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| The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Are Chase McWhorter and Shinia Powell Still Together? |
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives has finally cleared up one of its more awkward romantic side stories: Chase McWhorter and Shinia Powell appear to have moved on from whatever was happening between them. Their brief connection became a talking point after Miranda Hope revealed in season 5 that her former husband had been seeing her friend while Shinia was staying at her home, adding yet another complicated layer to an already crowded relationship web.
Miranda’s comments also gave context to a rumour that had been circulating since late November 2025, when Chase and Shinia were reportedly seen together at an NBA game. Speculation followed that the pair looked particularly close, but neither of them publicly confirmed they were a couple. That left Miranda’s later revelation as the clearest public indication that there had, in fact, been something going on between them.
The situation was hardly straightforward from the beginning. Shinia was already familiar with relationship drama involving the wider cast after her previous connection with Dakota Mortensen became a major storyline during season 4. Taylor Frankie Paul had made her feelings about that relationship known, so Shinia and Chase becoming involved was never going to pass quietly in a cast where everyone seems to know everyone else’s business.
Miranda’s account made the situation even more uncomfortable because of where Shinia was apparently staying at the time. According to Miranda, the two were seeing each other while Shinia was living under her roof. It is the sort of reality-TV detail that sounds almost too perfectly engineered for a storyline, except this one came with real friendships and a complicated family situation attached.
Chase and Shinia, however, never publicly announced a relationship or later confirmed exactly what happened between them. After their reported appearance together, neither made the connection a major part of their public lives. And by 2026, their paths appeared to have moved in completely different directions.
Shinia went public with Dakota Mortensen in August 2026, saying the two had been seeing each other since January. She explained that they had grown closer while Dakota was dealing with his custody dispute involving Taylor. Whatever happened between Shinia and Chase therefore appears to have been short-lived, with Shinia eventually returning to a relationship with someone already deeply connected to the show’s existing drama.
Chase’s situation has looked rather different. He has continued to speak warmly about Miranda, with their shared responsibilities as parents keeping them connected. He has also suggested that he would like to repair their relationship, making it increasingly difficult to imagine Shinia remaining part of his romantic story. If anything, Chase’s comments suggest that his attention has been directed towards his former wife rather than towards revisiting his brief connection with Shinia.
The timeline is worth keeping in mind. Chase and Miranda married in 2017 and separated in 2024, and they share two children, Brooks and Cohen. Their relationship may have ended romantically, but co-parenting means they cannot simply disappear from each other’s lives. Chase has publicly described Miranda as an excellent co-parent and has continued to speak about the importance she holds in his life.
Chase has also maintained his own career outside the reality series. He works as a sales executive at technology company Neighbor and co-hosts the OnlyDads podcast with his brother, Mason McWhorter. His appearances on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives have remained on and off, while his personal life continues to provide plenty of material whenever he returns to the series.
Shinia, meanwhile, has built a smaller but growing presence online as a fitness and lifestyle creator. She is also a mother of two, sharing daughter Sophia and son Beckham with her former husband, McKoy Allred. Her friendship with Miranda originally helped connect her to the wider cast, but her relationships have gradually pushed her further into the centre of the show's personal storylines.
So, are Chase and Shinia still together? Based on the public timeline available from the show and their later relationships, there is no indication that they are. Shinia is now publicly linked to Dakota, while Chase appears more focused on his relationship with Miranda and their family dynamic. Neither Chase nor Shinia has publicly presented themselves as a couple, and their brief chapter seems to have ended without becoming a lasting relationship.
This whole situation feels like one of those reality-TV storylines where the actual relationship is almost less complicated than everyone surrounding it. Chase and Shinia apparently had a brief connection, but the circumstances made it far messier than it needed to be.
Shinia was reportedly living with Miranda, Miranda was Chase’s former wife, Dakota was already part of Shinia’s earlier storyline, and Taylor was inevitably somewhere in the background. At that point, you almost need a flow chart just to work out who was connected to whom. What makes it more interesting is that the story seems to have quietly fizzled rather than turning into a long-running romance.
Shinia eventually moved towards Dakota, while Chase continued leaving the door open emotionally with Miranda. For a show built around complicated personal relationships, this one somehow managed to be both chaotic and surprisingly brief. Honestly, reality television rarely wastes an opportunity to make a simple situation unnecessarily complicated.
For now, Chase McWhorter and Shinia Powell appear to be firmly in separate chapters, with Shinia’s relationship with Dakota taking centre stage and Chase continuing to navigate life with Miranda as his former wife and co-parent. Whether the pair ever address their brief connection themselves remains another question, but viewers clearly have plenty to say about the tangled timeline. Did you expect Chase and Shinia to last, or does their split make more sense given everything that happened around them? Share your take — because this cast certainly has no shortage of relationship history to dissect.