{"id":3453,"date":"2026-05-26T01:40:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T01:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/mormon-wives-star-jessi-draper-and-vanderpump-villa-alum-marciano-brunette-make-red-carpet-debut-at-2026-amas\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T01:40:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T01:40:58","slug":"mormon-wives-star-jessi-draper-and-vanderpump-villa-alum-marciano-brunette-make-red-carpet-debut-at-2026-amas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/mormon-wives-star-jessi-draper-and-vanderpump-villa-alum-marciano-brunette-make-red-carpet-debut-at-2026-amas\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Mormon Wives&#8217; star Jessi Draper and &#8216;Vanderpump Villa&#8217; alum Marciano Brunette make red carpet debut at 2026 AMAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2026%2F05%2F128729253.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Jessi Draper and Marciano Brunette made it red carpet official at the 2026 American Music Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cSecret Lives of Mormon Wives\u201d star and <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/04\/12\/entertainment\/vanderpump-villa-hannah-blasts-piece-of-st-beau-marciano-for-kissing-guest\/\">the \u201cVanderpump Villa\u201d alum <\/a>attended the AMAs in Las Vegas on Monday and posed for pics together on the red carpet. Brunette kept his arm around Draper\u2019s waist in the pics as she also wrapped her arm around him.<\/p>\n<p>Draper, 34, looked chic in a sleeveless black dress with a ruffle hem, which she paired with black open-toe pumps.<\/p>\n<p>Brunette, 33, also looked stylish in a suit with a black t-shirt underneath. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Jesse Draper and Marciano Brunette made their relationship red carpet official at the 2026 American Music Awards Monday. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The \u201cVanderpump Villa\u201d alum and the \u201cSecret Lives of Mormon Wives\u201d star kept their arms around each other as they posed for pics.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Draper and Brunette were involved in a cheating scandal while she was still with her now-estranged husband, Jordan Ngatikaura. Draper and Brunette met in 2024, when the \u201cTSLOMW\u201d cast traveled to Italy to appear in season 2 of \u201cVanderpump Villa.\u201d Brunette worked as a lead server at Bravo star Lisa Vanderpump\u2019s French countryside estate, Chateau Rosabelle.<\/p>\n<p>During the Season 2 finale of \u201cTSLOMW,\u201d Brunette revealed on camera that he and Draper had an affair.<\/p>\n<p>While Draper described it in Season 3 as more of an emotional connection, she did confess that they kissed \u2014 though never hooked up.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Draper (pictured here during Season 3 of \u201cTSLOMW\u201d) and Brunette were involved in a cheating scandal in 2024. <span class=\"credit\">Disney<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Brunette, who was a lead server on \u201cVanderpump Villa,\u201d revealed on the Season 2 finale of \u201cTSLOMW\u201d that he and Draper had an affair while she was still married to Jordan Ngatikaura. <span class=\"credit\">Disney via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The exes share two children together \u2014 son Jagger, 6, and daughter Jovi, 3 \u2014 and he also has a 13-year-old daughter, Peyton, from a previous relationship.<\/p>\n<p>After Ngatikaura filed for divorce, the split <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/03\/23\/entertainment\/mormon-wives-star-jessi-drapers-estranged-husband-files-for-restraining-order\/\">got nasty.<\/a> Draper appeared on \u201cCall Her Daddy\u201d in March, and claimed she had \u201cproof and screenshots\u201d showing her ex <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/03\/25\/entertainment\/mormon-wives-star-jessi-draper-calls-out-ex-over-escorts-orgies-on-call-her-daddy\/\">had hired escorts<\/a> while they were married.<\/p>\n<p>She also speculated that Ngatikaura, 28, attended \u201corgies or sex parties,\u201d saying her sister was told by someone who goes that he was \u201calways there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Draper shared thst the allegations were the \u201cfinal straw\u201d for her, and that she broke up with him on March 13. She claimed he then \u201cblindsided\u201d her by\u00a0filing for divorce\u00a0six days later before they\u2019d shared the news with their children.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Though Draper and Ngatikaura (seen here in October 2025) tried to make it work following the drama, he filed for divorce in March after five years of marriage. <span class=\"credit\">Jordan Ngatikaura\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Draper later claimed that her ex blindsided her with the divorce filing before they could tell their two kids. They\u2019re seen here in November 2025. <span class=\"credit\">Disney<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ngatikaura said filing for divorce was \u201cnot an easy decision\u201d in a statement to TMZ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile our paths are now moving in different directions, my priority remains my children and ensuring they feel loved, supported, and protected through this transition,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cI am committed to handling this next chapter with kindness and respect. I kindly ask for privacy and understanding as we navigate this as a family,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/25\/celebrity-news\/mormon-wives-star-jessi-draper-and-vanderpump-villa-alum-marciano-brunette-make-red-carpet-debut-at-2026-amas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessi Draper and Marciano Brunette made it red carpet official at the 2026 American Music<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/128729253.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}