Tamra Judge Brings Slade Smiley’s Ex to RHOC Party With Gretchen as Gretchen Warns She Has to “Keep [Slade] Away” or He’ll “Eat Her Alive”

Tamra Judge brought Jo De La Rosa to a party with her ex-boyfriend, Slade Smiley, and Gretchen Rossi in a Real Housewives of Orange County preview. In the clip, Gretchen says she has to “keep [Slade] away” from Tamra or he’ll “eat her alive,” as castmates react to Jo and Tamra’s entrance.

Jo joined the cast as Slade’s girlfriend in season one, but they broke up the next season. About a year later, he started dating Gretchen, another housewife, and they’ve been together ever since. Throughout the years, Tamra has feuded with both Gretchen and Slade.

Meanwhile, Tamra is also at odds with Jennifer Pedranti’s boyfriend, Ryan Boyajian, who threatened to sue her after she wrongly insinuated on Watch What Happens Live that he stole money.

In a sneak peek for the upcoming episode, shared by Tamra on her Instagram, Jo and Tamra ride together to the party.

“I just want to say thank you so much for going with me,” says Tamra. “Because [my husband] Eddie‘s like, ‘It’s a hard pass.’ I’m super nervous. I don’t want to be around Ryan. You know, it’s just stressful for you because it’s probably the first time you’ve seen Slade in decades.”

“I mean, it’s been a minute,” Jo responds.

The scene then flashes back to 2006, when Slade broke up with Jo in a therapy session.

At the time, Slade told the therapist, “My gut tells me that I love her so much that I have to let her go.”

Jo later responded in tears, “I can’t believe we just broke up on a couch.”

Back in the present, in a confessional, Tamra says she asked Heather Dubrow (the ‘birthday girl’) if it was okay to bring Jo.

“She said, ‘Yes, bring Jo, bring Jo,'” Tamra recalls. “So if Gretchen is threatened by Jo, that’s her problem.”

In the car ride, Tamra suggests that she and Jo say a prayer.

“Dear God, thank you for bringing Tamra and I together,” says Jo, holding hands with Tamra as they close their eyes. “I just pray for peace. I pray for healing, and that relationships can be mended, Lord. Amen.”

“Amen,” says Tamra, smiling.

At the party, Gretchen says she has to “keep [Slade] away” from Tamra so he doesn’t “eat her alive.”

When Tamra and Jo finally enter the party, castmates share their reactions.

“Tamra and Jo are here,” says Ryan, as Gretchen and Slade look annoyed.

“Oh, she’s with Jo,” says Emily Simpson in another part of the room. “Give me my popcorn. Let’s go, baby.”

 

 

 

 

 

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