Joe Bradley is making it clear that he had nothing to do with the made-up rumor about Maddi Reese‘s ex-boyfriend, Trevor Stokes — although he was initially within the group chat the place his Southern Hospitality co-stars conspired towards his present girlfriend.
The evening earlier than the SoHo Season 3 reunion, Emmy Sharrett and Will Kulp informed Reese that Bradley Carter fabricated the story that Stokes had cheated on her once they have been nonetheless courting the yr prior. Whereas the engaged couple, together with TJ Dinch and Mia Alario, have been conscious the rumor was false, it wasn’t till lengthy after Reese had ended issues with Stokes—and commenced courting Bradley—that they got here clear in regards to the lie.
Whereas Bradley and his co-stars have denied his involvement within the rumor, a screenshot displayed in Season 4 made it seem to be Bradley was, in truth, within the group chat the place they hatched their evil plan. Within the two messages despatched by Bradley, he urged his associates to get their arms on “texts” and/or “digital camera footage” to show Stokes cheated on Reese.
However when Bradley stopped by DECIDER’s studio final week, he informed us that the screenshot Bravo confirmed was “not even the group textual content” in query.
“They kicked me out of that group,” Bradley stated. “They knew that I used to be such good associates with Maddi, I might have ran and informed her after two beers … however I had nothing to do with the opposite group textual content. They knew that my loyalty was with Maddi even earlier than our relationship. So, I used to be not part of that.”
Whereas Reese was clearly upset over the best way she ended issues with Stokes, Bradley by no means as soon as questioned her love for him. These two are the last word greatest friends-to-lovers trope, and whereas he admits it didn’t really feel “the most effective” to listen to Reese discuss how a lot she cared for Stokes within the fallout from the reunion, he knew she wanted that closure.
“It doesn’t actually trouble me as a lot as I believed it will,” he stated of Reese’s emotional response. “I simply know the way robust our relationship is now and there’s zero menace, zero insecurity from that. I simply suppose she wanted to sort of lastly come to that conclusion and shut this door. That’s what’s irritating me. I simply need to put this behind us. I don’t need to hear that man’s identify ever once more. As a result of we’re shifting ahead. That’s what this yr is all about, proper?”
Regardless of what viewers might imagine, Bradley finds Reese’s response to the scenario to be the last word “inexperienced flag.”
“I feel lots of people are [thinking], ‘Oh, crimson flags. You’re speaking about your ex.’ I feel it’s a inexperienced flag that she has that guilt and he or she has that coronary heart,” he stated. “I’m not it as, like, ‘You’re hung up on him.’ She’s not. She’s hung up on the truth that this horrible factor occurred and it made her query a whole lot of issues. However she doesn’t query our relationship.”
Southern Hospitality airs on Wednesday nights at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Bravo. New episodes can be found to stream the following day on Peacock.
