Maddi Reese On 'Southern Hospitality', Dating Joe Bradley, & Her DJ Career

Maddi Reese is in survival mode — but not because of the drama unfolding on this season of Bravo’s Southern Hospitality or the fact that she just returned from a massive cross-country DJ tour. Instead, it’s the blistering cold wind tearing through New York City in mid-March. The low 30s is a stark contrast to the mid-to-upper 60s she’s used to back home in Charleston, South Carolina.

Dressed in a russet-brown Song of Style faux-leather matching set she rented from the fashion sharing site Pickle, the DJ-turned-Bravo-reality-star braves the cold with a vintage Coach bag on her arm as she heads inside Rubirosa, a trendy Italian spot in Lower Manhattan. “I’m gluten-free, and, down South, everything is fried or breaded. Every time I’m in New York, I indulge because there are so many gluten-free options,” she says as we order a Caesar salad with gluten-free croutons, gluten-free arancini, gluten-free rigatoni alla vodka, and the restaurant’s famed Tie Dye pizza in a gluten-free version.

Reese is in the city promoting the new season of SoHo,