Winter Home’s Ciara Miller, Austen Kroll: The place Do They Stand?

Child, it’s chilly outdoors! Ciara Miller and Austen Kroll obtained candid about whether or not they nonetheless had emotions for one another whereas filming Winter Home season 2 — and revealed the place they stand now.

“It definitely was fascinating to return to the very same home the place a lot had gone down, , together with her,” Austen, 35, completely instructed Us Weekly on Wednesday, October 12, whereas selling the present’s new season.

The Southern Appeal star confessed that seeing Ciara, 26, once more after their season 1 romance didn’t reignite something on his half.

“I imply she’s like a fantastic lady, however, , no,” the Kings Calling Brewing Co. founder instructed Us. “There was no, like, ‘Oh man, like I’m having some emotions right here.’ I believe that we truthfully, we’re actually simply attempting to work on our friendship and attempting to progress with that.”

The nurse agreed together with her former flame, completely telling Us on Thursday, October 13, that she obtained some closure after reuniting with Austen in Vermont.

“I believe coming [back and] us spending the 2 weeks in Vermont form of actually blew out the flame fully [between us],” Ciara stated. “Simply all the pieces is now dormant.”

The Summer season Home star’s BFF Paige DeSorbo, who’s courting Austen’s bestie Craig Conover, chimed in, saying the journey “doused it with water.”

Ciara agreed, including, “Yeah. It was accomplished. It’s ultimate. It’s accomplished. It actually [added the] nail [to] the coffin.”

The mannequin, nevertheless, famous that she wasn’t below the impression that she and Austen would get again collectively whereas taking pictures the truth present.

“I positively knew it will be so totally different from the primary yr and truthfully going into it, I simply wished to maintain my peace and try to have a friendship trigger I felt like that was the one method we have been gonna get by way of these subsequent two weeks,” Ciara defined to Us. “And hopefully we wouldn’t, , come at one another and stuff.”

She teased that “issues obtained fascinating” as she and the North Carolina native tied to “have a friendship” whereas dwelling in shut quarters. “Truthfully, nothing could be like the primary winter, that’s for certain,” Ciara concluded.

Throughout season 1 of the Bravo sequence — which filmed in February 2021 and aired in October of that yr — Ciara and Austen started a trip fling. The pair’s relationship was short-lived as they struggled to remain collectively lengthy distance.

The beermaker, nevertheless, briefly rekindled his romance with Ciara when he visited the Hamptons in summer season 2021, which was featured on season 6 of Summer season Home. Whereas the duo have been actually flirty, Austen discovered himself in scorching water after he made out with pal Lindsay Hubbard.

Ciara, for her half, confirmed in the course of the season 6 reunion, which aired in Could, that she and Austen had connected once more. She vowed on the time that it was the final time.

Forward of the season 2 Winter Home premiere, Austen instructed Us that he wished to fix fences with a few of his housemates after making a idiot of himself and hurting Ciara within the Hamptons in summer season 2021.

“I had a whole lot of issues that I wished to work on with, , myself and my conduct and like the way in which that I wished to behave, , shifting ahead,” he stated on Wednesday, pointing his ex Olivia Flowers, whom he cut up from in fall 2022, as a constructive affect on him in late 2021. “So going again to Vermont, I felt very, very assured that I knew who I used to be and like how I wished to behave.”

The Bravo character, who filmed season 2 in early 2022, defined that he wished to “speak to some folks whose emotions that I harm the final time that I noticed them. And it’s not simply, Ciara, it’s, like, a number of folks in the home.”

Austen concluded: “So going there I used to be excited to atone to a couple folks and to maneuver ahead and to maneuver ahead with, , all of our lives and relationships and whatnot.”

Season 2 of Winter Home premieres on Bravo Thursday, October 13, at 9 p.m. ET.

With reporting by Christina Garibaldi