Katie Maloney hard launches relationship with Sleeping With Sirens' Nick Martin after Tom Schwartz split

Her time on Vanderpump Rules has come to an end, but Katie Maloney is keeping busy with a new man. 

The reality star has officially hard launched her relationship with her new boyfriend, Sleeping With Sirens guitarist Nick Martin.

The Vanderpump Rules alum, 37, shared a loved-up snap with her love to her Instagram Stories on Tuesday as she celebrated his birthday.

The couple looked as cute as can be as they snuggled up in a booth at Casa Vega restaurant with Martin's arm lovingly slung over her shoulders.

Katie held his hand as they gazed adoringly at one another inside the eatery. 'Happy birthday my (red heart emoji)!!!!!' Katie - who was previously married to VPR alum Tom Schwartz - wrote in the photo. 

Katie confirmed her romance with Martin back in October, but only shared an affectionate photo of their hands.

Martin re-shared the photo, adding, 'Our Casa Vega XMas Card.'  

Nick's identity was first unveiled by Katie's Vanderpump Rules co-star Scheana Shay in October.

Katie first revealed she had a boyfriend on October 16 while appearing on the podcast Disrespectfully - from Dayna Kathan.

Katie chose not to reveal the identity of her new man - but Scheana revealed his name one week later on her podcast Scheananigans after she met him.

Her new boyfriend comes two years after she finalized her divorce from Tom Schwartz following six years of marriage.

During the October 16 podcast appearance, Katie revealed she has a man in her life.

'I have a boyfriend. Yeah, I'm in love, everybody. I'm really happy.'

Adding: 'He's the most wonderful person I've ever met. He's very lovely and he just makes me feel really special and he's really special and yea, I'm just really happy.'

While she chose not to identify him, she had added that she saw him over the weekend before her podcast appearance.

'This weekend, I went to go see my boyfriend. He has to travel for work, so I went to go meet up with him and hang out with him and spend some time.'

She continued: 'It was really amazing 'cause I hadn't seen him in a few weeks and jut being able to like spend quality time and just be around him was really necessary and really nice.'

One week later, Scheana told fans what they wanted to hear - who is Katie's boyfriend.

Scheana said on her podcast that she met Katie's boyfriend over the weekend, explaining: 'I actually met him this weekend. We were all by the artists trailers in the hangout area, and he and Katie were walking up while I was standing at the taco truck in line getting food.'

'I said hi to her. She introduced me to her boyfriend,' Scheana explained.

'There's been somethings online recently. I've seen little bits and pieces. But let me tell you, he could not have been nicer. He's from San Diego and we just talked about that. Then I ran into them again later back at the hotel at the end of the night, and was just such a sweet guy,' she said.

'I caught the end of their set. We actually left Fall Out Boy a little early because they were playing at the same time. But I wanted to check out Sleeping With Sirens. I wanted to see what the band was all about. They were really good.'

Katie was previously linked to Love Island USA's Connor Newsum back in July.

She split with husband Tom Schwartz in March 2022 - finalizing the divorce in September 2022.

Meanwhile, Katie along with the rest of the original cast of Vanderpump Rules are bidding farewell to the Bravo series - the show recently announced they will be moving forward with a brand new cast for the upcoming 12th season of the show.