Ariana Madix Says Boyfriend Daniel Wai Is the 'Best Gift-Giver' She’s Ever Met as She Teases His Holiday Present (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Ariana Madix and Daniel Wai on September 04, 2023 in Culver City, California.Photo:Presley Ann/Getty

Presley Ann/Getty

Ariana Madixis set for the holiday season!

TheVanderpump Rulesstar, 39, tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview that her boyfriend,Daniel Wai, is the “best gift-giver.”

“I have a little list there that I’ll be going off of and collecting things from,” she says.

Still, she notes, “he’s an incredible gift-giver."

Ariana Madix poses with boyfriend Daniel Wai backstage as she makes her broadway debut as “Roxy Hart” in the hit musical “Chicago” on Broadway.Bruce Glikas/WireImage

Bruce Glikas/WireImage

“He already knows what he wants to get. He’s already gotten me, I think, most of it,” she says.

Madix and Wai, a fitness influencer, were first linked in April 2023, a month after Madix learned thather longtime boyfriend, Tom Sandoval, was cheatingwith theirVanderpump RulescostarRachel “Raquel” Leviss.

Madix and Wai first met at a mutual friend’s wedding, and then were spotted spending time togetherat Coachella. By May 2023, Madixwas already “falling in love” with Wai, a source told PEOPLE.

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Ariana Madix attends the Ariana Madix x DSW Collection Dinner.Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images

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As for her own gift-giving,Love Island USAhost Madix tells PEOPLE, “I am not so good at it. I try and I get really lofty big ideas about gifts, and then I overthink and then if one part of it doesn’t work out I get really stressed. Then the day is coming up and I end up just freaking out and getting something that’s not quite what I wanted."

She continues: “Every time there’s gift-giving happening, I’m super stressed.”

“But he is the best gift-giver I’ve ever met in my life,” she adds, concluding that she has “a lot to live up to.”

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Ariana Madix.Janet Mayer/Shutterstock

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“I’m so grateful to be able to do what I love and what I’ve always wanted to do my whole life, and be able to make a living doing it," Madix says.

source: people.com