Khloé Kardashian is ready to get back into the dating scene!
On the latest episode of The Kardashians, Khloé, 38, opened up about the new man that had caught her eye while supporting sister Kim Kardashian at her Dolce & Gabbana fashion show in Milan.
As fans may remember from last week’s episode, Kim’s plan was to set Khloé up with 365 Days actor Michele Morrone. Once Khloé caught wind of this, she was all in favor — especially if it meant helping her move on from ex Tristan Thompson.
“I think he’s super hot. He’s like, a man! I love a good man. He’s definitely hot and tall and muscular. I could see him like, ugh,” she said in a confessional, gesturing as if his arms were around her. “He’s so fine.”
She added, “I’ve had a little tough year so I’m excited just to be in a new environment and have new energy.”
After Khloé and Michele, 32, sat next to each other at Dolce & Gabbana’s spring/summer 2023 Milan Fashion Week show, the Good American founder introduced him to her friends backstage.
“I’m in an arranged marriage, I’ve heard,” Khloé joked to her pals of the set-up before bringing La La Anthony, Natalie Halcro and Olivia Pierson over to meet Michele.
Afterward, a smitten Khloé spoke to friend Steph Shepherd, who had been watching on. “Listen, I don’t need your judgment over here,” she joked to Steph. “Not my fault that you’re engaged! Jealous bitch.”
Later on in the episode, after being asked by her glam team if the Italian actor was a “hit or a miss,” Khloé asked if they had seen the photo of them that was circulating the internet.
“It’s like, everywhere and I don’t care ’cause it’s so funny,” she said of the picture with Michele. “He’s, like, kissing my forehead.”
In a confessional, Khloé recalled the moment they snapped the photo together. “He was like, ‘Can I put my hand on your waist for a photo?’ I was like, ‘That is so nice that you asked me!’ He grabbed the small of my waist, and I was like, ‘Yes, daddy!’”
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— Michele Morrone Brasil (@MorroneBrasil) September 24, 2022
Khloé’s glam team then informed her that the photo had been posted on Michele’s social media — a move she was stunned by.
“He posted it on his Insta story?! Shut up! I was like, ‘How did this get everywhere?’” she said. “I don’t mind it, I like the narrative. It’s better than the narrative I’ve been having, but I was dying. I didn’t know how this came out!”
In a confessional, Kim joked about the social media hype. “The funniest part is all of the internet thinks they’re together,” she said. “I had no clue that people really knew who this guy was and are obsessed with him. Khloé probably wants to kill us thinking we fully plotted this. We couldn’t have asked for this to go better. Like, truly.”
In a separate confessional, Khloé added: “I think that’s so cute of Kim that she was plotting and planning to have me hook up with someone here in Milan. Thank you, Keeks.”
During last week’s episode, Kim set out to help Khloé “get her mojo back in Milan” — thanks to some help from Domenico Dolce. Speaking to her friends ahead of the fashion show, Kim revealed that Domenico was the one who invited Michele to sit next to Khloé.
Providing more “backstory” to the cameras, Kim explained that Michele was put on her radar by Natalie and Olivia.
“Natalie and Olivia, for maybe eight months, have been like, ‘You have to watch this [film] on Netflix,’” she said, calling 365 Days “super romantic, hot, [and] sexual.”
“He’s like, the hottest guy,” Kim added of Michele, before declaring to her friends, “Let’s fully set this up so Khloé falls in love in Milan … but she has no idea.”
Despite Kim’s best efforts, nothing ultimately happened between the Good American mogul and the star. After both attended the fashion show and Michele shared the snap of the moment on his Instagram Story, his rep shut down romance rumors in a statement to outlet.
“Dolce and Gabbana asked them to take a photo at the show,” the actor’s rep told outlet in September. “Michele said she was very nice, and that was the extent of it.”
A separate source also told outlet that the Keeping Up with the Kardashians alum had “never met [Michele] before” the event. “She just met him in Milan that night,” the insider said. “They are not dating. She has no plans to see him again.”
The romance speculation came after Khloé went through a public breakup with on-again, off-again beau, Tristan. The exes share 5-year-old daughter True and welcomed son Tatum last August via surrogate as Tristan, 32, was expecting another child with Maralee Nichols.
Though the pair are no longer together, a source recently told outlet Khloé and Tristan “became very close again after his mom [Andrea] passed away.” A separate source said Tristan is “doing everything he can again to try and prove himself — not just to Khloé, but to the whole family. He’s also grown closer to Kris [Jenner] after losing his own mom.”
Despite that, Khloé previously confirmed on an episode of The Kardashians that she has null romance.
“Him and I have a great friendship relationship, we get along fine, and for my kids, I will put anything to the side,” she said. “What’s done is done, so what would I still be holding on to something for? I don’t need to ‘punish’ him because I’m not getting back with him.”
She later noted how “there’s still boundaries” and she is “definitely putting my foot down around a lot of things.”
“We’ve done this song and dance a handful of times already. I’ve gotten back with him after a cheating scandal so I don’t know if Tristan is under the impression, ‘Oh wow, OK, let’s just ride this out and eventually she’ll get back with me,’” she said. “I get why he would think that, so it’s my job to set boundaries that my actions show otherwise. I keep it very short and sweet and make sure he knows it’s always about the kids because it’s so easy to fall back into [habits]. I can’t let those old habits easily come into my life. It’s just not what I want.”
Khloé Kardashian has no shame about her true reality — or leveraging it to make her dates “uncomfortable.”
During Thursday’s episode of The Kardashians, the Good American founder, 38, joked about the drama in her life, from her on-again, off-again relationship with Tristan Thompson to her previous marriage to Lamar Odom and her former stepfather, Caitlyn Jenner, transitioning to a female.
The moment happened as Khloé was talking to her glam team about how she sat next to 365 Days actor Michele Morrone at the Dolce & Gabbana Milan Fashion Week show. Though Khloé knew him as an actor, she was surprised to learn that Michele, 32, is also a model for the brand.
“We’re sitting at the show… and he’s like, ‘Do you like Dolce and Gabbana?’ and I said, ‘I do, do you like Dolce?’” Khloé recalled. “And he’s like, ‘Yeah, it’s always been a dream of mine, since I was a kid, to model for them and now I’m the face of Dolce.’”
Khloé joked about her lack of knowledge, admitting she doesn’t “know who anyone is” and added of Michele: “He’s a very handsome man but I had no idea who he was.”
The duo continued talking during the show and bonded over the fact they each had two kids. But when Michele pointed out that Khloé “looks great” after having her “infant” son, she wasn’t shy to set the record straight.
“I was like, ‘Oh, I didn’t birth the baby. It’s a surrogate.’ He’s like, ‘Oh, how’s that?’ I go, ‘It’s so f — -ing weird,’” Khloé recounted. “He was like, ‘Oh, my God, I love you because you’re so not PC [politically correct].’ I go, ‘Oh, no. Not at all.’ He thinks I’m nuts.”
She then added: “It’s too easy to make people uncomfortable. ‘So how’s your dad?’ Which one? One’s dead, and one turned into a girl. ‘Why don’t you get a divorce?’ Oh, found him in a brothel. I
can go on and on … You can’t come up with better than what the truth is.”
As Khloé suggested, her life has been full of ups and downs.
Her parents, Kris Jenner and Robert Kardashian Sr., were married for 13 years until their divorce in March 1991. In September 2003, just two months after he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, Robert Sr. — who was O.J. Simpson’s defense attorney — died at the age of 59.
Kris eventually went on to marry Caitlyn Jenner, but their divorce was finalized in 2015 — the same year that Caitlyn came out as a transgender woman and transitioned from male to female.
As for her love life, Khloé married Lamar in 2009 after only one month of dating. They called it quits in 2013, though the Good American mogul didn’t officially file for divorce until 2015 because of his near-fatal overdose in a Las Vegas brothel. Their separation was finalized in 2016.
Khloé then began dating Tristan on and off in 2016, with their romance heavily overshadowed by his cheating scandals. Most recently, it was revealed in December 2021 that he fathered a child with Maralee Nichols while he was still together with Khloé.
After their split, outlet confirmed the ex-couple, who share 5-year-old daughter True, was expecting their second child via surrogate. Their son, Tatum, was born last August.
Though the pair are no longer together, a source recently said Khloé and Tristan “became very close again after his mom [Andrea] passed away.” A separate source said Tristan is “doing everything he can again to try and prove himself — not just to Khloé, but to the whole family.”
“He’s also grown closer to Kris after losing his own mom,” the insider added.
Despite that, Khloé previously shared on an episode of The Kardashians that she has no desire for a rekindling of their romance.
“Him and I have a great friendship relationship, we get along fine, and for my kids, I will put anything to the side,” she said. “What’s done is done, so what would I still be holding on to something for? I don’t need to ‘punish’ him because I’m not getting back with him.”
She also noted that “there’s still boundaries” between them and that she is “definitely putting my foot down around a lot of things.”
“We’ve done this song and dance a handful of times already. I’ve gotten back with him after a cheating scandal so I don’t know if Tristan is under the impression, ‘Oh wow, OK, let’s just ride this out and eventually she’ll get back with me,’” she said. “I get why he would think that, so it’s my job to set boundaries that my actions show otherwise. I keep it very short and sweet and make sure he knows it’s always about the kids because it’s so easy to fall back into [habits]. I can’t let those old habits easily come into my life. It’s just not what I want.”
New episodes of The Kardashians drop Thursdays at 12 a.m. ET/9 p.m. PT on Hulu.
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