CT Tamburello turned an Emmy Awards plus-one ask into a public exchange with Phaedra Parks, and she answered with a line that keeps the dating chatter alive. The Reality TV crossover now sits on a tighter timeline: a post on August 9, then a reply a few days later.
August 9 on Instagram
August 9 is when Tamburello first asked his followers for help, writing, "Anybody want to throw a good word in for me!? …still looking for a +1 for The Emmy’s" and adding, "A man can dream." He also shared a photo of Parks from The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 17 reunion, making the invite feel less like a throwaway line and more like a public move aimed at one person.
Parks answered in the comments with, "Baby I’m already yours ???" Tamburello reacted with a GIF of Will Smith’s Fresh Prince of Bel-Air character dramatically fainting, and the exchange immediately shifted from casual social media banter to something that read like a soft launch.
Phaedra Parks and CT Tamburello
A few days later, Tamburello posted a video featuring Parks and wrote, "She said yes," then thanked people for "putting in a good word." Parks followed with, "It’s a date ???" and Tamburello answered with heart-eyes, fire, and kissing emojis, which kept the public breadcrumb trail going without adding any hard commitment language.
Season 2 of The Traitors is the reason this pairing has an audience in the first place. Parks and Tamburello became fan favorites there, and he called her his "Castle Daddy" counterpart during their time in Scotland.
March 2024 to August 9
March 2024 gave the latest prelude to this moment, when Parks told Extra, "Oh man, I would love to work with CT again. He is just salt of the earth, a great guy. Just a gentleman, you know, alpha male." That kind of open praise made the August 9 Instagram exchange look less random and more like a relationship beat that had been building in public.
The flirty comments suggest a romance, but neither Parks nor Tamburello has said they are romantically involved. Whether they actually show up together at the Emmy Awards is the only real next step left in the storyline, and until then the online back-and-forth is doing the work of a date announcement without the formal label.
