{"id":625024,"date":"2026-04-23T04:56:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/625024\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T04:56:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:56:23","slug":"my-kitchen-rules-star-zana-pali-brutal-comments-after-gianni-romano-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/625024\/","title":{"rendered":"My Kitchen Rules star Zana Pali brutal comments after Gianni Romano split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former \u201cMy Kitchen Rules\u201d star Zana Pali appears to have taken a swipe at her ex-husband, Gianni Romano, in a series of telling comments made on social media.<\/p>\n<p>During a Q&amp;A with her 100K followers on <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zana_pali\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> this week, Pali \u2013 who appeared on the cooking show with Romano in 2016 \u2013 didn\u2019t hold back when asked by a fan if it was possible to remain friends with a former partner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d she bluntly wrote. \u201cOnce I\u2019m done, I\u2019m done. I don\u2019t keep access to me once I\u2019ve removed you from my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MORE:<a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realestate.com.au\/news\/top-australian-suburbs-for-reality-tv-filming-revealed\/?campaignType=external&amp;campaignChannel=syndication&amp;campaignName=ncacont&amp;campaignContent=&amp;campaignSource=newscomau&amp;campaignPlacement=realestatemodule\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"www.realestate.com.au\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Top Aus suburbs for reality TV filming revealed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pali, who is a lawyer and property developer, also did not mince her words when asked by another follower, \u201cDo you think men can change?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey can, but not for you,\u201d she replied. \u201cPeople change when they want to. Not when they\u2019re asked to. If you\u2019re waiting for it, you\u2019re already wasting your time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The star separated from Romano \u2013 who is also a lawyer \u2013 in December 2024 after 10 years of marriage and two children, Leo and Romeo, who they welcomed in 2018 and 2020, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The former couple became household names in 2016 when they appeared on Season 7 of MKR. They were dubbed the \u201clegal eagles\u201d for their law careers and were seemingly given the \u201cvillain edit\u201d for their sharp critiques on the other contestants.<\/p>\n<p>In July last year, Pali \u2013 who is now an influencer \u2013 appeared to have moved on from her split when she shared photos of herself enjoying a getaway in Greece, seemingly with a male companion. <\/p>\n<p>However, it appears that holiday romance was short-lived with Pali revealing to a fan just one month later that she was done with dating.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old shared an Instagram clip at the time showing Vanderpump Rules star Tom Schwartz explaining why he has \u201cno desire to be with another human being\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018So where are you from?\u2019\u201d Schwartz could be heard mimicking small talk from a date. \u201cShut up, I don\u2019t f***ing want to know where you\u2019re from, what you do. I don\u2019t want to hear about your life. I don\u2019t ever want to do that again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pali also shared another meme at the time, which read, \u201cUninterested, unavailable and physically repulsed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen they ask me if I\u2019m ready for dating,\u201d she captioned the meme, while adding a melting emoji, vomit emoji, and laughing-crying emoji. <\/p>\n<p>It appears Pali is more than happy to fly solo for now. She celebrated her 35th birthday this week with her boys and the star has never looked happier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd just like that\u2026 35 today,\u201d she captioned a <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXVIwYUgVtg\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">carousel of photos on Instagram<\/a> from her special day. \u201cTime really does go so quickly. We hear it our whole lives, but it\u2019s not until we become parents that we truly understand it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, nothing has been more rewarding, more grounding, more beautiful \u2026 than being the mum to these two incredible boys,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe three of us have each other and that\u2019s all that will ever matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former \u201cMy Kitchen Rules\u201d star Zana Pali appears to have taken a swipe at her ex-husband, Gianni Romano,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,302750,247538,134,2057,302751,3898,302746,302753,302754,206806,302755,32505,302747,156058,302752,302756,3595,272709,122562,302748,427,302749],"class_list":{"0":"post-625024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-brutal-comments","11":"tag-christine-salazar","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-gianni-romano","15":"tag-greece","16":"tag-holiday-romance","17":"tag-household-names","18":"tag-icon-james-valentine","19":"tag-james-valentine","20":"tag-law-careers","21":"tag-leo","22":"tag-male-companion","23":"tag-property-developer","24":"tag-radio-icon-james","25":"tag-romance-reveal","26":"tag-southern-europe","27":"tag-special-day","28":"tag-tom-schwartz","29":"tag-troubled-celebrity-chef","30":"tag-tv","31":"tag-villain-edit"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}