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Matt Rogers and ‘Below Deck’ Star Fraser Olender Split 8 Months After Confirming Romance

Matt Rogers and Below Deck’s Fraser Olender are putting an end to their romantic relationship.

The couple decided to mutually part ways eight months after confirming their romance, a source confirmed to Us Weekly on Thursday, July 16. The pair remain friends.

Us Weekly has reached out to Rogers and Olender’s reps for comment. (People was first to report the news.)

The split may catch some fans by surprise, especially after Rogers, 36, gushed about his then-boyfriend last month during an appearance on Today With Jenna and Sheinelle.

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“He was invited to the Culture Awards last year and couldn’t make it, so he said something nice about the awards in an interview, and I slid in his DMs and said, ‘Hey, thanks for saying something nice,’” Rogers recalled to Jenna Bush Hager and Sheinelle Jones. “And now he’s my guy.”

Rogers also referred to Olender, 33, as his “current same-sex partner” on the July 8 episode of his “Las Culturistas” podcast.

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The pair first confirmed their relationship in November 2025. At the time, Olender included photos of Rogers in his Instagram post from BravoCon.

His fun in Las Vegas was cut short, however, when a health scare left him unable to attend the third day of the convention. Ultimately, it was Rogers who was by his side during the ordeal.

“A very special human stayed with me until 5am whilst I laid there useless, attached to multiple machines and pumped with meds,” Olender wrote via Instagram at the time. “Sooo grateful for him, the nurses and the docs!”

Rogers later commented, “Healthy like an ox, unbreakable, hot, etc.”

Matt Rogers and Below Deck Star Fraser Olender Split 8 Months After Confirming Romance
Matt Rogers, Fraser Olender Courtesy of Fraser Olender/Instagram

The pair experienced another hurdle when Rogers revealed on his podcast in April that he and Olender were taking some time apart.

The comedian explained that they’d decided to “take a little bit of space just because of how intense everything had gotten.”

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“He’s creating the television program many people like. I’m going to see him soon, but while he’s been gone and I’ve been sort of busy doing my own thing,” Rogers explained. “We really had only been dating for about three months. We were already really enjoying being together, and then there was this health stuff that entered, and that accelerated things.”

Although Olender isn’t the most active on Instagram, his most recent post with Rogers was in December 2025 when he captioned his photo, “bits&bobs🫶🏼.”

As for Rogers, he shared a video of himself walking the red carpet with Olender in May at the Las Culturistas Culture Awards in Los Angeles.

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