The Vanderpump Rules alum went Instagram official with boyfriend Nick Martin—and that wasn’t the only cause for celebration. The 37-year-old shared a photo of herself and the rocker cuddling up with a simple yet endearing “happy birthday” message written over the Dec. 10 pic, which she posted to her Instagram Stories.
The Sleeping with Sirens guitarist reposted the photo soon after, writing, “Our Casa Vega Xmas Card,” over the pic.
And before this social media milestone, Katie—who divorced costar Tom Schwartz in 2022 after six years of marriage—would only tease her relationship while keeping the 42-year-old’s identity anonymous.
"I have a boyfriend,” Katie revealed in an October episode of fellow Vanderpump alum Dana Kathan’s podcast Disrespectfully. “Yeah, I'm in love."
"He just makes me feel really special, and he's really special," she added, "I'm just really, really happy."
And though the new couple was long-distance, Katie seemed smitten with him from the start.
"I went to go see my boyfriend," she explained. "He has to travel for work, so I went to go meet up with him, hang out with him, and spend some time. And it was really amazing because I hadn't seen him in a few weeks."
"Just being able to spend some quality time and just be around him was just really necessary," she continued. "I had a really good time."
But while Katie tried to keep her romance relatively lowkey, it seemed her former costar Scheana Shay did not get the memo.
“There’s been some things online recently. I’ve seen little bits and pieces. But let me tell you, he could not have been nicer,” Sheana, 39, said on her Scheananigans podcast later that month. “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.”
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And once her comments started to garner attention, Vanderpump’s Lala Kent couldn’t help but call out Scheana’s mistake.
“Scheana Shay was the one that confirmed Katie Maloney’s relationship. She told me, ‘I accidentally confirmed it,'” Lala, 34, joked on a November episode of her Give Them Lala podcast. “Katie and Nick haven’t confirmed because what I read is he is going through a messy divorce and they have to keep it quiet.”
But even so, Nick seems to have checked all of Katie’s boxes. Because she previously shared that her standards are quite high.
"Unless someone's really down to be serious about stuff, I don't really want to date," she said on a July episode of the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast. "If someone wants to date me, they have to prove that they deserve a place in my life."
And Katie isn’t the only one that smells romance in the air. Keep reading for more updates on the love lives of the Vanderpump Rules castmates…