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Joe Bradley appeared on Wednesday’s episode of Watch What Happens Live, where he offered an update on his relationships with rumored flame Luann de Lesseps and ex-girlfriend Danielle Olivera.
While also addressing Maddi Reese‘s comment about her ex-boyfriend, Trevor, being her soulmate, explaining why he didn’t regret skipping work to attend several dates on Maddi’s tour, and sharing why he admires Emmy Sharrett and Will Kulp, the Southern Hospitality star reflected on his tense conversation with boss Leva Bonaparte.
“The last time I heard from Luann is when she had a drink with my mom at BravoCon,” Joe shared of his communication with the Real Housewives of New York City alum on the March 18 episode of WWHL.
After reportedly hooking up with Luann amid his relationship with Danielle in early 2024, Joe gushed over Lu, saying she was “amazing” and describing their current status as “homies.”
“We love Luann,” he declared of himself and Maddi. “Luann is very nice. We’re homies. Luann is invited to our wedding one day. She might perform.”
As for Danielle, he continued, “I see Danielle in passing. She’s not very nice to me, understandably.”
Reflecting on a recent episode of Southern Hospitality, which featured Maddi telling her sponsor that she believed Trevor was her soulmate, Joe admitted, “That sucks to hear that.”
“[But] I’ve been in relationships where I knew it wasn’t real, but in the moment I felt like it was a soulmate,” he reasoned.
Although it made it seem as if he wasn’t taking his job seriously, Joe said he didn’t regret going on tour with Maddi because she needed his support at that time.
“She was not in a good place after the reunion, and I think my top priority is my partner … I think my career can take the back burner when the love of my life isn’t doing well,” he explained.
Moving on to Emmy and Will, Joe said he admires how far they’ve come in the midst of adversity.
“I admire that, like, for everything they’ve gotten, all the sh*t and the backlash, they’ve stuck together through everything,” he stated.
Then, when asked whether Will was a bigger driving force off-camera with Emmy than people realize, Joe didn’t think so.
“He’s in law school, so he’s out of state,” he noted. “He’s a very strong-minded, intelligent guy, so I don’t think it’s crazy to say that he has influence on what Emmy does, but at the end of the day, Emmy’s a very strong, independent woman.”
Later, on the WWHL: After Show, Joe expressed regret over how he handled his chat with Leva regarding his aspirations to go into business with her on a new bar.
“I’ve worked for Leva for six years now, and we have a very close, complicated [relationship] … it’s not your cookie-cutter boss-employee relationship, and I think there’s a lot of emotions there, and I’ve worked very hard,” he began.
“But in hindsight,” he continued, “after watching that back, yeah, I probably would’ve been a little bit more respectful and gone there with a little bit more of a business plan. I think I just went in there all confident, being like, ‘Where’s my bar?’ But that’s really not how I felt.”
As for Leva’s suggestion that he was “replaceable,” Joe disagreed.
“I actually don’t think I’m replaceable because I’ve worked so hard. I kind of made my own title at Republic,” he noted. “To hear that from Leva, who I consider family, that’s what hurt me.”
Southern Hospitality season four airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on Bravo.