Jo Wenberg, Tom Schwartz. Courtesy of Jo Wenberg/Instagram Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic
Tom Schwartz and Jo Wenberg‘s situationship finished just as randomly as it commenced.
Through the latest episode of Vanderpump Policies, which aired on Tuesday, April 9, Schwartz, 41, and Jo navigated their relaxed romantic relationship as he ventured back into the courting scene. Jo spelled out in a confessional that she was hoping for a long term with Schwartz.
“I see how much Schwartz enjoys his good friends, and I want to be welcomed into the team if I want to be a element of Schwartz’s lifestyle without end,” she noted. “We obtained really, incredibly emotionally shut when he would cry about Katie [Maloney].”
Jo was in the beginning a key subject matter of discussion on Vanderpump Procedures in the aftermath of Schwartz and Katie’s divorce. (The former few declared their break up in March 2022, months right before they began filming period 10.)
Schwartz’s shut bond with Jo was described in numerous unaired scenes just before he verified their relationship at the 2023 reunion. He has given that played off how really serious the pair in fact ended up — which viewers obtained a bigger glimpse of on the show.
On Tuesday’s episode, Schwartz and Jo finished up in an uncomfortable circumstance when she invited herself to a singles mixer with him, Tom Sandoval and Kyle Chan. Schwartz’s pal group was fast to place out that he couldn’t casually date when he was paying out so a great deal time with Jo.
“Schwartz and Jo are on two distinct webpages. Jo is searching at their situationship as a glass half whole romantic relationship,” Sandoval, 41, reported. “Schwartz just being Schwartz, he is going to give off indicators. It is like component of his superpower, he is charming all the time.”
Kyle, in the meantime, provided Schwartz some assistance, incorporating, “You will need to be not usually with Jo. How are you going to obtain a lady?”
The outing received even worse when Schwartz begun flirting with a woman. The duo shared a kiss, which is when Jo awkwardly remaining the venue simply because she acquired upset that Schwartz was openly flirting.
“I was below the impression that why we had been right here was to guidance Tom Sandoval. Then when we obtained right here, he was fascinated in other women of all ages,” she informed the cameras. “What am I? Chopped liver?”
Jo continued: “I know the truth, and the reality is that we are hooking up. We explained I love you to each and every other. It bothers me that he doesn’t definitely want to share this marriage with his friends. I’m drained of experience like a top secret.”
Schwartz subsequently began to dilemma no matter if his scenario with Jo was sustainable, indicating, “Maybe it is not as real looking to be this near as me and Jo are and still go out and day other folks, hold out with other people today and have sex with other persons. I am setting up to question if she’s in a very little further than I am.”
Later on in the episode, Schwartz asked Jo if she felt that he was sending “mixed signals” her way.
“Because I know we have these kinds of a excellent time alongside one another and we have this plain chemistry. That being said, I really don’t want to be in a relationship at all,” he explained to her. “I want to day other people. I am dating other folks and I get figures and I hook up with persons.”
Jo did not keep again about how Schwartz’s actions hurt her. “Do you think about how I experience right after getting close to you for the past calendar year and a 50 percent? We have been there for each individual other,” she famous. “Are you humiliated by me?”
Schwartz denied becoming humiliated by Jo but he did confess to listening to some rumors, adding, “People are stating that you are stating powering shut doors that we are secretly dating. Maybe we need to have to not hold out as considerably.”
As a substitute of pulling back again a small, Jo instructed they not hold out “at all,” which upset Schwartz.
“To hear her say that is kind of intestine wrenching. Me and Jo have experienced this superb voyage comprehensive of compassion, assistance and probably even appreciate,” he admitted. “It would be a f—king tragedy if we hardly ever hung out or talked once more.”
The discussion received psychological when Jo discussed how important Schwartz was to her.
“It is so easy. Like, us jointly would be [so easy]. We would be disgustingly unsightly and previous and laughing and all these things,” she gushed. “That is why I want some time for the reason that deep down I do assume I have emotions for you.”
As the twosome agreed to element approaches, Jo started out to cry. “I am going to pass up that. It only comes all-around the moment in a while and it is Ok for us to just say, ‘Well, perhaps we would find it someplace else,’” she advised Schwartz ahead of rushing out of his condominium to offer with her feelings.
Jo elaborated on her really like for Schwartz, telling the cameras, “It is actually hard. I just want him to be satisfied. Massively. He is my beloved particular person in the globe and I really do not care what he suggests about me, but that is that goddamn truth of the matter. I think the environment of him.”
Considering the fact that their onscreen split, Schwartz opened up about why timing was performing from him and Jo.
“There had been possibly blended indicators there a little bit. We had a lightning in a bottle circumstance for a although there,” he said on Look at What Takes place Dwell With Andy Cohen in February. “I don’t know if it was sustainable presented my mental condition of currently being. I do not know if I was equipped to be in a traditional partnership.”
Schwartz joked he “should have been committed” in its place of seeking out a girlfriend, noting, “I was in a really bizarre put like I have under no circumstances professional in my complete daily life. I’ll shut up now.”
The TomTom cofounder has due to the fact moved on with Sophia Skoro. Jo, in the meantime, has ongoing to publicly praise Schwartz.
“Been wanting to say this for a even though, and give me grace on how I say it – ⭐️Everything about this human would make me content. Have you ever discovered a human that just receives you? Tends to make you chuckle and has a genuine like for men and women the similar way I do way too. 💕that’s Tom,” she wrote via Instagram in March. “Tom Schwartz deserves the globe — and so do I. I know him so properly and I’m so happy and grateful. Maybe I’m not the woman for him, but I get it — he is truly a very good instance of an individual dwelling in the moment always and so am I.”
The post concluded: “Blessings to Tom Schwartz for assisting me with everyday living. And vice versa, what in tarnations, obtain a man or woman who can make you snicker all the time — that is Tom Schwartz (T$) you human beings out there are fortunate to dangle out with him. (He will loathe this put up due to the fact it’s a compliment to who he is) but someone has to say it — t$ has the most effective giggle, smile, and people today ought to actually know how form he is. I’ll adore him without end. Jo, out ☀️.”
In reaction to responses questioning the prolonged caption, Jo replied, “Why just can’t I article about a person of my very best mates? Just because he is a person? If this was a person of my greatest girlfriends no just one would care! Let us all be sort and shout out the ideal individuals in our life! ❤️.”
Vanderpump Policies airs on Bravo Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET and is accessible to stream on Peacock the next working day.
