On the Drama Queens podcast, Hilarie Burton even talked about how when Austin joined the show, she initially thought he was interested in her, but she came to find out one of the reasons he booked the show was to be closer to Sophia, whom he had previously dated at the time.
Hilarie recalled, “All of a sudden, Austin looks really distracted, like, looking over my shoulder. And I was like, ‘Oh, what’s he looking at?’ I turn around, and Sophia has entered the armory in, like, a cashmere turtleneck and tweed blazer … And I see heart emojis in Austin’s eyeballs, and I just turn around, and I could still feel it in my bones, the Oh, no! I had so seriously misjudged that situation.”
