‘Big Brother’ Stars Kat Dunn & Nick Maccarone Split After Nasty Instagram Live Fight

Big Brother stars Nick Maccarone and Kathryn Dunn have ended their relationship, the split coming seven months after they met on the summertime CBS series.

Less than a year after they lived together in close quarters in the Big Brother 21 house, Kat told Us Weekly that several factors contributed to her split from Nick. Of those factors, it was trying to maintain a long-distance relationship amid the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) quarantine that “really took a toll.”

After Kat scrapped plans to visit Nick in New Jersey due to the stay-at-home order, fans messaged Nick to tell him that if Kat really “liked” him, she would have quarantined with him. The Big Brother couple broke up on April 9, following a public fight on Kat’s Instagram Live after she cracked a joke about Nick.

Kat expressed the view that, normally, Nick would have “taken the joke in stride.” However, she thinks that her quip may have been “the straw that broke the camel’s back” in a stressful relationship. After Nick left the Instagram Live session, the couple continued their argument in the comments section — and fans watched the drama play out. Kat told Us Weekly that the online argument was “childish.”

“It was something that shouldn’t have happened, especially on such a public outlet.”

After a long talk the two decided that, given the current state of the world, it wasn’t a good time to continue their long-distance romance.

In a thread about the topic on Reddit, a commenter recounted the “super awkward” argument that ensued after Nick was on Kat’s Instagram Live feed — one wherein the reality TV star apparently made a comment to a viewer, saying that he has more money than the viewer ever will. After Kat joked that this state of affairs might come about because Nick doesn’t pay rent, he became offended and immediately disconnected from the livestream. Nick then reportedly accused Kat of trying to publicly embarrass him, and he claimed that he does pay rent — and works hard — before pointing out that Kat’s dad paid for her college experience.

On the Reddit thread, Kat made it clear that she will not apologize for her dad working hard enough to fund her — and her brother’s — time at Baylor University.

“He made too many sacrifices me to be publicly shamed on IG live for it.”

Kat reminded her followers that, from the moment she first entered the house on Big Brother, she was planning to pay her dad back for her college tuition if she won.

Kat’s split from Nick came less than two weeks after Nick posted a photo of the two kissing. He wrote a caption emphasizing that he wanted the coronavirus to be”done” so he could get his girlfriend back.

In addition to the IG Live fight, Nick told the Dallas Observer that the quarantine did not help his relationship with Kat “at all.”

“We have barely seen each other in 2020.”

Nick added that he felt nothing but love for Kat, and that he still talks to her daily. He also didn’t rule out a possible romantic reconciliation in the future.

“Just right now, it’s better off if we move on as best friends and can reconsider down the line.”

Kat added that even though she and Nick are “romantically not supposed to be together right now,” he’s still one of her best friends and will always be in her life.

Last fall, the reality TV lovebirds made headlines for their jury house hookup when Nick betrayed his first Big Brother showmance, Bella Wang, to start a relationship with Kat.