{"id":874570,"date":"2026-08-31T03:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T03:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/874570\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T03:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T03:50:20","slug":"scarlet-vas-married-her-stepbrother-or-did-she-neighbours-star-finally-addresses-rumour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/874570\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarlet Vas married her stepbrother – or did she? Neighbours star finally addresses rumour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neighbours\u00a0alum\u00a0Scarlet Vas<\/a>\u00a0has finally addressed long-running rumours that her husband and father of her children, Tayo Ricci, is also her stepbrother.<\/p>\n

Taking to social media over the weekend, the couple posted a joint video hitting back at the claims that have dogged them for years.<\/p>\n

\"Scarlet<\/p>\n

Scarlet Vas and Tayo Ricci have cleared up rumours they\u2019re related.\u00a0Instagram\/@scarletvas<\/p>\n

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 \u2018Scarlet Vas says she\u2019s expecting baby no. 2 with her stepbrother Tayo Ricci\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am so sorry to admit this,\u201d Vas began the clip.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we are not step siblings, I honestly have no idea where this even originated from.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ricci chimed in to point out that the rumour started with a social media \u201cskit\u201d they did in 2020, where they claimed to be step siblings then kissed for a $5000 bet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat explains it,\u201d he said after the skit played on screen.<\/p>\n

Vas went on to say that her and Ricci\u2019s parents have never dated; in fact, her parents have been together for 20 years and Ricci\u2019s parents for 40. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo, to all the major media companies that keep headlining \u2018step siblings having another baby\u2019, we would like to formally ask you to please stop,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we are not step siblings.\u201d<\/p>\n

To really put the rumours to rest, the couple captioned the clip: \u201cWE ARE NOT STEP SIBLINGS.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Scarlet<\/p>\n

Vas and Ricci shared an awkward reaction to the skit that started the rumour.\u00a0Instagram\/@scarletvas<\/p>\n

The skit wasn\u2019t the only time Vas and Ricci claimed to be step-siblings or played into the long-running rumour.<\/p>\n

Back in 2023, Vas told Mario Adrion\u2019s Uncensored podcast that her OnlyFans viewers love the content she created with \u201cstepbrother\u201d Ricci.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fans love us as like a thing or not a thing. He\u2019s my stepbrother and Australian, and we\u2019ve known each other for a very long time,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\"Tayo<\/p>\n

Vas and Ricci welcomed their first child in 2024, four years after the stepsiblings rumour started.\u00a0Instagram\/@scarletvas<\/p>\n

Vas always maintained that she and Ricci were not blood related, as she told Adrion \u201cthat would be weird\u201d.<\/p>\n

The couple also captioned a video from their wedding day \u201cstep [sibling emoji] get married\u201d.<\/p>\n

Until now, Vas and Ricci have done little to dispel rumours they\u2019re related, but something appears to have shifted in the last few weeks.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Vas is now pregnant with another baby.\u00a0Instagram\/@scarletvas<\/p>\n

The couple just announced they\u2019re expecting their second child<\/a> together and appear to have come clean about the rumour in response to reports about their baby news calling them step siblings.<\/p>\n

Vas and Ricci already share a daughter named Silva<\/a>, who was born in 2024, one year after they wed on the Greek island of Mykonos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neighbours\u00a0alum\u00a0Scarlet Vas\u00a0has finally addressed long-running rumours that her husband and father of her children, Tayo Ricci, is also…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-874570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874570","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=874570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}