Fans were excited earlier this month when Bachelor frontrunner Bella Valeris was spotted on a cafe date with Gogglebox’s Jad Nehmetallah.
It led some Bachelor fans to speculate about who would take out the final rose this coming Thursday.
However, Jad set the record straight on Wednesday, talking to LifeStyle. The 34-year-old explained that the two reality stars are really just close friends.
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“Bella and I have known each other for a while,” he told the publication.
“And even though she’s a beautiful girl, we’re just mates.”
Earlier this month, the Bachie brunette, 25, was spotted looking chummy with the Gogglebox star as they left a cafe in Sydney’s Burwood. They were accompanied by fellow Bachelor contestant, and close friend of Bella’s, Bec Cvilikas, 25.
Meanwhile, fans are still in two minds over who will end up winning Bachelor Locklan ‘Locky’ Gilbert’s heart this week.
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While Bella never dated Jad, she has had other high-profile relationships in the past.
One of Bella’s Bachelor pals has leaked details about her ‘fling’ with Aussie musician Cody Simpson, the former boyfriend of Miley Cyrus.
The details emerged on the So Dramatic ! podcast this week, by host Megan Pustetto, explaining that Bella was very vocal about exposing the details of her affair with the singer.
In fact, the contestant said that Bella “only dates celebs”, and while in the mansion often bragged about the many high-profile people she had dated in the past.
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“So Bella was bragging in the house to the other girls that she’d hooked up with and slept with a number of A-list celebs,” Megan said.
“The contestant tells me every day Bella would bring up a new person she’d been with. She would say, ‘I hooked up with this person, I’ve slept with this guy, there were just way too many to count’. She only dates celebs.”
Megan explained that “one of those celebs is none other than Cody Simpson”.
“Bella told the girls in the mansion that she’d slept with him and had a brief fling with him while she was in LA,” she said.
Bella, 25, is based in Sydney and works as a freelance digital marketing creative.
She has previously dated stars of The Bachelor franchise, including model Samuel Johnson, one of the contestants on Georgia Love’s season of The Bachelorette.
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