So, what exactly happened between Ariana Biermann and Charlie Zakkour in Las Vegas?
The “Next Gen NYC” stars are finally clearing up those BravoCon 2025 rumors after their castmates noticed some seriously flirty behavior during a late-night gathering in Charlie’s hotel room.
During the “Next Gen NYC After Show” for season 2, episode 8, Charlie insisted that reports he and Ariana were “cuddling” in his bed weren’t entirely accurate.
“We were all chilling in a room,” Charlie explained. “I was sitting down at the foot of the bed eating a room service meal.”
Shai Fruchter remembered things a little differently, claiming Charlie and Ariana were lying together against the headboard at one point. Charlie eventually acknowledged why that particular pairing may have raised eyebrows, especially after Ariana’s memorable BravoCon declaration that she wouldn’t touch him “with a 10-foot pole.”
When a producer directly asked Charlie whether anything happened between them, he gave a clear answer.
“Correct, yes,” he said. “Nothing sexual happened between us at BravoCon.”
Ariana Biermann Regrets Her ‘10-Foot Pole’ Charlie Zakkour Comment
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Ariana, meanwhile, admitted her original dig at Charlie may have helped create the situation.
“Where this all truly began, where I royally f**ked up, is saying I wouldn’t touch him with a 10-foot pole,” Ariana said. “He times-tenned it. He’s like, ‘Oh, she’s gonna say this? Uh-huh. Watch this.’”
Charlie denied that the remark made him pursue Ariana, although he conceded, “Did it make it hit a little bit sweeter? Maybe. But I don’t think it fueled me.”
There was definitely some flirting.
Charlie admitted during the episode that he and Ariana were “rubbing each other on the bed” while the group hung out until around 5 a.m. Ariana also revealed that after she left, Charlie texted her asking whether she’d forgotten a vape in his room and invited her back.
Ariana said she didn’t respond.
“Although he says a lot of out-of-pocket (expletive) and tells me to come sleep over in his room, like that’s Charlie,” she explained. “I don’t know. It’s funny, it’s fine. Like, honestly, I love the attention. It’s so fun.”
And their castmates weren’t exactly imagining the chemistry. At a later group dinner, Charlie joked about trying to “ruin” Ariana’s relationship with Liam Obergfoll before telling her, “They just assume we’re a couple now.”
Then came another eyebrow-raiser: Ariana gave up her first-class seat on the flight home to sit beside Charlie in coach.
Charlie certainly had his own interpretation of that decision.
“I think she is just a girl with a crush,” he told a producer, “and, you know, I can now see a clearer world in which I might have to step on Liam’s toes if the opportunity arises.”
Nothing happened at BravoCon, according to Charlie — but those “flirty vibes” apparently weren’t coming out of nowhere.
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He had to say “nothing happened at bravocon,” indicating they hooked up after.
Why does she have to explain herself at all ??? They were both single consenting adults and it’s literally nobodies business. Why is this even a topic of discussion.