Vittorio told Jessy the horse’s name was Giuseppe. The farm’s own social media posts call him Astro. That small, strange detail — a horse with two names — is where the Jessy and Vittorio story now sits: a season of little things that don’t add up, and a fight episode 5 left burning on the eve of tonight’s episode 6.
A Fashion-Week Meeting, a Bronx Goodbye
They met at Miami Fashion Week, where Vittorio was working as a designer and Jessy was working the fashion world from the other side of it. A year later, the 29-year-old former pageant queen — Miss Eco USA 2022, a LIM College graduate — was packing up her Bronx life to move to Florence for him. Vittorio, also 29, is a Florence fashion designer and tennis coach who worked with Hermès and founded his own label, Vittorio Smoot, in 2022. TLC’s introduction warned she has a history of choosing the wrong men — and that the couple has yet to be intimate after a year together.
The Villa That Didn’t Add Up
The first crack came before the suitcases were unpacked. Jessy had pictured Florence; what she got was the Tuscan countryside and a house tour in episode 3 that raised more questions than it answered. The furnishings looked staged, and nothing in the place was clearly, personally Vittorio’s. Then insider Shabooty flagged the property, and Starcasm matched it to “The Music House,” one of the rentals at Casa Barthel, an estate 15 minutes from downtown Florence. Vittorio answered in an Instagram reel that people could call him many things, but never a liar — his father bought the land in the hills of Florence in the 1980s, and he was born there. But he also admitted his father had handed the property to a management company, which explains the rental listing without quite debunking it.
The Tennis Club Night That Changed the Season
If the villa was the first crack, the tennis club was the break. In the October 25 episode, Vittorio took Jessy to play tennis with his friends — and corrected her in front of everyone. He mocked her red outfit, then lost his temper when she ordered a cappuccino at 8 p.m. According to recaps, he called her childish and yelled profanities as he rode off on his motorcycle, leaving her to take a production ride home. She admitted on camera she had never seen that side of him before.
A Napkin Apology, and a Fight That Refused to End
The fight followed them home — and that is where a cocktail napkin came in. In the November 1 episode, Vittorio tried to make things right with a love letter written on one. Jessy was not convinced: she wants genuine respect, according to reports, not another temporary apology. They sit fourth of seven on the safest-to-doomed ranking of the season’s couples, and fans split instantly: one camp says the note was a nice gesture, but that is it; the other says a man who yells at his partner in front of his friends does not need better stationery — he needs to change.
The Part of Jessy’s Story the Cameras Haven’t Told
There is a side of Jessy the show has barely touched. In November 2025, she opened up on Instagram about being diagnosed with stage IV endometriosis, calling it one of the scariest obstacles she had ever endured. She has also spoken about losing her mother to stage 4 cancer during her senior year of high school.
YOU MAY LIKESTOP Sharing That Viral Post: The Cruel Jenny Slatten Death Hoax Debunked — She’s Alive and Still FightingEpisode 6, “Hakuna Ma-Drama,” airs tonight, and the fight episode 5 left unresolved is still the question hanging over this couple: was any of it real — the villa, the romance, the man who wrote her a love letter on a napkin? The Andi and Nigel open-relationship war is the season’s loudest fight If you were Jessy, which would end it for you — the house that wasn’t quite his, or the night he yelled at you in front of his friends? Team Jessy or Team Vittorio — and what does Vittorio have to do tonight to earn a second chance?
