Marlo Hampton has given Actual Housewives of Atlanta followers loads of perception into her life, and now they’re about to see her expertise a serious milestone: her first blind date.
In Us Weekly‘s unique sneak peek of the Sunday, June 25, episode, the 47-year-old goes out to dinner with a chef named Scotley Innis on the suggestion of her pal Tye.
“Oh, Lordy, my lashes are about to return off,” Marlo says in a confessional interview earlier than the outing. “I really feel like I’m about to sweat, I hope my wig stays in place. It’s so much!”
Upon seeing her date, nevertheless, Marlo’s nerves appear to ease up a bit. “[He’s] good-looking,” she tells the cameras. “Good beard.”
When she informs Scotley — who has beforehand appeared on season 18 of Hell’s Kitchen — that she’s by no means been on a blind date earlier than, the chef says he hasn’t both.
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Tye, for her half, has a easy clarification for why she thought Scotley and Marlo can be a very good match. “I like the truth that he was opinionated as a result of she wants somebody that may kinda, like, deal with her,” Tye explains to a producer. “And you already know she likes to eat, so [him] being a chef was like, ‘Yeah!’”
Whether or not Marlo and Scotley really hit it off stays to be seen, however the starting of their date seemingly goes effectively — even when Marlo is barely skeptical of her potential beau’s age. “Thirty-nine is younger,” she says throughout one confessional sit-down.
Earlier this yr, Marlo hinted that she’s courting somebody particular, however she didn’t establish the person in query.
“He’s good wanting. He’s good and he’s tall, so proper now I’m simply having enjoyable. I’m smiling each time I’m with him,” she advised Leisure Tonight in Might. “Shereé [Whitfield] has coached me via this: simply benefit from the second, Marlo. Have enjoyable, as a result of I’m one who overthinks all the pieces like, ‘OK, are we gonna be collectively in 5 years? Nicely, when are we gonna transfer in collectively? Or, what are we doing right here?’ So, I’m simply having enjoyable.”
Marlo has appeared on RHOA on and off since season 4, however she didn’t change into a full-time Housewife till season 14, which aired final yr.
“Getting the peach meant so much to me for my followers,” she advised E! Information in Might 2022. “In some unspecified time in the future it was miserable simply to see all the pieces — ‘Why don’t you have got a peach? Give her a peach!’ — to some extent the place I needed it to cease, you guys, simply cease it. Nevertheless it simply felt so good once I discovered I had a peach. I’m like, ‘Sure! My supporters and followers are going to be so pleased.’ It was simply a tremendous feeling and I simply really feel all the pieces occurs at its proper time and proper now it’s my time.”
The Actual Housewives of Atlanta airs on Bravo Sundays at 8 p.m. ET.
