A new reality TV power couple may be on the horizon with a new report that Vanderpump Rules star Katie Maloney was spotted with Love Island USA’s Connor Newsum.
Maloney, 37, and Newsum, 28, were spotted at Laurel Tavern in Studio City, California on Tuesday, according to a US Weekly report.
The source said that they both got a table in the corner of the restaurant and weren’t joined by anyone else, noting that Maloney, ‘looked amazing.’
It’s possible that Love Island USA host and Maloney’s Vanderpump Rules co-star Ariana Madix may have played the part of matchmaker for this date, though that has yet to be confirmed.
The news comes just a few weeks after both Maloney and Madix were sued by a former chef from their sandwich shop dubbed Something About Her.’
A new reality TV power couple may be on the horizon with a new report that Vanderpump Rules star Katie Maloney was spotted with Love Island USA ‘s Connor Newsum
Maloney, 37, and Newsum, 28, were spotted at Laurel Tavern in Studio City, California on Tuesday, according to a US Weekly report
She revealed in January that he split from Schwartz was single in 12 years, as she opened up about dating on The Viall Files podcast.
‘I would say that there’s moments of thriving, and then there’s just moments of surviving, merely just trying to be in the streets,’ she said of dating in Los Angeles.
‘I mean, sometimes it’s just so grim. It’s like, “Wow, this is just really what it is,”‘ she added on the podcast.
She admitted, ‘The landscape had just totally changed from the time I was 24 to now.’
‘It changed and it didn’t change. It’s still what can be expected, like men are not OK,’ she admitted.
She added of her divorce in a September 2023 episode of the Almost Adulting podcast, ‘I was not asking for the world. I was asking for somebody to show up for me and they couldn’t. Over and over and over again. It just became a voice that became louder and louder and I couldn’t deny it anymore.
‘It was over months — a period of months — and I just got to a point where I was like I need to get real with myself and real with him. I kind of just knew it,’ she said.
Maloney hasn’t dated since her split from another Vanderpump Rules star, Tom Schwartz , who she was married to from 2016 to 2022
She revealed in January that he split from Schwartz was single in 12 years, as she opened up about dating on The Viall Files podcast
As for Newsum, the 28-year-old Santa Monica, California native was brought onto Love Island USA in this most recent fourth season on Day 2
He came aboard with Liv Walker and Hakeem White, and formed brief connections with JaNa Craig and Leah Kateb
‘I became emotionally withdrawn. I still loved him but the love between us — that connection — that romance was not there anymore,’ she admitted.
As for Newsum, the 28-year-old Santa Monica, California native was brought onto Love Island USA in this most recent fourth season on Day 2.
He came aboard with Liv Walker and Hakeem White, and formed brief connections with JaNa Craig and Leah Kateb.
Newsum was ultimately eliminated from the season in the 15th day, though he revealed after leaving the villa he has since connected with Cass Laudano.
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