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Once again, there is trouble in paradise for one of the ladies of Basketball Wives LA.
Last week, Lakers player Matt Barnes announced his split from fiance Gloria Govan. The couple’s highs and lows have been well documented off the VH1 show, and prior to breaking up, the pair had postponed their wedding indefinitely. In a new interview with VH1, Gloria eats some humble pie opens up about her thoughts on the split and her outlook on the future.
When asked to discuss what led to the split, Gloria explains: “It hasn’t been an easy ride moving across the country twice, having kids at 21 when I just graduated college, it hasn’t been easy. And now Matt has the lockout, so everything has been stressful with the breakup, the lockout, everything, it’s been a whirlwind. But we’re still friends and we’re still working things out and I wish him nothing but the best.”
She adds, “Matt and I do have kids and we’re trying to be as cordial as we can right now and we’ll be in each other’s lives forever, but as relationships go, we have our ups and downs.”
As to whether Gloria wants to “sow [her] oats and date other people,” Gloria says that she couldn’t even if that is what she wanted to do. She clarifies, “I think that’s a lot of people’s assumption, that oh, she wants to f— around and f— everything because he did and it’s like NO… I’m just going to take this opportunity to take a step back and reevaluate where I wanna go in life. And I think I have a long way to go to make my mark in feature films and in my community, but I’m happy. I’m happy with where I am now.” Um, feature films? Perhaps she should get in touch with Eric Williams…
Her sister Laura Govan doesn’t think it’s the end for the couple, and Gloria admits, “My whole family is rooting for that man. I swear. They would pick him over me. I’ve learned my lesson, never say never and I think anything is possible, but right now I’m taking my time to grow as an individual. Not only for myself but for my family. We’ll see. I’m not going to say never, I’m optimistic, but for now…we’re going our separate ways.”
So does Gloria feel like she and Matt could make it work in the future? Gloria says, “Anything is possible but am I looking at them like ‘Yay, we can get back together because Laura and Gilbert have fluctuated so much and they are back together?’ No. I look up to my sister, I think she’s a very strong person but in terms of relationship, I’m walking to my own drum here.”
That’s probably a good attitude to have, as word on the street (and in the New York Post) is that Matt is already moving on…perhaps with actual feature film actress and Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria.
The Post is reporting that Barnes was spotted in New York City a few days ago dining with the starlet at Il Mulino in Greenwich Village. The pair was joined by two of Longoria’s friends. While pals say Eva is still very much dating Penelope Cruz’s brother Eduardo, sources at the restaurant reveal, “There was definitely a spark between Eva and Matt. They weren’t seated next to each other, but you could tell there was something between them. There was a little hand-holding over the table and a lot of eye contact.” Hand-holding, eh? Sounds serious!
Eva’s rep (finally, a star that should actually have one!) attempts to squash romance rumors, telling the magazine, “Eva and Matt are friends and are working together doing charity work for Eva’s Padres Contra El Cáncer. She was at the dinner amongst her other friends.”
However, this isn’t the first time the duo has been spotted together. In fact, Matt partied with Eva and comedian George Lopez on October 16 at Club Nikki in Las Vegas. Eva even featured a picture of the crew on her twitter page. That photo is below. Vegas and NYC in the last two weeks? It seems like this lockout has turned Matty into quite the jet-setter!
A new episode of Basketball Wives: L.A. airs tonight at 8PM ET on VH1.
Photo credit: Steve Solis / PR Photos
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF MATT”S NEW “FRIENDSHIP” WITH EVA LONGORIA? DO YOU THINK HE WILL WORK THINGS OUT WITH GLORIA GOVAN?
Who cares Gloria you are a non muthaf****ng factor NEXT!
@1 Mama, right!
Go away! You 2 suck!
Matt is stalking Eva to get some press.
I am not buying the ‘charitable Matt.’ That is his trick to be around celebrities.
How can someone so charitable treat his own family like shiz?
Another Eric/Chad wanna-be!
Gloria’s interview makes me laugh!
Girl! Matt was just using you to get on a reality show!
He is probably working a spin-off a la Chad with VH-1 right now! Lol!!!!
Lol!!!!!!
Eva Longoria is a little long in the tooth to be called a starlet, no?
Ummm I think I would give Eva more credit than this, Matt is really not in her league! I like how Gloria throws Matt under the bus for cheating just like all the Miami girls tried to inform her about seasons ago. Matt won’t be back with Gloria so she should keep it moving and find someone else.
I have never seen Eva with a good looking man. She likes her men fugly. How sad!
So Gloria is saying she didn’t cheat too with Rapper The Game. Ok! But anyway someone tweeted Mat and said he needs to marry Gloria before The Game does. He told them The Game can have her. Bye Gloria
RT – open up any magazine; turn on any entertainment show and you’ll see that Eva has been exclusively dating Penelope Cruz’s brother, Eduardo, for over a year!
Take your skeezy sister and go away, jump offs!!!
WHO CARES!!!! The real headline is Tami HoodRat Roman will be hosting the BBALL WIVES LA REUNION SPECIAL!!!! OH YES!!!! My girl gonna bring the house down!!!!!!!
Oh wait nevermind…she is hosting some overtime special tonight….oh joy :/
Yea he may cheat, but so has Gloria and her sister (remember Shaq, Gloria had an affair with him while engaged with her on and off again man that she has kids with). And then giving all those backhanded comments about him and not taking into account that she got pregnant with Matt’s first kid 10 months after Matts mom died and her family essentially took him under their wing. And then this hoodrat Gloria got a felony for a scam at her college in fixing grades for money. She also was writing checks on Matt’s accounts to cover what Gloria’s mother did to her putting her and her mother in debt.
Gloria and her sister where sport groupies pure and simple. They looked for the money and saw the money. Remember when she made the comment when her sister was over and she was in her bedroom saying that if the relationship doesn’t workout at least she would have this house (not if your not married darling, thats his house).
I wonder who broke up with who…if gloria broke up with matt it was probably cause of the lockout with her gold diggin self!! Lockout means no income Mr. Matt!!! If you notice we never saw that botox party happen when Gloria sold her body just to get matt’s credit card to fund it! She probably went to use the card after Matt was done and that mess got denied which sent a red flag to Goria’s Jump off mind!!!!!!!!!!! “If Matt aint got no doe then that means Glora gots to go!”
@12 too funny.ROFL w/ tears!
gloria should go back to conning for money….
This is tooooooo funny… But you know, she foretold it in an episode. She has her OWN MONEY. (now) What an arrogant ass!!!!!!!! She gets NO TEARS & NO SYMPATHY.. I often wondered why she ALWAYS breaks bad with the girls but won’t kick Matt’s ass??? That goes for her psycho sister Laura too…Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmm…..HA!
SO is she considered a “jumpoff” because Matt wouldn’t marry her? I think she gave him the ultimatum about marriage, and he walked…
Shes just a baby mama now… like her sis…
@3-Seriously!! Eva is too old to be a starlet.
“make my mark in feature films”??? Bwahahhahahahaha! She is a dime-a-dozen face, and has no on-screen charisma…”flat effect” for each and every emotion. Even though I am fair-skinned, I have to agree that she acts like a fair-skinned woman who thinks that her skin color makes her special or unique. It takes waaay more than how a person looks to “make your mark”. She doesn’t seem to have the talent to even “make a dent” in Hollywood.
“right after finishing college…” Ha! How many folks on here believe she finished high school????
OMG….. I CANT BELIVE MATT HE SHOULDNT GO WITH EVA LONGORIA HE SHOULD GET BACK TOGETHER WITH GLORIA THEY HAVE TWO KIDS TOGETHER AND THAT WILL HURT THERE SONS IF THEY SEE THERE MOMMY AND DADDY SPLIT UP…:(
Why can’t a female and a male ever be friends if they’re famous? Why do they always have to be dating or cheating or screwing around? Dang. It’s like once you become famous you can’t have any friends of the opposite sex. If you’re a female you have to stay away from all males so people don’t think you’re dating so you hang around females only then everyone thinks you’re a lesbian! C’MON!
She is a jump off because she she jumped off of one player (who was matt’s teammate) on to matt! And now she has jumped off matt onto…well I don’t know…LOL…but she def aint jumping on to another NBA player while this lockout is still going on. She may take a chapter from royce and evelyn and try the NFL now…
Good Luck Gloria
This is the 2nd photo I see of Eva with Matt on seperate occasions. Eva don’t do it! You tried with an NBA guy before. Don’t get your heart broken!
bTw….Gloria Govan is beautiful. If he couldn’t make it with a beautiful woman who is also the mother of his children??