The Bachelor alum Corinne Olympios opened up about the flirtatious nature of her relationship with Johnny Bananas.
While appearing on the Friday, June 27, episode of the “Almost Famous” podcast’s mini-series “Infamous,” Olympios, 33, was asked by hosts Ashley Iaconetti and Ben Higgins about her past friendship with House of Villains costar John Devenanzio, better known as Johnny Bananas.
The hosts recalled a flirtatious period between Olympios and Devenanzio, 43, back in 2023, while the duo filmed season 1 of the reality TV series.
“So, I’ll tell you everything right now,” began Olympios. “I was single. I meet Johnny Bananas. We are flirting the whole time. He doesn’t want to kiss on camera, little did I know it was because of Moriah [Jadea] … and she was apparently freaking out that I was there because he knew that she knew that him and I would hit it off.”
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Olympios continued, “Him and I just had this, like, cat and mouse game going the whole time, and … then we just kind of, like, started to, like, casually see each other after the show. Then we were just friends.”
The reality star added that she’s been dating her “current boyfriend” named David for the past two years after meeting him during a trip to the Bahamas. “He’s, honestly, really, really great,” she explained before touching on her relationship history.
“I will say, it’s kind of a running joke in my family because my track record sucks,” Olympios said. “But all these men in the beginning are like, ‘I’m obsessed with you, I love you.’ [They] go to my dad, tell him they’re going to marry me, we move in together, it’s a whole thing, and then it kind of just, like, falls apart.”
While Olympios appears to have found true love, Devenanzio is currently single following his 2021 split from Morgan Willett, whom he dated for just over two years after meeting her on The Challenge: War of the Worlds.
Devenanzio recently made headlines for unexpected reasons after reportedly riding with NFL legend John Elway during a golf cart incident that killed his agent, Jeff Sperbeck, in May.
Footage from the fatal accident was shared and deleted by Devenanzio in the aftermath. TMZ first reported that Devenanzio was present in the golf cart and that he “tried to keep [Sperbeck] alive” following the accident.
According to the outlet, Sperbeck and Bananas were “standing on the back of the cart as Elway drove and his wife sat in the front seat.”
A cause of death was revealed two weeks after the incident, with “blunt head trauma” sustained as a result of the accident proving fatal. Sperbeck was 62 years old.
