“Southern Charm” star Shep Rose told Andy Cohen how he first met Madison LeCroy’s rumored co-star romance with Alex Rodriguez, before the issue erupted unexpectedly at the recent Bravo reunion of the program.
On Monday, calling SiriusXM’s “Andy Cohen Live,” Rose recalled that the cast was filming a trip to Capers Island, South Carolina, when LeCroy allegedly “said to the camera: the camera is boiling, we’re on a boat, and she’s like, “” Well, I’m DMing with A-Rod, but we can’t talk about that. Or they can’t pass it on because I’ve signed an NDA. ”
“He was the first to hear about it and I said,‘ Oh my God! Rose said to Cohen. “My eyes almost went out of my head. But hey, you know, I think from what I understand he approached her.”
Rose said of the images in which LeCroy mentioned A-Rod, “they didn’t use it … and then we got it [the reunion show]. I guess so [castmate] Craig [Conover] who let this cat out of the bag and it didn’t take long on the internet or anyone to find the answers, which he never does. It does?”
A-Rod’s name spread in the meeting program when it was published.
LeCroy later confirmed on page six that the mysterious man mentioned was in fact Rodriguez. But he insisted they had only spoken on the phone.
“That’s the truth,” he told us, adding that “they had never been physical … they had never had anything of the sort. Just an acquaintance.” And, “He has never physically cheated on his promise to me,” he said, adding that the exchanges were “innocent”.
Sources close to Rodriguez went even further: they said in LeCroy’s Post, “You don’t know this woman.”
Page six reported exclusively on Friday that Rodriguez, 45, and Lopez, 51, separated.
The stars stayed up all night talking after our report arrived, sources told us, and posted a vague statement in the morning that said “All reports are inaccurate. We are working on some things.”
A-Rod flew to visit Lopez on the set of his film in the Dominican Republic on Monday.
LeCroy, 30, made no comment when we contacted her Friday, saying she was “caught” with the news from the celebrity division.