Bo Dietl, a famed personal investigator, took heart stage on 'RHONJ' Season 13. Louie Ruelas claimed he had private info on Melissa and Joe Gorga.
Season 13 of The Real Housewives of New Jersey ended with a bombshell confession from Teresa Giudice’s husband, Louie Ruelas. Louie and Teresa spent most of the season beefing together with her brother Joe Gorga and sister-in-law Melissa Gorga over their involvement in the couple’s wedding in August 2022.
Amid a season of A-list identify drops (basically from Jennifer Fessler), Louie shared in the finale that one among his shut friends, Bo Dietl, a famed private investigator, has some non-public info referring to Melissa and Joe. Many won't know the name Bo Dietl off-rip however have most probably seen his face on a minimum of one in all your favorite crime-centered procedural dramas.
Here’s the scoop on Bo Dietl and the way the personal investigator’s identify made waves on RHONJ.
Bo Dietl was a private investigator and actor lengthy ahead of ‘RHONJ.’
Richard “Bo” Dietl discovered his approach into the limelight by way of protective the environment the place he grew up. Born on Dec. 4, 1950, Bo attended Richmond Hill High School in Queens. After highschool, he labored as a unionized concrete laborer and iron worker for the World Trade Center. Then, Bo joined the New York Police Department (NYPD) and served as a police officer for 15 years.
Bo retired from the NYPD in 1985 after gaining a stellar popularity. Then, he created his investigative and safety company, Beau Dietl & Associates. Bo’s LinkedIn page states that the firm “has grown to transform one in every of the premier investigative and security companies in the nation and is a full-service group offering all kinds of investigative and security services to company and person shoppers worldwide.”
In addition to his lengthy career in private investigating, Bo may be a writer. In 1998, he co-wrote his autobiography, One Tough Cop, adopted by means of a movie starring Stephen Baldwin as Bo.
Bo additionally starred in his biopic as a detective and has been appearing in many motion pictures and TV displays since the Nineteen Eighties. In 1987, he landed a temporary position as a “gangster” in Beverly Hills Cop II. Since then, he has seemed on Law & Order, The Wolf of Wall Street (as himself), and a 2023 episode of Blue Bloods. Additionally, the media character hosts a podcast referred to as One Tough Podcast.
New Yorkers additionally likely recall Bo’s short-lived political occupation. In 2017, Bo ran for mayor of New York City towards Mayor Bill De Blasio and lost to the preferred candidate.
While Bo has been in the spotlight for his profession in the previous, his good friend Louie’s confession made him a vital part of RHONJ Season 13. During the season, Teresa, Jennifer Aydin, and Danielle Cabral accused Margaret Josephs of having an “arsenal” of dust on the forged. However, Louie admitted that he had all the tea, thank you to his BFF.
"Bo Dietl knows s--t about everybody in this room," Louie said in the episode. “I'm no longer speaking, like, gossip. Like, Bo Dietl, who's like, one among the maximum famous private investigators in the nation, considered one of my easiest buddies, introduced me information on every individual on this workforce. There's so much more."
Louie Ruelas and Teresa Giudice denied hiring Bo Dietl to do their dirty work.
The drama with Bo continued into the Season 13 reunion. Rachel Fuda and her husband, John, claimed Louie hired Bo to dig some dirt up about their son Jaiden’s estranged birth mother, Brittney Malsch. Fans recall the couple briefly discussed Jaden’s relationship with his mother when Rachel opened up about wanting to adopt her stepson legally.
“How come you brought my son’s mother into this?” John asked Louie and Tre at the reunion, adding that he wanted Louie to “stop your bulls--t.”
Several other cast members accused Louie of hiring the famed P.I. to spy on them and their families, including Margaret, her husband Joe Benigno, and Frank Catania. However, Teresa and Louie cleared their name when Andy Cohen asked the Housewives OG about the drama on Watch What Happens Live.
During the episode, Teresa claimed Louie made up the story about hiring Bo to mess with Melissa and Joe because he was “frustrated” by the issues that have plagued them all season. Andy then asked Teresa if Louie’s comment came “out of nowhere,” the couple agreed it was a last-ditch effort to get Melissa and Joe off their backs.
“I was at the end of my rope,” Louie shared while in the WWHL audience. “It was a long season. Frustrating, you know, trying to get married.”
Andy Cohen said Bo Dietl denied spying on the ‘RHONJ’ cast.
In addition to Louie and Teresa denying they hired Bo for the show, Andy recently spilled some tea that may exonerate the couple from the mess after all.
During a June 2023 episode of his Sirius XM show, Radio Andy, the Bravo king chatted with his co-host John Hill about his conversation with Bo after the RHONJ cast taped the reunion. Andy said the private investigator supported Louie’s admission that he made the story up and denied agreeing to snoop on Teresa’s castmates.
“Bo Dietl tracked me down last week — the private eye — while we were off, and he was like, ‘Look, Louie never hired me. He never hired me,’” Andy shared on the air. “And I go, ‘Well then, how would Louie come up with it on camera several times and say that you got him info on people?’ He was like, ‘I don’t know, he was just talking.’”
The conversation continued with Andy and John discussing what drove Louie to make up such an audacious lie about his close friend. In another episode of Radio Andy, the host described the entire situation as "odd" and "peculiar." While we won't know the exact cause for the outburst, Bo needs Bravo lovers to keep him some distance away from the Jersey madness.
The Real Housewives of New Jersey airs new episodes on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. EST on Bravo.
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