The Valley, a spinoff of Vanderpump Rules, follows former cast members like ex-couple Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright. In Season 2, viewers watched their rocky separation unfold, with Jax seeking professional help for his mental health. Meanwhile, Brittany found the strength to file for divorce after Jax continued to rage text her and allegedly even spied on her.

The show also explores the fallout between another couple, Jesse Lally and Michelle Saniei. Throughout Season 2, the pair have navigated a deeply tumultuous separation, with tensions escalating as Jesse referred to his ex-wife as “a hooker,” while Michelle urged their mutual friends to see Jesse’s true character.

As Michelle has moved on from Jesse with a man named Aaron Nosler, Jesse remains fixated on their relationship, still questioning whether Aaron is the man Michelle allegedly cheated on him with.

Jesse Lally Confronts Michelle Saniei’s Boyfriend Over Cheating Rumors On The Valley

While Season 2 of The Valley follows Brittany Cartwright as she takes the steps to end her marriage to Jax Taylor and move forward with her life, Jesse Lally continues to struggle with letting go of his relationship with Michelle Saniei. Most notably, Jesse remained fixated on the possibility that Michelle’s new boyfriend, Aaron Nosler, was the man she may have cheated on him with.

Throughout Season 2, Jesse has made it his mission to seek the truth, but that isn’t easy when you call the mother of your child “a hooker” and make claims that she slept with billionaires for money. He tries to piece events together in his head, like believing that Michelle taking hikes was just her sneaking away to see Aaron. Or, Michelle stocking their cupboard with honey from Aaron’s company when they were still married should have been a red flag. As Jesse put it, he has been discovering “little crumbs” that suggest Aaron is the man that came inbetween him and Michelle.

In Episode 11, the group are in Hawaii, with Michelle inviting Aaron on the trip. During dinner, Jesse confronts Aaron about his suspicions that he was the man that Michelle was cheating on him with.

The episode ended with Aaron giving Jesse a blank, wide-eyed stare and “to be continued” flashed on our screens. However, Episode 12 jumps right into the conversation. After Jesse confronted Aaron, the latter simply stated, “No, absolutely not.” He went on to add that he and Michelle did “text here and there” and “would run into each other all the time,” but that was allegedly all it was.

Unfortunately, this isn’t the answer Jesse was looking for and only made him more suspicious. In a confessional he shared, “I’m thinking, this is bulls***. In my heart of hearts, I 1000% think they had a physical and emotional relationship before we separated. How else do you explain having a boyfriend two weeks after we separated, while still living in my house?”

During their tense conversation, Jesse told Aaron that he wanted to move and “like” Aaron, but Michelle “triggers” him. “If we could just all somehow figure out a way to work together … this should be the perfect time to do that,” he said.

Michelle’s Alleged Infidelity Was First Brought Up In The Valley Season 1

When The Valley first premiered in 2024, Jesse and Michelle were still married—but their relationship was quickly rocked by a bombshell accusation. During a group dinner, Kristen Doute claimed that Michelle had been secretly dating another man for a year while still married to Jesse.

In Episode 3 of Season 2, Kristen cleared the air by saying that she wasn’t talking about Aaron when she shared that Michelle may have been with another man. “Just to be clear, the man I was talking about Michelle seeing last summer, that is not Aaron,” Kristen said in a confessional.

Still, talking to Kristen and her fiancé, Luke Broderick, Jesse seemed unconvinced. “I don’t know what’s going on with Michelle. She’s most likely with her boyfriend for the last 2 years,” he tells them.

Jesse later told the group that things started to add up when he discovered he had been unknowingly storing Aaron’s honey in his cabinet for two years. He realized the honey came from a small company not sold in stores, but based in the same city Michelle often went hiking — and where Aaron happened to live.

Michelle ultimately did admit to cheating on Jesse while they were married, but did not share who the man was. “I’m 90% sure that this person was Aaron, and if it wasn’t, then she cheated on me twice,” he says.

Jesse Is Dating A Woman Named Lacy Nicole

On The Valley, Aaron admitted to Michelle that he was struggling with Jesse’s constant accusations and was frustrated by the toxic nature of their separation. Before they traveled to Maui, he told Michelle that he was nervous about being on a trip with her ex-husband, who clearly hadn’t made things easier. Aaron shared that he felt as though he could not breathe “after seeing Jesse and just, like, being in the same room.”

However, Aaron expressed hope that they could all eventually find peace, though it seemed that would only be possible once Jesse let go of Michelle’s alleged infidelity, whether it involved Aaron or not. Aaron even suggested the idea of a “family trip” with Michelle, Jesse, and their young daughter, Isabella. “That’s a long ways away, but we’ll see,” Michelle responded.

But Jesse has seemingly moved on from his marriage as well, having found someone new himself. According to People, Jesse is dating a woman named Lacy Nicole, and the two first went public in April 2024, which was just a month after he and Michelle announced their divorce. Lacy works as a philanthropist and hosts the podcast Shame to Sparkle.

Jesse did share that she already has a solid relationship with his daughter. “She’s an incredible influence on my daughter, which is one of the reasons I introduced her to my daughter, the only other person who’s ever met her, because she’s such a stable, sophisticated woman.”

Lacy has not been featured on The Valley, with Jesse telling Entertainment Tonight that it was all too much seeing as he was going through his divorce with Michelle on TV.

“We had just started a new relationship [when filming began]. It’s hard enough going through a divorce in private, [we’re] going through a divorce on television, talking about Michelle and I. For the health of Isabella, we talked about it, and she’s meeting a woman for the first time that is not her mother, and just for the sake of Isabella … we just decided it probably wasn’t best,” he said.

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