It all started in quarantine. Kristen Doute and Alex Menache knew each other from running in the same friend circles, but their relationship blossomed into a romance at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic before ultimately calling it quits in 2022.The couple first made headlines in April 2020 when Us Weekly confirmed the Vanderpump Rules alum and the California native were officially an item.As their romance continued to heat up, Doute revealed more details about what brought them together. “It was just someone that I had been friends with, and it was kind of like a drunken night and I was like, ‘Hey, we’ve been friends and you’re hot.
We should probably make out,’” the He’s Making You Crazy author shared on the May 3, 2020, episode of Lindsey Metselaar’s podcast “We Met at Acme.”Although their relationship may have begun in a casual manner, Menache showed up for his lady in earnest when she was fired from Vanderpump Rules over accusations of racism.“This woman has been put thru the ringer [sic] these last few weeks and has taken it like a champ,” the real estate mogul wrote via Instagram in June 2020, sharing a photo of Doute sticking out her tongue as he kissed her on the cheek. “Anyone that knows you knows your heart is pure and kind.”The two were smitten with each other, but Doute noted she didn’t “feel the need to rush” into marriage with her new boyfriend. “I think Alex and I are just doing it the way that’s right for us,” the James Mae CEO told Life & Style in August of that year.“We’ve had that conversation, of course,” she added. “I think we’re both in the right place at the right time of our lives and if it happens, it happens.”Although they didn’t tie the knot during their run together, Doute and Menache
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