Susie Evans and Justin Glaze confirm they are dating
Susie Evans and Justin Glaze.
Taylor Hill/WireImageSusie Evans And Justin Glaze have found love in Bachelor Nation after all.
“Justin is my boyfriend. We are dating,” Evans, 30, said E! News in an interview published on Wednesday, January 24.
Evans and Glaze, 29, sparked a friendship after their respective performances Clayton Echard And Katie Thurston'seasons of The Bachelor And The Bachelorette. Despite often getting cozy on social media, they claimed their bond was purely platonic with a slightly flirty undertone.
However, in October 2023, Evans told Glaze to stop “messing around” about their flirty banter.
“I thought, 'Oh, this tone seems a little different,'” Glaze recalled E! News. “In the back of my mind I thought, 'If you mean it, I mean it too.' That was kind of my mentality. I was always testing the lines, and I wasn't sure if she would go for it. So I didn't want to cross those boundaries.”
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After a “really nice conversation,” Glaze “just went for it” and expressed his feelings.
“I was like, 'Hey, listen, I don't know where you stand on our friendship or relationship. Obviously, I respect you immensely, and I value our friendship. But I'd be lying if I did [said I] I didn't think about whether there was potential for more than a friendship, just given the natural chemistry we had as friends,” he recalled, noting that they shared a kiss that night.
Glaze and Evans kept their new romance a secret for a few weeks to 'protect' [their] privacy” and “do not exert pressure [their] relation.”
Nearly a year earlier, Evans spoke exclusively We weekly how she first met Glaze.
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“We are busy launching a collaboration,” she joked Us in December 2022 when asked about meeting Glaze. “I was there to help him film an ad that had nothing to do with my blog. … His videographer wasn't available and I live three hours away from him and he said, 'Hey, is there any chance you would be available on this date to do something with videography?' And I thought, 'Can we trade yes for a blog collaboration?' And he said, 'Yes, absolutely.' We actually had so much fun.”
Although Evans and Glaze were just friends at the time, she was open to dating another member of Bachelor Nation. (Evans last dated Echard, 30, on and off until their breakup in September 2022.)
“I think I should be really interested in the person and want to get to know them before I ever go out with them in public. I would really like to investigate that call,” she shared Us. “I would really want to make sure it's someone who, if there's a photo taken or something like that – not that it really matters, I don't care about that kind of thing – but it would be a public relationship again. …So I would really have to make sure that I really, really like that person before I even give a first date a chance, just because I think it gets complicated if people want to talk about it.