Her face says it all: American actress whose boyfriend was seen with a topless Dina Broadhurst breaks her silence with a brutal message for the ‘nude artist’
It’s always great when exes get along, but maintaining a close bond with a former lover can be tricky to explain to your new partner.
Just ask the property developer in Sydney Max Herder and his American actress girlfriend Pale bloomwho may be having some difficult conversations right now.
You see, a few days ago we published photos of Max, 31, reunited with his old flame Dina Broadhurst46, after flying from the United States so they could sell their renovated apartment in Darling Point.
In between meetings with real estate agents, Max and Dina, who were together for four and a half years until 2023, enjoyed some rest and relaxation at Kutti Beach.
The couple were so relaxed that art collector Dina took off her bikini top and paraded around topless for her toyboy ex, who seemed unimpressed by the display.
When Daily Mail Australia captured the duo’s reunion and reached out to Vail in Los Angeles for comment, it’s safe to say there were some robust messages flooding into our inboxes.
It looks like Dina Broadhurst’s topless reunion with her ex Max Shepherd has ruffled the feathers of his new girlfriend Vail Bloom, who looked glum in LA on Thursday
Max, 31, (left) was photographed with his ex Dina, 46, at Kutti Beach in Sydney on Tuesday. The famous ‘nude artist’ even sunbathed topless
Dina and Max said they were just good friends and nothing more — and we’re not suggesting otherwise — but Vail had a sharper message for her boyfriend’s ex.
She confirmed that she was still dating Max and made it clear that she found it ‘very inappropriate’ for Dina to go around topless in front of her husband.
Although she emphasized that she had a good relationship with Dina, she wondered whether the socialite – dubbed ‘the nude artist’ for her penchant for scantily clad self-portraits – would still have gone topless if she had been there too.
‘She’s always been nice to me and I like her. I’m sure she didn’t mean anything by it or think about it,” Vail said, breaking her silence on the beach photos.
‘However, she could try to think about how her choices appear to others, and personally I don’t think it is at all the most appropriate for her to sunbathe topless when Max is around, for everyone’s own choices.’
A few hours after she spoke to us Thursday, Vail resurfaced when she stepped outside to do some last-minute Christmas shopping.
Vail kept a low profile and kept it casual in an oversized denim shirt and straight leg jeans, which she teamed with a pair of beige sandals.
The Vanderpump Rules star, who has two young children from a previous relationship, grabbed some festive gifts when she arrived home with a toy plane and bags of groceries in hand.
But she couldn’t quite seem to write off the drama of the past few days as she looked glum as she stepped out of her lavish family home in LA.
The American actress, 42, appeared stony-faced just hours after our photos of Max and Dina came to light
We photographed the Vanderpump Rules star from her Los Angeles home on Thursday
Vail kept it casual with an oversized denim shirt and straight leg jeans, which she paired with a pair of beige sandals
During an unexpected reunion on Tuesday, Max went to the beach with Dina and another friend – and our snapper was ready to capture every moment.
Max had returned to Australia from the US to sell the luxury apartment he owns with Dina – who recently became single again after divorcing the Winning Appliances heir John Winning Jr.
While cooling down amid the rising temperatures, Dina went topless and left little to the imagination in a barely there thong bikini bottom. A shirtless Max didn’t seem to sleep a wink as he lay in the shade nearby.
When Dina and Max were contacted about their unexpected reunion, they both said they were good friends and were currently working together to sell their property.
Dina told us: ‘We are good friends and business partners,’ while Max added: ‘We are just friends and are currently selling a property together.’
In fact, so did the exes recently listed the lavish unit they used to share in Sydney’s Darling Point, putting it on the market for a whopping $11.5 million.
Vail, who has two young children from a previous relationship, grabbed some festive gifts when she arrived home with a toy plane and bags full of groceries in hand.
When we reached out to Vail for comment, she said she was still dating Max and made it clear that she thought it was “very inappropriate” for Dina to go around topless in front of her husband.
During an unexpected reunion on Tuesday, Max went to the beach with Dina and another friend – and our snapper was ready to capture every moment
They purchased the three-bedroom, two-bathroom harborside property in 2022 for $5.2 million before overseeing an ambitious renovation.
Construction took two years and included a complete demolition of the interior, but it would not become the couple’s forever home.
Dina and Max, who share a fifteen-year age difference, ended their relationship last year after first meeting in 2018.
In a sign of things to come, Max has been noticeably absent from Dina’s social media pages since February 2023, while she hasn’t appeared in any of his posts since December 2022.
A source subsequently confirmed the split with Daily Mail Australia and not long after, Max headed to Europe to nurse his broken heart on several luxury superyachts.
After the breakup, Dina moved on with multimillionaire refrigerator heir John Jr., when they started dating after knowing each other for a while.
However, their whirlwind eight-month romance didn’t last long as the art collector realized their lifestyles were not compatible. They broke up just hours before Dina appeared solo Bernadette Fahey‘s marriage to Jordan Sukkar.
Max debuted his romance with Vail last November.
Dina and Max (pictured in an old social media post), who share a 15-year age difference, called their relationship last year after first getting together in 2018
Max debuted his romance with Vail last November
At the time, the couple shared some much-loved snaps together on Instagram as they showed off their newfound affection for each other.
In June, Vail paid tribute to Max in a gushing post to mark his 31st birthday and praised his close bond with her two children.
‘Congratulations to the man of my dreams, and Charlie’s dreams and Jack’s – We all love you! Endless!’ she wrote in the caption.
‘I can’t believe a year has passed. Here’s to many more journeys around the sun – Happy Birthday, my love. See you soon.’