Phaedra Parks and CT Tamburello have officially taken their The Traitors connection into real life.
The Real Housewives of Atlanta star confirmed on Jeff Lewis Live that she and The Challenge veteran are dating, putting an end to weeks of speculation about their relationship.
Parks, 52, and Tamburello, 46, will also attend the Creative Arts Emmys on Saturday, September 5, as a date, with Tamburello scheduled to present at the ceremony.
Their romance comes more than two years after the pair first met while competing on Season 2 of The Traitors.
Phaedra Parks confirms she is dating CT Tamburello
The relationship confirmation came during Parks’ appearance on the September 4 episode of SiriusXM’s Jeff Lewis Live.
Host Jeff Lewis asked Parks whether she and Tamburello were dating and specifically questioned whether their Emmy plans were simply platonic.
Parks’ answer was clear: “It’s not.”
She then confirmed that Tamburello would be her date for the Creative Arts Emmys.
Parks also revealed that the two had already spent time together before the awards show. When Lewis asked whether they had been out together previously, she said they had.
She kept the exact timeline of their relationship private, saying it began around the last time she was in Los Angeles.
CT Tamburello called Phaedra his “bae”
The relationship rumors had been building for weeks before Parks’ confirmation.
Tamburello appeared to fuel the speculation through his social media posts.
On August 9, the Challenge star posted about still needing a plus-one for the Emmys and asked whether anyone could put in a good word for Parks.
Parks responded with a message that immediately caught fans’ attention: “Baby I’m already yours.”
Soon afterward, Tamburello posted a video with the words “She said yes”, along with clips of Parks.
Around the time of Parks’ appearance on Jeff Lewis Live, Tamburello also posted that he was about to pick up his “bae.”
He later shared videos showing Parks at Lewis’ studio and inside the van with him.
The social media exchanges turned what had initially looked like playful flirting into increasingly convincing evidence that something had changed between the two reality stars.
Their romance started with ‘The Traitors’
Parks and Tamburello first connected while competing on Season 2 of The Traitors, which aired in 2024.
Their chemistry quickly became one of the memorable elements of the season.
Parks was one of the show’s standout personalities, while Tamburello was part of the successful group of Faithfuls who eventually made it to the end.
The pair developed an unlikely friendship during filming.
At the time, however, both denied that there was a real romance between them.
Tamburello later told Entertainment Weekly that nothing romantic had happened during the show, describing their connection as fun while acknowledging that the competition was also a game.
More than two years later, that answer appears to have changed.
Phaedra and CT’s ‘Traitors’ chemistry returns
The attraction between Parks and Tamburello had already been noticed by fans during their time on the show.
Parks later praised Tamburello as a genuine and kind person.
In an interview, she described him as a “great guy” and a gentleman, while also calling him an alpha male.
Their friendship survived after The Traitors, and now the relationship has apparently developed into something more.
That history is one reason the news has generated so much attention among reality-TV fans.
This isn’t a completely new pairing created out of nowhere. The two already had a connection that viewers watched develop on television.
CT Tamburello is best known for ‘The Challenge’
Tamburello, whose full name is Chris “C.T.” Tamburello, has been one of the most recognizable figures in MTV’s The Challenge franchise.
His long-running reality-TV career made him a natural fit for The Traitors, where his strategic and competitive background helped him navigate the game.
His relationship with Parks now connects two major reality-TV worlds: The Challenge and The Real Housewives of Atlanta.
For fans searching “CT and Phaedra” or “Phaedra and CT,” the answer is now considerably clearer than it was just a few weeks ago.
They’re dating.
What about CT Tamburello’s previous marriage?
Tamburello’s relationship history has also become part of the conversation.
His wife, Catalina White, filed for divorce on January 9, 2026, a little more than a year after the couple married in October 2024.
Before White, Tamburello was married to Lilianet “Lili” Solares.
Tamburello and Solares married in 2018 and share a son, Christopher “C.J.” Tamburello Solares, who was born in 2016. Tamburello filed for divorce from Solares in November 2022.
Parks was previously married to Apollo Nida. They married in 2009, separated and later divorced, with their divorce finalized in 2017.
Parks and Nida share two sons, Ayden and Dylan.
Phaedra and CT are heading to the Emmys together
Their first major public appearance as a confirmed couple is already set.
Parks and Tamburello will attend the Creative Arts Emmys on September 5 together.
Tamburello is scheduled to present at the ceremony, while Parks will attend as his date.
After the awards event, the pair plan to travel to New York together for a work commitment on Fire Island.
That suggests their relationship is already moving beyond social-media flirting and into their lives away from the reality-TV cameras.
Are Phaedra Parks and CT Tamburello a couple?
Yes. Parks confirmed that her relationship with Tamburello is not platonic and identified him as her date for the Creative Arts Emmys.
The pair have also publicly exchanged flirtatious messages and appeared together before the confirmation.
What remains private is exactly when their relationship became romantic.
Parks has not publicly given a detailed timeline, choosing instead to confirm the relationship without revealing every detail.
For now, though, the biggest mystery surrounding the two Traitors stars has been solved.
Phaedra Parks and CT Tamburello are dating—and their reality-TV friendship has officially become a real-life romance.
