Southern Allure’s Taylor Ann Inexperienced is clearing the air on one scandalous season 9 rumor surrounding her love life — and no, it doesn’t contain Austen Kroll.
“It was a really drunken evening,” Taylor, 28, defined to Leisure Tonight in an interview revealed on Thursday, September 14, addressing the rumor that she despatched costar Whitney Sudler-Smith a nude picture following her breakup from Shep Rose in 2022.
She confirmed an attractive picture change transpired with Whitney, 55, telling the outlet, “I knew what Shep and Whitney had been as much as the previous few months, gallivanting round Charleston, making an attempt to select up women and so, I did that to get below Shep’s pores and skin.”
Taylor confessed the image debacle was “very infantile of me,” however famous that she is “proudly owning it” and making an attempt to maneuver ahead. “I’m not proud, however it was positively a jab,” she added.
The nude rumor first made headlines final month when Whitney’s mother, Patricia Altschul, insinuated within the season 9 Southern Allure trailer that Taylor was getting near a number of castmates. “Then there’s the nude picture she despatched you,” Patricia, 82, stated within the August clip, to which Whitney claimed, “I don’t know what you’re speaking about.”
Whereas Patricia didn’t immediately establish Taylor because the sender, followers learn between the traces. Earlier within the trailer, Taylor’s alleged hookup with one other costar — Austen, 36, was dropped at mild.
Taylor insisted within the teaser that she “by no means” attached with Austen following his fall 2022 break up from costar and good friend Olivia Flowers. “Swear on my life,” Taylor informed Olivia, 31, when she requested her level clean. Austen, nonetheless, teased within the video that “one thing occurred” between him and Taylor.
The rumored fling shall be featured closely on season 9 of Southern Allure, which premieres on Thursday. Though information of the alleged hookup initially broke in March, Bravo’s Madison LeCroy solely informed Us Weekly earlier this month that she had an inkling about Austen and Taylor’s connection final fall.
“On the reunion, I used to be the primary one to actually say, ‘That is what’s taking place. Settle for it or not, however they’re into one another,’” Madison, 32, defined to Us in September, referring to the forged’s season 8 reunion which aired in October 2022. “Why was Austen crying over Shep and Taylor’s drama again final yr?”
Madison famous that when she noticed Austen console Taylor on the reunion, she “knew” one thing was up. Regardless of having her suspicions, Madison “didn’t count on” Taylor to cross the road resulting from her shut friendship with Olivia.
Fellow costar Venita Aspen solely informed Us this month that she too was “in shock” when she first heard that Austen and Taylor had been intimate. “Everybody was like, ‘Venita, how may you be so naive?’ And I used to be like, ‘I’d’ve by no means thought that this might occur,’” she defined, noting that a number of of the Southern Allure stars had been whispering a couple of doable hookup on the season 8 reunion.
“I used to be nonetheless like, ‘No matter, they might by no means do this. By no means,’” Venita, 29, added. “And I used to be in full shock.”
Southern Allure premieres on Bravo Thursday at 9 p.m. ET.