Touché, Tins!
Pals of Tinsley Mortimer’s ex-fiancé told Page Six last week that — while she claimed to have been blindsided by the split two weeks ago — he had been trying to break up with her for “months,” but that she just wouldn’t accept that they were done.
But Tins’s camp counters that if coupon king Scott Kluth really considered their relationship to be over months ago, why did his business publish a Valentine’s Day blog post — authored by Mortimer?
In the gift guide on Coupon Cabin, the former “Real Housewives of New York” star coos about their romance, with lines like, “Scott knows how much I love straw hats, and every time we go somewhere warm, we always joke about how many hats I’m going to bring home.
“He saw [the neon pink hat in the picture of Mortimer that illustrates the story] on our recent trip to Mexico, and he instantly knew it was something that I would adore!”
An insider of the ex-couple — who lived in Chicago together and planned to stay there after they got married — that, “Scott was encouraging her to do Chicago-based things and Coupon Cabin as if they were together.”
But a source close to Kluth says that Mortimer has a contract to write the posts, and she decided what to write in them, not him.
As we previously reported, the businessman gave the socialite-turned-reality-star an ultimatum in 2019, saying he would marry her if she quit “RHONY.” She did, but Kluth didn’t keep up his end of the bargain.
Reps declined to comment.