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Tamra Judge isn’t a fan of Jennifer Aydin.
After welcoming Margaret Josephs to her shared podcast with Teddi Mellencamp, the Real Housewives of Orange County cast member expressed her annoyance with the Real Housewives of New Jersey star before explaining why she rarely shares photos of her kids on social media and confirming her youngest daughter, Sophia Barney, will soon join her in front of the cameras.
“I gotta tell you… Jennifer Aydin bugs the sh-t out of me. Now that voice that she talks in, when she’s yelling, is that her normal voice, or does she have a TV voice?” Tamra asked Margaret on the February 13 episode of Two Ts in a Pod.
“I don’t know what she does,” Margaret admitted before suggesting she had a “drunk” voice that Margaret has learned to talk over.
“Her and I just don’t see eye to eye. Something about her gets under my skin,” Margaret explained.
“I think she even bugs her husband [Dr. Bill Aydin], the way he looks at her sometimes,” Tamra suspected.
“Oh for sure,” Margaret agreed. “Without a doubt. To me, Bill is a saint.”
While Tamra is more than open with her own life on RHOC, which she rejoined in 2022, she prefers to keep her kids private when it comes to her social media pages.
“Kids get to a certain age. They’re like, ‘Mom, don’t put me on social media.’ My daughter is 17, and she’s like, ‘As soon as you post a picture of me, people hunt me down.’ She’s private, and she gets all these friend requests,” Tamra explained.
And what’s worse? “One time, I posted a picture for her birthday a few years back, and somebody had written in the comments, ‘Oh, you gonna get her nose fixed?’ And then after that, I said, ‘I ain’t doing this anymore,’” she recalled.
But despite not wanting her mom to share her pics online, Sophia does want to, and will, join RHOC for season 18.
“She turns 18 in September, and she will film next year,” Tamra confirmed. “She hasn’t filmed all of this time because of the fact that her dad will not sign for her.”
Also, on the show, after Tamra revealed Laura Marasca Jensen’s husband reached out to her to try and come on her podcast, to which she shared, “That was a hard pass,” Margaret spoke of the motives of her former BFF.
“Talk about desperate and thirsty, parched,” she complained.
According to Margaret, her former friend reached out to Jennifer with a false cheating rumor against Melissa Gorga in an act of “desperation” and “jealousy” after she failed to get her cast on RHONJ.
“When I couldn’t deliver, I think she was very upset with me, and then she contacted Jennifer and [Teresa Giudice]. [And] Jennifer and Teresa took the bait. She was thinking she could create some drama, but Jennifer, obviously very upset with me, is still in contact with Laura, it’s petty bullsh-t high school games,” Margaret stated.
“They’re going to go to the people that dislike you the most to spread rumors and say, ‘I’m gonna show who she really is.’ Well, if I was so horrible, you wouldn’t have been up my ass for that many years,” she added.
The Real Housewives of Orange County season 17 is expected to premiere on Bravo sometime in the coming months.