Blake Moynes is opening up a few secret previous romance he had with one other actuality TV star.
The 33-year-old former Bachelorette contestant revealed that he dated Love Is Blind season 2 contestant Natalie Lee.
Blake appeared on this week’s episode of Natalie’s Out of the Pods podcast together with her co-host and co-star, Deepti Vempati.
Blake and Natalie met and dated in the summertime of 2022 on a conservation journey to the Caribbean.
“We shared businesses and issues like that on that entrance, so there was a connection there,” Blake defined on the podcast.
Natalie spilled the beans first, saying, “The reply is sure, we did date.”
Natalie, who was beforehand engaged to Shayne Jansen on the Netflix present, shared that she was hesitant about occurring the 2022 journey within the first place.
“I had by no means been on an animal conservation journey earlier than and I did not know you,” Natalie informed Blake. “I did not watch any of the seasons of The Bachelorette you had been on. I had heard issues about you thru social media — I imply, good issues — however there was a whole lot of information on the time relating to your ex.”
Blake first appeared on The Bachelorette in season 16 with Tayshia Adams and Clare Crawley. He then appeared on season 17 of the present and ended up getting engaged to Katie Thurston. Blake and Katie break up in October 2021.
Natalie shared that Blake is “one among my favourite folks,” even revealing that they created a “marriage pact.”
“If I’m not married by age 35, he stated that we might have youngsters and get married,” Natalie shared.
Deepti teased that Natalie, who simply turned 32 final month, was getting a bit near her thirty fifth birthday.
“I am going to choose 37,” Natalie conceded.
Natalie went on to share what initially attracted her to Blake on their journey.
“I really feel like the rationale why I used to be so drawn to you is as a result of we share the identical humorousness,” she stated. “I am very self-deprecating but additionally as folks noticed by way of my season of Love Is Blind and simply basically, I’ve a imply humorousness. I really feel such as you even have [that].”
“I might take it,” Blake agreed. “We may very well be very a lot ourselves and it did not take lengthy to get to that comfortability level.”
The previous pair didn’t reveal how lengthy they dated for or what led to their eventual break up. Natalie famous that they nonetheless “speak fairly typically” and that she goes to her ex “for lots of recommendation.”
Nonetheless, Blake described himself as “very, very single,” when requested about his present relationship standing.
Hypothesis in regards to the two actuality stars’ potential romance first got here in August 2022 when Natalie posted a sequence of images and movies with Blake from an animal conservation journey.
“Thanks @blakemoynes for bringing me on this journey of a lifetime! i don’t assume i’ve ever laughed so exhausting with somebody. you’re a good friend for all times,” she wrote on the time.
Natalie received engaged to Shayne within the pods and made all of it the way in which to the altar earlier than she turned down her fiancé following an off-camera struggle. The on-off pair dated a number of extra occasions off the present, however are at present not talking.
Blake and Katie ended their engagement in October 2021. He went on to look on Bachelor in Paradise in 2023 the place he had a reference to Jessica Girod earlier than finally leaving the present early after Katie made a cameo.
In regard to Blake’s failed romance with Katie, he informed Natalie that they weren’t appropriate as lovers, although he felt they solely had the potential to be good mates.
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