The former Bachelorette Rachel Recchia Crushes romance rumors between her and Blake Mowins – once again.
after “Almost famous” com. cohost Trista Sutter pRachel, 28, said she would “always ship” the couple, and admitted people “always do that”.
“He's like one of my best friends,” Rachel said on the Saturday, December 21, podcast episode. “We're so different. We have such different genres.
Rachel explained that Blake, 34, has a “wider range” of type, while preferring a “more feminine era of a man.”
“Blake says I should stop doing this. He says, 'This is why you can't find a boyfriend,'” Rachel said. “(He's like), 'You need a manly man.' “I tell myself, ‘I didn’t look for that, so I try to keep an open mind.’”
Rachel noted that she was dipping her toe back into the dating pool, but doesn't have any updates to share about her love life at the moment. “When I can, I'll tell you,” she said. “I've been dating a little bit. There will be something to report, but not right now.”
In August, Rachel ended speculation that she and Blake were more than just friends after she was seen supporting him at the 17th Annual Oceana Seachange Summer Party with Nautica in Laguna Beach, California.
“We went to an event together. Everyone wants us to be a very bad couple,” she said on an episode of the “Almost Famous” radio show at the time. “I feel like we always deal with rumors over and over again. We're still not a couple. “We are friends.”
Despite the host Ashley Yaconetti Noting that the pair “look cute together,” Rachel said that they didn't lock lips once. “He's my most solid friend. I go to him for everything,” she explained. “Who would I go to if we had that awkward kiss and then things got awkward?”
after Not finding the one In previous seasons of the franchise, both Rachel and Blake were contestants in the ninth season of the series Bachelor in Paradise In 2023. The duo decided to exit the show in the fourth week when they did not find romance on the beaches of Mexico.
“We went to heaven together. “We've been friends and been on trips for over a year,” Rachel explained of their friendship. “If it was meant to happen, I think it would have happened.”
Before the romance rumors with Blake, Rachel ended her life and Gaby and WendySeason 19 of Bachelorette engaged to Tino Franco but Binary split After it was revealed that he kissed someone during a difficult period in their relationship. Blake, for his part, was engaged Katie Thurston In 2021 but they are They broke up months later.