Real Housewives of Orange County star Vicki Gunvalson SPLITS from fiance Steve Lodge after two-year engagement
Vicki Gunvalson and Steve Lodge broke off their two-year engagement.
The 59-year-old reality television veteran officially called it quits nearly five years into their relationship, which was documented through the years on Real Housewives of Orange County.
Sources told E! News that the couple initially split in June before reconciling, but couldn’t make things work as they were ‘living separately’ for some time.
Over: Vicki Gunvalson and Steve Lodge broke off their two-year engagement; seen in 2017
Multiple sources confirmed the end of their relationship, noting that ‘Steve ended things’ with the Real OG of the OC.
‘Steve and Vicki had been living separately for much of the pandemic,’ a source said before noting that ‘Steve had been living like he was a single man in Puerto Vallarta, while Vicki was in the U.S.’
The pair first met in 2016 at a Boys & Girls Club charity event in Anaheim, Calif. which was filmed for Bravo cameras.
He later popped the question in April 2019 and they celebrated with a cowboy-themed party at the Coto Valley Country Club just east of Laguna Beach.
In the past: The pair first met in 2016 at a Boys & Girls Club charity event in Anaheim, Calif. which was filmed for Bravo cameras; seen in 2019
Back in the day: Vicki Gunvalson celebrated her engagement to fiance Steve Lodge with a cowboy-themed party at the Coto Valley Country Club just east of Laguna Beach
‘Sometimes, I think you just have to find out for yourself what’s right,’ Vicki said at the time. ‘I’m at a good place but I like being married. I’m a marriage girl.’
The RHOC matriarch served as the longest running castmember of the franchise since it premiered on Bravo in 2006, but was demoted to a friend role for season 14 before ultimately leaving the show.
Her 20-year marriage and subsequent divorce to Don Gunvalson was a major storyline through the years.
During an appearance on the Behind The Velvet Rope with David Yontef podcast earlier this year, Vicki blamed her divorce on reality television.
Bride-to-be: The RHOC matriarch served as the longest running castmember of the franchise since it premiered on Bravo in 2006, but was demoted to a friend role for season 14 before ultimately leaving the show
‘I did everything right, except falling prey to divorce,’ she said. ‘I mean, I think that hindsight, um, I know for a fact that if I wasn’t on a reality show, I wouldn’t have been divorced.’
Following her divorce with Donn, she dated Brooks Ayers, who she filed a lawsuit against in 2019 accusing him of not paying her back money she loaned him in 2011.
She said on the podcast: ‘Then I got taken for a ride by Brooks and he owes me over $300,000. And then I was in a block of lawsuits.’
Gunvalson caught major controversy from the women beginning in Season 10 while dating Brooks Ayers who lied about having cancer and later admitted to forging medical documents.
Done: Her 20-year marriage and subsequent divorce to Don Gunvalson was a major storyline through the years; seen during a vow renewal ceremony in Mexico
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