Baby, it’s chilly exterior! Ciara Miller and Austen Kroll received candid about whether or not they nonetheless had emotions for one another whereas filming Winter House season 2 — and revealed the place they stand now.
“It certainly was interesting to go back to the exact same house where so much had gone down, you know, with her,” Austen, 35, completely informed Us Weekly on Wednesday, October 12, whereas selling the present’s new season.
The Southern Charm star confessed that seeing Ciara, 26, once more after their season 1 romance didn’t reignite something on his half.
“I mean she’s like a beautiful girl, but, you know, no,” the Kings Calling Brewing Co. founder informed Us. “There was no, like, ‘Oh man, like I’m having some feelings here.’ I think that we honestly, we’re really just trying to work on our friendship and trying to progress with that.”
Ciara Miller and Austen Kroll. Charles Sykes/Bravo; Evan Agostini/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
The nurse agreed together with her former flame, completely telling Us on Thursday, October 13, that she received some closure after reuniting with Austen in Vermont.
“I think coming [back and] us spending the two weeks in Vermont kind of really blew out the flame completely [between us],” Ciara stated. “Just everything is now dormant.”
The Summer House star’s BFF Paige DeSorbo, who’s courting Austen’s bestie Craig Conover, chimed in, saying the journey “doused it with water.”
Ciara agreed, including, “Yeah. It was completed. It’s final. It’s done. It really [added the] nail [to] the coffin.”
The mannequin, nonetheless, famous that she wasn’t beneath the impression that she and Austen would get again collectively whereas capturing the truth present.
“I definitely knew it would be so different from the first year and honestly going into it, I just wanted to keep my peace and try and have a friendship cause I felt like that was the only way we were gonna get through these next two weeks,” Ciara defined to Us. “And hopefully we wouldn’t, you know, come at each other and stuff.”
She teased that “things got interesting” as she and the North Carolina native tied to “have a friendship” whereas residing in shut quarters. “Honestly, nothing would be like the first winter, that’s for sure,” Ciara concluded.
During season 1 of the Bravo collection — which filmed in February 2021 and aired in October of that yr — Ciara and Austen started a trip fling. The pair’s relationship was short-lived as they struggled to remain collectively lengthy distance.
The beermaker, nonetheless, briefly rekindled his romance with Ciara when he visited the Hamptons in summer time 2021, which was featured on season 6 of Summer House. While the duo have been actually flirty, Austen discovered himself in scorching water after he made out with pal Lindsay Hubbard.
Ciara, for her half, confirmed in the course of the season 6 reunion, which aired in May, that she and Austen had attached once more. She vowed on the time that it was the final time.
Ahead of the season 2 Winter House premiere, Austen informed Us that he wished to fix fences with a few of his housemates after making a idiot of himself and hurting Ciara within the Hamptons in summer time 2021.
“I had a lot of things that I wanted to work on with, you know, myself and my behavior and like the way that I wanted to act, you know, moving forward,” he stated on Wednesday, pointing his ex Olivia Flowers, whom he cut up from in fall 2022, as a constructive affect on him in late 2021. “So going back to Vermont, I felt very, very confident that I knew who I was and like how I wanted to act.”
The Bravo persona, who filmed season 2 in early 2022, defined that he wished to “talk to some people whose feelings that I hurt the last time that I saw them. And it’s not just, Ciara, it’s, like, a few people in the house.”
Austen concluded: “So going there I was excited to atone to a few people and to move forward and to move forward with, you know, all of our lives and relationships and whatnot.”
Season 2 of Winter House premieres on Bravo Thursday, October 13, at 9 p.m. ET.
With reporting by Christina Garibaldi
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