Who is Kelsey Swanson’s mysterious older boyfriend on Real Housewives of Rhode Island?
They first met when she was 19 and he was 42
During the first episode of Real Housewives of Rhode Island we hear mysterious snippets about Kelsey Swanson’s rich older boyfriend, but what do we know about him?
Well, during the very first episode, Kelsey admitted that her relationship with him is “very unorthodox” as her boyfriend “dates multiple people.”
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However, she clarified to Swooon that she’s not a polygamist, saying: “I feel like that’s such a dramatic term for my relationship. I think there were times where we had a don’t ask, don’t tell relationship.
“I let him do what he wanted, and he pretended he didn’t know what I was doing. It was a weird dynamic. We accepted a certain relationship, but not polygamous. We weren’t even married.”
“My relationship is very unorthodox. This man dates multiple people,” Kelsey said during the Bravo show’s premiere episode, which aired on Thursday, April 2. “For the first half of the year, my boyfriend is in Miami. When he’s in Miami, he’s with somebody else.”
Whilst his age isn’t revealed in the episode, Kelsey told Swooon that he’s 23 years older than her, with the pair first meeting when she was just 19 and he was 42. Okay then.
She explained: “He’s very handsome. This isn’t some, like, I’m dating an old, disgusting man. He is very attractive. He takes care of himself. He’s active. He’s, like, 25 at heart.”
As for how the Real Housewives of Rhode Island star even manged to meet with their huge age gap, Kelsey Swanson revealed she met her boyfriend at a tanning salon. Her friend worked at the salon, and as it turns out the salon was owned by the best friend of her now boyfriend.
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She told Swooon: “I met him through visiting my best friend. There was a little smoothie/protein shake bar inside the tanning salon, so he would go there and get one, and I would go there and get one.”
Kelsey went to a party for the salon, revealing: “We met there. I think we made out for two hours straight, and the rest was history. Maybe two months later, he was like, ‘Wanna go to London? Wanna go to Spain?’ And I’m like, ‘Sure!’ Been together ever since.”
Whilst Kelsey and her mysterious boyfriend don’t have children together, he does have two kids who are “three years younger” than Kelsey, which I’m going to be honest is pretty wild.
As for what her relationship is like with them, Kelsey explained: “One of them got married in September 2024 and I did her makeup for her wedding. We are totally fine. As they got older and I got older, it just grew normal, and they didn’t care”, according to Swooon.
You can watch The Real Housewives of Rhode Island every Thursday, 9/8c on Bravo.
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