Twots Take BravoCon 2025 (Part One- Dolores Catania and Paulie Connell Are Engaged!)

For the very first time, Dolores Catania and Paulie Connell are opening up about their engagement.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Two Teas in a Pod, which Teddy Mellencamp and Camra Judge.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Hi, it's Teddy Mellencamp and Tamra Judge.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Welcome back to Two Cheese and a Pod live from
Bravo Con in Las Vegas.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
It's such a fun, busy weekend and we want to
make sure you get as many episodes as possible, so
we have a special guest co host for you.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Delores Katana is here. Take it away, Delores. Hi, everybody,
It's Dolores Catana here with two Teas and a very
special guest today. Today's going to be a special episode
because it is me with my now fiance, Paullie Connell.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Hi, Paulli, Hy, Dolores, thank you.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Oh you're woll special. Yes, it's very special. And I
decided before that you and I spoke to anyone. Paulie
that my loyalty and you know, loyalty is my motto.
That two Teas are like my family now, so I
wanted to speak to two Tea's first and all our
loyal friends because loyalty is what it's all about. But uh,

(01:09):
of all of you, all of you who if you
haven't heard, Pollie and I got engaged a couple of
days ago, and we're really going to sit down and
talk about it for the first time, even to each other,
because it's been such a whirldwind of emotion and surprise
and everything you can imagine, because I had no idea

(01:30):
that I was actually going to the Apple Store for
anything other than the new iPhone. So I'm going to
let Polly here take over, because Pollie sharing with everybody
right now. I'm going to ask you for the first time,
how did you come up with this amazing idea? Number
One to get engaged because it wasn't on my Bengo

(01:51):
card that day. And number two the way you did it,
and it was so thought out to reenact our first day.
But the flora is yours, as Alan Cumming says, the
floor is yours.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
I thank you the lors, You're welcome. You look gorgeous today.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Thank you always.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Well. Obviously I was always planning this, you know, from
the first time I met you at the Apple Store.
It was a very surreal moment because even though by
the time I got to meet you, I kind of
found that you're on TV, I didn't know what TV
was all about. To me. It was just like whatever,
big deal, just go meet her and hang out.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
You were going to get to know.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yes, I was, so I feel like you know that
that always resonated with me the first time I met you.
There was always like important to me because number One,
you stalk me because you drove by the Apple store
that day and you see my card.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
I didn't stalk you. I would have stalked anybody would
have rolled Rice at that time, would.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Walk into the store that I stop. I want to
speak from the heart.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yes, let me do it from the heart. Okay, but
I'm going to tell you if I see it Royce
in the parking lot.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
I need to know who owns No to everybody out
there with a rolls Rice park in front of the
door works out? Okay?

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Oh is that how you would do it?

Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah? No, so yeah, so it was. It was meaningful
for me. So when I seen you walk in that
day to see Apple store, and it was just after
the whole COVID thing. I remember I had a mask on.
I'm like, this cannot be fucking Dolores Katania because I'd
only seen you on Instagram, right and we.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Talked through d MS. Yeah, yeah, I thought you were
gay somebody introduced us a mutual friend. So I went
on your Instagram and I'm like, oh, this guy's gay,
so cute.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
I have that video. Actually, you know what, I think
I want to post that video. I think he deserves
a post.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Oh my god. So I left him a dmcause there's nothing.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Wrong with being gay, right, So no, I came off
for a feminine right if.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
You are, it's okay, Paul, you could let me know.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Think you would know, no doors, No, okay, do you
think I'm gay?

Speaker 1 (03:53):
No? I think you have a feminine side.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
To you, like a mammy's boy or gay. No.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Both. Yeah, okay, but I'm just gonna say that we
were talking and it was actually just kind of kismet
that we both wound up our phones were broken at
the same time. We wound up getting our phones on
the same you know.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, we'll put it like that. But it was stalking.
So I mean, listen, so you walk into the store
for me, Like I said, you were larger than life, right,
And you know, I make joke about your hair, your boobs,
your little lemons, and your ass, but your presence just
filled up the whole store. And I always remember when
you come over to me. You just you just made

(04:33):
me disengage with my nerves. I'd pulled a mask up
over my face. You could only see, like barely see
my eyes because it was shitting my pants. If she
comes over to me, what I say? The meantime, I
meant to be going out with you that night. So
for me it was like, dude, stop being a woosy.
So you came over, you broke the ice, and it
was cool. It was very cool. I remember we spoke outside.

(04:56):
We went to the Panera bread. We spoke there for a.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
While three hours po, yeah, and didn't feel like three
I didn't feel.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Like three hours. And then we were going.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
When we get back to the Apple store, I remember
you were shaking you're when you went because I had
like probably twenty five no exaggeration, because I lose my
headphones all the time I was trying while I was
talking to I was deleting all my headphones.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
You were deleting all the DMS you were getting, saying
Okay I found the right guy. Nah, Yes you were so.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
But anyway, I noticed you went to show me something
and you were like shaking was I Yes, you were,
And I knew I knew I had you a little
bit then I didn't know how much. But anyway, sorry,
go ahead.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
I was definitely shaking last Monday. So yeah, so that's
kind of always been a place in me. And obviously
our relationship, you know, bloomed into what it did, right
and then obviously the tent, which you didn't put together.
November tenth is when you officially took residency in the Undercliff.
That's when you officially decided to move in.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
I did not realize that. Well that's how do you know?
Did you document that?

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Of course you wrote it in your I wouldn't have
to write I would just know that I moved.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
In your house. So so for everyone that doesn't know
I was living, remember that my beautiful townhouse, Well it
was a rental while my house was getting done. And
Paul and I had a heart to heart one day
and I was looking at other places to live for
a short time because my house still wasn't actually done,
and he said, what did you say to me? Do

(06:30):
you remember you were.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Looking to move to the neighborhood to be close to me,
which at the time we were having our conversation, and
I said to myself, it's either like, let's do it together,
or you know, you move in somewhere else's and really, like,
doesn't make sense, right, if we're going to be seeing
each other, why not move here in the figure out
it doesn't work that you can move back out? And
you were you were hesitant for about three minutes and

(06:54):
then you said yes.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
So no, it was it big. It was a big,
a big deal for both of us.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
Yeah, so, which I never looked back on. You know,
I didn't understand that I was going to inherit all
the dogs well package, so very soon after that, we
had some furry friends coming around the house, and.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Your and your bachelor pad was never the same.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
It was never the same. So but it's it feels
more like a home now because there was a coldness
to it. I remember when you used to first come
over back in the day. But yeah, but there definitely
is a warmth to it. And it's not just from
the piss of dog that she leaves everywhere and this
tench that she leaves everywhere because she lives and she

(07:37):
dropped what how the fuck is when we're there? She
drops thees little bombs. You look around, You're like, hey, dog,
what's up? You throw them back. There's like a bomb there.
It's like she sets traps so for you to walk on.
She wants part of the action. Shout out the dog,
love dog.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
You love her now though you sleep together, every.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Package deal with you, two guys. So she definitely persuaded
a little bit on the end, just so you know
she she brought over the finish line. Okay, if you
want to shoot.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
Well, I have to say I do judge a man
by the way he treats his kids and his dogs.
So the way you treated her, even though she ruined
all your brand new floor Like what do you call
those floors? They were? Would I call them?

Speaker 2 (08:17):
We we pads? Now large fucking we we pad everywhere?

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Paul, Paul, what is that? It's like what?

Speaker 2 (08:26):
What is what? It's not that the lords, it's what.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
No, No, it's like something else. Well, you didn't have
it sealed because it shouldn't stain from piss gray.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
It's like gray, No, it shouldn't stay for pissed. That's
wiped up. But when you walk by six times doors because.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
You're on that or whatever, busy two teas comes first.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
Okay, real, I see that.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
Good. So so your decision to get engaged. There was
because it was sentimental to you from us meeting there
for the first time.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yes, yeah, it was. And and I was thinking about
the place, you know obviously. Then that night we went
to rock Holes for dinner, so I was but then
I was like, I don't really want to do it
in a restaurant. Then I was thinking, like, you know,
I spoked to one of our friends. We were talking
about like a nice rooftop with a backdrop of New
York City that.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
Would be the fashionable couple.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yes it was.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
I'm glad the gay men told you the rendition of what.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
I had picked the place, and then they wanted to
bring it to Jersey, so yeah, so and then it
was about having your family there, who do we invite,
who we do not invite, And it just got to
be a It got to be such a mess. I
was like, it's now taken over what it really means
from from my side, and I know what you you
would expect, right, so you want the most, you know,

(09:47):
meaning meaning it was way for it to happen for
you want like from from my heart.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
I wanted it from your heart, yes.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
And I felt like that was and again I don't
want this to sound the wrong way, but that was
when I still that was for the very short time
that I knew you as Dolores Catania and not a housewife.
That's when that time was to me, before my world
just fucking opened up to this whole. Like all primes,

(10:14):
it was a very different universe to if it takes
you a long time to get used to it, to
settle in all the pros and cons to it, which
put there's a lot more pros than the you know,
I just felt like for me, I felt a very
sentimental and I just kept on tying it back to
there and I'm like, you know what I think this
is going to be. It's going to mean a lot
to more. She's gonna feel this. And it's very hard

(10:37):
to catch you out because coming from the background with
your dad and your brother and the cops, it's like
fucking dating a fucking FBI agent, you know, so everything
we use like you think I'm a conspiracy serials on everything.
Holy shit. So I had to do something that would
throw you off. And then we just started putting the
wheels in motion, and the time it was and I'm like,

(10:59):
you know, the tenth is in the important day to me,
so let's go. I'm going to do it.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Wow. And but to do it before Bravo Con you didn't,
So you had anything that had to do with Bravo
had nothing to do with your engagement because you didn't
care what was going to happen here. Absolutely, you didn't
care what anybody was going to think that it wasn't
this elaborate like engagement on a yacht and you know,

(11:24):
Greece or whatever. You wanted it to be. What we
are outside of this.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
We could have done. I could have proposed to you
anywhere I wanted it, because there is no restrictions for
me to do it. I chose there for it to
be most meaningful for me and you. I could have
I could have walked you in Bravocon. I could have
done the middle of floor of Bravacon. I could have
done it on the plane. I could have done I
could have done anywhere I picked up, because that's what
I meant was the first time I met you. I

(11:49):
always remember, distinctly remember how you made me feel when
you walked into that place, and when we start talking
and I was like, you know what I felt right
to me? And I went with the gamble, and it
worked out.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
It did because I can tell you this from me
finally figuring out you were proposing and you were not
seizing because you were so nervous.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
Nervous I know, Paul.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
But I had no idea. So when I I couldn't
have wanted it any other way.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
I'm a very important person the loors like, You're a
serious important person to a lot of people, so, you know,
speaking to your dad, speaking to your family, I was like,
you know, this is a big role to take on.
You can date someone, but taking like the responsibility of
having the best for them for the rest of the livers,
it's a big deal. And that's that's a big ask

(12:37):
to put yourself in. So I had to make sure
that you were okay. You know, I was always worried
about maybe you didn't feel I was the right you
were going through the time? Would you say yes? I
mean I asked everybody did they think she would say yes?
And they all said yes. But I still had the
hesitant piece of me to say, if you'd have said no,
I like my life the way it is. Maybe we'll

(12:57):
look at it later, because that's the kind of person
you are. You speak from where you feel, right.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
I do. I do, But I also felt, Paul that
it was time for us to make a different move.
You're now divorced, which a lot of people gave us
a lot of flack about. I know what a lot
of people don't know is behind the scenes, what goes
on in our life, okay, is it's very simple outside
of this. I mean, people look at what we have,
like we like nice things, right, but we do live

(13:26):
a fairly simple life.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
No, I would like to think so. A lot of
people won't, but I think so. And we could be
a little bit more extravagant if we wanted to be,
but we don't.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
Right, So so I know which never bothered me, but
it bothered you very much that people gave you a
very hard time about one not not being divorced.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
And they should have and I'm okay with that.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
They were not wrong. And that's and that's a man
that loves you, Because a man who loves you will
never get mad at somebody who's actually sticking up for
you in the right way, with the right intention. So
that is just one of the many million of things
that when you just sit in front of me and
say that I know that you do truly love me
and care about me because I've watched other men when

(14:13):
their friends stick up for them if they're doing something wrong,
get mad at the friend. You know what I'm saying.
And I always look at the intention behind things. So
the intention behind this whole engagement meant the most to me.
That you did it from your heart, that you were
so sincere, that you went out of your way so much.
You bought me the ring. I said, go, I want
a big ring. I said, to wait a long time.

(14:34):
I want to feel it on my finger. I want
to feel it on my hand. And you did an
amazing job. But what a lot of people don't know
is that you are a tough guy. You're from the
streets to Dublin. You could really handle just about anything.
But it hurt your feelings when people used to give
me a hard time about your situation, but it didn't

(14:56):
hurt me. And I never took that and said, this
is what people are saying. Now, you have to get divorced,
you have to get engaged to me. I never once
pushed you to do that because I always tell people,
if you have to ask somebody to do the right thing,
it's wrong.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
You never you never forced it, you always supported it.
You went through with me like you really understood it.
And you know, obviously one or two times we got
into like conversations, and rightfully so it ticked you a
little bit, but that's you just letting the air out,
because as you're going through the process you have to
kind of let the let the let the pressure out

(15:36):
of it. But as you go along, but you you
supported me, and you knew what was going on. So
at the end of the day, you knew what you know, listen,
should have should have gone faster. A lot of things
happened in that divorce that were based on nothing to
do with either side, you know. Unfortunately at the end
the attorney got sick like.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
On the stairs pretty much.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yeah, but you never, you never went against that. You
always supported it. And that's that's one thing that I
will always be thankful for you, because while everybody else
was shitting on it, you could have jumped on that
wagon and you could have emphasized been like you know
what this is, fucking fuck you do this whatever it is,
and you never once did it.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
And because Paul, at the end of the day, I
don't care what other people think.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
And that's why I appreciate about you the most. You
don't care what anybody else thinks. I don't, but we
care what I think.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
But that's I do care what you think. Now moving forward,
after I am so shocked at the Apple Store, I
want you to know, and I don't know if I've
told you this since, because the past couple of days
have been a blur. What went more to me than
the ring and what meant more to me than how

(16:52):
you went out of your way to have everybody in
the Apple Store in on this and telling me I'm
going to get a phone, and having me get my
makeup done in the morning, saying, having my assistant tell
me I had a meaning that was canceled, and you
say we had to get a ten o'clock appointment otherwise
I was going to lose my phone, and then getting
there and being absolutely surprised. What meant more to me
is the things that you said to me before you

(17:13):
got down on one knee, Because I don't hear those
things from you ever, although I felt them, but sometimes
you need to hear them. But I can tell you this,
if there was ever a doubt in my mind that
maybe this isn't something I didn't want, which I never
thought that that would have been a whole nother like

(17:34):
the things. Everything you said to me is what I've
always wanted to hear. Do you remember what you said
to me?

Speaker 2 (17:40):
I do, of course I do.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
We were Tell me again, Oh pressure, go ahead. I
want to hear it again because now I'm calm, now
I'm not surprised. I want to soak it up. Tell
me what you said before you got down on one
nay and you studied? You said? What did you say
about getting engaged.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
Chat GBT is a disaster for me that day.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
Because I thank you from your arm.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
No, I was no. So what I was looking up
was like how to get your speech across meaningfully, like
make eye contact, don't hold her hands straight away, don't
kneel down, stand up, And I'm fucking It's like do
you ever take a golf swing? Six thousand things go
through your head the same stand in front of you.
I'm like, get down, stay up, talk, don't talk, like
go grab her hand, make eye contact as I'm trying

(18:30):
to talk to you. That's any way you thought I
was having a.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Stroke sweating you were you were saying things like I've
been around people that are like that, and you were
saying things that didn't make sense to me, so I
wanted I was more worried about your health in the moment,
and I and I knew what you were saying was
everything I wanted here. But now that I'm not worried
about you, could you say it again?

Speaker 2 (18:49):
I basically told you how important you were to me,
how you've made me elevate as a person, and what
how much of a better person you've made me, and
how my life become so much better for meeting you.
I've also told you about my children, how they feel
towards you, how I feel towards your kids, how you've
made me a one part of your family. And when

(19:10):
I spoke to your family even before this went down,
like just the stuff they said to me just reassured me,
like you are a part of this family, like this,
this is.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
Real, And what does that mean to you? Because a
lot of people are not family orientated.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
You know, it's everything to me, It means everything. All
the families are important to make it work as well.
They don't hold the key to your happiness, but they're
very important to the process. Of happiness when you're moving
into that life with somebody.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
I think everybody who gets engaged, it's a package deal,
whatever's going on in their life, whatever they have, and
you have to love what they love, even if you
don't like it. You have to love what they love.
And one of the most important things for me about
you was you had to take on all the philanthropy work.
I don't ask you for a chanel bag, Paul. Have
I ever asked you once for a bag?

Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (20:04):
Okay? Maybe? Did I ever ask you more than once?

Speaker 2 (20:07):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (20:07):
Shut the fuck up now, truth, the fucking truth. What
do I ask for, pop?

Speaker 2 (20:15):
Nothing? The truth? Nothing? Okay? Zero?

Speaker 1 (20:18):
Yeah. So, but what's more important for me is for
you to take on to write that check. When I say, Paul,
we're going to a dog event tonight, you know you're
going to write a check you have no problem like
or my family or you know, the kid, you know.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Some kind of stuff. That's that's whatever you like.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
That's for me what I needed you to be okay with,
because that's very important for me. I want you to
treat my friends, my family, and I and that's my
treats from you. And then the other things too. Like
my watches. No, but but I'm excited for this for us.
And then I come home to UH premiere events by

(20:59):
Rima is one of my very closest friends. She has
amazing She does flowers for weddings and I had a
thousand roses at my house with candles lit everywhere in
a big sign that said she said yes. The photographers
met us back at the house and then you asked
me to go get dressed. I was not ready for that, Paul.
I had to wear dress that I had hanging up

(21:21):
that was too small for me. It was not And
then and then to go back to the restaurant where
the whole staff was waiting for us at night, and
the booth that we sat in, right down to the
wine that we drank that night was really special and
beautiful and yes, I could not have asked for more.

(21:43):
So ah me too. So yeah, now that I wanted
to share that very special day with all of you,
and I thank you for always being there and listening.
And stay tuned for part two about where we go
from here to the future.