Katie Maloney finally confirmed her romance with Sleeping With Sirens guitarist Nick Martin by sharing a sweet — but subtle — photo of them.
Maloney, 37, took to Instagram Stories on Wednesday, November 20, to share a photo holding Martin’s hands alongside a heart emoji.
“I have a boyfriend,” Maloney shared on an episode of her and Dayna Kathan’s “Disrespectfully” podcast in October. “Yeah, I’m in love, everybody. I’m really happy.”
Without naming names, Maloney gushed: “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, yeah, I’m just really happy.”
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Despite being excited about her boyfriend, Maloney kept his identity under wraps at the time.
“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 just being able to, like, spend some quality time and just be around him was really necessary and really nice.”
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Later that month, Maloney’s Vanderpump Rules costar Scheana Shay blew up her spot by publicly discussing her connection with Martin, 41.
“I actually met him this weekend. We were all by the artist 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,” Shay, 39, recalled on her “Scheananigans” podcast in October. “She introduced me to her boyfriend.”
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Shay gave Martin her stamp of approval.
“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,” she detailed. “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. I caught the end of their set.”
Shay concluded: “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.”
After Shay’s comments made headlines, Lala Kent also weighed in on Maloney’s personal life.
“Scheana Shay was the one that confirmed Katie Maloney’s relationship. She told me, ‘I accidentally confirmed it,’” Kent, 34, joked on the “Give Them Lala” podcast last month. “[Katie and Nick] haven’t confirmed [their relationship] because what I read is he is going through a messy divorce and they have to keep it quiet.”
Before finding love with Martin, Maloney was briefly linked to Love Island USA’s Connor Newsum.(Us Weekly broke the news that they were on date in July.) As VPR fans know, Maloney was married to Tom Schwartz from 2016 to 2022.
“I never felt prioritized. He didn’t really have my back or defend me or make me feel supported or heard. I just wanted that validation from him. So I made myself smaller in ways. I lost myself. I was a shell of a woman,” Maloney said during the September 2023 episode of the “Almost Adulting” podcast, which came one year after her divorce was finalized. “It took me working on myself in general — not really because of all of that — but I wasn’t feeling great in my body and in general. I wanted to boost my own confidence and just started working on myself.”
