A Bachelorette season 14 do-over? Not so quick. Blake Horstmann shut down rumors that he and Becca Kufrin are again collectively following her cut up from Garrett Yrigoyen.
“Me and Becca are associates,” the 31-year-old actuality TV character wrote in response to an Instagram Q&A on Monday, November 30. “Let the girl be single for some time she don’t want no rattling man to be joyful. She resides her greatest life.”
The “Behind the Rose” podcast host added that there’s “a lot strain on ladies to discover a man” — particularly in Bachelor Nation. “And it’s ridiculous,” he concluded.
Blake Horstmann and Becca Kufrin Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP/Shutterstock; Broadimage/Shutterstock
Kufrin, 30, met Horstmann and Yrigoyen, 31, throughout season 14 of The Bachelorette in 2018. The previous publicist left Horstmann heartbroken within the finale when she revealed she needed to be with Yrigoyen.
Two years after Kufrin accepted a proposal from Yrigoyen, the “Bachelor Glad Hour” host revealed in September 2020 that they called it quits. Horstmann confirmed earlier this month that he was in contact with Kufrin following her broken engagement.
“We’ve chatted just a little bit. I informed her I help her, and I hope she’s doing effectively and all the pieces, however it’s only a friendship,” he stated on the “Nearly Well-known” podcast on November 2. “We now have relationship. I believe, for essentially the most half, we’ve been pleasant the entire time since even the finale. There’s by no means been any sort of weirdness between us.”
When requested by Ben Higgins and Ashley Iaconettiwhether or not he’s spoken to Yrigoyen because the former surgical expertise salesman debuted his new romance with Alex Farrar, Horstmann stated no.
“I haven’t chatted with him concerning the relationship or something, we haven’t chatted in a bit,” he replied. “However I believe all people deserves happiness, so I hope this one sticks for him, I assume.”
Whereas Horstmann went on to notice that followers don’t “know the timeline” of Kufrin and Yrigoyen’s cut up, season 13 Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay informed Us Weekly solely earlier this month that she believes Yrigoyen went public with Farrar too soon.
“[I think about setting her up] on a regular basis, however I need Becca to do it when she’s prepared. I do know that she is totally having fun with herself in L.A. She’s all the time needed to be right here. And people are sacrifices that you simply make in a relationship when perhaps one associate doesn’t. So now that she is just not tied down, she will be able to stay her greatest life, which she’s doing,” Lindsay informed Us about her “Bachelor Glad Hour” cohost. “And I believe Becca is open to start out courting once more, however clearly popping out of an engagement, she needs to ensure that she takes her time, and she or he does proper, in contrast to different folks.”
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