IndyCar’s Josef Newgarden had no idea who RHOSLC cast member was during guest appearance

although real housewives of salt lake city Indy drivers are smitten when they see him Joseph Newgarden After appearing on the Bravo reality show, he was stumped.

Newgarden, 34, guest-starred in the show’s November 2024 episode, in which Bronwyn Newport The cast was invited to Hot Springs, California, just outside Palm Springs, to watch an IndyCar race. When Newgarden met Housewives at the track, Newport called him the “most handsome” and actor Lisa Barlow Shouting: “Take your shirt off!”

These women even tried composing new gardens with a single cast Heather Gaybut was told that Newgarden was married to his wife, Ashley Welchand the couple has a two-year-old son Kota.

“I don’t even know what happened,” Newgarden admitted in an exclusive interview us weekly “I’m serious, that’s how it happened. We were at the track, we were in this race. Someone suddenly walked into our engineering office and they said, ‘Hey, there are some people here, there are some guests. Can you Come out and say hello?

Newgarden continued: “I come out and say hello to everyone. They’ll say, ‘They’re going to film you, so don’t worry. ” I said, “Okay, no problem. “And then you don’t hear anything for a few months, right? And then when the show started I got all these text messages. I didn’t know about the show. I hadn’t seen it.

Driver “had no idea” his interactions with the housewives would be featured on the show, but called them “super sweet.”

After the episode aired, Newgarden joked that the crowd that responded the most to his Bravo debut was surprising.

“You know what’s funny? You get texts from your husband,” Newgarden said. “It was all men. Every text message was from a man and they were like, ‘I was watching it with my wife,’ or, ‘My wife was playing it on TV and I noticed you were there. “It’s kind of cool. I got about 20 of these texts. I thought it was really funny.

beyond his new discoveries housewife Newgarden is also the face of IndyCar’s inaugural season on Fox, which officially kicks off on March 2. tom brady.

For Newgarden, being able to occupy such a prominent position in IndyCar is not something to be taken lightly.

“I care about the growth of the sport, just being a competitor and loving IndyCar,” he said. “I want to see it reach the highest point it can reach. I remember when I was young, IndyCar used to be a household name in North America. Its impact wasn’t just limited to the United States. It’s a global sport. I think it You can go back to that point.

Newgarden added: “I care a lot about how it’s represented and how it’s perceived. I think Fox is really going to capture the essence of IndyCar, the cool factor about it. Because it’s always been there. It’s just the exposure. problem.

Fox’s coverage of the 2025 IndyCar season will begin with the St. Petersburg Firestone Grand Prix on Sunday, March 2 in St. Petersburg, Florida.