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Leslie Fhima and Jordan Heller aren’t at the moment courting however they do keep up a correspondence.
“I’m not courting Jordan,” the Golden Bachelor alum, 65, clarified to Ben Higgins and Ashley Iaconetti about her connection to Heller, 61, on the Friday, November 1, episode of their “Nearly Well-known” podcast. “I met Jordan.”
When requested by the cohosts if she went on a date with the Golden Bachelorette contestant, Fhima shared it wasn’t a date however extra like a “meet and greet.”
“Jordan had a set on the soccer recreation in L.A. final week,” she defined. “His childhood good friend is, like, the president of the membership and he had a set and he invited me.”
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Fhima was on the town on the time to attend a taping of Dancing With the Stars to assist fellow Bachelor Nation stars Joey Graziadei and Jenn Tran. Since she was on the town, she was in a position to attend the soccer recreation and introduced alongside her good friend Wendy.
Heller and Fhima raised eyebrows final month once they attended the Los Angeles Soccer Membership recreation collectively. The pair posed for photos collectively in matching LAFC jerseys, which featured their final names on the again.
After posting the pics on-line, rumors swirled that the duo could be an merchandise. Nonetheless, Fhima cleared the air letting Bachelor Nation know that they’re simply pals who chat once in a while.
“We now have been texting a little bit bit,” she teased. “Simply because we’re older doesn’t imply we’re silly.”
Jordan Heller and Leslie Fhima Courtesy of Leslie Fhima/Iinstagram
Since assembly up on the recreation, Fhima admitted that she and Heller have continued to speak on the telephone in a pleasant method.
“For me, I don’t know the place it could go if it’s gonna go,” she stated. “I simply suppose he’s an excellent man and to be pals with him first is ok with me.”
Heller appeared on season 1 of The Golden Bachelorette. He was eradicated by Joan Vassos after hometown dates. Whereas watching this season, Fhima admitted that Heller caught her eye.
“I like Jordan. Once I was watching the present I preferred him one of the best, for me,” she stated on Friday. “Let’s say for me, I assumed all the fellows had been nice. If it was me, if I used to be the Golden Bachelorette and he was on that present … you understand how you suppose.”
Fhima acknowledged that what she finds nice in a associate may not align with what Vassos or anybody else is in search of in a soulmate.
“That’s the great thing about these males,” she mirrored. “I believe they enchantment to sure ladies, and I like that. Hopefully, there might be some connections.”
What drew Fhima in was how a lot she and Heller have in frequent from their religion to being geographically shut.
“Stuff like that’s necessary,” she stated of getting shared pursuits. “We’re each Jewish. On the finish of the day, that’s necessary to me as nicely … it’s not a tough cease… however should you meet somebody and they’re … that’s simply icing on the cake.”
Viewers had been launched to Fhima final yr in the course of the first season of The Golden Bachelor. She and Gerry Turner referred to as it quits after their fantasy suite date. Turner went on to suggest to Theresa Nist. (Turner, 72, and Nist, 71, break up in April, simply three months after they received married on ABC’s The Golden Marriage ceremony reside TV particular.)