Jared Lipscomb, the bestie of Janet Caperna, recalled asking men to make Danny Booko leave Jax’s Bar when he was “wasted.” Meanwhile, Teddi Mellencamp shared her own story about Danny, and Jared addressed an off-camera incident with castmate Zack Wickman.
In the new season of The Valley, Janet has continually confronted Danny for overdrinking. Jasmine Goode shared that he was inappropriate with her while drunk at a Halloween party. Castmates have used the name “Darkside Danny” to describe him when he’s intoxicated.
“I have [witnessed Darkside Danny],” said Jared on the Bravo Investigator podcast, via @breakingtherulespodclips on Instagram. “We used to all hang out at Jax’s a lot before everything went down … it was the same kind of [behavior] and I [once] asked some of the [guys] there to have him leave for his own benefit, and they quickly did after I saw him being inappropriate with people.”
“It falls right in line with the stuff with Jasmine and that kind of thing that already happened,” said Jared, who claimed he saw more than one incident. “[But] it almost feels like everyone’s reaction … is based on one incident.”
On her Two Ts In A Pod podcast, Teddi shared her own story about Danny.
“I’m trying to put this in the nicest way possible – I have seen Danny be Darkside Danny,” she said. Her cohost, Tamra Judge, asked Teddi to explain “what Darkside Danny is.”
“To me, it’s just obnoxious,” she answered. “It’s not a fun drunk to be around.”
At one point in Jared’s interview, he addressed Zack’s off-camera incident.
“[He] and Scheana Shay were trying to work something out cause he had issues with Scheana,” Jared recalled. “Zack has a lot of issues with people, and they come and go, and sometimes they stay … He’s hotheaded. He thinks fast and emotional, and when he gets drunk, he gets wasted.”
“And [he] says things that I think he really regrets, or maybe doesn’t, I don’t know. But his go-to when he’s there is so dark,” Jared went on. “I don’t know why your first mindset is to be like, ‘That person should die!’ … I get that it’s hyperbole when you’re saying [it]. You don’t literally want me to go kill myself, but still, it’s just a bizarre thing.”
