Simply when Bravo followers thought that one other Southern Appeal romance was brewing between Jarrett “JT” Thomas and Venita Aspen, JT dropped the bombshell that he had a girlfriend.
JT and Venita are two forged members on Season 10 of Southern Appeal, Bravo’s actuality TV sequence following the non-public {and professional} lives of socialites in Charleston, South Carolina. From the Season 10 premiere, it appeared like there was a romance within the works between JT and Venita, who referred to one another as their “greatest good friend” and light-flirted all through the season. These hopes have been dashed, nonetheless, towards the center of Season 10 when Venita invited JT over to her home for what appeared to be a date. As Venita made her transfer, JT revealed that he had a girlfriend. “Let me simply acknowledge one thing,” JT instructed Venita in the course of the episode. “There’s one thing, proper? Like, you realize that there’s chemistry right here? I do.” Venita responded, “I had a sense that it was there. However I didn’t assume that you’d really, like, say it!”
“Do I do know we have now chemistry? And am I interested in you? Sure, and sure,” JT continued. “My mouth is like, caught in a everlasting smile proper now,” replied the style influencer giddily,” Venita replied.
That’s when JT knowledgeable Venita that, regardless of their chemistry, he couldn’t date her as a result of he had a girlfriend. “However it’s simply, and I’m simply being actual,” JT mentioned, “I’m seeing somebody.” JT defined in his confessional interview that, whereas he wasn’t a cheater as his relationship was “simply getting out of the gate,” persevering with to flirt with Venita was a “slippery slope” he didn’t need to go down. Venita, for her half, instructed producers that she was conscious JT was courting somebody however he had by no means used the phrase “girlfriend” to her.
“Don’t act such as you don’t need this simply as unhealthy as I do,” Venita instructed JT in the course of the scene, which JT didn’t deny. “Let’s play this out,” he mentioned. “Say that there’s an alternate universe [and] that it was me and also you. However you knew that I had the propensity to see new alternatives and be flippant. You wouldn’t need to be with someone like that. And you’ll at all times surprise behind your thoughts, is he gonna do the identical factor to me?”
Venita instructed JT that his response was “legitimate.” In her confessional, she admitted that, if she and JT had been courting and she or he came upon he was talking to another person the way in which he did along with her, that will be a motive for her to finish their relationship.
Who’s JT’s girlfriend from Southern Appeal?
JT’s girlfriend is Ali Pereless, the Director of New Enterprise Growth for the Charleston-based public relations agency, South Metropolis PR. In accordance with her biography on the corporate’s web site, Ali is initially from New Jersey however moved to Charleston in 2018 after incomes her Bachelor’s diploma in Stratgic Communication from Excessive Level College in Excessive Level, North Carolina.
In March 2025, Venita defended herself towards homewrecker claims after Southern Appeal aired a scene of her going to JT’s resort room on a forged journey to attempt to hook up with him. In an Instagram Story on the time, Venita claimed that the scene was filmed earlier than her and JT’s “date,” the place he knowledgeable her he had a girlfriend. “Let me make one thing VERY CLEAR. That dinner JT and I had after I made Branzino was AFTER the Bahamas yall as an viewers noticed it BEFORE. So this weeks episode is now making me appear to be I’m a house wrecker once I’m not,” Venita wrote. “I do know what I signed up for however I additionally is not going to permit the world to assume I’m that lady once I’m not. Be sure to add this screenshot to the entire Reddit threads.”
Instagram account @realmomsofbravo reposted Venita’s Instagram Story, to which Ali responded and denied Venita’s declare that she didn’t know JT had a girlfriend. “venita met me as jarrett’s girlfriend at dinner with bunny final april pre filming however i admire her attempting to avoid wasting face! glad to ship receipts :)” she wrote.
Days earlier than the Southern Appeal Season 10 finale, JT shared a video of her introducing Ali to Venita, his mother, and sister on April 5, 2024. “The great previous days.. loved filming with my mother and sister and introducing them to my then new gf Ali. Glad Venita was in a position to be part of us for a enjoyable meal” he captioned the Instagram publish.
In an Instagram Story on March 19, JT claimed that Southern Appeal “shattered” each his relationship with Ali and Venita. “The TV present has principally shattered each relationships. In time, I hope the friendship will be restored totally with each.. and within the meantime I simply need peace,” he wrote, hinting that he and Ali have been not collectively.
Southern Appeal streams on Peacock.