Wait, is Real Housewives of Rhode Island’s Kelsey Swanson dating John Caprio?
His father Judge Caprio was a multi-millionaire
Well, it didn’t take long for sleuths to seemingly figure out the identity of Kelsey Swanson’s mysterious boyfriend on Real Housewives of Rhode Island, who has been identified as John Caprio.
Pictures uploaded to the Instagram account, The Caprio Residence, showed Kelsey and John Caprio together looking very loved up together.
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So, who is Kelsey Swanson’s boyfriend John Caprio?
John is the son of Judge Frank Caprio, who has gone viral as being the “nicest judge in the world”, and sadly passed away last year aged 88. He was worth around $5 million when he passed.
He has four other siblings, Frank, Marissa, David and Paul Caprio. The age of John Caprio also lines up with how old Kelsey Swanson has previously described him as.
Kelsey told Swooon that her boyfriend is 23 years older than her, with the pair first meeting when she was just 19 and he was 42.
She explained: “He’s very handsome. This isn’t some, like, I’m dating an old, disgusting man. He is very attractive. He takes care of himself. He’s active. He’s, like, 25 at heart.”
As for how the Real Housewives of Rhode Island star even manged to meet with their huge age gap, Kelsey Swanson’s revealed she met her boyfriend John Caprio at a tanning salon. Her friend worked at the salon, and as it turns out the salon was owned by the best friend of her now boyfriend.
She told Swooon: “I met him through visiting my best friend. There was a little smoothie/protein shake bar inside the tanning salon, so he would go there and get one, and I would go there and get one.”
Kelsey went to a party for the salon, revealing: “We met there. I think we made out for two hours straight, and the rest was history. Maybe two months later, he was like, ‘Wanna go to London? Wanna go to Spain?’ And I’m like, ‘Sure!’ Been together ever since.”
Whilst Kelsey and John don’t have children together, he does have two kids who are “three years younger” than Kelsey, which I’m going to be honest is pretty wild.
As for what her relationship is like with them, Kelsey explained: “One of them got married in September 2024 and I did her makeup for her wedding. We are totally fine. As they got older and I got older, it just grew normal, and they didn’t care”, according to Swooon.
And as it turns out, the pictures from that exact wedding have been posted to Instagram, you can see them all here!
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And as it turns out, John Caprio used to date Paula Abdul, with the pair spotted in 2012 together, roughly two years before the then 40 year old started dating Kelsey.
In response to the rumours about his relationship, John Caprio told The Providence Journal: “I respectfully have no comment, but I’m not comfortable answering any questions.”
You can watch The Real Housewives of Rhode Island every Sunday, 9/8c on Bravo.
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