Mia Calabrese has been keeping an eye on Summer House costar KJ Dillard following his split from Dara Levitan.
“KJ is great. He was just at my house, like, a week ago,” Mia, 34, exclusively told Us Weekly while promoting her partnership with Walgreens to unveil her “Ultimate Summer Must-Haves” available at the retailer.
Mia recalled having both KJ — her newfound brother after bonding during season 10 of the Bravo series — and her real-life brother over to help her move her couch and new rug.
“He was like, ‘All right, I’m gonna leave.’ And my brother’s like, ‘Ah, KJ, we’ve got work to do.’ So I have a hilarious video of him, like, taking my whole living room apart and moving my rug and my couch,” Mia shared. “But KJ is great.”
The influencer noted that from her “understanding” KJ and Dara, 33, “did break up” recently, so she has been looking in on them both.
“I checked on Dara, I sent her a text, and just let her know I’m thinking of her, because breakups are difficult, no matter what,” Mia told Us. “But they’re obviously even more difficult when you have the public eye watching your breakup. So I checked on Dara, KJ is doing well, and he’s navigating the breakup as well.”
KJ, 28, and Dara, both of whom made their reality TV debut during season 10 of Summer House, became a couple while filming the show in summer 2025.
During the three-part season 10 reunion, filmed in April, Dara and KJ hinted that they had briefly parted ways at some point in 2025 as KJ was struggling with his mental health.
KJ revealed on the show that he was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder in fall 2025 and was hospitalized for self-harm before getting the help he needed. (KJ confirmed in early June on the “More Life With Carl Radke” podcast that Dara broke up with him during that timeframe because “she had to” while he was in recovery.)
When Dara joined KJ during part 2 of the reunion, she told host Andy Cohen that they were happily together, holding his hand and smiling.
However, rumors of another breakup circulated in May when KJ untagged Dara in their couple pictures.
Andy, 58, asked Jesse Solomon earlier this month why KJ and Dara allegedly unfollowed each other on social media, to which he responded, “They broke up, yeah.”
Jesse, 32, explained on the June 9 episode of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen that “last I heard they were broken up. Sorry if that’s not public.”
A few weeks later, Dara confirmed her relationship status, revealing on the Thursday, June 18, episode of the “Five More Minutes” podcast that she is single.
“That’s all we’re going to say about it because I can’t do tears this morning, and there’s no way I’m talking about it without crying,” she said, referring to her heartbreak over no longer dating KJ.
As KJ and Dara navigate their split, Mia told Us she hopes they “do what is going to make them happy.”
“If what’s going to make them happy is being together, life is short, that’s what you should do,” she added. “And if what’s going to make them happy is being separate, that it is what it is.”
Mia, meanwhile, revealed that she doesn’t “know what my summer plans are” but her motto for the season is “live and have fun and see what happens.”
Part of her feel-good plan includes teaming up with Walgreens to share her beauty routine for the summer and her “Ultimate Summer Must-Haves,” which includes lightweight serums and La Roche-Posay Anthelios Sunscreen.
“I have been going to Walgreens since I was a little girl, and that was like a place we went every other day, me and my family, because you always needed something,” Mia told Us of her easy decision to work with Walgreens. “I’m so grateful that there’s so many Walgreens all over the country, because I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, there wasn’t, like, you know, a store on every corner. But I was always able to depend on Walgreens.”
She added, “I’m so thankful to be partnering with them, because it is such a full circle moment in my life.”
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