Sam Thompson breaks silence on ‘hard launching’ new girl Talitha – and reveals why she’s not his girlfriend yet liennhi
SAM Thompson has broken his silence on ‘hard launching’ his new girl Talitha Balinska – and revealed why he hasn’t asked her to be his girlfriend yet.
The Sun revealed last month that he was
The pair have been on several dates after they first met last year on a photoshoot for Sam’s sunglasses brand Dinelli Eyewear.
And since he was crowned King of the Jungle in I’m A
Because it seems that Sam is pulling out all the stops with the model and DJ – who has 511,000 TikTok followers.
Sam, 33, was snapped treating his new model girlfriend Talitha, 25, to a snack from Bite Mi in Chelsea’s Duke of York Square recently.
And they stepped out for a romantic date night in London, after recently confirming their relationship.
Now, speaking to his best pal Pete Wicks on their Staying Relevant podcast, Sam confirmed their romance but said they aren’t official yet.
Pete asked Sam what stage the pair were at and said: “So look, you are dating, I think it is clear now. Are we just admitting that you are currently dating?”
A smiling Sam confirmed he was indeed officially dating Talitha reports The Mail.
But Pete wanted more details and asked: “So how are you going to ask her to be your girlfriend?
“Will you do it like Love Island?”
Sam replied: “No mate, there’s not been any chat about that. There’s no pressure, and that is the beauty of it.
“There’s no pressure, there’s no time frame.
“The worst part about this is, if she sees this, I could get canned next week.”
Pete alluded to Sam’s split with Zara and said: “Oh, we can’t go through another break-up, not this year.
“At least wait till next year, darling. So, where are we at with it?”
Sam smiled back: “Mate, I don’t know, everything is just super relaxed, you know what it is like with dating. We are just enjoying it.
“Realistically, if I were to ever ask anyone out, I wouldn’t even know how to do it. I would panic. I haven’t asked someone out in years.”
Pete asked when he would get to meet her: “I am on the edge of my seat. I’m waiting for the call-up. When will that be?”
Sam replied: “I just don’t know if I can do it. You wouldn’t even want to meet people I’m dating. Would you want to meet people I’m dating?”
Pete said: “No. Sam did invite me on a double date at the weekend. It was him and his friend and peep and his respective fiend’s peep and just me, so I declined.
“It was sort of an invite that was thrown out there because he said he was gonna see me and then made it a double date.
“So, then I said, “Am I still seeing you later?”
Pete jokingly continued: “Now, what that says to me is, “Come if you want, but it will be weird, and we don’t want you there.
“We don’t want you there, alright, because we’re going to be lovey-dovey feeding each other at the table and all the rest of it, and it might be weird for you to sit there.
“I know you’re sad, lonely, and depressed so it might be too much for you”.’
Sam laughed and declared Pete was “wrong” and that his claims were “not true”.
Sam has already introduced Talitha to his sister Louise, her fiancé Ryan, and their son Leo when they played with Lego together.
‘RHOC’ Season 19 Reunion Trailer Sparks Tension Between Katie Ginella and Jennifer Pedranti’s Fragile Friendship trucc
The Real Housewives of Orange County season 19 reunion may bring the cast farther apart instead of closer together.
In Bravo’s sneak peek of the three-part reunion released on Thursday, October 30, Shannon Storms Beador, Heather Dubrow, Tamra Judge, Gina Kirschenheiter, Emily Simpson, Jennifer Pedranti, Katie Ginella and friend of the cast Gretchen Rossi come together to rehash all the drama from the past year.
After leaving the season earlier than expected, Katie, 41, is back and ready to tackle what went wrong with her friendship with Jennifer, 48.
“I had to stop filming,” she tells her costar before accusing the cast of messing with her finances.
“I didn’t f*** with your paycheck,” Jennifer responds. “I was your friend.”
According to Bravo, part one of the reunion — kicking off Thursday, November 6 — will feature Katie discussing her early exit by addressing her unresolved issues with the group. In part two, however, Jennifer will receive a phone call from her fiancé, Ryan Boyajian, which could reveal shocking information about Katie.
One day before the reunion trailer was released, Us Weekly caught up with Jennifer and Emily, 49, and asked what viewers can expect.
“Things didn’t add up after we filmed the finale, and I think we were all sitting at reunion going, ‘We all need to know, like, what are we dealing with here?’” Jennifer exclusively told Us at Variety’s Power of Women event in Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 29. “Katie was coming back. We hadn’t seen Katie in a minute. It was heavy for a minute, I felt like.”
While Emily said the taping was all “a blur,” the “Legally Brunette” podcast host says the reunion “gives a little bit of everything.”
“I think there are funny moments. I think there are lighthearted moments. I think there are tense moments,” she teased. “I think there are moments where you still don’t know exactly, so you have to decipher through the info, because there’s more information that comes out, and you have to think about it.”
Elsewhere in the reunion trailer, Tamra, 58, and Gretchen, 47, quickly prove that their truce in Amsterdam was short-lived.
At one point in the sneak peek, Gretchen is crying while Tamra is thinking she looks like JonBenét Ramsey.
“You’re making up f***ing lies like you’ve been doing to me for so long,” Tamra shouts at one point.
Before the finale aired, Gretchen revealed that she was likely the one to be in the hot seat the most at the reunion.
“Probably, but you got to remember, I wasn’t there the entire time because I’m a friend, so I came in for a portion of it,” she teased to Us at the 2025 Gurus Awards, presented by Gurus Magazine, on October 12. “So I don’t know 100 percent because I didn’t see the whole thing. I wasn’t there for the entirety of it.”
The Real Housewives of Orange County airs on Bravo Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET. Stream old episodes anytime on Peacock.
