Did Luis Ruelas — the supposed peacemaker between Teresa Giudice, Melissa Gorga and Joe Gorga — just give a glimpse at his true colors? After he was accidentally caught on-camera excluding the Gorgas from an upcoming dinner, many Real Housewives of New Jersey fans seem to think so.
While Teresa drove down to the Jersey Shore with her two youngest daughters for her surprise bridal shower during Tuesday night’s (May 2) episode, she got a call from her husband-to-be, who asked her who he should put on the invite list for a dinner he’s planning for the Thursday before their impending nuptials.
“Dolores [Catania] plus one. Margaret [Josephs] plus one. Jennifer [Aydin] plus one. Jackie [Goldschneider] plus one. Those people,” he said. “Just put the invite out to all of them except Melissa and Joe. I’m not inviting them.”
The moment Teresa hears Luis say he plans to invite everyone in the cast except her brother and sister-in-law, she immediately takes him off speaker phone and alerts him that the cameras are on and that she’s filming, to which he abruptly replies, “Oh, shit. OK.”
When the show returns from the commercial break, the reality star saves face by telling her fiancé that he has to invite everyone. She says, “You can’t just do some and not the others.”
Meanwhile, fans of the show have taken to Twitter to call out the couple for their slip-up. One wrote, “Luis and Tre are a couple of snakes. What a disgusting example to set to their children.”
Another added, “Teresa and Luis get caught not inviting Joe or Melissa. Olive branch my ass,” while a third person pointed out, “They backpedaled bc they were being filmed. That’s two faced.”
“Luis needs to stop trying to play up his wannabe ‘peacemaker’ persona on camera and just be real!” someone else chimed in. “The fact that Teresa had to mention that they were on camera shows that their interactions with the Gorga’s have been completely strategic.”
A fifth fan wrote, “I can’t believe how bad they’re treating Joe and Melissa. It’s ridiculous how bad the shows making Teresa look and this Luis guy … how can you love someone and be the reason Teresa isn’t allowed to invite her own family. I’m sickkkkkk.”
However, other fans — who noted that Melissa and Joe had already turned down so many other invitations — were more understanding of Luis’ decision to leave them out of this one.
One wrote, “At what point do you stop trying. I just wish Luis would keep this energy at all times.”
“Do you realize how many events and olive branches were denied or ignored by that point?” another asked, before someone else added, “I don’t think it matters at this point. There’s no love lost between any of them, on or off camera, and they just need to part ways.”
The Real Housewives of New Jersey airs on Tuesday nights at 9/8c on Bravo. New episodes are available to stream the next day on Peacock.