Karamo Brown’s Ex Carlos Medel Confirms Split: ‘This Year I’m Single’

One day after Valentine’s Day, Karamo Brown’s ex Carlos Medel is confirming his split from the Queer Eye star.

“Un poco más fresón, Happy Valentine’s Day ! ✌️ feliz día del amor y de la amistad !” Medel wrote via Instagram on Saturday, February 15, alongside a carousel of photos including a selfie where Meda flexed his floral bicep tattoo in a short-sleeved, button up animal print shirt.

“Although this year I’m single I still want to make sure love is around ! All my love to my friends and family, thank you for being part of my life one more year ! ❤️,” he continued. Brown, 44, and Medel had been dating since 2021.

“It was the first time I practiced something, which was full transparency on the first night,” the reality TV star told Attitude of his first date with Medel in a January 2024 interview. “We talked about everything from family to fears to finances. We showed each other our bank accounts and credit scores on the first night. Which seems odd to some, but we were putting everything out there.”

He told the outlet at the time that the pair had met when they “were both in relationships, although there was no funny business going on.” He explained, “We got talking about work on Instagram. Ironically, our conversation shifted to the issues we were having with our partners. The pandemic happened and we fell out of touch. In January 2021, I was like, now I want to flirt.”

Brown continued, “I hit him up and he was like: ‘I was just thinking about you — I broke up with my boyfriend!’ I was like: ‘Me too! Let’s have a date!’ Actually, it wasn’t that — we said we were going to get together and have sex, and that was it! That night we did not. We got there at 8am and stayed up until 6am talking. And crying.”

Speaking with Us Weekly in June 2024, Brown said “we’ll see” about whether marriage would be in his and Medel’s future.

“We’ve been together three years and we’re excited and happy where we’re at,” he told Us at the time. “Just being in a healthy relationship with no arguments is enough for me. Your communication is great. Like, I don’t know if I want to mess it up. You know what I mean? So we’ll see.”

Before meeting Medel, Brown had ended a decade-long relationship with Ian Jordan amid the COVID-19 pandemic in September 2020. He confirmed exclusively to Us in December that year that after a brief fling following the break up, he was “back to fully being single.”

“I’m a hopeless romantic, and so for me, I’m always about like, how can I find someone who I can spend my moments and my time with?” he told Us at the time. “You have to just find people who are like-minded [and] on the same page.”

At the time, Brown admitted to Us that while his breakup from Jordan was an “adjustment,” he added that “he’s my best friend and someone I love. We just had a moment where … our relationship had to shift.”