The Mob‘s latest elimination led to a surprising betrayal before two people were whacked on screen.
During season 1 of the Hulu show, Harry Jowsey — a.k.a the new Don of the house — chose to get rid of Joe Gorga and Romeo Miller. This resulted in Joe (and Romeo) getting whacked despite the Real Housewives of New Jersey star previously saving Harry, 29, from a similar fate earlier in the season.
“I don’t hold a grudge because I know what he was trying to do. He’s just jealous,” Joe, 52, exclusively told Us. “I understand.”
Joe quipped that Harry was threatened by him as a competitor, adding, “When you got a physique like this and you look like this, you’re jealous. I accept that. It’s been my whole life.”
He continued: “One day, we’re about to take showers and he saw me naked. He lost his mind. He goes, ‘How can I be so big and so tall and this guy comes out looking like that? Forget it.'”
Harry, for his part, had a different perspective on their dynamic.
“Joe’s a little ham bone,” he joked. “He’s a little pitbull just running around with his muscles bursting out of his shirt and his stupid little hat on. Like, I love that guy so much. I wish we had more time together, but these guys are the biggest threats in the game. So I had to do what I had to do.”
The Mob, which airs Mondays, follows a group of celebrity contestants who are sent to an Italian villa where they compete for $100,000 and various other prizes. Each episode, they must complete a series of mob movie-inspired jobs to win cash and power. Following the challenge, one contestant is chosen to be the Don, who holds all the power over the money and decides who gets whacked.
“I fell in love with everybody. I really did,” Joe told Us about getting to interact with reality stars from different franchises, from The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ Demi Engemann to Dancing With the Stars’ Bruno Tonioli. “Everybody’s so great. Harry was my No. 1 guy. He’s so tall and good-looking. He’s got this hair. … I had my eye on him. I said, ‘Who is this son of a bitch coming over here with all this hair and he’s 6-foot-9 trying to make me look bad?’”
When asked whether he knew any of his costars’ shows, Joe joked that he didn’t have time to watch TV.
“I’m just a worker. I get up in the morning,” he shared. “Then I got to come home and I listen to a crazy wife [Melissa Gorga] that has chores for me. ‘Do this. Do that. I want to do this. Take me out to dinner.’ And I have kids. So, I have no life but work and kids … and I got to take care of my wife. That’s why she’s so happy. You know what I mean?”
The Mob airs on Hulu Mondays.
