Kelly Dodd & Hubby Defend Teresa Giudice and Louie Ruelas Amid RHONJ S14 Trailer

RHONJ's Teresa Giudice and Louie Ruelas

RHOC alum Kelly Dodd and her husband, Rick Leventhal are coming to Teresa Giudice and Louie Ruelas’ defense following the shocking claims about their marriage in the RHONJ season 14 trailer.

While chatting with The U.S. Sun, Kelly Dodd’s husband, Rick Leventhal, brought up that he’s friends with Louie Ruelas, the husband of RHONJ OG Teresa Giudice.

Rick mentioned that he will be catching up with the RHONJ couple in April at the launch party for Louie’s new creator platform in Los Angeles.

During the chat, Rick insisted that Teresa Giudice and Louie Ruelas are NOT having financial problems despite the claims made in the RHONJ season 14 reunion trailer.

Kelly and Rick Leventhal on WWHL

According to Rick, “everything is fine” between the Real Housewives of New Jersey couple.

“I saw the trailer and I actually talked to Louie about it,” Rick explained. “To me, it’s just they need drama to get people to watch, so I think they try to drum things up, they try to stir things up.”

He continued: “But, basically [Louie] said everything’s fine. They’re doing great.”

“She makes a lot of money, so does he. Good for them,” Kelly Dodd added.

These statements from Kelly and Rick, match reports claiming that fans shouldn’t be concerned about Teresa and Louie’s marriage after watching the season 14 trailer.

In fact, a source close to Teresa Giudice and Louie Ruelas insists that they have never been better as a couple.

Teresa and Louie celebrate first wedding anniversary in Greece

Meanwhile, another source backs up these claims, telling Page Six“Teresa and Louie are amazing and very happy in their love bubble.”

Earlier this month, Bravo dropped the Real Housewives of New Jersey season 14 trailer. Teresa and Louie’s marriage took a major hit in the trailer, with numerous co-stars making shocking allegations about the couple.

“Teresa is distraught because in the house, there’s not a lot of calm,” Danielle Cabral alleged, while Jennifer Aydin added, “Every time I talk to her, her stomach is in knots.”

The trailer then cuts to a clip of Teresa walking with her husband, Louie Ruelas.

“She’s not doing great,” said co-star Dolores Catania.

Then an unidentified voice coming from a phone tells Margaret Josephs‘ husband, Joe Beningo, that allegedly “Louie pissed her money away.” 

The trailer then transitions to an argument between Louie and Teresa. “I want it to be better,” he said, as the Real Housewives of New Jersey OG fired back, “It’s not going to be better. I don’t want to talk about it.”

However, sources insist this all is just another case of clever Bravo editing.

After the season 14 trailer dropped, TMZ noted: “Time will tell what’s true or not … remember, these promos/trailers always wanna make something seem more dramatic than it is — and they definitely succeeded in this case.”

As always, stay glued to AllAboutTRH for the latest, greatest, and most exclusive Real Housewives of New Jersey tea on the internet!

Season 14 of RHONJ premieres Sunday, May 5 at 8 p.m. ET.

Thoughts on this all? Sound off in the comments!

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39 comments

SJU March 21, 2024 - 5:46 pm
Yeah, that’s who you want in your corner.
675309 March 21, 2024 - 9:00 am
Boy does she look creepy ugly in the Greece photos with those deformed lips. That hat with one eye adds to the scary look.
Blush128 March 21, 2024 - 9:55 am
The felon and the Louser are beyond creepy looking. They are both slimy and smarmy as they come.
Ross March 21, 2024 - 9:59 am
It truly takes an insecure woman to point out the flaws in another. And btw, her husband loves how she looks and he’s the only real person that matters.
Italia March 21, 2024 - 11:24 am
Lol, Teresa calls people fat and ugly all the time. Sounds like you're crushing on Ewey. HA
Ross March 21, 2024 - 12:57 pm
Was it unprovoked? I thought so.
675309 March 21, 2024 - 1:40 pm
Ross always has. I asked her before if she'll take Luis' side when he dumps Teresa. (She didn't answer but I think so.)
Marc March 21, 2024 - 2:00 pm
Blush and 675309 are vile, nasty things- it's all they got.
675309 March 21, 2024 - 1:55 pm
Teresa chose to be on trashy reality TV and is fair game on a tabloid comment site. Meanwhile you said this about Rachel Fuda: "The Fudas are the only pieces oh sh*t low trailer trash fighting couple wanting to remove a Queen." What kind of woman do you suppose that makes you. Insecure? No, just a hypocrite.
Ross March 21, 2024 - 5:41 pm
Oh and you chose to be the trash to insult her. Got it. (Well I already knew it, just got it even more) As far as the Fudas, yes I did insult them. Why? Because they were insulting another.
675309 March 21, 2024 - 6:03 pm
You come across trashy now, insulting me based on the same thing you do! I didn't insult "her". She doesn't know me or that I said she is ugly. Nor does she care! I made a comment about her looks on a tabloid site. Yet you just directly insulted me (based on nothing). She posted the photo where she looks hideous a while back so she wants attention. Hypocrite is what you are. FACT BTW-Her husband obviously doesn't love her the way she is or he wouldn't have spent half a season publicly, on TV (!), telling her what to say, criticizing her when she said dumb stuff and telling her to stop talking while humiliating her by doing it.
Ross March 24, 2024 - 8:33 pm
Ma’am you’re the one who said it’s “trashy tv” you put yourself in that box, not me ?. I could care less if she knows you personally. Like I said before, she’s a celebrity that is paid on peoples’, like yours, influence. So go ahead and unfact that lie like many others. And I’ve seen nothing of the sort. Please provide me with those examples.
675309 March 25, 2024 - 4:09 pm
Read above to see an example of you being a hypocrite.
Ross March 26, 2024 - 8:40 am
Not examples of being a hypocrite. I’m well aware I’m not. Examples of how “he spent half a season publicly, on TV, telling her what to say, criticizing her when she said dumb stuff and telling her to stop talking while humiliating her by doing it”. I’d love to know.
675309 March 26, 2024 - 10:02 am
Watch the end of his first season and the first half or so of his second full season. If she wasn't so stupid, she'd be humiliated.
Ross March 21, 2024 - 8:50 am
Interesting how when Teresa says, “It’s not going to be better, I don’t want to talk about it.” her lips weren’t moving in the trailer. Just to those who think editing doesn’t play a part in perception ?
Zap It March 21, 2024 - 11:03 am
In reality TV, editing is everything.
book7175 March 21, 2024 - 11:48 am
Kelly and Snuffleupagus are two has-beens trying to stay relevant.
Ross March 26, 2024 - 9:44 am
Lol has beens that are currently recruited for reality and game shows as well as securing fashion deals and magazine covers. You’re stupid. Also, try being original.
book7175 March 26, 2024 - 10:54 am
"You're stupid"??? How old are you? Disparaging other commentors you disagree with is a sign of low intelligence.
Ross March 26, 2024 - 2:16 pm
It’s no lower than the comments you provide for Teresa and Louie, ma’am. And if you can’t spot the sarcasm in that statement… I can’t help you.
675309 March 26, 2024 - 7:48 pm
Book was talking about Kelly and that guy. Now are you fanatics of them, too, or just confused.
book7175 March 27, 2024 - 11:35 am
Can you read, not talking about the felon or Lobster Louie? What reality shows, game shows, and magazine covers will Kelly and Snuggleupagus be on, and what fashion deals do they have? Please elaborate.
Ross March 27, 2024 - 12:47 pm
Okay you’re right, I misunderstood who you were referencing.
book7175 March 27, 2024 - 6:00 pm
Figured that was the case and appreciate your acknowledgment but what's with the "you're stupid"? Reality TV people are fair game but not cool to disparage other commenters.
Ross March 27, 2024 - 6:55 pm
I believe I already explained it as the literary element of sarcasm
book7175 March 28, 2024 - 7:40 am
Okay got it, that's your story and you're sticking to it.
675309 March 27, 2024 - 6:18 pm
:)
675309 March 26, 2024 - 7:26 pm
There it is! Another example of you being a hypocrite since you asked me for examples!
Ross March 27, 2024 - 10:54 am
Again, for the second time, I asked for examples of Louie degrading Teresa. Please read…. Even if I were a hypocrite, which I’m still questioning it’s relevance, I’m unsure of how that’s an example of it.
675309 March 27, 2024 - 6:07 pm
Hypocrite--""hypocrisy" often refers to advocating behaviors that one does not practice." You get bent out of shape about people indirectly name-calling Teresa on a comment section of a tabloid site based on their opinion and many times based on facts and then you name-call the the people directly for their opinions! HYPOCRISY. You advocate the behavior of not name calling, even though it is so indirect (not to her), but then you directly name call commenters, just like some regulars here based on nothing. BTW- Your reply to book is an example of your hypocrisy by calling her "stupid" even if she was talking about Teresa and Luis! She seems to be one of the smartest people on this site, in my opinion!
Ross March 27, 2024 - 6:53 pm
Oh no, me being sarcastic to someone whose routinely is sarcastic and name calls another human being is not being a hypocrite. Nice try though.
675309 March 28, 2024 - 3:31 pm
I'm not sarcastic. On NJ, I name call Teresa and at times, Aydin or Luis.
675309 March 27, 2024 - 6:30 pm
I told you to watch the end of Luis' first season and about the first half of his second one. He was demeaning telling her what to say, what not to say and chastizing her when she sounded stupid. Then he gave up and spewed the nasty toward her brother after even though eventually she was trying to get him to stop. For about 2 minutes, the look on her face and her reactions to his vitriol made me feel bad for her for the first and only time!! You really should watch it.
Ross March 27, 2024 - 6:52 pm
You told me nothing. Lie like others. I asked for specific examples, an entire half season provides no proof of your claims. Him asking her to allow him a private conversation during a heating conversation is absolutely not proof of Louie belittling Teresa.
675309 March 27, 2024 - 7:14 pm
Sure, I'm going to spend hours citing all the examples to you. (That is sarcasm!)
Ross March 27, 2024 - 9:27 pm
That example was arguable.
Zap It March 21, 2024 - 11:02 am
Well given that Teresa is the star of the RHONJ franchise, it makes sense that Bravo wants to showcase her as being at the center of the drama in the trailer. Bravo always edits to gin up drama. That's how they get their ratings.
Blush128 March 21, 2024 - 9:53 am
Of course Louser is going to deny that they have money problems. The weirdo actually believes he is going to take over Tik Tok. The same Louser that said he owned Rue La La. The same Louser whose digital company is in the sh*thole. The felon with those over inflated lips looks beyond gross. Like I said before, her parents miss really hate her because look what they sent her.
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