Southern Hospitality Summary: Gay rumors about Joe putting his affair with Maddie on hold

During the last episode Southern hospitality, Maddie Reese showed that rumors about Joe Bradleysexuality delayed the start of their relationship – and TJ Dinch was guilty.

“Three or four years ago, TJ spread a bunch of rumors that I was gay,” Joe said a beginner Austin Stephan on the Thursday, January 9 edition of the Bravo show.

Austin wasn’t surprised by the revelation, telling Joe that TJ was “telling me the same thing. He immediately told me you were gay.’

Maddie, who is currently dating Joe, admitted that the stories around town made her too shy to act on her feelings for him.

“Three years ago, everyone was talking about rumours,” Madi recalls. “So of course I believed TJ when he told me Joe was flirty or fruity or what? Gay.”

She admitted: “It was the reason I didn’t contact Joe for a long time.”

Maddie said that since she started dating Joe, she can confirm that the rumors are not true. “Obviously I slept with Joe. I sleep with Joe. He likes n-, – she declared.

Joe, for his part, said he confronted TJ when he heard the rumors, but TJ vehemently denied that he started them.

“I said, ‘Why the hell are you telling people that?’ And he said, “No, I would never say that.” I would never tell anyone that. I promise you I didn’t do it,” Joe told the cameras, admitting: “Because I’m a very gullible person, I believed it. And now I’m paying for it.”

Joe claimed his former best friend “makes you believe you can trust him and then he’s going to fuck you”.

In addition to allegedly spreading rumors about his sexuality, Joe objected to TJ telling people that he had been hooking up with Luan de Lesseps in January 2024 when he said he told him the truth in confidence.

“Then it hit me. “TJ tells people I’m gay,” Joe said on Thursday’s episode. “Because he is the mouth of the South.”

us reported in January 2024 that Joe and Luann, 59, were seen getting cozy in a New York hotel after they met while performing at Watch what’s happening live with Andy Cohen.

During season 2 Southern hospitality reunion next month, TJ said the host Andy Cohen he was “99 percent” sure Joe and Luann had hooked up. Joe denied the accusations.

TJ revealed during the season 3 premiere, which aired on January 2that he hadn’t spoken to Joe in months after their reunion drama.

TJ, however, remained adamant that Joe not only kissed Luann, but “cheated” on his girlfriend at the time, Daniel Oliverawith The Real Housewives of New York alum (Danielle, 36, confirmed that she and Joe broke up in February 2024.)

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Joe seemed a little tight-lipped about what happened with Luann during the Season 3 premiere, but he to confirm us in December 2024 that he was “kissing” her. He claimed he wasn’t trying to hide anything, but is still upset with TJ for breaking his trust.

Those trust issues have been in the spotlight this season — especially since Muddy is still friends with TJ, which Joe admits worries him. (Exclusively told by Joe and Maddie us what they have been dating since April 2024just in time for the cameras to roll again.)

“I was also annoyed that you were so friendly with him,” Jo said to Muddy during the new episode, referring to her conversation with TJ at the group party a week ago.

Maddie, however, argued that her friendship with TJ should not affect her relationship with Joe.

“You can be friends with someone and have boundaries,” she told her boyfriend. “You know you can’t trust (TJ) with your s…, you obviously know that, but there’s no reason he can’t be your friend.”

Joe claimed, “Me and TJ’s problems run much deeper.” Muddy noted that they are not “addressing the elephant in the room.”

Fans will continue to see Joe and TJ’s drama unfold with each new episode. In fact, Joe said exclusively us Ahead of the season, TJ’s “mindset” “will make a lot more sense when you watch it.”

He teased: “Some people think he has feelings for me, (but) I think that’s in the past, but who knows? This season, everyone kind of learns about TJ’s true colors and why he treats me the way he does.”

Southern hospitality airs Thursdays at 9pm ET on Bravo.