{"id":231647,"date":"2026-01-13T22:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T22:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/231647\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T22:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T22:55:07","slug":"actor-kal-penn-calls-out-below-deck-med-stars-tears-on-wwhl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/231647\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor Kal Penn Calls Out Below Deck Med Star\u2019s Tears on WWHL"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Below Deck Mediterranean<\/a> Season 10, lead deckhand Joe Bradley<\/a> has made a mess of his love life. First he romanced stew Victoria SanJuan<\/a>. But while V was away from the boat sick, Joe couldn\u2019t resist hooking up<\/a> with V\u2019s co-worker Kizzi Kitchener<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Added to the fact that V\u2019s birthday was the first anniversary of her boyfriend\u2019s drowning death, Joe felt like a heel. As he should! Not only was V sick and grieving, but she left the boat thinking that Joe would be waiting for her when she returned.<\/p>\n

But were those tears of remorse over hurting V real, or was Joe just being dramatic? Watch What Happens Live<\/a> guest Kal Penn<\/a> has some doubts.<\/p>\n

Kal Penn said on WWHL that he \u201cbelieved\u201d Joe Bradley\u2019s emotions \u201cat first\u201d<\/p>\n

On January 12, WWHL host Andy Cohen<\/a> asked Kal, \u201cDid you have hope that Joe was going to do right by V? Or did you think, \u2018Once an F-boy, always an F-boy?’\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he cried,\u201d the actor said, \u201cI was [initially] convinced. But then I felt foolish when it turned out that he was actually \u2026 crying \u2019cause he got caught by a camera \u2026 But I believed him at first.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, perhaps Joe is just an emotional person. He\u2019s not perfect by any means, but he seems to feel things very deeply. In fact, he\u2019s admitted that there was a time in his life when he was so depressed, he came \u201cthis close\u201d to taking his own life<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, fellow guest and BDM Season 10 chef Josh Bingham<\/a> had a different take on the situation. \u201cI think he just felt genuinely bad,\u201d Josh explained, \u201cI think he was feeling bad about his own self.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor 20 minutes?\u201d the former White House staff member questioned.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor 20 minutes,\u201d Josh laughingly agreed.<\/p>\n

Below Deck Mediterranean<\/a> airs Mondays at 8\/7c on Bravo, streaming the following day on Peacock.<\/p>\n

TELL US \u2013 DO YOU THINK JOE SHOULD HAVE BEEN HONEST WITH V FROM THE START? DO YOU THINK KIZZI HAS FEELINGS FOR JOE OR IS HE JUST A CONVENIENT PLAYTHING? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Below Deck Mediterranean Season 10, lead deckhand Joe Bradley has made a mess of his love life.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[137613,39858,156,137614,111,139,69,437,137615,56531,137616],"class_list":["post-231647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bdm","tag-below-deck-mediterranean","tag-entertainment","tag-kal-penn","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv","tag-watch-what-happens-live","tag-watch-what-happens-live-with-andy-cohen","tag-wwhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}