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Tom Schwartz welcomed his new girlfriend, model Kiana Carroll, to his podcast on Tuesday.
As he promoted the latest episode of Detox Retox, the 43-year-old Vanderpump Rules
alum, who split from ex-wife Katie Maloney, 38, in 2022, shared a soft launch with Kiana, 27, as the two of them were heard discussing their modeling careers and the Bravo reality show.
“Ever wonder what it’s really like to make a living as a model?” Tom asked in the caption of his November 12 post on Instagram. “At some point, you’ve probably thought damn, I’d like to get paid to look pretty. But it’s more than a just being a pretty face & competition is FIERCE.”
“It’s not for the faint of heart. Job insecurity lurks after every casting and for every breakout star, there are a troves of stunning faces barely booking. I did my share of print work back in my early LA days. Fed off the scraps from the the big models but even then always felt lucky to book a gig,” he continued.
Tom then said he had interviewed Kiana, whom he described as “one of [his] favorite humans in the world,” in New York City, applauding her as charismatic, funny, and beautiful.
“With Cold beer in hand, we riff on the current state of the modeling biz from her chic high-rise apartment. Here’s your peek behind the curtain into the glamorous, gritty, and unpredictable world of professional modeling [PodcastOne],” he teased.
On the November 11 episode of Detox Retox, Kiana revealed she was discovered by a scouting agent in Orlando, where she was attending college, sharing that he connected her to an agent who linked her with a large agency in New York City. Meanwhile, Tom joked about his own modeling past, admitting that he was “never a real model.”
“I was a ‘mactor,’” he explained. “When I first started, Tom Sandoval gave me his old book from his Miami modeling days and I had like four pictures in there and I was always almost embarrassed to hand it over to prospective clients.”
Moving on to Bravo, Kiana said she was a fan of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City and compared it to Pump Rules.
“You couldn’t have scripted a better show … it’s so perfect. Some people probably say that about
“It was a once-in-a-lifetime, lightning in a bottle scenario,” Tom agreed.
After stealing hearts as Lt. Kelly Severide at the helm of Chicago Fire for 14 years and counting, it’s hard to imagine a time before Taylor
Kinney played the valiant firefighter. But it’s far from Kinney’s first time playing a character who will go above and beyond to save civilians.
Case in point: Kinney’s starring role as an EMT in Trauma, a 2009 drama series that followed San Francisco paramedics. Kinney played EMT Glenn Morrison, a charming young paramedic who flexed his heroic dedication in all 18 episodes of the series.
In a throwback photo from Kinney’s Trauma era, he can be seen donning a mustache and goatee, a bit of a far cry from the shaved salt-and-pepper style he’s embraced at Firehouse 51 in recent seasons of Chicago Fire. After all, it is a snapshot from 2009, just a few years after Kinney broke into the entertainment industry and before he made his 2012 Chicago Fire debut.
Taylor Kinney as Glenn Morris in Trauma Episode 3 Season 1.
Photo: Paul Drinkwater/NBCU Photo Bank
Taylor Kinney reflects on his Chicago Fire audition: “I was excited”
Kinney’s role on Trauma came just a few years before he helped launch the One Chicago franchise in the mothership series, but Chicago Fire‘s Kelly Severide isn’t his only iconic role.
Aside from dynamite guest roles in hit series like Castle, CSI: NY, Shameless, and Bones, many audiences know Kinney for his recurring role as werewolf Mason Lockwood in the supernatural thriller The Vampire Diaries. Kinney has also appeared in big-screen projects like Zero Dark Thirty and Here and Now.
Kinney made his way to Dick Wolf’s Windy City-based drama after several years spent in the television circuit, giving him the know-how and experience to successfully nail his first-ever Chicago Fire audition. That quiet confidence and assurance no doubt helped Kinney score the leading role of Severide, a firefighter who boasts infallible confidence and unbridled determination.
“My first audition for Chicago Fire? I was in the circuit of auditioning a lot, so I was decent at it. I remember never having any anxiety. I was excited about it, and then you kind of leave it up to the powers that be,” Kinney revealed during a 2023 NBC interview. “It went well, and 10 years later I’m still here bugging you through your televisions while you fold laundry.”
After stealing hearts as Lt. Kelly Severide at the helm of Chicago Fire for 14 years and counting, it’s hard to imagine a time before Taylor Kinney played the valiant firefighter. But it’s far from Kinney’s first time playing a character who will go above and beyond to save civilians.
Case in point: Kinney’s starring role as an EMT in Trauma, a 2009 drama series that followed San Francisco paramedics. Kinney played EMT Glenn Morrison, a charming young paramedic who flexed his heroic dedication in all 18 episodes of the series.
In a throwback photo from Kinney’s Trauma era, he can be seen donning a mustache and goatee, a bit of a far cry from the shaved salt-and-pepper style he’s embraced at Firehouse 51 in recent seasons of Chicago Fire. After all, it is a snapshot from 2009, just a few years after Kinney broke into the entertainment industry and before he made his 2012 Chicago Fire debut.
Taylor Kinney as Glenn Morris in Trauma Episode 3 Season 1.
Photo: Paul Drinkwater/NBCU Photo Bank
Taylor Kinney reflects on his Chicago Fire audition: “I was excited”
Kinney’s role on Trauma came just a few years before he helped launch the One Chicago franchise in the mothership series, but Chicago Fire‘s Kelly Severide isn’t his only iconic role.
Aside from dynamite guest roles in hit series like Castle, CSI: NY, Shameless, and Bones, many audiences know Kinney for his recurring role as werewolf Mason Lockwood in the supernatural thriller The Vampire Diaries. Kinney has also appeared in big-screen projects like Zero Dark Thirty and Here and Now.
Kinney made his way to Dick Wolf’s Windy City-based drama after several years spent in the television circuit, giving him the know-how and experience to successfully nail his first-ever Chicago Fire audition. That quiet confidence and assurance no doubt helped Kinney score the leading role of Severide, a firefighter who boasts infallible confidence and unbridled determination.
“My first audition for Chicago Fire? I was in the circuit of auditioning a lot, so I was decent at it. I remember never having any anxiety. I was excited about it, and then you kind of leave it up to the powers that be,” Kinney revealed during a 2023 NBC interview. “It went well, and 10 years later I’m still here bugging you through your televisions while you fold laundry.”