Jason Tartick addressed rumors of a romance with fellow Bachelor Nation star Kelley Flanagan.
In an Instagram Story shared with followers on Tuesday, June 24, Tartick, 36, was requested whether or not he had ever “gone on a date” with the previous Bachelor contestant, 33.
“I can’t say sufficient good issues about Kelley, she is an superior particular person. She’s unimaginable,” Tartick, who competed for Becca Kufrin’s affections throughout season 14 of The Bachelorette, started. “However we’ve solely been mates, we’ve solely ever been mates, and no, we haven’t gone on a date.”
Tartick’s affirmation comes two months after Flanagan completely instructed Us Weekly that she has “at all times gotten alongside nicely” with Tartick.
Jason Tartick has nothing however constructive issues to say about fellow Bachelor Nation alum Kelley Flanagan. When cohost David Arduin famous that Tartick, 36, and Flanagan, 33, had “good chemistry” whereas recording the Monday, March 31, episode of the “Buying and selling Secrets and techniques” podcast collectively, Tartick replied, “She’s nice. She’s simply superior. She’s straightforward to be round. […]
“I like Jason,” Flanagan instructed Us at an occasion in New York Metropolis on April 22. “Jason is wonderful. We get alongside. I really work with [Jason’s] company and I’m nice mates with the folks that we work with.” (Tartick is the cofounder of Rewired Expertise Administration whereas Flanagan works as an legal professional and social media influencer.)
Tartick added that fan hypothesis concerning the pair’s friendship proved “robust” just lately. “When individuals are … speculating about it, what do you do?” Tartick contemplated. “Like, do you come out and be, like, ‘No, hypothesis is flawed?’ You sort of, simply, no matter, let it go. Kelley’s the most effective, however no, we’ve solely been mates.”
Kelley Flanagan Dave Kotinsky/Getty Pictures for Us Weekly
Tartick, who initially appeared on season 14 of The Bachelorette, is at present single after splitting from TikTok influencer Kat Sickler in October 2024. As for Flanagan, the truth star instructed Us in April that she didn’t assume she was “in a spot so far” after splitting from Ari Raptis in November 2024 amid a dishonest scandal on his half.
Flanagan’s relationship historical past has been rocky since her time on The Bachelor in early 2020. She didn’t win the guts of Peter Weber on the present, nonetheless did reconnect with him amid the coronavirus quarantine in March that yr and dated him on and off till 2023.
Flanagan and Weber, 33, seemingly maintained a detailed friendship regardless of their romance falling quick because the pair have been noticed having fun with the festivities at Coachella and Revolve festivals in April.
Flanagan instructed Us throughout her April chat, “Peter and I, we weren’t ever actually awkward. We at all times acquired alongside. We have been at all times nice mates. I believe he mentioned one thing this weekend and he was like, ‘Kel, you’re just like the sister I by no means had.’ And I used to be like, ‘OK, that’s perhaps somewhat awkward.’”
Tartick has had his personal justifiable share of relationship turmoil, getting engaged to Kaitlyn Bristowe in Might 2021 and splitting in August 2023, one yr previous to hanging up a flame with Sickler, 30.