While Monique Samuels is away, it seems like the ladies of Real Housewives of Potomac have no longer come to play. Now, after coming for Samuels' marriage, the Season 6 preview looks as if the forged is focused on Dr. Wendy Osefo's dating.
Wendy is married to Eddie Osefo, a Maryland-based legal professional. The Georgetown University Law graduate is the debate of Bravo, and Wendy isn't going to let the other ladies escape with petty gossip. Here's what we know to this point about her relationship with Eddie.
'A Town Of Smoke And Mirrors'
In the preview, we listen Wendy introduce Potomac off the bat as "a town of smoke and mirrors." What lies are the solid spreading, and about whom? For now, we see Gizelle Bryant stirring the pot via mentioning rumors about Eddie Osefo.
"What you're not going to do is you're not going to play with my husband's name," Wendy says as the camera temporarily cuts to her making eye-to-eye touch with who we suppose is Gizelle.
She's smartly aware of the power that a rumor holds. Well, what precisely are the ones rumors, and do they hang any reality? We're rooting for Wendy and Eddie, however whispers of infidelity are circulating drama blogs.
According to All About The Tea, Eddie was warned via every other husband of Potomac that rumors about his alleged child born out of wedlock would make airtime. The weblog post said:
"An in-law of Wendy Osefo reached out to AllAboutTheTea.com — giving insight into the beef between the couple and Eddie’s estranged parents. Eddie and his family will not kiss and make up. I have heard his family is even MORE mad at both him and Wendy for bringing their family issues to TV for a check. Reality TV is beneath them so they are pissed!”
The exclusive article further cited an anonymous source claiming that Eddie cheated on Wendy with a woman at his law firm. The source also threatened that their marriage woes will be included in Season 6, which the "First Look" also portrays.
Eddie Shuts Down Gossip
Eddie and Wendy are many viewers' favorite couple of the entire Real Housewives franchise. That being said, people who are jealous of a thriving relationship will spend all of their energy to take it down.
Back in May, Eddie shut down the rumors about his alleged secrete child in a heartwarming Instagram post dedicated to Wendy.
He captioned the Mother's Day photo, "It wouldn’t be your day without them; The mother of my ONLY Three babies...Thank you for blessing me with my little chocolate 🍫 drops 🙏🏾. The haters will at all times hate (misery loves company)..."
Plenty of Instagram posts of the happily married couple have been posted since then and before the smack talk emerged. He's not only honoring his marriage to avoid criticism. Before Wendy joined RHOP, Eddie wrote long love letters to her via social media.
In one post, in particular, he gratefully thanked Wendy for teaching him how to love and trusting him in loving her. He included, "Year 9 will undoubtedly be one we write books about." Well, he's right but not in the way that these two probably expected.
We did, however, find one iffy thing on Eddie's social media. He only foll0ws a little over 600 accounts, but that's not what we noticed. While we initially scrolled through to see if he still followed the RHOP cast, we found that he follows a large amount of thirst trap Instagrams.
That's not against the models who are building their personal brands. For many, it's also not a red flag for a husband to follow models/mature content accounts. This gray area topic is truly up to everyone to assess based on an individual set of relationship boundaries.
There's a lot of women in bikinis who Wendy doesn't mutually follow. An oversight on Instagram, however, is obviously a drastic difference from castmates alleging infidelity. They are not two in the same. We're still teaming with Wendy and Eddie!
Tension With Eddie's Family
We've seen in the past how Eddie and Wendy have struggled with his family's acceptance of their relationship. Bravo fans analyzed the stressful rift on Reddit.
One fan posted to an RHOP Reddit thread regarding the impact of Nigerian culture:
"Maybe because I’m Nigerian I used to assume kinfolk estrangement was a problem more prevalent in our neighborhood. Untrue, as I’ve gotten to know more non-Nigerians it doesn’t appear uncommon in any culture for households to bring to an end a member, infrequently for foolish causes, sometimes for serious issues, maximum too difficult for a TV show like Potomac to get into."
The layered backstory of Wendy's immigrated family and Eddie's family's beliefs involving heritage play a large role in the criticism of their marriage. We're not here to downplay those issues and commend Wendy and Eddie for navigating such a battle while honoring their commitment to one another.
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