Dorinda Medley and Tinsley Mortimer.Photo:Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images; Bennett Raglin/Getty Images
Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images; Bennett Raglin/Getty Images
Dorinda Medleyhas nothing but love for her formerReal Housewives of New York CitycostarTinsley Mortimer.
“I’m just so happy she’s not with Scott,” Medley, 58, said in response, referring toScott Kluth, the Coupon Cabin CEO, whom dated Mortimer during her time on Bravo.
Mortimer had a serious of famously tense arguments with Medley over her romance to Kluth, even leavingRHONYin season 12 to escape the drama and moved to Chicago to be with the CouponCabin CEO. To the former couplegot engaged in November 2019, but split fourteen months later — Kluth telling PEOPLE at the time, “I will always care about Tinsley and I sincerely wish her happiness and success in all that she does in the future.”
Tinsley Mortimer and ex fiancé Scott Kluth.Thomas Concordia/Getty Images
“I saw that coming, which was the whole point,” said Medley, explaining why she had clashed with Mortimer on camera.
But the bad blood between the twoRHONYalums is now long gone. “Now she’s with, I heard, a really great guy and she’s happy,” shared Medley. “So I’m very happy for her.”
Luann de Lesseps, who was also onWWHL, echoed the well-wishes.
Tinsley Mortimer and Dorinda Medley.Gotham/GC Images
News broke on Oct. 17 that Mortimer and Bouvard were heading down the aisle, a rep for the reality star confirming the engagement to PEOPLE. The two are said to tie the knot in Palm Beach, Florida, on Nov. 11 after Bovard proposed to Mortimer with an emerald ring.
Mortimer teased the nuptials just a few days prior with the debut of her new beau on her Instagram Story, though his identity had yet to be revealed at the time.
“Family vacay before the big day!” she wrote across her Instagram Story, which included two girls and a boy with emojis covering their faces. It was unclear if she was referring to the wedding as “the big day" in the text.
According to hisLinkedInpage, Bovard currently serves as the president ofAugusta Iron & Steel Works, Inc.in Georgia. He was previously married to Mary Dial Bovard for 12 years before she died in 2021 from a brain tumor, according to herobituary. They welcomed three children.
Tinsley Mortimer, fiancé Robert Bovard and his kids.Tinsley Mortimer/Instagram
Tinsley Mortimer/Instagram
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Prior to Kluth, Mortimer dated Alexander “Nico” Fanjul from December 2012 to April 2016. Mortimer was arrested in April 2016 for allegedly trespassing at his Palm Beach home — though there was a history ofalleged abusebefore then, as she was oncehospitalized with head lacerationson Christmas Day in 2013.
She was previously married to Robert Livingston “Topper” Mortimer.
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source: people.com
