Ariana Madix Gushes Over Refreshingly "Normal" Romance with New Beau Daniel Wai

Love is still in the air for Vanderpump Rules cast member Ariana Madix and her new boyfriend, Daniel Wai, as they close in on their one-year anniversary of being a couple.

As you may recall, the pair started dating last spring after meeting just days after Ariana's split from Tom Sandoval. Lucky for us, now fans are getting to know Daniel a little better as he's set to pop up more on the current Season 11 of Vanderpump Rules(as teased in the midseason trailer above)./p pBut that's not all! He also was on handata data-entity-href="/node/921121" data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-title="Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="6f59e5db-c2a9-46c9-a0b6-49d3e9c91971" href="https://www.bravotv.com/watch-what-happens-live" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen"emWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen/em/a as Ariana sat down to dish on all the big things happening in her life (spoiler alert: including her relationship with Daniel)./p pIt was also during the March 12 episode of emWWHL/em that Ariana opened up a bit more about her romance with the special guy in her life./p div data-embed-button="related_content" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:node.embed" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="a52d1578-4179-4f6e-8ec6-9c2510940df5" data-langcode="en" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" class="embedded-entity"h2 class="headline" a class="embed-in-feed" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/go-inside-ariana-madixs-life-in-nyc-with-daniel-wai" Go Inside Ariana Madix's Life in NYC with Her Boyfriend, Daniel Wai /a /h2 /div h2Ariana MadixAddresses Relationship with New Boyfriend, Daniel Wai, on WWHL/h2 pstrongHere's What You May Have Missed on Bravo:/strong/p pstronga data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/lala-kents-new-house-has-an-ultra-chic-living-room-photos" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/lala-kents-new-house-has-an-ultra-chic-living-room-photos" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/lala-kents-new-house-has-an-ultra-chic-living-room-photos" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Lala Kent Shares a Look Inside the Ultra-Chic Living Room in Her New House (PHOTOS)/a/strong/p pstronga data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/ariana-madix-addresses-not-paying-tom-sandoval-for-bills" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/ariana-madix-addresses-not-paying-tom-sandoval-for-bills" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/ariana-madix-addresses-not-paying-tom-sandoval-for-bills" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Ariana Madix Explains the Real Reason She's Not Paying Her and Tom Sandoval's Bills/a/strong/p pstronga data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/lala-kent-reveals-her-future-push-present-nicole-rose-jewelry" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/lala-kent-reveals-her-future-push-present-nicole-rose-jewelry" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/lala-kent-reveals-her-future-push-present-nicole-rose-jewelry" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Lala Kent Reveals Her "Push Present" to Herself for Baby No. 2: "I'm Going to be Gleaming/a/strong/p pAriana is a data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/go-inside-ariana-madixs-life-in-nyc-with-daniel-wai" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/go-inside-ariana-madixs-life-in-nyc-with-daniel-wai" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/go-inside-ariana-madixs-life-in-nyc-with-daniel-wai" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"currently spending time in NYC as she stars in emChicago/em on Broadway/a, which means she's been clocking a lot of time with a data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/ariana-madixs-boyfriend-daniel-vanderpump-rules-debut-where-he-lives" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/ariana-madixs-boyfriend-daniel-vanderpump-rules-debut-where-he-lives" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/ariana-madixs-boyfriend-daniel-vanderpump-rules-debut-where-he-lives" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Daniel, who is a New York City-based trainer and bartender/a. In fact, while in the Bravo Clubhouse this week, she gushed that it's all "great" with Daniel, adding, "its nice to be able to do normal things" together since they are in the same city and can hang out (usually, of course, Ariana lives in Los Angeles)./p pWhen asked by emWWHL/em host a data-entity-href="/node/922911" data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-title="Andy Cohen" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="ea18a2ca-d356-444c-98a8-93abdaccc4ce" href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/andy-cohen" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="Andy Cohen"Andy Cohen /aif her "love tank is full," she said, with a smile, "Yes."/p div data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="f08613fa-7118-49a5-8c44-b77a2d7dbff5" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:862px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.bravotv.com/sites/bravo/files/styles/scale_862/public/2024/02/vanderpump-rules-ariana-madix-daniel-wai.jpg?itok=QVo9xbP4" width="862" height="575" alt="Ariana Madix and Daniel Wai together at the opening night of Ariana's Chicago musical debut" typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" Ariana Madix poses with boyfriend Daniel Wai backstage as she makes her broadway debut as "Roxy Hart" in the hit musical "Chicago" on Broadway at The Ambassador Theatre on January 29, 2024 in New York City. /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Bruce Glikas/WireImage /span /div /div /div /div pBy the way, it was Andy who even confirmed that Daniel was on hand for Ariana's episode. He wasn't the only special people in her life who stopped by emWWHL /emHQ./p h2Ariana Madix's Cast Members from emChicago /emon Broadway Appear on emWWHL/em as Bartenders/h2 pDuring her emWWHL /emappearance, Ariana was feeling the love from a couple other important folks in her life! She was also a data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/ariana-madix-chicago-musical-dates-tickets-debut-details" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/ariana-madix-chicago-musical-dates-tickets-debut-details" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/ariana-madix-chicago-musical-dates-tickets-debut-details" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"joined by her co-stars from emChicago/em on Broadway/a, Max Clayton and Michael Scirrotto. "Congrats, by the way, honestly, the emChicago/em thing is no joke," Andy said about Ariana's incredible run on the show. "Breaking records, so it's very cool."/p pFor those wondering, it really is "cool" as Ariana's run in the show has been extended and fans can see Ariana take the stage as Roxie Hart in emChicago/em through April 7./p pOf course, you can also follow Ariana's journey and go deeper inside her relationship with Daniel on Tuesdays on emVanderpump Rules/em./p