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About: United States reality stars Phaedra Parks and Chris “C.T.” Tamburello have confirmed they are dating after first connecting on The Traitors. This article separates on-air confirmation, public appearances, and anonymous-source reports.
Title: Phaedra Parks and C.T. Tamburello Confirm Romance After The Traitors Spark
Subject: Phaedra Parks and C.T. Tamburello’s relationship
About: In the United States reality-TV circuit, Real Housewives of Atlanta attorney Phaedra Parks and The Challenge veteran Chris “C.T.” Tamburello have gone public with a romance that began as castle banter and later became an official dating relationship. The story is American from start to now: Bravo and MTV stars, a Peacock series filmed abroad but watched at home, a Los Angeles awards debut, and East Coast travel for work.
On September 4, 2026, Parks confirmed the relationship on SiriusXM’s Jeff Lewis Live. When host Jeff Lewis asked whether her upcoming Creative Arts Emmys appearance with Tamburello was platonic, she answered that it was not. She said they had already gone out and that she would attend the September 5 ceremony in Los Angeles as his date while he presented. She kept the private calendar short, saying the romantic turn began around the last time she was in Los Angeles, and she declined to inventory dates, telling Lewis she had to “save it for the world.”
That on-air answer is the confirmed core. Parks, 52, and Tamburello, 46, first met while filming Season 2 of Peacock’s The Traitors in Scotland in late 2023; the season aired in the United States in 2024. She entered as a Traitor. He played a Faithful. Opposite roles did not stop an easy rapport. Parks nicknamed him her “castle daddy,” clips circulated on U.S. social media, and viewers treated the pairing as a running joke with real heat. After the season, Tamburello told Entertainment Weekly that nothing romantic had happened on the show and that they had been playing a game, even as he described sincerity in the friendship.
Public flirtation returned in 2026. Tamburello posted a photo of Parks from a Real Housewives of Atlanta reunion and wrote that he still needed an Emmys plus-one. Parks replied that she was already his. He later posted that she had said yes; she answered that it was a date. Those posts, plus Parks calling him her man and Tamburello referring to her as “bae,” are on the record. The couple then appeared together at the Creative Arts Emmys in Los Angeles on September 5 and said they would continue to New York for a work stop tied to Fire Island.
What remains less certain should stay labeled that way. Anonymous sources told Page Six the relationship is still “pretty new,” that Tamburello had long liked Parks from their Traitors days, and that they laugh together. Us Weekly sources called it “the real deal,” described most of the courtship as long-distance, and said the pair have not blended families. Those claims are secondhand. They are not the same as Parks’s radio confirmation or the red-carpet photos.
The U.S. personal context is also documented, if incomplete. Parks shares sons Ayden and Dylan with ex-husband Apollo Nida; their divorce was finalized years ago. Nida later told TMZ he is happy for her if she is happy. Tamburello has a son, often reported as about 10, from his first marriage to Lilianet Solares, which ended in 2023. He married Catalina White in the Florida Keys in October 2024. White filed for divorce in Miami-Dade County in January 2026; later reporting said she asked to dismiss that petition and that Tamburello later filed his own, alleging the marriage was irretrievably broken. After Parks confirmed the romance, White publicly commented that he should sign the papers. As of late September 2026, U.S. outlets still described that divorce as unfinished. Legal status on paper is not the same as Parks’s statement that the pair are dating.
For U.S. viewers of Housewives, The Challenge, and The Traitors, the pairing fits the circuit: two long-running reality names, a castle nickname, a radio confirmation, and an awards-show walk. Gossip by Country tracks the confirmed timeline and flags the rest. More American celebrity coverage is at https://fashiontalktoday.com/.
Parks and Tamburello have not announced an engagement or a blended-family plan. What they have said on U.S. radio and shown in Los Angeles is enough to move the story from rumor to relationship—and no further than the record allows.
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