Neighbours alum Scarlet Vas has finally addressed long-running rumours that her husband and father of her children, Tayo Ricci, is also her stepbrother.
Taking to social media over the weekend, the couple posted a joint video hitting back at the claims that have dogged them for years.
Scarlet Vas and Tayo Ricci have cleared up rumours they’re related. Instagram/@scarletvas
The video starts with Vas and Ricci sitting side by side against a plain white wall with a TMZ headline superimposed over them which read ‘Scarlet Vas says she’s expecting baby no. 2 with her stepbrother Tayo Ricci’.
“I am so sorry to admit this,” Vas began the clip.
“But we are not step siblings, I honestly have no idea where this even originated from.”
Ricci chimed in to point out that the rumour started with a social media “skit” they did in 2020, where they claimed to be step siblings then kissed for a $5000 bet.
“That explains it,” he said after the skit played on screen.
Vas went on to say that her and Ricci’s parents have never dated; in fact, her parents have been together for 20 years and Ricci’s parents for 40.
“So, to all the major media companies that keep headlining ‘step siblings having another baby’, we would like to formally ask you to please stop,” she said.
“And we are not step siblings.”
To really put the rumours to rest, the couple captioned the clip: “WE ARE NOT STEP SIBLINGS.”
Vas and Ricci shared an awkward reaction to the skit that started the rumour. Instagram/@scarletvas
The skit wasn’t the only time Vas and Ricci claimed to be step-siblings or played into the long-running rumour.
Back in 2023, Vas told Mario Adrion’s Uncensored podcast that her OnlyFans viewers love the content she created with “stepbrother” Ricci.
“The fans love us as like a thing or not a thing. He’s my stepbrother and Australian, and we’ve known each other for a very long time,” she said.
Vas and Ricci welcomed their first child in 2024, four years after the stepsiblings rumour started. Instagram/@scarletvas
Vas always maintained that she and Ricci were not blood related, as she told Adrion “that would be weird”.
The couple also captioned a video from their wedding day “step [sibling emoji] get married”.
Until now, Vas and Ricci have done little to dispel rumours they’re related, but something appears to have shifted in the last few weeks.
Vas is now pregnant with another baby. Instagram/@scarletvas
The couple just announced they’re expecting their second child together and appear to have come clean about the rumour in response to reports about their baby news calling them step siblings.
Vas and Ricci already share a daughter named Silva, who was born in 2024, one year after they wed on the Greek island of Mykonos.