Kevin Franke Will Start Dating When Divorce from Ruby is Final: ‘Something I Look Forward to Pursuing’ (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

“As of today, I’m still working through the divorce,” he tells PEOPLE exclusively. “We’re trying to reach a settlement. It’s been a long process, well over a year, but it’s ongoing. We’re close.”

Asked about dating, he replies, “Well, of course, it’s something I think about, but I’m a man of my honor, and I’m still technically married. And so I’m holding off until the divorce is finalized."

“When the time’s right, that’s something I think that I’ll look forward to pursuing,” he continued.

In the docuseries, Kevin, Chad and the couple’s oldest child, Shari, 21, open up to director Olly Lambert about their Mormon family’s rise to online stardom and wealth, accruing 2.5 million subscribers on YouTube and earning $100,000 a month at their peak.

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“Jodi insisted that we subject ourselves to pain and discomfort,” Kevin explains. “Pain and discomfort is what would change us, make us stronger.”

Kevin is often asked why he went along with this. “If it was day number one, and Jodi said, ‘You’re selfish. You need to go into separation and repent,’ I would’ve told her to take a hike."

“And I did. I did say that the first time I was introduced to Jodi’s program.”

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But Hildebrandt didn’t start off so stridently, he explains.

“She gets her hooks into you and slowly begins to indoctrinate you,” he says. “So when that was suggested to me after all of that indoctrinating and conditioning, at the time, it seemed like, ‘Oh, you’re right. Okay.’”

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source: people.com