm talking about Tina.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Yes it is.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
And so I ran into her and she was just
like Gina, like I had didn't skip a beat.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
I love Gina.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Gina remains the same, so down to earth, so like
just Gina, like and that's why I love her, like
nothing has ever changed her and like she's just she's
my heart.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
I love her so much.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Has anything changed? The canary diamond ring that you got?
And where is it?
Speaker 5 (17:11):
It was fake? Right? Okay?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yes it was what The canary diamond ring still sits
somewhere in a little chanel box inside three more boxes
at my mom's house because I can't even bother to
dig that thing up.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
But like, yes, so.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Don't you find out it was fake? Or am I
going to find this out later on in the season.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
So so Slade told me. Slade told me in.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
The clubhouse it needs to be on Andy's clubhouse on
the shop.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Wait should I bring it? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Yes you should.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
We can actually take it to a jeweler and actually
see how much that poor little thing is worth.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Twenty five dollar to any If that.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Right, I am blown away.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Okay, so he was honest with me.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
He did tell me that, you know, the setting was real,
but the centerstone he wanted to change it with day.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Do you think Gretchen's is fake too?
Speaker 5 (18:08):
I don't know, probably not.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
At what point did he tell you that it.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Was fake after he proposed? But again, this is pre Housewives,
so no cameras know nothing.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
And how do you when someone goes, I'm proposing to
but this is a fake ring.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Here's the thing. I know.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I'm a sap. I'm the biggest romantic that there is.
So at the time back then also twenty three, twenty four,
no experience. Yeah, I was in it for like, I
genuinely loved him so much that he could have given
me a band and I wouldn't have cared.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
But that's my question for both of you guys, now,
knowing what you know, would you rather have a small
diamond that's real, Yes, that's authentic for sure, or a
giant fake one?
Speaker 5 (18:57):
No?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I rather have a band a million percent, like I
don't even need like, of course, every girl loves diamonds,
but like what like I wanted a fall left for
love and not for money.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
But why was it fake?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
He's briging that he's making seven figures and he's got
all this money.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
By the way, how are you just seven figures?
Speaker 5 (19:16):
A million?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
A million plus? And then he said that the ring
was over one hundred thousand dollars if he bought you.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
I don't think of one hundred thousand pesos?
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Who exactly? No? Wait what he didn't say that? Really? Yes?
I did? Yes on the podcast?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
No, I come on here?
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Do you think i'd have here? Okay?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
On the show?
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Do you and him not? No? Wait, I don't stand
you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I feel like I'm so far removed from the world
of housewives being in La like it's it's like a
little bubble.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
I don't know any of the riff any of the drama,
any of the anything.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
So you sharing all this with me and like for
the first time, going wait what, I didn't know you
and him don't get along.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
But moving slightly away from Slade, what are your thoughts
on Vicky and how did she treat you?
Speaker 5 (20:11):
I love Vicky. Vicky.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Vicky is always going to be Vicky and again, like
I always just had my experience with her back when
we lived in OC and Vicky has always been great
even over the years. Like Gina and her are you know,
still close and Gina will like again whenever I can,
like see her, will bring me to like I know,
we like did a dinner once. This is years ago,
(20:34):
by the way, and this is like she'd probably Vicky
had probably been on the show like a lot of
seasons by now, six seven, eight, and we all went
to dinner. Still Vicky, like Vicky, I feel like is
always going to stay Vicky as well when you get
her one on one, it's very consistent.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Yeah, yeah, I'm actually going to see her tonight.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Oh you are tell her? I said, Hi, I actually
saw a picture of you and her.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
And yes, yeah, so the three of us are going
to meet tonight. But I told her yesterday, I said
I'm having jokes. She's like, oh my god, she's so sweet.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I love.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
She said, Hi, tell her.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I said, Hi, I'm rid Or died for Vicky.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
So if anyone has a problem, like, I'll kill him.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Well you might have to kill me then, yeah, because.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
He does not like Teddy Vicky what.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Okay, So she has a real problem with me because
she always wanted to do a podcast with Tamra And
I reached out to Tamra when iHeart reached out to
me and said, we want to do a Housewives podcast.
And I said fine, but I'm only going to recap
and do these things if i can do it with
somebody that I want. And they said who, and I
said Tamara. And I contacted Tamara and it was like
(21:46):
three days and we were done and then like yeah,
we we kind of exploded, thank you know, thanks to
like amazing production team and iHeart and everybody. It was
great and our connection. But then Vicky like couldn't take it,
Like so instead of being happy for camera.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
You know, Vicky, I do know Vicky.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
She actually called our boss and said that they should
get rid of Teddy and bring her on.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Yes, Vicky, that's not nice. And then but it's so Vicky.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
And then she went on What Happens Live and said
she didn't know who I was, like, she just okay,
she's bitter Boots.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Okay, Well, I think it's amazing that y'all are doing
this podcast. And I think that just opportunities come to
people and like, you know, you ride them. And also
she has her own podcast? What is she talking about?
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Doesn't she?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
She did and it was very hot.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Yeah, oh okay I was. I was like so confused
because I thought she was doing hers. Okay, yeah, I
have a question for you.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Would you ever do the Ultimate Girl's Trip?
Speaker 5 (22:45):
I I have seen a trailer of that. Would I
do it? Why the hell not?
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I think that, you know, I haven't been in that
dynamic four years. I don't know if I would get
eaten a or if like, like I don't, I don't.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
It's like riding a bicycle, Joe, you get right back on.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Have you done it? I have done on it? How
was it? So?
Speaker 4 (23:12):
I was let go after my twelfth season, and I
was I did nothing for a year and then I
think twenty nineteen twenty, maybe twenty twenty, they asked me
to do Ultimate Girls Trip. So I did Ultimate Girl's
Trip and from there they brought me back on Orange County.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
So I did it.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
It was weird because I was kind of out of
the mix. I'm with new girls and I don't necessarily
know that well, some of them I've met through Bravo stuff,
but didn't really know them. It was it was hard,
but it was fun.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
It was during the pandemic. So we went to Derenda's house.
Now the girls nowadays are going to do Turks and
Caicos And where did the uh where the new ones go?
Speaker 5 (23:55):
They?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Where did they go? Bali?
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Well not Bali, they went to Landiland.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
That production budget though, okay.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I know, and it is ten days.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
It's a lot of money for ten days.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Yeah, okay, okay, So I don't think you would get.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
So you hear that Andy, she'll do Ultimate Girls Trip.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Andy, there's just a psa, she will do Girls Triph.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
So do you watch any Housewives right now?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
I do not watch any Housewives, to be honest with you.
I only have the apps, no cable, so I stream
everything like, also shout out to Peacock because that's actually
one of the apps that I pay for because they
and all of my favorite shows are on there. But yeah,
unfortunately you get everything one day later. So I'm just like,
so that's okay.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Yeah, but if you get on Ultimate Girls Trip, they
give you one free year of Peacock.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
So oh nice, okay, get I'm all for a free streamings,
me too, Me too.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
On a saturder note, watching season one into, Grayson was
on the show, and obviously you've heard that he recently
passed away. Yeah, do you reach out to Michelle or
Slide at that point?
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
I actually I actually okay, sorry, sorry, I didn't even
know where that came from.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
I actually did.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I reached out to Slade just to say like, I
was so sorry, and yeah, I never heard back from him.
But yeah, wow, I don't even know where that came from.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Yeah, there when he was all in Yeah, do you
remember what were you with him when he got diagnosed?
Speaker 5 (25:35):
No? No, I when I met Slide, I I already knew.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Yeah, oh they already knew at that point.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Uh, yes, yes, when I believe when I when we
when we had been dating, like he already had the tumor.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Oh I didn't know that.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
I didn't realize that he was diagnosed that young because
it wasn't really talked about.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Right, Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
He was two years old when I met him, and
he was already struggling, and so Slade had kind of
opened up and shared the story about how they found
out and stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Heartbreaking, so heartbreaking can till we live three years later.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I it honestly just warms my heart that like he
was able to have as many years yeah, as like
he did, and his.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Poor mom, like she really lived her life to take
care of him. Really heartbreaking.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Okay, Now I wish I had whiskey in this.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Well we have we have champagne today.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Oh my gosh, that's what I should have done.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
This is I think something that's going to help a
lot of our listeners because there's a lot of people,
of course, that are in relationships where you are, you know,
a bonus parent, you know, and you are and then
all of a sudden when you break up, how how
do you kind of reconcile that and how do you
how has that affected your future relationships?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
And you know, now you're married, now and you're in
a different place.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Yeah, but I mean I always know, like when when
my mom and step my step mom was my stepmom
for twenty years and then you know, when they broke up,
there was obviously like a huge shift and there's like
that void, but there's also like you're trying to have boundaries,
so kind of how did you deal with that after
the breakup?
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Yeah, I think it was hard.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
I think it was actually harder like after I moved
to LA, because I think it's easier to move on
from a relationship when you leave a city, right because
it's just like, yeah, yeah, you leave everything behind, you
get caught up in LA and you know all the
things of La going out, like all the things you
do when you're young in LA and first moved to
(27:55):
a new city. I think for me it really hit
me years later when you know, I would hear about
Gavin or like you know, see somebody would send me
something about Grayson, you know, a picture of him, an
update of him, anything, And I think it's in those
moments it was hard. But I did reach out to
Gavin as well, like a few years ago, just to
(28:17):
tell him, Hi, I heard he got married. Congratulations. Just
as like somebody, you know, I know I don't have
a right to, but like he was a big part
of my life.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Everybody has a right to say something nice to somebody.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
Yeah, it's not like.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Right right, And then she broke up.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
You can still you still should And then what's your
So you're you're married? Now, how how did you meet
your new husband?
Speaker 5 (28:41):
Hinge? What we met in the middle of covid on Hinge?
I read that, yes, and okay, literally it was one.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Of these things where like I had been after the
show in digital advertising and that's all I had done,
and I was kind of like shooting doing videos like photography,
and I was like, you know what, I'm going to
leave this incredible career behind to go pursue being a creator,
and that's what I did. And then three months later
the pandemic hit. I was super focused on like the
(29:13):
YouTube channel, like building just like all of that. But
then it's the pandemic, so we're bored.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
So I'm like.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Scrolling through and I was like, you know what, I
kind of just want to like flirt with cute boys,
and so I signed up for Hinge and he had
a disclaimer on his like profile that said I don't
want to meet anybody because you know, it's the pandemic.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
And I was like, perfect, this is going to go nowhere,
let's go.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Yeah, why are you on hinge in your bio says
I don't want to meet me.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
But no, he's saying I don't want to meet anyone
in person.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Yep, there was no VOBE. Okay, I got it.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
And at the time his roommate was had health issues,
and then my roommate at the time also had health issues,
so it actually worked perfect.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
And for those of you guys listening, COVID in LA
was different than COVID anywhere else, I mean other than
New York.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
I mean yeah, we were on lockdown.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Like I remember, like five months into it, I hadn't
even seen people, and my friends came over and we
sat outside with gloves on and we made each other
pee in the grass because.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
You couldn't even like it was. Everyone bought their own drinks.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
It was.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
It was wild, like yeah, like washed down. I never
washed down my like groceries, but like people like it was.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Yeah, they would wash down the boxes that came from Amazon.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Yeah, and then the fruit, the special fruit spray that
I'd never heard of, because COVID could have been like
it was. La was another freaking beast.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
It was a wild, wild time and so it was
like easy to see him and know like, oh perfect,
Like he doesn't want to meet. I want to focus
on what I'm doing and that's it. But just over
time talking to him, you know, over FaceTime, over zoom, you.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Know, just doing all the things intimacy.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I ended up falling in love over a screen, and y'all,
I swear I always say, I feel like I was
in a Love is Blind episode because I was falling
in love with a human that, like literally over our screen,
that I had never met. Because also, we talked for
three months before our first date. I said I love
you before we ever met in person. We were boyfriend
(31:20):
and girlfriend before we ever had our first date in
person three months later because again COVID, we were falling,
like falling into over.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Why, yes we did.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
I was like, all right, let's let's really get to
yeeah yeah, fun sex.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
Yes we had fun sex. Yeah, oh my god, greed.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
And so how long were you dating before you got married?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
We were dating like a year and a half and
then we got engaged and then we ended up getting
married like two years two.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
And a half years later, and he's a music composer.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah, he's a music composer. But actual recently, we just
started a creative agency. So I worked at TikTok this
last year and then we just decided to kind of
like the dream has be a content creator full time,
but what needs to pay the bills is we wanted
to start a creative agency where we help brands like
show up on TikTok because obviously we had both kind
of come from that world.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
He was also working at a creative agency.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
So although we do have two separate rooms, so they're like,
how do you start a business with like your partner,
But honestly, like it's been good because there's like that separation.
So yeah, we started Social play recently, so we've been
like just kind of like you know, doing.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
On Social play. If they wanted to hire you guys
for help and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Oh yeah, you can go to our website social playdigital
dot com and everything is on there. But yeah, we
literally just started like a month ago, tunny like literally
baby baby baby brand, new business. Yeah, so I'm seeing that, like,
you know, things can take off and you know, he
has one client, and I just feel like it's exciting
(33:02):
when you can like kind of hit the reset button
and start over and build something.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Together and something that you guys love and you're good at.
And yeah, you know what, after this, I have a
feeling we're going to see you on reality television again.
Like I think I have to be honest, because I
didn't watch at the beginning, so I was like, you know,
like I was not I was like having one of
those things about this interview anyone. You are so engaging,
(33:30):
You're warm, you're easy to talk to, You've shown all
of the emotions like we talked.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
You have to understand we talked to housewives multiple times
a week and half the time.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Everybody's so media trained and so sheltered, very like you're
getting a certain type and you're just who you are,
just giving it all.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
I have to give you cups to that because that
is since.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
You're giving it all, I have a question.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Yeah, thank you, and yet.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
We're going to take it back.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
We're going to take it back quite a few years.
Did you ever hook up with Shane Kyo.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
The bunny Killer, Buddy Killer?
Speaker 5 (34:11):
She did? You did? Here's the thing, was it just
a quick little hand job. Was it?
Speaker 3 (34:16):
No, a hand job?
Speaker 5 (34:18):
Hold on?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Is this gonna play out on the Is it a blowy?
Speaker 5 (34:22):
No? No, it was none that It was way after,
And honestly, I don't mean way after.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
You watched his episodes and you're like that's a guy.
No no, no, no, no no, no, I mean a
good one.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
Like after it was a kiss. It was a kiss,
It was just a kiss.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Years after, Yeah, it was nothing, a little innocent heart
back then, like, yeah, it.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
Was literally just a kiss.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
And then he slipped And.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
This is after the show. You've moved to l A.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
I'm in LA Like this is years later, as in
like I've been off the sho show for years. You know,
we've all like kind of moved on, and I don't
even know how it happened.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
You're friends with Alexis, right, I am.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
I love Alexis so much. And one thing that I
don't understand is why people call. Like just yesterday, I
was telling someone like, oh, you know, just sharing like
I'm going to go on a podcast having done you
know something housewives in a second, and they were like
with who, I'm like Tamar and they're like, oh, that's awesome.
Do you talk to anyone anymore. I'm like, yeah, Gina Alexis,
and they're like, oh, Jesus drugs.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
I'm like, why do people say, like, well, because I
called her Jesus jugs once that. Yeah, but you have
to understand when she was with her ex husband, Yeah,
she was a different person. Okay, she was a very
(35:52):
different person.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
I'm like, first of all, I've never even noticed her
boops are big, and second of all, the sweetest, nicest human,
very sweet, very very Again, I wasn't on the show
with her, and we also connected post yeah yeah, yeah,
And I would.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Love for her to be back on the show where
she is now because she's like in a relationship now
getting married.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
Tam Oh, I don't.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
I don't have a problem with her. I had a problem,
Like I just didn't like her ex husband.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
Okay, I don't.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
It was allegedly allegedly, No, he just was very you know,
she was a different person. I think with him, got
it and she probably is today.
Speaker 5 (36:33):
Okay, that makes sense, got I got it? Yeah, yeah,
I got it. And I'm all for for you know,
people changing.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
But I think she's a kind person. I don't think
she's got like a mean bone in her body.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
I don't think she's malicious.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
No, I haven't gotten to any life, not at all.
So so I have nothing to weigh in here other
than what I heard from the past.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
But also I feel like all of us on the show,
like I know, let's be honest, eighty percent of my
interview I had probably a cocktail or two in me. Ye,
Like I remember seeing some episodes where I'm like, Joe,
are you really slurring as you're talking to camera, like.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
You're smoking a cigarette outside? Honestly heaven.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
I was like the fact she gives so she I mean,
you could tell the two thousand and six grand and
my parents would dropped me off at school with like
cigarettes and we would all no one had car seats.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
Or anything like a different time.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Yeah, but the fact that you're like he's like come
home and you're like, no, I know, it's not even late.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
And he's like it's three am, and you're like, I know.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
It literally like who was I? Who was she? Like
I I?
Speaker 1 (37:41):
And so I just feel like a lot of us,
Like also, I don't do pink boas and deebra hats
and made costumes anymore, right, I feel like we all right,
we're probably not who we were back when we were.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Except for Vica, She's said exactly the same.
Speaker 4 (37:55):
Ye, Pinky's never changed except her face, which.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
By the way, I have to love. I think she
looks amazing.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
She does, but I have to say, no, I have
to say now that I watch season one, her original
face is a nice face.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Yeah, I didn't have a problem with that face.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
Nope, I get it.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
We all have our own thing. I've had a necklace.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Speaking of speaking of your face, well, does anybody ever
mistake you for Megan Markle?
Speaker 5 (38:23):
That's super sweet. I have been told that before.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
I can see it.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
I see every time someone I'm like, y'all are way
too kind because like, I don't see it.
Speaker 5 (38:34):
I think it's funny and thank you.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
By the way, I'm watching Suits right now because all
of my shows are done for the year. I had
no idea she was actually an incredible actress.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
I've never seen it.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
It's like, if you're bored, Yeah, if you're ever bored,
I'm gonna watch Peacock.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
Netflix has nothing right now, nothing.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Hold on, No, I was recently obsessed with some thing,
but now I can't remember.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
I probably already seen it.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Summerhouse also an amazing recommendation if you need a new
show to watch.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
I'm obsessed. People are It's all provo.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Yeah, okay, So I have a question if you had
to pick somebody just this is our closing question has
nothing to do with Orange County. If you had to
pick somebody from Vanner Pomp Rules to have sex with,
who would it be?
Speaker 5 (39:23):
Guy?
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Yeah? Either or either?
Speaker 5 (39:28):
Oh man, I guess James Kennedy.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
I can't think James because, honestly, like the other two
are just no, it's too much of a wreck. The
other time is way too passive. And I just feel
like James would give it. I feel like, you know, I.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Feel like time James would be a good time in bed.
Speaker 5 (39:54):
Yeah, you'd probably be drinking right before it happened.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
I mean he would last a long time, you know,
young fun girls to sir like, that's my vibe.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
I don't hate that answer.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
Yeah, I don't need to do that.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
But mine is Tom Schwartz.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
Really he is. Yeah, I feel he looks like my dad.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Absolutely not, he looks like a dad.
Speaker 5 (40:17):
I feel like he would.
Speaker 4 (40:18):
I'm gonna fantasize it's gonna be about somebody today that he.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Had an a hommer in an ill fitting suit, he'd
be Joe's tight.
Speaker 5 (40:27):
Teddy plans. Do not know. I feel like Tom would
like make love to you and James would like, No, I.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Don't want making love, absolutely not.
Speaker 5 (40:40):
That's not happening.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
But we appreciate you so much.
Speaker 5 (40:43):
Thank you so much for having me. This was super
fun and Teddy, it was really nice meeting you.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
It was nice meeting you too.
Speaker 4 (40:48):
Where can people find you?
Speaker 5 (40:50):
Instagram?
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Yeah, you can go on Instagram Jody Larissa with two
a's at the end, or you can go to TikTok
Jody Larissa Gray.
Speaker 5 (40:57):
Awesome.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Thank you so much. Thank you Joe so much.
Speaker 5 (41:00):
She thanks for having me Chay to have on.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
I know, like she's so likable.
Speaker 5 (41:06):
I know I'm like us
Two Teas in a pod which Teddy Mellencamp and Camrad Judge.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Hi, guys, welcome to another episode of to Teas Myself,
Teddy Mellencamp.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
And tambrid Judge.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Should we have a I mean, this is clearly an
o G to the OC that we haven't seen in
a very long time. So I'm so excited to introduce
Joe Dela Rosa.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
She's a television personality best known as being the original
housewife in the Real Housewives Orange County. She released an
album in two thousand and seven called Unscripted. Joe was
also part of the first spinoff of the Real Housewives franchise,
Date My Ex Joe and Slade.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
That aired in two thousand and eight. I don't even
know about this had it lasted long.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
She recently started her own creative agency called House of
Gray and was married a year ago to Tarin Gray.
So there's you can go and see her People magazine
article about her wedding or her engagement and get caught.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Up from the past.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Do you look amazing?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
How's it going?
Speaker 4 (01:15):
It is going so well. Thank you so much for
coming on our podcast. We're so excited to have you.
You and I have been chatting on on DM. Oh
my god, the outfit, the hair, that everything. My question
to you is do you still own a skytop?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
I'm absolutely not. I got rid of those ages ago.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
So tell So do you live in La now?
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Yeah? I've been living in LA since I left the show.
Actually really literally, did.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
You leave or did you get the boot? Or did
you break up with Slade?
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Broke up with Slade and then moved her late?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
My heart was always city, like I've just I've always
gravitated the city, you know, the lights of Hollywood and whatnot.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
And yeah, was it hard for you to leave from
the show or you were sitting along?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
No, No, I don't think so in the sense that,
like because it was a breakup and I was just
ready to like start my life over. I was also
already going to LA every weekend with my girlfriends, and like,
I was just in such a different place in my
life where.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
You were going to LA when you were dating Slade.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, yeah, but that's what I like a Slade?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Were you, honestly, like honest back then, love of my life?
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Then? What?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
In my twenties he really was? I had just graduated,
you know, college, he threw my college graduation party.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Oh god, how did you meet?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I'm so taken aback by this because I'm watching things
where you're going out and having fun and I'm like,
clearly you're twenty four years old.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah, how was he home wear? Dressing up in costume
for him? I'm like, information, I'm.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
So sorry you had to see that, Teddy, I'm so
sorry I had to see that. So uh I I yeah,
no excuses, just young dumb but him.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I worked at a mortgage company. That was my first
job out of high school. I was a little assistant.
He was one of the title reps that would come
in every week, and I like, my boss was like, hey,
you need to like take her out and like teach
her the business. And he taught you the business, all right,
he taught me the business. But like when I met him,
he was like all the dad vibes, like dockers, like
(03:31):
khaki shorts, like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
So when you had a Hummer back then, like you
were hot.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
So the fact also about Hommer, huh why with the
chron Like why was that the thing?
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Well?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Why was the calm cline underwear with the ice mask
on his face or whatever he had.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
He was so special back then.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Yeah, I mean you dodged that bullet.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Okay, so you were twenty four years old.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Yeah, how did this all come about?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Because it originally was called Behind the Gates, right.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Uh, yeah, I believe.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
So I know there was a lot of stuff circulating
before like I ever joined and I had I have
this little like I think it was like a studio
that I was living in Encoda Dacasa. So a lot
of people don't know that, like I was already living there.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
And yeah, you didn't live with Slide.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Not right away, Okay, so I'd gotten like my own
place for a minute, but like it was just a
little studio again right out of college.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Like yeah, fairly trying to find my way.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
So yeah, it just kind of it was wild. And
then there was just I think being so young and
being thrown into the life. First of all, I did
not come from money, so like everything that like I've
done in my life, I just like was on me.
So to get thrown into number one, a world of
like wealth, number two, being so much younger and everybody
(05:00):
being so much older, I was super intimidated going in
because like why wouldn't I be with like you know, sure,
and all the personalities as well, and.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
You didn't know anybody right when I didn't know anyone.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Literally, I remember first seeing like first day shooting. They
brought me to this bar in the middle of Koto
and they were like, okay, Joe, we're gonna you're gonna
meet all the girls for the first time on the patio,
and I think it was like Kimberly and a bunch
of other like you know.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I remember that scene. Yes, and you're saying you want
to make friends. Yes.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Are you talk to any of the girls to this day?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yeah, actually still talked to Gina Alexis. They actually came
to my wedding when I just got married a year.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Okay, I was going to talk to you about that.
So your one year anniversary is coming up on the
twenty eighth. Congratulations. Now you are a cougar because you
are five years older than your husband. I am five
years older than my husband.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Really, yeah, up here to go, you go, girl pounded out.
I think I'm actually seven. He's thirty five, thirty six? Yeah,
oh you're seven years old? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Hold on, speaking of age, how old is Slade?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
He was fifteen years older than me when I met him,
and I so when I met him, I was he
was thirty do the math, so doing the math backwards?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Yeah, so wait, so you're forty.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
I'm about I'm about to be forty three in September
and forty two.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Right, and he's fifteen years older than you.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah, okay, so forty, I'm fifty eight years old, so
you're he is low to change.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
He pulls up, he says he's forty eight, says he's
forty eight years old to this day.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
I'm sorry what he's just kidding?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Yeah, just kidding.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
What I joke with everybody, I'm forever twenty seven because
La just keeps you like, yes, it's La La Land
and like nobody ever grows up here, at least on
our side in West Hollywood and Hollywood.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
But he's absolutely not forty eight.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
No, he's ten years older than that.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Okay, how long were you guys dating before you were cast?
Speaker 3 (07:06):
And when I met I met.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Him and Gretchen at like a race car event years ago,
back when I was still on the show, and I
remember him telling me something along.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
The lines like the show was his idea?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Is that his idea? Like he started it? It was
his idea to go on and like to do the
whole thing. Because a lot of people may or may
not know he was. He had an agent in LA
when I met him, he was already because of his
like cycling stuff he would get he would book like
professional cycling stuff.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
You know.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Can you clarify something for us, Yeah, because he has
said that he raced in the Tour deference, I'm calling
bullshit on that. I'm saying that he was like a helper,
a water boy, something like that. Eddie actually is a
cyclist as well. Didn't ever race in the Tour de France,
but he took Slaid out one time riding in Napa
(08:01):
when we were filming and he could barely keep up.
In fact, he was on the side of the road
in cramps and Eddie was like rubbing his cramps out
because he was so bad. Is that just an exaggeration,
because I feel like he likes to exaggerate to make
him you know.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
So all I remember is it was him and the
big cycling guy.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
I'm sorry, so I note.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Yes, the two of them were like Lance was a
national champion at the time of his like state, and
then I believe I remember telling me.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
He was his in his state.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Telling you or did you see it with your own eyes?
Speaker 5 (08:44):
He told me, he told.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Me when we met, like because I would ask him,
I'm like, why do you put on these like super
neon outfits and like sit on a bike and like,
like I just I wanted to like understand.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
I mean the cycling outfits are horrendous that he has
a ton of them. I mean they're all neon, which
is great because people's eddie cycle he does, he does.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, yeah, But then how long did you guys date
before you were cast? I?
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Oh, such a long time ago. I want to.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Say maybe like at least almost a year, if not
a little bit. And we were together for like a
while actually, because we were already engaged when we were
on the show, and we got engaged almost at a year,
so at least a year we were dating before, so
we had like a fully normal life of just you know,
(09:30):
living in Coodo with the kids.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
I had moved in at the time.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
And then that was the shasting process then, because like
for us, it's for me, it was very different than
even for Tamra, Like how did it work for you?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, So they were looking for the fifth couple to cast. Uh,
And again I wasn't there when we got cast. This
was all Slade.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Wasn't friends with Scott.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Done up. Yeah, So we lived literally down the street
from Scott, and I guess there was a charity event
that Slade went to and that's kind of where the
whole thing went down. So what I remember and then
how it actually happened was two different things.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
I later found out.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I thought that Slade had gone to this event with Scott,
this you know, codo party that he had thrown, and
they had asked us to be on the show, is
what I originally thought. It was kind to find out
later Slade had bought a ticket. It was like a
charity auction to be on the show.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
And I remember hearing that, so he got his way
on the show.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
But I don't remember that again ages ago. So I guess, yeah,
that's apparently how it ended up happening. But I was
never there. And then Slade came home one day and
was like, hey, so we're going to do this thing.
And I you know back then, so I never.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Even met you and did auditions with you or any
kind of no camera work.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Nothing, nothing.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
It was literally the I guess maybe the allure of
like young girl moving.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
To codo with this older guy who has Do you.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Remember who the production company was back then? It was evolution,
so it's spent abolition from the very beginning. So yeah,
you were the very first to leave the show and
then do a spinoff.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
God bless that spinoff.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Oh my gosh, I need to watch it. I didn't
even until I was reading your intro, I was like,
what is it? Was?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Was dating my ex is that it was like the
Bachelorette meets a reality show, except there was no like.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
But don't you feel like it would really make it today?
Speaker 5 (11:32):
I feel like it was it's time and it was
on yep.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
What Yeah, So I was the first to get a
spin off, and then I had just gotten and I
know there's going to be all Back then it was like,
you know, getting a record deal was like a funny thing,
you know now looking back at it.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
But I was also the first. I was never a singer.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
I was a dancer and I just had music and
singing in my life, and they were like, you know,
dancer first, singer second, and more like karaoke singer. But
you know, the producers were like, hey, we want to
give you this music opportunity, and I was like.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Yeah, let's do it. Who doesn't want to ever do
an album.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
And put themselves on like a music video, like as
a little girl dancing in the mirror with like a
hair brush unscripted.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Did I hear that Gretchen bought your the rights to
your music or something like that years ago?
Speaker 5 (12:39):
He sure did, what I mean? And why did she
do that? Yeah? So again this is just what I hear.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
So my music producer at the time, Brian Todd, was
the music producer for Ashley Tisdale. For me, for like
a bunch of like young like you know, Hollywood la
like girls that were like trying to come up and
make it type thing.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
That was the reality version.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
At some point there was a financial situation and he
started to sell his catalog. Catalog's out and for whatever reason, uh,
she decided to buy it for how much I'm not
sure that's all.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
But what was the point?
Speaker 4 (13:22):
It was it just for something to put on the show?
Speaker 5 (13:25):
I mean, I don't know. I think it was wild.
I think it was wild.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
She ended up coming out with a single after that too,
I saw, well, So I don't know if like that
was the way she would like, I don't know, I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
But let me go after my new boyfriend's girlfriend's music.
Like really, now, when when Gretchensley started dating where what
was your mind at at that point where you're like,
what the because he dated Laurie after you? Right, yeah,
so you had a single.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
I had a single.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
It ended up on radio, which was amazing, music video
ended up on Network on TV and then right when
and I also got a publishing deal because one thing
I was.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Wow, was a songwriter.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
That's actually what I actually for reels like did where
I felt the most confident, And I got a publishing
deal through Sony. And then one of the songs I
ended up writing ended up actually On the Hills on MTV,
which was.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Kind of cool. Oh I remember yep, it was called
a Little Inspiration.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
And yeah, were you ever on the Hills?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I so, Lauren Audrina, Yeah, that whole crew the scenes
I was ever in, like never air because you know
they shoot everything I never did. But yeah, so like
that whole group of like OC girls, it was same age,
same time. We all kind of came up together and
Lauren Conrad and I had a friend in common. Leslie Bruce,
who worked at US Weekly, went to uc Ervine. She
(14:50):
introduced us, and so the both of us being in
la being the girls on reality from OC just kind
of like grew up and kind of grew up together.
Lauren kept going and has blown up since then, and
I kind of took a break from reality after. You know,
just did you.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Do any other reality shows after your spin off?
Speaker 5 (15:10):
No? No, no, would you ever? Yeah? Definitely?
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Okay, So you will be coming to you will be
coming to my parties next season?
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Oh? I mean yes, I was.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Perfect because Andy said you're the one that got away
too early.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Really yes, Oh my god, Andy, that's so sweet.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Maybe some double dates with the husbands or parties or
something next season.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I'll see. So I have a question.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
One of your main storylines was making friends and Codo.
Did you find any genuine connections with any of the
women on the show.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
I did.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I will say number one Gina. Gina has been like
a second mom to me. I always called your mama Gina,
and that's kind of what she's been in my life.
If I ever needed advice or anything like that. Kimberly,
even though she left the show super early after season one.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Where did she go? You know what? None of us
know that. Like I heard she moved out.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Of state and just that's what I heard.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yeah, but she was more of like she was like
if there was a housewife training of how to be
a housewife, because I had no idea, like you know
what I mean, just that world.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
She was my like Yoda if you will.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah, she's like a caricature of what a housewife is
supposed to be.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Completely Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Like I ran into her at the montage. Wait what
she's back, Gina. Yeah, she's in Orange County.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Oh no, I was talking about Kimberly.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Oh Kimberly.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
No, no, I'm talking about Tina.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Yes it is.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
And so I ran into her and she was just
like Gina, like I had didn't skip a beat.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
I love Gina.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Gina remains the same, so down to earth, so like
just Gina, like and that's why I love her, like
nothing has ever changed her and like she's just she's
my heart.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
I love her so much.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Has anything changed? The canary diamond ring that you got?
And where is it?
Speaker 5 (17:11):
It was fake? Right? Okay?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yes it was what The canary diamond ring still sits
somewhere in a little chanel box inside three more boxes
at my mom's house because I can't even bother to
dig that thing up.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
But like, yes, so.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Don't you find out it was fake? Or am I
going to find this out later on in the season.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
So so Slade told me. Slade told me in.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
The clubhouse it needs to be on Andy's clubhouse on
the shop.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Wait should I bring it? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Yes you should.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
We can actually take it to a jeweler and actually
see how much that poor little thing is worth.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Twenty five dollar to any If that.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Right, I am blown away.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Okay, so he was honest with me.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
He did tell me that, you know, the setting was real,
but the centerstone he wanted to change it with day.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Do you think Gretchen's is fake too?
Speaker 5 (18:08):
I don't know, probably not.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
At what point did he tell you that it.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Was fake after he proposed? But again, this is pre Housewives,
so no cameras know nothing.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
And how do you when someone goes, I'm proposing to
but this is a fake ring.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Here's the thing. I know.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I'm a sap. I'm the biggest romantic that there is.
So at the time back then also twenty three, twenty four,
no experience. Yeah, I was in it for like, I
genuinely loved him so much that he could have given
me a band and I wouldn't have cared.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
But that's my question for both of you guys, now,
knowing what you know, would you rather have a small
diamond that's real, Yes, that's authentic for sure, or a
giant fake one?
Speaker 5 (18:57):
No?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I rather have a band a million percent, like I
don't even need like, of course, every girl loves diamonds,
but like what like I wanted a fall left for
love and not for money.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
But why was it fake?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
He's briging that he's making seven figures and he's got
all this money.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
By the way, how are you just seven figures?
Speaker 5 (19:16):
A million?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
A million plus? And then he said that the ring
was over one hundred thousand dollars if he bought you.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
I don't think of one hundred thousand pesos?
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Who exactly? No? Wait what he didn't say that? Really? Yes?
I did? Yes on the podcast?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
No, I come on here?
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Do you think i'd have here? Okay?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
On the show?
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Do you and him not? No? Wait, I don't stand
you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I feel like I'm so far removed from the world
of housewives being in La like it's it's like a
little bubble.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
I don't know any of the riff any of the drama,
any of the anything.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
So you sharing all this with me and like for
the first time, going wait what, I didn't know you
and him don't get along.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
But moving slightly away from Slade, what are your thoughts
on Vicky and how did she treat you?
Speaker 5 (20:11):
I love Vicky. Vicky.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Vicky is always going to be Vicky and again, like
I always just had my experience with her back when
we lived in OC and Vicky has always been great
even over the years. Like Gina and her are you know,
still close and Gina will like again whenever I can,
like see her, will bring me to like I know,
we like did a dinner once. This is years ago,
(20:34):
by the way, and this is like she'd probably Vicky
had probably been on the show like a lot of
seasons by now, six seven, eight, and we all went
to dinner. Still Vicky, like Vicky, I feel like is
always going to stay Vicky as well when you get
her one on one, it's very consistent.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Yeah, yeah, I'm actually going to see her tonight.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Oh you are tell her? I said, Hi, I actually
saw a picture of you and her.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
And yes, yeah, so the three of us are going
to meet tonight. But I told her yesterday, I said
I'm having jokes. She's like, oh my god, she's so sweet.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I love.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
She said, Hi, tell her.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I said, Hi, I'm rid Or died for Vicky.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
So if anyone has a problem, like, I'll kill him.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Well you might have to kill me then, yeah, because.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
He does not like Teddy Vicky what.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Okay, So she has a real problem with me because
she always wanted to do a podcast with Tamra And
I reached out to Tamra when iHeart reached out to
me and said, we want to do a Housewives podcast.
And I said fine, but I'm only going to recap
and do these things if i can do it with
somebody that I want. And they said who, and I
said Tamara. And I contacted Tamara and it was like
(21:46):
three days and we were done and then like yeah,
we we kind of exploded, thank you know, thanks to
like amazing production team and iHeart and everybody. It was
great and our connection. But then Vicky like couldn't take it,
Like so instead of being happy for camera.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
You know, Vicky, I do know Vicky.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
She actually called our boss and said that they should
get rid of Teddy and bring her on.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Yes, Vicky, that's not nice. And then but it's so Vicky.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
And then she went on What Happens Live and said
she didn't know who I was, like, she just okay,
she's bitter Boots.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Okay, Well, I think it's amazing that y'all are doing
this podcast. And I think that just opportunities come to
people and like, you know, you ride them. And also
she has her own podcast? What is she talking about?
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Doesn't she?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
She did and it was very hot.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
Yeah, oh okay I was. I was like so confused
because I thought she was doing hers. Okay, yeah, I
have a question for you.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Would you ever do the Ultimate Girl's Trip?
Speaker 5 (22:45):
I I have seen a trailer of that. Would I
do it? Why the hell not?
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I think that, you know, I haven't been in that
dynamic four years. I don't know if I would get
eaten a or if like, like I don't, I don't.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
It's like riding a bicycle, Joe, you get right back on.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
Have you done it? I have done on it? How
was it? So?
Speaker 4 (23:12):
I was let go after my twelfth season, and I
was I did nothing for a year and then I
think twenty nineteen twenty, maybe twenty twenty, they asked me
to do Ultimate Girls Trip. So I did Ultimate Girl's
Trip and from there they brought me back on Orange County.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
So I did it.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
It was weird because I was kind of out of
the mix. I'm with new girls and I don't necessarily
know that well, some of them I've met through Bravo stuff,
but didn't really know them. It was it was hard,
but it was fun.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
It was during the pandemic. So we went to Derenda's house.
Now the girls nowadays are going to do Turks and
Caicos And where did the uh where the new ones go?
Speaker 5 (23:55):
They?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Where did they go? Bali?
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Well not Bali, they went to Landiland.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
That production budget though, okay.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I know, and it is ten days.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
It's a lot of money for ten days.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Yeah, okay, okay, So I don't think you would get.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
So you hear that Andy, she'll do Ultimate Girls Trip.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Andy, there's just a psa, she will do Girls Triph.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
So do you watch any Housewives right now?
Speaker 1 (24:21):
I do not watch any Housewives, to be honest with you.
I only have the apps, no cable, so I stream
everything like, also shout out to Peacock because that's actually
one of the apps that I pay for because they
and all of my favorite shows are on there. But yeah,
unfortunately you get everything one day later. So I'm just like,
so that's okay.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Yeah, but if you get on Ultimate Girls Trip, they
give you one free year of Peacock.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
So oh nice, okay, get I'm all for a free streamings,
me too, Me too.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
On a saturder note, watching season one into, Grayson was
on the show, and obviously you've heard that he recently
passed away. Yeah, do you reach out to Michelle or
Slide at that point?
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
I actually I actually okay, sorry, sorry, I didn't even
know where that came from.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
I actually did.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I reached out to Slade just to say like, I
was so sorry, and yeah, I never heard back from him.
But yeah, wow, I don't even know where that came from.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Yeah, there when he was all in Yeah, do you
remember what were you with him when he got diagnosed?
Speaker 5 (25:35):
No? No, I when I met Slide, I I already knew.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Yeah, oh they already knew at that point.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Uh, yes, yes, when I believe when I when we
when we had been dating, like he already had the tumor.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Oh I didn't know that.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
I didn't realize that he was diagnosed that young because
it wasn't really talked about.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Right, Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
He was two years old when I met him, and
he was already struggling, and so Slade had kind of
opened up and shared the story about how they found
out and stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Heartbreaking, so heartbreaking can till we live three years later.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I it honestly just warms my heart that like he
was able to have as many years yeah, as like
he did, and his.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Poor mom, like she really lived her life to take
care of him. Really heartbreaking.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Okay, Now I wish I had whiskey in this.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Well we have we have champagne today.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Oh my gosh, that's what I should have done.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
This is I think something that's going to help a
lot of our listeners because there's a lot of people,
of course, that are in relationships where you are, you know,
a bonus parent, you know, and you are and then
all of a sudden when you break up, how how
do you kind of reconcile that and how do you
how has that affected your future relationships?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
And you know, now you're married, now and you're in
a different place.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Yeah, but I mean I always know, like when when
my mom and step my step mom was my stepmom
for twenty years and then you know, when they broke up,
there was obviously like a huge shift and there's like
that void, but there's also like you're trying to have boundaries,
so kind of how did you deal with that after
the breakup?
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Yeah, I think it was hard.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
I think it was actually harder like after I moved
to LA, because I think it's easier to move on
from a relationship when you leave a city, right because
it's just like, yeah, yeah, you leave everything behind, you
get caught up in LA and you know all the
things of La going out, like all the things you
do when you're young in LA and first moved to
(27:55):
a new city. I think for me it really hit
me years later when you know, I would hear about
Gavin or like you know, see somebody would send me
something about Grayson, you know, a picture of him, an
update of him, anything, And I think it's in those
moments it was hard. But I did reach out to
Gavin as well, like a few years ago, just to
(28:17):
tell him, Hi, I heard he got married. Congratulations. Just
as like somebody, you know, I know I don't have
a right to, but like he was a big part
of my life.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Everybody has a right to say something nice to somebody.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
Yeah, it's not like.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Right right, And then she broke up.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
You can still you still should And then what's your
So you're you're married? Now, how how did you meet
your new husband?
Speaker 5 (28:41):
Hinge? What we met in the middle of covid on Hinge?
I read that, yes, and okay, literally it was one.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Of these things where like I had been after the
show in digital advertising and that's all I had done,
and I was kind of like shooting doing videos like photography,
and I was like, you know what, I'm going to
leave this incredible career behind to go pursue being a creator,
and that's what I did. And then three months later
the pandemic hit. I was super focused on like the
(29:13):
YouTube channel, like building just like all of that. But
then it's the pandemic, so we're bored.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
So I'm like.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Scrolling through and I was like, you know what, I
kind of just want to like flirt with cute boys,
and so I signed up for Hinge and he had
a disclaimer on his like profile that said I don't
want to meet anybody because you know, it's the pandemic.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
And I was like, perfect, this is going to go nowhere,
let's go.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Yeah, why are you on hinge in your bio says
I don't want to meet me.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
But no, he's saying I don't want to meet anyone
in person.
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Yep, there was no VOBE. Okay, I got it.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
And at the time his roommate was had health issues,
and then my roommate at the time also had health issues,
so it actually worked perfect.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
And for those of you guys listening, COVID in LA
was different than COVID anywhere else, I mean other than
New York.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
I mean yeah, we were on lockdown.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Like I remember, like five months into it, I hadn't
even seen people, and my friends came over and we
sat outside with gloves on and we made each other
pee in the grass because.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
You couldn't even like it was. Everyone bought their own drinks.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
It was.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
It was wild, like yeah, like washed down. I never
washed down my like groceries, but like people like it was.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Yeah, they would wash down the boxes that came from Amazon.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Yeah, and then the fruit, the special fruit spray that
I'd never heard of, because COVID could have been like
it was. La was another freaking beast.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
It was a wild, wild time and so it was
like easy to see him and know like, oh perfect,
Like he doesn't want to meet. I want to focus
on what I'm doing and that's it. But just over
time talking to him, you know, over FaceTime, over zoom, you.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Know, just doing all the things intimacy.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I ended up falling in love over a screen, and y'all,
I swear I always say, I feel like I was
in a Love is Blind episode because I was falling
in love with a human that, like literally over our screen,
that I had never met. Because also, we talked for
three months before our first date. I said I love
you before we ever met in person. We were boyfriend
(31:20):
and girlfriend before we ever had our first date in
person three months later because again COVID, we were falling,
like falling into over.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Why, yes we did.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
I was like, all right, let's let's really get to
yeeah yeah, fun sex.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
Yes we had fun sex. Yeah, oh my god, greed.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
And so how long were you dating before you got married?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
We were dating like a year and a half and
then we got engaged and then we ended up getting
married like two years two.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
And a half years later, and he's a music composer.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Yeah, he's a music composer. But actual recently, we just
started a creative agency. So I worked at TikTok this
last year and then we just decided to kind of
like the dream has be a content creator full time,
but what needs to pay the bills is we wanted
to start a creative agency where we help brands like
show up on TikTok because obviously we had both kind
of come from that world.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
He was also working at a creative agency.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
So although we do have two separate rooms, so they're like,
how do you start a business with like your partner,
But honestly, like it's been good because there's like that separation.
So yeah, we started Social play recently, so we've been
like just kind of like you know, doing.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
On Social play. If they wanted to hire you guys
for help and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Oh yeah, you can go to our website social playdigital
dot com and everything is on there. But yeah, we
literally just started like a month ago, tunny like literally
baby baby baby brand, new business. Yeah, so I'm seeing that, like,
you know, things can take off and you know, he
has one client, and I just feel like it's exciting
(33:02):
when you can like kind of hit the reset button
and start over and build something.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Together and something that you guys love and you're good at.
And yeah, you know what, after this, I have a
feeling we're going to see you on reality television again.
Like I think I have to be honest, because I
didn't watch at the beginning, so I was like, you know,
like I was not I was like having one of
those things about this interview anyone. You are so engaging,
(33:30):
You're warm, you're easy to talk to, You've shown all
of the emotions like we talked.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
You have to understand we talked to housewives multiple times
a week and half the time.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Everybody's so media trained and so sheltered, very like you're
getting a certain type and you're just who you are,
just giving it all.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
I have to give you cups to that because that
is since.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
You're giving it all, I have a question.
Speaker 5 (33:54):
Yeah, thank you, and yet.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
We're going to take it back.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
We're going to take it back quite a few years.
Did you ever hook up with Shane Kyo.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
The bunny Killer, Buddy Killer?
Speaker 5 (34:11):
She did? You did? Here's the thing, was it just
a quick little hand job. Was it?
Speaker 3 (34:16):
No, a hand job?
Speaker 5 (34:18):
Hold on?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Is this gonna play out on the Is it a blowy?
Speaker 5 (34:22):
No? No, it was none that It was way after,
And honestly, I don't mean way after.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
You watched his episodes and you're like that's a guy.
No no, no, no, no no, no, I mean a
good one.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
Like after it was a kiss. It was a kiss,
It was just a kiss.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Years after, Yeah, it was nothing, a little innocent heart
back then, like, yeah, it.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
Was literally just a kiss.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
And then he slipped And.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
This is after the show. You've moved to l A.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
I'm in LA Like this is years later, as in
like I've been off the sho show for years. You know,
we've all like kind of moved on, and I don't
even know how it happened.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
You're friends with Alexis, right, I am.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
I love Alexis so much. And one thing that I
don't understand is why people call. Like just yesterday, I
was telling someone like, oh, you know, just sharing like
I'm going to go on a podcast having done you
know something housewives in a second, and they were like
with who, I'm like Tamar and they're like, oh, that's awesome.
Do you talk to anyone anymore. I'm like, yeah, Gina Alexis,
and they're like, oh, Jesus drugs.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
I'm like, why do people say, like, well, because I
called her Jesus jugs once that. Yeah, but you have
to understand when she was with her ex husband, Yeah,
she was a different person. Okay, she was a very
(35:52):
different person.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
I'm like, first of all, I've never even noticed her
boops are big, and second of all, the sweetest, nicest human,
very sweet, very very Again, I wasn't on the show
with her, and we also connected post yeah yeah, yeah,
And I would.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Love for her to be back on the show where
she is now because she's like in a relationship now
getting married.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
Tam Oh, I don't.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
I don't have a problem with her. I had a problem,
Like I just didn't like her ex husband.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
Okay, I don't.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
It was allegedly allegedly, No, he just was very you know,
she was a different person. I think with him, got
it and she probably is today.
Speaker 5 (36:33):
Okay, that makes sense, got I got it? Yeah, yeah,
I got it. And I'm all for for you know,
people changing.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
But I think she's a kind person. I don't think
she's got like a mean bone in her body.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
I don't think she's malicious.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
No, I haven't gotten to any life, not at all.
So so I have nothing to weigh in here other
than what I heard from the past.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
But also I feel like all of us on the show,
like I know, let's be honest, eighty percent of my
interview I had probably a cocktail or two in me. Ye,
Like I remember seeing some episodes where I'm like, Joe,
are you really slurring as you're talking to camera, like.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
You're smoking a cigarette outside? Honestly heaven.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
I was like the fact she gives so she I mean,
you could tell the two thousand and six grand and
my parents would dropped me off at school with like
cigarettes and we would all no one had car seats.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
Or anything like a different time.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Yeah, but the fact that you're like he's like come
home and you're like, no, I know, it's not even late.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
And he's like it's three am, and you're like, I know.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
It literally like who was I? Who was she? Like
I I?
Speaker 1 (37:41):
And so I just feel like a lot of us,
Like also, I don't do pink boas and deebra hats
and made costumes anymore, right, I feel like we all right,
we're probably not who we were back when we were.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Except for Vica, She's said exactly the same.
Speaker 4 (37:55):
Ye, Pinky's never changed except her face, which.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
By the way, I have to love. I think she
looks amazing.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
She does, but I have to say, no, I have
to say now that I watch season one, her original
face is a nice face.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Yeah, I didn't have a problem with that face.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
Nope, I get it.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
We all have our own thing. I've had a necklace.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Speaking of speaking of your face, well, does anybody ever
mistake you for Megan Markle?
Speaker 5 (38:23):
That's super sweet. I have been told that before.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
I can see it.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
I see every time someone I'm like, y'all are way
too kind because like, I don't see it.
Speaker 5 (38:34):
I think it's funny and thank you.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
By the way, I'm watching Suits right now because all
of my shows are done for the year. I had
no idea she was actually an incredible actress.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
I've never seen it.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
It's like, if you're bored, Yeah, if you're ever bored,
I'm gonna watch Peacock.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
Netflix has nothing right now, nothing.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Hold on, No, I was recently obsessed with some thing,
but now I can't remember.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
I probably already seen it.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
Summerhouse also an amazing recommendation if you need a new
show to watch.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
I'm obsessed. People are It's all provo.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Yeah, okay, So I have a question if you had
to pick somebody just this is our closing question has
nothing to do with Orange County. If you had to
pick somebody from Vanner Pomp Rules to have sex with,
who would it be?
Speaker 5 (39:23):
Guy?
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Yeah? Either or either?
Speaker 5 (39:28):
Oh man, I guess James Kennedy.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
I can't think James because, honestly, like the other two
are just no, it's too much of a wreck. The
other time is way too passive. And I just feel
like James would give it. I feel like, you know, I.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Feel like time James would be a good time in bed.
Speaker 5 (39:54):
Yeah, you'd probably be drinking right before it happened.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
I mean he would last a long time, you know,
young fun girls to sir like, that's my vibe.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
I don't hate that answer.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
Yeah, I don't need to do that.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
But mine is Tom Schwartz.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
Really he is. Yeah, I feel he looks like my dad.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Absolutely not, he looks like a dad.
Speaker 5 (40:17):
I feel like he would.
Speaker 4 (40:18):
I'm gonna fantasize it's gonna be about somebody today that he.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Had an a hommer in an ill fitting suit, he'd
be Joe's tight.
Speaker 5 (40:27):
Teddy plans. Do not know. I feel like Tom would
like make love to you and James would like, No, I.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Don't want making love, absolutely not.
Speaker 5 (40:40):
That's not happening.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
But we appreciate you so much.
Speaker 5 (40:43):
Thank you so much for having me. This was super
fun and Teddy, it was really nice meeting you.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
It was nice meeting you too.
Speaker 4 (40:48):
Where can people find you?
Speaker 5 (40:50):
Instagram?
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Yeah, you can go on Instagram Jody Larissa with two
a's at the end, or you can go to TikTok
Jody Larissa Gray.
Speaker 5 (40:57):
Awesome.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Thank you so much. Thank you Joe so much.
Speaker 5 (41:00):
She thanks for having me Chay to have on.
Speaker 3 (41:04):
I know, like she's so likable.
Speaker 5 (41:06):
I know I'm like us
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