“Vanderpump Rules”' Katie Maloney Goes Instagram Official with Boyfriend Nick Martin

Katie Maloney is taking her relationship to the next level!

On Tuesday, Dec. 10, the Vanderpump Rules star, 37, made her relationship with boyfriend Nick Martin Instagram official. To celebrate his birthday, she posted a photo of the two staring into each other’s eyes at dinner.

“Happy Birthday my ❤️!!!!!” she captioned the snapshot.

Martin reposted the sweet snap on his own Instagram Stories, writing, “Our Casa Vega Xmas Card 🎄 ❤️,” referring to the name of the Los Angeles restaurant — which is also a known favorite of the Kardashian family.

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Maloney, 37, first revealed that she was in a relationship on her ex-husband Tom Schwartz’s birthday in October. During an episode of her Disrespectfully podcast, cohost (and former Vanderpump Rules costar) Dayna Kathan asked if she had any life updates.

The reality star then said: "I'll share. So, I have a boyfriend. Yeah, I'm in love, everybody.”

“He has to travel for work, so I went to go meet up with him and hang out with him and spend some time,” she continued, noting that she didn’t want to reveal his identity. “It was really amazing ’cause I hadn’t seen him in a few weeks and just being able to, like, spend some quality time and just be around him was really necessary and really nice.”

Without giving many specifics, Maloney gushed over her new man, saying: “He’s the most wonderful person I’ve ever met. He’s very lovely and he just makes me feel really special and he’s really special and, yeah, I’m just really happy.”

It wasn’t until his birthday that she finally shared Martin’s identity as the guitarist for the band Sleeping With Sirens, although VPR’s Scheana Shay spilled the news by accident back in October.

“I actually met him this weekend,” Shay, 39, said on her podcast Scheananigans a week after Maloney announced that she was in a relationship. “We were all by the artists trailers in the hangout area, and he and Katie were walking up while I was standing at the taco truck in line getting food. I said hi to her, she introduced me to her boyfriend.”

“There's been some things online recently. I've seen little bits and pieces. But let me tell you, he could not have been nicer,” she shared at the time. “He's from San Diego and we just talked about that. Then I ran into them again later back at the hotel at the end of the night, and was just such a sweet guy.”

“I caught the end of their set. We actually left Fall Out Boy a little early because they were playing at the same time. But I wanted to check out Sleeping With Sirens,” Shay said, referring to Martin’s band. “I wanted to see what the band was all about. They were really good.”

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Lala Kent, another member of the VPR group, later called out Shay for disclosing Martin’s identity before Maloney.

“Scheana Shay was the one that confirmed Katie Maloney’s relationship. She told me, ‘I accidentally confirmed it,'” Kent, 34, joked on her Give Them Lala podcast in November. “Katie and Nick haven’t confirmed because what I read is he is going through a messy divorce and they have to keep it quiet.”

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