“Summer House: Martha’s Vineyard” star Jordan Emanuel is setting the record straight on her relationship status with fellow Bravolebrity Tom Schwartz.
“We are 100 percent friendly,” the model and DJ, 31, said on ’s “Virtual Reali-Tea” podcast. “We just bond over music or when I have a new set, I’ll send it to him.”
Emanuel has grown close with Schwartz, 40, since entering the world of reality TV.
“I love him,” she said. “He’s just so sweet.”
Social media users spotted the former Playmate of the Year and the “Vanderpump Rules” star hanging out at a New York City bar following the latter’s April 5 “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen” appearance, leading some to believe a romance was brewing.
However, Emanuel reiterated that their dynamic is strictly platonic — and mostly rooted in their shared love for music.
“Literally, most of our time is articulating our favorite music or, like, karaoke-ing or something like that,” she said of the Schwartz & Sandy’s co-owner.
Emanuel noted that the Schwartz fans see on TV is “fully how he is” off-camera as well.
“Sometimes that does get him in trouble,” she explained, acknowledging his involvement in best friend Tom Sandoval’s headline-making cheating scandal.
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Schwartz notably knew about Sandoval’s affair with co-star Raquel Leviss months before it came to light.
The shocking betrayal prompted a “heartbroken” and “blindsided” Ariana Madix to swiftly dump Sandoval, 40, her boyfriend of nearly 10 years.
Schwartz’s knowledge of the situation — and the holes in his story, emphasized by a purported timeline that deviated from Sandoval’s — has drawn ire from passionate Madix supporters.
Emanuel, for her part, encouraged Schwartz to “be more sturdy” in making decisions and statements that feel authentic to him…
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