Vanderpump Rules alum Kristen Doute confirms she’s dating podcast co-host Luke Broderick… six months after split from Alex Menache
Vanderpump Rules alum Kristen Doute confirmed she is dating Luke Broderick on Wednesday’s episode of her Sex, love and what matters most podcast.
Six months after ending her nearly two-year relationship with Alex Menache, the 39-year-old reality star has said she is no longer single.
“Luke and I are dating guys,” she said on her podcast. “And all my friends who have listened to our podcast were like, ‘Yeah, that sounds pretty obvious.’
New couple: Vanderpump Rules alum Kristen Doute confirmed she’s dating Luke Broderick on Wednesday’s episode of his Sex, Love, and What Else Matters podcast
Despite finding love, she admitted that she initially ‘fought’ the idea of getting into a new relationship so quickly after her last one and being her ‘person’.
“I love you so much, but just the thought of being someone’s girlfriend again made me go into a loop because I want to be a wife and I want to be a mother,” she explained.
Doute continued: “I was so tired of being a girlfriend for a couple of years and then it all fell apart, to be honest.”
Moving on: Six months after ending her nearly two-year relationship with Alex Menache, the 39-year-old reality star has said she’s no longer single (pictured in 2019)
Broderick, 31, recalled that his now-girlfriend “tried really hard not to fall in love” with him, whom he describes as his opposite.
“Luke loves to hunt and fish…I’m an advocate for animals,” she marveled. “I’ve been a vegetarian since I was 11 years old, and that was really the only thing that was a little difficult for me at first.”
In addition, they have an age difference of eight years and live in separate states, she in California and he in Colorado.
“Luke and I are dating guys,” she said on her podcast. “And all my friends who have listened to our podcast were like, ‘Yeah, that sounds pretty obvious.’
When they first started dating, she encouraged him to create a separate Instagram for his hunting photos to avoid the “scrutiny” she faced as someone who “chose” to be on reality TV.
Regardless of their differences, Doute praised herself for “dragging” herself out of her latest relationship and to find him.
In 2020, she was fired from Vanderpump Rules, after eight years, after her former cast member Faith Stowers recalled a racist incident, involving her and Stassi Schroeder. he falsely accused her of stealing and called the police.
Complete opposites: Despite finding love, she admitted she initially ‘fought’ the idea of getting into a new relationship so quickly after her last one and being her ‘person’