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Odd Things About Aubrey O’Day And Pauly D’s Relationship Exposed

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A “Jersey Shore” star and a “Danity Kane” singer built a reality-TV romance that ended up messier than anything either of them filmed for the cameras.

Aubrey O’Day and Paul “Pauly D” DelVecchio met filming E!’s “Famously Single” in November 2015 and went public with their relationship that February. What followed was roughly a year and a half of on-and-off drama, capped by a July 2017 split that neither side let go of quietly. A Nicki Swift breakdown lays out the oddest parts of the pairing, from Pauly D’s total lack of girlfriend experience to a Las Vegas apartment allegedly littered with dog feces and hair extensions.

• Pauly D, then 35 and already a father since 2013, admitted O’Day was his first-ever official girlfriend.
• The couple, splitting time between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, said they texted or called each other every 20 minutes.
• O’Day called the relationship “torturous” and said she lost her identity; Pauly D told Page Six her account was “a little bit fabricated” and that he was the one who ended it.

A First Relationship at 35

Pauly D’s love life before O’Day was, by his own account, essentially nonexistent in the traditional sense. He’d fathered a daughter in 2013, but he told cameras he had never had an official, committed girlfriend until O’Day — a detail that reframes a lot of what came after. A guy with no real relationship blueprint suddenly found himself in a high-visibility, reality-TV-adjacent romance with a partner who had strong opinions about how things should go.

Every 20 Minutes

Distance was part of the equation from the start. O’Day and Pauly D bounced between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and rather than let the miles create gaps, they filled them constantly — both admitted to calling or texting one another every 20 minutes. It’s the kind of detail that sounds sweet until you consider it sustained for a year and a half between two people who eventually described the relationship in very different terms.

‘Torturous’ vs. ‘Fabricated’

The public disagreement over what actually happened is where things get genuinely odd. O’Day later described the relationship as suffocating, saying she lost her sense of self inside it. Pauly D wasn’t having it.

Pauly D told Page Six her claims were “a little bit fabricated,” adding that if it was so torturous, she shouldn’t have stayed — and that he was the one who ended it, calling it dodging a bullet.

That kind of dueling-narrative breakup is common among reality personalities who date within the genre — the same instinct that fuels lists like Reality Stars Who Treat Their Co-Stars Like Trash applies just as easily to reality couples once the cameras and the relationship both go sideways.

The Messy Blonde Problem

When O’Day and Pauly D reunited in 2018 to film Season 11 of WE tv’s “Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars,” counselors staged a recreation of their old living situation — and it exposed a much more domestic gripe. Pauly D’s complaints centered on O’Day’s untidiness in his Las Vegas home: blonde hair extensions left around, clothes scattered everywhere, and even dog feces on the floor. It’s a far cry from the Jersey Shore glow-up narrative fans might have expected from either of them, and it’s the kind of slow-burn friction that echoes patterns seen in other celebrity relationships where the warning signs built up long before the split.

His Way or the Highway

Marriage pressure sealed the deal. O’Day reportedly demanded a ring “ASAP,” pushing for the kind of commitment Pauly D simply didn’t have in his plans. He enforced strict boundaries around the relationship and, according to his own account, walked away rather than move toward marriage he didn’t want. Between the ultimatums and the mess in his Vegas place, Pauly D’s version of events paints a guy who felt cornered into a life he hadn’t signed up for.

The two never got back together after July 2017, and their “Marriage Boot Camp” stint in 2018 wound up airing as a postmortem rather than a reconciliation — proof that some couples make better television split up than they ever did together.