Mia Calabrese have been keeping an eye on Cottage costs KJ Dillard after his separation from Dara Levitan.
“KJ is amazing. He was just at my house a week ago,” Mia, 34, exclusively shared Us Weekly while promoting her partnership with Walgreens to reveal her “Ultimate summer must-haves” available from the dealer.
Mia remembered having both KJ – her newfound brother after tying herself under season 10 of the Bravo series – and her real-life brother to help her move her couch and new rug.
“He was like, ‘Okay, I’m leaving.’ And my brother’s like, ‘Oh, KJ, we’ve got work to do.’ So I have a funny video of him, like, taking my whole living room apart and moving my rug and my couch,” Mia shared. “But KJ is great.”
Before KJ Dillard and Mia Calabrese were roommates in the Hamptons, the Summer House stars had a connection through their extended families. “My mom and @miagcalabrese’s sister were classmates and friends,” KJ shared via Instagram on Tuesday, May 12, with a throwback photo. “This is me as a baby with both of them.” The (…)
The influencer noticed that from her “understanding” KJ and Dara, 33, “broke up” recently, so she’s been checking in on them both.
“I checked on Dara, I texted her and just let her know I’m thinking about her because breakups are hard no matter what,” Mia shared Us. “But they’re obviously even harder when you have the public eye with your breakup. So I checked on Dara, KJ is doing well and he’s also navigating the breakup.”
KJ, 28, and Dara, who both made their reality TV debuts on season 10 of Cottagebecame a few pieces recording of the show in the summer of 2025.
During three part season 10 recaprecorded in April, Dara and KJ hinted that they had briefly separated at some point in 2025 as KJ struggled with his mental health.
KJ Dillard and Dara Levitan.
Courtesy of Dara Levitan/InstagramKJ revealed on the show that he was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder in the fall of 2025 and was hospitalized for self-harm before he got the help he needed. (KJ confirmed in early June on “More life with Carl Radke” podcast it Dara broke up with him during that time frame because “she had to” while he was recovering.)
When Dara came to KJ during part 2 of the reviewshe told the host Andy Cohen that they were happy together, holding his hand and smiling.
Rumors of another breakup circulated in May when KJ untagged Dara in their couple photos.
asked Andy, 58 Jesse Solomon earlier this month, why KJ and Dara reportedly unfollowed each other on social media, to which he replied, “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 had broken up. Sorry if it’s not public.”
A few weeks later, Dara confirmed her relationship statusand reveals 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 shared Us she hopes they “do what will make them happy.”
Carl Radke, Jesse Solomon, KJ Dillard, Kyle Cooke and Mia Calabrese.
Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for Gonna Need Milk“If what’s going to make them happy is being together, life is short, that’s what you have to do,” she added. “And if what will make them happy is being apart, then so be it.”
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 summer beauty routine and her “Ultimate Summer Must-Haves,” which include lightweight serums and La Roche-Posay Anthelios sunscreen.
“I’ve been going to Walgreens since I was a little girl, and it was like a place we went every other day, me and my family, because you always needed something,” Mia shared. Us of her easy decision to work with Walgreens. “I’m so thankful that there are so many Walgreens across the country because growing 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 grateful to partner with them because it’s such a full-circle moment in my life.”
