The Valley star Zack Wickham is reacting to his costar Janet Caperna’s generous offer to serve as his surrogate.
“I’ve never wanted to, like, say, ‘No, thank you,’ faster,” Zack exclusively told Us Weekly on Thursday, May 7. “Oh my god, could you imagine?”
The reality TV star continued, “I just don’t even know what that would entail. I do think she was, you know, saying it in a joking manner. Because I think if I followed through with it, she’d be like, ‘Oh yeah, no, no, no, no, no.’”
Zack and Janet star on Bravo’s hit reality TV series The Valley alongside Brittany Cartwright, Jesse Lally, Daniel Booko, Kristen Doute, Lala Kent, Nia Sanchez, Jasmine Goode, Jason Caperna and Tom Schwartz.
For the uninitiated, Janet — who welcomed son Cameron with husband Jason after season 1 filming wrapped in December 2023 — offered her friend her uterus during season 3, episode 6 of the hit series.
“Do you guys want babies,” Janet asks Zack and his boyfriend Benji during a group trip to San Diego.
“Uh huh,” Zack says in response, before pointing to his boyfriend and saying, “It’s a non-negotiable for him. He can take care of both me and a child. It’s, like, two kids. It’s fine.”
“Just let me know when you need a uterus,” Janet quipped.
“Stop offering your uterus out,” her husband Jason chimed in.
“I’m sure if Zack’s not ready for me to be planning his birthday he’s probably also not ready for me to carry his child, but a girl can dream,” Janet then tells the cameras of the heartwarming, on-camera moment.
Despite the heartwarming moment during the cast trip, Zack told Us that he and Janet’s friendship experienced another significant up-and-down cycle on season 3.
“You will see us go kind of back and forth,” he explained. “I think when we sat down at the pool we had a discussion — you see, you know, a portion of it, but it was a much longer discussion — and I felt throughout it [that] she was being very dismissive of how I was feeling, and not really being genuine with apologizing or with just us being able to move forward.”
He continued, “I know that she’s trying to say, ‘Oh, well, I’m just trying to joke so that we can move on.’ But I felt like that’s not really showing… these are not actions that are showing you’re moving forward. These are actually actions that are showing you’re trying to brush it under the rug. So, I think I struggle with that for a lot of the season, and I think she struggles with understanding why I’m coming from that angle. “
