{"id":15153,"date":"2025-11-10T07:12:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/?p=15153"},"modified":"2025-11-10T07:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:12:18","slug":"gretchen-rossi-denies-slade-was-behind-rhoc-blogger-finale-call-controversy-addresses-homophobic-posts-shes-accused-of-liking-as-shes-seen-with-trump-hat-in-resurfaced-clip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/?p=15153","title":{"rendered":"Gretchen Rossi Denies Slade Was Behind RHOC Blogger Finale Call Controversy, Addresses Homophobic Posts She\u2019s Accused of Liking as She\u2019s Seen With Trump Hat in Resurfaced Clip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gretchen Rossi is speaking out amid claims that Slade Smiley was the person behind the distorted male voice heard at the end of the finale episode of The Real Housewives of Orange County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After the unidentified person accused Tamra Judge, 58, of leaking stories about the show, Gretchen, 47, addressed the rumors in a comment after Zack Peter, of the No Filter with Zack Peter podcast, alleged that it was \u201c1,000 percent true\u201d that Tamra had been in touch with podcasters and bloggers throughout season 19, and had leaked information about what was going down behind the scenes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI can say that with full conviction. I\u2019ve known about this since at least July,\u201d Zack began in a video shared to Instagram on October 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to Zack, he believed the finale phone call and the DMs that preceded it likely came from a producer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis happens in reality TV a lot, where producers will get info and they\u2019ll leak it through like a DM or through like an anonymous Q&A question or something, and it\u2019s to push the storyline forward. It happens in reality TV all the time,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever the case, Zack said he can \u201cguarantee\u201d that \u201cTamra\u2019s absolutely been leaking things for months.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cShe\u2019s been reaching out to podcasters, she\u2019s been telling them not to have Gretchen on their show, not to interview Gretchen because, \u2018Just wait. At the finale, Gretchen\u2019s gonna be exposed. There are these homophobic posts, and Gretchen\u2019s been \u2018liking\u2019 them.\u2019 I can probably name at least five people that have gotten this info from Tamra over the last several months,\u201d he stated. \u201cShe\u2019s absolutely been planting seeds all summer long.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zack then criticized Teddi Mellencamp, 44, for dragging Scheana Shay, 40, into the storyline by suggesting she was involved in the passing on of the rumor regarding the supposed drugging and hospitalization of Gretchen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cShe knew exactly what she was doing by throwing Scheana Shay\u2019s name into the mix because the Bravo fans already hate Scheana that it was just a greater adversary for them to direct their heat onto, and they got their pitchforks, and the fans loved it, and they came for Scheana\u2019s neck,\u201d he suspected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the sharing of the post, someone suggested that the voice heard on the finale was that of Slade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey all leak stuff to the bloggers. In all the franchises. However the difference with Tamra is when every podcaster or a blogger interviews her she straight up comes out and says what she has to say boldly \u2026 We see it in the replays. Why would she \u2018leak\u2019 things that she says out right? Even on their Two Ts in a Pod. Gretchen and Slade clearly set this up and that voice sounds like Slade,\u201d they alleged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But Gretchen denied it, suggesting there is proof to the contrary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not Slade [and] all the cast [and] production can verify that,\u201d Gretchen replied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another fan said that while they didn\u2019t believe that Gretchen had \u201cliked\u201d the homophobic and anti-abortion rights posts, they didn\u2019t understand how the screenshots could\u2019ve been manufactured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you watch they said they found the original posts and they were not showing Gretchen liking them, I think it gets exposed at the reunion that the [screenshots] had been faked,\u201d someone replied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And after seeing the second fan\u2019s comment, Gretchen confirmed, \u201cYep.\u201dThen, after Scheana reacted to Zack\u2019s video with a series of clapping emojis, someone else asked, \u201cSo are bloggers going to be the main topic on every housewives show now?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s a fabricated post, I didn\u2019t like that \u2026 and that is NOT Slade on that phone call,\u201d Gretchen insisted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another IG user asked why Tamra was getting heat for \u201cleaking\u201d Gretchen\u2019s supposedly \u201cliked\u201d posts when it was Gretchen who reportedly \u201cliked\u201d them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBecause as we spoke about this morning, those posts are old. Tamra has known about them for a long time but strategically waited until the finale to use them against Gretchen. Tamra\u2019s circle is surround by MAGA people. But suddenly she takes issue with it, to jab at Gretchen? And then leak it MONTHS before airing?\u201d Zack shared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meanwhile, in another video shared on Instagram by Bravo OMG, Gretchen was seen with a Trump hat in a years-old video as she held her daughter, Skylar Gray, now 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGo Trump, go! I got a Trump hat!\u201d Gretchen declared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, after Slade warned her of a Biden hat, she added, \u201cNo, burn that one!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Real Housewives of Orange County season 19 reunion begins next Thursday, November 6, at 8\/7c on Bravo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gretchen Rossi is speaking out amid claims that Slade Smiley was the person behind the distorted male voice heard at the end of the finale episode of The Real Housewives of Orange County. After the unidentified person accused Tamra Judge, 58, of leaking stories about the show, Gretchen, 47, addressed the rumors in a comment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694],"tags":[1139,1115,561,520,1224],"class_list":["post-15153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-show-rhoc","tag-bravonews","tag-gretchenrossi","tag-realitytvdrama","tag-rhoc","tag-sladesmiley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15161,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15153\/revisions\/15161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topkeynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}