Nikki Bella is on the hunt for a divorce lawyer ... TMZ has learned.
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00:00So, Nikki Bella, we were all over this story last week.
00:04We told you about Nikki and her husband,
00:07Artem from Dancing with the Stars,
00:09that he was arrested last Thursday
00:12for a felony domestic battery
00:15where he had called 911 to say
00:18somebody needed medical attention.
00:20Then he called them back and said,
00:22no, we don't need it.
00:23But that triggered the cops coming to the house.
00:25They saw bruises on Nikki and they arrested him.
00:30Well, she has taken almost immediate steps,
00:33it appears, to end this marriage.
00:36Wow.
00:37She is shopping for divorce lawyers.
00:40She has been doing it since Friday.
00:43There have been at least-
00:44Next day.
00:45There have been at least several calls.
00:48So that was Friday she started.
00:50Saturday, she showed up in Las Vegas
00:53because she was hosting the hot dog-
00:56Yeah, Unfinished Beef, Kobayashi and Joey Chestnut,
01:00the big matchup on Labor Day.
01:01I knew you knew that part.
01:02My expertise, hot dogs.
01:06So she showed up noticeably.
01:08Look at that left hand, no wedding ring.
01:11And she normally wears one.
01:13So that was a sign.
01:16We now know beyond that that no,
01:19that she is shopping for divorce lawyers.
01:21It made sense to me, Harv,
01:22she didn't have the wedding ring on,
01:23they just went through something traumatic.
01:25And quite possibly they could have gotten back together.
01:28She throws the ring back on.
01:29It does not seem like that's going to happen.
01:31It seemed like this marriage is done.
01:34Now, the odd thing about this to me
01:37is that there has been no evidence
01:40that she has tried to get a restraining order.
01:43And this is something that is typical
01:46in where there's a domestic violence arrest,
01:49especially a felony arrest,
01:52where the police often get a restraining order
01:56and that lasts about five days.
01:58Emergency protective order.
02:00But then she can go into court and get one as well.
02:03And the reason this is so common,
02:05they have a kid, they have a four-year-old son,
02:07and the son was present during this.
02:11So, you know, a lot of times the one parent
02:15who's the alleged victim will get a restraining order,
02:18especially when there's a kid involved
02:19to keep the alleged perpetrator away from the house.
02:25That has not happened so far.
02:26You're right, and that's the most curious part
02:28of this whole thing, because what we're told
02:29is that she is apparently living in the marital home
02:32with their young son, Mateo,
02:34and he's no longer in the home.
02:35But you would think in an abundance of caution
02:37that you would want some ability
02:38to have court order protection
02:40to keep him away from the home.
02:41This was serious enough that he was booked on that felony
02:44and held on $25,000 bail,
02:46which is a pretty high bail amount.
02:47He did bail out.
02:48And you would think someone would seek a restraining order
02:51or get the emergency protective order,
02:52but we've seen no evidence of that yet.
02:53Right, because she would get it.
02:55I mean, obviously, it would have been granted.
02:57Granted like that.
02:58Sort of indicates that she's not afraid of him.
03:00Well, and by the way, and this is,
03:02we're not in any way trying to throw shade on Nikki.
03:04No, not at all.
03:05That's her choice, and clearly,
03:07she thinks it's serious enough
03:08that she's taking steps to end the marriage right now.
03:11So, you know, and again, people can have a change of heart,
03:14but right now, no wedding ring,
03:16shopping for divorce lawyers, he's not in the house.
03:20So all signs are pointing to this.
03:22The only thing I could think of
03:22is when she was seen out at the Joey Chestnut
03:25and Kobayashi event, she doesn't look injured
03:27in any particular obvious way.
03:28She is not wearing the wedding ring,
03:31but she wasn't wearing glasses to cover anything
03:33in all of the pictures or anything like that.
03:34We don't know where injuries took place.
03:36There could have been red marks, Derek.
03:38I mean, it doesn't necessarily have to be
03:40like a lasting injury.
03:41And a butt line of her body's covered.
03:42We have no idea.
03:43I will say this, the crowd, I mean,
03:45they're like, we love you, Nikki.
03:46She got an incredible amount of support
03:48from all of the people who were at
03:50that hot dog eating competition, so.
03:52Speaking of, just, and I know this is
03:55kind of a left turn here.
03:57How does anybody eat 83 hot dogs and 83 buns?
04:01Right, in 10 minutes.
04:02In 10 minutes.
04:03And they had different rules,
04:05different rules than at the Nathan's contest.
04:06You could not dunk the buns in the water
04:09which softens them up.
04:10So a dry hot dog with dry buns.
04:12Harvey, this is an incredible difference
04:14between the Nathan's contest because the way
04:15they swallow so many is by dunking them in water
04:17and basically not chewing them.
04:19Here they had to do it dry and he broke any record.
04:21He's never even eclipsed 80 yet.
04:22And he got to 83, 17 more than Kobayashi.
04:25I don't want to split hairs here,
04:26but he is drinking water.
04:28You know what he was doing?
04:29He was putting a lot of water in his mouth
04:30and then stuffing the hot dog buns in his mouth.
04:32So it is kind of like drenching the hot dogs.
04:33Sort of, he found a way around it.
04:36Incredible.
04:37Kobayashi ate 66.
04:39He got blown out by Joey Chestnut.
04:40Kobayashi would have won the Nathan's contest
04:43by eight hot dogs.
04:44These guys are, they're incredible.
04:46It's insane.
04:46And neither of them, go back to these pictures.
04:49Their skin, their fit.
04:51And Kobayashi is jacked.
04:52He really is.
04:53And how is that?
04:55You would think it would be like a big fat guy.
04:56Like you would think it would be like me up there.
04:59Sitting.
05:02Not that fat.
05:05Hi, Camden Wong from Phoenix, Arizona.
05:08As for those hot dogs,
05:12I do believe that they are able to eat that many
05:15because they're 10 grams of protein per hot dog.
05:18So he can get fit and eat all those hot dogs all at once.
05:22But as for the Nikki Belli situation,
05:27I think it's a very challenging time for her.
05:29And as a former fan of her time in the WWE,
05:32I really do hope that she gets the proper support
05:35to get this divorce.
05:36And as for why she didn't get the restraining order,
05:40I'm sure someone like her has private security
05:43that she can utilize to help protect her
05:46and the safety of her son.
05:47I think you're dead on with Nikki,
05:50but I will say, do not give people you know diet advice.
05:54If you're telling them,
05:55oh, you get 10 grams of protein from one hot dog.
05:59You eat 83 hot dogs and you're just gonna be jacked.
06:02I wouldn't give that advice to people, okay?
06:05Seven million grams of fat.